FAA probe launched into child giving all-clear to airplanes at JFK airport
March 3rd, 2010 - 6:29 pm ICT by ANI
New York, Mar. 3 (ANI): An FAA investigation has been launched to probe a shocking recording in which a child's voice gives an all-clear to a pilot from the air-traffic control tower ... Read more...
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McCartney to embark on solo Britain tour
March 3rd, 2010 - 1:52 am ICT by IANS
London, March 3 (IANS) Beatle legend Sir Paul McCartney is set to embark on a solo British stadium tour.
McCartney has announced details of five shows to take place this summer around ... Read more...
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Norman Rockwell’s “Saturday Evening Post” Painting Is Today’s Google Doodle
February 3rd, 2010 - 9:02 pm ICT by GD
By Madhuri Dey
Feb 3, (THAINDIAN NEWS) Google today has put up a picture of a boy and a girl, sitting arm in arm, and staring up at the huge moon looming in ... Read more...
Posted in World News |
‘Kiwi women are unattractive, while men can’t dress’
January 18th, 2010 - 2:53 pm ICT by ANI
Wellington, January 18 (ANI): A British fashion blogger has drawn frowns after declaring that he found women in New Zealand unattractive while men there love to dress badly.Andrew Williams, a 33-year-old Londoner, ... Read more...
Posted in Life Style |
Sesame Street Celebrates It’s Fortieth Anniversary With First Lady
November 4th, 2009 - 8:29 pm ICT by GD
By Madhuri Dey
Nov. 4, (THAINDIAN NEWS) The television show "Sesame Street" made it's debut forty years back, on Nov. 10. It will be celebrating it's birthday with a special guest on the ... Read more...
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“Doubles” homage party for Amitabh Bachchan
October 10th, 2009 - 5:52 pm ICT by Sampurn Wire
Amitabh Bachchan has been invited to a promotional event for his upcoming film Rann by producers Sheetal Talwar and Madhu Mantena at 7 pm today. It is actually an event held ... Read more...
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MAX celebrates 40 years of BIG B with blockbuster lineup of films
September 25th, 2009 - 10:26 pm ICT by Sampurn Wire
"Ab Tak Bachchan" film festival on MAX from 5–17 October 8 pm onwards. This October, MAX celebrates Amitabh Bachchan's 40 glorious years in Bollywood. As a humble tribute to the living ... Read more...
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Muslims design effigies of Ravana, convey a message of communal amity
September 24th, 2009 - 10:25 pm ICT by ANI
Haldwani (Uttarakhand), Moradabad (Uttar Pradesh), Sep 24(ANI): Muslims in Moradabad and Haldwani are busy these days making effigies of the demon king Ravana that would be burnt on during the Dussehra festival. ... Read more...
Posted in Feature |
Forty years on, Beatles fans walk across Abbey Road
August 8th, 2009 - 2:21 pm ICT by ANI
London, August 8 (ANI): Fans of legendary band The Beatles have started walking across the Abbey Road to make the 40th anniversary of the Abbey Road album photoshoot.Organiser Richard Porter, who has ... Read more...
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Google Earth goes to the moon
July 21st, 2009 - 10:28 pm ICT by IANS
San Francisco, July 21 (DPA) Forty years after man first set foot on the moon, web pioneer Google launched what could be the ultimate guide to the earth's natural satellite.
Google on Monday ... Read more...
Posted in Sci-Tech |
BSP to protest against UPA Government’s policies on July 22
July 18th, 2009 - 8:48 pm ICT by ANI
Lucknow, July 18 (ANI): Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati announced that her party would carry out State wide agitation in Uttar Pradesh on July 22 against ... Read more...
Posted in National |
Vaughan retires from all forms of professional cricket
June 30th, 2009 - 9:19 pm ICT by IANS
London, June 30 (IANS) Former England captain Michael Vaughan Tuesday retired from all forms of cricket bringing down the curtains on an international career spanning over 11 years.
"After a great deal ... Read more...
Posted in Sports |
Gale Storm aka Josephine Cottle dead at 87
June 29th, 2009 - 11:03 pm ICT by John Le Fevre
Veteran Hollywood actress and singer Josephine Cottle, better known as Gale Storm, is the latest entertainer to join the list of dead celebrities this week.The American actress and singer who starred ... Read more...
Posted in Entertainment |
whitehouse.msnbc.com: A peak into the life of president Obama at the White House
June 3rd, 2009 - 6:28 pm ICT by GD
Following its tradition of many years NBC News has once more given a unique opportunity to its viewers to have an insider's look into the life of President Barack Obama. Through its ... Read more...
Posted in World News |
Lana Clarkson murder case: Phil Spector sentenced
May 30th, 2009 - 7:58 pm ICT by GD
Phil Spector, the sixty nine year-old music producer, has been sentenced to nineteen years of imprisonment (which virtually translates into life imprisonment for the sixty-nine year-old) for the murder of actress ... Read more...
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Mary Tyler Moore is “Growing up Again”
March 25th, 2009 - 10:55 pm ICT by GD
Mary Tyler Moore, the seven time Emmy Award winning actress is more of a woman who knows what she was and what she is now. In her forthcoming biography she shares ... Read more...
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Meet Super Autobiographical Memory man who can remember everything
March 25th, 2009 - 12:45 pm ICT by ANI
London, Mar 25 (ANI): Bob Petrella, a 58-year-old Los Angeles TV producer, has the ability to remember just about anything that''s ever happened in his life.Bob can remember up to half ... Read more...
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India will look to defy history in New Zealand (Preview)
March 17th, 2009 - 6:57 pm ICT by IANS
Hamilton, March 17 (IANS) India will seek to put behind a morale shattering record in hostile conditions and script a fresh chapter when they take on New Zealand in the first ... Read more...
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Kerala continues to throw up paradoxes (Letter from Kerala)
March 1st, 2009 - 11:03 am ICT by IANS
Forty years ago the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) noticed that Kerala has achieved social progress comparable to that of the West without industrialisation. It asked experts to study the phenomenon, ... Read more...
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Advani asks PM to reiterate India’’s position on Kashmir
October 10th, 2008 - 9:55 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, Oct.10 (ANI): In an open letter to Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, Leader of Opposition L K Advani has asked him to "unequivocally reiterate India''s position" on the status ... Read more...
Posted in National |
Global warming fuelling malaria vaccine need
July 12th, 2008 - 4:06 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, July 12 (ANI): Global warming has led to a rapid increase in the number of malaria cases, thereby fuelling the need for lifesaving vaccinations to those in need, says an ... Read more...
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Meet UKs most spammed man!
July 6th, 2008 - 11:41 am ICT by ANI
London, July 6 (ANI): A British bus company mechanic relishes the fact that he receives six million junk e-mails a year.Forty years old Colin Wells has revealed that he started ... Read more...
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Carla Bruni sings of her 30 lovers in new album
June 12th, 2008 - 12:35 pm ICT by ANI
London, June 12 (ANI): France's new first lady Carla Bruni Sarkozy has revealed details of her long-awaited new album 'Comme si de rien n'etait" (As if nothing had happened), in which ... Read more...
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Photog clicks a smiling bee!
May 29th, 2008 - 4:27 pm ICT by admin
London, May 29 (ANI0: A British amateur photographer has clicked the picture of a bumblebee seemingly smiling while collecting pollen.Forty years old Chris Cox revealed that he snapped the bee ... Read more...
Posted in Business |
Lieutenant Gen. Nirbhay Sharma appointed as UPSC member
May 7th, 2008 - 5:01 pm ICT by admin
New Delhi, May 7 (ANI): President Pratibha Patil has appointed Lieutenant General and former Master General of Ordnance, Indian Army Nirbhay Sharma as Member Union Public Service Commission (UPSC).
Sharma was ... Read more...
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