Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Four Pune blasts, one injured, on a night when Sushil Shinde was expected

Four Pune blasts, one injured, on a night when Sushil Shinde was expected

Four Pune blasts, one injured, on a night when Sushil Shinde was expected

Posted: 01 Aug 2012 03:27 PM PDT

Pune News: Pune this evening saw four low-intensity blasts in a span of nearly 40 minutes on its busy Junglee Maharaj Road in the heart of the city. Two other bombs have been defused by the Anti-Terro...

London 2012: India's appeal rejected, Gutta-Ponnappa out officially

Posted: 01 Aug 2012 12:52 PM PDT

Indian doubles pair of Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa are out of the Olympics 2012 officially. This after an appeal by Indian duo that a Japan-Chinese Taipei match in their group seemed fixed was re...

London 2012 Badminton: Saina Nehwal through to the quarter-final

Posted: 01 Aug 2012 12:35 PM PDT

India ace Saina Nehwal warmed up for the tough battle ahead with a comfortable straight-game victory over Dutch Jie Yao as she reached the women's singles quarter-finals of the London Olympics.T...

California professor's email reveals plot to shoot students

Posted: 01 Aug 2012 12:33 PM PDT

A professor arrested on arson charges wrote in emails that he was thinking of getting a dozen machine guns and shooting at least 200 students at the California high school attended by his late son, ac...

Power grid failure: Indian businesses weather blackouts, but at a cost

Posted: 01 Aug 2012 11:56 AM PDT

Work making potato chip display racks at Jayraj Kumar's factory barely paused when much of India's power grid collapsed.

Explosions rock Lahore market, over 20 injured

Posted: 01 Aug 2012 11:25 AM PDT

More than 20 people were injured, five of them seriously, when two bombs went off in a market in the Pakistani city of Lahore on Wednesday.

Four Pune blasts in 40 minutes: Top 10 developments

Posted: 01 Aug 2012 11:23 AM PDT

Pune news: There have been four low intensity blasts in Pune in a span of about 40 minutes this evening. The bombs had been placed within a kilometre stretch on the busy Junglee Maharaj Road. Sushil K...

Team Anna supporters protest twice outside PM's residence

Posted: 01 Aug 2012 11:18 AM PDT

Team Anna supporters staged protests twice outside Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's residence to press for their demand for Lokpal Bill on Wednesday evening.

After Pune blasts, Delhi on high alert

Posted: 01 Aug 2012 11:06 AM PDT

Delhi was put on heightened vigil on Wednesday night with deployment of armed police personnel across the city in the wake of the bomb blasts in Pune.

Stunt on railway track goes wrong, 15-year-old run over by train

Posted: 01 Aug 2012 07:55 AM PDT

A 15-year-old boy trying to pull off a very dangerous stunt was run over by a train in Gurgaon this evening.

Mumbai entrepreneur died by jumping off sea link, says police

Posted: 01 Aug 2012 07:40 AM PDT

A businessman in Mumbai has been found dead in the sea near Dadar. The police suspect that he committed suicide by jumping from the Worli sea link earlier this week.

Nitish Kumar to tour Bihar in monsoon, partly to send message to BJP

Posted: 01 Aug 2012 07:26 AM PDT

The monsoon may be weaker than expected or hoped for, but it stopped Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar from touring his state.

London 2012 Hockey: India go down against New Zealand

Posted: 01 Aug 2012 07:21 AM PDT

India went down 1-3 to a motivated New Zealand side in their second group match at the London Olympics 2012. India have now lost both their matches - the first one they went down to the Netherland...

Blackouts shine light on broken power sector

Posted: 01 Aug 2012 06:56 AM PDT

Rolling power cuts are part of daily life in India, where energy production falls far short of the demands of a fast-growing economy and an increasingly affluent population, but blackouts for two days...

Two blackouts, but little to prevent a repeat of power grid failure, say experts

Posted: 01 Aug 2012 06:52 AM PDT

Power grid failure: India, recovering from its worst-ever power outage, has been smarting over the promotion of Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde to the Home Ministry. But for those outraged by the ...

10 union leaders at Maruti’s Manesar plant arrested

Posted: 01 Aug 2012 06:46 AM PDT

The plant at Manesar in Haryana will remain closed until working conditions are safe again.

10 union leaders of Maruti Manesar plant, including president, arrested

Posted: 01 Aug 2012 06:46 AM PDT

Haryana police on Wednesday arrested 10 office bearers of Maruti Suzuki Workers' Union, including its President Ram Meher and General Secretary Sarabjit Singh, in relation with the violence at the com...

India's blackouts shine light on broken power sector

Posted: 01 Aug 2012 06:37 AM PDT

As India's power minister stood up to address parliament one day last May, the chamber was plunged into darkness and a roar of laughter went up.

August may bring good rains, but trouble in September: MET Department

Posted: 01 Aug 2012 06:02 AM PDT

India's crucial monsoon is expected to bring widespread showers in August but is likely to run into trouble in September, a top weather official said on Wednesday.

Top 10 facts: Eight badminton players disqualified for throwing matches, India's appeal rejected

Posted: 01 Aug 2012 05:55 AM PDT

Match-fixing allegations have rocked the London Olympics. Eight badminton players who were accused of throwing away their games to secure easier draws in the next stage, have been disqualified fro...

Fasting Team Anna members refuse police request to shift to hospital

Posted: 01 Aug 2012 05:52 AM PDT

The Delhi Police has written to the activists reminding them that when the activists were given permission to hold their protest, they had agreed in writing to move to hospital if their health was in ...

Indian-origin postman, labelled cockroach, wins racism case

Posted: 01 Aug 2012 05:52 AM PDT

An Indian-origin postman has received a hefty 100,000 pounds pay-out after he exposed 'endemic racism' at his UK office, where Asian workers were labelled 'cockroaches' and 'vermin'.

Mulayam Singh Yadav pulls up son Akhilesh Yadav's government

Posted: 01 Aug 2012 05:37 AM PDT

In September, Akhilesh Yadav will complete six months as chief minister of Uttar Pradesh. His father, Mulayam, who is also the chief of the Samajwadi Party, has said the government isn't meeting its ...

Bangalore couple killed; young daughter attacked after witnessing murder

Posted: 01 Aug 2012 05:34 AM PDT

A seven-year-old in Bangalore has been hospitalised after she witnessed her parents' murder. The couple, who ran a vegetarian restaurant at their home in west Bangalore, was beaten to death with iron ...

Tetra Pak heir pleads guilty to preventing wife's burial

Posted: 01 Aug 2012 05:31 AM PDT

Hans Kristian Rausing pleaded guilty on Wednesday to preventing the proper burial of his wealthy wife Eva, whose decomposing body lay in their luxury home for two months before it was discovered.
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