The Maharashtra government has on Sunday dismissed Mumbai’s top police encounter specialist Pradeep Sharma from service. Sharma was served the dismissal order at his residence at 1 am on Sunday.
He has been accused of having links with the underworld, corruption & amassing huge properties in his name among other things. In his 25-year career with [...]

K. K. Birla, an Industrialist, passed away on Saturday at his Birla Park residence in Kolkata following a brief illness. He was 90 years old. K. K. Birla was ailing for the last two weeks & the end came at 7.30 am.
Birla is survived by three daughters - Nandini Nupani, Saroj Potddar & Shobhana Bhartia. [...]

The Indian government has released the notification of the Sixth Pay Commission’s recommendation on Friday, August 29, 2008. The notification will be available from tomorrow at pib.nic.in
The government has improved the final draft that was prepared by the union cabinet on 14th August. The complaints of varied groups of employees were taken into consideration, [...]

Work at Tata plant comes to standstill after Congress protesters blocked entry to Tata Motors “Nano”. Mamata Banerjee’s followers laid siege around the Nano plant not allowing any employee to enter the factory. Tata workers also stayed away fearing violence.
The arm-twisting tactic is aimed at forcing the state government to accept Trinamool demand of returning [...]

An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 struck Canada Pacific Coast west of Vancouver island on Friday (IST).
The earthquake occurred at 5:37 a.m. some 153 kilometers west-southwest of Port Hardy on the northern tip of the island & 472 kilometers from Vancouver, the largest city on Canada’s west coast.

Shibu Soren has on Wednesday sworn in as Chief Minister of Jharkhand. Jharkhand Governor Syed Sibtey Razi administered the oath of office to Soren. He was invited to form the government by Governor Syed Sibtey Razi yesterday evening after receiving a signed list of 42 MLAs in his support on Monday. Soren has to prove [...]

A blast occurred at a rally promoting autonomy for the gas-rich Pakistani province of Baluchistan on Tuesday in which several dead & 20 people injured, a private news agency reported.
According to witnesses, several bodies lay at the scene of the blast. Police said that the bomb had been rigged to a motorcycle parked near the [...]

An earthquake of magnitude 6.4 struck north India on Monday, a private news agency reported. There were no immediate reports of any damage or any casualities.
The epicentre of this earthquake was in Tibet, was felt at 6.52 pm in Himachal Pradesh, Uttaranchal & some parts of Uttar Pradesh.

Normal life was affected across Orissa today due to the 12 hour Orissa Bandh called by saffron outfits to protest the killing of VHP leader Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati. There were reports of stray incidents of violence from communally-sensitive Kandhamal, where the VHP leader & four others were gunned down by a group of armed persons [...]

Madhu Koda, Chief Minister of Jharkhand, has on Saturday resigned in the wake of withdrawal of support by Shibu Soren-led Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM). He handed over his resignation to Governor Syed Sibte Razi in the evening after a meeting with Congress president Sonia Gandhi in New Delhi.
Madhu Koda said that after the turn of [...]

Anshul Chhatterpati, who has filed a case against Gurmeet Singh, flayed the Haryana Government for helping Dera chief indirectly during the trial in CBI court at Ambala. Chhaterpati, son of Ram Chander Chhatterpati who was allegedly murdered in 2002, alleged that the government has been shielding the dera chief. He told media persons that the [...]

Around 2900 doctors working in government hospitals in Orrisa have threatened to tender mass resignation on August 27 over the delay in implementation of measures announced by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik. The doctors claimed that Patnaik had made a six-point announcement on the Assembly floor in response to their demands six months ago.
Patnaik had announced [...]

NASA has destroyed an unmanned suborbital rocket shortly after a failed launch on Friday from an island off the Virginia coast.
There were no injuries or property damage. The agency has warned that the debris from the explosion could be hazardous. NASA believes most of the wreckage fell into the Atlantic Ocean off Wallops Island.
The [...]

A scrap dealer was seriously injured in a bomb blast at his shop at Subhash Nagar area in Ratlam on Friday while another bomb was defused. The incident took place when Bhanwar, 35 years old, tried to unseal the bomb with his mouth without realising that it was an explosive. He was injured & rushed [...]

Apple has launched third generation iPhone in India on Thursday. Crowds lined up outside a Gurgaon mall & a few shops in Delhi to pick up the latest Apple iPhone that went on sale at midnight on Thursday in India & no one was daunted by the Rs 30,000-plus price.
The Apple iPhone 3G was launched [...]

Ratan Tata, chairman of Tata Group, has on Friday threatened to pull out the Nano project from Singur if violence continues. Ratan Tata told media in Kolkata, “We could exit to protect the safety of our employees. Our plant cannot function under police protection. I’ve made a major investment here… to move will be at [...]

The Mumbai Police has detained Karimulla Khan Osan Khan, an accused in 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case who was on the run for the last 15 years. Khan, an accomplice of gangster Dawood Ibrahim, was arrested from suburban Nalasopara area.
Khan was allegedly involved in landing of RDX on the Raigad coast & its transport to [...]

An earthquake of magnitude 5.9 struck China’s Yunnan Province in which 3 people have been killed & many injured on Thursday. According to a China View report, two quakes were recorded in Yingjiang, a county on the Sino-Myanmar border: one 4.9-magnitude event at 8:20 p.m. & another 5.9-magnitude quake four minutes later.
There was also damage [...]

The activists of Pro-shrine have on Thursday attacked the police station and torched vehicles in Jammu district’s Bhagwati Nagar. The activists have attacked Senior Congress leader & former deputy chief minister Mangat Ram Sharma.
Sharma was on his way to a doctor’s house in Bhagwati Nagar when a group of youth pelted his car with [...]

At least 11 people have been killed in many injured in two suicide blasts outside Pakistan’s main arms factory in Islamabad on Thursday. The blasts targeted the factory in the northern town of Taxila, near the capital Islamabad.
Two men apparently blew themselves up outside the factory during a shift change.