By SHUBHAJIT Chakraborty
New Delhi, March 2 – According to the data presented by International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), India had become a major threat of sourcing shady online drug trade. The board had warned Indian government to take tough measures to curb the online trafficking.
According to the report released by the Vienna-based INCB, revealed [...]

By Md. Hasenur Rahman
Dhaka, Jan. 18 — Bangladesh, a nation with an audacious vision 2021, where the ruling party is committed towards digitization of the whole country within the next 10-13 years, it is rather unfortunate that even in between all this process of technological advancement and development, some of the key problems of [...]
Jan 17th (Obituary)
By Saadia Azim
Kolkata, Jan. 17 – Ninety six year old Marxist leader Jyoti Basu struggled for life for sixteen days before breathing his last at 11.41 a.m on Sunday at the AMRI hospital at Kolkata. His struggle for life was evident from the tough fight he gave before the last. He was deeply loved [...]

By SHUBHAJIT Chakraborty
Sex is no longer discussed in hush tones by today’s teenagers. It is something ‘cool’ and they have no qualms flaunting their sexuality. No wonder Vishal Joshi (name changed) a 19-year-old boy was quite exhilarating when he revealed that he ‘lost his virginity’ last winter. He and his girlfriend went for a ride [...]
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By SHUBHAJIT Chakraborty
FARIDABAD, India: It might have lost to Gurgaon earlier in the battle of the satellite township, but today Faridabad has come into its own: the once mainly industrial town is emerging as an attractive destination for developers – and investors. The real estate boom in Faridabad has just begun to happen. Faridabad [...]
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India will top the one-day rankings if they defeat both Sri Lanka and New Zealand in the league stage and also win the finals of the on-going Compaq Cup Tri-Series in Sri Lanka.
“We have set our goals,” Coach, Gary Kirsten, said. ”One of them is to be the best team in the world. We are headed [...]
BSNL has announced a 40-50 percent reduction in STD charges of cellular services under various plans. It also announced to slash the call charges of landline services by 50 per cent. Under the landline services, STD rates have been reduced from Rs 2.40 to 1.20 paise per minute to all networks in general and “sulabh” [...]
The Maharashtra State Board results for HSC has been declared on Saturday at 11:00 am. This year a total of 11,39,697 students appeared for the HSC examination conducted in February/March. The pass percentage for the Class 12 (HSC) examination this year stands at 77.33 percent. In the Mumbai division, the pass percentage for the [...]

The annual Shimla Summer festival will be start from Monday in Shimla. V.S. Kokje the Himachal Governor V.S. Kokje will inaugurate the festival at the historic Ridge Maidan.
Bollywood singer Javed Ali & Punjabi singers Hans Raj Hans & Mohit Chauhan would enthrall the audience during the five-day carnival.
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has announced the Class 10th board examination results today. Scores of students were seen at Internet cafes & calling dedicated telephone numbers to know how they had fared in the examination soon after the results were declared at 8 a.m.
This year, 765,095 students appeared for the Class 10 [...]

The results of Class XII examination conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will be announced on 21st & 23rd May while the results of Indian School Certificate Examination (ISCE) will come out on Tuesday.
While the results for the Chennai, Ajmer & Panchkula regions will be announced on 21st May, those for Delhi, [...]
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The English daily from the Sakal group, “Sakal Times”, will be launched on May 7. The first edition of the newspaper “Sakal Times” will be launched in Pune, the hometown of the Sakal group.
To be sure, it is not the first time that the newspaper group is dabbling in English. It runs two English papers [...]
The Chardham pilgrimage has been began on Wednesday with reopening of the portals of Kedarnath, Gangotri & Yamunotri shrines. Amid chanting of vedic hymns & shlokas, the doors of Kedarnath, Gangotri & Yamunotri temples were reopened coinciding with the auspicious day of Akshya Tritiya. It is for the first time after a gap of over [...]
Vodafone a mobile services provider said on Tuesday that it has signed an agreement with software products major Apple to sell iphone in India, besides nine other markets.
An official said, “Later this year, Vodafone customers in Australia, The Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, India, Italy, Portugal, New Zealand, South Africa & Turkey will be able to [...]
Baisakhi has been celebrated throughout Punjab on Monday. Baisakhi is the festival of wheat harvesting & creation of the “Khalsa Panth” by tenth Sikh guru, Guru Gobind Singh Ji.
Thousands of devotees took holy dip in sacred Sarovar of historic Gurdwara Sukhchaina Sahib in Phagwara.
Guru Gobind Singh on this day in 1699 had first baptised five [...]

IMF the International Monetary Fund has warned that spikes in food costs around the world could lead to starvation & the crumbling of governments. Dominique Strauss-Kahn said, “We are facing a huge problem”.
The IMF is often the lender of last resort for countries in trouble. Prices of wheat & rice have more than doubled in [...]
Maharashtrians are celebrating Gudi Padwa on Sunday. It is the first day of the Marathi calendar & marks the beginning of spring. Many believed that this is the day Brahma created the world. Women work on intricate “rangolis” at their doorsteps & homes decorated with flowers, coconuts & mango leaves.
It is auspicious to buy gold [...]

Tax return officials said that Hillary Clinton & her husband Bill Clinton earned a combined USD 109 million in eight years, paid USD 33.8 million in taxes & gave away USD 10.2 million to charities. This puts them among the top tier of tax payers in the United States.
After Bill Clinton left officie in 2000 [...]

Google on Tuesday make April Fool of many users. Google’s social network site Orkut turned into Yogurt on Tuesday. It was just a way to make april fool of Orkut’s user. Google’s popular video sharing site “YouTube” is rickrolling its users big-scale. All the featured videos on the YouTube.com frontpage are currently linking to Rick [...]
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Animal Planet has made an announcement that it will launch a 24-hour Hindi feed that will go on air from April 1, 2008.
An official said that from April, viewers across India would be able to watch the channel Hindi.
The official said that this move will help us increase viewership of the channel.
Animal Planet is already [...]