Sunday 20 May 2012
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Mumbai: In a brutal case of vigilante justice, eight teenagers have been arrested today for beating a college student to death. Junior college student, Ansh Agarwal was bludgeoned to death in Mumbai’s suburban Andheri on Tuesday night. Ironically the main accused in the case, studied with Ansh in the same tuition class. “He was...
New Delhi: India has successfully test-fired Agni-V, its first Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile (ICBM). The missile was launched from Wheeler Island off the Odisha coast at 8:05 this morning. The test launch was originally scheduled for Wednesday, but was postponed due to bad weather. Designed and developed by Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) scientists,...
Kolkata: Stung by criticism of her government’s choice of newspapers for state-aided libraries and a professor’s arrest over circulation of a cartoon showing her in poor light, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today alleged a section of the media saw her government in poor light. She said the media appeared to paint a...
Srinagar: The first ever international Kashmir literary festival, on the lines of the Jaipur Literary Festival, is to be organized in the Valley this year, an official said in Srinagar on Monday. “In an effort to bring Kashmir on the international literary scene, ‘Adbee Markaz Kamraz’ (AMK) will organize the first ever international-level Kashmir...
New Delhi: The Central government today hosted an internal security meeting in New Delhi. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Home Minister P Chidambaram tried to reach out to the chief ministers saying they were united in tackling the menace of terrorism. But non-Congress Chief Ministers who have been vocal about their opposition to the...
Amritsar: India’s shameful and sordid story of unwanted daughters continues. In the latest incident, a woman in Amritsar was allegedly strangled to death by her husband after she gave birth to a baby girl for the third time. 35-year-old Paramjit Kaur’s husband, Nishan Singh, had been very upset over having two daughters. Desperate to...
New Delhi: Delhi will know who will rule its three newly-created municipal corporations today. The counting of votes for 272 wards began at 33 centres across the capital at 8 this morning amid tight security. The results are expected to come in by 3 pm, a senior State Election Commission official said. The counting...
A fragile cease-fire brokered by the UN took hold in Syria on Thursday, with regime forces apparently halting widespread attacks on the opposition. But scattered violence was reported and the government defied demands to pull troops back to barracks, drawing criticism from international envoy Kofi Annan. Annan told the UN Security Council that he...
North Korea today launched a long-range rocket that disintegrated soon after blastoff, according to the US and Asian nations who condemned it as a “provocative” act threatening regional security. North Korea had said the rocket was aimed at putting a satellite in orbit for peaceful research purposes, but Western critics see it as a...
Ludhiana: Jagtar Singh, an NRI from the UK, has adopted nine girls of GGN Institute of Management and Technology for supporting their higher education. Singh, accompanied by his family, gave Rs 10,000 each to all the nine girls. Share
Ludhiana: After a poor show in the 2012 Assembly elections, disgruntled BSP workers and those who have been expelled will be meeting former UP chief minister Mayawati in the coming week. “Workers will meet Behenji after Ambedkar Jayanti. No one is happy with newly appointed state president Gurlal Saila, former state president Avtar Singh...
Nashik: After Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said that he did not need a visa to go to Mumbai, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray has dared him to visit the city. “Let us see how he (Nitish) celebrates Bihar Din in Mumbai. I don’t want to play any politics here…everything was fine...
New Delhi: Untraceable for two days, Nupur Talwar will be present in the Supreme Court today when her petition seeking anticipatory bail in the murder case of her daughter Aarushi will be taken up for hearing, according to her lawyer. Mrs Talwar and her husband Rajesh, have been accused of murdering their 13-year-old daughter...
New Delhi: A Norwegian of Indian origin was today found dead in a south Delhi hotel. The police suspect that he committed suicide by consuming sleeping pills. Valentino Rebello, a resident of Norway, had checked into Roma Deluxe hotel yesterday 6 am and was found dead in his room at around 12:30 pm today,...
Hyderabad: Puttaparthi town in Anantapur district is gearing up for the first anniversary of the passing away of Sathya Sai Baba, who had millions of devotees around the world. Prashanti Nilayam, the ashram and now the final resting place of Sai Baba, will witness a series of programmes to mark the occasion and Sathya...