Obama condemns Iran violence
Presi dent Obama harshly condemned the Iranian crackdown against demonstrations today, declaring the rest of the world "appalled and outraged" and dismissing what he called "patently false and absurd" |
Mehsud rival shot dead
A pro government tribal leader opposed to Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud was shot dead today,dealing a serious blow to the Pakistani military's offensive against the militants in the lawless tribal re |
Anti-tobacco President still smokes
(Reuters): President Barack Obama may have just made life more difficult for cigarette makers, but he is not above sneaking a smoke every now and again
Obama, who has publicly struggled to quit smo |
US train crash kills 9
Atleast nine people were killed and at least 75 injured when one Metro subway train slammed into another on the outskirts of the city during the afternoon rush hour yesterday, emergency officials said |
Jobs makes quiet return to work after transplant
Steve Jobs, the chief executive of Apple, appears to have made a quiet return to work after successfully recovering from a liver transplant
In a brief written state- ment released yesterday, Jobs s |
Farrah knot
Cancer-stricken Charlie's Angels star Farrah Fawcett will tie the knot with her longtime partner Ryan O'Neal. Fawcett,who started dating O'Neal in 1979,was hospitalised recently and finally said yes t |
CM Buddha applies ban - Maoist held in city
under central law
Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee today chose to act like chief minister, declaring that the Delhi ban against Maoists would apply to Bengal and paving the way for the arrest of a CPI (Maoist) spokesperson unde |
Rise and rot of a rebel 'state'
When the state withers away, another "state" fills the vacuum
Lalgarh lesson 2: Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely
After the state stepped aside in Lalgarh in November, the Maois |
No Nano luck? Try sweetener
The lot tery for the Nano is finally over - and the company is trying to keep all the 2 lakh applicants happy
The 51,682 applicants who lost out in the lottery - and didn't want to keep their booki |
Subway crash
in US kills 9
sA subway train slammed into another in Washington during the Monday afternoon rush hour, killing nine persons. |
Australia attack
sAn Indian student in Melbourne was punched without provocation by two Caucasian men near a railway station on Monday evening. |
Alarm over
flu free run
The do mestic air and rail journeys by a man infected with the H1N1 pandemic flu virus may have pushed the infection in India closer to the tipping point of community spread than ever before,pub lic h |
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(PTI): Socialite Paris Hilton was left shocked after her security personnel found hidden recording equipment during a routine check of her Dubai hotel room
The actress's trip turned sour after her |
BJP poll penalty, but in hills
TheBJP's Lok Sabha defeat has claimed a party chief minister with B.C. Khanduri asked to go following the Congress's 5-0 sweep in Uttarakhand
Khanduri,who had offered to quit after the results but |
Rain scan
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has asked cabinet officials to monitor the monsoon on a day-to-day basis, concerned that the delay could affect farm output
Singh has also asked the cabinet secretary |
Rape finger at capital cops
Awoman today alleged she was raped by five cops inside a police station in southwest Delhi last night
The allegations by Ratna Kumar (name changed), originally from Kakinara in North 24-Parganas, i |
Swine flu scare
Health officials have detected 68 H1N1 cases, all but seven in persons who had arrived from other countries
The seven "indigenous"ca- ses had picked it up from their infected relatives who had trav |
Big Boss in trouble
(PTI): Big Boss 2 winner Ashutosh Kaushik was today sent to a day's custody in a drink-driving case. He was riding a bike drunk in Mumbai's Andheri on June 13
His advocate had sought time twice, a |
IIT Kanpur
TheHRD ministry has granted IIT Kanpur permission to open an extension centre in Noida,work on which will start within a week. IIT Kanpur registrar Sanjiv Kashalkar said the work will be completed by |
Swraj post
: Lord Swraj Paul has been appointed by Queen Elizabeth as a member of her Privy Council. He is the first Indian-born to be appointed to the council. |
Australia attempt to calm jitters
: The minister for overseas Indian affairs, Vayalar Ravi, today said things were "under control" in Australia except for stray attacks on Indian students
As late as yesterday,a 20-year-old youth fr |
Warrant on Lashkarchief
The special court on the Mumbai attack today issued non-bailable warrants against Lashkar-e-Toiba chief Hafiz Mohammed Saeed and 21 other accused still at large, reports our special correspondent.The |
THE FINE - PRINT Cover Posh
:Former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham underwent a breast reduction surgery so that she could be on the cover of fashion bible Vogue
The fashionista,who is currently in Los Angeles, is desperate to ap |
Moss fury
:Kate Moss and rocker Jamie Hince had a fiery row after the supermodel threw away the laptop containing the musician's unreleased tracks. They were enjoying a romantic weekend at her country villa whe |
Polls flawed, admits Iran regime
Iran's most senior panel of election monitors, in the most sweeping acknowledgment that the presidential election was flawed, said today that the number of votes cast in 50 cities exceeded the actual |
Memorial ban
Iran's regime has issued a ban on memorials for a young woman whose death has become the focal point of protests against the clerical regime
Neda Agha Soltani, 27, was dubbed the Angel of Freedom a |
Mind your BlackBerry
For the first half-hour of the meeting, it was hardly surprising to see a potential client fiddling with his iPhone, said Rowland Hobbs,the chief executive of a marketing firm in Manhattan
At an ho |
Kodak retires an icon
Sorry, Paul Simon, Kodak is taking your Kodachrome away
The Eastman Kodak Co
announced today it's retiring its most senior film because of declining customer demand in an increasingly digital ag |
EU turns up its nose at low-alcohol wines
For years New World vineyards have been reducing the alcohol content in wines through technology - and,for years, their European counterparts have sniffily rejected such methods
Now French research |
Faculty quota
This bill was passed in the Rajya Sabha but then opposed by members of the ruling UPA, like Ram Vilas Paswan, and was never introduced in the Lok Sabha
The IITs and several other higher education i |
Google finds boy
Run a Google search, find a runaway lad
Delhi police have tracked down with the help of Orkut, a networking site hosted by Google, a teenager who ran away from home after scoring below expectations |
MOBILE COPS
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Bengal misses
coastal boat
Bengal has failed to secure a single special patrol boat ordered after the Mumbai attack because of lack of infrastructure, with central officials saying the state was lax about coastal security just |
Build-up for circle of sway - Forces plan to ring Lalgarh
Security forces are hop ing to string together a "circle of domination" in Lalgarh,working to a plan that involves a step-by-step approach in an area where Maoists are also marshalling troops
Centr |
Delhi ban bares Bengal dilemma
The Centre removed an "ambiguity" today by slapping a largely sterile ban on the CPI (Maoist) but swivelled the spotlight to another ambivalent factor: whether a "distinction" exists between the party |
Sibal salvo on faculty quota
Human resource development minister Kapil Sibal has questioned the rationale behind faculty quotas at premier higher education institutions like the IITs, IIMs and central universities, contending tha |
CPM blames third front govt card
TheCPM today pinned the blame for the poll debacle on the "unrealistic"appeal for the formation of a third front government but steered clear of indicting another national factor: the withdrawal of su |
Mumbai
attack alert
Mumbai police chief D. Sivanandan today warned the city of a possible terror attack from the sky
Without disclosing the source, he said he had "intelligence inputs" about such an aerial strike. "Th |
Soumya
case
Delhi police on Monday filed a 620-page chargesheet against five youths arrested for the murder of TV journalist Soumya Viswanathan
The accused - Ravi Kapoor, Ajay Sethi,Amit Shukla, Baljit Malik a |
Sikh US plea
Leaders of the American Sikh community have asked US lawmakers to help their youths win the right to serve the US army while sporting tur bans and beards.Pentagon rules prevent Sikh youths from sporti |
5 days'travel with flu
A 24 year-old man infected with the swine flu virus who flew into Pune from the US, then travelled to Lucknow via Delhi before returning to Pune by plane and trains, may have jeopardised India's flu c |
College rap
TheSupreme Court on Monday slammed the government for permitting law colleges without basic infrastructure to operate
"It's strange that you are granting permission even for those law colleges whic |
Maoist strike kills 12 jawans
Twelve CRPF jawans were killed in Chhattisgarh yesterday when Maoists blew up their truck using a landmine and sprayed bullets aiming at the vehicle
Initially, the toll was given as five but police |
Reports nail Varun for hate speech
Uttar Pra desh police are preparing to file a chargesheet against Varun Gandhi after two forensic reports confirmed independently that the voice in a hatespeech CD is his, sources said
The Mayavati |
Advani tries to humour RSS
BJPleader L.K.Advani today ruled out the possibility of redefining the relationship with the RSS and publicly endorsed the need for a younger leadership, He iterated at the BJP na- tional executive th |
TONSURE PUNISHMENT
A school manager in central Kerala allegedly shaved off part of a Dalit employee's hair and moustache and caned him as punishment for his "drink driving"
Subramanium,42,a bus driver with a private |
'Mistimed pullout' finger at Karat
TheCPM leadership faced criticism at the party's central committee meeting today, with some members saying a mistimed withdrawal of support to the UPA government and the lack of an effective follow-up |
Borewell
rescue
A four-year-old girl was today rescued from a 48foot-deep borewell in a Rajasthan village after a 19-hour ordeal
The rescue team pulled out an unconscious Anju by digging a tunnel parallel to the b |
Red Fort
TheRed Fort will get a makeover with the Archaeological Survey of India beginning work on a multi-crore plan, which includes construction of audio-visual guides, better toilets and new markets.The ren |
SHRINE TREK
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Gandhi sale
: A seri es of signed and autographed letters by Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru and some documents and postcards will be auctioned at a Christie's sale in London on July 14.Three of Gandhi's auto |
MODEL WALK
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Poachers
Poachers attacked a forest post in Rajaji Park in Dehra Dun and manhandled two personnel before snatching their arms on Saturday night.A hunt has been launched to catch the poachers.Police and forest |
Foreign lawyers
won't hurt: Moily
Lawminister Veerappa Moily be lieves that Indian lawyers will not lose out if foreign lawyers and firms are allowed to work in India
However, the quality of legal education in the country would hav |
Social justice not industrialists'main job: Sen
Sen emphasised: "We have to think much more about why India continues to have one of the largest ratios of hunger, not merely not just the absolute number of hungry, under-nourished people in the worl |
Brand classes fornew IITs on block
A year after creating six new Indian Institutes of Technology, the Centre will embark on its first effort to inject into them the culture, vision and quality associated with the original five that bui |
Lalu
opens RS
door for
Paswan
RamVilas Paswan may return to Parliament next year as a Rajya Sabha member if his alliance with Lalu Prasad lasts till then
Sources in the Lok Jan- shakti Party (LJP) said Lalu Prasad had offered t |
Rafsanjani daughter arrested
Iran's government today said it arrested the daughter and four other relatives of former President Hashemi Rafsanjani, one of the country's most powerful men, in a move that exposed a rift among the r |
PRINT Slow catch
:Agetaway driver who refused to break the speed limit during a police chase led to a gang of jewel robbers being caught and sent to prison for a total of 20 years in Surrey
Neil Murray, 34, was beh |
Posh slam
:Peta has slammed Victoria Beckham for endorsing a fashion chain which uses crocodile skin in its products
The former Spice Girl is regularly seen with a Hermes handbag on her arm,but Peta official |
Bush or Obama? Maybe something else is at play
Could there be something to all the talk of an Obama effect, after all? A stealth effect, perhaps? As the silent protests in Tehran dominated television screens, a peculiar debate in Washington erupte |
Sleaze slur threatens to topple Berlusconi
He has fought off accusations of corruption and survived a stream of verbal gaffes, but now a perfect storm of sleaze is threatening to topple the formerly unassailable Silvio Berlusconi
An apparen |
Bank's tennis splurge
The Royal Bank of Scotland is to spend up to �300,000 (Rs 2.4 crore) on corporate entertaining at Wimbledon despite its bailout by taxpayers
Customers of RBS,which is now more than 70 per cent owne |
WATCH YOUR STEP - A double-edged truce call
Brokering peace under a banyan tree, a group of artistes from Calcutta today discovered a people caught in the crossfire in Lalgarh
The group also extracted a public appeal from Chhatradhar Mahato, |
Beneath sari, brutal scars
Shame is abandoned with great effort
But the women of this village are willing to draw up their saris, just to show how brutalised they are
At a relief camp in Piraka- ta, the crossroad that pra |
Saina smashes super barrier
: Saina Nehwal today became the first Indian to win a Super Series badminton tournament, the game's equivalent of a tennis Grand Slam title
The 19-year-old Hyderaba- di girl won the Indonesian Open |
Pakistan wins Twenty20 Cup
sShahid Afridi struck an exuberant unbeaten 54 to take Pakistan to an eightwicket victory over Sri Lanka in the World Twenty20 final at Lord's on Sunday. |
Advani on RSS ties
sL.K.Advani on Sunday ruled out the possibility of redefining the BJP's relationship with the RSS and publicly endorsed the need for a younger leadership. |
Cellphone etiquette
sThe government has asked handset manufacturers and service providers to provide guidelines on "cellphone etiquette" to customers. |
Amartya revives forgotten argument
Amartya Sen has urged public debate to focus more on the central issues of social justice in India in an interview to The Telegraph to coincide with a Confederation of Indian Industry summit in London |
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Charity
Moss
: Su permodel Kate Moss turned karaoke queen by teaming up with Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour in front of celebrity guests at a charity event, reports The Daily Telegraph
Moss was one of the j |
Jolie kids
Holly wood couple Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt plan to add more members to their rainbow family by adopting more children.The Tomb Raider actress has confirmed the speculations by saying that they wou |
George pet
: Actor George Clooney has hired a psychic to help him contact his favourite pet,a black pig named Max who died three years ago. The Ocean's Thirteen star is still mourning the loss of the swine whom |
China disables some Google functions
The Chi nese government disabled some search functions on the Chinese-language website of Google yesterday, saying the site was linking too often to pornographic and vulgar contentGovernment offici |
Collider restart in autumn
The giant sub-atomic particle collider built to reproduce "Big Bang" conditions is set to restart this autumn, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, Cern, said yesterdayScientists believe |
Steve Jobs has liver transplant
Steve Jobs founder of the computer firm behind the iPhone and iPod, has received a liver transplant, it has emerged
Jobs, chief executive of Apple, had the operation around two months ago
The Ap |
Arnie jet in emergency landing
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's plane was forced to make an emergency landing last evening after the pilot reported smoke in the cockpit
The jet was about 10 min- utes away from landing at the San |
Museum an Olympian feat
n Monday morning, forklifts nosed through a sprawl of antiquities in the second-floor gallery of the New Acropolis Museum here, bearing marble statues
Technicians tugged at bulky black cables, lab |
French women face burqa ban
France could bar Muslim women from wearing full veils in public, a government minister said yesterday as parliament took action over concerns about an increase in women who are wearing the burqa in bi |
Obama rules out J&K role
(PTI): President Barack Obama has ruled out American mediation in the Kashmir issue, saying dialogue was the best way to reduce tension between India and Pakistan
"I believe that there are op- port |
Police, protesters clash after Iran blast
Police offi cers used sticks and tear gas to force back thousands of demonstrators gathering in the capital today after Iran's supreme leader,Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said there would be "bloodshed" if |
Asin's missing assistant caught
Chennai police have nabbed actress Asin's missing assistant,who went underground for nearly a year with his mother accusing the star's family of having a hand in his disappearance
The police caught |
Deficit monsoon sparks fearof drought
Defying computational forecasts and despite an early start, India's monsoon has delivered 45 per cent lower than normal rainfall this month, according to weather scientists
They have cautioned that |
Being ragged? Get
help in 15 minutes
India today launched a national, toll-free helpline for victims of ragging, assuring them assistance at all hours within 15 minutes of a distress call in a move described by education minister Kapil S |
Suspend rap at NID
: The National Institute of Design (NID) has barred a secondyear student from entering the hostel for six months for allegedly passing lewd comments at a girl on the institution's Gandhinagar campus
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On CPM plate, quota for Bengal Muslims
TheCPM is considering reservation for Muslims in Bengal by including the community, or large sections of it, within the state's Other Backward Classes list
The party believes the loss of Muslim vot |
Judges in
custody
A father-son duo, both judges in Andhra Pradesh, have been arrested and remanded in judicial custody in connection with a dowry harassment case
The complaint was lodged by T. Shashikala, wife of Ki |
Nepal talks
Nepal and India have agreed to reactivate the bilateral mechanism to resolve the border dispute between the two countries and expedite implementation of agreements.The decision was taken at a meeting |
TIGERS AT PLAY
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Liquor delay
Rail traf fic on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad route was disrupted for after passengers found a large number of liquor bottles in a compartment train.Passengers pulled the chain on finding the bottles.The Mumb |
STRIKE-HIT
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Freak death
: A vil lage defence committee member was killed when he accidentally shot himself in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday.Sham Lal was cleaning his loaded rifle when he accidentally pres |
Intruder jet
takes off
The US military plane loaded with arsenal which "inadvertently" entered Indian air space last night took off following diplomatic intervention, but defence officials are miffed at the crew's initial i |
Call for
VS scalp
The fac tion feud in the Kerala CPM came to the fore at the party's central committee meeting here when a state minister sought V.S. Achuthanandan's removal as chief minister
Kerala finance ministe |
Jaitley target of attacks at meet
Asking the leadership why the defeat of 2004 was not properly probed, Shourie suggested that the final report of the in vestigation into the 2009 elec tions should be made public
It is significant |
Rajnath sticks to core tenets
BJPpresident Rajnath Singh today batted off suggestions that the party should steer away from Hindutva as a survival strategy, telling the party's national executive that it will alter neither ideolog |
SPEAKING OUT - Rage explodes within BJP
The BJP appears plunged in an anarchic,and uncontainable, internal feud
Senior leaders fiercely de- fied party president Rajnath Singh's appeal for restraint and discipline and vented their frustra |
Embedded in Lalgarh - Minor mission accomplished, big test lies ahead
Alpha Company of the CRPF's 50th battalion is the advance party on the road to Lalgarh this morning through a forest where the security forces feared a Maoist behind every tree
None of the Maoists |
An M everyone loves to hate
Ratan Ta ta's parting riddle for Bengal - the identities of the Good M and the Bad M - has never been conclusively settled.But if anyone were to ask who's the Pariah M in Bengal now, it's a no-brainer |
Monsoon deficit
sIndia's monsoon has delivered 45 per cent lower rainfall than normal so far in June, weather scientists have said July rainfall will be crucial to avert a possible drought. |
Iran protests
sPolice clashed with demons trators in Tehran on Saturday after Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned of "bloodshed" if street protests continued. |
TRS boss quits
: K. Cha ndrasekhar Rao, the Telang ana Rashtra Samiti chief, to day quit the post as the party reeled under dissidence after its poor election showing, re ports our bureau. Rao's lead ership has been |
Gisele baby
): Super model Gisele Bundchen is pregnant,People.com reported on Friday. Citing sources,the website said the wife of American football star Tom Brady is due early next year.Brady's mother, Galynn, sa |
Judge opts out
sSupreme Court judge D.K
Jain, heading a panel to probe the grounds for Justice Soumitra Sen's removal, has opted out. |
Indian shot
in US store
A 26-year-old Indian-origin youth working at a convenience store in the US was shot dead by robbers, but shoppers made no attempt to help him or call police
Gurjeet Singh of Gary, Ind- iana, worked |
Ragging helpline tips
:Human resource develop ment minister Kapil Sibal will unveil a national anti-ragging helpline tomorrow
The helpline aims to help victims of ragging within minutes of their complaints. It will be o |
Forever stealing the show on stage
Never one for playing taans, Ali Akbar allowed Vilayat a free run towards the end of the slow gatkari and in the drut gatkari, nodding patronisingly and occasionally stealing the show with a catchy tw |
THE FINE - PRINT
Dream
Depp
: Actor Johnny Depp has been voted by fans as the best camping partner in a survey while socialite Paris Hilton has been given a thumbs down as the worst
The Pirates of the Caribbean actor's wild w |
Correction
In some editions of The Telegraph on Friday, the photograph accompanying the report, " 'Prince' tosses wine at scribe",was erroneously identified as that of Mangal Kapoor. The picture was that of Ranj |
Vigilante threat
: The daytime protests across the Islamic republic have been largely peaceful. But Iranians shudder at the violence unleashed in their cities at night, with the shadowy vigilantes known as Basijis bea |
Iran cleric to protesters: stay off streets
: In his first public response to days of protests, Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, sternly warned opponents today to stay off the streets and denied Opposition claims that last week's |
Most wanted: food
What Rus sia taught Napoleon Bonaparte around 200 years ago, the Bengal government has not learnt even now: an army marches on its stomach
Several state police personnel taking part in the Lalgarh |
RESISTANCE ON A NEW ROAD - Regained, lost, regained.
A light machine gun is mounted on a tripod and the soldier from the Border Security Force takes position behind it as his section of 30 men creeps across the fallow farmland on the road to Lalgarh her |
The magician bows out
ruled the golden years of north Indian instrumental music has now only one man standing:Pandit Ravi Shankar.The youngest member, sitar maestro Vilayat Khan,departed years ago
Sitar maestro Ravi Sha |
Snub to Modi terrorlaw
The Centre today re turned the controversial antiterror bill passed by the Gujarat Assembly, saying it could not be sent for presidential assent without three key amendmentsThe Gujarat Control of O |
Showgirl secret
Silvio video
: A showgirl who claims that she and other women were paid to attend Silvio Berlusconi's private parties said yesterday that she had pictures showing her with the Italian Prime Minister in his bedroom |
Bruni in Allen plans
Woody Allen dreams of casting Carla Bruni in one of his films because France's First Lady has the charisma for the job, the American director has said
In Paris to promote his new film, Allen was as |
Nasa moon
mission
An un manned Atlas rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station yesterday carry ing a pair of probes to map the moon and hunt for water
The Lunar Reconnais sance Orbiter (LRO) is Nasa's |
June 19 happiest day
Britons should have plenty to smile about today June 19 as it's officially the happiest day of 2009
Psychologist Dr Cliff Arnall has devised a formula to pinpoint the day we are all most likely to |
IAS officer in pants scandal
Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan today suspended IAS officer Gyaneshwar Patil,who was caught on camera with his pants down in the presence of a young man
Satish Chaukse, the 23- |
Rajnath defuses
Shourie 'bomb'
BJPpresident Rajnath Singh narrowly averted another letterbomb from exploding in the leadership's face on the eve of a critical two-day session of the national executive, but senior partyman Arun Shou |
Impeach panel judge opts out
Supreme Court judge D.K
Jain, heading a committee to investigate the grounds for the removal of Calcutta High Court's Justice Soumitra Sen, has opted out
Jain, appointed by the chairman of the R |
CPMblames
state factors
TheCPM central leadership today pointed a finger at state factors for the party's poll debacle in Bengal and Kerala as the politburo met ahead of the two-day central committee meeting starting tomorro |
THE FINE PRINT Jolie jolt
While most people would love to boast that they received a call from actress Angelina Jolie, designer Malcolm Harris twice hung up on the superstar as he was convinced the caller was a prankster
Jo |
Silvio hit by
new scandal
Ital ian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, fresh from a controversy over his friendship with an 18 year-old woman, is now defending himself from allegations that female escorts were paid to attend par |
Iran clerics offer talks
Tens of thousands of Iranians,wearing black and carrying candles, marched today to mourn those killed in mass protests against a presidential election they and defeated candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi s |
Bug blamed for crash
: Faulty speed readings and electronic failures were cited by crash investigators yesterday as they said they were closer to understanding the loss of Air France Flight 447 on June 1, with the deaths |
'Prince'tosses
wine at scribe
Indian high society in London was today trying to check the family tree of "Prince" Mangal Kapoor after he tossed a glass of wine over a British journalist who had questioned his claimed royal credent |
Zardari to
skip NAM
President Asif Ali Zardari has decided not to attend the NAM summit in Egypt next month, apparently to avoid another meeting with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh whose blunt comments annoyed Pakistan
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Party and govt in need of cure
New Delhi, June 18: Shaken by its worst performance in the Lok Sabha elections and realising the growing impact of anti-incumbency,the CPM is planning to overhaul its party programmes, organisation an |
Actor remand
Shiney Ahuja, accused of raping his domestic help, was today remanded in judicial custody till July 2
The 35-year-old actor,who can apply for bail, was remanded after the prosecution said it wanted |
Bandit
holds off
500 cops
for 50 hours
A little known bandit staved off around 500 policemen for over 50 hours in Chitrakoot district of Uttar Pradesh before falling to bullets, raising questions about the ability of crack security forces |
Knowledge
panel revamp
The Na tional Knowledge Commission that prepared the blueprint for massive reforms in India's education may now be restructured to oversee the implementation of its recommendationsTwo months after |
DIDI'S DELHI HOME
Mamata Banerjee's bungalow on Akbar Road in New Delhi.The railway minister, who has been staying in a multi-storeyed apartment meant for MPs,has decided to shift to the type VIII bungalow,meant for ca |
IIM
cost-cut
course
: The Indian Institute of Management here has designed a new course on "cost-cutting", to be introduced next month, to specifically address the economic slowdown
"Considering the prevailing economi |
Chauhan
jumps to
Advani
defence
Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan has jumped to the defence of the beleaguered L.K. Advani ahead of the party's national executive scheduled over the weekend
Chauhan held a meetin |
Convocation test forValley varsity
: Kashmir University will host a day-long convocation - seen by many here as pro-India activity - on its campus on Saturday for the first time since militancy started two decades ago
Around 900 pas |
2-minute window and
then the crackdown
Two kilo metres into the march to Lalgarh came the first bout of "action"
"You have two minutes to disperse. Else,you'll face action," additional superintendent of police (Jhargram), Subhankar Sark |
ACTION AT LAST
Security forces have dipped their toe in Lalgarh, not launched the final assault
"There was some action today and our forces advanced towards Lalgarh but it was more like testing the waters," said |
Deflation scare
sThe country's wholesale price index fell for the first time in three decades on Thursday with the rate of inflation slipping below zero. But government officials and analysts described this as a
stat |
JOGEN CHOWDHURY BREAKS HIS OWN RECORD
The Sotheby's annual sale of
Indian art in London realised
�2,067,400 (Rs 16.12 crore),
exceeding pre-sale expectations,
the auction house
announced on WednesdayFrancis Newton Souza's
Orange Head |
Diary test for MP ministers
: A diary will decide the fate of Madhya
Pradesh ministersChief minister Shivraj
Singh Chauhan,whose image
took a beating in the elections,
has asked ministerial colleagues
to maintain a yearly
d |
Advani's sorry, and Manmohan too
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said
L.K.Advani had called him up
to express "regret" for his utterances
during the elections
and that he had reciprocated
the "hurt" BJP leader's gesture
by apolog |
BJPquit parade continues
: A resig nation a day keeps chinta (worry)
and chintan (introspection)
away.For the BJP, at leastAfter Yashwant Sinha and
Arun Jaitley quit party posts,
Bhagat Singh Koshyari resigned
from the R |
Single boss for terror squad
Maharas htra's anti-terrorism squad
will be free of the "dual control"
of the Mumbai police chief
and the state force's overall
boss after a government-appointed
panel recommended a
unified command fo |
Train molest
:Agroup of women have alleged
that they were harassed
by policemen in a
passenger train, officials
said.The men allegedly
barged into the reserved
coach on Tuesday night,
molested them and then
fled w |
STRIKE A POSE
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FUN & FROLIC
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Fast food joint nearyourhome? You'll get fatter
Living in neighbourhoods that have more fast food outlets than grocers or vegetable markets appears to increase the risk of obesity, but
only within a zone of 800 metres, said a new study released tod |
Shiney's wife
sees frame-up
: Ringed by family and friends, actor
Shiney Ahuja's financial analyst
wife today insisted that
her husband, accused of raping
his teenaged maid, had
been "framed"Anupam Ahuja, an MBA
who financi |
Airline fares go up
sTickets of Jet Airways,
Kingfisher Airlines and
their subsidiaries will cost
more with the airlines
hiking fuel surcharge by
Rs 400 on all domestic
sectors. Air India indicated
it would soon follow s |
Mobile ban
sIndia has banned import of
mobile phones that don't
have the International
Mobile Equipment Identity
(IMEI) number,which
helps authorities track
users. Cellphones without
the IMEI number are
consider |
BJP resignation
sFormer Uttarakhand chief
minister Bhagat Singh Koshiyari
resigned as a Rajya
Sabha member on
Wednesday.The senior BJP
leader said he had resigned
to devote more time to
"resurrect" the party in the
h |
Rain, not monsoon
sA thunderstorm lashed
the city on Wednesday
evening, offering a rare
respite from the swelter,
but the Met office said it
was not monsoon rainOfficials said normal
monsoon flow was still 48
to 7 |
Tweet, tweet: US calling for an Iran favour
:On Monday afternoon, a 27-year-old US state department official,Jared Cohen, emailed the social
networking site Twitter with an unusual request:
delay scheduled maintenance of its global network |
Centre to CM: Your call
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh,
an advocate of stern action
against Naxalism, is learnt to
have taken a grim view of the
violent Maoist takeover of
Lalgarh and of the Left Front
government's inability |
At work for war
Late last night, at a small camp in
Lalgarh's Katapahari, six
Maoists held a meeting
when word reached that
central forces had started
arriving in MidnaporeThe meeting, headed by
Bikash who runs |
Brigadier advises 'creeping'recapture
Bengal can adopt tactics for a "creeping
re-occupation of territory"
in Lalgarh despite its administration's
late response and its
police's poor training, says the
army's counter-Naxalite expert
who t |
PC cool to Varun plea for security
Varun Gandhi may have to make do
with two personal security officers,
even after meeting the
home ministerSources close to the BJP
MP said he had called on PChidambaram on Monday to
remind h |
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Reduced
Posh
Former Spice girl turned fashion designer
Victoria Beckham is reportedly
tired of her
surgically enhanced assets
and gone under the
knife once again to reduce
their sizeVictoria, popularly
known |
Moss urge
: Super model Kate Moss,who
is a chain smoker,demands
that a cigarette
pack be on hand wherever
she goes and insists
on keeping 100 cigarettes
nearby at all
times. She has strictly
instructed her pers |
Dad Pitt
Actor Brad Pitt and President
Barack Obama have
come out on top of a list
of celebrity dads most
women would like to see
in their underwearWhile 45-year-old Pitt
emerged on top of the
US list, 47 |
Thousands in defiant Iran march
Tens of thousands of Iranians
marched in quiet defiance
today in protest against moderate
Mir Hossein Mousavi's
election defeat, ahead of a day
of mourning he has called for
those killed in clashes
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Obamzilla
swats fly
: President Barack Obama swatted and killed a fly during an interview with CNBCPresident Obama displayed impressive hand-eye coordination
during the interview with John Harwood. After killing
the |
Alcohol hits head in '6 minutes'
Alcohol goes to your head in just six
minutes, scientists revealed
yesterdayFor the first time, re-
searchers have proved the
rapid changes that drinking
alcohol causes in human
brain cells. Prev |
Threats shut
down airport
in Peshawar
Pakistan today shut down the Peshawar
airport for an "indefinite
period" because of terror
threats and the planned military
operation in Waziristan
to hunt down Tehrik-i-Taliban
Pakistan chief Baitual |
Twitter, a
weapon
with two
edges
Cohen, a Stanford University
graduate who is the youngest
member of the state department's
policy planning staff,
has been working with Twitter,
YouTube, Facebook and
other services to harness their
r |
NITs want same pay as IITs
: The Na tional Institutes of Technology
have demanded pay parity
with faculty of Indian Institutes
of Technology under a
proposed salary regime that
will enable them to compete
for top teachersN |
Aila 'snub' to Mamata
: Prime Minister Man mohan Singh today virtually
rejected ally Mamata Banerjee's
demand to bypass the
Bengal government in distributing
relief to Aila victims"Mamata Banerjee is an
honoured membe |
Temple
wall
Bombay High Court today upheld the
decision of the Municipal
Corporation of
Greater Mumbai to
build a security wall
around the Siddhivinayak
temple in central
MumbaiThe order came on a
PIL by res |
Vijayan case
:The Kerala cabinet on Wednesday
skipped a discussion
on governor R.S.Gavai's
sanction to the CBI to
prosecute CPM state
secretary Pinarayi
Vijayan in a graft caseThis was seen as a move
to avoid |
Parking clash
Curfew was imposed in parts of
the city in the small hours
of Wednesday after
two groups clashed over
the parking of a tractor
and pelted police with
stones.The police used
batons to quell the mob
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