Kolkata, May 31 – In the wake of the Gyaneshwari Express tragedy, running of passenger trains on Kharagpur-Rourkela and Kharagpur-Adra sections will continue to be suspended between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. till June 3 due to security reasons. Making the announcement, a South Eastern Railway statement said three trains – 315/316 Howrah-Adra Chakradharpur Passenger, [...]
London, May 31 – Cage fighter Alex Reid claims he has been showered with bottles and bananas while walking down a street. ‘There were boos when I entered, but I thought: I can live with that. I expected a bit of pantomime behaviour, but it wasn’t nice when people started throwing bananas and bottles. That [...]
Paris, May 31 – Rafael Nadal assumed his accustomed place in the later stages of the French Open Monday, his fourth-round defeat a year ago just a fading memory. But his fellow quadruple tournament winner Justine Henin was unable to re-live her own glorious past on the clay of Roland Garros, with Australian seventh seed [...]
Islamabad, May 31 – No Pakistani citizen died or was injured in Israel’s raid Monday on the freedom flotilla ship carrying aid for the people of Gaza, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said. There were three Pakistani citizens on board the ship and all were safe, Malik was quoted as saying by Online news agency. Interpol [...]
Shillong, May 31 – Meghalaya Chief Minister Mukul Sangma Monday said he will meet his Assam counterpart Tarun Gogoi Saturday to resolve the inter-state boundary dispute. ‘I have spoken to Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi and finalised the date for discussions on the boundary dispute,’ Sangma told reporters. He said he has also spoken to [...]
Vatican City, May 31 – The Vatican said Monday that Pope Benedict XVI has accepted the resignation of a senior Catholic cleric who has been accused of sexually assaulting a teenage girl in Nigeria. Archbishop Richard Anthony Burke resigned from the pastoral care of the archdiocese of Benin City, Nigeria, the Vatican said, without elaborating [...]
Beijing, May 31 – Eighteen mafia leaders were sentenced to jail Monday in a sweeping crackdown on organised crime in China’s Chongqing region, a court said. The Rongchang County People’s Court sentenced ringleader Xia Ping to 20 years in prison after convicting her of leading a mafia ring, gambling, extortion, robbery and illegal gun possession, [...]
London, May 31 – Pop singer Katy Perry has threatened her record company to reduce her work load or else she would stop popping contraceptive pills and get pregnant. ‘I’ve told them not to p*** me off and if they continue to push me harder, I’ll just get pregnant, thesun.co.uk quoted Perry as saying. ‘I [...]
Gandhinagar, May 31 – After dragging its feet for over a month, Gujarat Police’s criminal investigation department (CID) Monday handed over the probe into Tulsiram Prajapati killing to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). The papers of the case were handed over to the central investigating agency, police sources here said. Prajapati was a close [...]
Los Angeles, May 31 – Hollywood actor Tom Cruise had a lot of fun performing motorbike stunts alongside bulls for his new action movie ‘Knight And Day’. ‘Some intense stunts, so we had a good time there. Fortunately no extreme mishaps. A little adventure with the bulls,’ Cruise said. ‘Riding a motorcycle during a bull [...]
Lucknow, May 31 – Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan is likely to face a probe after an Uttar Pradesh court Monday directed police to look into an allegation of cheating a villager by not building a women’s college in his daughter-in-law Aishwarya Rai’s name. The complaint was filed May 29 by Raj Kumari, the village head [...]
Geneva, May 31 – Israel’s ambassador to the UN in Geneva said his country had the right to attack any vessel attempting to breach the maritime blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip. ‘Any vessel that violates or attempts to violate the maritime blockade (off the coast of Gaza) may be captured or even attacked under [...]
Ahmedabad, May 31 – Ahmedabad police Monday arrested a voluntary organisation worker suspected to be linked to those behind Friday’s derailment in Jhargram in West Bengal, evoking sharp reactions from social activists here. Srinivas Sutaipa Kurappati, who hails from Andhra Pradesh, was arrested from Ghodasar area in the labour-dominated Gomtipur locality in old Ahmedabad for [...]
New Delhi, May 31 – The Congress Monday said it had not interfered in the release of film ‘Rajneeti’ which has generated political heat for its reported depiction of Congress president Sonia Gandhi. ‘The party and the government believe in the freedom of expression. The film finally got UA certification,’ Congress spokesperson Jayanthi Natarajan told [...]
Mumbai, May 31 – A six-member fact finding team, headed by Justice (retd) Hosbert Suresh of the Bombay High Court, Monday demanded the immediate withdrawal of the proposed POSCO project in Orissa’s Jagatsinghpur district. Voicing strong opposition to police’s use of force and filing of false cases against peaceful protesters in the district May 15, [...]
London, May 31- Pop star Lady Gaga lies ‘profusely’ about herself in interviews to protect her personal relationships. ‘The discrepancy between private and public life: I believe, as an artist, being private in public is at the core of the aesthetic, the message. However, I profusely lie about my personal relationships in an effort to [...]
New Delhi, May 31 – Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit Monday said the hike in price of compressed natural gas (CNG) by the central government will be taken into consideration while deciding a new fare structure for auto-rickshaws in the capital. ‘It will be factored in,’ Dikshit said when asked whether her government has any [...]
New Delhi, May 31 – One of Haryana’s most wanted criminals, involved in a series of murders and other crimes, has been arrested in Delhi, police said Monday. Kishori Lal, a contract killer with penchant to kill his victims in crowded areas, was arrested from Jain Nagar near Rohini in north Delhi by the anti-homicide [...]
Paris, May 31 – Justine Henin said Monday she will take a day to digest her first French Open defeat in six years, with the former number one adding that she would not set any unrealistic goals for Wimbledon. Henin lost her fourth-round match at Roland Garros 2-6, 6-1, 6-4 to Australian Samantha Stosur, who [...]
Geneva, May 31 – The Palestinian delegation to Geneva asked the UN Human Rights Council Monday to hold a special meeting on the Israeli pre-dawn raid of a flotilla of international political activists bringing aid to the Gaza Strip. Imad Zuhairi, a Palestinian diplomat, made the request at a plenary, asking for the session to [...]
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