Thursday, February 16, 2012

Poll panel examining Congress minister's remarks daring it on minorities sub-quota

Poll panel examining Congress minister's remarks daring it on minorities sub-quota


Poll panel examining Congress minister's remarks daring it on minorities sub-quota

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 03:03 AM PST

The Election Commission (EC) is examining whether Union Steel Minister Beni Prasad Verma's remarks on the minorities sub-quota wherein he dared the poll body during a rally in Farrukhabad last night w...


Madhya Pradesh woman awarded for leading 'toilet revolution'

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 02:36 AM PST

An Indian woman has been rewarded for her "bold" decision to leave her marital home within days of the wedding to protest the lack of a toilet in the household, an official said on Thursday.


India protests over two fishermen shot dead by Italian ship's guards

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 02:28 AM PST

India on Thursday summoned the Italian envoy to voice concern over the killing of two fishermen by security officials of an Italian cargo vessel in the waters off Kerala. Italy, however, maintained th...


Maharashtra civic corporation polls: Top 10 highlights

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 02:28 AM PST

Norway custody row: Will the wait get longer?

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 02:00 AM PST

Sources have told NDTV that some NGOs and civil society members in Norway are pressurizing the country's government to follow the law of the land and not rush through handing over two NRI children - t...


Fifth man dead in UP's rural health fund scam

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 01:46 AM PST

Italy cruise tragedy: A month later Indian still missing; family says he'll come back

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 01:39 AM PST

Three days back, in a local church on the small island of Giglio in Italy, congregated a crowd of people for a prayer service. Exactly a month ago, they had seen the Italian luxury cruise liner Costa ...


'Let me vote for my bahu, before you extern me'

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 01:28 AM PST

When it comes to the BMC polls, or any elections for that matter, each vote counts. Realising this, Juhu resident Mariappa Devendra approached the Bombay High Court yesterday, just hours away from pos...


Jaya, 15 minutes old, gets pacemaker in US

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 01:16 AM PST

The name Jaya in Hindi means victorious. And little Jaya Maharaj was just that, when she became one of the smallest recipients of a pacemaker when she was just 15 minutes old. A team of doctors at S...


Monica Bedi is threatening me: Filmmaker

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 01:14 AM PST

She may not have had a remarkable movie career so far, but Monica Bedi has certainly led an eventful life, best exemplified by the fact that several films based on her life are either being shot or ar...


Daksh robot to get more teeth

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 12:38 AM PST

Terrorists fighting the army in insurgency-hit areas will soon have to face a new combatant that they cannot kill. The Research and Development Establishment (R&DE), Dighi, is developing an armed vers...

The thief who stole cars as per client's orders

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 11:48 PM PST

Javed, alias Bablu Mukhtar Khan (28) specialised in what has to be one of the most niche skills on offer in the world of commerce: stealing and delivering cars, according to the specifications of the ...


Norway custody row: Parents to meet children on Friday

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 11:31 PM PST

Jharkhand: 14-year-old girl dies after well being constructed under NREGA collapses

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 10:48 PM PST

A 14-year-old girl in Jharkhand died after a well, which was being constructed under the government's flagship National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) in the Paleja village, collapsed.

In dramatic flourish, Rahul rips up paper at rally

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 10:16 PM PST

Accusing the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and the Samajwadi Party (SP) of making "only promises", Congress leader Rahul Gandhi today tore a piece of paper at an election meeting to drive home the point t...


'Sticky bomb' blast: Overnight raids in Delhi, several suspects detained

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 06:20 PM PST

Investigators probing the "sticky bomb" blast that hit an Israeli diplomat's vehicle in New Delhi on Monday have detained several suspects in overnight raids conducted in the capital. Yesterday, the ...


After porn scandal, crackdown on cameras in Karnataka Assembly

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 11:43 AM PST

It was a particularly candid camera. A private TV channel in Bangalore caught three ministers watching porn on a cellphone in the Karnataka Assembly. The trip was forced to resign last week. They cann...


Can support Congress if I see BJP coming to power: Mulayam

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 11:40 AM PST

Samajwadi Party (SP) supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav today said that he is willing to support the Congress in Uttar Pradesh after polls if he sees the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) coming to power.


Bomber hired for Delhi's sticky-bomb attack may be of Indian origin, say sources: 5 big facts

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 11:34 AM PST

The Delhi Police has been searching for a man on a motorcycle who planted a bomb at a traffic signal on a car belonging to the Israeli Embassy. The explosion destroyed the car on Monday just a few fee...


Angry Birds game now on Facebook

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 11:04 AM PST

The Angry Birds game that has been downloaded 500 million times has been launched as a free version on social network Facebook. In the game, players use catapults to fire infuriated birds at pigs hidi...


Homosexuality, lesbian relationships unnatural, Supreme Court told

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 10:49 AM PST

The Supreme Court on Wednesday was told that homosexuality and lesbian relationship were unnatural and against the order of nature as provided under the Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). Sen...

Two Indian fishermen mistaken for pirates, shot dead

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 10:33 AM PST

Two fishermen, one each from Kerala and Tamil Nadu, in a fishing boat were on Wednesday shot dead by security officials of an Italian cargo vessel in the deep sea after being mistaken for pirates, an ...


India-Pakistan visa rules to be eased

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 08:59 AM PST

India and Pakistan today took a big step forward in strengthening trade relationship by easing visa rules. The move is aimed at normalising trade ties by the end of the year. The revised visa agreemen...


Mother reunited with baby Falak in hospital

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 07:21 AM PST

It was an emotional moment for Munni today when she reunited with her two-year-old battered daughter Falak admitted in the ICU of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) for life threatening i...


UP polls: 56 percent turnout recorded in third phase

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 07:05 AM PST

Around 56 per cent of the 1.75 crore-strong electorate today exercised its franchise for 56 seats in the third phase of the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls in which Mayawati's ruling BSP is facing a stro...


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