Mumbai: A hundred years after “Lights, Camera, Action.” were uttered for the first time in India by Dhundiraj Govind Phalke – Dadasaheb Phalke, known as the ‘Father of Indian Cinema’ – his descendents have sought a befitting recognition of his contribution by posthumously conferring him the Bharat Ratna, the country’s [...]

New York, April 27 (IANS/EFE) A piece of landing gear thought to be from one of the two aircraft that hijackers crashed into the World Trade Center Sep 11, 2001, was found near ground zero, a New York Police Department spokesman confirmed Friday. The NYPD established a crime scene at [...]

Kathmandu/New Delhi, April 27 (IANS) Nepal’s former prime minister and Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) chairperson Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ arrives in the Indian capital Saturday on a four-day trip, a visit that has been described as a “thaw” by the Nepalese media and one that could go a [...]

Mexico City, April 27 (IANS/EFE) Six people were killed and two wounded in a shooting near the Mexican resort city of Acapulco, authorities said. The eight victims were gathered on the bank of a dried-up riverbed in the village of Los Organos when gunmen arrived and started shooting, the Guerrero [...]

Dhaka, April 27 (IANS) The toll in the building that collapsed Wednesday in the outskirts of this Bangladesh capital rose to 328 Saturday, media reports said. Fourteen people were pulled out alive and 13 bodies were recovered from beneath the rubble of the eight-storeyed building Saturday morning, raising the toll [...]

Amritsar, April 27 (IANS) With Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh in coma at a Lahore hospital after being fatally assaulted by fellow prisoners, his family members in Punjab said Saturday that they wanted to leave for Pakistan immediately to take care of him. Sarabjit’s sister Dalbir Kaur, who has [...]

Islamabad, April 27 (IANS) The Indian High Commission has been granted consular access to death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh who was admitted to a Lahore hospital Friday after a murderous attack on him by fellow prisoners in Kot Lakhpat jail, a media report said. The India High Commission has been [...]

Islamabad, April 27 (IANS) A case of attempt to murder has been registered against the two prisoners who viciously attacked Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh in Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat jail, a media report said. A case of attempt to murder has been registered against main accused Aamir and Mudassar, [...]

Washington, April 27 (IANS) Miffed over the brief detention of his Urban Development Minister Azam Khan at Boston airport, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav skipped a Harvard University event they had come to participate in. Instead, UP Chief Secretary Jawed Usmani took the duo’s place in a panel discussion [...]

Islamabad, April 27 (IANS) A medical board has been constituted to treat Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh who was admitted to the ICU of Lahore’s Jinnah Hospital after a murderous attack on him by fellow prisoners in Kot Lakhpat jail Friday, a media report said. “A high-powered medical board [...]