Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Friendship spirit soars on Pak beer

Friendship spirit soars on Pak beer

Friendship spirit soars on Pak beer

Posted: 04 Aug 2010 02:04 PM PDT

Rawalpindi-based Murree Brewery plans to revive a brand exchange programme with United Breweries - make and market Murree beer in India, and Murree will match the favour for UB Group's Kingfisher beer in Pakistan.

5 killed as Reds blow up culvert in Jharkhand

Posted: 04 Aug 2010 02:06 PM PDT

Five guards of a security agency were killed in a landmine blast at Poornanagar under the Pirtand police station in Giridih district early on Wednesday morning.

PCPA wants to join Didi’s Lalgarh rally

Posted: 04 Aug 2010 01:51 PM PDT

Shedding their initial opposition to the Trinamool Congress gathering at Lalgarh, the Maoist-led People's Committee against Police Atrocities has decided to take part in the August 9 rally after Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee set aside political banners and gave it a broader shape.

Did Sohrab have a role in Haren Pandya killing?

Posted: 04 Aug 2010 01:43 PM PDT

A witness, who was a close associate of Sohrabuddin, has told the CBI that Abhay Chudasama had told him how he had saved Sohrabuddin in Pandya murder case.

Air safety may soon come at a price of 12

Posted: 04 Aug 2010 01:25 PM PDT

Air travellers may have to pay a safety fee of Rs 12 per head to fly safely within and from India under the watchful eye of an effective aviation regulatory agency that would replace the rusty DGCA in not so distant future.

Drunk driving in Maharashtra can land you in jail

Posted: 04 Aug 2010 01:11 PM PDT

The Maharashtra government on Wednesday decided in a cabinet meeting to increase threefold the fines for all traffic violations and make some of the more serious offences like road rage and rash driving bailable only by a magistrate.

Drama in Dantewada again as cops, Naxals face off

Posted: 04 Aug 2010 01:05 PM PDT

For several hours during the day, it appeared that security forces in Dantewada might have been ambushed once again by the Maoists.

Nagas begin 20-day Manipur blockade

Posted: 04 Aug 2010 12:45 PM PDT

United Naga Council began its 20-day economic blockade on national highways 39 and 53 in restive Manipur from Wednesday, compounding the woes of the people, who recently faced shortage of essential commodities owing to a similar stir.

Rlys send spl buses to ‘evacuate’ staff in Valley

Posted: 04 Aug 2010 12:35 PM PDT

Uprooted signalling systems, fishplates taken out, two stations completely ransacked and one even set on fire and a loss pegged at Rs 56 crore.

1 death as shoot-at-sight enforces calm in Valley

Posted: 04 Aug 2010 12:28 PM PDT

Even as something approaching normalcy returned to the Valley on Wednesday after weeks of protests-killings-protests cycle that left 28 people dead since Friday last, one youth, Mohammed Yaqub, was killed in Bemina on the outskirts here on Wednesday.

50 yrs on, Dilip Kumar remembers magnum opus Mughal-e-Azam

Posted: 04 Aug 2010 12:42 PM PDT

Stylish and spectacular, Mughal-e-Azam is the grandest historical ever in Hindi films. And even 50 years after director K Asif's magnum opus was first released on August 5, 1960, the film's hero Dilip Kumar remembers every last detail of the movie.

'India not listening to people of J&K'

Posted: 04 Aug 2010 12:25 PM PDT

Hardline Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani, seen as the force behind the current agitation in Kashmir, said on Wednesday that peace would return to the state only after India withdrew its security forces and agreed to a plebiscite.

OC says no hiring, will buy treadmills

Posted: 04 Aug 2010 03:54 PM PDT

A day after TOI highlighted the high rates at which the Games organizing committee (OC) was hiring treadmills, the OC said that now it won't be leasing any treadmill but will buy them outright from the market.

'AITA not involved in synthetic courts bidding process'

Posted: 04 Aug 2010 02:55 PM PDT

The contract for laying 14 synthetic surfaces at the DLTA complex has been awarded to a company whose Indian branch is headed by the son of the treasurer of the Games Organising Committee, Anil Khanna.

OC treasurer's son heads firm laying Games tennis turf

Posted: 04 Aug 2010 02:55 PM PDT

In a clear case of conflict of interest, the contract for laying 14 synthetic surfaces at the R K Khanna Tennis Stadium - a Commonwealth Games venue - was awarded to a company whose Indian branch is headed by the son of the treasurer of the Games Organizing Committee, Anil Khanna.
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