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Fogged out at India Pakistan border
Written on 31 Dec, 2010 at 8:00 in INDIA | viewed 130 views times | No Comments
Chandigarh: India’s Border Security Force (BSF) is battling an unlikely enemy along the 553-km international border with Pakistan in Punjab – fog. And it is using hot tea and extra patrolling to keep its personnel active and ensure that no... (Continue reading)
Head to Shimla for a white New Year’s Eve
Written on 31 Dec, 2010 at 7:52 in WORLD | viewed 20 views times | No Comments
Shimla: A white Christmas may have eluded this Himachal Pradesh capital, but New Year’s Eve is more than likely to make up for it with the season’s first snowfall Friday cloaking the city with a picturesque coat of white. Besides... (Continue reading)
Citibank fraud: Religare CEO, Hero Group top management quizzed
Written on 31 Dec, 2010 at 7:45 in INDIA | viewed 123 views times | No Comments
New Delhi: The estimated Rs 300 crore fraud at the Gurgaon branch of Citibank took a different turn on Friday, with the questioning of many top corporate by the Haryana Police in the case. The police is now questioning Religare... (Continue reading)
BSY ‘promises’ to meet Guv every fortnight
Written on 31 Dec, 2010 at 7:43 in POLITICS | viewed 3 views times | No Comments
Bangalore: A day after Arun Jaitely met Karnataka Governor HR Bharadwaj purportedly to broker peace between him and Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa, the latter met the Governor on Friday to discuss “all issues” pertaining to the state. For the record,... (Continue reading)
Apps to help us keep our New Year resolutions
Written on 31 Dec, 2010 at 7:34 in INDIA | viewed 2 views times | No Comments
Washington: Today there is an application for almost everything, from losing weight to finding a job. Can any of them help us keep our New Year`s resolutions? Yes and no, says Ananda Mitra, professor of communication at Wake Forest and... (Continue reading)
Move over Sheila and Munni here come the Deols
After Munni and Sheila’s sizzling item numbers, it’s the turn of bollywood boys to set the stage on fire. And leading the pack are the Deols: Dharmendra, Sunny Deol and Bobby Deol. In their forthcoming film YAMLA PAAGLA DEEWANA, the... (Continue reading)
Rohit’s Big Plans: ‘Golmaal’ Director Wooing Rajinikanth, SRK
After cornering the box office with his ‘Golmaal’ series, director Rohit Shetty is pulling out the big guns now. Where, on one hand, he is planning a film with Shah Rukh Khan, on the other, he is wooing Rajnikanth to... (Continue reading)
Mamata Banerjee accuses Buddhadeb of being Maoist
Written on 31 Dec, 2010 at 7:16 in West Bengal | viewed 7 views times | No Comments
Kolkata, Dec 30 (ANI): Rubbishing Trinamool Congress’s links with Maoists as alleged in West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacherjee’s letter to Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram, Mamata Banerjee said, “the Chief Minister himself is a Maoist leader.” “The Chief Minister... (Continue reading)
Indians refuse settlement proposal in Sharjah murder case
Written on 31 Dec, 2010 at 6:56 in WORLD | viewed 3 views times | No Comments
Dubai: A proposal to settle the case involving 17 Indians, who have appealed the death penalty for killing a Pakistani in Sharjah has been refused, according to the lawyer representing the defendants. Bindu Suresh Chettur said the family of the... (Continue reading)
2010 India’s Year of Scandals
Written on 31 Dec, 2010 at 6:48 in INDIA | viewed 9 views times | No Comments
Where scandals are concerned, Raja, Kalmadi, Chavan, Radia and Yeddyurappa are clear winners this year, but Raja also wins the lifetime award for pulling off the biggest scandal ever in India. This was clearly the year of scandals. It was... (Continue reading)