Trains collide in east India killed 61 people

A speeding express train rammed in the back of another passenger train in eastern India Monday morning that have killed more than sixty people according to television reports. The express train that collided with another passenger train early Monday mangled the carriages and killed 61 people according to railway police. The crash happened about 2 [...]

Train collision in east India kills 56

An express train that was running at high speed collided with a stationary passenger train at a station in eastern India early Monday, leading to the deaths of 56 people, the railway police said. Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee said the crash could have been another case of sabotage, as two months ago Maoist rebels were [...]

Is Facebook selling site credits in Asia?

Yes, the rumor is true. Facebook is partnering with a Malaysian company to sell credits at retail outlets across Asia for the first time. Whats the social-network sites purpose? It is aiming to make it easier for millions of people to purchase virtual goods and play games on the social networking site while boosting revenue for developers. [...]

Dalai Lama turns 75

The Dalai Lama spends its 75th birthday in Dharmsala India which has been his home after he fled Tibet due to a failed 1959 uprising against Chinese rule. The spiritual leader give a speech address in a crowd of about 5,000 followers at his temple in McLeod Ganj which is a hill station in the [...]

India train blast, killed 65

A passenger train was derailed Friday in eastern India. It crashed with an oncoming cargo train and the collision has killed at least 65 people and injured 200 near Sardiha India according to officials. Maoist rebels are allegedly responsible for the said derailment. Helicopters quickly rushed in the scene to help evacuate the injured people [...]

Plane crashes in India: 158 suspected dead, 8 alive

Boeing 737-800 aircraft of Air India Express crashed and burst into flames Saturday. This is said to happen at dawn. The crash killed nearly 160 people and at least eight has survived according to officials. The said plane was trying to land in the rain at a tricky hilltop airport, the Mangalore’s Bajpe airport, in [...]

Pakistan test-fires ballistic missiles

The Pakistani military said on Saturday that Pakistan had successfully test-fired two ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads. The first missile, Shaheen-1, carries a range of about 400 miles (650 kilometers), while the second missile, Ghaznavi, could hit targets at a distance of 180 miles (290 kilometers), an army statement said. Both missiles can carry [...]

Gunbattle in Indian Kashmir leaves 5 insurgents & 2 soldiers dead

After a fierce gunbattle between Islamic rebels and Indian security forces in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir, five insurgents and two soldiers were killed on Thursday, an army spokesman said. The fighting erupted in Rafiabad on Thursday night, after army troops and police received information about the presence of militants in the area, Col. Vineet Sood [...]

Mango tribute to Tendulkur

A new variety of mango has been named after Tendulkur because of his successful cricket carrier and unbreakable records. Farmer Kalimulah khan told India’s NDTV news channel that he has created a hybrid version of creamy, sweet-tasting fruit by combing two of the finest Indian varieties, including the chausa. The elder farmer from Malihabad in [...]

Planner of Mumbai Attack is himself a victim of split personality

The Deadly Mumbai attacks were done in 2008 and in recent news, the uncle of the planner of Mumbai attacks said that he is himself a victim of split personality which enabled him to switch between a westerner and a devout Muslim. Headly, the son of a former Pakistani Diplomat and a white American woman [...]

India arrests diplomat for ‘spying for Pakistan’

India has arrested a woman working as a diplomat in its Islamabad embassy on charges of spying for Pakistan. Madhuri Gupta, 53, is a second secretary in the embassy and works in the press and information section. She was arrested on a work trip to Delhi. Officials say she is suspected of handing over classified [...]

Google reveals government requests for user data

On Tuesday, Google launched an online breaking tool giving down the information that how often the different countries ask the Google search engine to hand over user data or censor information. Brazil was on the top in the list at the nascent Governments requests website, which showed that officials there inquired Google to filter data [...]

IPL semis moved from Bangalore to Mumbai after blasts

The Indian Premier League semi-finals have been moved from Bangalore to Mumbai amid security fears. Two devices exploded outside Bangalore’s Chinnaswamy Stadium before Saturday’s IPL game between Bangalore Royal Challengers and Mumbai Indians. The match went ahead, with Kevin Pietersen playing for Bangalore, but a third device was defused on Sunday. “The environment in Bangalore [...]

Marriage brought us much closer: Sania

Indian tennis star Sania Mirza said that her relationship with her new husband Shoaib Malik has emerged stronger from controversy over claims he was already married. Mirza and Malik got married on Monday after the settlement was reached with the family of Ayesha Siddique, an Indian woman who said she wed the former Pakistan cricket [...]

68 people killed by Cyclone in eastern India

At least 68 people were killed by a cyclone with a speed of over 100 mph (160 kph) that demolished thousands of mud huts in villages in northeastern India by Wednesday. The cyclone had struck on Tuesday night in northeastern parts of West Bengal and Bihar states, uprooting trees and snapping telephone and electricity lines, West Bengal [...]

Marriage between the Two stars (S & S)

Shoaib Malik, a great and brilliant youngster from Pakistan team has been in top news on many entertainment channels because of his recent affair and rumors of getting married with Sania Mirza( the beautiful, bold and among the first fifty women tennis stars of the world). This news is still on top and people are [...]

The Height of the Mount Everest

The agreement regarding the height of the famous Mount Everest had been agreed at once by Nepal and China. It was then agreed that the height of the Mount Everest is about 8,848m tall. The two countries are those that borders by the Mount Everest. Before, as for the Chinese, they argued that the Mount [...]

The Emerging Giants – China & India – Key facts

POPULATION One in three people worldwide lives in either China, the largest communist country, or India, the largest democracy. For the moment, China remains the most populous nation, with 1.3 billion inhabitants, followed by India, which is home to 1.1 billion. But India’s higher fertility rate means the gap is narrowing and the UN expects [...]

Indian tennis’s Mirza to wed Pakistani cricketer Malik

Indian tennis star Sania Mirza is to marry Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik, the family of India’s most successful woman tennis player confirmed. Mirza’s father said Malik, the former cricket captain of Pakistan, and his daughter would move to Dubai after the marriage, expected next month. He added that she planned to continue playing tennis once [...]

Lights go out as the world begins ‘Earth Hour’

On Saturday, Sydney’s Opera House and Harbor Bridge began the Earth Hour by going dark. The routine was followed by cities across Asia, where a global switch-off aimed at revitalizing efforts against climate change was made. The Harbor ferry horns blared to signal the initiation of the energy-saving event. The event was supported by 4,000 [...]

Gujarat minister Narendra Modi questioned at riots inquiry

The chief minister of India’s Gujarat state, Narendra Modi, has appeared for the first time before a panel investigating deadly riots in 2002. Gujarat authorities have been criticised for not doing enough to prevent the violence in which more than 1,000 people, mostly Muslims, died. Mr Modi, a leading member of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya [...]

Test of Two Nuclear Capable missiles by India.

In recent news, India has tested two short range missiles which have capability to take nuclear bomb along with them. Nuclear weapons were tested by India in 1998 and now she has made a range of nuclear and conventional missile systems as a part of program begun in 1983. Saturday’s first test was the launch [...]

Disputed island in Bay of Bengal disappears

With the rise of sea levels, a disputed island in the Bay of Bengal by India and Bengal for almost 30 years has been lost into the sea. The tiny rock island called New Moore Island, lying in the Sunder bans, has been completely submerged, said oceanographer Sugata Hazra, a professor at Jadavpur University in Calcutta. The disappearance [...]

Old part of Indian city of Calcutta is hit by fire

At least eighteen people have died in a huge fire in an old building, Stephen Court, in the Indian city of Calcutta’s famous Park Street, fire service officials say. More bodies are expected to be found in the charred building. At least 30 people were injured in the blaze – many when they were forced to jump [...]

150 Indians fooled by job agent in Malaysia

A job agent stranded at least 150 Indians in Malaysia by promising them to take them to the country, but deceiving them afterwards when he allegedly fled with their documents and money, an Indian High Commission official said in Kuala Lumpur on Monday. “Thirty nine Indians came to us to seek help, we immediately arranged [...]

India parliament to deliberate on pending women representation

India’s parliament is all set to vote on women quota bill that will reserve one third of seats for women, a legislative landmark stalled for 14 years. Coinciding with the International Women’s Day, The Women Reservation Bill is to be introduced in the upper house on Monday. The decision-making lower house will then deliberate on [...]

Australian Minister appeals on ‘racist’ attacks

Australian Minister Stephen Smith found some of the recent attacks against Indian students in Australia as “racist”, adding that the country needs to work hard to repair its image. Currently in New Delhi for a state visit, Smith said that that attacks “caused considerable damage to Australia’s reputation among the Indian people.” Attacks against Indians, [...]

Norway and India sign fisheries agreement

On Monday, Norway and India entered into an agreement on cooperation in the fields of fisheries and aqua culture. The agreement was signed during Foreign Minister Jonas Støre’s official visit to New Delhi. “We have the long-term ambition that India will become a new, major market for Norwegian fish products,” the Norwegian Foreign Minister said. India is [...]

NASA radar finds ice on moon’s North Pole

A U.S. radar launched into space aboard an Indian spacecraft has detected craters filled with ice on the moon’s North Pole, NASA scientists said on Monday. The U.S. space agency’s Mini-SAR radar found more than 40 small craters ranging in size from one to nine miles (1.6 to 15 kilometers), each full of water ice. “Although the [...]

India beaten by South Africa

Unbeaten centuries by Jacque kallis and AB de Villiers helped to setup South Africa’s 90 run win over India in the third and final one. India won the series by 2-1. Stand in skipper kallis hit 104 runs and man of the match AB de Villiers lashed 102 in 59 balls, his second successive hundred [...]

Pakistan, India hold first official talks since 2008 Mumbai attacks

Pakistan and India held their first official talks after 15 months on Thursday. The last talks held between the two rival countries were before the 2008 Mumbai siege. Both sides said they wanted to rebuild the trust shattered in that attack, making the meeting a first step towards a renewed peace process. The nuclear-armed rivals [...]

China anger at Dalai Lama-Obama meeting

A visit by the Dalai Lama to Washington has “seriously undermined” relations between the US and China, Beijing says. It released a strongly worded statement in response to US President Barack Obama’s meeting with Tibet’s spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama. China had earlier expressed “strong dissatisfaction and resolute opposition” to the meeting with a man [...]

India restaurant bomb blast kills nine in Pune

At least nine people have been killed and 57 others injured in a bomb attack at a restaurant in India’s western city of Pune, officials say. The explosion tore through the German Bakery, which is popular with tourists, in Koregaon Park. The bombing is the first major strike of its kind in India since the [...]

A Review on ‘Orkut’

Orkut is a social networking service that is owned and operated by Google. Named after its creator and Google employee Orkut Buyukkokten,the service is an online community designed to help users make their social life more active and stimulating as it allows users to meet new friends and maintain existing relationships. Orkut’s social network can [...]

Hackers take ‘racist’ revenge through cyberspace

In last previous days some of the engineering and construction firms have been attacked by some hackers. Media reports that these attacks were inked to India assaults but some of the officials denied reports of media that these cyber attacks are linked to Indian assaults. Victoria police crime squad is investigating of alleged hacking of [...]

Ancient Tribe-Dies Out

There are only a few numbers of ancient tribes which have left behind worldwide. Some days back the last member of a tribe believed to be offspring of one of the oldest human cultures on earth died on India`s Andaman and Nicobar islands. Boa Sr who died last week was the last speaker of “Bo”, [...]

Indo-Pak relation- An emerging concern for US

The relationship between India and Pakistan Governments has never been peaceful after the separation of sub-continent. A good and peaceful relation is really important for maintaining peace in this region. The world has become more concerned about the relation between PAKISTAN and INDIA after the development of atomic bombs by both countries because if there [...]

More than 80 nations sign ‘Copenhagen Accord’

Over 80 nations have signed the “Copenhagen Accord”, in order to fight the climate change, documents showed on Wednesday. China, India and Russia are among the nations yet to make clear if they will endorse the deal. On January 18, the U.N. Climate Change Secretariat wrote to all countries, asking them to state by January 31 [...]

13 countries agree on plan to save wild tigers

12 of the Asian countries along with Russia attending the first Ministerial Conference on Tiger Conservation on Friday vowed to double the number of wild tigers by 2022, finish off poaching that has devastated the big cats and prohibit the building of roads and bridges that could harm their habitats. However, the historic declaration adopted by the [...]

Tiger farms should shut: World Bank

China and other Asian nations should shut privately run tiger farms as they are inhumane and fuel demand for the endangered big cat’s bones and skin, the World Bank said Thursday. The call came as governments from 13 countries where tigers exist in the wild met in Thailand to discuss their conservation and how to boost tiger numbers. Tiger farms [...]

13 countries meet in hopes of saving wild tigers

Conservationists and the World Bank warned on Wednesday that efforts to save the wild tiger are at a critical point and it will take greater political will and cooperation from Asian countries to prevent the big cats from becoming extinct. The message was delivered to the 13 different tiger range states attending the first Ministerial [...]

India issues terror alert over hijack plot

After the Indian government received warnings about a possible attack on one of its Airlines on Thursday, India issued a terror alert at all its airports. Airline passengers across the country went through extra security screenings Friday and sky marshals were placed on flights as the government put its airports on high alert amid reports that al-Qaida-linked militants [...]

Thousands view solar eclipse in Asia and Africa

Thousands of people in Asia and Africa watched the formation of the annular solar eclipse which reduced the sun to a blazing ring surrounding a somber disk and leaving the continent in an eerie semi-darkness on Friday. The spectacle, visible in a roughly 300-kilometre (185-mile) band running 12,900 kilometres (8,062 miles) across the globe, set [...]

Kate Perry and Russel Brand get engaged

After a whirlwind romance, Katy Perry and Russell Brand are headed to the altar. The couple had been spending quality time together in India over the holidays, and rumors of their engagement started right after the new year began. Perry and Brand have kept fairly quiet about their love ever since they raised eyebrows in [...]

Australia downplays India’s warning

The Australian government has played down a travel advisory issued by India warning of the risk of violence against Indian students in Melbourne. The warning followed the killing last week of an Indian graduate, Nitin Garg, who was stabbed to death in the city. The Indian travel advisory warned of an increase in robberies and [...]

Indian Police file fresh case against top cop in sex crime

Police in Indian state of Haryana have registered fresh complaints against a former senior police officer convicted for molesting a 14-year-old girl. Two “first information reports” were filed against SPS Rathore for allegedly charging the girl’s brother falsely with a number of theft cases. Ruchika Girhotra, a budding tennis player in Haryana, complained in 1990 [...]