Hyderabad: A six-year-old girl has been burnt to death allegedly by her mother's lover on the outskirts of Hyderabad. The girl was wrapped in a mattress and set on fire. The girl succumbed to her injuries at a government hospital. The suspect, identified as Vijay, is in police custody. The police are looking for the mother of the victim. A case of murder has been registered, but the motive for...
05:35 PM, Feb 28, 2012
Kabul: Two American officers were shot dead at close range in Afghanistan's Interior Ministry on Saturday, a US official said, as rage gripped the country for a fifth day over the burning of the Muslim holy book at a NATO base. NATO recalled all staff working at ministries in the Afghan capital, Kabul, following the attack, with its top commander in Afghanistan calling the killer a coward. "For obvious force...
07:52 AM, Feb 26, 2012
Kabul: Afghan officials said on Friday that at least seven people were killed in protests around the country against the burning of Qurans at a US air base, bringing the overall death toll after four days of demonstrations to 20. The fresh protests were evidence that President Barack Obama's apology has not calmed Afghans enraged by the incident at Bagram Air Field earlier this week. Afghan President Hamid Karzai, parliamentarians...
11:20 PM, Feb 24, 2012
Kabul: The US apologised on Tuesday for the burning of Muslim holy books that had been pulled from the shelves of a detention center library adjoining a major base in eastern Afghanistan because they contained extremist messages or inscriptions. The White House echoed military officials in saying that the burning of Qurans and other Islamic reading material that had been tossed in a pile of garbage was an accident. But...
11:31 AM, Feb 22, 2012
Bagram: More than 2,000 Afghans protested outside the main US military base in Afghanistan on Tuesday over a report that foreign troops had improperly disposed of copies of the Koran and other religious items, Afghan officials said. US helicopters fired flares to try to break up the demonstrators, some of whom were chanting anti-foreigner slogans and throwing stones. Roshna Khalid, the provincial governor's spokeswoman, said Korans had been burnt inside...
05:03 PM, Feb 21, 2012
Valsad: A 72-year old man and his daughter allegedly tried to dispose of the body of his wife, who had apparently died due to ill health, by burning it in their house on Malavyaji Road in Valsad, Gujarat Police said. Magan Rana and his 44-year-old daughter Kaushal had cut the body of his 70-year old wife into pieces and were burning it in the balcony of their house last night,...
08:59 AM, Feb 04, 2012
Mumbai: It can only be described as bizarre. A man in his early forties became the latest victim of rooftop train travel after he sustained severe burns due to electrocution on Thursday around 5.40 pm at Dahisar. Train services got delayed and the unidentified man was admitted to Bhagwati Hospital at MHB Colony, Borivli (West) at about 6.10 pm. A few hours later, things took an extraordinary turn. At around...
05:50 PM, Jan 13, 2012
Panaji: The Goa government has recommended that a criminal case be filed against organisers of Sunburn 2011, an electronic dance and music festival, for selling tickets without getting proper permission for the event, scheduled here between December 27-29. Superintendent of Police (North) Waman Tari said police is examining the possibility of filing a criminal complaint. "We have not yet registered the case. I cannot say anything on when we will...
01:59 PM, Dec 24, 2011
New Delhi: US Deputy Secretary of State William Burns has stressed the need for "levelling the playing field" for foreign and domestic companies in the country's civil nuclear industry. During his visit, Burns held wide-ranging talks with Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai on Monday and also stressed the importance of continuing the implementation of the US-India civil-nuclear deal during his talks. "The Deputy Secretary stressed, in particular, the importance of continuing...
08:38 PM, Dec 13, 2011
New Delhi: India and the US are expected to make efforts to iron out irritants in the nuclear liability law for the implementation of civil nuclear deal during talks US Deputy Secretary of State William Burns will have in New Delhi on Monday. The civil nuclear agreement, signed by the two countries in 2008, will top the agenda when Burns meets National Security Adviser Shivshankar Menon, Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai...
09:28 AM, Dec 12, 2011
New Delhi/Washington: With the landmark India-US nuclear deal languishing even three years after it was signed, US Deputy Secretary of State William Burns will hold talks with senior Indian officials on Monday in yet another diplomatic bid to iron out differences over the civil nuclear liability regime. Burns, who holds most powerful position in the US State Department after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, touches down in New Delhi Sunday...
04:43 AM, Dec 11, 2011
Ahmedabad: Suspended IPS officer Sanjeev Bhatt on Monday said his stand on the credibility of probe done by the special investigation team into the role of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in 2002 riots has been vindicated by the reported findings of amicus curiae Raju Ramchandran. Bhatt had filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court in April this year raising serious apprehensions about the probe being carried out by SIT...
11:33 PM, Oct 24, 2011
Yashmin demands up gradation of facilities at Safdarjung hospital, the only govt burns care specialty hospital. ...
12:27 PM, Oct 22, 2011
Pakistani human rights activist Ansar Burney met the families of the six sailors held captive for over 18 months on MV Iceberg by Somali pirates on Monday to offer his support. ...
10:41 AM, Sep 27, 2011
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01:37 AM, Sep 10, 2011
Cast: Matt Damon, Gwenyth Paltrow, Marion Cotillard, Jude Law, Kate Winslet, Laurence Fishburne Director: Steven Soderbergh Steven Soderbergh's 'Contagion' opens with a blank screen and the sound of a woman coughing. That woman is Gwyneth Paltrow, sitting at the airport bar in Chicago, on a layover from Hong Kong to Minnesota. It's evident from her coughing and her voice when she answers a call on her cell phone that she's...
01:14 AM, Sep 10, 2011
London: Britain will not allow a culture of fear to take over the streets, Prime Minister David Cameron insisted on Wednesday, saying police have drawn up contingency plans to use water cannons if necessary. "We will do whatever is necessary to restore law and order onto our streets," Cameron said in a somber televised statement. "Nothing is off the table." Cameron has already recalled Parliament from its summer recess for...
05:02 PM, Aug 10, 2011
Washington: The secret to creating artificial skin may lie in spider silk -- the toughest known natural material, scientists say. Skin grafts are vital for treating burn victims and other patients and scientists were looking for a material that would be tolerated by the human body and can be used for a graft instead of skin from a body. Materials investigated until now did not seem strong enough for the...
06:50 PM, Aug 09, 2011
London: It's often said that drinking wine is good for your heart and provide other health benefits. Now, add one more to the list - it could protect you from sunburn, says a new study. Researchers from the University of Barcelona and the Spanish National Research Council have carried out the study and found that grapes - the main ingredient of wine " contain a chemical, called flavonoids, which can...
01:43 PM, Aug 01, 2011
