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1 dead 8 hurt as 2 bldgs collapse at Masjid Bunder (15 March 02:14) |
| One person died and eight others were injured when two commercial buildings that were under repair collapsed at Masjid Bunder on Saturday evening. Both buildings were 120 years old.Civic off... |
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Militant groups come together in Kashmir (15 March 02:13) |
| Srinagar: In the early days of militancy, different areas in the Kashmir valley were divided among different militant outfits, and militants from one outfit were not allowed to operate in th... |
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Bomber kills 14 in Swat (15 March 02:13) |
| Islamabad: At least 14 people were killed and 52 wounded when a suicide bomber targeted a security checkpost in Pakistan’s Mingora town in Swat Valley, police said on Saturday, a day after... |
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Court summons CCI president for usurping room (15 March 02:08) |
| Sevantilal Parekh, the president of the Cricket Club of India, will have to gear up to answer a court notice for allegedly usurping a room in the Marine Drive society where he lives. Parekh ... |
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Ramesh reveals govts two-point plan to protect environment (15 March 02:08) |
| Availability of potable water will be the biggest challenge in future, and more thrust is needed to be given to treatment of water, said Union Minister for Environment and Forests Jairam Ram... |
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Sunil Mandal alias Bengali killed in encounter (15 March 02:08) |
| In an encounter carried out at Deonar in the wee hours on Saturday, Mumbai Crime Branch officers killed dreaded criminal Sunil Mandal alias after he opened fire at the police. Mandal was in... |
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Striking JK government employees take out rally (15 March 02:08) |
| Srinagar: Work in all government and public sector undertaking offices was completely paralysed on Saturday, as over 4 lakh state employees continued to strike after five days in Kashmir, Ja... |
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Violence continues in Bareilly despite curfew (15 March 02:08) |
| Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh: Nearly 20 shops were on Saturday torched by mobs in communal strife-hit Bareilly despite curfew being clamped in most of the city, even as authorities rushed additio... |
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India rejects allegations of involvement in Lahore attack (15 March 02:08) |
| New Delhi: Deeply disappointed over the charges by Pakistan regarding its involvement in blasts, India on Saturday said it was unfortunate that by repeating such unfounded and unsubstantiate... |
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Pak court accepts plea to declare Qasab a fugitive (15 March 02:07) |
| Islamabad: A Pakistani court, conducting the trial of seven suspects for their involvement in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, on Saturday accepted an application from the prosecution for Ajmal Qas... |
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Al-Qaeda suspect worked at a US nuke power plant (15 March 02:07) |
| New York: An alleged al-Qaeda agent and US citizen, involved in a bloody shooting in Yemen five days ago, was revealed on Friday to have worked for a US nuclear power plant company between 2... |
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Australia bids tearful farewell to Gurshan (15 March 02:07) |
| Melbourne: Mourners bid a tearful farewell to three-year-old Gurshan Singh Channa, remembering him as a “loving and bubbly” child as his parents prepared to fly back to India for the las... |
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Babys day out (15 March 02:05) |
| Germany’s Sebastian Vettel put returning compatriot Michael Schumacher in the shade on Saturday with pole position for Red Bull at the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix. Schumacher, the se... |
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Saina loses to Rasmussen in semis (15 March 02:04) |
| Saina Nehwal became the first Indian woman to reach the semifinals of the All England Super Series badminton championship when she defeated German Juliane Schenk in straight games in the qua... |
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Third time lucky (15 March 02:04) |
| Australia had known the pain of ending up on the losing side at two successive World Cup finals. What’s more they had succumbed to the same opponents, Germany, in Kuala Lumpur (2002) as we... |
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We were confident of winning Ric (15 March 02:04) |
| Going into the final, Germany had history on their side. But the Aussies were alive to the fact that they had enjoyed the better of the exchanges in the last fifteen months, beating the same... |
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28 private college interns uprooted from Govt Dental Hospital (14 March 03:34) |
| It was a tough lesson for 28 dental students of various private colleges, who were interning at the Government Dental Hospital, CST. The joint medical director expelled these students after ... |
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Women granted permanent commission in Armed Forces (14 March 03:34) |
| In a major boost to women serving in the defence services, the Delhi High Court on Friday directed the Centre to grant permanent commission to women officers in all three wings of the Armed ... |
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Blasts kill 48 in lahore (14 March 03:34) |
| At least 48 people, including 18 soldiers, were killed and 100 more were injured on Friday when two suicide bombings targeted a military convoy in Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore, securi... |
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Will Ric have the last laugh (14 March 03:34) |
| Australian chief coach Ric Charlesworth is known to speak his mind and that was one reason why he found himself embroiled in one stand-off or another with the Sports Authority of India durin... |
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Dil do to hockey (14 March 03:31) |
| Argentina have been the perpetual under-achievers of world hockey, and more often than not, they ensure they drag along some of the major teams with them. On many occasions, be it at the Oly... |
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Silver surfer (14 March 03:31) |
| Nico Rosberg was understandably happy on Friday after he outpaced his new Mercedes team-mate seven-times champion and fellow-German Michael Schumacher to top the times in opening practice fo... |
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Drogba fires warning to Chelsea title rivals (14 March 03:31) |
| London: Didier Drogba has warned Chelsea’s title rivals that he is determined to satisfy his voracious appetite for success by firing the Blues back to Premier League glory. Carlo Ancelott... |
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Airfare gets fairer for globe-trotters (14 March 02:11) |
| Travellers will have to shell out less money for their international tickets following a directive by the Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) asking airlines to restore the system of p... |
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Bookies change their game buck odds of getting caught (14 March 02:11) |
| If cricket can have a new format, so can gambling. This IPL season, bookies hope to keep cops guessing by switching to a brand new modus operandi, sources in the police and betting circles s... |
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State dithers on formation of Vigilance Commission (14 March 02:11) |
| The UPA-led Central Government has been advocating the formation of State-level Vigilance Commission as suggested in the Administrative Reforms Commission (ARC) report but the Congress-led D... |
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Fight over Womens Bill continues in LS (14 March 02:04) |
| The fight over the Women’s Reservation Bill continued in the Parliament on Friday. “The fight will continue and there will be no dilution of our stand on the women’s quota issue,” sa... |
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Government under attack over rising prices (14 March 02:04) |
| The Left agitation in the capital against price rise had its echo in Parliament on Friday with members of four Left parties walking out of both Houses protesting the government's “lack of ... |
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Af-Pak situation a concern to entire world says Putin (14 March 02:04) |
| Russian Federation Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Friday expressed concern over terror groups operating from within Afghanistan and Pakistan, saying it was a threat to the entire world. Pu... |
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Mom says Gurshan was a happy boy (14 March 02:02) |
| The grief-stricken mother of dead three-year-old toddler Gurshan Singh Channa said that he loved staying in Melbourne and did not want to go back to India. Harpreet Kaur Channa said her son ... |
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CIA drove French villagers mad 50 yrs ago (14 March 02:02) |
| A mind control experiment conducted by America’s Central Investigative Agency is being blamed for a mysterious disease that caused an entire French village to go temporarily mad 50 years a... |
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German artist fixes old buildings with Lego (14 March 02:02) |
| A German artist has spent the last three years travelling the world using Lego to fix crumbling walls and monuments. Jan Vormann, 26, has carried out his brightly coloured plastic repair wor... |
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Merchants crushed say seized diamonds auctioned on the sly (13 March 02:23) |
| After waiting 10 years to get their seized diamonds back, two merchants were dazzled to learn that customs officials had sold their jewels off, and that too at a portion of the alleged value... |
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Split wide open (13 March 02:23) |
| The stand-off over Women’s Reservation Bill may have ended on Thursday with the Government announcing that the proposed legislation would be brought in the Lok Sabha only after consultatio... |
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US court denies Rana bail again (13 March 02:23) |
| A US court on Thursday again turned down the bail plea of terror suspect Tahawwur Rana, accused of plotting terror attacks in India at the behest of LeT, saying the Pakistani-Canadian is cha... |
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Show of Class (13 March 02:23) |
| Despite missing out on the services of some key players owing to injury, England’s defenders had done exceedingly well to keep some of finest forwards in check during the league stage of t... |
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Modi summoned by SIT in Godhra case (13 March 02:09) |
| Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has been summoned by the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) to appear before it on March 21 for questioning in post-Godhra riots in... |
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Decision on Nalinis release in two weeks (13 March 02:09) |
| The Tamil Nadu Government on Thursday furnished, in a sealed cover, the Prison Advisory Board’s report on Rajiv Gandhi assassination case convict Nalini Sriharan’s, 44, premature release... |
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Navy didnt have DGCA permission to fly Hyderabad airport official (13 March 02:09) |
| While the cause of the crash of the Kiran MK-II plane during last week's air show at Hyderabad is still not clear, it seems the Navy didn't have requisite permissions to fly over the residen... |
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2 Oz teens held for brutally beating man in wheelchair (13 March 02:09) |
| Two Australian teens have been charged in a brutal attack on a Canadian tourist in a wheelchair. The 35-year-old was attacked in an elevator at Mount Druitt Station in a robbery attempt. Pol... |
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Not sure how long marriage will last says carla Bruni (13 March 02:09) |
| Adding fuel to speculation about their extra-marital affairs, French First Lady Carla Bruni has claimed that she isn’t sure how long her marriage to President Nicolas Sarkozy would last. I... |
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Dubbed ugly british teen commits suicide (13 March 02:08) |
| A pretty 13-year-old British girl committed suicide after being dubbed “ugly” by classmates. Poppy Bracey (above) hanged herself when students picked on her after they found she lived in... |
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Chhota Shakeel aide came to my house (13 March 02:02) |
| Actor Salman Khans deposition before the city MCOCA court on Thursday- against deported Chhota Shakeel henchman Anjum Fazlani -has not only established that Fazlani had met him in his house,... |
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Butter than the best (13 March 02:02) |
| He created one of modern Indias most enduring, popular and recognisable icons comparable only to Air Indias Maharaja and R K Laxmans common man. Eustace Fernandes, creator of the Amul moppet... |
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Now tainted KDMC official arrested by Pune police (13 March 02:01) |
| Kalyan Dombivli Municipal Corporation official Sunil Joshi, nabbed by the Anti-Corruption Bureau last month, tasted freedom for a brief moment on Thursday before being arrested by the Pune p... |
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PHF sack selectors team management players quit too (13 March 02:00) |
| Upset over Pakistan’s worst ever performance in the hockey World Cup, the national Federation yesterday sacked its selection committee and team management while the entire 18-man squad res... |
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Brasa ok with 7th-8th finish (13 March 02:00) |
| A fifth place in the ongoing hockey World Cup would have been a good performance for India but a seventh or eighth spot finish is not a lesser achievement for the home team, coach Jose Brasa... |
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Ferrari are in good shape for the season (13 March 02:00) |
| Formula One starts arguably its most keenly-anticipated and competitive season in five decades this weekend with Brazilian comeback kid Felipe Massa predicting an early points haul for a rev... |
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Waiting for next bus It could be a chopper (12 March 03:30) |
| You will soon be able to hop on to a chopper from a bus depot. BEST has decided to open most of its depots to chartered helicopter services in the city. The service will be used for emergenc... |
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Didi changes tracks as Bill chugs along (12 March 03:30) |
| The Women’s Reservation Bill, which has been passed by Rajya Sabha may be tabled in Lok Sabha on March 15 or 16. But in the past three days, the cynosure of all eyes has been Railway Minis... |
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