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COMMENTS EMAIL | PRINT FONT SIZE Leh/Srinagar, Jan 9 (PTI) After remaining peaceful for most of the year, Chinese troops entered Indian territory in the fag end of 2010 along the Line of Actual Control in South-eastern Ladakh region and threatened a contractor and his team to halt work on constructing a “passenger shed”. The [...]

[ Updated 09 Jan 2011, 10:04:08 ] COMMENTS EMAIL | PRINT FONT SIZE New Delhi, Jan 9 : A woman Sanju of Delhi’s Kirti Nagar gave birth to quadruplets on Saturday in the governent-run Deendayal Upadhyay Hospital. Dr Ziledar Singh, medical superintendent of the hospital said that earlier ultrasound tests on the woman had shown  [...]

[ Updated 06 Jan 2011, 16:52:40 ] COMMENTS EMAIL | PRINT FONT SIZE A flight from Chicago to Frankfurt made an emergency landing in Canada when the pilot spilled his coffee. United Airlines Flight 940 was diverted to Toronto just after 10 pm Monday night, reports Daily Mail, London. An airline spokesman said only that [...]

[ Updated 06 Jan 2011, 14:16:53 ] COMMENTS EMAIL | PRINT FONT SIZE After Madhuri Dixit, Tabu and Amrita Rao, 95-year-old Dubai-based Indian painter M F Husain has found a new muse in Anushka Sharma.  He has seen her movie several times and that too, without glasses, says a media report.At last count, the celebrated [...]

by JASDEEP SINGH MALHOTRA India’s Consulate in San Francisco (California, U.S.A.) has been allegedly charging $2,500-$5,000 as bribes to grant visa to persons of Indian origin (PIOs) to visit India, said a delegation of the North American Punjabi Association in Jalandhar, Punjab,  on Friday, December 31, 2010. Association president Satnam Singh Chahal, who recently met India’s Union [...]

COMMENTS EMAIL | PRINT FONT SIZE Buenos Aires, Jan 5: Thieves dug a 100ft-long tunnel complete with ventilation and lighting which took them to the heart of  Banco Provincia, a bank in Buenos Aires, Argentina. This was a raid that had more in common with the precision and planning seen in the Hollywood film The [...]

[ Updated 04 Jan 2011, 19:59:31 ] COMMENTS EMAIL | PRINT FONT SIZE Islamabad, Jan 4: Salman Taseer, Governor of Pakistan’s powerful Punjab province and a key aide of President Asif Ali Zardari, was today assassinated here by one of his security guards who was angered by his opposition to a controversial blasphemy law. 66-year-old [...]