Sunday, June 5, 2011

Tenzin Yangki is Miss Tibet-2011

Tenzin Yangki is Miss Tibet-2011


Tenzin Yangki is Miss Tibet-2011

Posted: 05 Jun 2011 06:00 PM PDT

Tenzin Yangki (19) was crowned as Miss Tibet-2011 on late Sunday evening here. The youngest participant won the title leaving five participants of the beauty pageant.


Panchkula owes district status to Bhajan Lal

Posted: 05 Jun 2011 05:44 PM PDT

It`s not just the residents of Mandi Adampur- Panchkula residents too owe it to former chief minister Bhajan Lal, who breathed his last in Hisar on Friday.


Did Headley's info help US locate Kashmiri?

Posted: 05 Jun 2011 05:38 PM PDT

One compelling possibility that arises in the aftermath of the drone killing of Ilyas Kashmiri is whether key Mumbai terror plotter David Headley offered actionable intelligence on the powerful al-Qaida commander's whereabouts.


Haryana discoms heading for crisis situation: HERC

Posted: 05 Jun 2011 05:25 PM PDT

Seeking immediate government intervention to save UHBVN and DHBVN from financial bankruptcy, Haryana Electricity Regulatory Commission has stated that the discoms are heading for a crisis situation, courtesy their consistent failure to curb financial losses.


Rs 25 lakh looted at gunpoint, robbers nabbed in Punjab

Posted: 05 Jun 2011 05:23 PM PDT

Three unidentified car-borne miscreants made an abortive attempt to escape after looting Rs 25 lakh from a businessman at gunpoint near Kalanwali township of this district on late Saturday night. All the three were learned to have been rounded up by Punjab police from near the border later.


Refinery death: Cops await forensic reports

Posted: 05 Jun 2011 05:22 PM PDT

Police are waiting for forensic reports regarding Anupam Ujwal Tiru, 30, an electrical engineer working with Indian Oil Corporation, who was found dead in a pond at the refinery here under suspicious circumstances on June 1.


'Justice for Sweety' campaign on Facebook

Posted: 05 Jun 2011 05:20 PM PDT

A la 'Justice for Ruchika', a campaign calling for justice for Sweety, gangraped and murdered by three men travelling in a car, is picking up on Facebook these days.


Police beating up young and old reminded of Jallianwala: Advani

Posted: 05 Jun 2011 05:09 PM PDT

Senior BJP leader LK Advani on Sunday blamed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi for allowing police action against yoga guru Baba Ramdev's Delhi rally.


RSS trying to destabilize Centre: Congress

Posted: 05 Jun 2011 05:05 PM PDT

Congress accused RSS of orchestrating Baba Ramdev's protest on black money to destabilize the Centre, hardening battlelines between the arch-rivals after his midnight eviction from Ramlila Maidan.


Infosys, TVS sign up for auspicious 'merger'

Posted: 05 Jun 2011 04:56 PM PDT

Bringing two of the country's top business families together, software major Infosys chief mentor N R Narayana Murthy's son Rohan on Sunday entered into wedlock with Lakshmi Venu of the TVS group.


Nightingale of India not ready to quit

Posted: 05 Jun 2011 04:55 PM PDT

She is 81 and scoffs at any talk of retirement. After working for seven decades, recording songs for over 1,000 movies and singing in more than 36 regional Indian languages, Lata Mangeshkar, known as the Nightingale of India, is still raring to go.


900 executive officer posts lying vacant in CBI

Posted: 05 Jun 2011 04:50 PM PDT

The CBI is grappling with acute shortage of manpower as over 900 posts of executive officers, including that of special directors, joint directors and DIGs, are lying vacant for many years.


Agnivesh’s yatra remark sparks a furore

Posted: 05 Jun 2011 04:48 PM PDT

A Kashmiri pandit body on Sunday demanded that social activist Swami Agnivesh be punished for his "blasphemous" remarks against pilgrimage to Amarnath cave.


Amartya Sen to help revive Presidency University glory

Posted: 05 Jun 2011 04:46 PM PDT

Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen has agreed to advise the chairman of the advisory committee set up by West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee to revive the Presidency University to its pristine glory.


Sister to meet Sarabjit Singh in Lahore prison

Posted: 05 Jun 2011 04:44 PM PDT

Dalbir Kaur, sister of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh, who is on death row in Pakistan, will cross over on Monday to meet her brother in Kotlakpathrai prison in Lahore.


Mamata as Shakti? No, it's India, clarifies Husain

Posted: 05 Jun 2011 04:40 PM PDT

Is MF Husain the latest admirer of Mamata Banerjee? That's how thousands of portals on the net interpreted a drawing which the 96-year-old artist sketched immediately after her landslide victory in the assembly polls.


Eight IM, SIMI men held for ’08 Ahmedabad blasts

Posted: 05 Jun 2011 04:37 PM PDT

In a swift operation, the Madhya Pradesh anti-terror squad on Sunday arrested eight suspected terrorists attached to the Indian Mujahideen and the banned Students Islamic Movement of India.


Wage boards challenged in Supreme Court

Posted: 05 Jun 2011 04:35 PM PDT

The writ petition submits that The Working Journalists and Other Newspaper Employees (Conditions of Service) and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1955, be declared illegal, null and void and ultra vires the Constitution of India.


Pro-Khalistan Sikhs in UK march to mark Bluestar

Posted: 05 Jun 2011 04:29 PM PDT

Several thousand pro-Khalistan Sikhs marched through central London on Sunday to mark the 27th anniversary of Operation Bluestar, a turnout that surprised even the organisers.


Pro-Khalistan Sikhs in UK march to mark Bluestar

Posted: 05 Jun 2011 04:29 PM PDT

Several thousand pro-Khalistan Sikhs marched through central London on Sunday to mark the 27th anniversary of Operation Bluestar, a turnout that surprised even the organisers.


Will resume agitation in Haridwar today: Baba Ramdev

Posted: 05 Jun 2011 04:19 PM PDT

"No one should violate law and so I am not going to Delhi. I was not allowed to reach Noida in UP to continue the protest," Baba Ramdev said.


Baba Ramdev spews venom against Sonia, PM

Posted: 05 Jun 2011 04:17 PM PDT

A helicopter carrying Baba Ramdev made a smooth landing at Jolly Grant airfield near Dehradun on a clear Sunday morning but that failed to soothe the rattled and angry yoga guru.


Govt rethinks on Air India's 787 Dreamliner purchase

Posted: 05 Jun 2011 03:07 PM PDT

The aviation ministry is rethinking whether cash-strapped Air India can go ahead with the order for 27 Boeing 787 Dreamliners as part of the mega order of 111 new planes worth Rs 55,000 crore placed during UPA-1.


Baba Ramdev almost got away in woman's garb

Posted: 05 Jun 2011 02:56 PM PDT

Police claim Ramdev was caught at the Ranjit Singh flyover around 3.40am on Sunday, trying to escape dressed in a salwar-kameez, with a dupatta wrapped over his beard.


A five-star break that led to negotiations with Ramdev

Posted: 05 Jun 2011 02:55 PM PDT

"Ab to gale lag jao swamiji (now we can exchange a hug)," telecom minister Kapil Sibal told Baba Ramdev at the end of their nerve sapping over five-hour negotiations on Friday.

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