Yearly Archives: 2015
Indian woman dental student found dead in California
March 11, 2015
Los Angeles: A 37-year-old Indian woman dental student has been found dead in Albany, the US city's first homicide victim since 2004, officials said today.
Randhir Kaur was found dead in her apartment in Kains Avenue about 4 pm on Monday in Albany, California State.
She was a University of California San Francisco (UCSF) dental student, officials said.
Officers found Kaur on the floor of her apartment, and she was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.
Coalgate: Politicians react to summons issued to former PM Manmohan Singh as accused
March 11, 2015
New DELHI – Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla, ex-coal secretary PC Parakh and three others were today summoned as accused by a special court in a coal scam case pertaining to allocation of Talabira-II coal block in Odisha in 2005 and asked to appear before it on April 8.
Pak tried secret deal with al-Qaeda as terror group targeted India
March 11, 2015
TOP Pakistani politician Shahbaz Sharif, the chief minister of Punjab province and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s brother, as well as the country’s powerful Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), had attempted to negotiate a secret peace deal with al-Qaeda in the summer of 2010, documents filed by US prosecutors in a federal court in New York last month have revealed.
Solar plane aiming for first round-the-world flight lands in India
March 11, 2015
Ahmedabad, INDIA – The first round-the-world solar-powered flight landed in India on Wednesday, the second leg of a 35,000 km journey seeking to demonstrate that flying long distances fuelled by renewable energy is possible.
2015 ICC World Cup: Sri Lanka romp home after Sanga, Dilshan tons
March 11, 2015
Brief Scorecard: Sri Lanka 363 for 9 (Sangakkara 124, Dilshan 104, Mathews 51, Davey 3-63) beat Scotland 215 (Coleman 70, Mommsen 60, Kulasekara 3-20, Chameera 3-51) by 148 runs
All Women Bike Rally Rolls in Delhi on Women’s Day
March 10, 2015
By Geeta Goindi
New Delhi, INDIA – On March 8th, flagging off the third annual NBT All Women Bike Rally on the UN-designated International Women's Day, Home Minister Rajnath Singh underscored that Indian women are capable of meeting any challenge.
Land Bill passed in the Lok Sabha; Cong walks out
March 10, 2015
NEW DELHI: The contentious Land bill today passed the Lok Sabha test after the government carried out nine amendments to it and persuaded most of its allies to support, setting the stage for its consideration in Rajya Sabha where the numbers are loaded against the government.
Congress members in the Lok Sabha in New Delhi on Tuesday.
Isis targets Australian teenagers to join ‘death cult’ amid fears they will be used...
March 9, 2015
Fears that Isis is luring Aussie teenagers to the Middle East are rising as the government urges youngsters to "block your ears".
Two Australian brothers have been intercepted at Sydney airport, amid concerns that the extremist terror group is recruiting young people as cannon fodder.
India’s Daughter: Meryl Streep and Freida Pinto to attend US premiere of BBC documentary
March 9, 2015
The BBC documentary, depicting the aftermath of the brutal gang-rape and murder of the Delhi Braveheart in 2012, will have its US premier next week and will be attended by Oscar-winning actor Meryl Streep and Freida Pinto in a show of support for the film banned in India.
Oscar-winning hollywood actress Meryl Streep
India’s only woman Muslim pilot has a message to share
March 9, 2015
“People initially think I’m Christian and then gawk when I tell them my full name,” laughs Saarah Hameed Ahmed (25) the Bengaluru girl who is the only known Muslim among the 600-odd women pilots employed in the Indian aviation sector. “I just love the look on people’s faces when they discover I am Muslim.”
