India, China give nod to climate deal
India and
China have given their qualified approval to the Copenhagen climate accord, calling for voluntary limits on greenhouse gas emissions.
More than 100 countries had responded to a request |
Centre ready for changes in visa rules
The Centre said it
said it was ready to revisit the strin- gent new guidelines on grant- ing tourist and conference visas if there were genuine grievances, reports our corre- spondent. The home mini |
Congress maps Budget passage
After outsmart
ing its opponents and some allies on the landmark Women's Reservation Bill, Congress crisis managers have begun working on the passage of the Budget and foiling the Opposition's move t |
OU postpones exams record 12th time
Osmania Uni
versity postponed the semester exams that were scheduled to be conducted in the afternoon on Tuesday and Wednesday following the suicide of B.Tech stu- dent M. Sai Kumar. This is the |
SPORT IN THEATRE
IPL matches live on the big screen
The IPL matches
may have been moved out of Hyderabad but fans are guaranteed excitement akin to that in a stadium thanks to multiplexes decidng to screen the matches live. This is the first time |
Sonia powers women's victory
History was cre
ated when the Women's Reservation Bill, which seeks to set aside 33 per cent of seats in the Lok Sabha and state legisla- tures, was passed in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday. Fourteen |
DREAM COME TRUE
CHRONOLOGY 1974: The issue was first raised in Parliament in a report submitted to the ministry of education and social welfare 1993: Constitutional Amendments reserve one third seats f |
RECURRING TRAGEDY
B.Tech student ends life in campus hostel
Meegada Sai
Kumar, a second year B- tech student of Osmania University, committed sui- cide in protest against the delay in creation of a sepa- rate Telangana. He is the third student to have com |
AP may lose out on excess Krishna water
The Krishna
Water Disputes Tribunal is all set to come out with an interim report in August directing that the surplus water from the river be shared by AP, Karnataka and Maharashtra. Until now, |
Boy flung from running train to get Rs 5 lakh
The
National Human Rights Commission has asked the Railway Board to pay a compensation of Rs five lakh to a minor who was permanently maimed after a ticket examiner allegedly pushed him out of a run |
KASAB TRIAL
Prosecution says Pak Army has role
Terming the 26/11 terror attack as Pakistan government sponsored one, the prosecution on Tuesday opened its final arguments in the case saying the neighbouring country's Army was also involved in the |
LeT's Qama is `banker' to terror plans in India
India's most
arch 9: India's most wanted terrorist Abu Al Qama, a Lashkar-e-Tayyaba commander based in Pak- Occupied Kashmir who was also allegedly involved in 26/11 terror attacks, has been playing |
hair-raising
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More toxic variety of Bt cotton gets approval
espite Monsan
to admitting that its Bt cot- ton (Bollgard-1) variety had failed to control pests in four districts of Gujarat, the GEAC, the apex regulator of genetically modified crops, has cleared |
Lord Paul to end non-dom status
Labour peer and
leading Indian-born indus- trialist, Lord Swraj Paul, said on Tuesday that he is going to end his non-domi- ciled status and pay full tax in the UK. The ruling Labour Party has in |
China Tibet, cuts Nepal link
China
on Tuesday accused the Dalai Lama of trying to "create chaos" in Tibet, on the eve of the sensitive anniversary of a failed uprising against the Chi- nese rule that drove the Buddhist monk i |
US capital holds gay weddings
It's
a day of wedding bells for some gay couples in Wash- ington. Tuesday is the first day same-sex couples can pick up marriage licenses and tie the knot in the US capital. Some couples p |
CIA warns India of Qaeda threat
The
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) on Tuesday warned India and Brazil that they face "emerging threats" from Al Qaeda and Taliban, though the terrorist outfits are "on the run" due to extreme pre |
off the coast
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TODDLER KILLING
Woman gave lift to killer driver in Oz
The
part-time taxi driver, Gursewak Dhillon, appar- ently ran out of fuel and was helped by a woman in this Australian city while he was driving around with three-year-old Gurshan Singh Channa in th |
UNITED STATES
H-1B applications from April
The United States will start accepting applications for 65,000 H-1B visas for skilled professionals covet- ed by Indian techies for fis- cal 2011 from April 1. "Cases will be considered accepted on |
Mastermind of Bali blast dead
Indonesian counter-terrorism forces killed a man believed to have been one of the masterminds of the 2002 Bali bombings on Tuesday during a raid in the capital Jakarta, the police and the reports said |
Snow strands 6,000 in Spain
A freak snowstorm
dumped more than a metre of snow on the Pyrenees mountains, stranding more than 6,000 travellers on Tuesday and blocking 40 roads between France and Spain. Barcelona on Monday sa |
PREGNANT THOUGHT
Eat high calorie diet to increase chances of boy
Keen on having
a son? Opt for a high-energy diet. Researchers have found that a woman's diet at the time of conception and immediately afterwards may influence the gender of her child. Regular br |
Slogans not our cup of T, warns BIE
BIFURCATION BLUES
The Board of
Intermediate Education has warned students that they would be debarred and their results would be withheld if they penned slogans such as "Jai Telangana", "Jai Samaikyandhra", or "Jai A |
RS turns house of shame
The Rajya Sabha
turned into a "house of shame", when the Samajwadi Party and RJD supporters virtually attac- ked the vice-president and Rajya Sabha chairman, Dr Hamid Ansari, inside the floor of t |
Threat by SP, RJD to pull out
The government appeared to have sensed ominous signals from the pull-out threat of SP and RJD, which have 26 Lok Sabha members, and the opposition from BSP, which has 21 LS members. Without the bac |
BJP, Left want discussion
BJP and Left insisted on a thorough discussion before voting. BJP said it would not cast its vote if there was no discussion. The Left said the UPA appeared to be worried about the "back- lash" from M |
Prez sure Bill will be passed
The President, Ms Pratibha Patil, said it will be "grace- ful" if the Bill is passed after consultation "as far as possible". She was confi- dent that it will go through. "It would be graceful if i |
GHMC raids Katriya for tax default
Officials of the
Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation on Monday seized Katriya De Royal hotel as it had failed to clear property tax dues worth Rs 96 lakh, reports our corre- spondent. Hundred |
Prehistoric act stalls Women's Bill
The Congress
failed to keep its promise to pass the landmark Women's Reservation Bill on the 100th International Women's Day, thanks to bad floor strategy which allowed Samajwadi Party, RJD and LJP |
Centre may go slow on Bill
After failing to
get the Women's Reservation Bill passed in the Rajya Sabha on Monday, the government appears to have decided on a "go slow" strategy on the issue. Many in the corridors of power |
AP moves SC on quota for Muslims
Amidst all kinds
of speculative reports on the Andhra Pradesh law provid- ing four per cent reservation to the backward Muslim groups, the state govern- ment on Monday filed an appeal before the Sup |
Bigelow first woman director to bag Oscar
The Iraq war drama The Hurt Locker has won best picture and five prizes at the Aademy Awards, its haul including best direc- tor for Kathryn Bigelow. Bigelow is the first woman in the 82-year his- |
Lalu, Nitish lock horns over Bill
The raging dif
ferences of opinion between Mr Lalu Prasad Yadav and the Chief Minister, Mr Nitish Kumar, over the Women's Reservation Bill have added to the political one- upmanship between the RJD a |
Husain gives up Indian passport
Artist M.F. Husain, who
was recently granted Qatari citizenship, has surrendered his Indian passport to the country's mission in Doha, a report said on Monday. Husain on Sunday went to the Indian Mi |
Top cops wary of Maoist truce
The
Centre may be open to talks with Maoists provided they abjure violence but some senior police personnel in Naxal-hit regions feel it is a ruse to regroup and re-arm themselves. Police personn |
Prez urges passage of Women's Bill
The President,
Ms Pratibha Patil, has appealed to all political par- ties to come together and pass the Women's Reserva- tion Bill. Stressing on the need to arrive at a political consen- sus, the |
Centre assurance fails to convince Muslim bodies
Amidst concerns
being expressed by leaders of the Muslim community and organisations on the Women's Bill that it would be detrimental to the inter- ests of women belonging to the minorities and thei |
hunt in debris
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200 die in Nigeria violence
Rioters armed with machetes slaughtered more than 200 people including a four-day-old infant, resi- dents said, less than two months after sectarian vio- lence in the volatile region left more than 30 |
INDIAN TODDLER
No more arrests in Oz killing
A
day after the arrest of an Indian suspected in the death of toddler Gurshan Singh Channa, the Australian police on Monday said that no further arrest was made in the high-profile case. After the |
Suicide blast in Pak kills 13
At least 13 people
were killed and scores injured in a powerful suicide car blast that struck the office of Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) in the Lahore city on Mon- day, the offici |
Malik blames Taliban
The Pakistan inte
rior minister, Mr Rehman Malik, said on Monday that the suicide attack on Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) at a building in Lahore was carried out by the remnants of Taliban milit |
Kovvada in Vizianagaram to get n-park
India proposes to
establish five nuclear "ener- gy parks" in its coastal states and is in talks with the United States, France and Russia for technical collaboration, the chairman of India's Atomic |
celebrating womanhood
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Women harassed by finance firm officers
Even as the world
was celebrating World Women's Day, the staff of a micro finance company allegedly harassed 15 women members of three thrift groups for over 10 hours at Bujabuja Nellore, located |
Pulse rates fall, sugar still high
Red gram, prices
of which had soared to an all-time high three months ago, is now leading the price decline of essential com- modities. The 24.8 per cent fall in the price of red gram has given th |
CJ warns lawyers against obstructing court work
he full court of
the Andhra Pradesh High Court on Monday has reportedly decided to issue suo motu contempt proceed- ings against advocates who obstruct court proceedings hereinafter. This deci |
City
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INTERMEDIATE 2010
Students may have to sit on floor for exam
Nearly 365 cen-
tres out of the total 2,331 that have been identified for Intermediate public exams scheduled to begin from March 10, have no benches, desks and tables and the stu- dents would be f |
Frequent power cuts wipe sunny city's smile
Frequent inter
ruptions in power supply in addition to the two-hour power cuts spoiled the Sun- day for a large number of citizens in the city. The APTransco and Cen- tral Discom officials could n |
CENTRE CHANGED TO CHENNA
City candidates hit as BSNL shifts exam venue
Candidates from
the state who applied for BSNL's junior accounts officers (JAO) recruitment exam are in trouble due to sudden shifting of exam centres from Hyderabad just a week before the exam. |
Air traffic growth raises pollution
Growth in the
aviation sector poses a major challenge for the environment as commercial air travel accounts for 3 per cent of the world's green- house gas emissions. The International Air Transpo |
Caste dumped from '11 Census
Rejecting the
demand made by several regional parties, the Centre has decided not to include caste as one of the parame- ters in the 2011 census. Parties like PMK, RJD, JD(U) besides others had d |
Women's Bill legally sound
As the Centre gets
ready to bring the Women's Reservation Bill in Parlia- ment, constitutional experts agree that the the proposed law will help in uplifting the cause of women and bring- ing down t |
Gowda does a U-turn, opposes Bill
The Janata
Dal(S) led by the former prime minister, Mr H.D. Deve Gowda, has reiterated its Opposition to the Women's Reservation Bill in its present form saying it would only help affluent and up |
Emigration rules to be revamped
Under-graduates going for jobs abroad may not require the emigration checks if a proposal of the ministry of overseas Indian affairs goes through. The ministry has mooted the proposal as part of it |
In law's grip
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Centre to amend IMC Act
The Centre
is contemplating an amend- ment of the Indian Medical Council Act 1956 to make it mandatory for all doctors in the country to periodically renew their registration. This is being done |
RTI CASE
SC to hear its own appeal
The
Supreme Court would file an appeal before itself in the next few days challeng- ing the judgment of Delhi High Court holding that the office of the Chief Justice of India came under the ambit of |
Swami to face the world with truth
In the tape
released to the media by his lawyer, godman Nityananda says he is collecting facts to prove that the allegations and rumours about him were false and he will come out with the truth very |
Zip up! Pee in open is `stripping'
NATURE'S CALL
Relieving oneself
in public places is equiva- lent to stripping in public and should be made a pun- ishable offence, a Hyderabad-based NGO said in petitions submitted to the National Women's Commi |
Heed victim plea to wed rapist: CJ
In a
radical suggestion, the Chief Justice of India, K.G. Balakrishnan, on Sunday said judges, lawyers and social activists should give "due regard" to the wishes of a rape victim if she chooses |
OBCs to fight it in LS
While the
Women's Reservation Bill might sail through the Rajya Sabha, whose composition will not be affected by it, the government might face problems once it is placed before the Lok Sabha, given |
TD MLA quits to snub TRS
The Telugu
Desam MLA, Mr Minapalli Hanumanta Rao, submitted his resig- nation to the Speaker of the Assembly, Mr Kiran Kumar Reddy in Tirupati on Sunday, causing further embarrassment to the Telanga |
12 die after tractor falls in Nalgonda lake
Twelve mem
- bers of a group travelling in a tractor drowned when the vehicle fell into a lake in Chinnarigudem in Nalgonda district, reports our corre- spondent. The victims were identified as B. |
Bill: The ayes may have it
With the num
- bers in the Rajya Sabha decisively tilted in favour of the Women's Rese- rvation Bill, which is hanging fire for nearly a decade and a half now, India is all set to create history by m |
Hit wicket: IPL goes for Modified auction
The overweening
ambition of Mr Lalit Modi to further ratchet up the astronomical valuations of the IPL resulted in a hasty retreat on Sunday, without the sealed tenders even being opened. Mr Modi an |
Missing Lama in Tibet
A boy who disap
peared after being named Tibetan Buddhism's sec- ond-highest figure by the Dalai Lama is living with his family somewhere in Tibet, the Himalayan region's Chinese-appointed governor s |
Robin Hood was loan shark: Book
Robin
Hood, a heroic outlaw in English folklore, gained legendary status for stealing from the rich and giving to the poor. Now, a new book has claimed that he was actually an early kind of loan s |
Gen. Fonseka goes on hunger strike
Th e
former Sri Lankan army chief, Gen. Sarath Fonseka, facing detention under trea- son charges, now at a naval facility on Sunday went on a hunger strike for not being allowed to speak to his daugh |
Pakistan to try judges over coup
Pakistan Parlia
ment is expected to approve an amendment in the Con- stitution soon to try parlia- mentarians and the judges who validate military coups. A constitutional reforms committee of Parl |
Indian taxi driver held for killing NRI toddler
A 23-year-old
part-time Indian taxi driver, who kept a three-year-old Indian boy unconscious in the boot of his car and drove around for three hours before dumping him in a field, was arrested on Su |
Gayatri chant at Xian rally
In
Nevada (US), March 7: In a remarkable interfaith ges- ture, the Fifth Annual Catholic Diocesan Youth Rally held at Reno (Neva- da), involving Catholic teenagers from various parts of Nevada, hear |
IPL raises the bar for bidders
The second big
bang of the IPL dhamaka will take place at 11.40 am on Sunday, when the league's bosses will open the bids from two more aspiring franchises. The running really is between Ahmedabad, |
Reddy for action on cell
The IPL and its
licensing partner Global Cricket Ventures (GCV) on Saturday tied up with July Systems, promoted by Rajesh T.S. Reddy of Andhra Pradesh, to launch IPL mobile Internet service.
You c |
Congress king if RS passes Women's Bill
The Congress three birds with
has killed three birds with one stone by pushing the controversial Women's Reservation Bill. While it has isolated the Mandalite parties which have checked the Con |
Grenade kills son of constable
The 20-year
old son of police constable died after a hand grenade went off in the Gundala police station in Nalgonda at around 7.30 pm on Saturday, reports our correspondent.
The constable and one |
Axis honcho in Net fraud
The Cyber
Crime Cell of the CB-CID police on Saturday arrested the assistant vice president of Axis Bank in Hyderabad for swindling several lakh rupees from the corporate account of a Trichy-based f |
POWER CRUNCH Cut! City to sweat it out for 2 hrs
The daily power
cut in Greater Hyderabad has been extended to two hours and other major towns and district headquarters will have to go through the ordeal for four hours from now on. In villages |
Higher ranks for officers
The Andhra
Pradesh government on Saturday promoted the senior IAS officers - Mr Praveen Prakash, Mr Sabyasachi Ghosh, Mr G. Balaramaiah and Ms G.D. Aruna - to "super time scale" and issued |
air fare
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Land market rates may need revision
Boom time is
over for land deals in the state. Market rates reached astronomical levels during the boom period are simply unaffordable now. For example, the most sought-after areas like Kokapet, |
NALLAMALA
AP police reclaiming stations
Police stations
are now back in the interior forest area of Nallamala as the area is now considered to be free from the Maoists. Cops who shifted police stations from tribal areas like Eagalapent |
G.P. Birla, doyen of pre-liberalisation Indian industry, dies at 87
ndustrialist G.P.
Birla, head of the GP-CK
Birla Group, passed away at his residence late Friday night after a prolonged ill- ness, family sources said here on Saturday.
The 87-year-old G.P. |
India to continue Afghan presence
The
National Security Adviser, Mr Shiv Shankar Menon, has said that India will not scale down its operation in Afghanistan. "India and Afghanistan are stepping up security for Indians in Afghanist |
Sleuths to grill IM operative in blast cases
The Centra
intelligence officials will soon grill Salman, a suspected Indian Mujahideen (IM) militant wanted in several serial blasts in Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Delhi and Rajasthan. Salman was arres |
star presence
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3 top Taliban leaders killed by Pak military
Pak
- istani military dealt a crip- pling blow to Tehreek-e-Tal- iban by killing its three top commanders, including the group's deputy chief Maulvi Faqir Muhammad, in Mohmand tribal region in the co |
8 mn tons of methane in Arctic: Study
Methane, the second most common greenhouse gas from human activities after carbon dioxide, is bubbling out from the frozen Arctic much faster than expected and could stoke global warming, scientists w |
France to push for nuclear fuel
France is all set to
March 6: France is all set to push for efforts to popu- larise use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes in the developing world by host- ing an international confer- ence in |
horsing around
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FONSEKA KIN CASE
Lanka to seek aid of Interpol
A Sri
Lankan court has directed the police to seek Interpol's help to trace an absconder allegedly involved in pro- viding millions of "unac- counted money" to former army chief Gen. Sarath Fonseka' |
Director Teja accused of trespass
A cheating case
was filed against Tolly- wood director Teja by film producer Chadalavada Srinivas in Jubilee Hills police station on Friday. The producer alleged that Teja had sold his residence |
Raja did not try to end life
Telugu actor
Raja, who approached the State Human Rights Com- mission against big film makers who he claims are not giving him theatres to screen his movie Inkokasari, said that he "only contemplate |
No T-evaluators for T-students
The state govern
ment has rejected the demand of the Telangana Joint Action Committee (TJAC) that the Intermedi- ate exam answer sheets of students from the Telangana region should only be evalu- ate |
AIRSHOW CRASH
Building won't get cash relief
The compensa
tion being demanded by Mr Ramesh Kumar, owner of the building at Bowenpally, that was damaged in the air- craft crash, is unlikely to get sanctioned, as the entire building is reported t |
Whistleblower seeks protection
NITYANANDA SEXCAPADE
A former inmate
of the Nityananda ashram at Bidadi near Bengaluru has petitioned the Chennai police seeking protection alleging that the godman had tried to kill him after learning that he had filme |
Maoists try to murder rape victim
A
teenage girl was shot by the Maoists in Jharkhand's Latehar district for slapping rape charges on a Maoist leader, police said on Fri- day. Maoists shot three bullets into 17-year-old Anju Kumar |
Girl burnt for fending off rapists
A teenage girl,
who was allegedly set ablaze on Thursday evening by four persons after they failed to rape her at Hama village near the Chhatarpur district in Madhya Pradesh, succumbed to her burn |
Truckers to go on strike from April 5
Some 60 lakh
truck drivers have threat- ened to go on strike across the country from April 5 to demand a rollback of the diesel price hike. Any such strike by truck- ers is likely to hit the supp |
Woman held with ammo at airport
The Central
Industrial Security Force on Friday arrested a woman who was trying to board a flight at the Gopi Nath International Airport in Guwahati with four rounds of live ammunition. Security |
documenting destruction
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Godhra: NGO wants SIT to drop state cops
While urging the
Supreme Court to remove all the three Gujarat police officials from the special investigating team probing the major post-Godhra riot cases, the NGO Citizens for Justice and Peace ( |
ED tracks down Koda frontman
Four months after
busting the multi-crore money laundering racket, involving the former Jhark- hand chief minister Madhu Koda, the Enforcement Directorate has been able to ascertain the whereabout |
Indian toddler's death is horrible: Oz Premier
: As
police launched a major probe into the death of an Indian toddler here, the Aus- tralian Prime Minister, Mr Kevin Rudd, on Friday vowed to get to the bottom of the "horrible" incident. "This |
GETTING TOUGH - UK tightens new student visa rules
students will need to demonstrate higher English language skills while apply- ing for UK student visas after new requirements intended to curb abuse of the visa system came into effect this week. T |
JFK's letters to lover auctioned for $115,000
Love letters and
telegrams written by the for- mer US president, John F. Kennedy, to his Swedish lover in the 1950s were sold by an auction house here on Friday for over $115,000. An anony |
Gunman opens fire near Pentagon
A
man calmly walked up to the Pentagon's screening area on Thursday and sud- denly opened fire at the metro station entrance, wounding two police offi- cers before being shot and critically injured, |
Bomber's wife found innocent
A Lon
- don jury on Friday acquit- ted the wife of a convicted bomb plotter of failing to pass on information to authorities. "Thank you, thank you, thank," Ms Cossor Ali said after the jury annou |
Medical courses lose sheen
EAMCET FORM
Over 1.70 lakh
Eamcet applications were sold in 10 days, indicating a huge demand for profes- sional courses in the state. Of these, 1.5 lakh were applications for engineer- ing courses. Only |
Srikrishna fluent in Telugu
The political
leaders from the state were in for a pleasant surprise to hear Justice B.N. Srikrishna talking to them in Telugu during the dinner hosted by the Governor, Mr E.S.L.
Narasimhan a |
Film personalities panic as I-T raids actor Ganesh
The income-tax
department raided the resi- dence of Tollywood actor- producer Ganesh and a hotelier who owns the Our Place restaurant in the city on Thursday. Sources confirmed that the I-T d |
NFC focus on safety, says Jayaraj
Nuclear power in
India has reached a state of maturity both in technologi- cal and commercial aspects. According to the chief executive of the Nuclear Fuel Complex (NFC), Mr R.N. Jayaraj, with |
teaming up
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HIV+ couple to have healthy baby
A 30-yr-old HIV
March 4: A 30-yr-old HIV positive woman in East Godavari district is all set to give birth to a healthy baby this April. The woman is married to a 35-year-old HIV positive man |
Truant MPs get Sonia's warning
The Congress
president, Mrs Sonia Gand- hi, on Thursday told party MPs not attending Parlia- ment that the leadership will have to crack the whip if they fail to be serious about their legislative d |
BJP advises Tharoor on tweeting
"Too
much tweeting will lead to quitting" was BJP's friend- ly caution to the minister of state for external affairs, Mr Shashi Tharoor, on Thurs- day. The senior BJP leader, Mr M. Venkaiah Naidu |
LK contests Singh's assertion
ARMY PENSION
The
senior BJP leader, Mr L.K. Advani, on Thursday said the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh's asser- tion about implementation of enhancement of pension of army personnel has been contested b |
Centre hastens creation of population register
In the run-up to
the granting of a unique identity number to residents, the Centre is moving fast towards the creation of a National Population Register, which will entail a house to house enumera |
AI pilots averse to Kabul trips citing safety issues
Air India pilot
have threatened not to oper- ate flights to Kabul citing security concerns, but its management said the appre- hensions were misplaced and the airline's services to the Afghan capi |
Ashram claims tape fake, godman vanishes
Even as the Kar
- nataka and Tamil Nadu gov- ernments announced that they would probe charges of encroachment of land by self-styled godman Nityana- nda Swami, mystery sur- rounded his whereabouts on |
Woman major gets 1-year RI
For
the first time in the Army's history, a former woman officer has been sentenced to a year's rigorous impris- onment and cashiered from service by a general court martial (GCM) which held her gui |
Sallu breathless after fire stunt
Actor
Salman Khan, who is shoot- ing for his brother Arbaz Khan's debut production Dabang in Satara district had to be rushed to a hospi- tal during the weekend, after shooting a gruelling sequence |
Army Captain killed in J&K
An Army officer
and two militants were killed and three soldiers and a policeman wounded in a renewed gunfight at Dadasar, outside the Kash- miri town of Tral about 40 km south of capital Srina- gar |
jumbo falls
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MUSLIM MARRIAGE
Unequal status ground for divorce: HC
The Ker
- ala High Court has held that a Muslim woman's claim of "inequitable treatment" in a polygamous marriage sho- uld be accepted by courts as ground for divorce. Courts must accept a Muslim |
65 killed in stampede
Sixty-five peo
- ple were killed and over 200 seriously injured in a stampede at the Mangadh Ashram at Kunda in Pratapgarh district on Thursday. The victims included 37 children and 26 women and tw |
ICICI, HDFC end cheap loan rates
Get ready to pay
more on new home and auto loans. The two top lenders for home loans � HDFC and ICICI Bank have discontinued their teaser schemes. These schemes were used to offer a lower rate for |
Sonia wants quota Bill as Women's Day gift
NEW DELHI
The Congress
president, Mrs Sonia Gan- dhi, told party MPs that she would accord the "highest importance" to the Wo- men's Reservation Bill to be introduced in the Rajya Sabha on Mar |
Women's Bill splits NDA
The BJP-led
NDA is divided on the Women's Reservation Bill with the Janata Dal (U) and the Shiv Sena opposing it in its present form. The government has decided to take up the Bill,
which |
MIM: Bill will create Hindu LS
The
MIM chief, Mr Asaduddin Owaisi, said in the Lok Sabha that the Women's Reservation Bill in its pre- sent form would sound the "death knell" for his com- munity. Mr Owaisi said that the Bill w |
big bulls
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TD MLA to quit for T-victims' kin
The Medak
Telugu Desam legislator, Mr Mynampalli Hanumantha Rao, on hursday startled the party eadership by announcing is decision to vacate his Assembly seat for the kin of hose who |
Gratuity for private staff increased
Bringing cheers to thousands of private sector employees, the government on Thursday approved raising the ceiling for payment of gratuity to them from Rs 3.5 lakh to Rs 10 lakh. The decision was taken |
Unido: India is 9th biggest manufacturer
India is the ninth largest industrial manufacturer in the world, while China has pipped Japan to occupy the second position, says a United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (Unido) report. T |
up in smoke
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Will not arrest Saeed: Pak
The
Pakistani authorities have decided not to arrest Jamaat- ud-Dawah chief and 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed on the basis of new dossiers from India claiming that they do not contain "action- able i |
SCANNER ISSUE - Muslim ladies barred from boarding flight
Two
Muslim women in Britain were barred from boarding a flight to Pakistan as they refused to go through the full body scanner at the Manchester airport. The women cited reli- gious and medical |
ISI knows where Laden is
The
Pakistani intelligence agency ISI knows the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden but is keeping his location a secret and wants to use the Al Qaeda chief as leverage over the US as it is wary of Ame |
BENAZIR ASSASSINATION - Pakistan probes soldiers' role
akistani investi
- gators are looking for four retired military officials who were allegedly involved in the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, official sources said. This is t |
Talk to Taliban, says UN envoy
: The head
of the UN mission in Afghanistan said on Thurs- day that it's "high time" a political solution is found with the Taliban to resolve the more than eight-year- old conflict. "It's time t |
NRI kid feared dead in Oz
A
three-year old Indian tod- dler is feared dead after he went missing from his house here on Thursday. The Victorian state police said a body of a toddler that has been found by a council worker |
Full body scans soon, says Patel
The Union gov
ernment is planning t introduce full body scanner at airports in view of recen security threats, said th Union civil aviation minis ter, Mr Praful Patel, o Wednesday. "We are work |
Isro ATV test flight a success
The Indian Space
Research Organisation (Isro) successfully conduct- ed the first developmental flight of an Advanced Tech- nology Vehicle (ATV-D01) at 8.30 am from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre on |
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District babus ignore copter safety norms
The Chief Secre
- tary, Mr S.V. Prasad, has pointed out several lapses in the operation of helicopter services for VVIPs, includ- ing ignoring of safety stan- dards and norms prescribed by the Direct |
MAULANA VARSITY STIR
Teachers unite against colleague
Demanding a
CBI probe into the activities of the deputy director of the Centre for Urdu Language, Literature and Culture, Mr Sujat Ali, the teachers' asso- ciation of the Maulana Azad National Urd |
NATIONAL TOURISM AWARDS
AP wins big with aam aadmi focus
The Andhra
Pradesh government bagged the maximum number of awards at the National Tourism Awards 2008-09 function held here on Wednesday. The AP tourism minister reiterated that the tourism infr |
Sleuths to quiz Bilal over terror attacks
A team
of Indian security officials will be here soon to ques- tion a Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) operative arrested in Dhaka for his possible role in terror attacks in Bengalu- ru, Surat and other Indi |
PM, Advani clash over US influence
The Lok Sabha
was witness to some unusual sparring between the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, and the senior BJP leader, Mr L.K. Advani, on Wednesday. The PM repeatedly rebutted the charges |
Prices have dropped: Pawar
The Union food
and agriculture minister, Mr Sharad Pawar, on Wednes- day claimed that prices of some essential commodities have declined. Replying to a short dura- tion discussion on the risin |
Karnataka drops cow slaughter Bill
The
Karnataka government on Wednesday withdrew the controversial Karnataka Cow Slaughter Prevention and Livestock Protection (Amendment) Bill, 2009, in the wake of criticism against it. The minis |
Chile quake shortened days: Nasa scientist
The
powerful earthquake that shook Chile on Saturday probably shifted the earth's axis and made days slightly shorter, a Nasa scientist said. Mr Richard Gross, a research scientist at Nasa's Jet |
Fonseka to be tried in military court
: For
- mer Sri Lankan Army Chief, Sarath Fonseka, who has been arrested on con- spiracy charges, will face a court martial, the military has announced and said that over 25 people have already given |
Kasuri fears Indo-Pak nuke war over water
he former Pak
- istan foreign minister, Mr Khursheed Mehmood Kasuri, has said that there can be a nuclear war between Pakistan and India on the water issue. "Water is the most impor- tant issue b |
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KABUL ATTACK
Four Lashkar-e-Tayyaba gunmen, who stormed into the Kabul guest houses packed with Indian officials, came clad in burqa to hide explosives and appeared to have detailed knowledge incl |
SOTHEBY'S AUCTION
Tipu weapons top attraction
Follow
- ing the phenomenal success of its first edition, leading auctioneers Sotheby's will bring the second part of "The Tipu Sultan Collec- tion" next month featuring seven lots relating to one o |
Vaishno Devi on radar of terrorists
The
Vaishno Devi shrine in Jammu is one of the targets on the radar of terrorists, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Wednesday. In a written reply to a query in this regard, the minister of state for |
Actor almost dies shooting suicide scene
An Oriya
Bhubaneswar: An Oriya small screen actor on Wednesday narrowly escaped death while staging a suicide scene at Cuttack, reports our correspondent. Suchitra Swain, lead female actor, was e |
NITYA ANANDA
Godman vanishes after sex romp
Self-styled god
man Nityananda Swamy has gone "missing" after video footage of his alleged sleazy acts with actress Ranjitha were aired on a leading Tamil TV channel in Chennai, which were dis- mis |
Crash mars aero expo, 2 pilots die
The awe of a
scintillating aerobatics dis- play at the start of the India Aviation-2010 air show on Wednesday turned to shock after a naval plane lost control and crashed into a two-sto- ried reside |
AAI blames GHMC for high-rises
Hundreds of
buildings have been con- structed violating height restrictions in the funnel zone of the Begumpet air- port. These pose a danger not only to the lives of resi- dents, but also for VVIPS |
AP plans four new airports
The aviation sec
tor in the country is all set to touch the sky with about 400 new airports coming up, in addition to the 90 existing ones. The civil aviation minis- ter, Mr Praful Patel, who reve |
Women's Bill in RS on Mar. 8
The Samajwadi
Party chief, Mr Mulayam Singh Yadav, and the Rashtriya Janata Dal supre- mo, Mr Lalu Prasad, on Wednesday threatened that there would be a civil war if the government went ahead with t |
Pravin dies of multiple organ failure
Pravin Mahajan,
serving life imprisonment for killing his brother and BJP leader Pramod Mahajan, died due to multi- ple organ failure on Tuesday after suffering from a prolonged illness. Pravin, |
Reconsider Bramhani deal, orders Speaker
The Speaker, Mr
N. Kirankumar Reddy, on Wednesday directed the government to reconsider its decision to favour M/s Bramhani Steels located in Kadapa district. This comes after the Opposition foun |
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