Mar 28 2008
To be too much computer and internet savvy can lead to mental disorder and can ruin your social life as users feel loneliness, irritation, depression and anger, when a computer can not be accessed, said an eminent US psychiatrist in an article that was...
Mar 28 2008
Maharashtra Legislative Assembly today (March 27) approved two-day civil custody for State Election Commissioner Nand Lal in a breach of privilege case. The privileges committee of Maharashtra Assembly warns Nand Lal of `even stringent action’ if...
Mar 27 2008
Pradeep Sharma, who joined the Mumbai Police in 1983, has the highest number of encounter victims to his name in the state. He has the rare distinction of having been featured in Time magazine. Some notorious criminals slain in operations supervised by...
Mar 27 2008
Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama on Wednesday said the Indian government was a “little over-cautious” on the Tibet issue but the Tibetan refugees here enjoyed sympathy of the government and the public. “I have always looked India...
Mar 27 2008
Expect no respite from Pakistan-sponsored terrorist attacks in India, the National Security Advisor (NSA) M K Narayanan has warned. “There has been no change in the attitude of the ISI in mentoring outfits like the Lashkar-e-toiba. Terrorist...
Mar 25 2008
At least 300 Tibetans were rounded up on Monday as hundreds of Tibetan refugees staged demonstrations against China in the Nepalese capital at two different places including one near the United Nations office. Police baton charged hundreds of...
Mar 25 2008
Serbia has formally proposed partitioning Kosovo along ethnic lines for the first time, asking the United Nations to ensure that Belgrade can control key institutions and functions in areas of the newly independent country where Serbs form a...
Mar 25 2008
Delhi Police Special Operations Squad ACP Rajbir Singh, known as the ‘encounter specialist’, was gunned down by a property dealer in Gurgaon, Haryana on Monday night allegedly over a monetary dispute. The property dealer Vijay Bhardwaj has...
Mar 24 2008
Democracy has dawned on one of the world’s smallest countries as Bhutan went to elections on Monday. And in a surprise result, the king’s uncle, Sangay Nedup, was defeated by a landslide by former prime minister Jigmi Thinley’s...
Mar 24 2008
Pakistan’s National Assembly elected as prime minister on Monday Yousaf Raza Gilani, a top official in assassinated former prime minister Benazir Bhutto’s party, five weeks after it won a general election. In an immediate challenge to...