New Delhi: A young engineer, Kundan Jaiswal, risked his own life while trying to chase and nab an alleged assailant. He didn't drive past like everyone else when he saw a helpless man being attacked on the road. "It was a Saturday evening and I was travelling home with my brother in an autorickshaw through the Old Delhi area," Kundan said. Recalling the events of the day, Kundan said, "Suddenly...
09:52 AM, Jun 04, 2012
Mumbai: The rupee was marginally weaker on Monday, with the outlook negative as global sentiment, fuelled by weak US non-farm payrolls and Chinese non-manufacturing PMI, continued to hurt risk assets. At 9:04 am, the partially convertible rupee was at 55.58/60 per dollar, weaker than its 55.54/55 close on Friday. Europe's debt crisis has frayed nerves around the world for months. Now signs of weakness in the US jobs market and...
09:33 AM, Jun 04, 2012
Islamabad: Shakeel Afridi, the Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA track down Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, has refused to eat meals provided by the jail authorities in Peshawar fearing he may be poisoned. Sources told Geo News, Afridi has refused to eat prison food, and that on his demand, prison authorities have provided him with essential items and cooking utensils so that he could prepare his own food. Afridi...
12:38 PM, Jun 03, 2012
New Delhi: In UPA's summer of discontent, it continues to rain scams. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had unearthed a huge forex derivatives scam, pegged at Rs 32,000 crore which has been conveniently brushed under the carpet by the government for three years. On January 4, 2012, Parliament's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) had sent a reminder to the Ministry of Finance, seeking an explanation on the alleged scam in...
09:01 AM, Jun 03, 2012
Ace choreographer Saroj Khan, who has given hit songs like 'Ek Do Teen', 'Humko Aaj Kal Hai Intezaar', 'Dola Re' among others, says that there is no grace left in dance today. "Today, dance has changed a lot. I think nowadays what we get to see is only beats, there is no grace left in dance. We see only acrobatics. This is successful because we are in the habit of...
04:00 PM, Jun 02, 2012
Washington: A US government website on Friday published what it said was photographic evidence of mass graves and attacks on civilian areas by Syrian government forces. The website, operated by a bureau of the State Department, published a series of overhead photos, said to be taken earlier this week by commercial satellite, showing what it said were mass graves dug following a massacre near the town of Houla. They also...
02:25 PM, Jun 02, 2012
New Delhi: A military intelligence unit of the Army is under the scanner after a soldier was caught in April allegedly trying to sell top secret operational information to Pakistan's spy agency ISI. The Army headquarters is awaiting the completion of inquiry and full report which names a clerk level official. The data recovered likely contains detailed operational plans, information on troop deployments and even conversations between top officers at...
09:33 AM, Jun 02, 2012
New Delhi: It's summers in most parts of India and demand for power is at a peak of 2,17,000 megawatt (MW). But the power generation is much less at 1,99,877 MW and poor transmission and distribution is making it worse. Many cities like Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai are facing long power cuts and 40 per cent of the country does not get electricity at all. About 6 lakh villages do not...
11:06 PM, Jun 01, 2012
Los Angeles: Facebook's website suffered sporadic outages on Thursday (Friday in some time zones), anywhere from half an hour to two hours according to various blogs, tweets and affected users, but the company said the problem has been fixed. "Earlier today, some users briefly experienced issues loading the site. The issues have since been resolved and everyone should now have access to Facebook," company spokesman Michael Kirkland told Reuters. The...
02:43 PM, Jun 01, 2012
Karnal: A gas tanker in Karnal exploded on Friday morning causing a huge fire at a gas bottling plant. The police suspect the incident took place while illegal pilferage of LPG was on. A probe has begun, while 15 fire tenders are trying to douse the flames. No casualty or injury has been reported so far. No casualties were reported even as villagers raised questions over there being no casualty....
10:20 AM, Jun 01, 2012
Dublin: Four-times champion Tiger Woods, without playing at his best, moved ominously into contention at the Memorial tournament after shooting a two-under-par 70 in Thursday's opening round. The former world number one birdied three of the four par-fives in surprisingly firm and fast-running conditions at a sun-drenched Muirfield Village Golf Club to finish one stroke off the early pace. Australian Aaron Baddeley, South African Rory Sabbatini, Argentina's Andres Romero and...
09:05 AM, Jun 01, 2012
London: Odisha-based sand artist Sudarshan Pattnaik beat stiff competition from nine participants to win an international sand sculpture championship in Denmark on Friday, making India proud at the first such event in Copenhagen. Pattnaik's 2.5 metres high sand sculpture of a mermaid pleading for human effort to save the oceans was declared the winner of the championship. The Puri-based sand artist, known for his sculptures that send out strong topical...
08:57 AM, Jun 01, 2012
New Delhi: The proposed law to raise the age of consent for sex from 16 years to 18 will be "undemocratic" and a "backward" step, a Delhi court has said, adding that it will also give a "tool" to the police to harass teenagers. Additional Sessions Judge Virender Bhat said it while acquitting Sandeep Paswan a native of Uttar Pradesh, charged with kidnapping and raping a minor girl, who had...
11:42 PM, May 31, 2012
General Vijay Kumar Singh, who took over the reins of the Indian Army 24 months ago, will hang up his boots on May 31 after completing a tenure which saw the military-civil conflict spiral to a new high when the Army Chief dragged the government to the Supreme Court over the controversy over his date of birth. General Singh, who took over as the Chief of Army Staff on March...
07:20 AM, May 31, 2012
Allahabad: In yet another indictment of land acquisition policy of previous Mayawati government, the Allahabad High Court on Wednesday quashed acquisition of 68 hectares of village land on pretext of "planned industrial development" in Greater Noida and held that invoking of urgency clause for the purpose was "tainted with malafides". A Division Bench comprising justices Sunil Ambwani and Het Singh Yadav passed the order on a writ petition filed by...
08:12 PM, May 30, 2012
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