Monthly Archives: April 2015

April 5, 2015

Panaji: Goa Police Crime Branch team on Saturday inspected the FabIndia outlet in Candolim where Human Resource and Development Minister Smriti Irani spotted a CCTV camera overlooking the changing room.

April 4, 2015

ORISSA, INDIA – Malkangiri SP Mitrabhanu Mohapatra has 291 personnel for 5,791 sq km area — or one policeman for 20 sq km of difficult, thickly forested terrain. With his men — and a lot of help from central forces — the young IPS officer is trying to choke the jungle corridor known as the Andhra Pradesh-Orissa Border Axis, or AOB axis, which is used by Naxals to move between Orissa and neighboring Chhattisgarh.

April 4, 2015

An American geologist, who was imprisoned in China for over seven years on charges of stealing state secrets, was released and sent back to the U.S. on Friday, human rights officials said. Xue Feng had obtained a collection of rare data about 30,000 Chinese oil wells, which were later declared a state secret by the country.

China jail for Xue Feng

April 4, 2015

GARISSA, Kenya — Hundreds of residents of this eastern city turned out in the traffic-clogged streets Saturday to view the bodies of four men alleged to have carried out a bloody campus assault here, even as Somali militants issued a statement threatening Kenya with more attacks.

April 5, 2015

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday directed the Health Ministry to increase the size of the pictorial warning on tobacco packs to 65 per cent and not to take into account the views of people with conflict of interest.

April 4, 2015

Indian weightlifting was hit by one of the biggest doping scandals in recent years after 21 lifters tested positive for banned substances.

The Indian Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has provisionally suspended the lifters, who tested positive across different championships - both out-of-competition and in-competition.

April 4 2015

MUMBAI, INDIA: I am squatting on the floor in Prabhavati Jaiswar’s home when she turns to me and says, “I don’t make tea very often, but would you like a cup?”

April 3, 2015

In a written competition that tests knowledge on Bhagwad Gita, a Mumbai-based Muslim girl pipped 3,000 competitors to emerge the winner.

April 3, 2015

Colombo: Dismissing opposition's claim that his government has given fishing rights to Indians, Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has said he has issued clear instructions to the navy to seize boats that violate the country's territorial waters.

April 3, 2015

Bengaluru: Stressing that terror and talks cannot go together, BJP on Friday said India's engagement with Pakistan would be based on strategic interests and enunciated Modi government's foreign policy pillars or "Panchamrit" of dignity, dialogue, security and shared prosperity and culture.