New York | 10 hours ago
1.3 mn Haitians still in camps months after quake: UN
New York, Sep 2 - Nearly nine months after a devastating earthquake, an estimated 1.3 million Haitians are still living in temporary shelters while the country struggles with reconstruction and rebuilding a government, the United Nations said Thursday in an updated report.The 1.3 million people displaced by the magnitude-7 earthquake Jan 12 now live in 1,300 settlement sites. 'The situation in the ... read more

New Delhi | 20 hours ago
Troubles behind, India promises 'best ever' Commonwealth Games
New Delhi, Sep 2 - Sceptics wrote it off as an organisational disaster and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had to make a personal intervention, but the Oct 3-14 Commonwealth Games that will bring together 71 countries and participating teams to the Indian capital is on its way to being the 'best ever', promise the organisers.Even so, with India hoping that the Games, the biggest sporting event in t ... read more

Thiruvananthapuram | 1 day ago
Malayalam film 'Nirakazhcha' to be dubbed in Italian
Thiruvananthapuram, Sep 1 - Debutant director Aneesh J. Karanad is a happy man as his Malayalam film 'Nirakazhcha' will soon be dubbed in Italian and will be screened in 600 theatres across Italy.'Nirakazhcha' is about an Italian painter, played by Vincenzo Bocciarelli, who visits Kerala to recreate the magnificent Raja Ravi Varma paintings and falls in love with a model -. Bocciarelli is a popula ... read more

Raipur | 2 days ago
Three held for plotting to kill legislator
Raipur, Aug 31 - Three people were arrested in Chhattisgarh Tuesday for plotting to kill a legislator of the state's opposition Congress party, police said.Acting on a tip off, the police arrested a couple planning to hire a contractor to eliminate Agni Chandrakar who represents the Mahasamund assembly seat, and a person of Gariaband locality. 'A suspended constable, Sheetal Dhruv, his wife Man Ba ... read more

Hyderabad | 2 days ago
NSL to enter branded apparel segment by Diwali
Hyderabad, Aug 31 - NSL Textiles, which has built up a business with the concept of 'Cotton to Clothing', will enter the branded apparel segment by Diwali, launching the 'Constello' brand, to cater to the domestic market, the company announced here Tuesday.To start with, the company will open 11 stores in Andhra Pradesh and plans to have 750 stores across the country in five years. The stores will ... read more

Thiruvananthapuram | 2 days ago
From cassock to celluloid - priest Johnson turns a new leaf
Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 31 - Johnson Karoor is charting a new path - he has shed his priest's cassock to fulfil his celluloid dreams with the Malayalam movie 'Nirakazcha', which is running in theatres. He says the decision was his own and that his peers at the Syro Malankara Catholic Church didn't show him the door.'The decision to come out of the priestly duties was mine. I served as a priest for ... read more

New Delhi | 2 days ago
Indian aid to Pakistan upped to $25 mn
New Delhi, Aug 31 - India has increased its aid for Pakistan flood victims to $25 million from the $5 million announced earlier, but the assistance will be routed through the United Nations, External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna said here Tuesday.'- government has decided to increase its assistance to Pakistan from $5 million, announced earlier, to $25 million,' Krishna said in the Lok Sabha. He ... read more

Islamabad | 3 days ago
Flood waters recede, people return home in north Pakistan
Islamabad, Aug 30 - Flood waters began receding in northern Pakistan as a major breach in the embankment of the turbulent Indus river has been plugged, restoring life in the worst affected parts of Sindh province back to normalcy, officials said Monday.The troops of the army engineering corps have succeeded in plugging the Bharya Sheedi Mori breach in Thatta on river Indus, saving the city from th ... read more

Kathmandu | 3 days ago
National Insurance hit hard by Nepal plane crash
Kathmandu, Aug 30 - India's oldest insurance company, the 103-year-old National Insurance Company Ltd -, has been hit hard by last week's plane crash in Nepal with its sole office abroad having been the insurer for all 14 people on board as well as the 15-seater Dornier aircraft.NIC, which began its foray in Nepal nearly three decades ago and today holds about eight percent of the market in the Hi ... read more

Mumbai | 3 days ago
'Peepli Live' is not about farmers, say documentary makers
Mumbai, Aug 30 - What is common between Anwar Jamal and Prashant Pethe? They have made features and documentaries on farmers and do not believe that 'Peepli Live' has much to do with the acute problems faced by India's farming community.''Peepli Live' is a film about the insensitive middle class, the media, politicians, etc. Nowhere is it a film about farmers. Where are the causes that lead to his ... read more