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By SUNIL Sonkar
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
Rubina Ali Qureshi, the child-actor of Oscan-winning movie Slumdog Millionaire gets a new flat as New Year gift by director Danny Boyle through the Jai Ho Trust. The cost of this Mumbai suburb flat is Rs 3.2 million.
BLUE MOON
It was a doubly special evening to celebrate. It was New Year’s blue moon [...]
By SUNIL Sonkar
NEW DELHI, India: The 60-day cooling-off period for tourists in visa rules have been “slightly” relaxed said Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on Thursday.
In a press conference Chidambaram said that any foreigner who uses India as a base for going to neighbouring countries can now avail three re-entries within 60 days if he [...]
By SHUBHAJIT Chakraborty
JHARGRAM, India: In a suspected Maoist attack Howrah-Mumbai via Tatanagar route was severely affected when Maoists tarnished 400 meters of railway tracks near Jhargram (West Bengal). However, no such damaged has been reported as two railway patrolmen alerted authorities before coming of New Delhi-Bhubaneswar Purushottam Express, which was supposed to pass within 10 [...]
By SUNIL Sonkar
HYDERABAD, India: The thirteen Congress ministers from Andhra Pradesh have decided to withdraw their resignation as a follow to the announcement of Centre to hold discussions with the political parties of the state on Telangana issue.
Geeta Reddy, Information Minister told to the media after all the 13 Congress ministers met the Centre, “We [...]
By SUNIL Sonkar
PANAJI, India: Due to overdose of drug a girl lost her life in Panaji (Goa) says police on Thursday.
Neha Bahuguna, 23-old-girl, died on Wednesday at a local hospital. She was working in Bangalore.
Atmaram Deshpande, spokesman of Police Department said, “The medical report has attributed the death to drug overdose.”
Neha was in Panaji [...]
By SHUBHAJIT Chakraborty
The inflation could have spoilt the rising economy of India and to tweak the prices, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is set to implement strong steps to curb the inflation and manage the recovery. Deputy RBI governor Shyamala Gopinath said to reporters.
It has feared by banker and bond market circles that cash reserve [...]
By SUNIL Sonkar
DELHI, India: Due to heavy fog in the capital on Wednesday, over 20 flights to and from the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) were delayed.
An official of IGIA airport said to the media, “Twenty two in-bound and out-bound domestic flights at Delhi airport were delayed due to the reduced visibility owing to the [...]
By SUNIL Sonkar
RAMADI, Iraq: In a twin attacks in western Iraqi city of Ramadi at least 23 people have been killed and provincial governor has also been wounded along with many others on Wednesday.
Governor Anbar Governor Qassim Mohammed was earlier reported to have been killed in the attack, but this report has been denied in [...]
By SUNIL Sonkar
LONDON, UK: The England’s Commonwealth Games officials dismissed any reports on Wednesday that England are all set to pull out of 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi. The London officials said that no such move is planned in them and a team from England will definitely travel to India for participation.
A report in [...]
By SUNIL Sonkar
HONOLULU: US President Barack Obama says it is essential now to diagnose the problems quickly about what went wrong in the security on Christmas that an attempt of attack on a US airliner was made.
Barack Obama said yesterday, “a systemic failure has occurred” and that had led to a “catastrophic breach of security”. [...]
By SUNIL Sonkar
RANCHI, India: Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) chief Shibu Soren became the seventh chief minister of Jharkhand as took oath on Wednesday at 10.30 am in the Morabadi ground.
He was scheduled to take the oath at 2pm but on the advice of astrologers the ceremony was again scheduled at 10.30am.
His party is forming [...]
By SUNIL Sonkar
MUMBAI, India: Raghubir Yadav, Bollywood actor and theatre artiste, is missing. City police says he is untraceable. In a local court the police have submitted report that states they are not able to trace Yadav for the past two months.
On September 19 the Bandra family court issued a warrant against Raghubir as he [...]
By SUNIL Sonkar
NEW DELHI, India: To fulfil girlfriend’s wish to spend New Year’s Eve in Macau, a youth in Delhi faked his own kidnapping and cheated his father of Rs 20 lakh.
Pawan Verma, 22-year-old, will welcome 2010 under trials in Tihar jail now and not in Macau with his girlfriend.
Deputy commissioner (central) of police [...]
By SUNIL Sonkar
MUMBAI, India: In a chemical lab at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) in suburban Trombay fire broke out on Tuesday. Two persons have been reported to be dead but there was no radioactive leak threat.
The two dead persons are suspected to be students according to BARC sources, but the identification process is [...]
By SHUBHAJIT Chakraborty
SASARAM, India: Chainya Khatun, 6, and her sister Soni Khatun, 5, along with six other family members have been arrested by police of Kaimur (Sasaram) of having killed an 18 years old woman. Incidentally, under Indian Penal Code (IIPC)’s Section 82 clearly says: “Nothing is an offence, which is done by a child [...]
By SUNIL Sonkar
WASHINGTON, US: Al-Qaeda suspect Nigerian charged for trying to blow up US plane on Christmas told to FBI that more bombers are on their way to target United States. This information has set alarm bells in Washington among the intelligence and security apparatus.
According to ABC News, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the suspect, told FBI, [...]
By SUNIL Sonkar
NEW DELHI, India: Global automakers are keen to boost sales through the Auto Expo starting next week in New Delhi. They will be unveiling a slew of cheap, compact cars as India is one of the few remaining growth markets which can keep their engines humming.
Since India is the second-most populous country in [...]
By SUNIL Sonkar
BANGALORE, India: New Year’s Eve celebration will be extra rocking in Bangalore, the Pub City of India, after the decision of city police Commissioner Shankar Bidari of granting “special” permission to all hotels, eating joints, restaurants and bars in the city to remain open till 1 a.m.
On normal days people cannot enjoy drinks [...]
By SUNIL Sonkar
KARACHI, Pakistan: A suicide bomber killed 25 people and wounded 60 others in Karachi, the port city of Pakistan, defying a major security clampdown in the main Muslim Shia religious Ashura procession, which marks the tenth day of Muharram, the holy month.
The attack came inspite of a massive vigil of police and security [...]
By SUNIL Sonkar
CHANDIGARH, India: December 29th was the day when Ruchika Girhotra committed suicide in the year 1993. This is her 16th death anniversary and now the call for justice is growing louder.
Ranjan Lakhanpal, senior lawyer and human rights activist, said that he will be filing a public suit seeking a fresh case against S [...]
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