‘Kitty cam’ shows cats are killers
August 9th, 2012 - 5:09 pm ICT by IANS
London, Aug 9 (IANS) Scientists at a US university attached cameras to the collars of 60 outdoor cats and were surprised to find that 30 percent among them killed ... Read more...
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19 train disaster victims identified
August 1st, 2012 - 3:22 pm ICT by IANS
Hyderabad, Aug 1 (IANS) Two days after fire gutted a coach of the New Delhi-Chennai Tamil Nadu Express, 19 of the 32 bodies had been identified by Wednesday as forensic ... Read more...
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Biel walks off wild parties
July 10th, 2012 - 3:51 am ICT by IANS
London, July 10 (IANS) Actor Jessica Biel says she walks out of parties when they get wild and they start becoming drug fests."If there is a huge drug fest happening ... Read more...
Posted in Entertainment |
Honour killing: Delhi man stabbed by lover’s brothers
July 6th, 2012 - 12:41 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 5 (IANS) In a case of honour killing, a 21-year-old man was Thursday stabbed to death by the brothers of his lover who married him against the ... Read more...
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Briton keeps two wives for 20 years, exposed
June 24th, 2012 - 9:32 pm ICT by IANS
London, June 24 (IANS) A supermarket manager in Britain committed suicide after the two families he had been hiding just 10 miles apart for more than two decades discovered ... Read more...
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Three tourists killed in Himachal road accident
June 16th, 2012 - 1:51 pm ICT by IANS
Manali, June 16 (IANS) Three tourists from Madhya Pradesh were killed and several others injured after their taxi skidded off the road and fell into a gorge near here Saturday, ... Read more...
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Indian, Pakistani minors forcibly married in Britain
March 31st, 2012 - 8:38 pm ICT by IANS
London, March 31 (IANS) Up to 400 children, including from India, Bangladesh and Pakistan, were coerced into or threatened with marriage in Britain last year, a government report has said.A ... Read more...
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90 percent of Kerala homes have telephone
March 30th, 2012 - 6:20 pm ICT by IANS
Thiruvananthapuram, March 30 (IANS) Almost 90 percent of households in Kerala have telephone connections (land line or mobile) in 2011, a staggering rise over the 19.1 percent in 2001, according ... Read more...
Posted in Business |
‘Carnage’ sharp, incisive laugh-riot; Foster, Winslet steal the show (IANS Movie Review - Rating: ****)
February 26th, 2012 - 3:18 pm ICT by IANS
Film: "Carnage": Cast: Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz and John C. Reilly; Director: Roman Polanski; Rating: ****The truth, as we all know is mostly that which we are completely ... Read more...
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Tearful farewell to murdered teacher
February 10th, 2012 - 9:26 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, Feb 10 (IANS) A woman teacher who was stabbed to death by a student was consigned to flames here Friday, with hundreds of teary-eyed relatives, friends, colleagues and students ... Read more...
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Indian, 161 others die in Mumbai-style Nigeria terror (Third Lead)
January 22nd, 2012 - 6:32 pm ICT by IANS
Abuja, Jan 22 (IANS) An Indian was among 162 people killed as heavily armed Islamists carried out a deadly Mumbai-style terror attack in Nigeria's second largest city Kano, media reports ... Read more...
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Indian killed, six Indians hurt in Nigeria terror attack (Lead)
January 22nd, 2012 - 11:48 am ICT by IANS
Abuja, Jan 22 (IANS) An Indian was killed and six Indians, including two children, were injured in a terror attack in the Nigerian city of Kano that left over 150 ... Read more...
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Top Punjab leaders are worth Rs.250 crore (Lead)
January 12th, 2012 - 5:56 pm ICT by IANS
Chandigarh, Jan 12 (IANS) That they were super-rich was never in doubt but the top political leadership in Punjab, especially from two families, are worth nearly Rs.250 crore ($48 ... Read more...
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Top Punjab leaders are worth Rs.200 crore
January 12th, 2012 - 1:41 pm ICT by IANS
Chandigarh, Jan 12 (IANS) That they were super-rich was never in doubt but the top political leadership in Punjab, especially from two families, are worth nearly Rs.200 crore ($38.5 ... Read more...
Posted in Politics |
14 killed over land dispute in Pakistan
December 29th, 2011 - 10:40 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Dec 29 (IANS) At least 14 people were killed Thursday over a land dispute between two families in Pakistan's Gujranwala city, police said.Police official Ahmed Mubarak said members of ... Read more...
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Gordon Ramsay creates Christmas book for Beckhams
December 20th, 2011 - 8:11 am ICT by IANS
London, Dec 20 (IANS) British celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay has compiled a Christmas cooking guide for David and Victoria Beckham.The 45-year-old and his wife Tana are good friends with ... Read more...
Posted in Entertainment |
Gene that clears fat from body identified
December 7th, 2011 - 9:51 pm ICT by IANS
London, Dec 7 (IANS) Scientists have identified a "cream gene" that allows people to clear fat from their systems.For the study, researcher Jan Albert Kuivenhoven focused on two families with ... Read more...
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Two Argentine men find out they were switched at birth
November 16th, 2011 - 11:46 am ICT by IANS
Buenos Aires, Nov 16 (IANS/EFE) Two men living a few blocks from each other in the Argentine town of Azul learned at the age of 34 that a nurse inadvertently ... Read more...
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Nice to go into wedding after a good performance: Aswhin
November 9th, 2011 - 7:08 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Nov 9 (IANS) Indian off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin, who made a dream Test debut with nine wickets against West Indies, said he was happy to go into his ... Read more...
Posted in Sports |
Ravichandran Ashwin to marry Sunday
November 9th, 2011 - 3:30 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, Nov 9 (IANS) India's latest bowling hero Ravichandran Ashwin is all set to marry childhood friend Preethi Narayanan Sunday, his family confirmed. Ashwin and Preethi were engaged earlier this ... Read more...
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Advani turns 84, recalls association with RSS
November 8th, 2011 - 6:02 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Nov 8 (IANS) Veteran Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani Tuesday took a break from his cross-country Jan Chetna Yatra - public awareness march - to ... Read more...
Posted in Politics |
‘Puthra’ is ordinary fare (Kannada Movie Review)
October 16th, 2011 - 6:46 pm ICT by IANS
Film: "Puthra"; Cast: Diganth, Supreetha, Roopashri, Avinash, Sudha Belawadi, Sundar Raj and Tennis Krishna; Producer: Anthony Paul; Director: V. Umakanth; Camera: Ravi Suvarna; Music: Raja Ramesh; Rating: **"Puthra" is a remake ... Read more...
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UN to hear dispute over ownership of Machu Picchu
September 9th, 2011 - 12:45 pm ICT by IANS
Lima, Sep 9 (IANS/EFE) Two Peruvian families who say the government never paid them compensation for the expropriation of the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu and surrounding lands plan to ... Read more...
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Honour killing: Five awarded death sentence
September 8th, 2011 - 10:29 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Sep 8 (IANS) A Delhi court has sentenced five people to death in a 2008 honour killing case.
Additional Sessions Judge Bimla Kumari awarded the death sentence to Mohammad ... Read more...
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14 killed in two Himachal accidents
September 5th, 2011 - 9:32 pm ICT by IANS
Shimla, Sep 5 (IANS) Fourteen people were killed and four injured in two accidents in Himachal Pradesh's Sirmaur district Monday, police said.
In both the accidents, the vehicles skidded off the ... Read more...
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Madonna impresses beau’s mom
September 3rd, 2011 - 1:41 pm ICT by IANS
London, Sep 3 (IANS) Pop star Madonna took the family of her beau dancer Brahim Zaibat on a 50,000-pound holiday to France.The singer took the 24-year-old's mother Patricia Vidal ... Read more...
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Two families claim kinship to slain mentally deranged youth
August 13th, 2011 - 2:58 pm ICT by IANS
Jammu, Aug 13 (IANS) Two separate families have come forward to claim kinship to an unidentified civilian, killed in an alleged fake encounter in Jammu and Kashmir, even as a ... Read more...
Posted in National |
Gang that looted and raped victims nabbed
August 6th, 2011 - 8:55 pm ICT by IANS
Gandhinagar, Aug 6 (IANS) They looted for a living and raped - even sodomised - the victims to ensure silence!Five of the nine-member gang that indulged in this activity are ... Read more...
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Nine children die when canoe capsizes in Zambia
July 27th, 2011 - 9:08 pm ICT by BNO News
MPONGWE, ZAMBIA (BNO NEWS) -- Nine young children were killed last week when a canoe capsized on the Kafue River in central Zambia, a local newspaper reported on Wednesday.The accident happened on ... Read more...
Posted in World News |
Happily ever after for Raju-Chinki, the monkeys?
July 7th, 2011 - 3:16 pm ICT by IANS
Jaipur, July 7 (IANS) The wedding of Raju and Chinki could put Bollywood to shame. The monkeys were married off in a hush hush ceremony by villagers in Rajasthan before ... Read more...
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Esha Deol on her growing proximity to Deols
June 15th, 2011 - 1:19 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, June 15 (IANS) The Deols and Hema Malini's daughters are coming together. Hema's daughters, Esha and Ahana, are in fact very close to their stepbrothers Sunny and Bobby Deol.And ... Read more...
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Two Sri Lankan families swap livers for transplant
June 7th, 2011 - 8:28 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, June 7 (IANS) In a unique life saving deal, two Sri Lankan families swapped the livers of two of their members at a hospital here for transplantation, officials said ... Read more...
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Succession war between Naidu, NTR families hots up
May 28th, 2011 - 6:10 pm ICT by IANS
Hyderabad, May 28 (IANS) The succession war between the families of Telugu Desam Party (TDP) founder N.T. Rama Rao, or NTR, and his son-in-law and party chief N. Chandrababu Naidu ... Read more...
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12 killed in two accidents in Maharashtra
May 24th, 2011 - 11:06 pm ICT by IANS
Pune/Ratnagiri (Maharashtra), May 24 (IANS) Twelve people were killed and one person was injured in two accidents -- one on Solapur Road in Pune district and the other near ... Read more...
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Osama was unarmed but killed as he resisted, says US (Lead)
May 4th, 2011 - 5:42 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, May 4 (IANS) Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was unarmed but killed because he resisted the American forces that stormed his hideout in Pakistan.Giving a most detailed ... Read more...
Posted in South Asia |