Crisis in Tahrir

Section: South Asia

40-year-old man lynched for breaking queue at public water tap in India

40-year-old man lynched for breaking queue at public water tap in India

19 May 2012 | Comments (0)

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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Indian soldiers to ski down rugged Mt Everest slopes

Indian soldiers to ski down rugged Mt Everest slopes

19 May 2012 | Comments (0)

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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Italy recalls ambassador from India; stand-off over trigger-happy marine continues

Italy recalls ambassador from India; stand-off over trigger-happy marine continues

19 May 2012 | Comments (0)

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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Indian techies develop spectacles which allow the blind to navigate

Indian techies develop spectacles which allow the blind to navigate

19 May 2012 | Comments (0)

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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The Hillary Effect: India ditches Iran, ups oil ties with UAE, Saudi Arabia and Iraq

The Hillary Effect: India ditches Iran, ups oil ties with UAE, Saudi Arabia and Iraq

19 May 2012 | Comments (0)

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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Pak-trained Algerian Al Qaeda operative had Indian embassy in Paris in cross-hair

Pak-trained Algerian Al Qaeda operative had Indian embassy in Paris in cross-hair

19 May 2012 | Comments (0)

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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Sachin Tendulkar

India MP Sachin Tendulkar ‘ducks’, wants to take oath in private

18 May 2012 | Comments (0)

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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Indian student raped by teacher, school’s cook asked to abort pregnancy

Indian student raped by teacher, school’s cook asked to abort pregnancy

18 May 2012 | Comments (0)

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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As India debates cyber censorship, ‘hacktivists’ hack govt websites

As India debates cyber censorship, ‘hacktivists’ hack govt websites

18 May 2012 | Comments (0)

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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Pakistan’s Zardari’s donations to saints, kings, pinched from public monies

Pakistan’s Zardari’s donations to saints, kings, pinched from public monies

18 May 2012 | Comments (0)

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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Angry Mumbai to drunk Shahrukh: No ‘ball’ at Wankhede stadium

Angry Mumbai to drunk Shahrukh: No ‘ball’ at Wankhede stadium

17 May 2012 | Comments (0)

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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India schoolboy ‘unfriends’ Facebook mate, with six paper cutter stabs

India schoolboy ‘unfriends’ Facebook mate, with six paper cutter stabs

17 May 2012 | Comments (0)

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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Investigation underway in Kashmir hospital.

Kashmir govt orders probe after 35 children die in hospital within fortnight

16 May 2012 | Comments (0)

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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Indian Parliament fizzes over beer named after Indian goddess Kali

Indian Parliament fizzes over beer named after Indian goddess Kali

16 May 2012 | Comments (0)

NEW DELHI: ‘Kali Ma’ a beer launched by an American company has begun fizzing even before being sold in India. The Indian Parliament on Wednesday heard an animated discussion by its parliamentarians who now want the government ask the United States Ambassador to apologize for using the name of a Hindu goddess ‘Kali Ma’ or [...]

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Human Rights group petitions Indian PM over cop assault on pregnant woman

Human Rights group petitions Indian PM over cop assault on pregnant woman

16 May 2012 | Comments (0)

New Delhi: A police officer in the western Indian state of Maharashtra is in the dock after a woman he allegedly assaulted and locked up on charges of soliciting for sex, was pregnant and suffered a miscarriage. Prime Minister of India Dr Manmohan Singh has been petitioned by a global human rights organization to launch [...]

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Mining in Maharashtra polluting Goa rivers, says Congress MP

Mining in Maharashtra polluting Goa rivers, says Congress MP

16 May 2012 | Comments (0)

Goa (INDIA) A ruling parliamentarian from the Western Indian state of Goa has accused his own party’s government in the neighboring state of Maharashtra of allowing iron ore mining to run riot and pollute water-bodies in Goa. Speaking in the House of Elders on Wednesday Shantaram Naik said that “environment experts in Goa have expressed [...]

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US steps on India-born global terrorist Dawood Ibrahim’s tails

US steps on India-born global terrorist Dawood Ibrahim’s tails

16 May 2012 | Comments (0)

NEW DELHI: Two lieutenants of India’s most dreaded and wanted fugitive, Dawood Ibrahim, were on Tuesday issued sanctions by the United States in connection with their drug trafficking activities. The United States Department of Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) served the sanctions on Chhota Shakeel and Tiger Memon, two of Dawood’s most trusted [...]

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Moralistic Indian MPs want sexy, pouting women off television

Moralistic Indian MPs want sexy, pouting women off television

16 May 2012 | Comments (0)

New Delhi: In a typical illustration of the long winding patriarchal Indian political discourse, the country’s parliamentarians want to stop the “indecent portrayal of women”. Cut down to basics, Indian MPs now want sexy, pouting women off television, especially in advertisements which they believe reduces woman to a commodity. Ad film makers and broadcasters in [...]

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Air India to begin international services

Air India to begin international services

16 May 2012 | Comments (0)

NEW DELHI: India’s struggling flagship airline Air India began its international operations Wednesday. Operations to Europe and the United States were started as a part of its contingency plan to reinstate normalcy. Hundreds of Air India pilots were staying away from work and had called in sick as an attempt to make the management accept [...]

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Indian Army's women expedition to attempt Everest summit this week.

Nepal Army to give assistance to India women Everest team

16 May 2012 | Comments (0)

KATHMANDU: Nepal’s Army Chief General CMS Gurung on Tuesday said he would assist all possible help to Indian Army’s women Everest summit expedition team. The team, which is currently in Nepal, is hoping to summit the world’s highest peak between Tuesday and Sunday, the team said in a statement. Gurung also said that he would [...]

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