New Delhi : The Prime Minister has apologised in Parliament for the controversial remark by a Congress MP against former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. The Prime Minister said, “I was not in the House yesterday, but got to know that some untoward incident in the house in regard to Vajpayeeji …I apologise for that.” [...]
London: A new database enabling visitors to search for spoken English ranging from people talking to their dogs to ministers addressing their congregation is being created at the Oxford University Phonetics Laboratory. Professor John Coleman and his team are one of four teams to win the ‘Digging into Data’ competition set up to encourage imaginative, [...]
Nagpur: After thrashing Sri Lanka by 2-0 in the three-match Test series, Team India is all set to take on visitors in opening match of international twenty20 here at Nagpur on Wednesday. Skipper Dhoni & his young guns will try to keep islanders on bay after grabbing top spot in the ICC Test rankings. However, [...]
Beijing: Chinese authorities have offered rewards of up to 10,000 yuan (1,465 dollars) to Internet users who report websites that feature pornography, state media reported Sunday. However, the censors’ latest campaign against content that harms public morality appears to have encouraged Internet users to look for porn online. Within the first 24 hours, a hotline [...]
New Delhi : Tareq and Michaele Salahi may have become the world’s most famous gatecrashers for tricking their way into the White House’s state dinner for Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh last month, but they are not the first people to breach the US President’s security. A secret report compiled by the Secret Service reveals [...]
New Delhi: The Question Hour in Lok Sabha went off smoothly on Monday with just five MPs, who had given notice to ask questions, remaining absent. Proceedings during Question Hour had collapsed Monday last week because of absentee members. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MPs GM Siddeshwara, Sudarshan Bhagat and Sumitra Mahajan, Congress MP from Andhra [...]
London: Actress Anna Friel is considering turning her back on TV and film work in favour of stage roles after falling in love with theatre work during her acclaimed West End run in ‘Breakfast At Tiffany`s’. The ex ‘Pushing Daisies’ star has received rave reviews for her role as Holly Golightly in the London stage [...]
New Delhi : As the CBI continues to investigate the murder of 13-year-old Aarushi Talwar and her family’s domestic help Hemraj, several questions still remain unanswered. Aarushi’s phone which was recovered recently has drawn a blank. The Aarushi Talwar murder probe took the CBI team to the dusty lanes of Bulandshahar in Uttar Pradesh. They [...]
Robben Island (South Africa): The winners of next year’s World Cup final in South Africa will collect a cheque for $30 million, FIFA said on Thursday. The runners-up will receive $24 million and all participating teams will receive an extra $1 million to cover their preparation costs. The decision was announced after FIFA’s Executive Committee [...]
MUMBAI: In yet another volatile trade, the Bombay Stock Exchange benchmark Sensex on Friday fell by over 84 points, as funds indulged in profit selling after an unexpected contraction in the US job data revived their fears about the fledgling global recovery. The Sensex, which remained flat from Wednesday after the massive rally on the [...]
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