London: Tens of thousands of Britons called on the government on Friday to nominate Malala Yousufzai, a Pakistani girl shot in the head by the Taliban for advocating girls' education, for the Nobel Peace Prize. The 15-year-old is receiving specialist treatment in the English city of Birmingham after gunmen shot her on October 9 for standing up against the Taliban and openly advocating education for women. The attack has drawn...
08:36 AM, Nov 09, 2012
London: A week after Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenager shot in the head by the Taliban for campaigning for girls' education, was flown to UK for specialised treatment, she continues to make steady progress and is in a stable condition, her doctors said on Monday. "Malala continues to make steady progress and is in a stable condition at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham. "She has now been in the hospital...
05:18 PM, Oct 22, 2012
London: Pakistani teenage rights activist Malala Yousafzai, shot in the head by Taliban for campaigning for girls' education, is "stable" following her sixth night in hospital, doctors treating her said on Sunday. "Malala is stable in the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham following her sixth night under the care of Queen Elizabeth and Birmingham Children's hospitals' staff," the hospital said in a statement. Malala, 15, was shot on a school bus...
06:00 PM, Oct 21, 2012
Washington: A group of 14 top women senators has written to Pakistan's Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf to ensure that the perpetrators of the attack on teenage rights activist Malala Yousufzai are brought to justice. "We believe an attack against Malala represents an attack against all women across the world and must not be tolerated," the group led by Senator Dianne Feinstein, Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence,...
08:20 AM, Oct 20, 2012
London: Doctors on Wednesday claimed that 14-year-old Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai is moving her limbs more often. They also said that her condition is stable and she is responding well to her treatment. However, no details have been made public yet about the extent of her head injuries. Malala was shot last week by the Taliban, for speaking out against them and advocating girls education. "Any progress is hopeful," Dr...
08:58 AM, Oct 18, 2012
Malala Yousufzai, the teenager who was shot for taking on the Taliban, is set to receive Pakistan's highest civilian bravery award. Meanwhile, the 14-year old continues to undergo treatment in a UK hospital. Malala has not undergone any surgery since leaving Pakistan on Monday. Doctors remain optimistic about her recovery. Meanwhile, Malala's friend who was also injured in the same attack is also recovering. ...
09:14 AM, Oct 17, 2012
London: Pakistani teenage rights activist Malala Yousufzai, in a serious condition after being shot in the head by the Taliban, has a "good chance of recovery", British doctors said on Tuesday. Fourteen-year-old Malala was secretly transferred to Britain from Pakistan in an air ambulance on Monday for specialist treatment, including the repair of damaged bones of her skull. She is admitted to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, which has...
11:34 AM, Oct 16, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistani security agencies have arrested three brothers of a senior Taliban commander from Swat during a raid for alleged links to the near-fatal attack on teenage rights activist Malala Yousufzai, who is still on ventilator in hospital and making "slow and steady" progress. The suspects, who were arrested on Saturday in Nowshera district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, were sent to an undisclosed location for questioning, officials said. The officials told...
04:46 PM, Oct 14, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan's teenage rights activist Malala Yousufzai, who was shot in the head by the Taliban, was still on ventilator at a top army hospital, though her condition was satisfactory and her vital organs were "intact and working properly", the military said on Saturday. The condition of 14-year-old Malala, who is in the Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology in Rawalpindi, continues to be satisfactory, a military spokesman said. She is...
03:57 AM, Oct 14, 2012
Islamabad: A 14-year-old Pakistani girl, who emerged as an unlikely champion of peace in the former Taliban stronghold of Swat, was seriously injured when a suspected militant attacked her car in the country's restive northwest on Tuesday. Malala Yousufzai, the first recipient of Pakistan's National Peace Award for Youth, was hit by at least two bullets when the gunman fired at her car in Swat, located 160 km from Islamabad....
02:48 PM, Oct 09, 2012
New Delhi: The situation in Kashmir is improving, President Pranab Mukherjee said on Friday after winding up his two-day visit to the Valley during which he interacted with a cross-section of the population besides being briefed by Governor NN Vohra and Chief Minister Omar Abduallah. "I got a good impression that things are improving," he said on board the IAF aircraft on his way back from Srinagar when asked about...
03:26 PM, Sep 28, 2012
Itanagar: Over two lakh people have been affected in the fresh wave of floods in five districts of Arunachal Pradesh with majority of the rivers and tributaries flowing over the danger mark on Sunday, official sources said. The affected districts are Lohit, Lower Dibang Valley, Changlang, East Siang and parts of Papum Pare district, the sources said, adding, one person has died in the floods. At least 39 marooned people,...
06:40 PM, Sep 23, 2012
Vadodara: A 28-year-old man miraculously survived a 2000-feet fall from Pavagadh mountain in Gujarat and was rescued from the Valley on Sunday, fire officials said. "Bharat Bhakti along with his friends went to Pavagadh to pay obeisance at Goddess Bhadrakali temple yesterday (Saturday). After offering prayers at the temple located on top of the mountain, he missed a step and fell into the Valley," they said. On being informed, the...
09:07 PM, Sep 02, 2012
With each culture evolving its own ways of celebrations, marriage is an event of lifetime. After a break during the Holy fasting month of Ramzan, ...
02:22 PM, Sep 02, 2012
Srinagar: Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan arrived here Monday to shoot in the picturesque Kashmir Valley for the first time in his over two-decade-old film career. Shah Rukh immediately left for south Kashmir's Pahalgam hill station in a chopper after his arrival at Srinagar airport Monday morning. He is here to shoot Yash Chopra's next, yet untitled, movie. Chopra and his crew have been camping in Pahalgam for the last...
03:02 PM, Aug 27, 2012
Srinagar: This year has seen a rise in militancy in the Kashmir valley with the Army reporting 100 per cent increase in infiltration from across the border. There have been six attacks on village heads and encounters near the Line of Control in the last few weeks. Once again there is a peak in militant activities in Jammu and Kashmir. The Army says 280-300 militants are active in the valley....
09:37 AM, Aug 04, 2012
New York: There seems to be some bad news for the students planning to study abroad. After Tri-Valley University, another US college is in a visa fraud row. The CEO of Herguan University in California, Jerry Wang, has been arrested for fraud. The college, incidentally, attracts a large number of Indian students. Federal authorities raided the private 'unaccredited' college in Sunnyvale in California, arresting the CEO of the Herguan University,...
08:20 AM, Aug 04, 2012
New Delhi: Army Chief General Bikram Singh, who has spent a major part of his 40 years of service in Jammu and Kashmir, on Monday recalled his days in the Valley saying he has "shed his blood" there as he was wounded in a terrorist incident there. "Kashmir Valley is always in my mind. I have shed my blood as I was hit by a bullet while serving there. I...
04:34 PM, Jul 09, 2012
