Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Storms slam US Midwest, killing 10

Storms slam US Midwest, killing 10


Storms slam US Midwest, killing 10

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 07:08 PM PST

Tornados spawned by a powerful storm system roared through middle America in the early morning darkness on Wednesday, flattening entire blocks of homes in small-town Illinois and Kansas and killing at...


Brad Pitt's secret visit to India to shoot film on Osama killing

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 07:07 PM PST

Actor Brad Pitt is shooting in Chandigarh for Kathryn Bigelow's film on the US raid that located and killed Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad. Chandigarh's Sector 15 was dressed up to impersonate A...


North Korea agrees to halt nuclear activities

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 06:59 PM PST

North Korea raised hopes on Wednesday for a major easing in nuclear tensions under its youthful new leader, agreeing to suspend uranium enrichment at a major facility and refrain from missile and nucl...

Boat collides with ship in Kerala: 2 fishermen dead

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 06:56 PM PST

Space department denies information to Ex-ISRO chief Nair

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 06:43 PM PST

Former chief of the Indian Space Research Organisation or ISRO, G Madhavan Nair, has said that the Department of Space (DoS) has refused to reveal the reasons, sought by him under an RTI query, for bl...


Cops beating teen caught on camera in Andhra Pradesh

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 06:42 PM PST

A day after a sixteen-year-old boy was allegedly beaten up by police in full public view at Jagtial town in Karimnagar district of Andhra Pradesh, the state human rights commission today directed the ...


Maharashtra Congress alleges foreign NGOs funding Jaitapur N-plant protests

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 06:14 PM PST

Following the Prime Minister's statement that the opposition against the nuclear power plant in Kudankulam was being fuelled by foreign funded NGOs, the Congress in Maharashtra has written to the Prim...

Microsoft unveils Windows 8 for consumer testing

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 12:11 PM PST

Microsoft on Wednesday let consumers start trying out its upcoming touch-based Windows 8 operating system, which aims to power a new wave of computer tablets and traditional PCs designed to counter Ap...


Seven-month-old baby stolen from Mumbai hospital

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 11:31 AM PST

BJP alleges ambulance scam in Rajasthan, company linked to two ministers' sons

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 10:49 AM PST

The BJP says that a company with connections to the sons of two senior union ministers has gypped the government of crores of rupees in Rajasthan where it's been hired to supply ambulances across the...


Government not to challenge Supreme Court order on 2G licences

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 09:39 AM PST

The Indian government will decide by the end of this week what action it would take on the Supreme Court's order quashing 122 licences issued in 2008, Telecom Secretary R Chandrashekhar said on Wednes...


Indians likely to be hit by new UK 'permanent settlement' norms

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 09:32 AM PST

For the first time, Britain is breaking the link between the number of years a migrant spends in the country and permanent settlement, by introducing a 35,000-pound annual salary threshold, a move tha...


I would have had more changes in the team: Gavaskar

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 09:00 AM PST

Karnataka's porn scandal: MLAs suggest media share blame

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 07:16 AM PST

In Karnataka, seven MLAS are investigating the politics-and-porn scandal. Their committee's task is to investigate how and why three former ministers were watching porn on a cellphone while the Karnat...


Mamata Banerjee's nephew arrested for slapping traffic cop

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 06:56 AM PST

James Murdoch steps down as executive chairman of News International

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 06:30 AM PST

Bhanwari Devi murder case: Top 10 facts

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 06:22 AM PST

Brad Pitt in Chandigarh for Hollywood movie on Osama

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 06:18 AM PST

Actor Brad Pitt is shooting in Chandigarh for Kathryn Bigelow's film on the US raid that located and killed Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad. Chandigarh's Sector 15 was dressed up to impersonate Abbotta...


Bhanwari Devi case: Former minister Maderna charged with murder

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 06:07 AM PST

Kalmadi, who claimed dementia, lectures defence committee

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 06:06 AM PST

Two Lashkar men arrested were planning Delhi terror attacks

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 05:54 AM PST

PM waits on stage at rally as audio system fails

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 05:35 AM PST

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh suffered acute embarrasment after the failure of the public address system at an election rally at Sanquelim, 40 kms from state capital Panaji. The public address system ...

Asia Cup: Sachin to play, Sehwag dropped, Kohli is vice-captain

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 05:33 AM PST

The big news, Sachin Tendulkar is part of the 15-member squad for Asia Cup, while out-of-form Virender Sehwag has been rested along with pacers Zaheer Khan and Umesh Yadav.Virat Kohli, who powered Ind...


Naveen Patnaik writes to PM again, asks for meeting of all chief ministers

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 05:10 AM PST

Bhanwari Devi case: Maderna charged with murder, destruction of evidence

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 04:45 AM PST

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