Tibet: 83 mining workers buried in landslide
by IANS
As many as 83 workers were buried alive Friday when a major landslide hit a mining area in China's Tibet region, authorities said. The accident occurred at about 6 am in the capital Lhasa's Maizhokunggar county, Xinhua reported. ...  
08:59 AM, Mar 30, 2013

Police official beaten up at Odisha Congress headquarters A police havildar, who went to the Odisha Congress' headquarters in Bhubaneswar to apprehend those indulging in violence, on Monday was beaten up allegedly by party workers, police said. The incident allegedly took place when Havildar Nimai Charan Sahu entered Congress Bhavan in a bid to nab some people who tried to set afire a city bus carrying passengers. ...  
02:15 AM, Mar 26, 2013

Salman Khan's fitness impresses actor Madhavan  The 42-year-old is active in Tamil and Hindi films and his last Bollywood outing was 'Jodi Breakers'. ...  
01:47 PM, Mar 25, 2013

WB: Tea garden workers seek CM's permission to kill themselves Workers of tea gardens in Jalpaiguri district in West Bengal are battling acute poverty and unemployment since the tea gardens shut down 10 years ago. The workers are now seeking permission to kill themselves as the extreme situation has even driven many to sell off their women to the human trafficking trade. ...  
10:45 AM, Mar 25, 2013

Priti Patkar runs night shelters for children of sex workers Real hero Priti Patkar runs night shelters for children in Mumbai's red light areas. Her mission is to provide children with a safe haven and grooming them for a future away from prostitution. ...  
09:40 AM, Mar 20, 2013

Indian aviation sector is reviving, says Ajit Singh
by IANS
Various policy measures initiated by the government for the civil aviation sector have begun to yield results and the airline industry in India is witnessing a revival, union Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh said on Sunday. ...  
04:15 AM, Mar 18, 2013

DRDO computers 'hacked', probe on The computers of highly-sensitive Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) have reportedly been hacked. The hacking is suspected to have been carried out by Chinese hackers and there are fears that some sensitive information could have been compromised. ...  
05:47 PM, Mar 13, 2013

Maharashtra drought: Water being diverted to breweries, alleges Leader of Oppn

Leader of Opposition Vinod Tawde alleged that water was being diverted to breweries instead of giving it to farmers. ...
05:46 PM, Mar 12, 2013

Maharashtra to provide water tankers to drought migrants Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Tuesday said that drought-migrants from villages will be provided water tankers. Leader of Opposition Vinod Tawde had alleged that water was being diverted to breweries instead of giving it to farmers. ...  
04:00 PM, Mar 12, 2013

Car sales in February at 12 year low, plunges by 25.7 pc Car sales in India slumped an annual 25.7 per cent in February, the biggest fall in more than 12 years and the fourth consecutive monthly slide, an industry body said on Monday, as sluggish economic growth continues to weigh on demand in the once-booming market. ...  
11:02 AM, Mar 11, 2013

India trumps Pakistan's Iran rice trade boom with oil rupees Iran's oil export revenues are helping Indian rice exporters to claw back some of the lucrative business lost to cross-border truckers in Pakistan as a result of Western sanctions. ...  
03:43 AM, Mar 09, 2013

WB: TMC workers allegedly molest Jharkhand party members Two tribal women workers of Jharkhand Party (Naren) on Thursday alleged to the state Women's Commission and state Human Rights Commission that they had been molested by ruling Trinamool Congress activists. In the complaint, which was also sent to the SP and DM of Midnapore West district, the two adivasi women said though a complaint was lodged in Binpur police station following the incident, no action was taken. ...  
10:47 PM, Mar 07, 2013

Note-sharing service Evernote hacked; user data stolen Evernote, a Web-based note-sharing service, said it was resetting the passwords of its 50 million users because hackers managed to breach its computer network and access some usernames, email addresses and encrypted passwords. ...  
11:05 AM, Mar 03, 2013

Smart stickers let you find things by phone Stick-N-Find Technologies, wants to give people a way to find things, whether it's keys, wallets, TV remotes, or cat collars. ...  
05:54 PM, Feb 28, 2013

Bangalore: Woman runs over construction workers, kills one The Bangalore Police are on the lookout for a woman who is absconding after allegedly driving her car onto a footpath and killing one construction worker. The woman also injured three others. ...  
10:50 PM, Feb 24, 2013

Hackers post bomb threat on Bihar Tourism website A threat of Hyderabad-like blasts to avenge the hanging of Afzal Guru was posted on the website of Bihar Tourism department after it was attacked by hackers Saturday morning. Bihar Tourism minister Sunil Kumar Pintu said the website www.bihartourism.gov.in remained hacked from morning till 2:30 pm. ...  
06:18 PM, Feb 23, 2013

WB: TMC workers ransack Chaighoria police station Trinamool Congress (TMC) workers on Friday ransacked a police station in Chaighoria in North 24 Parganas district over alleged police inaction on complaints of financial irregularities by a panchayat member. ...  
11:08 AM, Feb 23, 2013

Hackers who targeted Facebook attack Apple, infect Macs Apple was recently attacked by hackers who infected Macintosh computers of some employees. ...  
08:11 AM, Feb 20, 2013

Brokers request Finance Minister to rejig STT It's Budget month and just like last year, this year too, speculation is rife about the fate of the controversial securities transaction tax (STT). At their end, capital market participants want the Finance Minister to have a relook at the rate of STT to begin with. ...  
11:30 AM, Feb 19, 2013