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Lahore/Karachi: At least 28 people were killed and over 180 injured on Wednesday when three suicide bombers blew themselves up in back-to-back attacks targetting Shia march in Lahore, even as gunmen opened fire at a procession in Pakistan’s commercial capital Karachi wounding seven. The first blast, caused by a low intensity explosive device, went off near [...]
Melbourne: The murky saga of bookies making approaches to cricketers widened with revelations that two more Australians, fast bowlers Brett Lee and Mitchell Johnson, had confronted an alleged Indian bookmaker during the Ashes in England last year. All-rounder Shane Watson and wicketkeeper batsman Brad Haddin had revealed yesterday that they were approached by a [...]
BAKERSFIELD, California: A doctor involved in an “on-again, off-again” relationship apparently tried to force her way into her boyfriend’s home by sliding down the chimney, police said Tuesday. Her decomposing body was found there three days later. Dr. Jacquelyn Kotarac, 49, first tried to get into the house with a shovel, then climbed a ladder [...]
23-year-old Sangeeta Rai, a resident of Sector-10 jhuggi in Noida went to the district hospital of Noida on Monday as she was suffering labour pangs, but the nurse on duty said she had low haemoglobin count and blood was required, so she should arrange that first before being admitted. Sangeeta fell unconscious at the main [...]
The last of the Mumbai-based bookies cleared their ‘vallan’ or payments by midnight thanks mostly to the fear of Dawood Ibrahim’s cronies, says a Mid Day report. Wads of notes were wrapped in old newspapers and dispatched through errand boys to the offices of bookmakers, who won the bets. Though there was an initial stand-off [...]
Nakhon Rastchasima Province, Thailand: Secretly recorded cell phone footage has exposed a teacher at a Catholic boarding school in northeastern Thailand who whacked dozens of students on the buttocks with a cane wrapped with electrical wire. Art teacher Somchai Limthanmaporn was fired after he was exposed hitting at least 40 students, according to Nongkran [...]
ਲੰਡਨ, ਬਰਤਾਨੀਆ ਦੇ ਇਕ ਅਖਬਾਰ ਨੇ ਇੰਗਲੈਂਡ ਅਤੇ ਪਾਕਿਸਤਾਨ ਵਿਚਾਲੇ ਖੇਡੇ ਜਾ ਰਹੇ ਲਾਰਡਜ਼ ਕ੍ਰਿਕਟ ਟੈਸਟ ਵਿਚ ਮੈਚ ਫਿਕਸਿੰਗ ਦਾ ਸਨਸਨੀਖੇਜ਼ ਖੁਲਾਸਾ ਕੀਤਾ ਹੈ। ਅਖਬਾਰ ਦਾ ਦਾਅਵਾ ਹੈ ਕਿ ਇਸ ਮੈਚ ਵਿਚ ਕਰੋੜਾਂ ਰੁਪਏ ਬਦਲੇ ਨੋ ਬਾਲ ਫਿਕਸ ਕੀਤੀ ਗਈ ਸੀ। ਅਖਬਾਰ ਦੀ ਰਿਪੋਰਟ ਅਨੁਸਾਰ ਪਾਕਿਸਤਾਨ ਦੇ ਤੇਜ਼ ਗੇਂਦਬਾਜ਼ ਮੁਹੰਮਦ ਆਮਿਰ ਅਤੇ ਮੁਹੰਮਦ ਆਸਿਫ ਨੇ [...]
ਇਸਲਾਮਾਬਾਦ, ਪਾਕਿਸਤਾਨੀ ਪ੍ਰਧਾਨ ਮੰਤਰੀ ਯੂਸਫ ਰਜ਼ਾ ਗਿਲਾਨੀ ਨੇ ਕਿਹਾ ਹੈ ਕਿ ਪਾਕਿਸਤਾਨੀ ਕ੍ਰਿਕਟ ਦੇ ਇਕ ਹੋਰ ਮੈਚ ਫਿਕਸਿੰਗ ਸਕੈਂਡਲ ਵਿਚ ਫਸਣ ਤੋਂ ਬਾਅਦ ਉਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਦੇ ਕ੍ਰਿਕਟਰਾਂ ਨੇ ਦੇਸ਼ ਦੇ ਲੋਕਾਂ ਦਾ ਸਿਰ ਸ਼ਰਮ ਨਾਲ ਝੁਕਾ ਦਿੱਤਾ ਹੈ। ਗਿਲਾਨੀ ਨੇ ਇੰਗਲੈਂਡ ਵਿਚ ਪਾਕਿਸਤਾਨੀ ਕ੍ਰਿਕਟ ਟੀਮ ਦੇ ਇਕ ਹੋਰ ਮੈਚ ਫਿਕਸਿੰਗ ਵਿਵਾਦ ਵਿਚ ਫਸਣ ਤੋਂ ਬਾਅਦ ਪੱਤਰਕਾਰਾਂ [...]
Australian cricketers Shane Watson and Brad Haddin were approached by a suspected Mumbai gangster with links to illegal bookmakers during the tour of England last year, the Sydney Morning Herald reported Tuesday. The newspaper reported Watson was approached in the bar of the team’s West London hotel, the Royal Kensington Garden, after the Lord’s Test, [...]
New Delhi: Faced with Tuesday’s government deadline, BlackBerry mobile phone maker Research In Motion (RIM) on Monday gave in promising access to Indian security agencies to monitor all its services with immediate effect. Nearly two months after insisting that it does not have the provision to grant access for such monitoring, RIM made certain proposals [...]
