Thursday, May 24, 2012

CBSE results 2012: Once again, girls outshine boys in class X exams

CBSE results 2012: Once again, girls outshine boys in class X exams


CBSE results 2012: Once again, girls outshine boys in class X exams

Posted: 24 May 2012 12:02 PM PDT

CBSE class 10th result: Girls once again outshone boys in the class X CBSE results announced today, which recorded a pass percentage of 98.19. The overall pass figure is about two per cent higher than...


Famously private Neil Armstrong gives rare interview

Posted: 24 May 2012 11:46 AM PDT

US panel cuts Pak funding over sentencing of doctor who helped in Osama raid

Posted: 24 May 2012 11:41 AM PDT

A Senate panel voted to cut aid to Pakistan by a symbolic $33 million on Thursday, $1 million for each year of jail time handed to a Pakistani doctor convicted of treason for helping the United States...


Facebook launches iPhone camera app - download now

Posted: 24 May 2012 11:20 AM PDT

Facebook's rocky initial public offering hasn't stopped life at the world's biggest online social network. On Thursday, the company unveiled a camera app for the iPhone.

Mercury rises to 43.1 degrees in Delhi, season's hottest so far

Posted: 24 May 2012 11:19 AM PDT

Mercury on Thursday soared to the season's highest of 43.1 degree Celsius in the capital as a heat wave swept through the city, forcing many Delhiites to avoid going outdoors. It is likely to be even ...


Navin Patnaik cancels lecture at Sussex University

Posted: 24 May 2012 08:25 AM PDT

Nitin Gadkari to get second term as BJP president; party amends constitution

Posted: 24 May 2012 08:22 AM PDT

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national executive has approved an amendment to party constitution paving the way for a second term for party President Nitin Gadkari. According to the current BJP con...


Narendra Modi in Mumbai for BJP meet, Yeddyurappa to follow tomorrow

Posted: 24 May 2012 08:19 AM PDT

Narendra Modi has arrived in Mumbai and has driven out of the airport in the front seat of a white SUV to attend his party's national executive. The Gujarat Chief Minister, who was in Udaipur, had orc...


IAF signs Rs 2,800 cr deal with Pilatus for acquisition trainer aircraft

Posted: 24 May 2012 07:51 AM PDT

The Indian Air Force's long pending requirement of basic trainer aircraft can now be met with the acquisition of 75 Pilatus planes starting later this year. The IAF signed a Rs 2,800 crore deal with t...

Petrol hike leads to slew of discounts on car prices

Posted: 24 May 2012 07:49 AM PDT

While Maruti Suzuki has offered a Rs 30,000 discount on the Alto, Tata Motors is giving discounts of Rs 10,000-50,000 on the petrol variants of Indica and Indigo family.

UK recession deepens as euro zone woes mount

Posted: 24 May 2012 07:24 AM PDT

Humiliated, Mahasweta Devi quits West Bengal's literary body

Posted: 24 May 2012 07:08 AM PDT

Celebrated author-activist Mahasweta Devi has resigned as chairperson of West Bengal's top literary body - the Bangla Academy. It is a post she was appointed to by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee last ...


Jagan Mohan Reddy denied anticipatory bail, violence after minister is arrested

Posted: 24 May 2012 06:53 AM PDT

The anticipatory bail applied by YSR Congress chief Jagan Mohan Reddy has been rejected. Mr Reddy applied for the bail 24 hours ahead of a scheduled interrogation by the CBI in connection with a corru...


Facebook shares stabilizing, but probes mount

Posted: 24 May 2012 06:47 AM PDT

Facebook's initial public offering is the subject of two congressional inquiries and mounting lawsuits as the social network enters its fifth day of public trading.

Oil firms hint at a cut in petrol prices next month

Posted: 24 May 2012 06:14 AM PDT

Petrol price hike: Congress demands rollback, say sources

Posted: 24 May 2012 06:08 AM PDT

After widespread protests and political demands for a withdrawal of the huge petrol price hike of Rs. 6.28 plus local taxes effected last night, there is now talk that the government might consider a ...


Indian Oil may cut petrol prices if crude falls

Posted: 24 May 2012 05:32 AM PDT

Pakistan seeks face-saving formula in NATO talks

Posted: 24 May 2012 04:58 AM PDT

Pakistan is unlikely to re-open supply routes to NATO troops in Afghanistan unless the United States offers a politically acceptable formula in talks on ending a six-month standoff on the issue, a Pak...

Rupee rallies to close at 55.65/$ from lifetime low of 56.38/$

Posted: 24 May 2012 04:50 AM PDT

Raped girl's father demands death penalty for accused

Posted: 24 May 2012 03:45 AM PDT

The father of a four-year-old girl, who was raped and killed in Quepem town of Goa, has refused to perform her final rites until his demand for justice is met.He demanded that the 22-year-old accused ...

Petrol price hike: Congress says it was not consulted amid talk of partial rollback

Posted: 24 May 2012 03:28 AM PDT

Petrol price hike: Widespread protests and political demands for a rollback of the huge petrol price hike of Rs. 6.28 plus local taxes effected last night, have been met by the central government with...


An open letter to India's graduating classes

Posted: 24 May 2012 03:26 AM PDT

Dear Graduates and Post-Graduates, this is your new employer. We are an Indian company, a bank, a consulting firm, a multinational corporation, a public sector utility and everything in between. We ar...

US should respect decision to imprison doctor who helped CIA find Osama: Pakistan

Posted: 24 May 2012 03:23 AM PDT

The United States should respect a Pakistan court's decision to imprison a doctor accused of helping the CIA find Osama bin Laden, the Pakistan foreign ministry spokesman said on Thursday.

Toddler loaded into washing machine: Video

Posted: 24 May 2012 03:17 AM PDT

The video which has gone viral and put a man and a woman under scrutiny for shows the man putting the boy in the washing machine while the woman folds clothes nearby. The man then shuts the machine do...

Toddler loaded into washing machine: Video goes viral

Posted: 24 May 2012 03:14 AM PDT

The mother of a toddler who briefly got stuck inside an active washing machine at a laundromat says she and his father aren't the people seen in a surveillance video that's received millions of hits o...


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