Friday, March 23, 2012

Shahid Afridi beats up fan at Karachi Airport

Shahid Afridi beats up fan at Karachi Airport


Shahid Afridi beats up fan at Karachi Airport

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 07:11 PM PDT

After winning the Asia cup, Pakistani cricketer Shahid Afridi has landed straight into a controversy. The flamboyant cricketer was caught on camera roughing up a fan at the Karachi airport soon after ...


Resolution respects Lankan sovereignty: Indian envoy to NDTV

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 07:09 PM PDT

A day after India voted against Sri Lanka and supported US' resolution, India's envoy to the United Nations Dilip Sinha in Geneva tells NDTV that the resolution ensures Sri Lanka's sovereignty is resp...

Prime Minister fails to break Lokpal logjam at all-party meet

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 01:14 PM PDT

There were no surprises as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's all-party meet failed to evolve a consensus on the Lokpal Bill on Friday. BJP leader Arun Jaitley, after the meeting, aptly put it as "the on...


Cabinet clears major changes in marriage, adoption laws

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 09:52 AM PDT

A Bill seeking to give a woman a share in her husband's property was approved by the Union Cabinet today. Apart from giving women the right to their husband's property, the Marriage Laws (Amendment) B...


Aviation Ministry opens 11 new routes to Air India, private airlines

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 08:50 AM PDT

Heeding to the demands of private airlines, the government on Friday announced 11 new international routes which will allow them and the state-run Air India to further expand their global network. The...


Syrian president's wife banned from travel, shopping

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 08:17 AM PDT

The European Union banned the wife of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad from travelling to the EU or shopping with European companies in a move to stop her buying the Chanel dresses and Louboutin shoes...


Three elephants will fly by private plane. Jumbo jet?

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 08:15 AM PDT

Three elephants will travel from the Toronto Zoo to a sanctuary in California aboard a private plane, thanks to long-time animal activist Bob Barker. A spokesman for the 88-year-old TV icon says Mr Ba...


Pakistan shares grief of Baby Falak's death

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 07:54 AM PDT

Battered baby Falak may have passed away but the two-year-old's struggle for survival continues to move many hearts, not only in India but also in Pakistan. It has been seven days since Falak, who was...

Gurgaon unrest: Construction workers go on a rampage, torch vehicles

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 07:28 AM PDT

Angered over the death of a co-worker, labourers at a construction site here pelted stones at private vehicles and torched a police gypsy, police said on Friday. Labourer Babul Hasan, 25, from Baghpat...


Govt increases Dearness Allowance for employees by 7 percent points

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 07:00 AM PDT

Giving relief to its employees and pensioners from inflation, the central government today announced a seven percentage point increase in dearness allowance (DA) which will cost the exchequer an addit...


Mulayam hints at mid-term elections in his speech to party workers

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 06:29 AM PDT

With UPA allies pushing the Congress in a tight corner over several issues, the Samajwadi Party chief who is extending outside support to the UPA government at the centre, has hinted at more political...


Lokpal Bill: Prime Minister's all-party meet fails to evolve consensus

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 06:20 AM PDT

Lokpal Bill: Leaders of parties in Rajya Sabha including BJP's Arun Jaitley, BSP's S C Mishra, RJD's Ram Kripal Yadav, SP's Ram Gopal Yadav, NCP'S Tariq Anwar and CPI's A B Bardhan met at the Prime Mi...


'India succumbs to US pressure': Sri Lankan dailies criticise UN vote

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 06:19 AM PDT

India may have managed to extricate itself from a domestic political imbroglio at Sri Lanka's expense, but that has "plunged" the country "into an unholy diplomatic and political mire", a leading dail...


'No Coca-Cola, Pepsi': Sri Lankan protestors demand ban on American goods after UN resolution

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 06:15 AM PDT

Nationalist Sri Lankan groups called on Friday for a boycott of American goods to punish the U.S. for backing a U.N. resolution urging the South Asian nation to investigate possible war crimes during ...

No consensus on Lokpal Bill after all-party meet: 10 big facts

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 05:51 AM PDT

Will India get the new anti-corruption law it has been waiting for? The Lokpal Bill - named for a national anti-graft agency that it creates - was passed by the Lok Sabha. But the Winter Session of t...


2011 One of hottest on record despite La Nina

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 05:34 AM PDT

Global temperatures in 2011 hit the 11th highest level on record despite the cooling influence of a strong La Nina weather pattern, the World Meteorological Organization said on Friday. On average, gl...

Runaway planets are universe's fastest objects

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 05:25 AM PDT

Runaway planets zipping through space at mind-numbing speeds of 30 million miles per hour are now the fastest objects in the universe, says a study. Seven years ago, the discovery of the first runaway...


Drunk SUV driver runs over 28-year-old after argument, arrested

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 05:10 AM PDT

The drunk SUV driver, who ran over a 28-year-old man in Lucknow following an argument, was arrested today. The accused, Rajesh Tiwari, had fled from the scene after the incident that occurred on Thurs...


Norway custody row: Indian government and parents reconcile

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 05:05 AM PDT

After hitting near-crisis mode, India's case to bring back two young children placed in foster care in Norway appears to be back on track. Sources say that the Indian government has finalized the ter...


Husband facilitates wife's gang rape in West Bengal, absconding

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 04:53 AM PDT

Two men have been sent to police custody by a local court in West Bengal's Howrah for allegedly raping a newly-married woman in connivance with her own husband who is absconding, police said on Friday...

IPL 2012: Owners strike deal to sell Rajasthan Royals

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 04:30 AM PDT

The owners of the Rajasthan Royals have agreed to sell the majority of the IPL franchise to a Kolkata-based businessman for $200 million, ESPNcricinfo has learned. However, the deal still requires the...


Kanimozhi asks High Court to drop her from telecom case

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 04:11 AM PDT

Kanimozhi, the Rajya Sabha MP who spent six months in jail, has asked the Delhi High Court to drop the charges that led to her arrest in the telecom scam. Her lawyers say that there is no evidence th...


Supreme Court rejects Vilasrao's 'blessing' argument

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 03:45 AM PDT

The Supreme Court Friday issued notice to the Maharashtra government, film maker Subhash Ghai and PIL petitioner Rajendra Lakshman Sontakke on a plea by union minister Vilasrao Deshmukh challenging th...

Save Ganga activist Swami Agarwal, 80, ends fast in Delhi

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 03:36 AM PDT

An 80-year-old environmentalist who has been on a hunger strike since January 14 has ended his fast today. GD Agarwal was hospitalized in Delhi on Monday. He has been campaigning for years for a bet...


Gujarat porngate: Speaker gives clean chit to accused MLAs; BJP says will demand apology from Congress

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 03:33 AM PDT

Gujarat Assembly Speaker Ganpat Vasava has given clean chit to two BJP MLAs who were accused by a local journalist of looking at obscene photos in the state Assembly on an iPad.


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