Srinagar: Kashmir for once is in the news for all the right reasons. While the guns in the valley are yet to be fully silenced, the last three months alone have seen half a million tourists visiting the state. For Kashmiris, this is a rare opportunity, especially with hotel, houseboat and airfare charges going up. As opposed to the five flights-a-day earlier, as many as 30 flights now fly in...
08:44 AM, Jul 06, 2012
Karimganj/Guwahati: A magisterial inquiry has been ordered into the assault on Congress MLA Rumi Nath and her second husband at a Karimganj hotel which sparked off violent protests and bandh in south Assam's Barak Valley. Karimganj Deputy Commissioner Debeswar Malakar on Monday ordered the inquiry into the incident. The report of the inquiry is to be submitted within 15 days, official sources said. In another development, three personnel security officers...
01:04 PM, Jul 02, 2012
Karimganj/Guwahati: The assault on Congress MLA Rumi Nath sparked off violent protests and a bandh in south Assam's Barak Valley on Sunday as police resorted to lathicharge and apprehended five persons involved in the attack. Tension prevailed for the second day in Barak Valley over the assault of the MLA and her second husband Zakir Hussain as violence was reported from several areas. "Five persons suspected to have been involved...
08:53 AM, Jul 02, 2012
New Delhi: Prohibitory orders under Section 144 (joining unlawful assembly armed with deadly weapon) were imposed on Saturday in Karimganj in Assam after Congress MLA from Barak Valley Rumi Nath was beaten up by a hundred-strong mob at a hotel on Friday night. Rumi's personal life has been under the scanner since she left her first husband and two-year-old daughter and remarried. The 33-year-old MLA allegedly converted to Islam for...
05:24 PM, Jun 30, 2012
New Delhi: Thirty-three-year-old Congress MLA from Barak Valley (Assam) Rumi Nath was on Friday night thrashed by a hundred-strong mob at a Karimganj hotel. Rumi has invited the wrath of various groups for allegedly leaving her first husband and 2-year-old daughter and eloping and marrying her Facebook friend, 28-year-old Zakir Hussain. Rumi had gone to meet her father on Friday when the incident happened. What is even worse is that...
10:28 AM, Jun 30, 2012
Washington: Want to miss school? Get a good absent note. A fifth-grader in the US did just that by getting a handwritten note from Barack Obama asking the teacher to excuse his absence from school as he was with the American President. Tyler Sullivan, a fifth-grader in Rochester, went to watch his father, Ryan Sullivan, introduce Obama before the president's speech at Honeywell in Golden Valley. When he returns to...
12:23 PM, Jun 04, 2012
Menlo Park: In Silicon Valley, where sudden wealth is hardly something new and CEOs favour hoodies over bespoke blazers, Facebook's IPO on Friday didn't bring everyday life to a halt. Employees weren't popping champagne corks at company headquarters, at least not where anyone outside could see them. And locals had plenty to do - from finding a job to locating the next Facebook. The company's sprawling headquarters along the southern...
12:52 PM, May 19, 2012
Palo Alto: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other executives addressed about 200 prospective investors at a hotel luncheon in Silicon Valley. Yesterday's event was the last of the bigger road show events that Facebook Inc. is holding ahead of its initial public offering of stock, which is expected late next week. The luncheon was held at the Crown Plaza Hotel in Palo Alto, California. Zuckerberg arrived in a caravan of...
06:09 PM, May 12, 2012
San Francisco: Social-networking site Facebook is halting the sale of its shares on secondary markets effective next week as the company prepares to hold its initial public offering in May, according to a person familiar with the matter. Facebook recently asked firms that arrange trading of its privately held shares to stop doing so, a move intended to reduce churn in its valuation that could complicate matters as it sets...
10:54 AM, Mar 29, 2012
Islamabad The magnificent ancient site of Mohenjo-Daro has been badly neglected, a leading Pakistani daily observed on Wednesday, pointing out that much more needs to be done even though Rs 100 million has been allocated for it. An editorial in the Dawn said it is at long last that a sum of Rs 100 million has been allocated to maintaining, conserving and building some facilities at Mohenjo-Daro. "Much more is...
12:10 PM, Feb 22, 2012
New Delhi: Director Tigmanshu Dhulia, whose forthcoming 'Paan Singh Tomar' is based on the real life of the sportsman-turned-dacoit from Chambal, says he has portrayed Tomar as a rebel in the film. Tomar, a national steeplechase champion for seven straight years, quit the sport and the army to become a 'Bandit King' of the Chambal Valley. "As a director, for me Tomar was not a dacoit but a rebel. He...
05:13 PM, Feb 21, 2012
San Francisco: Josh Buckley, chief executive of an online gaming start-up, is looking forward to next month's Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, particularly for the parties and the accompanying schmoozing with industry A-listers. There's one problem: Buckley, who will turn 20 this week on February 22, may be turned away from many of the parties because he is not old enough to drink. His fake ID was recently confiscated,...
02:05 PM, Feb 21, 2012
Srinagar: The police in Jammu and Kashmir, mostly in the news for all the wrong reasons, are in the limelight this time. They have set up a drug de-addiction centre in the valley to help the youth. Faisal (name changed) says, "My friends gave me the pills... first, they gave me one tablet... I got addicted and then started to get used to drugs... When I tried to give up,...
09:34 AM, Feb 03, 2012
Mumbai: Indian Canadian actress Lisa Ray has got engaged. Her boyfriend Jason Dehni proposed to her in California's Napa Valley. "Just returned from the glorious Napa Valley - the gourmand's and wine-lovers' paradise. ENGAGED to the love of my life. Jason Dehni proposed in Napa. #happiestdayever", she wrote on her Twitter page. She also posted her picture with her beau. The actress was diagnosed with the rare cancer of plasma...
12:59 PM, Feb 01, 2012
New Delhi: Valley of Saints, Musa Syeed's first feature film will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival which begins on January 19, 2012. The film was shot in Kashmir during the peak of unrest in 2010. It tells the story of a boatman who wants out of Kashmir but a beautiful young woman researching the dying Dal lake leads him to contemplate a different future. Later this month, the film...
05:59 PM, Jan 27, 2012
Srinagar: Mobile phones across the Kashmir Valley stopped functioning as service providers shut off connectivity as part of the high security drill for the 63rd Republic Day Thursday. Mobile phone services in Srinagar were withdrawn to prevent separatists from triggering electronically-controlled remote devices. "This is part of the standard security drill. The services will be restored immediately after the official parade ends here," an intelligence officer said. ...
10:55 AM, Jan 26, 2012
Srinagar: Kashmir remained cut off from the rest of the country for the second day on Monday as snowfall blocked the vital Srinagar-Jammu National highway and delayed all scheduled flights to the Valley. The snowfall, which began on Saturday night, continued overnight in most parts of the Valley including in the summer capital Srinagar, crippling normal life as most of the people preferred to remain indoors. However, the snowfall has...
12:01 PM, Jan 16, 2012
New Delhi: 'Valley of Saints', a love story set in Kashmir is all set to compete for the top award in the World Dramatics category of Sundance Film Festival 2012. The film, directed by an American filmmaker Musa Sayeed, has earlier won Film Independent and Sloan Foundation Producer's Grant. 'Valley of Saints' is about a Kashmiri boatman Gulzar, who plans to run away from the war and poverty surrounding his...
12:07 PM, Dec 07, 2011
Islamabad: One of the bravest girls in Pakistan, who as a 11-year-old wrote about the Taliban banning girls' schools in the picturesque Swat Valley and missing watching her favourite Indian serial 'Raja Ki Ayegi Baraat', has been nominated for the International Children's Peace Prize. Malala Yousufzai, now 13, was a victim of the ban imposed by the Taliban on education for girls in the troubled Swat Valley over two years...
11:30 AM, Nov 21, 2011
Islamabad: At least 16 people were killed and nine injured on Sunday in two attacks in Pakistan's northwest tribal region bordering Afghanistan, a media report said. Eight people were killed and seven injured in a blast at a market in Teerah Valley area of Khyber Agency. Another eight people, including three children, were killed and two injured in a mortar shell attack in Sipah area of the same region, Xinhua...
03:30 PM, Nov 13, 2011
