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  • children s day means little to the malnourished

    Children's Day means little to the malnourished

    November 13, 2012 17:17 IST

    New Delhi, Nov 13: Five-year-old Payal has patchy brown hair and her hands and legs as slender as twigs. She is also pot-bellied -- the typical symptom of malnutrition. For her, it makes no difference

  • scare at lucknow airport plane comes close to chopper

    Scare at Lucknow airport: Plane comes close to chopper

    November 13, 2012 17:11 IST

    Lucknow, Nov 13: An Indigo Airlines plane with more than 180 people on-board aborted landing after it came "dangerously close" to a chopper at an airport here, an official said Tuesday. A probe has been

  • suu kyi arrives in india on nostalgic visit

    Suu Kyi arrives in India on nostalgic visit

    November 13, 2012 18:12 IST

    New Delhi, Nov 13: Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi arrived here Tuesday on a six-day visit as part of India's engagement with the multi-party polity in Myanmar.Suu Kyi, chairperson of the National League

  • indian pakistani guards exchange diwali sweets

    Indian, Pakistani guards exchange Diwali sweets

    November 13, 2012 18:11 IST

    Amritsar, Nov 13: Border Security Force (BSF) officials Tuesday exchanged sweets with Pakistan Rangers at the India-Pakistan land border check post to mark Diwali.BSF officials went up to the zero line and offered sweets to

  • charminar under police siege for third day

    Charminar under police siege for third day

    November 13, 2012 18:11 IST

    Hyderabad, Nov 13: Charminar, the monument which symbolizes Hyderabad, remained under police siege for the third straight day Tuesday with all the markets surrounding it still shut.A curfew-like situation prevailed around Charminar as police and

  • doctor to pay rs.5 lakh for botched up abortion

    Doctor to pay Rs.5 lakh for botched up abortion

    November 13, 2012 16:35 IST

    New Delhi, Nov 13: The city's top consumer court has asked a doctor to pay Rs.5 lakh compensation to a woman whose abortion he botched up not once but twice in 1997, leading to severe

  • follow these feng shui tips while decorating your house

    Follow these Feng Shui tips while decorating your house this Diwali

    October 20, 2014 10:04 IST

    Bring home the presence and blessings of beloved Lord Ganesh and Goddess Laxmi this Diwali with some influential Feng-Shui tips. Originally,Feng-Shui is an amalgamation of Vaastu and Chinese Astrology. The core substance of Feng-Shui is

  • one killed in firing 20 buses attacked roadblocks as

    One killed in firing, 20 buses attacked, roadblocks as sugarcane farmers in Maharashtra go on the rampage

    November 13, 2012 9:32 IST

    Ahmednagar, Maharashtra, Nov 13: One farmer was killed in police firing in Sangli district on Monday as sugarcane farmers led by an outfit spearheaded by independent MP Raju Shetty went on the rampage in Ahmednagar,

  • 8 killed 4 houses blown up in crackers factory blast in up

    8 killed, 4 houses blown up in crackers factory blast in UP

    November 13, 2012 8:20 IST

    Auraiya, Uttar Pradesh, Nov 13: Eight people, of them four childre and two women, were killed early this morning when an explosion in an illegal cracker factory in Himmatpur village bloew up four houses, with

  • uae foreign minister calls up khurshid invites him to uae

    UAE Foreign Minister calls up Khurshid, invites him to UAE

    November 12, 2012 23:26 IST

    New Delhi, Nov 12: The United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed today called up External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid and congratulated him on his assuming office.He invited Khurshid to visit the UAE,

  • 40 firecracker shops gutted in gujarat no casualty

    40 firecracker shops gutted in Gujarat; no casualty

    November 12, 2012 23:17 IST

    Valsad (Guj), Nov 12: Around 40 firecracker shops were gutted in a blaze here in South Gujarat today but no casualty was reported, officials said.The fire started in a make-shift cracker market, set up near

  • india in talks with russia to upgrade sukhoi combat jet

    India in talks with Russia to upgrade Sukhoi combat jet fleet

    November 12, 2012 23:04 IST

    New Delhi, Nov 12: India has opened talks with Russia to upgrade its fleet of air superiority Sukhoi Su-30s with a new radar and avionics to make the fighters more lethal than what they already

  • curfew like situation in old hyderabad

    Curfew-like situation in old Hyderabad

    November 12, 2012 22:51 IST

    Hyderabad, Nov 12: The situation in the old city of Hyderabad continued to be tense Monday with sporadic incidents of stone pelting. A curfew-like situation prevailed around the historic Charminar.The construction of a canopy over

  • seven must see places in india

    Seven must see places in India

    March 21, 2013 17:46 IST

    Tourist spots in India  are aplenty right from the idyllic Kashmir valley to the tip of Kanyakumari where three seas converge. That's from north to south, and from west to east you have the lions

  • punjab governmet announces 7 dearness allowance hike

    Punjab governmet announces 7% dearness allowance hike

    November 12, 2012 19:20 IST

    Chandigarh, Nov 12: The Punjab government has enhanced the rate of dearness allowance (DA) payable to the state government employees/pensioners from 65 per cent to 72 per cent of the revised basic pay with effect

  • information commissioner in kerala suspended

    Information commissioner in Kerala suspended

    November 12, 2012 19:09 IST

    Thiruvananthpuram, Nov 12: Kerala governor HR Bhardwaj has suspended state information commissioner K Natarajan for allegedly intervening in the land-gift case involving CPM stalwart V S Achuthanandan. Action against Natarajan, a former DIG of police,

  • gen bikram singh to brief manmohan on army shortages

    Gen Bikram Singh to brief Manmohan on Army shortages

    November 12, 2012 18:51 IST

    New Delhi, Nov 12: Facing shortage of critical weapon systems and ammunition, Army chief Gen Bikram Singh will brief Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the “hollowness” faced by the 1.3 million-strong force in its defence

  • hamid karzai meets pm urges indian companies to invest in

    Hamid Karzai meets PM, urges Indian companies to invest in Afghanistan

    November 12, 2012 18:38 IST

    New Delhi, Nov 12: Visiting President Hamid Karzai on Monday urged Indian companies to invest in Afghanistan, with India's leader saying economic development in the war-torn country would contribute to stability in the region. “Investment

  • three more farmers end life in maharashtra

    Three more farmers end life in Maharashtra

    November 12, 2012 18:11 IST

    Nagpur, Nov 12: As Prithviraj Chavan completed two years as Maharashtra chief minister, the number of farmer suicides this year rose to 624 with three more distressed peasants ending their lives Sunday, an activist said

  • mild tremor in dharamsala no loss of life or property

    Mild tremor in Dharamsala, no loss of life or property reported

    November 12, 2012 16:01 IST

    Dharamsala, Nov 12: An earthquake of slight intensity, measuring 4.1 on the Richter scale, jolted Dharamsala in Kangra region of Himachal Pradesh. The quake was recorded at 1.53am on Monday, a scientist at the geological

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