Washington | 32 minutes ago
North America's first Telugu meet to be held in Houston
Washington, May 17 - India's Telugu culture will be at grand display in the US during the first North American Telugu Association - convention to be organised in the Houston city of Texas state June 29-July 1, 2012.The cultural meet will be held in downtown Houston at George R. Brown Convention Centre, which is spread over two million square feet area and is also celebrating its silver jubilee thi ... read more

New Delhi | 4 hours ago
Student attacked by classmate to be discharged Thursday
New Delhi, May 17 - A class 10 student who was stabbed with a paper cutter by his classmate at a school in central Delhi is stable and will be discharged Thursday, a doctor treating him said. The accused student was enraged over a photo uploaded on Facebook.The class 10 student had multiple cuts in the left arm. A surgery was performed last night... he is better now and will be discharged today -. ... read more

Srinagar | 4 hours ago
Legislator blames doctors for death of Kashmiri kids
Srinagar, May 17 - A sitting MLA Thursday led a protest outside the G.P. Pant Hospital in summer capital Srinagar, blaming the doctors for the death of Kashmiri children at the premier hospital.It is nothing short of a mass murder of our children, Engineer Rashid, an independent legislator from north Kashmir's Langate constituency told reporters outside the hospital.For 1,700 patients, the hospita ... read more

Madrid | 4 hours ago
Barcelona's Alves to miss cup final with broken collar-bone
Madrid, May 17 - FC Barcelona's Brazilian full back Dani Alves will miss the final of the Copa del Rey against Athletic Bilbao after suffering a shoulder injury.The club issued an official communique confirming that Alves had fractured the right side of his collarbone during his side's Wednesday training session.The injury completes a miserable end to the campaign for Alves, who was sent off in hi ... read more

New York | 9 hours ago
8 Indian-Americans get medal for community service
New York, May 17 - Eight Indian-Americans are among the recipients of this year's Ellis Island Medal of Honour presented to more than 100 immigrants for their community service.The eight, Peter Bheddah, Ravishankar Bhooplapur, Dr. Sanjiv Chopra, Dr. Leena N. Doshi, Dr. Surendra V. Jain, Hasu P. Shah, Rajendra Singh and Dr. John P. Thomas were presented the medal at a ceremony on the island in New ... read more

Warsaw | 10 hours ago
Chaurasia's magic flute charms Poles
Warsaw, May 17 - The profile of Poland has gone up by many notches as a cultural destination for Indian artists. After Bollywood films and translations of Urdu masters into Polish language, Pandit Hari Prasad Chaursia, one of the doyens of Indian classical music maestro, enthralled the Polish crowd in three cities - Wroclaw, Krakow and Warsaw.In all these places, Chaursia won the hearts of the aud ... read more

12 hours ago
Women gives birth in Russian train
Moscow, May 17 - A woman gave birth on a train in Russia's Siberia region, and two interior ministry police officers helped her deliver the child.The incident took place Wednesday night, officials from the Siberian Federal District Interior Ministry told RIA Novosti.The conductor of the train travelling from Abakan in eastern Siberia to Moscow, announced that a pregnant 23-year-old passenger had g ... read more

New Delhi | 21 hours ago
Man killed while resisting robbery in Delhi
New Delhi, May 16 - A 27-year-old man was stabbed to death while his younger brother was critically injured when they resisted four bike-riding assailants' bid to rob them in the capital, police said Wednesday.The incident took place in east Delhi's Seelampur area at 10 p.m. Tuesday.A senior police official said the killed man has been identified as Irfan. Irfan after dinner had gone for a walk ... read more

New Delhi | 1 day ago
CBI seeks time to submit sanction against public servant
New Delhi, May 16 - The Central Bureau of Investigation - Wednesday requested a Delhi court to provide it with more time to submit proper sanction of prosecution against a public servant accused in a graft case.The CBI counsel said that they required more time for getting sanction of prosecution against K.V.S. Rao, director in the Cabinet Secretariat. The CBI also sought time to file some relevant ... read more

Chennai | 1 day ago
On one year of Jayalalithaa's rule, opinions vary
Chennai, May 16 - A year after she stormed to power in Tamil Nadu, Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa still enjoys wide support in the state. But the number of critics is rising too.Reactions on one year of AIADMK rule varied as Jayalalithaa began her second year in office Wednesday, It was on this day in 2011 that the actress-turned-politician took the oath of office -- for the third time since 1991. ... read more