Thursday, April 5, 2012

INS Chakra: Top 10 must-know facts

INS Chakra: Top 10 must-know facts


INS Chakra: Top 10 must-know facts

Posted: 05 Apr 2012 06:42 PM PDT

With the induction of Nerpa, rechristened INS Chakra, into the Indian Navy on Wednesday, India is back in the elite club of nations having nuclear-powered submarines. Here are top 10 must-know facts a...


Foreigner's decomposed body found in a hotel in Delhi's Paharganj area

Posted: 05 Apr 2012 12:41 PM PDT

A decomposed body of a foreign national was found in a hotel room on Thursday in the Paharganj area of central Delhi.


Pranab Mukherjee to meet jewellers today

Posted: 05 Apr 2012 12:34 PM PDT

Amid widespread protests by bullion traders, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has called a meeting with jewellers' associations on Friday to sort out the issue related to increase in taxes on gold an...


IPL 2012: Morne, Irfan help Delhi beat Kolkata

Posted: 05 Apr 2012 12:28 PM PDT

Irfan Pathan scored an unbeaten 42 off 20 balls to guide Delhi Daredevils to a comfortable eight-wicket win over hosts Kolkata Knight Riders in a rain-curtailed 12-overs-a-side Indian Premier League m...


Anti-corruption officer transferred after taking on liquor mafia in Andhra

Posted: 05 Apr 2012 11:46 AM PDT

K Srinivas Reddy has a sterling reputation in Andhra Pradesh as an upright police officer. Till Tuesday night, he was heading a special investigation team in the state's Anti-Corruption Bureau. For t...


India's unwanted girls: Baby found at bus stop

Posted: 05 Apr 2012 11:37 AM PDT

Did you know India is the most dangerous place in the world to be a baby girl? That a girl child aged between 1 and 5 years in our country is 75% more likely to die than a boy? That we have the world'...


Millionaire's daughter found guilty in London riots

Posted: 05 Apr 2012 10:32 AM PDT

A millionaire's daughter was today convicted of burglary during last August's riots in London, where she helped looters steal goods by driving them around the city. Laura Johnson, 20, whose father run...


Rahul Gandhi takes stock of Uttar Pradesh poll debacle

Posted: 05 Apr 2012 10:20 AM PDT

Rahul Gandhi wants answers to what went wrong in the Uttar Pradesh elections. He will spend the next two days in what is called the Congress war-room to analyse the party's poll debacle in the state, ...


Land scam in Maharashtra, says state auditor; BJP says Vilasrao Deshmukh must quit

Posted: 05 Apr 2012 10:08 AM PDT

Vilasrao Deshmukh in Maharashtra CAG report: The report has yet to be officially shared by the government -that will happen on April 16, said the chief minister. But its contents were leaked first by...


Third term for Prakash Karat

Posted: 05 Apr 2012 09:43 AM PDT

The 20th party congress of the CPM that began in Kozhikode on 4th April is all set to re-elect Prakash Karat as the party's secretary for the third term. But his third term would also be his last a...

Rahul Gandhi analyses why Congress failed in Uttar Pradesh

Posted: 05 Apr 2012 08:53 AM PDT

Rahul Gandhi is in what is called the Congress war-room. A second session of stock-taking has begun as he analyses with partymen what went wrong in Uttar Pradesh, where despite his leading the Congres...


Weeks ago, Army Chief warned of troop movement being misreported

Posted: 05 Apr 2012 08:39 AM PDT

Even in the middle of March, General VK Singh in an interview to a magazine said he was aware of some talk about the mid-January movement of two elite Army units towards the capital which would be use...


CIA withheld info about Mumbai-style plot in UK: Report

Posted: 05 Apr 2012 08:37 AM PDT

American spy agency CIA warned its British counterpart MI6 that al-Qaeda was planning a "Mumbai-style" terror attack 18 months ago in the UK, but withheld detailed information because of fears that it...

Italy says arrest of marines sets 'very dangerous precedent'

Posted: 05 Apr 2012 07:49 AM PDT

Italian Junior Foreign Minister Staffan De Mistura said on Thursday that the detention of two Italian marines in connection with the fatal shooting of two Indian fishermen would set a "very dangerous ...


Odisha names prisoners to be released in exchange for hostages

Posted: 05 Apr 2012 07:33 AM PDT

In exchange for an Italian tour guide and an MLA, the Odisha government has agreed to release 27 prisoners, including eight Naxals. The hostages are being held by two rival factions of Naxals. No date...


7.85-inch iPad could release this June, claims expert

Posted: 05 Apr 2012 07:28 AM PDT

Kuwait-Iraq flights to resume after 20 years

Posted: 05 Apr 2012 06:27 AM PDT

Iraq has approved a request from Kuwait's Jazeera Airways to operate services to Baghdad and Najaf, more than 20 years after direct flights between the neighbours were halted, officials said today.


IPL's here, where's the excitement?

Posted: 05 Apr 2012 06:27 AM PDT

Even though Chennai Super Kings MS Dhoni believes that the TRPs of the Indian Premier League Season 5 will rise, the law of averages seems to be catching up with the cash rich T20 league with the adve...


CAG draft reports not secret, says government

Posted: 05 Apr 2012 06:17 AM PDT

Is the leak of a draft report not tabled yet by the government's auditor, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG), a breach of Parliament? Yes please, says the CAG. No, says the government. The Atto...


Will swapping prisoners for hostages make things worse for Odisha?

Posted: 05 Apr 2012 06:08 AM PDT

In exchange for an Italian tour guide and an MLA, the Odisha government has agreed to release 27 prisoners, including eight Naxals. The hostages are being held by two rival factions of Naxals. Here ar...


Raids in Delhi to rescue child labourers after NDTV report

Posted: 05 Apr 2012 06:05 AM PDT

After NDTV reported on Wednesday, how in the last one year, 14,000 adults and children have disappeared from West Bengal, most of them believed to have been swallowed up by the huge trafficking trade ...

India's leaders dispute report of rift with Military

Posted: 05 Apr 2012 05:41 AM PDT

India's top leaders on Wednesday denied a rift between the country's civilian government and its military brass after an article in a leading national newspaper described a tense episode in January in...


Facebook e-commerce: the next big thing?

Posted: 05 Apr 2012 04:24 AM PDT

BJP says Vilasrao must quit over land given to his trust

Posted: 05 Apr 2012 04:11 AM PDT

The Congress, besieged by allegations of corruption being its Standard Operating Procedure, now has new trouble in Maharashtra. The opposition claims that the state government's auditor has faulted se...


Former BJP minister sent to police custody for fake encounter

Posted: 05 Apr 2012 04:03 AM PDT

A former minister and the BJP's chief whip in the Rajasthan Assembly, Rajendra Rathore has been remanded to police custody till April 10. Mr Rathore was arrested earlier in the day in a case of a fak...


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