A bride-to-be and four of her friends died after their Limousine caught fire in California. According to the Highway Patrol, the white stretch Lincoln was carrying members of a bachelorette party. The driver and 4 others got out uninjured. They are being treated for smoke inhalation. The cause of the fire is under investigation. ...
10:10 AM, May 06, 2013
On Board Special Aircraft: India will participate in the upgradation of strategically crucial Chahbahar port in Iran, that gives access to Afghanistan, and the issue will be discussed when External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid holds talks with his counterpart Ali Akbar Salehi. "We have taken a decision. We will collaborate for development of the port," Khurshid told reporters accompanying him on a three-day visit to Iran. He said the Cabinet...
02:30 AM, May 04, 2013
New Delhi: Ways to increase commercial links with sanctions-hit Iran to reduce huge bilateral trade imbalance will be high on the agenda when External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid travels to Tehran on Friday on a three-day visit. India's participation in the upgradation of Iran's Chahbahar port, which gives access to Afghanistan, will also be among a host of issues expected to figure in the talks that Khurshid will have with...
03:25 AM, May 03, 2013
Chennai: Customs officials arrested a man at the airport here with a suitcase containing five venomous snakes on Wednesday. Airport sources said the arrested Mohammed Azarudin, who arrived by a Thai Airways flight, told the Customs officials that one of his friends in Thaliand gave the suitcase to him with a request to handover it to a person in Chennai. He said he was given Rs 10,000 for carrying the...
12:20 PM, Apr 17, 2013
Mousumi Chatterjee says she is fortunate to have been cast in a full-fledged role in Aparna Sen's next film 'Goynar Bakso'. ...
11:57 AM, Apr 02, 2013
Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh on Sunday mooted 20-year moratorium on mining in tribal areas of Andhra Pradesh. Addressing a public meeting at G K Veedhi, a an interior tribal area in Visakhapatnam district, he suggested to Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy to impose the ban on mining as it gives rise to Maoist activity. ...
03:10 AM, Mar 18, 2013
Guatemala have been warned they could be suspended by FIFA after three internationals, including two of the country's most-capped players, had life bans for match-fixing overturned. ...
09:55 AM, Mar 15, 2013
Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan President, died at the age of 58 on March 6. The firebrand socialist leader was a sharp critic of capitalism and American imperialism for which he was frequently ridiculed by western media outlets. Here are some of his most famous quotes. ...
11:39 AM, Mar 06, 2013
Just 24 hours after a Home Ministry staff came under the radar for passing on sensitive information, there are more leads coming in. Now a senior officer of the National Security Guards has come under probe for speaking to an anonymous Pakistani caller. ...
12:17 PM, Mar 05, 2013
Hosni Mubarak, serving a life-term for his role in the killing of Egyptian protesters during the revolution that toppled his nearly three decade-long dictatorial regime, will face a retrial from April 13, 2013. ...
06:54 PM, Mar 03, 2013
India and Britain on Wednesday signed two MoUs for strengthening educational ties between the two countries. ...
03:15 AM, Feb 21, 2013
Taking a different approach to Google's self-driving cars, Oxford University has come up with a new autonomus car, which can drive itself, interact safely with other road users and can use roads efficiently. ...
12:03 PM, Feb 17, 2013
Dubbing the violence in Assam's Rabha Hasong Autonomous Council (RHAC) areas as a 'political conspiracy', Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Wednesday accused opposition parties of encouraging the perpetrators. "There are political forces who are instigating them. But I do not want to name them," Gogoi told reporters here. ...
05:39 PM, Feb 13, 2013
Sissoko scored twice to claim a 3-2 victory that lifted Newcastle six points clear of the relegation zone. ...
11:02 PM, Feb 02, 2013
Assured debuts by Sissoko and Gouffran, among 11 Frenchmen in the Newcastle squad, silenced the doubters. ...
07:27 PM, Jan 30, 2013
Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan has expressed the need to address the issue of alcoholism in women and appealed that those in distress should seek help. ...
10:51 AM, Jan 29, 2013
Hackers sympathetic to the late computer prodigy Aaron Swartz claimed on Saturday to have infiltrated the website of the US Justice Department's Sentencing Commission, and said they planned to release government data. ...
11:03 AM, Jan 27, 2013
French troops launched their first ground assault against Islamist rebels in Mali on January 16 in a broadening of their operation against battle-hardened al Qaeda-linked fighters who have resisted six days of air strikes. France has called for international support against the Islamist insurgents it says pose a threat to Africa and the West, acknowledging it faces a long fight against the well-equipped fighters who seized Mali's vast desert north...
12:33 PM, Jan 17, 2013
While the US economy awaits its 'fiscal cliff' at the end of 2012, the world of business in India this year confronted with its own maze of buzzwords that included terms like GAAR, Coalgate, OFCDs and lobbying. While the concerned companies were heard describing their losses as 'negative profit', Vijay Mallya termed uncertain times at Kingfisher Airlines as a 'holding pattern'. ...
01:40 PM, Dec 28, 2012
