Friday, August 24, 2012

Caught on camera: Girl steals diamonds worth Rs 25 lakh from Jaipur showroom

Caught on camera: Girl steals diamonds worth Rs 25 lakh from Jaipur showroom

Caught on camera: Girl steals diamonds worth Rs 25 lakh from Jaipur showroom

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 12:26 PM PDT

The Jaipur Police are looking for a 20-year-old girl who stole diamonds worth Rs 25 lakh from a jewellery shop in Vaishali Nagar area and vanished. The accused, Jyoti, showed her remarkable sleight of...

Empire State building shooting: 2 killed, 8 injured

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 12:24 PM PDT

Two people were killed and at least eight wounded in a shooting outside the Empire State Building on Friday, a New York police source said, creating chaos and shocking tourists and commuters who witne...

Actor AK Hangal critical, admitted to hospital

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 11:53 AM PDT

Veteran actor Avtar Kishen Hangal is in a critical condition, family sources said this evening.

Rajasthan rains: 33 dead, Army called in for rescue operations

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 11:03 AM PDT

Army was today roped in for rescue and relief work in Rajasthan in the wake of torrential rainfall which has claimed 33 lives so far and left many districts facing a flood-like situation.

Five-year-old shot in Gurgaon: Several unanswered questions remain

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 10:12 AM PDT

Vanya Chadha, the five-year-old girl who was shot on Monday night in Delhi's satellite town Gurgaon, continues to be critical. The family claims the security guard shot her, but the police say she mig...

Lance Armstrong banned for life, career vacated

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 10:07 AM PDT

The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency erased 14 years of Lance Armstrong's career on Friday — including his record seven Tour de France titles — and banned him for life from the sport that made him ...

2G scam: No evidence against Chidambaram, says Supreme Court

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 09:50 AM PDT

The Supreme Court has dismissed two petitions against P Chidambaram asking for him to be investigated by the CBI in the telecom scam and to be made co-accused along with former Telecom Minister A Raja...

Timeline: Major shooting incidents in United States

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 09:18 AM PDT

Here is a timeline of some of the worst shooting incidents in recent times carried out by one or two gunmen in the United States.

In Andhra Pradesh, industry left without power three days a week

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 08:05 AM PDT

In Andhra Pradesh, industry is trying to figure out how to manage with just four days of power a week. A three-day a week power holiday for industrial units began this week to cope with the huge gap i...

Man arrested for throwing acid on daughter's face

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 08:04 AM PDT

A man has been arrested for allegedly throwing acid on his daughter's face here, police said on Friday. Lal Singh was arrested on Thursday night for allegedly throwing acid on his daughter Hemlata, 26...

Six Delhi Metro stations to close on Sunday to keep protestors from homes of PM, Gadkari

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 07:43 AM PDT

Six Metro stations in central Delhi will be closed for most of Sunday to keep protestors from reaching the homes of the Prime Minister and BJP president Nitin Gadkari.The Delhi Police has asked the De...

Navy SEAL who penned book on Osama operations identified

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 07:38 AM PDT

The author who has ruffled feathers of many in the Pentagon and CIA by writing a tell-all insider account of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan has been identified as a 36-year-old forme...

Heavy rains brings traffic jams to Delhi's rush hour

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 06:33 AM PDT

Heavy rains on Friday lashed the national capital, bringing down the temperature but Delhiites had to face troubles while commuting due to waterlogged roads and traffic jams.

China's missile advances aimed at thwarting US defenses, analysts say

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 05:50 AM PDT

China is moving ahead with the development of a new and more capable generation of intercontinental ballistic missiles and submarine-launched missiles, giving it a greater capability to hit targets in...

1st Test: India in firm control against New Zealand on Day 2

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 05:39 AM PDT

Hosts India took firm control of the opening Test against New Zealand, on just the second day on Friday. After scoring 438, powered by Cheteshwar Pujara's solid knock of 159, in the first innings,...

Narendra Modi tweets against Internet crackdown

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 05:22 AM PDT

The government's order to block Twitter handles and nearly 300 Web pages which it says threaten communal harmony and a fragile peace, led to outrage on Twitter. Hashtags like Emergency2012 and GOIBloc...

Six 'fake' Twitter accounts blocked, were blacklisted by PM's office

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 05:12 AM PDT

Hours after angry online protests and hashtags like Emergency2010 on Twitter, the micro-blogging site has caved in and blocked six accounts that the Prime Minister's Office had complained about. Dr Ma...

Indian surgeon, dubbed 'Dr Death', to be retried in Australia

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 04:38 AM PDT

An Australian court on Friday quashed an Indian-born surgeon's manslaughter convictions over the deaths of three patients, saying there had been a miscarriage of justice in his trial.

Rajasthan rains: Army on standby as heavy rains predicted

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 04:37 AM PDT

With parts of Rajasthan receiving above normal rainfall in the last few days, the Army has been put on standby as a precautionary measure. However state authorities say the situation is under control ...

The decline and fall of Norway's boastful killer

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 04:36 AM PDT

As a marathon trial neared its end, the world of Norwegian killer Anders Behring Breivik shrank from a globally televised, clench-fisted victory salute to tales of plastic surgery on his nose, failed ...

Five-year-old fights for her life after she was shot outside her Gurgaon home

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 04:25 AM PDT

A five-year-old girl, who was shot just outside her house in Gurgaon's upmarket DLF Trinity Apartments on Monday, is fighting for her life in hospital.

Widow paraded half-naked in Bihar by her sons, daughters-in-law

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 04:24 AM PDT

Police arrested five people, including two sons and daughters-in-law of a middle-aged Dalit widow who was publicly beaten and paraded half naked in a village in Bihar's Gaya district, police said on F...

More Harry photos may emerge soon

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 04:22 AM PDT

Brace yourself, Harry. Britain's most prominent public relations guru said on Friday (August 24) he'd been approached by two women who want to sell their photos of Prince Harry, suggesting that the wo...

Singur case: Mamata Banerjee welcomes Supreme Court's stay order

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 04:12 AM PDT

The Supreme Court today stayed a Calcutta High Court judgement and issued a notice to the Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government and Tata Motors on the Singur land acquisition row.

Hippo stuck in swimming pool dies in rescue operation

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 03:59 AM PDT

A hippo who wandered into a swimming pool at a South African game reserve three days ago died on Friday before a capture team could pull him out with a crane. Wildlife rescue expert Simon Prinsloo had...
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