A Jet trainer has crashed in Karanataka on Tuesday.
A senior official of Indian Air Force has said that the recently inducted advanced jet trainer Hawk was crashed near the Bidar air base in Karanataka.
The both pilots were safe in the accident. The crash took place Tuesday.

Pakistan Fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar has been allowed to play Indian Premier League. An appellate committee has allowed Pakistan speedster to play in IPL.
Chairman appellate committee Justice (Rtd) Aftab Farrukh has said on Wednesday that the Shoaib could not play cricket within Pakistan & for the national team.
The fast bowler however has not been banned [...]

Nalini Sriharan who was serving a life term for her role in the assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, moved the Madras High Court on Wednesday, seeking release from jail on the basis of having completed 18 years of imprisonment with good conduct.
Nalini’s lawyer Duraimurugan filed an appeal on her behalf in the [...]

At least forty three Indians languishing in Sri Lankan jails have approached an Indian human rights body to help them return to this country, but the Indian government can do little in the absence of a prisoner exchange treaty with the neighboring country.
They have been convicted under Sri Lankan laws for offenses related to drug [...]

At least 11 people has been killed by heatstroke in Orissa over the past two months. Many parts of the state have been witnessing above 40 degrees Celsius temperature during the past few days & the state government is receiving information about the deaths of people from across the state
An official said, “We have received [...]

Osama Bin Laden’s son, Omar Ossama has been banned from entering Britain to live with his new wife because of fears that his presence would cause “considerable public concern”. Omar Ossama 27 years old has appealed against the refusal to grant him a visa & says that it is wrong to ban him from [...]

Two explosions strike a building run by the customs authority in the Yemeni capital Sana’a Wednesday. There were no immediate reports of any casualties.
The explosions were heard inside the courtyard of the building, which is close to the Italian embassy in Sana’a. A senior official of Police said that the embassy was not targeted by [...]

The hearing of the Sethusamudram project has been adjourned in the Supreme Court for Thursday. A Bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan agreed to hear the matter on Thursday after Janata Party President Subramanium Swamy & lawyers for other petitioners brought to its notice that there was some confusion as the order mistakenly [...]

A prominent ethnic Indian politician has passed away in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday after prolonged illness.
Malaysian Indian politician M G Pandithan, President of the Progressive Front party, was suffering from cancer. He was 68 years old. Pandithan was also a former vice-president of Malaysian Indian Congress.
The IPF leader was once seen as a protege of [...]

Lou Rowan the former Australian Test Umpire has said on Wednesday that there should be a life ban on the Harbhajan Singh for slapping Indian team-mate Sreesanth..
Lou Rowan said in his statement, “Harbhajan Singh doesn’t belong to the game of cricket. He has shown he is no good. They should just get rid of him [...]

The Mumbai Police has claimed on Wednesday that a global terrorist outfit has given a contract to international mafia don Dawood Ibrahim to eliminate his one-time close associate, gangster Abu Salem.
The police officials in Mumbai suspect that Dawood Ibrahim’s brother Anees Ibrahim has been entrusted the task of eliminating Abu Salem. Mumbai police has [...]

Cabbies are protesting against the stabbing, dozens of cabbies took off their shirts & blocked a busy intersection in Melbourne on Wednesday, disrupting vehicular movement. They are shouting “we want justice” & ‘”shame, shame Victoria Police”, some drivers took off their shirts in a freezing morning.
The rally came after a 23-year-old Indian taxi driver was [...]

A top drug lord has been killed by Colombian police on Wednesday (IST) whose capture the U.S. government offered a $5 million reward. Miguel Angel Mejia better known as “the twin”, was killed in an operation in northern Colombia.
A senior official of Colombian Police said, “He was perhaps the most wanted of all the criminals [...]

The Supreme Court will hear the Sethusamudram case today. The apex court had earlier stayed the project, which involves dredging a shipping channel between India & Sri Lanka over objections that it would affect the Ram Sethu.
Meanwhile, Janata Party president Subramaniam Swamy has filed a petition alleging that Shipping Minister TR Baalu has vested interest [...]

Pratibha Patil the President of India will arrive Thiruvananthapuram on Wednesday. She is on a two-day visit to attend the valedictory function of the golden jubilee celebrations of the Kerala Legislative Assembly.
President will participate in the birth centenary celebration of former state Chief Minister R Sankar at the Tagore Centenary Hall on Thursday in Thiruvananthapuram.
R [...]

An Indian student, who was also working as a taxi driver, was wounded by a passenger on Tuesday outside a hotel in the Clifton Hill suburb of Melbourne in Australia.
The 23-year-old was found lying in a pool of blood outside a hotel in Melbourne. Over 1000 cabbies marched the streets of the city, blocking [...]

The cyclone Nargis with a core of winds speeding at 70 km per hour may hit the eastern coast within the next 12 hours.
The meteorological official said, “Nargis, now centred around 350 km southeast of Chennai in the Bay of Bengal, is moving in a north westerly direction slowly. It can cross the coast anywhere [...]

Uma Bharti the president of Bharatiya Janashakti Party was arrested in Bhopal on Tuesday evening & released after an hour. She was arrested when she tried to enter the Raj Bhawan to submit a memorandum to Governor Balram Jakhar with about 1,000 supporters.
Earlier in the evening, Bharti had held a demonstration against price rise [...]

Ameesh Sahiba an umpire has been suspended for two IPL matches on Tuesday for talking to the media regarding the Harbhajan-Sreesanth slap row & has been asked to answer the showcause notice served to him by BCCI within 48 hours.
Ameesh Sahiba was officiating the Mumbai vs Mohali match during which Mumbai Indians stand-in skipper Harbhajan [...]

A female suicide bomber blew himself up today in the midst of a local counter-insurgency group in Diyala province in which at least two people killed & 10 others injured. The woman, wearing an explosive belt, struck at the members of the Awakening Council who were manning a checkpoint in the town of Abu Saida, [...]