Vatican City: Pope Benedict's former butler, Paolo Gabriele, goes on trial on Saturday in one of the most embarrassing episodes in recent Vatican history. The trial of the 46-year-old man who served the pope his meals and helped him dress is due to start at 9:30 am (0730 GMT) in the Vatican's little-used tribunal, a small room with rich panelled wood and a papal emblem on its ceiling. His arrest...
10:12 AM, Sep 29, 2012
New Delhi: Ruling out extension of deadline for digitisation of cable television beyond October 31, Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni on Friday said Delhi was lagging behind other metros in this process. Soni met Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and asked her to ensure that all households having cable TV connection installed digital set top box (STB) before the deadline. "Only 70 per cent people in Delhi have installed...
08:23 PM, Sep 28, 2012
Geneva: A Zurich-based foundation says it will prove to the world on Thursday that Leonardo Da Vinci painted an earlier version of the Mona Lisa, a claim doubted by at least one expert on the multifaceted Renaissance artist. The Mona Lisa Foundation, which has been working with the anonymous owners of the "Isleworth Mona Lisa," says that after 35 years of research, experts believe it predates the famed 16th-century masterpiece...
03:02 PM, Sep 27, 2012
Rio De Janeiro: A court in Brazil said it has ordered YouTube to remove clips of the movie that has touched off deadly protests across the Muslim world, the latest in a spate of court-ordered content-removal cases against the video-sharing site in Rio De Janeiro. Sao Paulo-based judge Gilson Delgado Miranda gave the site ten days to remove videos, which has raised the ire of many Muslims around the world....
09:28 AM, Sep 27, 2012
New Delhi: Empathising with the 'My name is Khan but I am not a terrorist' lament, the Supreme Court on Tuesday said law cannot be abused to harass any person owning to his religion and acquitted 11 people, held guilty of terrorism in Gujarat. "District Superintendent of Police and Inspector General of Police and all others entrusted with the task of operating the law must not do anything which allows...
07:56 AM, Sep 27, 2012
Kozhikode: Political exploitation by certain organisations after dividing the society on the lines of religion and community is the biggest threat the nation is facing now, Industries Minister P K Kunhalikutty has said. He was speaking at the remembrance meeting of IUML leaders Panakkad Syed Mohammedali Shihab Thangal and Syed Umar Bafaqi Thangal organised by the IUML district committee here on Sunday. Certain forces are always trying to create communal...
01:00 PM, Sep 24, 2012
New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh Minister Shivpal Yadav on Saturday had a miraculous escape when a small plane carrying him skidded off the runway after landing at the IGI airport in Delhi. The incident took place at around 12 noon when the plane skidded off the runway after landing and the nose-wheel got stuck in mud, airport sources said. The plane with six people on board, including Yadav and two pilots,...
02:59 PM, Sep 22, 2012
Hyderabad: Disgusted with corruption, red-tapism, backwardness and not least, the stinking surroundings? How many times have you discussed and debated these issues at your home, college or office with your colleagues, friends and family? And, what have you done about it except complain? The answer to these questions, in most cases, would be: yes, many times and nothing. But a group of enterprising students, including one from Hyderabad, have decided...
02:33 PM, Sep 21, 2012
New Delhi: The University Grants Commission (UGC) has published the National Eligibility Test (NET) results on September 18. After publication of the results, UGC allegedly altered the qualification norms by stating that candidates belonging to the general category needed to score an aggregate of 65 per cent for all three of the NET's papers to become eligible for college and university lectureship. This has led to disaffection among those who...
02:39 PM, Sep 20, 2012
Washington: An independent FBI advisory board is being asked to examine whether the current hate crime reporting categories should be expanded to include those against the Sikhs, a top US official announced on Wednesday. Such a move by the Department of Justice comes in the wake of top US lawmakers and human rights bodies and Sikh organisations writing to the Attorney General in this regard. This week as many as...
09:28 PM, Sep 19, 2012
Paris: A French magazine ridiculed the Prophet Mohammad on Wednesday by portraying him naked in cartoons, threatening to fuel the anger of Muslims around the world who are already incensed by a film depiction of him as a lecherous fool. The drawings in satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo risked exacerbating a crisis that has seen the storming of US and other Western embassies, the killing of the US ambassador to Libya...
09:08 PM, Sep 19, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday asked Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and city police to ensure that no "beef and pork" festival takes place in the campus on September 28. A student organisation of the university had announced plans to hold a beef-and-pork festival on September 28. A division bench of Acting Chief Justice AK Sikri and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw said, "The JNU and police are directed...
08:44 PM, Sep 19, 2012
New Delhi: The University Grants Commission (UGC) has declared results for the National Eligibility Test (NET) for selection of college and university lecturers. About 5,71,627 candidates sat for the test on June 24, 2012. Candidates can log on to http://ugcnetonline.in/Result_june2012.pdf and tally their roll numbers against those declared selected. 43,957 candidates have qualified the test and as many as 3,625 candidates have qualified for Junior Research Fellowship (JRF), a UGC...
11:39 AM, Sep 19, 2012
Colourful turbans crowded around California Governor Jerry Brown as he signed two historic bills designed to battle workplace discrimination against Sikhs and Muslims in the state. Brown signed the Workplace Religious Freedom Act, Assembly Bill 1964 which ensures that employees receive equal protection under law, protecting workers who wear turbans, hijabs and yarmulkes, the Sacramento Bee newspaper reported. In California, employers faced over 500 cases of religious discrimination in 2011,...
01:58 PM, Sep 10, 2012
New Delhi: Nearly 200 Pakistani Hindus reached Jodhpur in Rajasthan late on Sunday evening after nearly a three-month long trek. The families have sought refugee status and protection of their religious freedom. More than 350 Pakistani Hindus have reached India over the past two months seeking refuge and protection of their religious freedom. The families that arrived on Sunday have been temporarily accommodated in a temple campus in Jodhpur. ...
07:36 AM, Sep 10, 2012
New Delhi: Three Dubai-bound foreigners were arrested on Sunday for allegedly smuggling rare species of small monkeys after a simian was found hidden in the undergarments of one of the accused at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport in New Delhi. The passengers identified as Al Dhaheri Hamad, Al Shamsi Mohammed, Al Shamsi Rashid, were intercepted by CISF personnel during checking after they arrived from Bangkok here and were proceeding...
09:57 PM, Sep 09, 2012
New Delhi: The advanced Boeing 787 Dreamliner of Air India touched down at Delhi's IGI Airport on Saturday, ending an over four-year wait of the struggling national carrier to add this next-generation airplane in its fleet. The plane, painted in red and yellow livery of Air India, landed at the main runway of the airport at 1705 hours and was given water-cannon salute as it taxied to the bay. After...
06:14 PM, Sep 08, 2012
New Delhi: Google takes us on a journey to where "no man has gone before" with an interactive doodle to celebrate the 46th anniversary of Star Trek: The Original Series. The Star Trek: The Original Series doodle is the first interactive Google doodle since the football doodle that Google posted during the London Olympics in August. But unlike the playable Olympics doodles, the are no points to earn in the...
05:10 PM, Sep 08, 2012
New Delhi: Google doodles are fun, more so when they are interactive such as Saturday's 'Star Trek: The Original Series' doodle, posted to commemorate the 46th anniversary of the cult science fiction television series that aired on NBC in the US from September 8, 1966 to June 3, 1969. It appears that the 'Star Trek: The Original Series' doodle is best experienced on Google's Web browser - Chrome. Is Google...
07:43 AM, Sep 08, 2012
