Archive for February 2008

Manyata wants to cancel her residence certificate of Goa

Feb 29th, 2008 | Category: Entertainment News, India News, Mumbai News, National News

Manyata on Friday moved an application to cancel the controversial residence certificate she submitted to register her marriage with actor Sanjay Dutt in Goa.
The request by Manyata to authorities in Salcete taluka in South Goa is treated as her reply to the show cause notice issued earlier by Salcete taluka’s Mamlatdar, a senior revenue official [...]



Ravinder UP minister’s son arrested

Feb 29th, 2008 | Category: India News, National News

Ravinder the son of the Ved Ram Bhati Home Guard minister for Uttar Pradesh was arrested from Kasna in Greater Noida on Friday in connection with a triple murder case.
A S Ganeshan the SSP of Gautam Budh Nagar said Ravinder was arrested as he was one of the three persons named in the FIR filed [...]



Suicide Bomber killed 35 in Peshawar, Pakistan

Feb 29th, 2008 | Category: World News

A suicide bomber blew himself up on Friday at a funeral in Pakistan’s volatile Swat Valley in which 35 people killed & 62 injured. President Pervez Musharraf sent thousands of troops in November to reassert the government’s control & take on the extremists.
An official said who was at the funeral on security duty, “Because it [...]



Ricin & RCA Castor Beans toxins found in Las Vegas

Feb 29th, 2008 | Category: World News

FBi said that they identified a substance located in a Las Vegas, Nevada, hotel as the potentially deadly poison ricin. They said that there was no terror link to this case.
David Staretz who is the chief legal counsel at the FBI office in Las Vegas said, “We can confirm it was ricin. But There is [...]



Attacked on Amitabh Bachchan’s Office

Feb 29th, 2008 | Category: India News, Mumbai News, National News

Amitabh Bachchan’s office attacked by some Unidentified persons. They threw bottles at the office of the Bollywood Superstar, behind his Juhu residence Jalsa, on Friday night.
On this Amitabh Bachchan said, “My bungalow was attacked by four people who came in a car a& threw bottles. I have informed the police & they are investigating”.
Samajwadi [...]



Militants killed 2 in Thailand

Feb 29th, 2008 | Category: World News

Islamic militants on Friday attacked an army post at a primary school in Thailand`s Muslim-majority south, in which two teenager killed in an hour-long gun battle. The two rangers who were Muslims, died when at least 10 militants raided the base overnight on the campus of the school in Narathiwat, a province on the border [...]



CBI to Interpole: Pak should handover Dawood

Feb 29th, 2008 | Category: Delhi News, India News, National News

CBI has asked Interpol to put pressure on Pakistan government to handover Dawood Ibrahim an international gangster who is in the Pakistan. Vijay Shanker the Director of CBI raised the issue with visiting Interpol Secretary General Ronald K. Noble during a meeting in New Delhi.
Vijay Shanker said that there were certain fugitives who have been [...]



14 years old girl killed in Jammu

Feb 29th, 2008 | Category: India News, Jammu and Kashmir News, National News

A minor girl named as Nazia was killed on Thursday night as the gun she was fiddling with went off accidentally in Rajouri district.
Nazia who was 14 years old daughter of a Village Defence Committee member, was fiddling with a 303 rifle of her father last night when the mishap occurred. The gun went off [...]



India Budget 2008-09 presented by P. Chidambaram

Feb 29th, 2008 | Category: India News, National News

Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram on Friday presented the Union Budget for 2008-09 in Lok Sabha. Since this will be the last full budget of the UPA government, every segment of the society, including individual taxpayers & corporate are expecting some relief.
P. Chidambaram said that the Indian growth story has been an absorbing one. Chidambaram [...]



27 dead in an accident in Dhaka in B’desh

Feb 29th, 2008 | Category: World News

An overcrowded ferry carrying nearly 300 passengers capsized after colliding with another vessel in a river in which 27 people killed near the Bangladeshi capital. An official said, “The ferry rammed into a sand-laden trawler & sank”. He said that some 70 people jumped off the vessel & swam to safety.
27 people killed including [...]



Kashmir singh will return soon

Feb 29th, 2008 | Category: India News, National News, Punjab News

A family in Punjab whose main breadwinner has been in prison of Pakistani for 35 years will be return soon. An official said that the Kashmir Singh an Indian prisoner, who spent 35 years on a death row in Lahore jail, will be released soon, as Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has approved his mercy petition.
Caretaker [...]



Suicide Bomber killed 2 in Colombo

Feb 29th, 2008 | Category: World News

A Suicide bomber blew himself in which two people killed & seven injured in Colombo the capital of Sri Lanka.
An official said that the blast went off as police tried to search a house in Colombo’s commercial area of Kotahena.
The military confirmed the blast, but details remain sketchy. Authorities recently stepped up the security [...]



Myron Cope died

Feb 29th, 2008 | Category: World News

The legendary Pittsburgh Steelers radio announcer Myron Cope, died on Wednesday morning local time at a Mount Lebanon nursing home following a long battle with various health problems. He was 79 years old.
Cope’s radio partner Bill Hillgrove said, “It’s always a sad day when a member of the Steeler family is gone & he was [...]



Ford Recalls

Feb 29th, 2008 | Category: World News

The government on Wednesday warned the owners of near about 4.6 million recalled Ford vehicles to bring their cars & trucks immediately to dealerships to disconnect cruise control switch systems that have been linked to engine fires.The government has a warning about the owners of the Ford safety. The recall includes 21 vehicle models built [...]



Sanjay Dutt & Manyata’s marriage cancelled

Feb 28th, 2008 | Category: Entertainment News

Sanjay Dutt a Bollywood superstar & his wife Manyata have filed an application to withdraw their marriage. The marriage registered under Goa law finally stands cancelled.
It is known that the Sanjay Dutt & Manyata that had been in news over the procedure & the documents submitted at the time of marriage filed a joint declaration [...]



Vilasrao’s son Amit Deshmukh married to Aditi

Feb 28th, 2008 | Category: Entertainment News, India News, National News

Amit Deshmukh the son of Vilasrao Deshmukh Chief Minister of Maharashtra on Thursday married Aditi Pratap Ghorpade a TV actress. The ‘baarat’ of the Amit Deshmukh saw bigwigs from politics, business & entertainment industry in attendance even as the groom’s younger brother & actor Ritesh Deshmukh danced on the tunes of dhols and nagadas.
Deshmukh also [...]



Reactors still down after Florida power outage

Feb 28th, 2008 | Category: World News

Power officials made efforts on Wednesday (local time) to bring two nuclear reactors back on line in southern Florida, one day after a massive blackout shut them off & darkened millions of homes across the state but the reactors still are not running. The disabled reactors at the Turkey Point nuclear power plant were unlikely [...]



Today is the National Science Day

Feb 28th, 2008 | Category: India News, National News, Technology News

Today is the national science day. National Science day is celebrated every year on 28th Feb.
This day, in the year 1928, C.V. Raman announced to the world his famous discovery, a discovery which would earn him a Nobel prize.
It is the day when Raman’s effect was invented by Prof C.V.Raman at Indian Institute of [...]



Amit Kalra Shiv Sena leader surrenders

Feb 28th, 2008 | Category: India News, Mumbai News, National News

Amit Kalra a leader of Shiv Sena leader, accused in the kidnapping & ransom case surrendered before the court in Mumbai on Thursday. The court asked him to cooperate with police in the case. An official said that the Kalra the president of District Youth of Shiv Sena was wanted by in a case of [...]



Train killed 16 in Surat

Feb 28th, 2008 | Category: India News, National News

16 people were killed under a train in Udhna district on Wednesday night. The incident came to light when the driver of a train bound for Surat noticed the bodies on the track; rail authorities && the police reached the spot by 1 am on Thursday morning.
An official said, “They were walking on the rail [...]