Bollywood gaining recognition and popularity overseas: Amitabh Bachchan
March 19th, 2010 - 10:25 pm ICT by ANI
Mumbai, Mar 19(ANI): Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan on Friday said that the Bollywood is gaining ample popularity and recognition overseas.Addressing the media on the sidelines of an event hosted by ... Read more...
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Mercury soars to 41.5 degrees in Orissa capital
March 19th, 2010 - 10:22 pm ICT by IANS
Bhubaneswar, March 19 (IANS) The temperature soared to the season's highest of 41.5 degrees Celsius in this Orissa capital Friday, an official said.
The maximum temperature at adjoining Cuttack town was 40.1 degrees ... Read more...
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Honour killing: Court pulls up Sahibabad police
March 19th, 2010 - 10:22 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 19 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Friday pulled up the Uttar Pradesh Police for not submitting the report of a lie-detector test conducted on family members of Sahibabad girl ... Read more...
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Maoist terror holds up construction of Chhattisgarh roads
March 19th, 2010 - 10:22 pm ICT by IANS
Raipur, March 19 (IANS) Maoist terror threats have held up road laying work under a central government scheme in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada district, with only one road of the 50 sanctioned being completed, ... Read more...
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‘Let’s make Delhi the Asian capital of sports’
March 19th, 2010 - 10:22 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 19 (IANS) Delhi should focus on being the Asian capital of sports and work towards bidding for the Olympic Games, V.K. Verma, director general of the Commonwealth Games Organising ... Read more...
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Hear 911 Call As Kids Help Mom Deliver Baby Brother
March 19th, 2010 - 10:20 pm ICT by Angela Kaye Mason
Mar 19 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Faith and Jabari Sanders are 11 and 9 years old, but when their mom yelled for their help from the bathroom of their home, they not only ... Read more...
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President nominates Mani Shankar Aiyar, four others to Rajya Sabha
March 19th, 2010 - 10:11 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, Mar 19 (ANI): President Pratibha Patil on Friday nominated former Union Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar, well-known lyricist Javed Akhtar, Shimla based Indian Institute of Advance Studies director Bhalchandra Mungekar, ... Read more...
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IPL to stay in India: CEO
March 19th, 2010 - 10:09 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 19 (IANS) Indian Premier League (IPL) chief executive Sundar Raman Friday said that the Twenty20 tournament is going nowhere and statying in India, while the franchises are free to ... Read more...
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Ministers threaten to topple Goa government, Kamat unfazed (Lead)
March 19th, 2010 - 10:07 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, March 19 (IANS) Five ministers in Goa's Congress-led ruling coalition Friday boycotted a cabinet meeting and threatened to topple the government during the budget session later this month if their ... Read more...
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Rework contract of auto scrap dealer: CIC
March 19th, 2010 - 10:06 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 19 (IANS) The Central Information Commission (CIC) has asked the Delhi government to relook at the contract of a man who has been given the monopoly to scrap old ... Read more...
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India’s central bank hikes rates to ease prices
March 19th, 2010 - 10:06 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, March 19 (IANS) In a bid to tame the price rise by sucking excess money out of the system, India's central bank Friday hiked two major policy rates by 25 ... Read more...
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Nine telecom companies apply for 3G (lead)
March 19th, 2010 - 10:06 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 19 (IANS) Nine telecom operators, including market leaders Bharti Airtel and Reliance Communications, have applied to participate in the auction of radio frequency spectrum for third generation (3G) telephony.
"Nine ... Read more...
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Dope testing compulsory at Kabaddi World Cup
March 19th, 2010 - 10:05 pm ICT by IANS
Chandigarh, March 19 (IANS) Dope testing has been made compulsory at the Kabaddi World Cup to be held across Punjab next month, the organising committee said Friday.
Munish Chander, convener of the medical ... Read more...
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Swiss Gruyere cheese wins the top honors at the World Championship Cheese Contest 2010
March 19th, 2010 - 10:04 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Madison, Mar 19 (THAINDIAN NEWS) The Swiss Gruyere has won the top honors in the World Championship Cheese Contest 2010, which was held in Madison and more than 2000 varieties of ... Read more...
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BJP slams Union Government on Headley extradition issue
March 19th, 2010 - 10:03 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, Mar 19(ANI): Union Government on Friday faced flak from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for not seeking extradition of the 26/11 Mumbai terror accused, David Coleman Headley, from the ... Read more...
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Christiane Amanpour Will Replace ABC’s George Stephanopoulos
March 19th, 2010 - 9:54 pm ICT by Angela Kaye Mason
Mar 19 (THAINDIAN NEWS) ABC has chosen their replacement for George Stephanopoulos, who moved into Diane Sawyer's spot on "Good Morning America." Christiane Amanpour will be leaving CNN to ... Read more...
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Myanmar opposition party to sue junta over election laws
March 19th, 2010 - 9:53 pm ICT by IANS
Yangon, March 19 (DPA) Myanmar's main opposition party decided Friday to sue the military-run government for issuing unfair election laws, opposition sources said.
An executive meeting of the National League for Democracy (NLD) ... Read more...
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Bangladesh shuts three phone operators for illegal telephony
March 19th, 2010 - 9:52 pm ICT by IANS
Dhaka, March 19 (DPA) Bangladesh has suspended operations of three private phone operators in less than a week for allegedly running unlicenced phone services, a spokesman of the telecom regulatory body said ... Read more...
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Pope signs letter on child abuse cases in Ireland
March 19th, 2010 - 9:52 pm ICT by IANS
Vatican City, March 19 (DPA) Pope Benedict XVI Friday signed a highly anticipated pastoral letter to Catholics in Ireland dealing with a child sex abuse scandal involving priests, the Vatican said.
The letter ... Read more...
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Metro feeder bus services resume in Delhi
March 19th, 2010 - 9:52 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 19 (IANS) Bringing respite to commuters, the services of Delhi Metro feeder buses were resumed on one route in east Delhi Friday. An official said the buses will operate ... Read more...
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Tamil Nadu budget inflationary: Jayalalithaa
March 19th, 2010 - 9:52 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, March 19 (IANS) Leader of Opposition in Tamil Nadu and AIADMK chief J.Jayalalithaa Friday termed the state budget for 2010-11 "inflationary".
"A budget is one which pictures the state's economy, production, ... Read more...
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AMTEK inks deal with Orissa for Rs.15,820 crore auto project
March 19th, 2010 - 9:51 pm ICT by IANS
Bhubaneswar, March 19 (IANS) Auto component supplier AMTEK Friday signed an agreement with the Orissa government to set up a Rs.15,820 crore project, including a mega auto park, in the state.
According to ... Read more...
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Tribals in Madhya Pradesh seek their traditional rights
March 19th, 2010 - 9:49 pm ICT by ANI
Bhopal, Mar 19(ANI): Hundreds of tribals in Madhya Pradesh converged at Bhopal on Friday to stage a mass rally against the state Government for not honouring various pro-tribal policies mooted and ... Read more...
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Martial arts for West Bengal police personnel to be physically fit and agile
March 19th, 2010 - 9:37 pm ICT by ANI
Barrackpore (West Bengal), Mar 19(ANI): Police personnel in West Bengal learnt the nuances of martial arts as a part of an initiative by the state authorities to make then fit and agile. ... Read more...
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Bill upgrading Presidency College to university passed
March 19th, 2010 - 9:36 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, March 19 (IANS) The West Bengal Assembly Friday passed a Bill upgrading the 192-year-old Presidency College into a university.
The Presidency College, which played a sterling role in the 19th century ... Read more...
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Two engineers die in freak accident
March 19th, 2010 - 9:35 pm ICT by IANS
Patiala, March 19 (IANS) Two engineers were killed here Friday when their car caught fire after ramming into a truck ferrying stones, police said.
Gurjeet Singh (28) and Aman Goyal (28) died ... Read more...
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Goa MP wants ban on Sanatan Sanstha
March 19th, 2010 - 9:31 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, March 19 (IANS) Goa Congress Rajya Sabha MP Shantaram Naik Friday urged Home Minister P. Chidambaram to ban the Hindu group Sanatan Sanstha, whose members have been accused of carrying ... Read more...
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Holocaust survivor - Berthe Meijer stands by the memory of Anne Frank
March 19th, 2010 - 9:26 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Amsterdam, Mar 19 (THAINDIAN NEWS) There are a number of skeptics who doubt Anne Frank’s story and her diaries, but she has found a new ally in the form of ... Read more...
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Scoreboard: Delhi Daredevils vs Chennai Super Kings
March 19th, 2010 - 9:26 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 19 (IANS) Scoreboard of the Indian Premier League (IPL) match between Delhi Daredevils and Chennai Super Kings at the Ferozeshah Kotla here Friday:
Delhi Daredevils:David Warner c Hayden b ... Read more...
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Headley’s confession shows LeT’s global ambition: US
March 19th, 2010 - 9:26 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 19 (IANS) The US Friday asked Pakistan to show progress in acting against Lashkar-e-Taiba, the suspected architect of the Mumbai carnage, and stressed that the confession of Pakistani-American terrorist ... Read more...
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21 militants killed in Pakistan
March 19th, 2010 - 9:25 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, March 19 (IANS) At least 21 militants were killed in a clash with tribesmen in northwest Pakistan, sources said Friday.
Xinhua news agency reported that during a Jirga (tribal council meeting) ... Read more...
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Two Babbar terrorists arrested
March 19th, 2010 - 9:25 pm ICT by IANS
Mohali, March 19 (IANS) In a joint operation by Punjab Police and Delhi Police, two terrorists of Babbar Khalsa International (BKI), a terrorist outfit in Punjab, were nabbed here Thursday night, police ... Read more...
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President Patil confers 56th National Film Awards
March 19th, 2010 - 9:24 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, Mar 19(ANI): President Pratibha Patil on Friday gave away the 56th National Film Awards for 2008 in the national capital.The legendary Cinematographer V. K. Murthy received the Dada ... Read more...
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2010 World Championship Cheese Contest Winners
March 19th, 2010 - 9:24 pm ICT by Angela Kaye Mason
Mar 19 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Cheesemakers from Switzerland and Austria walked away with the top honors at the 2010 World Championship Cheese Contest which was held in Madison Wisconsin. They were the ... Read more...
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Feature: Where is Sa re ga ma pa challenge?
March 19th, 2010 - 9:22 pm ICT by Sampurn Wire
March 19, 2010 (Sampurn Wire):Indian Idol exposed us to the word "reality show' but the title of India's first reality show firmly belongs to Zee TV's Sa re ga ma pa. ... Read more...
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