China to build 80 small airports
July 21st, 2012 - 8:15 am ICT by IANS
Beijing, July 21 (IANS) China will build at least 80 small airports by 2015 in the country, the aviation authority has said.According to a recent State Council guideline, the country ... Read more...
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British prison officer shared ‘love’ with 7 inmates
June 3rd, 2012 - 9:28 pm ICT by IANS
London, June 3 (IANS) Police in Britain have seized a number of sexually charged love letters from a woman prison officer's house, written to her by dangerous inmates. She had ... Read more...
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Bend it like Beckham or like Dulad of Jharkhand?
March 4th, 2011 - 11:19 am ICT by ANI
By Shailendra SinhaDumka, Mar 4 (ANI): The fever was at a high pitch; the moment was exhilarating. The event was a women's football match at the National Games held in Jharkhand between ... Read more...
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Brit man, 75, back in jail after spending 50 of last 56 years in slammer
October 2nd, 2010 - 6:04 pm ICT by ANI
London, Oct 2 (ANI): A British man, who committed his first theft during World War Two and has spent 50 of the past 56 years in prison, is back behind bars at ... Read more...
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George Michael painting walls in prison
September 26th, 2010 - 2:45 pm ICT by ANI
London, Sep 26 (ANI): Incarcerated singer George Michael has apparently been painting the walls in prison.For his artistic efforts at HMP Highpoint in Suffolk, the 47-year-old millionaire singer earns only a few ... Read more...
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Muslim gangs recruiting UK prisons’ nastiest cons, claims ex-inmate
April 18th, 2010 - 2:48 pm ICT by ANI
London, Apr.18 (ANI): Muslim gangs are reportedly recruiting some of Britain's most violent lags, according to a former gangster."They are now the main firm in the prison. The authorities, and other prisoners ... Read more...
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Disgraced soccer star Marlon King converts to Islam
April 12th, 2010 - 6:02 pm ICT by ANI
London, Apr.12 (ANI): Disgraced soccer star Marlon King has converted to Islam in jail - and named himself after hook-handed hate preacher Abu Hamza.According to The Sun, the former Premier League striker ... Read more...
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British jail giving Viagra to hardened criminals
January 24th, 2010 - 2:43 pm ICT by ANI
London, Jan 24 (ANI): Lags freed from Belmarsh jail, south London, on home leave are being handed Viagra to make sure they perform between the sheets when they visit their loved ones.A ... Read more...
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Brit woman cop ‘branded too sexy to work’ wins case against jail chiefs
September 15th, 2009 - 3:05 pm ICT by ANI
London, Sep 15 (ANI): A Brit prison officer, who had been branded as too sexy to work, has won her case against jails chiefs.Amit Kajla, 22, from Wolverhampton, had been accused by ... Read more...
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Priyanka has 21,770 followers on Twitter (Film Snippets)
August 8th, 2009 - 10:02 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Aug 8 (IANS) Priyanka Chopra has got as many as 21,770 followers on social networking site Twitter within a month, overtaking Mallika Sherawat and Gul Panag. And the credit ... Read more...
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India’s insurance penetration lower than world average: Report
July 21st, 2009 - 9:36 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 21 (IANS) Despite achieving a healthy 16 percent annual growth rate, India's general insurance business accounts for just 0.6 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP), compared to the ... Read more...
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Brit female cop forced to quit for ‘being too sexy’!
July 16th, 2009 - 2:14 pm ICT by ANI
London, July 16 (ANI): A British female prison officer has claimed that she was forced to quit her job for being 'too sexy.'Amitjo Kajla told a tribunal, in Birmingham, that her colleagues ... Read more...
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Greenland warming lags, but bound to catch up in future
February 28th, 2009 - 3:13 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Feb 28 (ANI): A new study has suggested that Greenland is lagging behind rest of the northern hemispheres warming trend and that its bound to catch up soon.Air temperatures ... Read more...
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Boy George spends first hours of jail term scribbling on pad
January 19th, 2009 - 4:53 pm ICT by ANI
London, Jan 19 (ANI): Fallen pop idol Boy George spent the first hours of his 15-month sentence writing notes in his cell.The 47-year-old scribbled on a pad as he started his ... Read more...
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MI5 spy in British jails to monitor Islamic radicals
December 21st, 2008 - 5:14 pm ICT by ANI
London, Dec 21 (ANI): British spy chiefs are putting undercover officers into Britains jails to monitor Islamic radicals thought to be recruiting terrorists.There are almost 10,000 Muslims in Britains jails ... Read more...
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Brit jail giving dreaded Qaeda terrorists training to become stage comedians!
November 21st, 2008 - 6:14 pm ICT by ANI
London, Nov 21 (ANI): US Justice Secretary Jack Straw has reportedly opposed an orientation programme launched in a top-security prison to train dreaded Al Qaeda terrorists into stage comedians.The course continued ... Read more...
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Thief returns to his “cushy” jail cell!
May 13th, 2008 - 3:34 pm ICT by admin
London, May 13 (ANI): Not many would think of a jail as an ideal place to spend one's time in, let alone a lifetime. But, 42-year-old Wesley Crawford is a different ... Read more...
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Amy Winehouses jailed hubby in solitary confinement for drugs offences
April 19th, 2008 - 5:38 pm ICT by admin
London, Apr 19 (ANI): Amy Winehouses husband Blake Fielder-Civil has been in solitary confinement seven times in the last three months in relation to drugs offences, it has emerged.Ever since he ... Read more...
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Doherty put in isolation after threat from inmates
April 19th, 2008 - 4:29 pm ICT by admin
London, Apr 19 (ANI): Life of junkie jailbird Pete Doherty couldnt get more worse than this. On the night of April 18, a plot had been made by heroin suppliers to ... Read more...
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Pete Doherty taking drugs even in prison?
April 16th, 2008 - 3:42 pm ICT by admin
London, Apr 16 (ANI): It is supposed to be one of the highest security prisons in the UK, but it reportedly hasnt stopped English musician Pete Doherty from finding a way ... Read more...
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Britain has most dismal fertility treatment record in Europe
April 7th, 2008 - 10:53 am ICT by admin
London, Apr.7 (ANI): New figures published by the European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology have shockingly claimed that Britain has the worst fertility treatment safety records in Europe.
What would shock ... Read more...
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Milky Way is twice as thick than previously believed
February 20th, 2008 - 4:51 pm ICT by admin
Washington, Feb 20 (ANI): Astrophysicists have discovered that the Milky Way is twice as thick than previously believed.According to a report in ABC, the discovery was made by Professor Bryan Gaensler from ... Read more...
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