Sunday, August 19, 2012

Class VIII student tortured with blades, sticks

Class VIII student tortured with blades, sticks

Class VIII student tortured with blades, sticks

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 07:16 PM PDT

In a shocking case of ragging, five boys from a school in West Midnapur in West Bengal allegedly used blades and sticks to torture a class VIII student.

The night-life lawyer

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 07:04 PM PDT

In a decade as a lawyer, Mr. Strazzullo, 40, has earned a reputation for taking care of the boldface celebrities - and lesser lights of the pleasure-seeking set - who get themselves in trouble after d...

Rising extremism in Pakistan: Hindus a target?

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 02:01 PM PDT

Bustling with life till recently, the streets of Jacobabad in Pakistan's Sindh province now wear a forlorn look. The town, which is home to 90 per cent of the country's Hindu population, has witnessed...

Gopal Kanda probed by Delhi Police; missing hard drives could hold the key

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 01:21 PM PDT

With former Haryana minister Gopal Goyal Kanda finally in police custody, the real task for the Delhi Police has just begun. They now have to gather enough evidence to prove that Mr Kanda instigated h...

North-East scare: Pak will cooperate if India provides evidence, Rehman Malik tells NDTV

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 11:50 AM PDT

A day after the government said that morphed online photos that created a scare among the North-East community originated from Pakistan, Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde on Sunday raised the issue wit...

Julian Assange asks US to renounce witch-hunt against WikiLeaks

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 11:38 AM PDT

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange called on President Barack Obama to end a so-called "witch hunt" against his secret-spilling website, appearing in public Sunday for the first time since he took refug...

Sachin Tendulkar presents BMW car to shuttler Saina

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 11:00 AM PDT

Saina Nehwal on Sunday received a brand new BMW car for winning a bronze medal at the London Olympics from none other than batting legend Sachin Tendulkar, who said that the world is yet to see th...

Passengers pushed from train in West Bengal

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 10:28 AM PDT

Two people have died in West Bengal after being pushed out of a train headed to Guwahati from Bangalore, reports Press Trust of India. Nine other passengers were injured in the incident and all but on...

Manchester City nudge past Southampton in EPL opener

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 10:28 AM PDT

Manchester City fought back after a second-half collapse against Southampton to open its title defense with a 3-2 victory against the Premier League newcomers on Sunday.Substitutes Rickie Lambert ...

Twitter, Facebook accounts blocked for inflammatory content

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 08:59 AM PDT

The Government has reportedly ordered 80 or more Internet pages and user-accounts on social networking sites including Facebook, Google and Twitter to be banned to avoid panic among people of the Nort...

Man stabs 8-year-old physically challenged daughter to death

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 07:45 AM PDT

An eight-year-old physically-challenged girl was brutally stabbed to death today allegedly by her father in the Shanti Nagar area in Ambala City of Haryana. The victim, Rajni, was suffering from polio...

Sonia Gandhi condemns Assam violence, mistreatment of people of North-East

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 07:07 AM PDT

Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Sunday expressed her "deep pain" at the ethnic violence in Assam and condemned the subsequent mistreatment faced by people from northeast in some parts of the countr...

Moderate earthquake rocks North-East India

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 03:32 AM PDT

An earthquake of moderate intensity shook northeastern states on Sunday afternoon. There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage to property.

S Badrinath replaces VVS Laxman for New Zealand Test series

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 03:23 AM PDT

The All-India Senior Selection Committee has included S. Badrinath in the Indian squad to replace VVS Laxman's replacement for the Test series against New Zealand, which commences at Hyderabad on ...

Gopal Kanda taken to MDLR office; focus on missing hard disks

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 02:54 AM PDT

The Delhi Police has begun its questioning of former Haryana minister Gopal Goyal Kanda, the prime accused in the suicide of former air hostess Geetika Sharma. A court in Delhi on Saturday had sent th...

Mumbai violence: Court extends police custody of all 23 accused

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 02:25 AM PDT

A Mumbai court has extended the police custody of all the 23 accused of violence last Saturday in Mumbai. They will remain in police custody till August 24.

Team Anna members meet in Noida to chalk out plans

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 02:07 AM PDT

Members of the recently-disbanded Team Anna met in Noida today, reportedly to chalk out their strategy before taking the political plunge. The meeting comes ahead of the first meeting of the preparato...

Did VVS Laxman retire 'hurt'? Questions being raised

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 01:47 AM PDT

The sudden announcement of retirement by VVS Laxman has sparked off a controversy amid talk that the stylish batsman was not treated well by the Cricket Board and the selection committee.Laxman create...

Japan's 'Last Ninja' is a 63-year-old engineer

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 12:07 AM PDT

A 63-year-old former engineer may not fit the typical image of a dark-clad assassin with deadly weapons who can disappear into a cloud of smoke. But Jinichi Kawakami is reputedly Japan's last ninja.

Final tax assessment of Baba Ramdev's trusts begins

Posted: 18 Aug 2012 11:35 PM PDT

The Revenue department has begun a final tax assessment of the trusts associated with yoga guru Baba Ramdev after service and Income Tax officials recently conducted special investigations on these en...

Masked gunmen wound eight in Russian mosque: Ministry

Posted: 18 Aug 2012 10:36 PM PDT

Masked gunmen burst into a mosque in the troubled Russian Caucasus region of Dagestan, wounding eight, the regional interior ministry said Saturday amid reports that more people were hurt in an explos...

Cricket is Laxman's 'first wife', says his better half Sailaja

Posted: 18 Aug 2012 10:31 PM PDT

VVS Laxman's decision to retire with immediate effect didn't just surprise the cricketing fraternity but also shocked his better half Sailaja, who was left wondering how the veteran would do without h...

The whole team will miss you Lachu Bhai, says MS Dhoni

Posted: 18 Aug 2012 10:03 PM PDT

Apparently incommunicado when VVS Laxman tried contacting him before announcing retirement, Indian cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni paid rich tribute to the veteran batsman saying that his absence...

Japan-China island row intensifies after activists raise flag on disputed land

Posted: 18 Aug 2012 09:44 PM PDT

A group of Japanese activists swam ashore and raised flags early Sunday on one of a group of islands at the centre of an escalating territorial dispute with China.
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