Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Search for Arunachal chief minister enters fifth day

Search for Arunachal chief minister enters fifth day

Search for Arunachal chief minister enters fifth day

Posted: 03 May 2011 08:34 PM PDT

Six Indian Air Force helicopters on Wednesday began an aerial survey along the dizzy heights of Sela Pass in Arunachal Pradesh even as the search by more than 4,000 army, paramilitary troopers, and civilians for the missing chopper carrying chief minister Dorjee Khandu entered its fifth day.

Geelani dubs Osama a shaheed

Posted: 03 May 2011 05:44 PM PDT

The only Kashmiri with clarity is Syed Ali Shah Geelani. "Osama was a shaheed, he died defending Muslims, a symbol of resistance against US oppression," he said on Tuesday.

Kalka-Shimla heritage station gutted

Posted: 03 May 2011 05:32 PM PDT

The Kandaghat railway station on the Kalka-Shimla heritage railway line was gutted in a devastating fire on Tuesday morning.

Govt bows to gutka makers, may ease rules

Posted: 03 May 2011 05:24 PM PDT

Gutka manufacturers may get a partial reprieve with the Union environment and forests ministry on Tuesday proposing to ease its rules and allow packaging of gutka products in small sachet purely for export purposes.

Scanner on foreign funds to NGOs

Posted: 03 May 2011 05:21 PM PDT

The home ministry has come out with stringent rules which include banning 'organizations of political nature' from receiving foreign funds and asking NGOs to register themselves with the government after every five years.

Serial killer behind bodybags?

Posted: 03 May 2011 05:09 PM PDT

Investigators probing the murder of a girl whose body was found in a travel bag on a train at Etawah railway station on Monday, have come across a serial killer angle to the case.

Pak NGO names award after Nirmala Deshpande

Posted: 03 May 2011 05:07 PM PDT

A leading Pakistani NGO on Tuesday announced that it has instituted an award in the name of late Gandhian Nirmala Deshpande to honour individuals and institutions of South Asia working for peace.

Declare Pakistan a terrorist state, demand Shia clerics

Posted: 03 May 2011 05:03 PM PDT

A day after Osama bin Laden was killed by US forces in Pakistan, Lucknow's Shia Muslim community has called on the international community to declare the country a terrorist state.

Hasan stole Nizam artefacts with museum staffer's help

Posted: 03 May 2011 04:59 PM PDT

Central Crime Station (CCS) sleuths have booked cases against money-laundering kingpin Hasan Ali and four others for stealing and selling off precious artefacts from the famous Salarjung Museum of the city.

No work, no pay, govt warns striking AI pilots

Posted: 03 May 2011 04:56 PM PDT

Air India on Tuesday - Day 7 of the erstwhile Indian Airlines pilots' strike - decided to withhold the salary payment for April to the striking pilots till they resume work.

Sanjiv Bhatt gets back security cover

Posted: 03 May 2011 04:51 PM PDT

The IPS officer, Sanjiv Bhatt, who moved Supreme Court testifying against chief minister Narendra Modi in the 2002 Godhra riots case got back his security cover from the Gujarat government on Tuesday.

TDP leaders wary of actor couple joining party

Posted: 03 May 2011 04:49 PM PDT

The stage is set for star couple Rajasekhar and Jeevitha to join TDP. This decision is learnt to have been taken following a meeting the couple had with party president N Chandrababu Naidu on Tuesday evening.

US teenager convicted of mother's murder

Posted: 03 May 2011 04:47 PM PDT

The teenager slit his mother Cynthia Iannarelli's throat during their stay at Reggie's Camel Camp, a desert resort at Osain near Jodhpur on August 12 last year. He was arrested from Jodhpur airport while trying to board a plane to the US.

11 security personnel killed in Maoist ambush

Posted: 03 May 2011 04:38 PM PDT

Security personnel were lured up a hilltop upon whiff of Maoist presence only to be caught in a nightmare ambush laid in advance, triggering IEDs which killed as many as 11 policemen and CRPF jawans.

Grandfather buries new-born baby girl alive in Sitapur

Posted: 03 May 2011 04:02 PM PDT

A middle-aged farmhand from Sitapur allegedly buried alive his newborn granddaughter and her stillborn twin brother, giving a statement later under his thumb impression expressing regret for the act.

Arunachal announces Rs 10 lakh for info on Dorjee Khandu

Posted: 03 May 2011 03:53 PM PDT

The Arunachal Pradesh government has announced a reward of Rs 10 lakh for anyone who can give specific information about the Pawan Hans chopper that went missing with chief minister Dorjee Khandu.

Karunanidhi may accompany Kanimozhi to court on May 6

Posted: 03 May 2011 03:20 PM PDT

Tamil Nadu chief minister M Karunanidhi is likely to accompany daughter Kanimozhi when she appears before the CBI special court in New Delhi in the 2G spectrum case on May 6.

Ram temple not on poll agenda: Gadkari

Posted: 03 May 2011 03:17 PM PDT

Days after BJP chief Nitin Gadkari raised the Ram temple pitch in UP's Faizabad, he did an about-turn in Jaipur on Tuesday, saying the construction of Ram temple at Ayodhya was not on party's poll agenda.

ED to grill Kanimozhi on May 12

Posted: 03 May 2011 02:52 PM PDT

Besides Kanimozhi, four others named in the 2G scam - Sharad Kumar of Kalaignar TV, Karim Morani of Cineyug Films and Asif Balwa and Rajiv B Agarwal of Kusegaon Realty -- have also been summoned by ED for questioning under PMLA.

SC tells govt to expeditiously frame new CAR for pilots

Posted: 03 May 2011 02:49 PM PDT

The Supreme Court has directed the Centre to expeditiously frame the new Civil Aviation Requirements (CAR) dealing with flight time and flight duty time limitation for pilots in the domestic and international sectors.

Pak Generals afraid US may now raid nukes

Posted: 03 May 2011 01:53 PM PDT

A vast majority of Pakistan's military leadership is unhappy about the US operation that killed Osama bin Laden and fears that America will conduct similar raids in the future to target the country's nuclear arsenal.

Pak Gens afraid US may now raid nukes

Posted: 03 May 2011 01:53 PM PDT

A vast majority of Pakistan's military leadership is unhappy about the US operation that killed Osama bin Laden and fears that America will conduct similar raids in the future to target the country's nuclear arsenal.

Notorious ISI continues to play double game

Posted: 03 May 2011 01:16 PM PDT

The direct role of Pakistans Inter-Services Intelligence in harbouring Osama bin Laden, first elsewhere and then in the cooler climes of Abbottabad where he met his maker, may never be known.

Govt tried to stop Cong from going ballistic against Pak

Posted: 03 May 2011 01:14 PM PDT

With Chidambarams hard-hitting statement triggering speculation about a re-think on whether to engage Pakistan, sources said foreign ministry representatives are learnt to have tried to dissuade Congress from slamming the neighbour.

India had twice told US about Osama's likely presence close to Islamabad

Posted: 03 May 2011 01:11 PM PDT

Indian agencies had twice warned their US counterparts about presence of Osama in an urbanized, heavily populated area not far from Islamabad.
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