‘Midnight’s Children’ to kick off New York Indian Film Festival
byNew York (IANS) The 13th Annual New York Indian Film Festival (NYIFF) will kick off April 10 with an exclusive screening of acclaimed director Deepa…
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Another suicide in Tihar
byNew Delhi (IANS) Three days after a Delhi gang-rape accused was found hanging inside Tihar Jail here, a 30-year-old female prisoner committed suicide Thursday afternoon…
Court ban on telcos giving live cricket updates
byMumbai (IANS) Describing it as a landmark order, Star India CEO Uday Shankar Thursday said that the Delhi High Court has prohibited telecom operators and…
‘Himachal police worked like Gestapo under BJP’
byShimla (IANS) Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh today equated the state’s police during the previous BJP regime with Gestapo, the German state secret police…
Rise in number of jobless professionals in Kerala
byThiruvananthapuram(IANS) The number of unemployed professionals in Kerala continued to rise reaching 1.69 lakh by September 2012, up from 1.63 lakh for the year ended…
Punjab speaker suspends nine Congress legislators
byChandigarh (IANS) Following unruly scenes inside and outside the Punjab assembly Wednesday, the speaker Thursday suspended nine Congress legislators for the day. The nine were…
Xi takes charge of China
byBeijing (IANS) Xi Jinping today became president of China, the world’s most populous and one of the most economically powerful nations, completing a once-in-a-decade crucial…
Some Yamuna marchers reject accord, to continue protest
byAgra (IANS) The “save Yamuna” movement launched to secure the release of water from Hathinikundi in Haryana into the river appears to have split: One…
Three top private banks accused of money laundering
byNew Delhi (IANS) Three top private banks have been accused of running a nationwide money laundering racket by an investigative news website and production house,…
Indefinite curfew in tense Kashmir Valley
bySrinagar, March 14 (IANS) An indefinite curfew was imposed in Srinagar and other major towns of the Kashmir Valley Thursday following the killing of a…