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Rashtriya Janata Dal celebrates good show in Bihar by-polls
Patna, Sept 20 (ANI): The activists of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) here celebrated the party’s good show in the by-election for 18 legislative assembly seats. The RJD-Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) won eight seats in the by-election for 18 legislative assembly seats, a major set back to ruling Janata Dal-United (JD-U). The JD (U) bagged [...]
Nine-day ‘Navratri’ festival begins all over India
New Delhi/ Faizabad/Allahabad, Sept 19 (ANI): The nine-day ‘Navratri’ festival began across India with religious fervour on Saturday. Thousands of devotees queued up at various temples dedicated to Goddess Durga. In New Delhi, devotees converged at Jhandewalan to offer prayers prior to dawn and observed fast throughout the day. “We observe fast on the first [...]
Kashmir almonds ready to hit markets
Werwan (J-K), Sept 19 (ANI): With the almond harvesting reaching its final stages, the growers are gearing up to hit the local market in Kashmir. Residents of Werwan village in Pulwama district, very famous for almonds, are busy harvesting the almond crops. Eighty-five per cent people are doing the almond business. These days, they are [...]
Planck spacecraft obtains first peek of big bang’s ‘afterglow’
London, September 18 (ANI): European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) Planck spacecraft has obtained its first peek at the afterglow of the big bang, revealing it in unprecedented detail. The ESA spacecraft was launched into space on May 14 this year. It is observing the glow of hot gas from just 380,000 years after the big bang, [...]
Tight security at Vaishno Devi shrine ahead of “Navratri”
Katra, Sept 18 (ANI): Security has been beefed up at the famous Vaishno Devi Temple near Jammu ahead of the nine-day “Navratri” festival. Paramilitary and police personnel are patrolling and frisking people at important points in Katra, which is thronged by thousands of devotees every year, especially during Navratri. The nine-day Navratri festival will begin [...]
Sharad Pawar says end of season rains will help winter crops
New Delhi, Sep 18 (ANI): Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar has said that late end-season rains will help India’s winter crops. Talking to reporters here on Thursday, Pawar said, “It’s true that because paddy area transplantation has been dropped, but the late rains are very helpful particularly for Punjab, Haryana, Orissa and Chhattisgarh.” “There would not [...]
Rashtriya Janata Dal celebrates good show in by-polls in Bihar
Patna, Sep 18 (ANI): Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) celebrated its good show in state by-election on Thursday. The RJD-Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) won eight seats in the by-election for 18 legislative assembly seats, a major setback to ruling Janata Dal-United (JD-U). JD (U) bagged three seats while its ally Bharatiya Janata Party won two seats. [...]
Pakistan got 970-mn dollars and not 3-bn dollars from US
Islamabad, Sep 17 (ANI): The United States has provided 970 million dollars in aid to Pakistan since the PPP-led Government came to power and not three billion dollars as claimed by US Ambassador Anne Patterson, a Pakistani Finance Ministry official has said. The statement of US Ambassador to Pakistan, Anne Patterson, about giving 3 billion [...]
NASA’s Swift satellite makes best-ever ultraviolet portrait of Andromeda galaxy
Washington, September 17 (ANI): NASA’s Swift satellite has acquired the highest-resolution view of a neighboring spiral galaxy ever attained in the ultraviolet. The galaxy, known as M31 in the constellation Andromeda, is the largest and closest spiral galaxy to our own. “Swift reveals about 20,000 ultraviolet sources in M31, especially hot, young stars and dense [...]
Twitter could help track swine flu spread
London, September 16 (ANI): People’s updates on popular social networking websites such as Twitter about having coughs and colds could help health officials track early warning signs about flu outbreaks. The Health Protection Agency annual conference at Warwick University, UK, heard that such websites could indicate an outbreak of flu earlier than conventional disease surveillance [...]
Pak-New Zealand ODI series to be held in UAE
Lahore, Sep 14 (ANI): Pakistan Cricket Board chief Ijaz Butt has said that he has had constructive talks with Emirates Cricket Board officials about holding a proposed ODI series against New Zealand there later this year. Butt, who is in London, said that he would officially announce the venues for the four One-day Internationals and [...]
Congress screens aspiring candidates for polls in Maharashtra
Mumbai, Sep 12 (ANI): Congress party has begun shortlisting candidates aspiring for party’s nomination for the October 13 assembly elections in Maharashtra. Congress party, which is running a coalition government with Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) in Maharashtra for the second term in a row, is yet to sort out hiccups on seat sharing with its [...]
Mafia may be behind Berlusconi’s sex scandal, claims coalition partner
London, Sept 12 (ANI): Responding to the sex scandal engulfing Silvio Berlusconi, Umberto Bossi, the key coalition partner in the Italian PM’s government, said he believed Mafia had orchestrated all the dirty activities. “I think everything has been put in place by the Mafia,” Bossi, the leader of the Northern League, said as he arrived [...]
Brit woman thinks she has finally found Mr. Right in sixth hubby!
London, Sep 11 (ANI): A Brit woman, who has spent 31-years looking for Mr Right, thinks that she has finally found him in her sixth husband. Lady Rosemaris Chanie-Cridge, 50, a former dancer and actress, saw her five previous marriages last between 18 months and ten years, with her choices ranging from a wealthy property [...]
Hilary Swank says there was no ‘spark’ when she first met beau John Campisi
Washington, Sep 8 (ANI): Hilary Swank has said that there was no initial “spark” between her and new beau John Campisi because both of them were nursing a broken heart at the time, and their romance was completely “unexpected”. Hilary was in the process of divorcing Chad Lowe when she started working with John in [...]
Boy George turns to raw diet to shed ‘jail weight’
Washington, September 8 (ANI): Fallen pop star Boy George has reportedly turned to a strict diet of uncooked food to shed weight he gained as he served his sentence in jail. The former Culture Club frontman, real name George O’Dowd, was also said to have resorted to a gruelling exercise routine to get back in [...]
Boy George plans comeback after prison release
Washington, September 8 (ANI): Former Culture Club frontman Boy George is drawing plans to head back to the studio and resurrect his career just fourth months after he walked free from jail. The fallen pop star, real name George O’Dowd, was jailed in January for falsely imprisoning a male escort in his flat and beating [...]