New Delhi: The mother of the child who was forced to lick urine in Shantiniketan allegedly wanted a shock treatment to cure the girl of bedwetting, according to the HRD Ministry's report which was submitted to the Prime Minister's Office on Wednesday. The HRD Ministry has submitted a two page report to the PMO. But the PMO will reportedly not get into the matter since it is sub-judice. The report...
08:01 PM, Jul 11, 2012
A nationwide outrage over a Visva-Bharati warden asking a class 5 student to drink her urine for bedwetting notwithstanding, social activist Swami Agnivesh claimed on Tuesday that this was a "traditional cure" for such a condition. ...
03:50 PM, Jul 11, 2012
New Delhi: The success of Slumdog Millionaire fetched an international recognition for Anil Kapoor. Probably this was the reason that he went for a tiny role in Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol. He might have thought that doing a small role in a big Hollywood film is more worthy than sticking to Bollywood only. He threw parties and talked a lot about MI4 which made the Indian audiences thrilled about his...
04:38 PM, Jul 10, 2012
Paris: An armed man took hostages on Tuesday morning at a school complex just south of Paris, according to police officials. Children were initially among the hostages, but the man appears to now be holding one adult. One police official said the man was carrying a gun; others said they did not know what weapon he had. The police official said officers from the elite Raid force were on site...
03:03 PM, Jul 10, 2012
In a shameful and shocking incident of corporal punishment at West Bengal's Visva-Bharati University, a 10-year-old girl was forced to drink her urine as punishment for bed wetting by her hostel warden. ...
10:22 AM, Jul 10, 2012
New Delhi: Reacting to the shocking incident of a Class 5 girl at the prestigious Visva-Bharati University in West Bengal being made to drink her own urine by her hostel warden as punishment for bedwetting, NCPCR Chairperson Shanta Sinha on Monday said that the guilty must be punished. "It is a very shocking incident. The concerned warden should be punished for this act. She should be suspended," she said. "We...
12:20 PM, Jul 09, 2012
Actor Matthew McConaughey and his wife, Camila, a Brazilian model, are expecting their third child, he said on his Twitter page. The couple were married last month at their home in Austin, Texas, after dating for several years. "Happy birthday America, more good news, Camila and I are expecting our 3rd child," McConaughey wrote on Twitter. McConaughey, 42, plays the manager of a male strip club in the movie Magic...
02:19 PM, Jul 05, 2012
Berlin: Police commandos stormed an apartment in southern Germany on Wednesday after a hostage standoff and found five bodies, including that of the gunman, a spokesman said. The team was sent in to the apartment after police smelled smoke from the top-floor apartment in Karlsruhe at around lunchtime following a standoff that began at 9 am, police spokesman Juergen Scheufer said. Inside they found the bodies of the suspect, as...
07:33 PM, Jul 04, 2012
Mumbai: Irrfan is no newbie to Hollywood films. His new project 'The Amazing Spider-Man' is all set to hit the marquee and after this, he will start working on his next film, 'The Life of Pi'. Incidentally, sources say that the actor is being very careful about the manner in which he promotes his films. Especially, because he doesn't want to do what Anil Kapoor did a year ago. Sources...
03:09 PM, Jun 26, 2012
Kabul: Afghan Taliban gunmen who attacked a popular lakeside hotel on the outskirts of the Afghan capital are holding several hostages, thought to include women and children, and some people have been killed, Kabul police said on Friday. An unknown number of gunmen, some armed with rocket-propelled grenades and heavy machine guns, attacked the hotel in Kabul's popular Qargha Lake recreation area late on Thursday night, triggering a five-hour gunbattle....
07:59 AM, Jun 22, 2012
Shimla: The Himachal Pradesh High Court on Thursday ordered Himachal University to get its all boys hostels vacated. The order came a day after the court directed the police to carry out searches in the hostels and file report. In the report, submitted before the court today, the police said illegal arms were found in the search and against the sanctioned capacity of 810, around 2,000 students were staying there....
01:24 AM, Jun 22, 2012
Toulouse (France): A man claiming to be a member of al-Qaeda has taken several hostages in a bank in the southwestern French city of Toulouse, a police union source said on Wednesday. The source said the man had fired a shot and could be holding up to four people. The Interior Ministry was not immediately available to comment. In March, an al-Qaeda-inspired gunman shot dead three soldiers, a rabbi and...
04:25 PM, Jun 20, 2012
Warsaw: Greece's qualification for the Euro 2012 quarter-finals is a triumph because the team has constantly been victimized by referees, captain Giorgos Karagounis said. The Greeks felt they were denied a clear penalty in the 1-0 win over Russia that secured a place in the knockout stages, as Karagounis was tripped by Russia defender Sergei Ignashevich but given a yellow card for diving. All referee calls were against our team,"...
10:27 AM, Jun 17, 2012
After working together for 24 long years, one of the biggest brand of directors of Mollywood Rafi-Mecartin is heading for a separation. As per the latest details, their last movie together will be Prithviraj's 'Mumbai Dhosth' all set to start the shoot by the month of June. Howly Pottur will produce these humorous films that will have plenty of slapsticks, as usual by the director duo. Rai-Mecartin has plenty of...
03:13 PM, May 24, 2012
The PCB is still searching for venues to host the five ODIs and three T20 matches against Australia from mid-August. ...
10:50 PM, May 22, 2012
Sri Lanka withdrew their offer to host the series in August-September. ...
11:59 PM, May 16, 2012
Bhubaneswar: Abducted police officer Krupa Ram Majhi has been shot dead by suspected Naxals in Nuapada in Odisha. The police recovered Majhi's body from Nuapada. A team of 10 Maoists had abducted the ASI and had let off the constable accompanying him on Tuesday. ASI Krupa Ram Majhi of the Dharambandha Police Station was abducted by suspected Naxals in Nuapada on Tuesday in retaliation to a combing operation that was...
04:02 PM, May 08, 2012
Bhubaneswar: A police official has been abducted by suspected Naxals in Odisha. ASI Krupa Ram Majhi of the Dharambandha Police Station has been abducted by suspected Naxals in Nuapada. Reports say 10 Naxals abducted the ASI and let off the constable accompanying him. This is the third hostage crisis in Odisha in the past two months. Earlier BJD MLA Jhina Hikaka was released on April 26 after being in the...
02:20 PM, May 08, 2012
Washington: In a video released by al-Qaeda, American hostage Warren Weinstein said he will be killed unless US President Barack Obama agrees to the militant group's demands. "My life is in your hands, Mr President," Weinstein said in the video. "If you accept the demands, I live; if you don't accept the demands, then I die." Weinstein was abducted in August 2011 in Lahore, Pakistan, after gunmen tricked his guards...
10:36 AM, May 07, 2012
New Delhi: The Centre is planning to seek the cooperation of states in formulating a national policy to deal with hostage crisis in the backdrop of Maoists taking hostages in Odisha and Chhattisgarh and Chief Minister Raman Singh demanding such a policy. The Home Ministry is planning to write all states to put forward their views on formulating a hostage policy and Standard Operating Procedures to deal with any hostage...
03:28 AM, May 05, 2012
