Khartoum: A Sudanese woman, believed to be around 20, has been sentenced to be stoned to death for adultery, and is being held near Khartoum, shackled in prison with her baby son, rights groups and lawyers said on Thursday. Campaigners condemned the ruling, saying it violated international standards and raised concerns that Sudan might start applying sharia, or Islamic law, more strictly following the secession of mostly non-Muslim South Sudan...
09:59 AM, Jun 01, 2012
Mumbai: If you thought adulterating milk meant diluting it with water, heres a disgusting reality check. Cops caught four milk vendors red-handed selling milk packets mixed with sewage water to customers in Vile Parle (East) in Mumbai on Monday. The milk vendors were engaged in this act since the past six months and were using empty milk packets that they collected from garbage bins. Acting on a tip-off, Vile Parle...
12:45 PM, May 29, 2012
Do you believe in love at first sight? And does love at first sight happens because of collective circumstances that lead to it? 'The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight' is a book as the title says, quite what it is - love and the chances of it at first sight. When Hadley misses her flight to London by four minutes, she never expects to meet Oliver - someone...
01:51 PM, May 22, 2012
Washington: Almost 31 per cent of Indian adults comprising 240 million people say they are "suffering" because of poor quality of life, according to a Gallup survey, though the country had a high growth rate of 6.9 per cent. The gap between the haves and have-nots may actually be widening, the survey said, releasing the results of its recent opinion poll in which nearly three-fourths or 73 per cent of...
05:56 PM, Apr 30, 2012
New Delhi: Hit adult comedy 'Delhi Belly' will now be remade in Tamil and director by R Kannan will start shooting for the film May 7 with Arya in the main lead. The yet to be titled Tamil version will be produced by UTV Motion Pictures and and it will be completed by October. It is slated for a Pongal release in January 2013. The original was co-produced by UTV...
03:33 PM, Apr 30, 2012
London: It may lack wizards and witches, but JK Rowling and her publisher are hoping her first novel for adults, "The Casual Vacancy," will have the magic touch. The book's title was announced on Thursday by Little, Brown & Co. along with a brief plot synopsis and publication date. The publisher said the "blackly comic" tale of rivalry and duplicity in a small English town would be available worldwide on...
11:49 PM, Apr 12, 2012
New Delhi: Reacting to the revelations about adulterated airline fuel, former DGCA chief Kanu Gohain has admitted that there could be some adulteration in airline fuel given the history of such cases. Speaking to CNN-IBN, Gohain said, "There could be such cases, there have been very famous cases in the early 80s when we found that the fuel pumped into the aeroplanes was adulterated." "There have been cases when we...
08:03 AM, Apr 04, 2012
Mumbai: Unhappy in her marriage, a 25-year-old housewife decided to end her husband's life with the help of her lover and his friend. Sangita Chandrakant Varak, a resident of Chembur, watched her husband Chandrakant die as her lover strangled Chandrakant's throat by stepping on it. Sangita and a friend of her lover held on to Chandrakant's hands and feet, as he struggled and fought for his life. The RCF cops...
01:46 PM, Mar 26, 2012
BANGALORE: A popular proverb says, All that glitters is not gold. Going by the same lines, police arrested seven persons who allegedly supplied adulterated milk to hotels in City Market, Kalasipalyam, Majestic and other areas. Test reports suggested that this milk could have a major impact on blood pressure and sugar levels.Kalasipalyam police said, Based on a tip-off, police caught drivers and cleaners who were unloading milk cans near hotels...
10:11 AM, Mar 26, 2012
New Delhi: Over the years adult content has been the most searched on the web, but now mobiles are also witnessing the same phenomenon. Adult content providers are exploiting all the capacities and functionalities of mobile phones such as chat, SMS, premium SMS, WAP, location, etc to push their content to mobile consumers. "Out of 70 million global mobile users who watch adult content, 13 per cent (90 lakh) are...
03:10 PM, Feb 16, 2012
New Delhi: The Centre and Delhi government are both expected to file replies on the adulterated milk incidents in the Delhi High Court. The court had taken cognisance of reports that revealed that nearly 70 per cent of milk samples in the country are found to be contaminated with water, detergent and even urea. The first mass survey of quality of milk supplied to consumers across the country by the...
08:46 AM, Jan 25, 2012
New Delhi: If you thought your glass of milk will give you guaranteed nutrition, think again! The first mass survey of quality of milk supplied to consumers across the country by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India has led to shocking discoveries with as many as 69 per cent of the samples failing the test of purity. At least 14 per cent of milk samples were found to...
12:10 PM, Jan 15, 2012
A study finds that more than 68 per cent of milk tested is contaminated with water, detergent, even urea. ...
11:47 PM, Jan 11, 2012
New Delhi: A glass of milk a day used to be a good idea. But, if the latest round of tests by the Food Safety Standards Authority are anything to go by, it's only safe to drink milk in Goa and Puducherry. A new report shows that in the first cup of morning milk, one is having a lot of things with milk, like starch, detergent, salt, glucose, urea and...
09:39 AM, Jan 11, 2012
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