Patna: On the first anniversary of the police firing at Forbesganj in which four members of the minority community were killed and many others injured, the Opposition parties on Sunday demanded a CBI probe into the incident. Demanding the probe, RJD state unit chief Ramchandra Purve who led an 'Aakrosh March' in Patna during the day alleged that atrocities against the minorities have increased during the NDA rule. Slamming the...
08:12 PM, Jun 03, 2012
New Delhi: A fire broke out early on Sunday morning at the CRPF headquarters in the CGO complex in New Delhi. The fire was reported around 6:45 am from the ground floor of the four-storeyed building and five fire tenders were rushed. Fire officials said that the fire engulfed the public relations section of the force and a number of books, documents and other material has been destroyed. There were...
09:40 AM, Jun 03, 2012
2011 threw up an unexpected googly when environment minister Jairam Ramesh threw a tantrum over diesel SUVs. In his opinion they were gas guzzling, pollution spewing behemoths whose owners should be taxed heavily. Matters reached a head last month as I was boarding a flight to Munich. The diesel subsidies and debates over the exclusion of diesel Benzs and BMWs from our roads seemed to gain further momentum as the...
08:21 AM, Jun 03, 2012
Chandigarh: The family of Ruchika Girhotra, who committed suicide after being molested by former Haryana DGP SPS Rathore, has raised no objection to CBI's closure reports dropping torture charges against the cop. The reports filed by the investigating agency say there's no evidence to prove that Ruchika' brother Ashu Girhotra was tortured while in police custody or that the signatures of her father, S C Girhotra, had been forged on...
02:16 PM, Jun 02, 2012
Les Miserables' is an upcoming film starring Anne Hathway, Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe and Amanda Seyfried. ...
11:39 AM, 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
New Delhi: Some bogies of an Indore-Ratlam passenger train caught fire on Tuesday night. Thankfully all the passengers were evacuated safely. The rail traffic at the route had to be halted for some time. A probe has now been ordered. This comes just a week after the Hampi Express collided with a goods train killing over 20 people in Andhra Pradesh. ...
08:57 AM, May 30, 2012
Paris: India's Sania Mirza and American Bethanie Mattek-Sands were knocked out by Russian-Romanian combine of Nina Bratchikova and Edina Gallovits-Hall in the women's doubles first round at the French Open on Tuesday. The fifteenth seeds went down fighting. Recovering from a set down, they, however, failed to win points on their serve to finally lose 3-6, 6-4, 5-7 to the unseeded pair. The loss is a blow for the Indian,...
08:39 PM, May 29, 2012
Doha: At least 19 foreign nationals, including 13 children, were killed in a fire that ripped through an upscale shopping mall in Qatar on Monday, the country's interior ministry said. The children were from Spain, Japan, the Philippines and Benin among other countries. A Spanish diplomatic source in Madrid told Reuters that four of the dead children were Spanish. It was not immediately clear what caused the blaze, which media...
02:32 AM, May 29, 2012
New Delhi: A major fire broke out on Sunday at a garment factory in east Delhi. At least 27 fire tenders were rushed to the spot to douse the fire. Efforts are on to douse the flames in which no casualty has been reported so far. However, fire brigade officials haven't been able to bring it under control yet. The fire at the garment factory in Gandhi Nagar area was...
07:01 PM, May 27, 2012
New Delhi: A major fire broke out on Sunday at a garment factory in east Delhi, a fire department official said. Efforts are on to douse the flames in which no casualty has been reported so far, he said. "The fire at the garment factory in Gandhi Nagar area was reported at 2:00 pm and so far, no loss of life has been reported," he said, adding 20 fire tenders...
05:46 PM, May 27, 2012
BMW Motorrad is the Munich-based automotive giant's motorcycle division. They picked up Husqvarna's motorcycle division in 2007, and today operate it as its own brand and operation. Rewind a bit and the Husqvarna name is Swedish, an ammunition maker that began making motorcycles in 1903, became famous for its off-road motorcycles in the 50s and 60s and then dominated the world motocross scene until the 70s. And in the still...
11:19 AM, May 27, 2012
New Delhi: A major fire broke out at a paint factory in Delhi's Mayapuri area on Saturday. At least Twenty-five fire tenders were rushed to the spot to douse the fire. However, no casualty has been reported yet. More details awaited. ...
05:58 PM, May 26, 2012
Reuters: Formula One teams and circuits will change safety procedures to make sure a fire like the one that devastated the Williams garage at the Spanish Grand Prix 10 days ago does not happen again. Williams chief operations engineer Mark Gillan told reporters at the Monaco Grand Prix that the Circuit de Catalunya blaze, that broke out as the team celebrated a first win in nearly eight years, destroyed 90...
01:05 PM, May 24, 2012
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