More Areas Under Curfew In Bareilly

By SUNIL Sonkar
Bareilly, March 13 — Curfew still clamped in many localities of Bareilly and more areas have also been brought under it as the situation in the city continued to be tense witnessing communal violence.

Official sources said, “After large-scale violence in which nearly 20 people, including an SP and some other policemen were injured, [...]

India, Russia Sign 19 Pacts, Including Nuclear

By SUNIL Sonkar
New Delhi, March 12 — India and Russia signed three civil nuclear field and other 16 pacts giving a fillip to their ties on Friday. The pact also included purchase of 29 MiG-29 fighters and also inking the revised agreement on Gorshkov aircraft carrier. This deal was stuck for 3 years over [...]

KKR Won Opening IPL Match, Beats Deccan Chargers

By SUNIL Sonkar
Mumbai, March 12 — Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) won opening match of IPL III beating defending champions Deccan Chargers by 11 runs. KKR scored 161 for 4 in 20 novers. Top scorer Angelo Mathews made 65 runs. Deccan Chargers made 150 runs for 7 in 20 overs.

Mathews and Shah put up an unbeaten [...]

IPL Reaches Internet Audience Live Through YouTube

By SUNIL Sonkar
Mumbai, March 12 — The wait ends for all the cricket lovers who are on the way with a laptop, or any other version of it. Now cricket fans can watch Indian Premier League live streaming on the go on YouTube across the world.

IPL is streamed live on YouTube. Every cricket frenzy and [...]

Court Directs Centre Permanent Commission For Women In Armed Forces

By SUNIL Sonkar
New Delhi, March 12 — Centre has been directed on Friday by the Delhi High Court to grant permanent commission in all three wings of the armed forces to women officers.

Division bench issuing direction to the Centre comprised of Justices S K Kaul and M P Garg. The bench issued order to the [...]

Twin Blasts In Lahore, 39 Killed, 95 Wounded

By SUNIL Sonkar
Lahore, March 12 — Two powerful suicide attacks targeted the military in cantonment area near a crowded mosque in Lahore, Pakistan. In the blasts at least 39 people were killed and 95 other injured.

At 12.48 pm (Pakistan time) the two blasts occurred when people in large number gathered in the mosque for Friday [...]

Sonia Gandhi – ‘Woman Of The Decade’

By SUNIL Sonkar
Kozhikode, March 11 — Malayalam Daily Mathrubhumi named Congress President Sonia Gandhi as the ‘Woman of the Decade’ after it conducted an online survey on world’s Women’s Day.
Sonia Gandhi got 53% votes and woman activist Mayilamma secured a position next by 13% votes in the survey conducted by ‘mb4eves.com’ of the newspaper. [...]

Fresh Earthquake Shakes Chile Minutes Before President’s Inauguration Ceremony

By SUNIL Sonkar
Valparaisoa, March 11 — A fresh strong quake of 7.2 magnitude shook Chile just before the inaugural ceremony of incoming President Sebastian Pinera on Thursday prompting a tsunami warning. The aftershock and four smaller quakes rocked central part of Chile.

The earthquake struck 137 kilometers (85 miles) south of Valparaiso and this was the [...]

Gujarat CM Summoned Before SIT

By SUNIL Sonkar
New Delhi, March 11 — Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) inquiring into 2002 Gujarat riots has asked Gujarat CM Narendra Modi to appear before it for questioning on the case on March 21.

The summon follows a petition by the widow of late Congress MP Ehsan Jaffrey. He was killed on February 28, [...]

Bill Gates Second Richest, Ambani Fourth, Mittal Fifth: Forbes Report

By SUNIL Sonkar
Washington, March 11 — Ambani and Mittal ranks in the top ten billionaires list on earth. Carlos Slim Helu, the Mexican tycoon, beat Bill Gates and Warren Buffett and became the wealthiest person in the world.

Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani is ranked fourth and Lakshmi Mittal, the steel czar, is placed fifth in [...]

Women’s Bill In Lower House Before March 16: P K Bansal

By SUNIL Sonkar
New Delhi, March 10 — The Women’s Reservation Bill is intended to be pushed in the Lok Sabha before March 16, when the house will be adjourned for a three-week break, said P K Bansal, parliamentary affairs minister, on Wednesday.

The bill was passed in the Rajya Sabha amid much hiccups on Tuesday. Bansla [...]

India Plans Winding Afghan Operations

By SUNIL Sonkar
New Delhi, March 10 — India is on the way of scaling down its Afghanistan operations and is in plans to advice Indian citizen over there to return back.

Indian government is also considering paring down the country’s presence at the reconstruction projects there. It is learned that the projects underway may be wrapped [...]

Lifetime All Format International Cricket Ban On Yousuf and Younis

By SUNIL Sonkar
Karachi, March 10 — Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) put an end to the careers of former Pakistan cricket team captains Mohammad Yousuf and Younis Khan on Wednesday and has also imposed one-year ban on Shoaib Malik after the disastrous tour of Australia of the team.

In all the three cricket formats in Australia the [...]

Air India To Incur Rs 5,400cr Loss This Fiscal Says Aviation Minister

By SUNIL Sonkar
New Delhi, March 09 — Civil aviation minister Praful Patel said Air India is expected to incur losses this fiscal year of around $1.8 billion (Rs.5,400 crore). He also added that in few more coming years the trend is likely to continue.

Patel told the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday, “The trend of losses is [...]

Indonesian Police Killed Bali Bombing Mastermind

By SUNIL Sonkar
Jakarta, March 09 — Indonesia’s most wanted Jemaah Islamiyah militant group leader Dulmatin was killed on Tuesday by the anti-terror forces of the country during a raid on the outskirts of the capital said police.

There were too much of gunfire heard when the Indonesian police raided a two storey shop-house in Pamulang city [...]

India, Brazil On al-Qaida Target: CIA

By SUNIL Sonkar
Washington, March 09 — The CIA warned India and Brazil on Tuesday of “emerging threats” from the Taliban and al-Qaida.

Leon Panetta, the CIA Director, said that spy agency of US spy has a “fundamental duty to provide warning and prevent surprise.” He adds that it also refers to the “emerging threats” to countries [...]

Rajya Sabha Passes Women’s Bill With 186 Votes

By SUNIL Sonkar
New Delhi, March 09 — After hiccups the controversial and historical Women’s Reservation Bill passed in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday ensuring 33% reservation to women citizen in the Parliament as well as in the state assemblies.

There were repeated disruptions and too much opposition in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday evening.
Arun Jaitley of [...]

Terror Alert For Mumbai, Kolkata, Bangalore

By SUNIL Sonkar
New Delhi, March 08 — Terror alert has been issued for for Mumbai, Bangalore and Kolkata on Monday by home ministry saying these three cities could be on the target of terrorists.

Based on information collected from suspected Indian Mujahideen terrorist Salman Ahmed during interrogation, Home Ministry had asked the Maharashtra, Karnataka and West [...]

No Gift Of Women’s Bill On Women’s Day

By SUNIL Sonkar
New Delhi, March 08 — Women’s reservation bill voting in the Rajya Sabha was not held on Monday and PM Manmohan Singh had postponed for the all-party meet on the day on the issue.

Probably the meeting was put off to get some time for the government in finalising the floor strategy.
Meanwhile, Dr. Singh [...]

Earthquake Hits Turkey, 57 Dead

By SUNIL Sonkar
Ankara, March 08 — Earthquake of 6 magnitude hit on Monday the Elazig provined in the eastern part of Turkey, killing 57 and at least six small villages being affected.vThe temblor toppled down stones, mud-brick homes and also minarets of mosques.

Mayor of Kovancilar, nearby town, Bekir Yanilmaz said the number of death toll [...]