New Delhi: In a heart wrenching story, a forty-year-old person was publicly lynched in India’s coal capital of Dhanbad, in eastern India, after a fight over a queuing up to collect water from a public tap. The deceased a daily wage worker named Kameshwar Paswan was standing up for his brother, who was being roughed [...]
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New Delhi: Taming the mighty Mount Everest by climbing the world’s highest mountain peak is no longer a feat. Apparently, hurtling down its icy, steep, rugged peaks is. A six member team of the rugged Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), a specialized para-military force which was created to guard the Indo-Tibet border, is all poised to [...]
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NEW DELHI: Italy has recalled its envoy from New Delhi and has expressed “strong displeasure” at the Indian government’s inability to hand over two arrested marines, accused of murder, to Italian custody. Italian deputy foreign minister, Staffan de Mistura, said that the decision to recall the Italian ambassador from India, was a sign by Italy [...]
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NEW DELHI: Techies at a development center of United States software giant Microsoft in the Eastern Indian city of Hyderabad have developed spectacles which could possibly help the blind navigate. The hi-tech glasses, named ‘Kinectacles’ is among 60 innovations designed by techies in India and prototypes of which are show-cased by Microsoft at its ‘Garage [...]
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NEW DELHI: In perhaps a first, as many as 25 filmmakers including four from India, have put their heads and directorial skills together and made a film ‘The Owner’ which premieres worldwide on May 25. Even if the film does not find favor with audiences, it could well make its way into the Guinness Book [...]
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New Delhi: US secretary of state Hillary Clinton’s crack of the whip vis a vis India’s oil imports from sanction-hit Iran appears to have worked. Keen on making up the for the likely drop in the import of Iranian crude, India is now cozying up to United Arab Emirates (UAE), Iraq as well as Saudi [...]
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New Delhi: An Algerian terrorist who was a Pakistan-trained member of the Al Qaeda, had been ordered to attack the Indian Embassy in Paris this year, a leading French newspaper has claimed. The Le Monde, one of France’s most popular newspapers, quoting French intelligence sources however said that the 23-year-old Algerian was shot dead by [...]
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NEW DELHI: Indian ace cricketer Sachin Tendulkar wants to keep his oath taking ceremony in the Rajya Sabha “under wraps.” Tendulkar, according to media reports here, has officially asked the secretariat of India’s Upper House to facilitate his oath taking ceremony in private in the room of the Rajya Sabha chairman. Media reports also said [...]
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NEW DELHI: In a bizarre incident, a 14-year-old girl, was raped by a class teacher who then ordered the school cook to abort the teenager’s 10-week old pregnancy. The girl has been admitted to hospital for severe bleeding and is now in critical condition. The incident was reported in a school in Unnao, near Lucknow, [...]
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New Delhi: On a day the Indian Parliament discussed ways and means to ‘regulate’ internet content, the websites of India’s apex court and the ruling Congress party were hacked by ‘hacktivists’, protesting attempts to censor the internet. The attack on the websites is suspected to be in response to censorship steps taken by the Indian [...]
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NEW DELHI: Pakistan president Asif Ali Zardari personal offerings to the tombs of a dead Indian saint and an exiled Indian emperor have been officially ‘pinched’ from public funds from the Pakistan government treasury. A Pakistan government spokesperson has said the $1 million donation to one of India’s most famous sufi shrines, that of Khwaja [...]
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Kate Middleton is being urged to press her favorite retailer Zara to stop exploiting the women making its high street fashion. War on Want called on the Duchess of Cambridge to speak out as the anti-poverty charity launched a new report which shows how western brands are sourcing from south-east Asian factories that exploit female [...]
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NEW DELHI: Denied permission to celebrate, a drunk Shahrukh Khan got into a messy scrap with a Mumbai stadium’s cricket officials, after the former’s team Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) beat the Mumbai Indians. Shah Rukh and his entourage which religiously follows the matches of their team the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR), had wanted to celebrate [...]
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NEW DELHI: Here’s an instance of the social media, getting under your skin. Quite literally splitting it. Enraged by a photo posted on Facebook by a fallen out friend, a 15-year-old boy stabbed him with a paper cutter in New Delhi. The victim, had six stab wounds with his veins slashed and had to be [...]
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KUALA LUMPUR: Aisha walks quickly down the sidewalk. She is late for work. So is Samira. The two women appear as complete opposites, one wearing a hijab, or headscarf, while the other is in a slick business suit, a skirt just hitting below her knees, with no leggings. “This is what we want Malaysia to [...]
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The story of thousands of migrant women workers is revealed in the new report launched by War on Want and the Asian Migrant Center. The report presents the appalling conditions faced by women who have to migrate because of poverty and political oppression. Despite being important economic drivers for countries’ economic growth, migrant women’s rights [...]
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BANGKOK: Two men, one Thai and Vietnamese, were arrested on Wednesday after officials discovered they were hiding the bodies of two tigers and two leopards. The men have also been held in connection to the international illegal killing and smuggling of endangered species under international treaties signed by both Thailand and Malaysia, where the men [...]
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KUALA LUMPUR: A judge in Malaysia has sentenced three Mexicans and two others to death for drug trafficking. The Mexicans, all brothers, are to be killed, in accordance with Malaysia’s stiff drug penalties, by hanging. The Mexicans, from Sinaloa – a leading drug spot in Mexico – have no criminal record in North America. According [...]
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MANILA: The Philippine’s government has said it will ensure the welfare of an elephant currently held at the Manila Zoo. The Palace made the statement after UK rockstar Morissey called on President Benigno Aquino III to allow the elephant to go into retirement. Animal rights groups have also called for the animal’s release, after documentation [...]
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NEW DELHI: At least 35 children have died in a fortnight at a top hospital in Jammu and Kashmir, forcing the provincial government to order an inquiry. The children died at the GP Pant Hospital reportedly of encephalitis and R S Chib, Kashmir’s Minister for Medical Education said, blaming doctors at this stage would be [...]
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