France bans protest over anti-Islam movie
September 20th, 2012 - 11:33 pm ICT by IANS
Paris, Sep 20 (IANS) France Thursday banned a protest against the screening of an anti-Islam US movie which has triggered outrage across the Muslim world, Xinhua reported.According to news channel ... Read more...
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Photos of suspects in Odisha violence released
September 13th, 2012 - 2:22 pm ICT by IANS
Bhubaneswar, Sep 13 (IANS) Odisha Police have released photographs of 36 suspects involved in violence during Sep 6 Congress rally here in which a policewoman was thrashed and molested in ... Read more...
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Cartoonist Aseem Trivedi released (Second Lead)
September 12th, 2012 - 3:51 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, Sep 12 (IANS) Cartoonist Aseem Trivedi, charged with sedition, walked out of jail Wednesday, a day after he was granted bail. The case against the India Against Corruption ... Read more...
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Cartoonist Aseem Trivedi to be released Wednesday
September 12th, 2012 - 10:59 am ICT by IANS
Mumbai, Sep 12 (IANS) Jailed cartoonist Aseem Trivedi will walk out of prison Wednesday afternoon, an India Against Corruption (IAC) spokesperson said.An IAC team will be present to receive ... Read more...
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Outrage over sexualized footage of female athletes
August 10th, 2012 - 11:48 pm ICT by IANS
London, Aug 10 (IANS) US TV network NBC has released a controversial video called Bodies in Motion, featuring scantily clad female athletes, which sparked outrage from viewers.The viewers say the ... Read more...
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Pakistanis outraged as Pizza Hut scraps Ramadan offer
August 8th, 2012 - 8:04 pm ICT by IANS
London, Aug 8 (IANS) Pizza Hut has sparked outrage in Pakistan after it withdrew a popular Ramadan offer, the Daily Mail reported Wednesday.The fast food chain has withdrawn the all-you-can-eat ... Read more...
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Karl Lagerfeld: ‘I don’t like Pippa Middleton’s face’
August 1st, 2012 - 6:46 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
London, Aug 1 (THAINDIAN NEWS) The fashion designer is at it again, Karl Lagerfeld has been quoted saying he doesn’t like Pippa Middleton’s face. This is the same man who wasted no ... Read more...
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Guwahati molester surrenders in Varanasi, Assam police to leave for UP (Lead)
July 23rd, 2012 - 11:03 pm ICT by IANS
Lucknow/Guwahati, July 23 (IANS) The prime accused in the Guwahati molestation case has surrendered to police in Varanasi city, Uttar Pradesh Police said Monday. An Assam Police team will leave ... Read more...
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Man blames seven-year-old girl in sex attack case
July 21st, 2012 - 7:56 pm ICT by IANS
London, July 21 (IANS) A 61-year-old accused in a sex attack case in Britain escaped scot-free after he told a court his alleged seven-year-old victim pinned him down and forced ... Read more...
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If only Batman could’ve saved victims: Tweet on US killing
July 20th, 2012 - 6:27 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, July 20 (IANS) People promptly took to Twitter to express shock and outrage over the killing of 14 people who were watching the new Batman movie "The Dark Knight ... Read more...
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17 held in Mexico summer camp attack
July 20th, 2012 - 11:34 am ICT by IANS
Mexico City, July 20 (IANS/EFE) Seventeen suspects have been arrested for a brutal attack on a Mexican summer camp in which two young women and three girls were raped.The attorney ... Read more...
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It also happens here: Women in India fight indifference (Comment)
July 14th, 2012 - 1:05 pm ICT by IANS
In an India that prides itself on the surge towards a more modern tomorrow, a reality check is in order. And it came again - as it always ... Read more...
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Four nabbed for molesting teenager in Guwahati (Lead)
July 13th, 2012 - 8:54 pm ICT by IANS
Guwahati, July 13 (IANS) Four of the 11 men who molested and stripped a teenaged girl outside a pub in here four days ago have been arrested, police said Friday, ... Read more...
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Four nabbed for molesting a teen-ager in Guwahati
July 13th, 2012 - 3:54 pm ICT by IANS
Guwahati, July 13 (IANS) Four of the 11 men who molested and stripped a teenage girl outside a pub in this main Assam city four days ago have been arrested, ... Read more...
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Visva-Bharati warden’s action traditional cure: Agnivesh
July 10th, 2012 - 9:11 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 10 (IANS) A nationwide outrage over a Visva-Bharati warden asking a class 5 student to drink her urine for bed-wetting notwithstanding, social activist Swami Agnivesh claimed Tuesday ... Read more...
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Sarabjit and Surjeet: Shock in one home, joy in another (Second Lead)
June 27th, 2012 - 9:21 pm ICT by IANS
Jalandhar/Ferozepur, June 27 (IANS) The fate of two Indians in Pakistani jails -- Sarabjit Singh and Surjeet Singh -- by the turn of events since Tuesday has made their families ... Read more...
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Sarabjit’s family shattered by Pakistan’s ‘cruel joke’ (Lead)
June 27th, 2012 - 5:04 pm ICT by IANS
Jalandhar, June 27 (IANS) From jubilation to outrage and tears. Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh's family said Wednesday they felt cheated by the cavalier manner in which the Pakistan government ... Read more...
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Egypt Supreme Court calls for parliament’s dissolution
June 14th, 2012 - 10:53 pm ICT by IANS
Cairo, June 14 (IANS) The Egyptian Supreme Court Thursday caused outrage after calling for the dissolution of the parliament's lower house in the country.It ruled that last year's parliamentary election ... Read more...
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In Myanmar, the pygmies that time forgot
June 13th, 2012 - 3:36 pm ICT by IANS
Yangon, June 13 (IANS) A group of pygmies, forgotten by time, lived among treacherous mountains in the region bordering Myanmar and Tibet till they were 'found' and written on by ... Read more...
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India’s Planning Commission spends $54,000 on two toilets
June 7th, 2012 - 10:12 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
New Delhi, June 7 (THAINDIAN NEWS) The individual toilets of two separate utility rooms for senior staff members at the headquarters of India's Planning Commission in New Delhi have undergone a renovation ... Read more...
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Case will be made against CPI-M leader Mani: Chandy (Lead)
June 3rd, 2012 - 4:33 pm ICT by IANS
Kochi, June 3 (IANS) Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy Sunday said that a case will be made against CPI-M leader M.M. Mani for his speech that his party has committed ... Read more...
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Kerala government to proceed against CPI-M leader Mani: Chandy
June 3rd, 2012 - 2:55 pm ICT by IANS
Kochi, June 3 (IANS) Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy Sunday said that a case will be made against CPI-M leader M.M. Mani for his speech that his party has committed ... Read more...
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CPI-M promises action against Kerala leader
May 29th, 2012 - 8:50 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 29 (IANS) The CPI-M Tuesday condemned one of its leaders in Kerala for justifying retaliatory killing of political foes and vowed to take "appropriate action" against him.A ... Read more...
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Siddharth Mallya questions victim’s character, losses cool
May 18th, 2012 - 8:15 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 18 (IANS) Royal Challengers Bangalore owner Sidhartha Mallya Friday questioned the character of the woman who was allegedly molested by the team's Australian recruit Luke Pomersbach, sparking ... Read more...
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Chinese woman tortures step-daughter to death
May 17th, 2012 - 10:39 pm ICT by IANS
Beijing, May 17 (IANS) A woman in China's Shanxi province has been detained for allegedly torturing her seven-year-old step-daughter to death.According to the autopsy report, the girl, identified as Xiao ... Read more...
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German students seek online nod to kill sheep
May 16th, 2012 - 8:18 pm ICT by IANS
Brussels, May 16 (IANS) Two arts students in Germany have triggered online outrage by seeking, in a poll, from people whether or not a sheep should be beheaded as ... Read more...
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Queen Elizabeth keeps finances secret
May 6th, 2012 - 9:57 pm ICT by IANS
London, May 6 (IANS) Britain's Queen Elizabeth would never reveal how much money she is worth despite being one of the world's richest landowners.Philip Beresford, compiler of the Sunday Times ... Read more...
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British Red Cross worker found dead in Pakistan
April 29th, 2012 - 8:16 pm ICT by IANS
London, April 29 (IANS) The decapitated and bullet-riddled body of a 60-year-old Briton working for the International Committee of the Red Cross, has been found in Pakistan's Quetta city, three ... Read more...
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Outrage in Rajya Sabha over fairness cream for private parts
April 24th, 2012 - 7:51 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 24 (IANS) An advertisement for a fairness cream for women's private parts sparked outrage in the Rajya Sabha Tuesday with a CPI-M member raising the issue and ... Read more...
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Rihanna in new photo scandal
April 21st, 2012 - 9:06 am ICT by IANS
Los Angeles, April 21 (IANS) Singer Rihanna has shocked fans by posting a picture of herself sitting on her bodyguard's shoulder with a bag of white powder.In the picture, ... Read more...
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Anger in Bengal over professor’s arrest (Lead)
April 14th, 2012 - 8:36 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, April 14 (IANS) First a ban on certain newspapers and now the arrest of a professor for allegedly circulating a cartoon targeting Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. People in ... Read more...
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Aamir never detained abroad, but Irrfan has been stopped
April 13th, 2012 - 10:25 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, April 13 (IANS) Irrfan Khan, who shares a surname with Shah Rukh, has also been stopped at airports abroad for sudden checks, while Aamir Khan says he has ... Read more...
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Girl locked in cage with wolves
April 6th, 2012 - 1:49 pm ICT by IANS
Beijing, April 6 (IANS) A Chinese man who put his nine-year-old daughter into a cage with two wolves as part of a bizarre stage show claims it was to build ... Read more...
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Colombian girl world’s youngest mother?
April 5th, 2012 - 10:10 pm ICT by IANS
London, April 5 (IANS) A 10-year-old Colombian girl has sparked outrage after becoming one of the world's youngest mothers by giving birth to a healthy daughter, it was reported here ... Read more...
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$10 mn bounty on me for opposing NATO supplies: Hafiz Saeed
April 3rd, 2012 - 5:12 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, April 3 (IANS) Hafiz Saeed, the Mumbai terror attack mastermind and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) chief for whom the US has announced a bounty of $10 million, said Tuesday this ... Read more...
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