The dancer won the best choreography for Kamal Haasan's multilingual spy-thriller 'Vishwaroopam'. ...
11:58 PM, Mar 18, 2013
Maharashtra's worst drought in decades is being felt on the pavements of Pune where migrants from drought hit districts are arriving in the hundreds. They come looking for water and jobs and say it's impossible for them to return home. ...
08:26 AM, Mar 13, 2013
Dog is man's best friend. Well, not in this case. An excited dog kicked a gun on the floor and accidentally shot his owner in the leg while the man was driving a pick-up truck in the US state of Florida. Gregory Dale Lanier of Frostproof, told Sebring police he thought his handgun was empty when he placed on the center "hump" on the floor of his gray Ford. ...
02:53 PM, Feb 28, 2013
A tea-stall owner in Cuttack doubles up as a teacher to provide free education to slum children. Every morning, the tea-stall owner, Prakash Rao, serves free milk to a bunch of kids who gather near his stall. If it weren't for the 55-year-old's initiative, the young ones wouldn't have seen the inside of a classroom. ...
09:26 AM, Feb 15, 2013
Hollywood celebrities seem to have taken the Shakespearean phrase 'What's in a name?' a bit too seriously. ...
10:49 AM, Feb 04, 2013
Though Indian-Americans have the distinction of being the highest-per capita income group among ethnic communities, they lag far behind their European counterparts when it comes to owning a house in the US. According to the 'Homeownership Among the Foreign-Born Population: 2011', released by the Census Bureau, 55 per cent of the Indian-Americans own a house of their own while 45 live in rented accommodation. ...
03:24 PM, Jan 31, 2013
A lawyer representing the owner of the nightclub in southern Brazil where 235 people died in a fire last weekend says his client "regrets it very much" but insisted he was only partly to blame. Attorney Jader Marques says club co-owner Elissandro Spohr called the tragedy "a succession of errors made by the whole country." ...
11:15 PM, Jan 30, 2013
There is a controversy surrounding the brutal killing of a tea garden owner and his wife in Tinsukhia in Assam. Family members of the nine arrested in the case have alleged that workers at the plantation were exploited and even physically abused. ...
08:48 AM, Jan 28, 2013
The owner of the bus in which the 23-year-old paramedic was gangraped and brutally assaulted along with his male friend on December 16, was on Tuesday denied bail in a case of alleged forgery committed by him to get his vehicles registered here. ...
07:36 PM, Jan 08, 2013
Amid stiff opposition to the release of his movie 'Vishwaroopam' on DTH format, actor Kamal Haasan today complained to police he has been receiving threats that the movie would be pirated and power supply to the cinemas screening it will be suspended. ...
01:30 PM, Jan 07, 2013
With Kamal Haasan releasing his movie 'Vishwaroopam' on the DTH format first, The Tamil Nadu Theatre Owners Association and Tamil Nadu Film Distributors Federation have resolved not to screen and distribute movies if they are released on the Direct-to-Home platform. ...
04:09 PM, Jan 04, 2013
The owner of the bus in which the 23-year-old girl was gangraped and brutally assaulted on December 16, was on Thursday remanded in police custody for two days by a Delhi court for allegedly submitting false documents for registration of his vehicles. ...
05:28 PM, Jan 03, 2013
A case has been registered against the owner of the bus in which the 23-year-old woman was gang-raped here Dec 16 night, police said on Tuesday. ...
05:22 AM, Jan 02, 2013
New York: A 57-year old Indian-origin store owner was stabbed to death by an unidentified assailant during a robbery attempt at his shop in Delaware last week. Hemantkumar Maganlal Chauhan of Newport, Delaware was rushed to the Christiana Hospital Trauma Center where he was pronounced dead. An official of the Newport-Delaware state police said the suspect is a black male who wore dark clothes and had covered his face with...
07:21 AM, Nov 07, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Though the indefinite strike called by the lorry owners in the state has been called off, its impact is unlikely to die down soon. The strike was called by the Lorry Owners Welfare Federation from Monday onwards, demanding an increase in lorry rent to cover the extra spending on diesel. The strike was called off after lorry owners, traders and agents held a meeting on Tuesday and agreed to...
02:31 PM, Sep 19, 2012
Barack Obama was campaigning in Florida when he met Scott Van, a registered Republican. ...
03:12 PM, Sep 10, 2012
New Delhi: Murugesan, the owner of the Sivakasi cracker factory, in which 37 people died and over 60 got injured in a massive fire, has been arrested on Sunday in Madurai. Investigations have confirmed that the factory was operating illegally and had been inspected less than 24 hours earlier and ordered to close temporarily due to violations. It had been inspected less than 24 hours earlier and ordered to close...
07:51 PM, Sep 09, 2012
Rajeev Chawla Age: 50 Profile: An IAS officer, Chawla was the principal secretary to the revenue department (Bhoomi and urban property registration) in Karnataka before being transferred as the Metropolitan Commissioner, Bangalore Metropolitan Region Development Authority. His Achievements In 1998, Chawla was the first one to roll out an initiative, now called Bhoomi, to digitise land records in the state. He also launched a project to create Urban Property Ownership...
04:03 PM, Aug 28, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Almost 18 months ago, additional secretary (finance), had recommended a high-level investigation by an appropriate agency into the unholy nexus between officials of the Kerala State Industrial Development Corporation (KSIDC) and owners of Miraflores estate, Nelliampathy, which resulted in a loss of Rs 75.67 crore to the KSIDC. The recommendation was based on the findings ofthe finance inspection wing which probed the financial irregularities at the KSIDC office in...
08:57 AM, Aug 23, 2012
Mumbai: Official of the Crime Branch (Unit-4) have arrested a former employee of Vicco Laboratories for trying to extort Rs 15 crore from the owner of the ayurvedic products manufacturing group. Santosh Balaram Bhane (30), a resident of Dombivli, had made the demand through courier and SMS, said the police. On June 18, Vicco owner Sanjeev Gajanan Pendharkar received a threatening letter in which the Roman script was used to...
02:19 PM, Jul 14, 2012
