Agra, Jan 1 (IANS) What will the city of Taj Mahal get as a New Year's gift? A long awaited makeover.
A city, which is just 200 km fm the Indian capital New Delhi and draws tens of thousands of foreign visitors every year, is so full of squalor and eyesores in parts, that many first […]
Hamburg, Jan 1 (DPA) People who are stubborn and never seem to learn from their mistakes may have a mutated gene that makes them bull-headed, according to scientists in Germany.
About one-third of the population has this mutation, which may be nature's way of ensuring that there are always some people who will not give up […]
Rampur, Jan 1 (ANI): At least seven Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel and a civilian were killed when armed militants attacked their recruit camp in Uttar Pradesh's Rampur District in the wee hours today.
According to CRPF and police officials, militants armed with AK-47 rifles and grenades attacked the camp at around 2:20 a.m.
The […]
New Delhi, Jan 1 (ANI): Congress Party President Sonia Gandhi was admitted to Sir Ganga Ram Hospital late on Monday night after she suffered an asthma attack.
B K Rao, Chairman of the hospital's Board of Directors told reporters that Sonia Gandhi was diagnosed with mild chest infection.
The condition of her was better and stable […]
Herat (Afghanistan), Jan 1 (IANS) Spain's King Juan Carlos made an unannounced visit to Spanish troops serving in Afghanistan as part of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force, EFE news agency reported Tuesday.
The monarch arrived here Monday aboard a Hercules transport plane from Kuwait, accompanied by Spanish Defence Minister Jose Antonio Alonso and officials of […]
Berlin, Jan 1 (DPA) Amid New Year's Eve celebrations Monday evening, Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel struck a sombre note with a television appeal for Germans to keep their eyes out for parents abusing children.
'We need a culture of paying attention, not of looking away,' she said in the pre-recorded New Year message broadcast on Germany's […]
Cairo, Jan 1 (DPA) At least 19 people were killed and 40 injured when a public bus plunged into an irrigation canal after colliding with a truck in southern Egypt, authorities have said.
The accident occurred Monday evening on a highway near Minya, 300 km south of Cairo, the authorities said.
The Cairo-Aswan highway, linking cities and […]
Islamabad, Jan 1 (ANI): The much-awaited January 8 polls in Pakistan are likely to be held in February in the wake of the assassination of former premier Benazir Bhutto and the countrywide riots that followed.
The Election Commission will officially announce this later today.
Elections will not be delayed beyond February. We expect […]
Villavicencio (Colombia), Jan 1 (IANS) The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) has postponed the hostage release claiming that the country's military activity had made it impossible to safely release the captives, EFE news agency reported Tuesday.
The new date for the release was not announced.
In a statement read to reporters by former Argentine President Nestor […]
Visakhapatnam, Jan 1 (IANS) The 95th Indian Science Congress (ISC), to be inaugurated by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh here Thursday, will focus on creating a knowledge-based society to transform India into a developed country in the coming decades.
The five-day annual event, being held at the sprawling Andhra University campus, is expected to be the largest […]
Kolkata, Jan 1 (IANS) West Bengal School Education Minister Partha Dey was injured when a trailer coming from the opposite direction rammed into his car on Kona expressway near Kolkata.
Police said the incident occurred around 10.30 p.m. Monday. The minister suffered injuries in the head and was rushed to the emergency unit of SSKM Hospital […]
New Delhi, Jan 1 (IANS) United Progressive Alliance (UPA) chairperson Sonia Gandhi was early Tuesday admitted to a hospital here after complaining of chest pain.
Sir Ganga Ram Hospital chairman B.K. Rao said: 'Mrs. Sonia Gandhi came to our hospital with cough and a light breathing problem. She has a chest infection.'
Rao added that her […]
Kuala Lumpur, Jan 1 (IANS) Retired bank clerk Hardeep Singh is regarded as the late Mohammed Rafi's number one fan in Malaysia with a collection of over 3,000 songs by the versatile Indian singer.
'I started collecting these records when I was 17. My father gave me $1 every month as pocket money which I spent […]
Washington, Jan 1 (IANS) The US Defence Department has awarded a $498.2 million contract to Lockheed Martin Corp to supply 18 F-16 aircraft to Pakistan just ten days after the US Congress slapped restrictions on military aid to Islamabad.
Lockheed will sell 12 F-16C plus six F-16D planes to Pakistan under the contract, the department announced […]
Nairobi, Jan 1 (DPA) Violence continued to rock Kenya and more than 100 people were killed in the rioting, one day after President Mwai Kibaki returned to power in contested elections that have inflamed ethnic tensions.
Riot police fired tear gas and shots into the air to disperse disgruntled crowds while houses belonging to Kikuyus, Kibaki's […]
