Bikaner residents block roads to protest murder
June 30th, 2012 - 10:32 pm ICT by IANS
Jaipur, June 30 (IANS) Tension prevailed in Rajasthan's Bikaner town as residents blocked roads, including National Highway 11, to demand the arrest of four men who stabbed to death a ... Read more...
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Woman doctor, priest get life for judge’s murder
March 30th, 2012 - 7:41 pm ICT by IANS
Chandigarh, March 30 (IANS) A woman doctor and a Sikh priest were Friday sentenced to life imprisonment by a court here for the gruesome murder of a sitting judge in ... Read more...
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For being a topper, engineering student pays with life
February 27th, 2012 - 10:24 pm ICT by IANS
Hisar (Haryana), Feb 27 (IANS) A second year mechanical engineering student of a private college here was killed Monday allegedely by two of his batchmates who had developed an animosity ... Read more...
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Team Anna dismisses Agnivesh’s allegations
October 24th, 2011 - 12:34 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Oct 23 (IANS) Team Anna Sunday dismissed allegations by activist Swami Agnivesh that donations for its anti-graft stir were siphoned off by its member Arvind Kejriwal, even as ... Read more...
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Leave Sonakshi alone, say her angry mom
May 12th, 2011 - 4:44 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, May 12 (IANS) Reports about Sonakshi Sinha's serial scuffles with Katrina Kaif and other actresses has upset her mother Punam, who is far from amused by these tales ... Read more...
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Aniston still in touch with ex-boyfriends
February 10th, 2011 - 3:19 pm ICT by IANS
London, Feb 10 (IANS) Actress Jennifer Aniston has revealed that she has no hard feelings towards any of her ex-boyfriends and that she still talks to them."I keep in touch with ... Read more...
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Pakistan’s implausible deniability
November 29th, 2010 - 12:29 pm ICT by ANI
By Dhruva JaishankarWashington, Nov.29 (ANI): It has been two years since the 26/11 attacks in Mumbai, and India's policy-makers and its wider public are by no means reassured about the Pakistani leadership's ... Read more...
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Campaign in Goa: buy a cow, save the tiger
October 8th, 2010 - 1:40 pm ICT by IANS
By Mayabhushan Nagvenkar
Panaji, Oct 8 (IANS) Grassroots wildlife activists who have been fighting for notification of Goa's rich, but mining-threatened, forests as a tiger reserve have found a unique way to ... Read more...
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Sleeping with your boss ‘can boost your career’
August 28th, 2010 - 1:31 pm ICT by ANI
London, Aug 28 (ANI): Sleeping with your boss can do wonders to your career, especially if you are a woman, a new research has shown.In the study, some 37 per cent of ... Read more...
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Italian court says that Amanda Knox didn’t plan Meredith’s murder
March 6th, 2010 - 1:40 am ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Perugia, Mar 5 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Italian court officials revealed that the murder of Meredith Kercher, by Amanda Knox wasn’t premeditated. They say that it wasn’t planned and also wasn’t a ... Read more...
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Avatar And The Hurt Locker To Fight It Out At The Oscars
February 3rd, 2010 - 9:06 pm ICT by GD
By Ranjan Bhaduri
Feb 3, (THAINDIAN NEWS) The wait is finally over for the movie lovers who were busy speculating about the probable Oscar nominations for 2010. On Tuesday morning, The Academy of ... Read more...
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Pak compiling hard evidence of Indian involvement in Balochistan: Qureshi
November 23rd, 2009 - 1:20 pm ICT by ANI
Lahore, Nov. 23 (ANI): Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said that Islamabad is "compiling hard evidence of India's involvement and interference in Balochistan and FATA."The Daily Times quoted Qureshi as ... Read more...
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`I am with Man City for the football, not the money,’ says Adebayor
October 30th, 2009 - 2:53 pm ICT by ANI
London, Oct.30 (ANI): Manchester City star striker Emmanuel Adebayor has said that he has joined the club for the football, and not for the money.Pulling no punches in his latest salvo ... Read more...
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Nepal’s Hindi war: Embattled vice president strikes back (Lead)
August 28th, 2009 - 7:58 pm ICT by IANS
Kathmandu, Aug 28 (IANS) Nepal's ongoing "Hindi battle" saw a new twist Friday with embattled Vice President Paramananda Jha, who had been ordered by the apex court to re-take his oath of ... Read more...
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Nepal’s Hindi war: embattled vice president strikes back
August 28th, 2009 - 6:39 pm ICT by IANS
Kathmandu, Aug 28 (IANS) Nepal's ongoing 'Hindi battle' received a new twist Friday with embattled Vice President Paramananda Jha, who had been ordered by the apex court to take afresh his ... Read more...
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Miss Nepal pageant hopes for resurrection
August 13th, 2009 - 2:35 pm ICT by IANS
By Sudeshna Sarkar
New Delhi, Aug 13 (IANS) Out of the shadow of a Maoist government that focused on moral policing during its brief stint in power, Nepal's oldest and best known beauty ... Read more...
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Katrina Darrell has not made peace with Kara DioGuardi
May 22nd, 2009 - 6:03 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, May 22 (ANI): American singer Katrina "Bikini Girl" Darrell has still not made peace with judge Kara DioGuardi, after telling the latter off during her audition in Phoenix, Arizona.Darrell, 21, and ... Read more...
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Venezuela’s Chavez hands over book to Obama with `warm regards’
April 19th, 2009 - 12:28 pm ICT by ANI
Port of Spain (Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies), Apr.19 (ANI): Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez who once famously referred to former US President George W Bush as "the devil," put his animosity ... Read more...
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US collector willing to stop auction of Gandhi items
March 3rd, 2009 - 9:24 am ICT by IANS
Washington, March 3 (IANS) James Otis, the California collector who plans to sell possessions once owned by Mahatma Gandhi, says Indian officials have not approached him but, if they did, he would ... Read more...
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Rahul Gandhi calls 1984 incidents wrong and tragic
November 18th, 2008 - 9:03 pm ICT by ANI
By Ravinder Singh Robin
Amritsar, Nov.18 (ANI): Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday described anti Sikh riots of Delhi as wrong and incidents in Punjab that took place in 1984 as ... Read more...
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Hekmatyars group blames Northern Alliance for Indian Embassy suicide attack
July 16th, 2008 - 12:40 pm ICT by ANI
Peshawar, July 16 (ANI): The Hizb-e-Islami Afghanistan (HIA), a hard-line mujahideen group led by former Afghan Prime Minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, has blamed the Northern Alliance (NA) for the last weeks suicide ... Read more...
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Abhishek has not slapped any spot boy, says Amitabh
June 27th, 2008 - 9:59 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, June 27(IANS) Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan denies media reports that his son Abhishek lost his temper and slapped a spot boy on the sets of his film "Drona". "This is ... Read more...
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Here comes an inter-religious romance post-9/11
April 14th, 2008 - 10:07 am ICT by admin
(Preview)New Delhi, April 14 (IANS) After bagging the best feature film award at the South Asian Film Festival in New York, Tanuja Chandra's first English language movie "Hope And A Little Sugar" ... Read more...
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