Los Angeles: Britain's Kate Middleton and her sister Pippa have bumped Lady Gaga off the international fashion map. The wife of Prince William, now formally known as the Duchess of Cambridge, topped a fashion buzzword list for a second year running while outrageous pop star Lady Gaga disappeared from sight. The Global Language Monitor (GLM), which tracks print, electronic and social media for top words and phrases, said on Wednesday...
03:11 PM, Feb 10, 2012
Beijing: American search engine Google chose to apply for license to operate in China, agreeing to abide by all the conditions imposed by the government here after its share in the burgeoning Chinese market declined to 9 per cent. Since last year, Google has seen its share of the online mapping market shrink below 10 per cent while that its local rival Baidu Inc soared to 61 per cent, official...
04:06 PM, Feb 02, 2012
Ralegan Siddhi: In an abrupt move, Jaisingh Mapare, the sarpanch (headman) of Anna Hazare's village, on Monday withdrew his nomination as a NCP candidate for the Zilla Parishad polls, alleging "sabotage" by party leaders. Mapare took the decision to withdraw his candidature for the February 7 elections following a meeting of the villagers held in Ralegan Siddhi on Monday afternoon. Confirming the developments, NCP state spokesman Madan Bafna said Mapare...
07:24 PM, Jan 30, 2012
New Delhi: Bengali cinema has come of age but a few more steps towards something new would not hurt. While on one hand they regularly dish out the commercial fare, they also pull out an occasional gem from the everyday and the common place. However, when it comes to relationships " as experimental and bold Bengali movies have tried to be " they are still a tad bit stereotypical and...
01:33 PM, Jan 20, 2012
Kolkata: With a string of hits in the south to her credit, actress Padmapriya Janakiraman is all set to start her innings in Bengal with 'Aparajita Tumi' by director Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury. The trained 'Bharatnatyam' danseuse, having acted in at least 30 movies in such languages as Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and even Hindi, said she had been nursing a wish for a long time to act in Bengali films. "And...
06:42 PM, Jan 18, 2012
New Delhi: One bogie of the Brahmaputra Mail got derailed on Wednesday leaving five dead and six injured. Accident took place at 5.50 AM at Karanpura in Eastern Railways division. The accident happened when a stationary goods train with fault in the engine suddenly rolled back and hit the sleeper coach at Karanpura station. Sahibganj SP Vijay Laxmi said, "Rescue operations are on. All the injured have been shifted to...
07:38 AM, Jan 11, 2012
Ralegan Siddhi (Maharashtra): In a surprise development, veteran social crusader Anna Hazare on Monday gave his nod to Ralegan Siddhi sarpanch (headman) Jaisingh Mapare to contest next month's Zilla Parishad (district council) elections on a Nationalist Congress Party ticket, an aide said. Mapare, who has always been an NCP activist, had broken all ties with the party during the past one year when he was actively involved in Hazare's anti-corruption...
07:14 PM, Jan 09, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan on Friday said Jammu and Kashmir continues to be a disputed territory, rejecting India's assertion that the entire state is its integral part. Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit made the remarks in response to a statement from India's External Affairs Ministry on January 4 regarding the incorrect depiction of the map of India on the website of the US State Department. "The government of Pakistan rejects the assertion...
09:59 AM, Jan 07, 2012
Washington: As US State Department on Wednesday posted a new map of India reflecting its long standing official position on the country's geographical boundaries, its spokesman acknowledged of having made a "goof up" in this regard, which had resulted in a strong objection from New Delhi. "We made a goof and we fixed it and we're now back in compliance with our own cartographical policy," State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland...
07:05 AM, Jan 05, 2012
New Delhi: The US state department triggers a fresh MAP controversy after posting a new map of India on its official website that reflects the LoC in Jammu and Kashmir as a disputed territory. Last year in November the state department was criticised by the ministry of external affairs for uploading a map which had projected Jammu and Kashmir as a part of Pakistan. Although the state dept had promised...
06:43 AM, Jan 04, 2012
New Delhi: A chargesheet was filed against spiritual leader Karmapa Lama and nine others in the case pertaining of recovery of foreign currency from the Karmapa monastery. The monastery in Dharamshala was in news when police recovered foreign currency worth Rs 7 crore during a raid at Karmapa's office. Himachal Pradesh government has also attached the property of Gyuto monastery of the 17th Karmapa Lama, Ugyen Trinley Dorje, at Sidhbari....
08:33 PM, Dec 07, 2011
San Francisco: Google's next frontier in digital mapping will span the world's shopping malls and airports. An upgrade of Google's mobile mapping service released Tuesday includes directions within stores, malls, airports and transit centers in the US and Japan. The initial index only covers a small fraction of the great indoors, but Google Inc. is hoping that will change as more owners and operators of shopping and transportation hubs submit...
10:28 AM, Nov 30, 2011
Taipei: A map drawn by a Japanese firm shows Tibet as part of India. The cartograph also shows China's southwestern Yunnan province as belonging to India, according to the web news portal wantchinatimes.com on Monday. The map was made by Daiwa Securities Group as part of its business proposal to the People Insurance Company of China (PICC). PICC officials who found the error have asked Daiwa to modify the map...
07:35 PM, Nov 29, 2011
New Delhi: The US on Monday night removed from the State Department's website a map of India showing Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) as part of Pakistan after New Delhi raised objections to it. "Map of India that was used on the State Department (website) had inaccuracies but was not meant to represent the same precision and intricacies of professional or scientific map," the US Embassy spokesperson stated here. "Any inaccuracies...
12:09 AM, Nov 22, 2011
New Delhi: The debate on splitting larger states has once again come to the forefront with Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister announcing plans for carving out four new states: Purvanchal, Bundelkhand, Awadh and Paschim Pradesh/Harit Pradesh. There have been long standing demands across India for the formation of new states and the list includes:1. Ladakh (Jammu & Kashmir)2. Maru Pradesh (Rajasthan)3. Harit Pradesh/Paschim Pradesh (Uttar Pradesh)4. Awadh (Uttar Pradesh)5. Purvanchal/Bhojpur (Uttar...
09:28 PM, Nov 16, 2011
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