Monday, October 3, 2011

Smoke jumper makes his last (official) leap

Smoke jumper makes his last (official) leap


Smoke jumper makes his last (official) leap

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 12:38 AM PDT

Dale Longanecker has spent 38 years as one of the most elite of his kind, a smoke jumper. He has parachuted out of airplanes into some of the most remote wildfires in the West carrying little more tha...


Gayle blitz keeps Bangalore alive

Posted: 03 Oct 2011 05:29 PM PDT

Chris Gayle played the sort of innings only he can to give Royal Challengers Bangalore the sort of win they desperately needed to keep their Champions League Twenty20 campaign alive....


Sanjiv Bhatt's wife writes to Chidambaram, appeals for his safety

Posted: 03 Oct 2011 04:05 PM PDT

Three days after suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt was arrested, his wife today appealed to Union Home Minister P Chidambaram to "ensure the safety" of her husband....


Telangana strike to continue, says KCR after meeting PM

Posted: 03 Oct 2011 02:53 PM PDT

There seems to be no end in sight to the Telangana crisis. Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) chief K Chandrasekhara Rao met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today evening, demanding for immediate steps for...


Four arrested for trying to sell blackbuck

Posted: 03 Oct 2011 02:09 PM PDT

Four men were arrested today while trying to sell a blackbuck in a posh locality in south Delhi.


Police case against Swamy for controversial editorial

Posted: 03 Oct 2011 01:10 PM PDT

The Delhi Police has filed an FIR against Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy in connection with an editorial he wrote on Islamic terrorism in an Indian newspaper in July this year. Mr Swamy has ...


Telangana crisis: Congress leaders meet PM

Posted: 03 Oct 2011 12:47 PM PDT

Congress leaders from Telangana met with the Prime Minister this afternoon. They want the Central government to commit to bifurcating Andhra Pradesh to create a new state of Telangana. "Dusshera is on...


Turbulence hits two Boston flights, 20 injured

Posted: 03 Oct 2011 12:38 PM PDT

Boston airport officials say 20 people on two separate flights reported being hurt during severe turbulence....


Robbers snatched 5 lakhs from him, he snatched it right back

Posted: 03 Oct 2011 12:21 PM PDT

A stamp paper vendor in Ghaziabad was Monday robbed of a bag containing Rs.5 lakh by two motorcycle-borne assailants, whom the victim chased and subsequently retrieved the money, police said....

Rs 32 controversy: Not under-stating poverty, clarifies Montek

Posted: 03 Oct 2011 12:19 PM PDT

The government today tried to recover from the poverty controversy - created after the Planning Commission said any family that spends Rs 32 a day cannot be categorised as Below the Poverty Line (BPL)...


Now, dead German satellite to crash-land

Posted: 03 Oct 2011 12:02 PM PDT

After the six-tonne UARS satellite of NASA that crashed into the Pacific ocean over a week ago, another is approaching fast for a fiery death plunge soon. This time, it's a defunct German space telesc...


Google ranked world's most attractive employer for third year in a row

Posted: 03 Oct 2011 11:41 AM PDT

Internet search giant Google has been ranked as the best company to work for by management and engineering graduates in two separate surveys, which term the company the world's "most attra...


Nobel Prize goes to 3 for work on immune system

Posted: 03 Oct 2011 11:12 AM PDT

Three scientists whose discoveries on the immune system opened up new avenues for prevention and treatment of infections, cancer and inflammations won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday. American B...


Cannot be called Mahatma, please, says Anna to his village

Posted: 03 Oct 2011 11:06 AM PDT

Deprecating any comparisons with Mahatma Gandhi, anti-graft campaigner Anna Hazare has rejected a resolution passed by the Gram Sabha of his native Ralegan Siddhi village conferring on him the title '...

Karnataka: CBI raids MLA close to Reddy brothers

Posted: 03 Oct 2011 11:02 AM PDT

The CBI today raided the house of Nagendra, a Karnataka MLA from Kudligi, known to be close to the Reddy brothers - Janardhana and Karunakara. There are also reports that the CBI has gone to the Jinda...


Custody death: Allegations below contempt says Omar; heart attack says autopsy

Posted: 03 Oct 2011 10:49 AM PDT

Chief Minister Omar Abdullah silently watched an ugly display of tempers in Jammu and Kashmir Assembly today over the alleged custodial death of National Conference member, Syed Mohammed Yousuf Shah. ...


Mahatma Gandhi's famous speech at Kingsley Hall in 1931

Posted: 03 Oct 2011 10:00 AM PDT

In October 1931, Mahatma Gandhi visited London where he addressed a large gathering. The Mahatma's address took place at the Kingsley Hall. He called this address as his spiritual message. Here's the ...


SRK reveals Rajini Sir's cameo in RA.One

Posted: 03 Oct 2011 09:53 AM PDT

Months of speculation on legendary actor Rajinikanth's cameo in Shah Rukh Khan's Ra. One has ended.


Bank, IT stocks drag Sensex; DLF down 6%

Posted: 03 Oct 2011 09:42 AM PDT

Indian markets have managed to pare some losses though the benchmark indices are still trading with over 1.5 per cent losses. At 1425 hours, the Sensex was down 272 points lower at 16,182 while the...


Rajinikanth 'blesses' RA.One

Posted: 03 Oct 2011 09:39 AM PDT

Shah Rukh Khan's RA.One has been formally 'blessed' by none other than legendary actor, Rajinikanth. ...

Learn the art of speed on the Indian GP track

Posted: 03 Oct 2011 09:32 AM PDT

What do you do with a fancy, expensive F1 race track after three days of racing are over? You start a race-car driving academy of course....

Man gets off at wrong station, runs on Metro track

Posted: 03 Oct 2011 08:33 AM PDT

Commuters travelling in Metro on its blue-line routes had to face difficulties as thetrain service on both the sides got disrupted after a man jumped on the track at Noida Sector 15 Metro station. The...


Bar Refaeli, Sarkozy's son dating?

Posted: 03 Oct 2011 08:24 AM PDT

Supermodel Bar Refaeli was spotted getting cozy with President Nicolas Sarkozy's son Pierre during a night out here. The couple were seen greeting each other with a kiss on the cheek before enjoying t...


Samsung launches first Windows Mango Phone

Posted: 03 Oct 2011 08:10 AM PDT

Samsung Mobile has launched three new smartphones, the Windows Phone powered Omnia W, the Bada OS powered Wave 3 and the Android powered Galaxy Y....

Stepanek cruises past Somdev at Japan Open

Posted: 03 Oct 2011 06:52 AM PDT

Seventh seed Radek Stepanek of the Czech Republic beat India's Somdev Devvarman 6-4, 6-3 in a first-round match at the Japan Open on Monday....

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