Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Bombs kill at least 46 in deadly Afghanistan day

Bombs kill at least 46 in deadly Afghanistan day

Bombs kill at least 46 in deadly Afghanistan day

Posted: 14 Aug 2012 11:22 AM PDT

Suicide attacks involving as many as 14 bombers struck an Afghan city on Tuesday, and a motorcycle bomb exploded in a busy market in blasts that killed at least 46 people altogether- the year's deadli...

At 88, Karunanidhi joins Twitter

Posted: 14 Aug 2012 10:51 AM PDT

The twitter-bug has now bitten 88-year-old DMK president M Karunanidhi. The leader is the latest among political personalities to take to the micro-blogging site with his ID tentatively titled @Kalaig...

Couldn't find a liver in time to save him: Vilasrao Deshmukh's doctor

Posted: 14 Aug 2012 10:04 AM PDT

Vilasrao Deshmukh dies: After battling serious illness for the last few weeks, Union Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh died at a Chennai hospital today. He was suffering from liver cancer and finally had a m...

Trinamool website hacked, Mamata made to say "I am a Maoist"

Posted: 14 Aug 2012 09:59 AM PDT

The Trinamool Congress' website was today hacked with the hackers posting on it a quote from party chief Mamata Banerjee that she is a Maoist.

Tributes to Vilasrao Deshmukh

Posted: 14 Aug 2012 09:01 AM PDT

Leaders cutting across the party lines pay tributes to Vilasrao Deshmukh.

Mamata Banerjee accuses judges of corruption

Posted: 14 Aug 2012 08:53 AM PDT

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today said a section of the judiciary was corrupt, claiming that there were instances where court judgments have been bought for money.

Vilasrao Deshmukh, Congress leader and Union minister, dies in Chennai

Posted: 14 Aug 2012 08:38 AM PDT

Vilasrao Deshmukh: Vilasrao Deshmukh, the man who had once famously said, 'I dream of turning Mumbai into a Shanghai' is no more. 67-year-old Mr Deshmukh, who made the incredible journey of a village ...

Afghan suicide attacks kill 36: Officials

Posted: 14 Aug 2012 08:31 AM PDT

Suicide bombers killed 36 people on Tuesday, mostly civilians shopping for Eid celebrations, in the capital of Afghanistan's Nimroz province on the border with Iran, officials said.

Were Dawood and you friends, Supreme Court asks Sanjay Dutt

Posted: 14 Aug 2012 07:56 AM PDT

Actor Sanjay Dutt was asked by the Supreme Court today about the extent of his contact with underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, wanted in India for the 1993 terror attack in Mumbai. 277 people were killed ...

Gopal Kanda visited Dubai to force Geetika to return: Police

Posted: 14 Aug 2012 07:53 AM PDT

Gopal Goyal Kanda visited Dubai to force air hostess Geetika Sharma to quit her job with a leading airline there, the police has told the Delhi High Court while opposing the anticipatory bail plea of ...

Bengal girl commits suicide after sexual harassment

Posted: 14 Aug 2012 07:11 AM PDT

Subjected to regular sexual harassment by some local youngsters and following an altercation with her father on the issue, a 13-year-old-school girl committed suicide by setting herself on fire in Wes...

President Pranab Mukherjee's speech on Independence Day eve

Posted: 14 Aug 2012 06:58 AM PDT

On the eve of India's 65th Independence Day, President Pranab Mukherjee, in a televised address to the nation, congratulated countrymen, saying that the glass of modern India is more than half full. H...

Finance firm manager shot when he pressed alarm at office

Posted: 14 Aug 2012 06:21 AM PDT

A private finance firm manager was shot at by two robbers when he pressed the alarm button as they tried to rob the firm at Mariappanpalya area this morning, police said.

These luxury cars fared poorly in new crash test

Posted: 14 Aug 2012 06:12 AM PDT

The new test is designed to replicate what happens when a car strikes another car or a fixed object like a tree or utility pole.

Fukushima disaster caused mutant butterflies: Scientists

Posted: 14 Aug 2012 06:02 AM PDT

Genetic mutations have been found in three generations of butterflies from near Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, scientists said on Tuesday, raising fears radiation could affect other species...

Vilasrao Deshmukh liked imitating this film star

Posted: 14 Aug 2012 05:54 AM PDT

In the early 1960s, a young and handsome student in Pune University harboured a secret ambition: to become a star in Bollywood. Over the years, the Bollywood dreams of Vilasrao Dagadoji Deshmukh crumb...

July inflation falls to 32-month low on lower food, fuel prices

Posted: 14 Aug 2012 05:18 AM PDT

Inflation fell but economists were not convinced it would be enough to persuade the RBI to cut rates. While fuel and food inflation cooled, a pickup in manufacturing price pressures pushed core inflat...

Doctored MMS provoked Pune attacks on North-Eastern community

Posted: 14 Aug 2012 04:40 AM PDT

26-year-old Kahomdal Panmel, a software professional from Manipur, has lived in Pune for 3 years. He moved to the city to work with IT giant Infosys. Pune has never felt less like home. Last week, h...

Baba Ramdev ends fast with juice, attack on Congress and PM

Posted: 14 Aug 2012 04:27 AM PDT

Ramdev: Yoga icon Baba Ramdev left Delhi very much on his own terms this afternoon after keeping the police waiting overnight, winning the endorsement of all political parties except the Congress, and...

Rebel MP from Mamata party parodies her with this song

Posted: 14 Aug 2012 04:13 AM PDT

Kabir Suman, an MP from Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress, has parodied a Rabindranath Tagore song as a biting comment on the chief minister. Mr Suman's song focuses on the arrest of a farmer who a...

Where is Railways Minister, ask Lok Sabha MPs

Posted: 14 Aug 2012 03:47 AM PDT

The prolonged absence of Railway Minister Mukul Roy from Delhi came in for questioning in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday with JD(U) chief Sharad Yadav taking a dig at him, saying he was not attending his of...

Why this woman delivered baby in cab outside hospital

Posted: 14 Aug 2012 02:24 AM PDT

What should have been a routine delivery turned into a nightmare for a 20-year-old pregnant Borivli resident on Sunday, when she was forced to give birth just outside the walls of a civic hospital bec...

Have you seen the rioters who vandalised the Amar Jawan memorial?

Posted: 14 Aug 2012 02:22 AM PDT

The Mumbai police is now using MiD DAY lensman Atul Kamble's photographs in its massive hunt for protestors who damaged the memorial at Azad Maidan dedicated to sepoys martyred in the 1857 mutiny. The...

Standard Chartered CEO takes lead in Iran probe talks

Posted: 14 Aug 2012 02:16 AM PDT

Standard Chartered's Chief Executive Peter Sands has flown to New York to take personal control of the bank's attempts to reach a settlement with US regulators over allegations it hid transactions inv...

Serial killer shot dead after massive manhunt

Posted: 14 Aug 2012 02:08 AM PDT

A Chinese man suspected of killing nine people in armed robberies since 2004 was shot dead by police on Tuesday after senior officials ordered he be hunted down, authorities said. The Chinese Ministry...
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