Monday, January 16, 2012

Pak Prime Minister Gilani wins trust vote, says 'Parliament is supreme'

Pak Prime Minister Gilani wins trust vote, says 'Parliament is supreme'

Pak Prime Minister Gilani wins trust vote, says 'Parliament is supreme'

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 06:46 PM PST

The Zardari government has won a trust vote in Parliament, with its pro-democracy resolution passed by a majority this evening. "Parliament is supreme, responsible and sovereign. I salute the politica...

Norway authorities take away Indian couple's kids, say feeding with hands wrong

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 06:35 PM PST

Anurup and Sagarika Bhattacharya - an Indian couple from Kolkata are living a nightmare in Norway. Their children - a three-year-old son and one-year-old daughter - were taken away from them by Norway...

Italy cruise disaster: 29 still missing as tragedy threatens environment

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 06:27 PM PST

Italy's cruise liner tragedy turned into an environmental crisis on Monday, as rough seas battering the stricken mega-ship raised fears that fuel might leak into pristine waters off Tuscany that are p...

Oprah Winfrey meets the Bachchans

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 11:18 AM PST

International talk show queen Oprah Winfrey chose to go truly Indian on her maiden India visit as she draped an orange and golden sari as she went to meet Bollywood star Aishwarya Rai and her newborn,...

Google's arguments in court provoke sharp remarks from judge

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 07:57 AM PST

Google and Facebook argued in the Delhi High Court today that there is no way for them to screen content before it is posted online. Both companies are among 21 whose executives have been summoned to ...

Army chief takes govt to court over age dispute, cites 'honour and integrity'

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 07:29 AM PST

Army Chief General VK Singh has taken the government to court over a dispute centred on his age.

Khurshid to appear before Election Commission on January 20

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 07:19 AM PST

Law Minister Salman Khurshid will appear before Election Commission on January 20 to explain his stand on the alleged poll code violation. A notice was sent to Mr Khurshid bt the Election Commission a...

Will Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani have to quit? Trust vote today

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 06:51 AM PST

Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and President Asif Ali Zardari met with their coalition partners this evening before facing a trust vote in Parliament. Mr Gilani is expected to make a pol...

UK government sinks new royal yacht idea‎

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 06:46 AM PST

What do you get for a monarch who has almost everything? Not, apparently, a new yacht, at least not one paid for with taxpayer funds. That was the message Monday as a brief boomlet of support for the ...

Carjacker wanted in 300 cases arrested

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 06:39 AM PST

Over a period of 14 years, Manoj Bakkarwalla was allegedly involved with at least 300 carjackings. He was arrested at 5 this morning from Ghazipur on the outskirts of Delhi. Manoj Bakkarwalla, 36, h...

Italy cruise tragedy: Ship owner blames captain for grounding

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 06:30 AM PST

The captain of the cruise ship that capsized off Tuscany made an unauthorized deviation from its programmed course, a "human error" that led to the vessel's deadly grounding, the ship's Italian owner ...

Oil rig catches fire off Nigeria's delta

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 06:14 AM PST

Chevron Corp. says an offshore rig being run for its subsidiary near Nigeria's oil-rich southern delta has caught fire and officials are still trying to account for all the workers there.

Priyanka Gandhi returns to campaign in Amethi

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 06:10 AM PST

After a long break from grassroots politics, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi's daughter Priyanka Vadra was back in Amethi on Monday to supplement brother Rahul's efforts in mobilising votes for the Congre...

Babri Masjid demolition just an incident, says Supreme Court

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 05:31 AM PST

The Babri Masjid demolition is just an incident and there is nothing famous or infamous about it, the Supreme Court today said while listing CBI's plea for levelling charges of criminal conspiracy aga...

Thai Police seize bomb-making material amid terror alert

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 05:14 AM PST

A foreign suspect with alleged links to Hezbollah militants led Thai police on Monday to a warehouse filled with materials commonly used to make bombs, as Thailand and the US disagreed over whether Ba...

Mystery persists over Russian spacecraft fall site

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 04:41 AM PST

Russian officials say they still have no firm information where a failed Mars moon probe plummeted to Earth, the day after it went down. The unmanned Phobos-Ground probe fell yesterday after being stu...

10 things you should know about Pak crisis

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 04:19 AM PST

The current political crisis in Pakistan places the civil government in danger. President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani are confronting an angry judiciary and army. Here's the...

Team Dhoni could set new record for India's worst: Stats

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 04:11 AM PST

If Mahendra Singh Dhoni and his men continue their losing streak in the fourth Test against Australia at Adelaide, it could prove to be the worst phase in the annals of Indian cricket.Since Dhoni ...

Federer, Nadal cruise as Tomic wins epic

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 03:47 AM PST

Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer eased into the Australian Open second round Monday even as local teenager Bernard Tomic stole the show with an epic five-set upset of Fernando Verdasco.Tomic, his countr...

Woman wins contest to blow up factory where her dad died

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 03:47 AM PST

A British woman won a competition to blow up a factory building where her father had died in an accident. Sarah Griffiths, 41, pushed a button that triggered a series of explosions to demolish the Cam...

Flexing muscle, Baghdad detains US contractors

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 02:31 AM PST

Iraqi authorities have detained a few hundred foreign contractors in recent weeks, industry officials say, including many Americans who work for the United States Embassy, in one of the first major si...

Union minister's Mullaperiyar remark irks Kerala

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 02:23 AM PST

Union Science and Technology Minister Ashwani Kumar's statement that the 115-year-old Mullaperiyar dam is safe has not gone down well in Kerala with ruling front ally Kerala Congress (Mani) on Monday ...

Golden Globes fashion: Wild hems meet red carpet

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 02:19 AM PST

George Clooney, who hit the red carpet at the Golden Globes early on Sunday, summed up what is so special about the evening: "People get hammered and give funny speeches." But from the heavy dr...

In Silicon Valley, the ripe scent of new money

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 02:03 AM PST

Sam Odio expected a few congratulatory e-mails when he sold Divvyshot, his online photo-sharing service, to Facebook last April for millions of dollars.

India, China begin talks on border issue

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 01:40 AM PST

India and China today began talks to put in place a mechanism for management of the border between the two nations, an issue that has been an irritant in bilateral relations.
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