New Delhi: Strongly objecting to a US company launching a beer brand named after Goddess Kali, a demand was made in Rajya Sabha on Tuesday that US Ambassador to India should be summoned and asked to apologise for it. Raising the issue during Zero Hour, Ravi Shankar Prasad (BJP) said it is a serious and sensitive issue that a Portland-based company Burnside Brewing has launched a product titled Kali-Ma beer,...
02:32 PM, May 15, 2012
Sonipat (Haryana): A teenaged boy in Haryana's Sonipat district on Sunday killed his parents while they were asleep at home and burnt their bodies, police said. After murdering his parents with a sharp-edged weapon, the boy sprinkled kerosene on the bodies and set them on fire. He then fled from the spot. The victims have been identified as Rampal, 45, and his wife Guddi. Rampal ran an agriculture business in...
08:50 AM, May 14, 2012
Patna: A teenager, who was the main witness in his mother's rape case, was burnt alive in Nawada district Sunday, police said. Chintu Kumar, 17, was set on fire by the rape accused in Garabigha village under Narhat police station, 150 km from here, a police officer, who did not want to be named, said. Chintu's mother was gangraped in 2006 by five men of her village, and he was...
08:31 AM, May 14, 2012
London: Patients left stranded on trolleys for hours and forced to have treatment in corridors is becoming a familiar scene in British hospitals, presenting a "worrying picture" for the authorities. Nurses in Britain say patients are being forced to have treatment in corridors partly due to the loss of hospital beds, the BBC reported. The Royal College of Nursing says feedback received from more than 1,200 staff paints a "worrying...
08:09 PM, May 13, 2012
New Delhi: Indian owners Venky's will not sell relegated English Premier League club Blackburn Rovers even as they sacked deputy chief executive Paul Hunt to cut costs, the poultry company said on Thursday. "It is a company of ours and there is nothing whatsoever [in rumours of a sale]. These allegations are not correct," the company's joint managing director Venkateshwara Rao told a news channel. Speculation that Hunt had been...
09:57 PM, May 10, 2012
Blackburn: Blackburn joined Wolverhampton Wanderers in being relegated from the English Premier League after losing 1-0 at home to Wigan who ensured their survival with sixth win from their past eight matches on Monday. Blackburn, the 1995 champion, needed to win to have any chance of staying up, but Wigan defender Antolin Alcaraz scored with an 87th-minute header from a corner that sealed both teams' fate. The hosts earlier had...
07:19 AM, May 08, 2012
Amritsar: Pakistan s human and civil rights activist Ansar Burney on Monday asked the Central government to grant him visa to visit Kashmir for interacting with people in an effort to establish peace in the Valley. He wanted to meet people to convince them that nothing could be achieved through violence, Burney said. The Kashmir problem was being encashed by politicians in both countries to derive political mileage, he said....
02:48 AM, Apr 24, 2012
Washington: An Indian-origin woman in the US set her husband on fire and locked him in a bathroom, after promising him a hot oil massage, police said. Shriya Biman Patel, 25, has been arrested on charges of first-degree felony aggravated assault and arson and booked into the Travis County Jail in Austin, Texas. An Austin police statement said officers answering a family disturbance call at a north Austin apartment on...
08:40 AM, Apr 21, 2012
Kabul: Afghanistan's Taliban said they launched a spring offensive on Sunday with multiple attacks against Western embassies in the central diplomatic area and at parliament in Kabul, with heavy explosions, rockets and gunfire rattling the city. The assault, one of the most serious on the capital since US-backed Afghan forces removed the Taliban from power in 2001, highlighted the ability of militants to strike the heavily guarded diplomatic zone even...
10:56 PM, Apr 15, 2012
Jaipur: Ansar Burney, who has been actively campaigning to save the life of death row convict Sarabjit Singh, has met the Indian prisoner's sister and daughter. Sarabjit has been in a Pakistan jail for over 20 years. Burney has also recently filed a fresh plea to commute Sarabjit's death sentence to life imprisonment. "We are making efforts to get death sentence of Sarabjit commuted to life imprisonment for which I...
05:06 PM, Apr 14, 2012
Attari: Pakistan leading human rights activist Ansar Burney on Thursday said he had recently filed a fresh mercy petition to President Asif Ali Zardari to save Indian death row convict Sarabjit Singh. On arriving Attari, Burney told the media that in the petition the President of Pakistan he has sought commutation of the death sentence of Sarabjit to life imprisonment so that he could safely be repatriated to India to...
04:31 AM, Apr 13, 2012
The Supreme Court on Monday granted bail to 80-year-old Pakistani microbiologist Dr Mohd Khaleel Chishty undergoing life term in a murder case in Ajmer. ...
02:39 PM, Apr 09, 2012
Jaipur: Sister of Sarabjit Singh, an Indian on death row in Pakistan following his conviction for alleged involvement in bomb attacks, on Friday said she will appeal to Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari during his Rajasthan visit to release his brother on humanitarian ground. Dalbir Kaur said she will try to meet Zardari during his private visit to Ajmer dargah on April 8. "Mercy petition of my brother is pending...
12:09 AM, Apr 07, 2012
Blackburn: Manchester United moved five points clear at the top of the Premier League after beating Blackburn Rovers 2-0 with dramatic late goals from Antonio Valencia and Ashley Young. The Old Trafford club dominated for long periods of the game, but had to wait until the last 10 minutes to score as Valencia hit a ferocious effort into the far corner from the wing, while Young hit another good effort...
02:36 AM, Apr 03, 2012
Islamabad: Leading rights activist Ansar Burney has asked the Pakistan government to immediately free three Indian prisoners who had either completed their jail terms or whose release has been ordered by court. Indian national Surjeet Singh alias Makhan Singh had completed his prison term on October 30, 2010 but he continues to be held in prison, Burney said in letters sent to President Asif Ali Zardari, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza...
05:33 PM, Apr 02, 2012
Dehra Dun: A police inspector from Uttarakhand died on Sunday at New Delhi's Safdarjung Hospital after being set on fire allegedly by his wife in a fit of rage, police said. 56-year-old, Ram Lal Arya, who was posted at the police headquarters, died on Sunday morning after he was admitted at the hospital on Saturday evening, a police official said. He was referred to New Delhi by a hospital in...
10:16 PM, Apr 01, 2012
Chennai: Here's some welcome news for burn victims. With the opening of a skin bank in the city on Wednesday, help is now at hand. The bank would harvest cadaver skin for use as biological dressing for burn victims, informed Dr S Murugusundaram, director of Chennai Skin Foundation and Yesudian Research Institute. The skin bank has been set up in association with Eurobank of Netherlands and Dr Dilip Shah of...
11:27 AM, Mar 08, 2012
Ahmedabad: Six persons accused in a 2002 riot case where a youth and his mother were allegedly burnt to death in Gomtipur area in Ahmedabad, were acquitted by a trial court for lack of evidence. Additional sessions Judge MP Sheth on Tuesday acquitted all six accused in the case on the grounds that the prosecution could not prove its case beyond reasonable doubt against those arrested and charge-sheeted by police....
07:41 PM, Mar 07, 2012
Mumbai: A day after an FIR was filed against disgraced former Congress Mumbai chief Kripashankar Singh, MiD DAY finds papers and documents being destroyed behind his Bandra home. The question is, after allegedly cooking the books, was Kripashankar Singh burning them on Wednesday? Staff members of the former Mumbai Pradesh Congress chief were seen incinerating bundles of files and documents in the backyard of the MLA's Sai Prasad building residence...
02:28 PM, Mar 01, 2012
Mumbai: Now, Asia's biggest music festival, Sunburn will be reprised on the big screen by a bunch of Indian filmmakers. Three production houses, Viacom18 Motion Pictures, Percept Pictures and Phantom Films of Anurag Kashyap have come together to make the largest music and event experience 'Sunburn' into 'Sunburn The Movie'. In its fifth year, Sunburn has been ranked amongst the world's top ten music festivals. Seven directors have joined hands...
04:39 PM, Feb 29, 2012
