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New York, Sep.19 (ANI) : Pakistani authorities may have filed cases against Lashkar -e-Taiba (LeT) chief Hafeez Mohammad Saeed, the alleged mastermind of the November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, but Islamabad’s actions are being considered as a mere ‘hogwash’.

The New [...]

Jakarta, Sep. 17 (ANI): Terrorist mastermind Noordin Mohammed Top was killed in a police raid on a militant hideout in Central Java on Thursday, Indonesian police have officially confirmed.

The 41-year-old Malaysian-born extremist was one of four militants killed in the [...]

London, Sept 17 (ANI): Lord Of The Rings author JRR Tolkien secretly trained as a British Government spy in the run up to the Second World War, it has emerged.

Tolkien, an Oxford University professor who also wrote The Hobbit, was “earmarked” to [...]

Kolkata, Sep. 11 (ANI): Smugglers active along the porous Indo-Nepal border are now using children, as ‘carriers’ to smuggle goods like sugar and tobacco.

Hundreds of children, in the age group of six to years, are being hired by the mafia of smugglers to carry out this illegal trade along the Sunauli check point of Uttar [...]

New Delhi, Sep. 8 (ANI): Moblie phones and digital cameras are among the 300 new items, which would figure in the new Wholesale Price Index (WPI).

Over 30 items would be taken off the new inflation series, which is expected to be out by December. Existing series has many obsolete items. [...]

London, Sep 7 (ANI): Google will be working with giant toy company Hasbro to produce a spectacular online version of Monopoly, say reports.

The game uses Google Maps as a board, allowing players to choose from millions of streets worldwide [...]

New York, Sep.2 (ANI): The mother of the high-priced hooker who famously serviced former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer has expressed dismay over reports that he may consider running for office again less than two years after the sordid sex scandal.

“Only in America,” Ashley Dupre’s mom, Carolyn Capalbo, told The New York Post.

While [...]

Guwahati (Assam), Aug 30(ANI): A half-marathon christened ‘Green Run’ was held at Guwahati on Sunday to spread mass awareness on the benefits of tree plantation.

Organised by a premiere engineering institute, the event saw participation of around 400 people of all ages.

The participants and the organisers expressed the view that events like this would result [...]

Srinagar, Aug. 30 (ANI): Electricity remains to be a distant dream for the residents of Gurez valley of Jammu and Kashmir despite ample water resources existing in the region.

Consequently, diesel run generators have been sole means of power, a situation that has prevailed and prolonged in the region for decades.

In contrast, Gurez valley is the [...]

Washington, Aug.28 (ANI): Former US Senator Ted Kennedy had many foreign-policy achievements to his credit, and one of them was his role in helping to create the new state of Bangladesh in 1971.

In 1971, the Pakistan Government, with the support of the Nixon administration, sent troops into what was then called East Pakistan, in [...]

Washington, Aug 27 (ANI): Madonna has denied reports that claim the pop diva will run in Marathon des Sables next year.

Tabloid reports had earlier suggested that the 51-year-old hitmaker was under a strict training schedule for the six-day rigorous run across the Sahara Desert.

However, Madonna’s aide Liz Rosenberg has rubbished the rumours.ontactmusic music quoted her [...]

London, August 26 (ANI): A British-built car has broken the land speed record for steam-powered cars for the first time in more than 100 years, after it achieved an average speed of 225 kilometres per hour.

According to a report in New Scientist, Charles Burnett III has reached speeds of 219 km/hr (136 mph) and 243 [...]

London, Aug. 24 (ANI): Australian skipper Ricky Ponting has refused to rule out being back in England in 2013 after losing the Ashes here again.

Ponting has probably played his last Ashes Test in England however he conceded he could have unfinished business here.

He would be 38 at the time of the next Ashes in England.

“Who [...]

London, Aug.24 (ANI): Andrew Flintoff signed off from Test cricket with Ashes glory and declared that Stuart Broad would adequately make up for his absence.

The 31-year-old said: “What a Test for Stuart Broad – I think once I’ve gone, they’re not going to be missing me. They seem to have found someone far better. [...]

Sydney, Aug.23 (ANI): Former New South Wales coach and Australian keeper Steve Rixon expects forgotten opener Phil Jaques to return with such vengeance this season that he puts serious pressure on the Test partnership of Simon Katich and Shane Watson.

Rixon, who is the president of Sutherland grade club where Jaques plays, said the 30-year-old left-hander [...]

Panaji (Goa), Aug.22 (ANI): The coastal state of Goa on Saturday is said to have registered its first swine flu death when a 67-year-old man died at a private hospital here.

State health authorities said Shiva Murthy, arrived in Goa from Bangalore on Friday. He was admitted with high [...]

Pune / Chennai, Aug 22 (ANI): Two more swine flu deaths were reported on Saturday in the country, taking the death toll to 47.

One death each was reported from Pune and Chennai.

With a 60 year old Baban Hangule succumbing to the virus on Saturday, Pune [...]

Pune / Chennai, Aug 22 (ANI): Two more swine flu deaths were reported on Saturday in the country, taking the death toll to 47.

One death each was reported from Pune and Chennai.

With a 60 year old Baban Hangule succumbing to the virus on Saturday, Pune [...]

London, August 22 (ANI): U.S. President Barack Obama left the national media struggling to get the meaning of his newest catchphrase “wee weed up”, which he uttered at a healthcare forum with Democratic party activists in Washington on Friday.

He spokes these words while comparing his recent negative press coverage with similarly dire predictions made [...]

London, Aug 20(ANI): Chelsea midfielder frank Lampard has promised his Chelsea fans that he will keep scoring goals after he equalled Jimmy Greaves record in the club’s all time goal charts.

Lampard’s penalty in the 3-1 victory over Sunderland on Tuesday meant he has now scored 132 goals in his eight-year career at the club. Jimmy [...]