Pakistani firing seeks to push terrorists into Kashmir
August 23rd, 2012 - 2:58 pm ICT by IANS
Jammu, Aug 23 (IANS) The sudden spurt in firing by Pakistani border guards along the Jammu and Kashmir border is aimed at pushing militants as well as narcotics smugglers into ... Read more...
Posted in South Asia |
Clean right, eat right for healthy hair this monsoon
August 8th, 2012 - 12:44 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Aug 8 (IANS) Is your hair falling, your scalp itchy and those lustrous locks getting sticky this monsoon? Worry not, experts have a host of suggestions, including simple ... Read more...
Posted in Health |
Step up your style with splash of colours this monsoon (Lifestyle Feature)
July 15th, 2012 - 2:06 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 15 (IANS) Wondering how to step up your style quotient this monsoon? Go for brighter colours and sleek silhouettes in light fabrics, say fashion experts."Monsoon is all ... Read more...
Posted in Life Style |
India post launches waterproof Rakhi envelopes
July 11th, 2012 - 8:24 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 11 (IANS) India Post said Wednesday it was offering special Rakhi envelopes across its post offices in Delhi on the occasion of Raksha Bandhan falling on Aug ... Read more...
Posted in Business |
`Europe’s debt crisis to be prolonged’
July 6th, 2012 - 2:07 pm ICT by IANS
Seoul, July 6 (IANS) Europe's debt crisis has the nature of protracting and consistently existing due to the failure to tackle the region's fundamental structural problems, South Korea's finance minister ... Read more...
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Train passengers stranded by Assam floods being rescued
June 28th, 2012 - 10:32 pm ICT by IANS
Guwahati, June 28 (IANS) The Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) said Thursday that all passengers stranded by landslides at three places in Assam's Dima Hasao district will be evacuated soon.Another 20 ... Read more...
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Dengue kills 56 in Sri Lanka (Lead)
June 6th, 2012 - 7:28 pm ICT by IANS
Colombo, June 6 (IANS) Dengue fever has killed 56 people in Sri Lanka, the health ministry said Wednesday.Xinhua quoted the ministry as saying that a total of 11,473 dengue cases ... Read more...
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Dengue claims 56 lives in Sri Lanka
June 6th, 2012 - 7:07 pm ICT by IANS
Colombo, June 6 (IANS) A total of 56 people have died in the first five months out of 11,000 cases of dengue fever in Sri Lanka, the health ministry said ... Read more...
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Monsoon hits Kerala, IMD says delay is ok (Roundup)
June 5th, 2012 - 6:24 pm ICT by IANS
Thiruvananthapuram/New Delhi, June 5 (IANS) The southwest monsoon, crucial for agriculture, hit Kerala Tuesday, with a senior official saying that the four-day delay was not a cause for worry.Although moderate ... Read more...
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Monsoon hits Kerala, IMD says delay is ok (Second Lead)
June 5th, 2012 - 5:43 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi/Thiruvananthapuram, June 5 (IANS) The southwest monsoon, crucial for agriculture, hit Kerala Tuesday, with a senior official saying that the four-day delay was not a cause for worry.The India ... Read more...
Posted in Environment |
Bihar village dreams big for its peacocks!
May 15th, 2012 - 1:12 pm ICT by IANS
Madhopur (Bihar), May 15 (IANS) A wave of excitement has swept Bihar's Madhopur-Gobind village, home to around 500 peacocks. For years, people here have proudly co-existed with the national bird, ... Read more...
Posted in Environment |
US, China urged to help solve Sudan conflict
May 3rd, 2012 - 1:18 am ICT by IANS
Beijing, May 2 (IANS) A coalition of Arab and African civil society organisations have urged China and the US to help solve the conflict between Sudan and South Sudan. The ... Read more...
Posted in World |
42 of Thailand’s 77 provinces drought-hit
April 22nd, 2012 - 11:10 pm ICT by IANS
Bangkok, April 22 (IANS) Thailand's department of disaster mitigation and prevention Sunday declared drought disaster zones in 42 of the nation's 77 provinces.Department chief Viboon Sanguanwong said over 100,000 households ... Read more...
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Agra-Lucknow Expressway to be eco-friendly
April 4th, 2012 - 2:57 pm ICT by IANS
Agra, April 4 (IANS) A new eight-lane Expressway will connect Uttar Pradesh's state capital Lucknow with Agra, and it will be eco-friendly.The government has begun work on the exercise, according ... Read more...
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UN delivers Myanmar relief supplies
March 31st, 2012 - 10:39 am ICT by IANS
United Nations, March 31 (IANS) The UN has delivered emergency relief supplies to displaced people in Myanmar's restive Kachin state.Two convoys carrying relief supplies to Kachin have returned to base, ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Trinamool in Goa like mushroom in monsoon: Congress
February 13th, 2012 - 8:14 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, Feb 13 (IANS) The Congress Monday compared the newly-emerged Trinamool Congress in Goa to a mushroom growing in the monsoon, saying the party had just come up at ... Read more...
Posted in Politics |
Should I join politics, Priyanka asks rival parties
February 5th, 2012 - 10:21 pm ICT by IANS
Rae Bareli (Uttar Pradesh), Feb 5 (IANS) Combining wit with sarcasm, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra Sunday dared her party's political rivals in Uttar Pradesh to state if she should join ... Read more...
Posted in Politics |
UN declares end of famine in Somalia
February 4th, 2012 - 10:18 am ICT by IANS
Rome, Feb 4 (IANS/AKI) Somalia's famine has ended but drought in the Horn of Africa region continues to pose a threat to the area, the UN has said."Long-awaited rains coupled ... Read more...
Posted in Business |
UAE helps 5,000 Somalians return
December 31st, 2011 - 7:53 pm ICT by IANS
Abu Dhabi, Dec 31 (IANS/WAM) Around 5,000 displaced Somalian villagers staying at a camp of around 30,000 people in the capital Mogadishu have been repatriated to their villages by the ... Read more...
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A milestone for girls in a Uttar Pradesh village
December 20th, 2011 - 12:20 pm ICT by IANS
Muslimpatti (Uttar Pradesh), Dec 20 (IANS) It is a milestone in education for this remote village in Azamgarh district -- 90 percent of its girls are educated and the number ... Read more...
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Mudslide kills six in Colombia
September 28th, 2011 - 11:28 am ICT by IANS
Bogota, Sep 28 (IANS/EFE) A couple and their four children died when a mudslide buried their home in the northwestern province of Antioquia, Colombian authorities said.The director of a disaster ... Read more...
Posted in World |
58 die in China rains
September 24th, 2011 - 9:11 pm ICT by IANS
Beijing, Sep 24 (IANS) Floods and landslides triggered by torrential rains in a northwest Chinese province left at least 58 people dead, authorities said Saturday.Over 285,800 people in Shaanxi ... Read more...
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Radio Pakistan to spread awareness about dengue
September 11th, 2011 - 10:33 am ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Sep 11 (IANS) Pakistan's state-run radio service, the Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation (PBC) or Radio Pakistan, will broadcast special programmes to help people affected by floods and diseases, especially raising ... Read more...
Posted in Health |
10 dead, over 2,000 hit by dengue in Pakistan
September 9th, 2011 - 8:54 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Sep 9 (IANS) A recent outbreak of dengue fever in Pakistan's eastern province of Punjab has led to the death of at least 10 people and affected 2,256 others, ... Read more...
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Dengue fever grips Pakistani province
September 4th, 2011 - 1:10 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Sep 4 (IANS) Pakistan's eastern Punjab province is in the grip of a dengue epidemic with dozens of cases being reported daily at various hospitals, Xinhua reported.At least ... Read more...
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Mosquitoes disappear in some parts of Africa
August 31st, 2011 - 10:55 am ICT by IANS
London, Aug 31 (IANS) Scientists have been left baffled with reports that malaria-carrying mosquitoes are disappearing in some parts of Africa, BBC reported.Figures in the Malaria Journal say control methods ... Read more...
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Most Delhi slums without proper toilets: Study
August 30th, 2011 - 9:51 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Aug 30 (IANS) Most slum dwellers in Delhi do not have access to household toilets, while the community toilets are in a pathetic condition, a World Health Organization ... Read more...
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28 killed in Cameroon road accident
August 30th, 2011 - 4:46 am ICT by IANS
Yaounde (Cameroon), Aug 30 (IANS) Twenty-eight people were killed and several others were seriously injured when a passenger bus collided head-on with a truck in Cameroon, Xinhua reported Monday.The bus ... Read more...
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Tourists evacuated from Rohtang Pass
July 11th, 2011 - 6:46 pm ICT by IANS
Manali, July 11 (IANS) A large number of motorists who were stranded on both sides of the majestic Rohtang Pass near this Himachal Pradesh resort have been evacuated with the ... Read more...
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Wet, humid day in Delhi, more rains ahead (Lead)
June 27th, 2011 - 8:56 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, June 27 (IANS) It was a wet and humid day in Delhi Monday with the city receiving sporadic showers throughout the day and the skies remaining partly ... Read more...
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China bracing for more geological disasters
June 23rd, 2011 - 12:05 pm ICT by IANS
Beijing, June 23 (IANS) China, a country hit hard by geological disasters such as earthquakes and landslides, is bracing itself for more in future, the Ministry of Land and Resources ... Read more...
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Bihar set for a normal monsoon
June 8th, 2011 - 10:34 am ICT by IANS
Patna, June 8 (IANS) After facing two consecutive drought years, Bihar is set to get a normal monsoon this year -- a good news for the millions of farmers in ... Read more...
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Save the Hindon river, say activists (With image)
June 3rd, 2011 - 1:23 am ICT by IANS
Ghaziabad, June 2 (IANS) Environmentalists, social activists and members of various organisations took out a march here Thursday to oppose the construction of a bridge over an artificial embankment on ... Read more...
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Bridge on Hindon river a disaster, say activists
June 1st, 2011 - 1:53 pm ICT by IANS
Ghaziabad, June 1 (IANS) Calling the proposed third bridge over Hindon river here an "environmental disaster", activists have pointed out that the artificial embankment erected for it could be damaged ... Read more...
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Agra prays for Yamuna floods to wash away garbage
May 24th, 2011 - 6:54 pm ICT by IANS
Agra, May 24 (IANS) "Flood again, Yamuna maiyya, (Mother Yamuna) and wash away all the garbage." That was the special prayer hundreds of men, women and children gathered at the ... Read more...
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