Sep 23 2010
For much of the summer, Srinagar in Indian Kashmir has been a ghost town: all shops shut, streets deserted, and eerily silent. Until the curfew is lifted for just a few hours. Stalls selling fruit spring up on every corner, noisy traffic jams fill the...
Sep 15 2010
A 22-year-old driver in a Mercedes hit 10 vehicles in Pune on Tuesday, injuring ten people. Aditi Jagtap, whose father is a doctor at Ruby Hospital, was allegedly speeding when she caused the massive accident at Kondwa Road. Her Mercedes hit six cars,...
Sep 4 2010
The 27-year-old son of an Assistant Commissioner of Police attached to the Protection Department of the Mumbai Police shot himself after allegedly shooting his newly wed wife with his father’s service revolver. The incident occurred between Thursday...
Aug 30 2010
India and China have to learn to get along with each other. India and China deeply distrust each other. The enormous gap between these two simple truths is why no one should expect smooth sailing in bilateral relations between the two countries. There...
Aug 14 2010
Mr. Obama noted that ever since August 15, 1947, India’s non-violent struggle for freedom, its rejection of terrorism and extremism, and its belief in democracy, tolerance, and the rule of law had been an inspiration and beacon of hope for people...
Jul 31 2010
The Goregaon police are faced with a mystery after finding the decomposing bodies of a senior citizen couple in their flat in the suburbs on Friday evening. The couple’s schizophrenic son, 42-year-old Sujit, apparently stayed with the corpses of his...
Jul 21 2010
Curfew was on Wednesday clamped in Baramulla town of North Kashmir, which witnessed protests over the drowning of a student, even as authorities terminated the services of a policeman accused by locals of pushing him into the river. Elsewhere in the...
Jun 16 2010
India’s federal government is set to send troops to help end a two-month road blockade by tribal groups in the north-eastern state of Manipur. One Naga group had said it would suspend the blockade on two key roads, but other groups refuse to back...
Apr 24 2010
Maoist ultras blasted an additional health centre and a training centre at Pangalwa village in Bihar’s Munger district in the wee hours today.
Mar 16 2010
Hooded and armed men on Monday kidnapped Carlos Roca, news chief of the Televisa de Zulia television channel in the northeastern Venezuelan state of Zulia, said authorities in Maracaibo, the state capital.