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9 months ago
Bollywood celebrities give animal welfare a boost
New Delhi, May 9 - John Abraham, Celina Jaitley, Shilpa Shetty and Malaika Arora Khan have something in common apart from their celebrity status. They have come forward to endorse a message for animal welfare in the country. Whether it is turning vegetarian, binding themselves in chains, getting inside cages or going out of their way to provide shelter to animals - the actors have done their bit ... read more

1 year ago
Asia's biggest naval academy designed by Chandigarh woman
Ezhimala -, Jan 8 - It is another feather in her cap. For Namita Singh, one of the leading architects in the country, it was a proud moment when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh here Thursday inaugurated the Indian Naval Academy, Asia's biggest, that she has designed. It was a project she bagged beating several architectural firms. Namita, 60, heads Satnam, Namita and Associates, a leading Chandig ... read more

1 year ago
President Patil meets children, women activists
New Delhi, July 24 - For over 100 children who came from orphanages and disadvantaged backgrounds, it was a most exiting event - after all President Pratibha Patil was the one seated beside them, chatting with them and also sharing lunch with them. On the eve of completing a year in office, the president was eager to host children from disadvantaged backgrounds and to let them see the grand and ... read more

New Delhi | 2 years ago
Hackers playing havoc with e-mail accounts
New Delhi, Aug 1 - Mahendra Ved, a senior journalist here, was stunned after receiving a call from his Bahrain-based daughter a few days ago, sounding distressed and enquiring after his whereabouts and well-being.'She was crying and desperately wanted to reach me after reading an e-mail, which was sent to her by someone who had hacked my gmail account and forwarded a troubling message to all my fr ... read more

New Delhi | 2 years ago
Delhi Police wakes up to cyber crimes
New Delhi, June 11 - Caught unawares by a recent flood of cyber crimes that it did not quite know how to tackle, Delhi Police is getting its act together by setting up two dedicated cyber forensic labs as well as training policemen on the intricacies of the Internet.The incidents of cyber crime range from hacking to data tampering. With the number of Internet subscribers shooting up, and along wit ... read more

Lucknow | 2 years ago
Gandhi siblings' magic worked in Rae Bareli, Amethi
Lucknow, May 11 - The charisma of the Gandhi siblings - Priyanka and Rahul - did work, at least in the family pocket borough of Rae Bareli-Amethi where seven of the 10 assembly seats under these two parliamentary constituencies were bagged by the Congress party.The victory in the area is clearly a feather in the cap of the Gandhi siblings as the Congress had just two seats in its kitty there in th ... read more

Lucknow | 2 years ago
It's crime and money again in Uttar Pradesh polls
Lucknow, April 27 - Like the first four phases, the fifth round of the staggered Uttar Pradesh polls Saturday will again witness a strong presence of contestants with criminal antecedents and huge wealth.Of the 863 candidates in the fray for 58 assembly seats in this round, as many 115 face criminal charges while there are 61 multimillionaires.The nine districts - Hardoi, Unnao, Lucknow, Rae Bare ... read more

New Delhi | 3 years ago
Six Indians win Australian fellowships
New Delhi, June 27 - Six Indian professors and research scholars have been chosen for the Australian Studies Fellowships - for 2006-07.The Australian Embassy in New Delhi announced in a statement Tuesday the names of the six recipients of the fellowship under the Australia-India Council - programme.The recipients are Deb Narayan Bandopadhyay from Burdwan University in West Bengal, Kamala Kanta Das ... read more