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Islamabad, (ANI): Seven people were injured as four bombs went off in quick succession in Lahore’’s busy Mall Road area on Friday evening.
Police and witnesses claimed the bombs went off one after another within five minutes. The injured havebeen admitted to hospital.
Two of the four bombs were planted on motorbikes and police said the bombs [...]

Hyderabad,  Andhra Pradesh Police arrested disgraced former founder-chairman of Satyam Computers B. Ramalinga Raju and his brother and former Satyam MD B. Rama Raju on Friday night for cheating and forgery.
The Crime Investigation Department (CID) of the police arrested Ramalinga Raju and Rama Raju on charges of “criminal breach of trust, criminal conspiracy, cheating, falsification [...]

By Anand Shrivastav
Mumbai, Jan.9 (ANI) The US assistant secretary of state for south and central Asian affairs, Richard Boucher, on Friday said the United States of America is attempting to clear misunderstanding between India and Pakistan.
Addressing a news conference at the at the American Centre in Mumbai, Richard Boucher said: “The United States is trying [...]

Jammu, Jan.9 (ANI): Jammu and Kashmir’s new chief minister Omar Abdullah, while taking charge of his office on Friday for the first time said that he wished India and Pakistan to have good relations between them.
Omar Abdullah sworn in as the youngest chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir on Monday (Jan.5).
Relations between India and Pakistan [...]

New Delhi, Jan.9 (ANI): The outgoing U.S Ambassador to India David C Mulford on Friday said that the perpetrators of the Mumbai terror attacks needed to be booked.
Speaking at his farewell ceremony here, Mulford said: “The US has been pressing as India has, for deeper understanding in Pakistan of the roots of this problem, learning [...]

New Delhi, Jan.9 (ANI): Home Minister P.Chidambaram today said that the Government has approved an ambitious proposal intended at improving road connectivity in Arunachal Pradesh linking all its 16 district headquarters, besides improving connectivity in Assam.
Proposed under Rs. 12,513-crore plan by the Department of Road Transport and Highways, the roads hold strategic importance to enable [...]

Islamabad, Jan.9 (ANI): Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said on Friday that the situation was ‘fragile’ on the border with India, and regretted the suspension of peace talks following the militant attacks in Mumbai in November.
Gilani said that Pakistan’s intelligence agency, Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI) has given India information about the Mumbai terror attacks, while [...]

Chennai, Jan.9 (ANI): Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC) president S. Samy Vellu has severely criticised the Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) leader, P. Waythamoorthy, for distributing pamphlets containing severe allegations, at the ongoing Pravasi Bharatiya Divas here.
“All the allegations are lies. As a lawyer, he should know that he would have to pay for it if [...]

Jerusalem, Jan 9 (ANI): Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Friday that the IDF operation in Gaza would continue despite the UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire.
“Israel has never agreed to an outside actor determining its right to defend its citizens,” Olmert said in a statement issued following the Security Cabinet [...]

London, Jan 9 (ANI): Troubled football star Paul Gascoigne has saved himself from bankruptcy by selling two holiday homes.
Gascoigne was due to be declared bankrupt at a hearing in London over an unpaid 200,000 pounds tax bill, but managed to pay off the debt by selling two properties he owned in Spain and Bulgaria.
“He is [...]

New York, Jan 9 (ANI): A beer named after President-elect Barack Obama, which Red Hook-based Six Point Craft Ales stopped selling after Election Day, has been tucked away by some barkeepers for Inauguration Day celebrations.
The ale, which became very popular with its touch of citrus, had made its debut in March during the Democratic primaries, [...]

Washington, Jan 9 (ANI): Video sharing website YouTube has always been seen as a recreational site, but now it has been revealed that it has helped some people earn a six-figure salary off it.
Michael Buckley, 33, is one such person who says that he has been able to earn his six-figure through the site.
“Uh, I [...]

London. Jan 9 (ANI): English football fans fear a mass exodus of top football stars amid claims that the Premier League is facing a cash crisis.
Sports experts reckon the world’s best league could lose key sponsor Barclays, as the bank tightens its belt to beat the credit crunch, the Daily Star reported.
Officials would be left [...]

New Delhi, Jan 9 (ANI): Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL) and Oil India Ltd workers today called off their three-day strike, which has severely affected supplies of transport fuels.
BPCL Director (Marketing) S Radhakrishnan here today said that the fuel supplies would be resumed by this evening.
More than 70 per cent of the striking employees resumed [...]

Melbourne, Jan 9 (ANI): The mayor of Bluff is upset with the claims that almost all the people in the central Queensland town have contracted diarrhoea by drinking contaminated water.
Central Highlands mayor Peter Maguire hit out at the claims of resident Tim Cummings that “the water is so crook, just about everyone gets gastric sooner [...]

Washington, Jan 9 (ANI): BBC has named Little Boots, real name Victoria Hesketh, as the most promising Sound of 2009.
BBC’’s Sound of 2009 list picks the musicians who show promise to hit the big time in the next 12 months.
The 24-year-old electro singer started her synth-pop sound soon after she branched out of disco outfit [...]

London, Jan 9 (ANI): Muslim advisers have warned British PM Gordon Brown that the Gaza conflict could spark a violent Islamic backlash in Britain.
According to a report in The Sun, the alert came hours after dozens of police officials battled to separate hundreds of demonstrators outside the Israeli Embassy in London.
One cop was hurt and [...]

London, January 9 (ANI): The British Government’s flagship Change4Life anti-obesity campaign is being partly funded by food companies that have been linked to weight problems, according to a report.
Published by the medical journal Lancet, the report says that ministers are of the opinion that the push, which includes participation from food companies such as Pepsi [...]

New Delhi, Jan 9 (ANI): The Delhi High Court on Friday refused to extend Sanjeev Nanda’’s interim bail in connection with the BMW hit-and-run case.
Justice Kailash Gambhir dismissed the petition which means Sanjeev has to surrender himself on Saturday.
On December 19, the court had granted three-week interim bail to Sanjeev, who is undergoing five years [...]

Toronto, Jan 9 (ANI): Police officers, fire-fighters and family or general practice physician have been ranked among occupations with the highest levels of work-life conflict while taxi drivers, insurance adjusters and bank tellers are among those with the least, a new study has revealed.
The study found that the people who have to interact a lot [...]