Friday, December 30, 2011

Cyclone Thane leaves at least 27 dead in Puducherry, Tamil Nadu

Cyclone Thane leaves at least 27 dead in Puducherry, Tamil Nadu

Cyclone Thane leaves at least 27 dead in Puducherry, Tamil Nadu

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 04:48 PM PST

Cyclone Thane hit the coast of Tamil Nadu on Friday, making landfall between Puducherry and Cuddalore that has resulted in the death of 27 people so far. While 19 people have been reported dead in Cud...

File footage on TV sparks tweets over Mandela's health

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 04:36 PM PST

A series of tweets mistakenly announced that Nelson Mandela was hospitalised on Friday after a local television channel showed archive footage of his January illness in a review of 2011. South Afri...

Maldives closes hundreds of luxury resort spas

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 04:31 PM PST

Maldives ordered hundreds of its luxury resorts to close their spas nearly a week after a protest led by opposition parties demanding a halt to "anti-Islamic" activities, the government said on Friday...

Watch: Australian team bows down to Sachin Tendulkar

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 01:56 PM PST

In an exclusive chat with Cricket Australia TV, the Australian players like Michael Hussey, Peter Siddle, Michael Clarke, hail Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar and different aspects of his game and l...

Snubbed by Mamata, Govt puts up a brave front

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 01:17 PM PST

It was yet another embarrassment for the government at the hands of its ally, the Trinamool Congress when Mamata Banerjee's party moved amendments against the Lokpal Bill in the Rajya Sabha yesterday....

Defence Ministry rejects Army Chief's application on date of birth

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 01:13 PM PST

Army Chief General VK Singh has suffered a major setback as the Ministry of Defence has rejected his application seeking a correction of his date of birth in the Army records. The Ministry has cited A...

India's chances of winning Australia series over: Gavaskar

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 12:13 PM PST

The ongoing rubber against Australia was seen as India's best chance of winning a series Down Under, but former captain Sunil Gavaskar on Friday said that the vistiors should forget about such a possi...

Anna's village gets a Lokpal, he's four months old

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 11:52 AM PST

While Congress defends its actions in Rajya Sabha on Thursday and BJP accuses it of running away from a vote, one tiny village in India has got its own Lokpal. The village - none other than Anna Hazar...

Russia hands over Nerpa attack submarine to India

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 11:47 AM PST

Russia has handed over the much- awaited nuclear-powered attack submarine Nerpa to India on a 10-year lease, boosting the Indian navy's fire-power....

Lokpal fiasco: 'Fleedom' at midnight quips BJP, says PM gave his blessing

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 10:43 AM PST

The government insists that it did not play dirty to ensure that last night, the Lokpal bill was not put to vote in the Rajya Sabha. "The BJP are the real assassins of democracy," said the Congress s...

Cops sacked for Facebook comments, photos

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 10:15 AM PST

At least two police officers in Britain were sacked while disciplinary action has been taken against 150 others for posting inappropriate photos or comments that included racist language on social net...

Lokpal Bill fiasco in Rajya Sabha: A caricature, says TMC, 'fleedom' at midnight, quips BJP

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 08:56 AM PST

The morning after it dodged a vote on the Lokpal Bill in the Rajya Sabha, the government insists that it did not let down either the country or Parliament. And blames the BJP for the Lokpal no-show. N...

TCS pips Reliance to become largest company by m-cap

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 08:20 AM PST

TCS' m-cap stood at Rs 227,282.29 crore against RIL's m-cap of 226,898.64 crore at the end of trade on the Bombay Stock Exchange today. TCS closed 0.35 per cent lower but Reliance saw a shaper fall. T...

Rajya Sabha ruckus scripted by government: Team Anna

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 08:16 AM PST

Team Anna lashed out at the government for the Lokpal fiasco. Highlights of the press conference held by Arvind Kejriwal and Prashant Bhushan: Arvind Kejriwal: Rajya Sabha ruckus scripted by governmen...

Reliance Industries slips below 700 for the first time since 2007

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 08:13 AM PST

Reliance had made a new 52-week low yesterday. Meanwhile, the Sensex traded 0.5 per cent lower

99-yr-old seeks divorce after discovering wife's affair

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 08:01 AM PST

An Italian couple could create a new record of becoming the world's oldest divorcees, with a 99-year-old husband moving a court after he found that his 96-year-old wife had an affair in the 1940s, a r...

Anuj Bidve's family writes open letter to SM Krishna, asking for help

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 07:58 AM PST

Responding to the plea by Anuj Bivde's family, External Affairs Minister SM Krishna has responded promptly by asking the British authorities to release of the body of the 23-year-old student. All expe...

Mom with eight babies in China stirs debate on one-child policy

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 07:19 AM PST

The photo was undeniably cute: a studio portrait of eight babies in identical onesies and perky white cotton hats, sporting an array of expressions from giggly to goofy, baffled to bawling. Intende...

Some crew members are inside burning nuclear submarine

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 06:31 AM PST

The Russian military says an unspecified number of the crew of a burning nuclear submarine remain inside the vessel and that seven others have been sent to hospitals after inhaling toxic fumes....

I am proud of what I did: Rajniti Prasad

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 06:25 AM PST

Rajniti Prasad has said he is proud of himself and has no regrets. And he emphatically says that the chaos he started in the Rajya Sabha yesterday was not orchestrated or planned, but "a spontaneous w...

India must prove they aren't flat track bullies: Oz media

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 06:05 AM PST

India were "bounced and bruised at the MCG", declared a gleeful Australian media which on Friday hailed their cricket team for their surprise humbling of the famed batting line-up of the visitors in...

Lokpal farce: Top 10 Comments from ndtv.com surfers

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 06:03 AM PST

We asked you to comment on the fact that the Lokpal Bill was not put to vote yesterday in the Rajya Sabha. Here are the top 10 responses....

CNG prices to go up by Rs 1.75 in Delhi

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 05:57 AM PST

Indraprastha Gas Ltd, which supplies CNG to automobiles and piped cooking gas to households in the national capital, attributed depreciation in the value of rupee for the rise in prices....

Auto driver arrested in Dutch teen's rape

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 05:52 AM PST

A 22-year-old auto rickshaw driver has been arrested by the Vanrai police for allegedly raping an 18-year-old Dutch national in the wee hours of December 26. The accused, identified as Rajpati Baburam...
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