Mumbai: A tragic testimony to the city's fervour during election campaigning was witnessed on Sunday. Four loyalists of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) died and 11 supporters suffered minor injuries after one of the followers waving a flag hoisted to a metal rod touched a live high-tension wire during canvassing for NCP at New Shivaji Nagar in Kalwa on Sunday at 10.30 am. Supporters were drumming up support for corporator...
01:11 PM, Feb 13, 2012
Beverly Hills: It was a surreal scene: Whitney Houston had died at the Beverly Hilton, and hours later and a few floors below, her life was being celebrated at the event where her career was launched. On Saturday night, Clive Davis - Houston's mentor, producer, champion and longtime friend - memorialized her at his pre-Grammy gala, held downstairs in the same hotel where her body was being examined by coroner's...
10:20 PM, Feb 12, 2012
Los Angeles: Singer-actress Jennifer Hudson will pay a fitting tribute to Whitney Houston at the Grammys tonight. Houston, who died on Saturday at the age of 48, was a six-time Grammy Award winner. Grammy executive producer Ken Ehrlich announced that Hudson will be a part of the dedication that will air during the show tonight, the Hollywood Reporter said. Houston was found dead at the Beverly Hilton here at 4pm,...
07:00 PM, Feb 12, 2012
Shimla: A familiar figure strolling along Shimla's Mall, greeting friends and chatting animatedly in the coffee house is being missed with the death of actor Anupam Kher's father Pushkar Nath Kher, 84. Nath's friends and local theatre artistes, who once shared stage with Kher, mourned his demise. Nath, a Kashmiri Pandit by origin, died in Mumbai after a brief illness Friday. "Nath will always be remembered for the excitement he...
02:18 PM, Feb 12, 2012
Los Angeles: A collection of reactions to Whitney Houston's death Saturday in Beverly Hills at age 48. - "First of all, I want to tell you that I love you all. Second, I would like to say, I love you Whitney. The hardest thing for me to do is to come on this stage." - Houston's ex-husband Bobby Brown, performing a show in Southaven, Miss., hours after her death. -...
12:26 PM, Feb 12, 2012
Whitney Houston passed away on Sunday in Los Angeles, casting a pall over the biggest weekend in music as the entire industry descends upon the City of Angels for Grammy awards on Monday. ...
12:14 PM, Feb 12, 2012
Los Angeles: At her peak, Whitney Houston was the golden girl of the music industry. From the middle 1980s to the late 1990s, she was one of the world's best-selling artists. She wowed audiences with effortless, powerful, and peerless vocals that were rooted in the black church but made palatable to the masses with a pop sheen. Her success carried her beyond music to movies, where she starred in hits...
09:13 AM, Feb 12, 2012
Los Angeles: Whitney Houston, who ruled as pop music's queen until her majestic voice and regal image were ravaged by drug use, erratic behavior and a tumultuous marriage to singer Bobby Brown, has died. She was 48. Houston's publicist, Kristen Foster, said on Sunday that the singer had died, but the cause and the location of her death were unknown. Meanwhile, an official of the Beverly Hills Police department gave...
07:04 AM, Feb 12, 2012
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court is likely to pronounce on Friday its verdict on confirmation of death sentence to three people, including a woman, convicted in the 2003 Mumbai twin bomb blasts case. A division bench of Justices A M Khanwilkar and P D Kode had on November 12, 2011 reserved its judgement in the case. Ashrat Ansari (32), Hanif Sayed Anees (46) and his wife Fehmida Sayed (43) were...
02:52 PM, Feb 10, 2012
Taiwan: A man from Taiwan was found dead after playing a computer game for 23 hours at an internet cafe. Police found the body of 23-year-old Chen Rong-Yu slumped in a chair at the cafe in the Taipei area with his hands stretched out towards the keyboard and mouse, the Herald Sun reported. Cafe employees say Rong-Yu walked in late on Tuesday and sat down at a corner computer terminal....
03:41 PM, Feb 08, 2012
London: Florence Green never saw the front line. Her war was spent serving food, not dodging bullets. But Green, who has died aged 110, was the last known surviving veteran of World War I. She was serving with the Women's Royal Air Force as a waitress at an air base in eastern England when the guns fell silent on November 11, 1918. It was not until 2010 that she was...
05:32 AM, Feb 08, 2012
New Delhi: Taking cognizance of deaths of new-born babies in various hospitals of West Bengal, the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) on Tuesday said it has asked the state government to spell out, in detail, the steps taken to tackle the situation. "We have sought the details from the state government on the measures initiated to tackle the situation," said panel member Vinod Kumar Tikoo. Several infant...
07:59 PM, Feb 07, 2012
New Delhi: In West Bengal, two more deaths have taken place at the Malda Medical College. Over a 100 babies have died in the region this year itself. As always, doctors claimed that the infants were malnourished and critical when brought to the hospital. West Bengal has been witnessing an increasing number of infant deaths at government facilities. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has attributed the deaths to malnutrition...
03:07 PM, Feb 05, 2012
Cairo: Protesters filled the streets and clashed for a second day on Friday with police who fired tear gas and birdshot in Cairo, as a deadly soccer riot focused rising public anger over lawlessness and collapsing security a year after Egypt's uprising. Six people have been killed and more than 1,500 injured in the latest bloodshed that followed a violent melee and stampede after a soccer game Wednesday in the...
08:25 AM, Feb 04, 2012
Kolkata: Barely a week after 40 babies were reported dead in Malda, there have been more deaths. Ten infants have been reported dead in Bankura district over 48 hours. The West Bengal government has cited malnutrition and under-weight as the reasons for the deaths. Incidentally, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who also holds the health portfolio, has been dismissive, saying that child mortality in fact has dropped in the...
03:11 PM, Feb 03, 2012
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