Government creating subservient Lokpal: Jaitley (Lead)
December 29th, 2011 - 3:46 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Dec 29 (IANS) Accusing the government of creating a "subservient" Lokpal, BJP leader Arun Jaitley Thursday stressed the need for a strong anti-graft ombudsman and indicated that ... Read more...
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Brit priest resigns after his hooker attire at charity party earns him threats
March 21st, 2011 - 1:13 pm ICT by ANI
London, Mar 21 (ANI): The parish priest, who had dressed up as a hooker for a charity "tarts and vicars" party in Britain, has resigned after he was called a pervert and ... Read more...
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Nazi mass murderer shielded from justice for 10-yrs by West German intelligence
January 10th, 2011 - 3:34 pm ICT by ANI
London, Jan 10 (ANI): Adolf Eichmann, who was the supreme logistical mastermind of the Nazi Holocaust of six million Jews, is said to have been shielded from justice for a decade by ... Read more...
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‘Iran’s move to invite EU members except America to nuke facilities a ‘ploy’: US
January 4th, 2011 - 1:16 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Jan 4 (ANI): The Unites States has criticised Iran for inviting Russia, China and several European Union members to visit its nuclear facilities this month, while excluding America, and called it ... Read more...
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Is Cheryl Cole dating 50 Cent?
December 9th, 2010 - 11:01 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
London, Dec 9 (THAINDIAN NEWS) X-factor judge Cheryl Cole is rumored to be dating rapper 50 Cent. There is a strong buzz in the air that she is secretly dating the ... Read more...
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Becks faces fresh sex allegations
November 30th, 2010 - 12:54 pm ICT by ANI
London, Nov 30 (ANI): Soccer star David Beckham is facing a new batch of claims about his personal life from the publishers of a magazine he is suing for 'fabricating' a ... Read more...
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Ratan Tata moves Supreme Court on telephone tapping of Nira Radia
November 29th, 2010 - 2:08 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, Nov 29 (ANI): TATA Group chairman Ratan Tata on Monday moved the Supreme Court against the publication of intercepts of his conversations with Public Relations (PR) representative Nira Radia, who ... Read more...
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Book the guilty in 2G spectrum scam: Ratan Tata
November 27th, 2010 - 6:24 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Nov 27 (IANS) Tata Group chairman Ratan Tata has urged the Indian government to investigate and book the people who are guilty in the 2G spectrum scam."I wish the ... Read more...
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Mulla Umar refused Karzai’s 35,000-govt jobs offer for Taliban fighters
November 16th, 2010 - 4:12 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad, Nov 16 (ANI): Taliban Supreme leader Mulla Umar has turned down the Afghan government's offer of 35,000 jobs for his fighters, putting an end to all hopes of a breakthrough ... Read more...
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LiLo shows off boobs in Kate Moss-inspired photoshoot
September 18th, 2010 - 5:13 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Sep 18 (ANI): Lindsay Lohan has posed topless for a photo shoot where she is pretending to be Kate Moss shagging Johnny Depp.The shoot, for Muse magazine, is said to ... Read more...
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Taliban kills 220 civilians in July despite new “code of conduct”
August 4th, 2010 - 10:52 pm ICT by BNO News
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN (BNO NEWS) -- Mullah Omar, the Taliban's spiritual leader, recently released a revised code of conduct as an attempt to shape perceptions, but insurgent violence continues to harm ... Read more...
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NATO losing war in Afghanistan: Zardari
August 3rd, 2010 - 10:05 pm ICT by IANS
London, Aug 3 (IANS) NATO-led coalition forces are "losing the war" against the Taliban in Afghanistan, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari said Tuesday, ahead of his visit to Britain.
On the ... Read more...
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Sri Lanka trying to deflect probe into war crimes: rights group
May 8th, 2010 - 1:29 pm ICT by IANS
New York, May 8 (IANS) Sri Lanka's suggestion that a newly announced commission will provide accountability for laws-of-war violations during the armed conflict with the Tamil Tigers is another attempt to deflect ... Read more...
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Assassin bugs stalk and lure their victim
February 14th, 2010 - 4:34 pm ICT by ANI
London, Feb 14 (ANI): A new study by scientists in Australia has shown that assassin bugs stalk their victim on its home territory, or lure it away and eat it.For the study, ... Read more...
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Australia’s selectors must heed lessons of Ashes defeat: Roebuck
November 20th, 2009 - 12:37 pm ICT by ANI
Sydney, Nov.20 (ANI): Australian cricket needs to face the facts. They have lost three of their past five Test series, and as far as the selectors are concerned, the backslapping notwithstanding, it ... Read more...
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Security up along Tamil Nadu coast
April 26th, 2009 - 9:05 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, April 26 (IANS) Security has been beefed up along Tamil Nadu's 650-km coastline stretching from here to Rameshwaram following intelligence inputs that LTTE chief V. Prabhakaran may attempt to cross over ... Read more...
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Poll panel transfers three police offiers after Sonkar’s death
April 21st, 2009 - 12:24 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 20 (IANS) Acting on a probe report on the death of Indian Justice Party candidate Bahadur Sonkar in suspicious circumstances last week, the Election Commission Monday ordered transfer ... Read more...
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Poll panel gets report on Jaunpur candidate’s murder
April 20th, 2009 - 12:04 am ICT by IANS
Lucknow, April 19 (IANS) The Election Commission Sunday evening received a special team's confidential report on the murder of Bahadur Sonkar, a candidate from the Jaunpur Lok Sabha constituency in Uttar ... Read more...
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Clinton warns North Korea against rocket launch
March 26th, 2009 - 11:42 am ICT by IANS
Mexico City, March 26 (DPA) US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has warned North Korea there would be consequences if the Stalinist state went ahead with a planned long-range missile launch.
Speaking ... Read more...
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Tit-for-tat ‘Buy Canadian’ policy against US sought
February 11th, 2009 - 12:37 pm ICT by IANS
The union leaders, who took their case to the nation's parliament in Ottawa Tuesday, said they would pressurise the government to announce the protectionist policy along with the proposed $40 billion stimulus ... Read more...
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Israel using controversial white phosphorus shells in Gaza
January 5th, 2009 - 1:47 pm ICT by ANI
London, Jan 5 (ANI): To screen its assault on the heavily populated Gaza strip, Israel is believed to be using controversial white phosphorus shells, whose use is banned under the Geneva ... Read more...
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Indian-origin doctor takes rap in British incest probe
November 28th, 2008 - 2:04 pm ICT by IANS
London, Nov 28 (IANS) An Indian-origin doctor may now face questioning in the notorious British incest scandal, in which a father repeatedly raped his two daughters for two decades, for not detecting ... Read more...
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Imran Khan says no educated Muslim in Pak can support Taliban
August 10th, 2008 - 1:21 pm ICT by ANI
Washington , Aug 10 (ANI): Pakistan s cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan has said that no educated Muslim in his country could possibly support the Taliban (Tehreek-e-Taliban) or their narrow interpretation of Islam.Addressing ... Read more...
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Sienna Miller secretly dating multi-millionaire oil heir
June 29th, 2008 - 1:58 pm ICT by ANI
London, June 29 (ANI): After dumping actor Rhys Ifans earlier this month, Sienna Miller is secretly dating a married multi-millionaire oil heir, it has been revealed.
The Brit actress has been ... Read more...
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Indian spy agencies-media nexus behind terrorism acts in Pakistan, says paper
April 30th, 2008 - 8:51 pm ICT by admin
Islamabad, Apr.30 (ANI): An editorial in a Pakistani daily has claimed that there is a nexus between the Indian media and Indian spy agencies, and that this nexus is behind several ... Read more...
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Tories accuse British home secretary of poll code breach
April 16th, 2008 - 8:16 pm ICT by admin
London, April 16 (IANS) The opposition Tory Party Wednesday reported Britain's Home Secretary Jacqui Smith for an alleged breach of 'purdah' rules that require government ministers and officials to observe a period ... Read more...
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Modi hiding behind smokescreen, says Father Prakash
March 11th, 2008 - 12:20 am ICT by admin
Ahmedabad, March 10 (IANS) "It is a smokescreen," was how Father Cedric Prakash, director of non-governmental organisation Prashant and critic of Chief Minister Narendra Modi, described the Gujarat government's decision to withdraw ... Read more...
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India leading ‘Right to Protect’ in South Asia, says JVP
February 28th, 2008 - 11:23 pm ICT by admin
By P.K. Balachandran
Colombo, Feb 28 (IANS) A Sri Lankan ultra nationalist party has said that India is at the forefront of a big power campaign to intervene in small and weaker states ... Read more...
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