New Delhi | 2 hours ago
Indian IT experts devise technique to fight deadly bots
New Delhi, May 17 - Indian computer experts have devised a technique to smoke out bots and deter their malicious programmers from taking over your desk computer or laptop, stealing passwords or vital information in your hard drive even without your suspecting anything amiss, or deluging website with emails to crash them.Bots are emerging as one of the biggest threats to cyber safety and security w ... read more

Mumbai | 2 hours ago
I won't apologise, MCA officials should do that: SRK
Mumbai, May 17 - 'I won't deny that I could have said something in a fit of anger, but I will not apologise,' said Shah Rukh Khan Thursday, adding that the security officials from the Mumbai Cricket Association - manhandled children and that they should say sorry for their rudeness.'I don't think that my behaviour was incorrect or I did something illegal. I think what I did was correct. They are m ... read more

Jammu | 3 hours ago
Home secretary reviews cross-LOC trade at Poonch
Jammu, May 17 - Union Home Secretary R.K. Singh Thursday visited Jammu and Kashmir's frontier Poonch district and discussed with local people issues concerning trade across the Line of Control - between Indian and Pakistani-administered Kashmir.Meeting a delegation of traders in Poonch, 240 km northwest of Jammu, on the second day of his two-day visit to the state, Singh discussed the problems fac ... read more

Warsaw | 4 hours ago
Polish president plays down outside threats to Euro 2012
Warsaw, May 17 - There are no signals of outside security threats to the upcoming European football championship, Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski confirmed.Attending a sitting of the National Security Council devoted to Euro 2012 and the NATO summit in Chicago, Komorowski also appealed to trade unionists to postpone radical political protests and demonstrations until the end of the tournamen ... read more

New Delhi | 8 hours ago
MCA ban on Shah Rukh Khan not finalised: Rajiv Shukla
New Delhi, May 17 - The final decision to ban Bollywood star and Kolkata Knight Riders co-owner Shah Rukh Khan from entering Wankhede cricket stadium will be taken only after getting the version of all those involved, Indian Premier League - Chairman Rajiv Shukla said Thursday.So far, no decision has been taken on the ban, Shukla, who is also vice president of Board of Control for Cricket in India ... read more

Mumbai | 9 hours ago
SRK might be banned from entering Wankhede
Mumbai, May 17 - Bollywood star and Indian Premier League - franchise Kolkata Knight Riders co-owner Shah Rukh Khan is likely to face a lifetime ban on entering the Wankhede stadium after he allegedly misbehaved with security guards and cricket officials at the ground, officials said.The incident took place Wednesday night after the IPL match between his team and Mumbai Indians. Kolkata Knight Rid ... read more

18 hours ago
More attacks in Syria after arrival of UN observers: Assad
Moscow, May 17 - The number of terrorist attacks in Syria has increased since UN observers arrived in the country, President Bashar al-Assad told the Rossiya 24 TV channel.We have redeployed our troops, and as for terrorist attacks their number has grown sharply. The situation has not improved, Assad was quoted as saying by RIA Novosti.Over 200 UN observers have been deployed in Syria to monitor t ... read more

Raipur | 20 hours ago
Maoist strike cripples Chhattisgarh, 8 cops injured
Raipur, May 16 - A shutdown called by Maoists crippled life in parts of Chhattisgarh Wednesday, with the rebels attacking and injuring eight policemen, resorting to firing, torching vehicles and putting up road blocks. They also killed a trader.Most of the disturbances were reported from Bastar and Rajnandgaon districts, which form the Maoist strongholds and border Andhra Pradesh, Odisha and Maha ... read more

Baghdad | 21 hours ago
Nine wounded in Iraq bomb attacks
Baghdad, May 16 - As many as nine people, including security personnel, were injured Wednesday in separate bomb attacks in eastern and central Iraq, said police.In Iraq's Diyala province, a roadside bomb went off near a police patrol in the city of Jalawla, some 150 km northeast of Baghdad, injuring four policemen, Xinhua reported citing a police source. An explosive expert of the police was injur ... read more

Guwahati | 21 hours ago
Assam-Meghalaya border villages to shun militants
Guwahati, May 16 - Eighty-four villages located on a remote stretch of the Assam-Meghalaya border have now decided to desist any help to militants who frequent the area.The villages, mostly inhabited by the Khasi, Garo, Rabha and Jaintia communities, are frequented by cadres of militant outfits like the anti-talks faction of the United Liberation Front of Asom - and the Garo National Liberation Ar ... read more