Shiv Sena begins campaign for ban on burqa
Mumbai, Oct 19: Making use of the recent incident in which a two-month-old baby was kidnapped by an unidentified woman in burqa, Shiv Sena has begun the campaign for a ban on burqa."If the burqa is used to steal children, then.....
Case against Shiv Sena for violating norms
Mumbai, Oct 18: A case under Bombay Police Act has been registered against Shiv Sena party workers for violating Noise Pollution Control Rules during the party's Dasara rally held on Sunday, Oct 17 at Shivaji Park, Mumbai."The Bombay High Court had.....
Bihar: 10 dead in stampede on Navaratri
Patna, Oct 17: 10 people were dead and many more were seriously injured in a stampede at a Durga temple in Bihar during Navaratri celebration on Saturday, Oct 16.According the eye witnesses, people started running and trampling each other after some.....
Jeep accident kills 21 in Madhya Pradesh
Badwani, Oct 14: Twenty-one people, including five women and two children, were killed and many injured when a overcrowded jeep carrying them collided with an oil container in Madhya Pradesh district on Thursday, Oct 14.The incident took place between the Gawadi-Jamania.....
Pak by-polls: 14 dead, 40 injured in violence
Islamabad, Oct 17: Following a contesting party's announcement that it would boycott Pakistan upcoming by-polls over improper security issue, violence spread in Karachi in which 14 people were dead and 40 were injured.The political party, Awami National Party announced it would.....
Bihar: 10 dead in stampede on Navaratri
Patna, Oct 17: 10 people were dead and many more were seriously injured in a stampede at a Durga temple in Bihar during Navaratri celebration on Saturday, Oct 16.According the eye witnesses, people started running and trampling each other after some.....
Barack Obama inspires naming craze in US
Washington, Dec 5: US President-elect Barack Obama is yet to take office, but his candidacy has generated a national naming craze and a holiday in one Alabama county.In his 2004 keynote address at the Democratic Convention, Obama had called himself a "skinny kid with a funny name." Now, four years later, that funny name is appearing on public buildings and birth certificates, reports Fox News.It's not unusual for senior lawmakers in Congress to have buildings named after them.....
Pak-based terror group opens its gates to protest innocence on Mumbai attacks
Muridke (Pakistan), Dec.5 (ANI): A Pakistani terrorist group blamed for last week's attack on Mumbai that killed nearly 200 people and injured nearly 300, opened its gates to outsiders and reporters on Thursday in order to protest its innocence. The Telegraph quoted Abdullah Muntazir, a spokesman of the Jamaat-ud-Dawa, the political wing of the Lashkar-e-Toiba, as saying that he wanted to 'clear up some misconceptions' about the group's headquarters and activities, including the Indian Government's charge that it had masterminded the terrorist.....