On a day when India finally got a symbol for the Rupee and joined a select club of countries whose currencies have an unique identity, CNN-IBN spoke to D Udaya Kumar, a postgraduate student of the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay, who had designed the symbol.
An Indian startup company Hidden Reflex has launched first ever web browser from India. Epic has been stuffed with many features and applications. It has something which we have never heard of before, an integrated antivirus protection in a browser. The built in antivirus and antispyware is powered by ESET.
Diplomats like to stress that Afghanistan is not a zero-sum game, that if only the many regional players – including Pakistan and India – can settle their differences, they can find common cause in seeking a political settlement that will offer stability.
33 year-old British journalist Vanessa Able trashed every myth about a lone foreign woman travelling across India when she traversed the world’s ’scariest’ roads in a tiny Tata Nano. Her experiences have been documented in the quirky www.nanodiaries.com. She tells SOWMYA RAJARAM she’ll be back in India this October, to take her Nano up to Rajasthan. More Pictures
Amritsar: A young Indian medical student, returning from Turkmenistan, gave birth to a baby aboard a plane and tried to flee after leaving behind the newborn in the toilet. She was later arrested, police said on Wednesday. According to the airport police, the woman was identified as Amandeep Kaur Mann, a resident of Punjab’s Hoshiarpur town.
Delhi: The Organising Committee is playing fence-sitter on the issue of serving cow meat at Commonwealth Games. To be(ef) of not to be(ef) is the question Commonwealth Games organisers are not ready to answer unambiguously, at least for now it seems.
Ahmedabad: A beggar on Saturday proved that charity only needs a big heart rather than deep pockets. Khimjibhai Prajapati, 64 and a beggar in Mehsana for a decade, donated clothes to 11 poor hearing and speech-impaired girls at the Shrimati Kesarbai Kilachand School for the Deaf.
DEHRADUN: Rapid-fire batting and a passion for fast bikes. That’s long been the Mahi way. And on Sunday, the Indian cricket captain’s love for speed was once again on display. Within a day of Dhoni’s engagement to Sakshi Singh Rawat, the couple got married at Vishranti Resort, located in the usually sleepy Lower Kandoli village, around 25km from Dehradun.
Passport fraud case is tip of iceberg for forged documents in India, authorities say. NEW DELHI, India — When an Air India Express flight from Dubai overshot the runway in Mangalore, India, and burst into flames, killing 158 passengers and crew, the Indian press was abuzz with stories about airline safety, the national carrier’s recent troubles and its many mistakes.
Bangalore: At Sundeep Medicals, a busy drugstore at one end of Bangalore’s prominent Brigade Road, two teenage girls breeze in and ask for the iPill, and then argue over whether they should buy one or two. “Buying emergency contraceptives has become like buying candy bars,” said Shreyansh Sankhla, who owns the store.
Mumbai – In his forthcoming film, ‘Ra One’, superstar Shah Rukh Khan is preparing to drive the world’s fastest car, the Bugatti Veyron.Its been rumored that a special technical team that has also worked in the Johnny Depp starrer ‘The Pirates of the Caribbean’, is all set to teach Shah Rukh the nitty gritties of driving the world’s most fastest production car.
Bangalore: There’s a ray of hope for Salman Pasha (16) who weighs 165 kg. After visiting several hospitals for weight-loss treatment, a city hospital will now treat him for free. Salman Pasha (16) had little idea that he’d stand to gain kilos, that too, from a dose of bad medicine.
New Delhi: The elegant Indian scarf known as a "dupatta" is a symbol of female modesty, but in the right hands it is also an effective weapon to combat the unwanted attentions of men. "Fling it over the attacker’s neck, pull him, go for the final thrust and he will be thrown on the ground in front of your eyes," shouts a police officer.
Washington: Sattaru Umapathi, a police officer who has led numerous operations across India to rescue victims of human trafficking, has been hailed as a hero by the US state department. Umapathi, the anti-human trafficking officer of the Andhra Pradesh Crime Investigation Department, is among nine heroes "around the world who have devoted their lives to the fight against human trafficking".
New Delhi: The government has lifted the ban on Indians travelling for work or academics to Iraq. The ministry of external affairs felt the situation in Iraq had stabilised and at least some parts of the country were safe. The ban was imposed in 2004.
Mumbai — An Indian property group on Tuesday unveiled plans to build the world’s tallest purely residential tower in Mumbai, the country’s booming financial capital. Lodha Developers said the tower would be 117 storeys high and would be designed by New York-based Pei Cobb Freed and Partners, the architects of the Louvre Pyramid in Paris and the Bank of China building in Hong Kong.
Delhi: Police officers, including a woman constable, asked a juvenile accused to strip and have sex with his mother inside a police post in Rajouri garden. The woman has lodged a written complaint with the police commissioner. You may have heard shocking tales of nails being pulled out, beating up of suspects after making them lie naked on ice sheets, rendering of electric shocks etc as part of the police’s third degree torture techniques.
Mumbai, India: Every weekday morning 23-year-old Muskaan gets ready for work in an apartment she shares with her mother in Chembur, a suburb in Mumbai. Muskaan’s mom thinks her daughter will catch a bus to her office in Powai. Instead, she meets her boyfriend, 24-year-old Dilip, and he gives her a ride to work on his motorcycle.
Bangalore: Take a Bollywood film where the protagonist is named Jai (meaning victory) so he can pass off as Jay in Los Angeles, where he lives. Add some racy bits, chop off a song or two, mix in some Hollywood sound and then shrink its final length by a third. Behold, the first true-blue attempt at a Bollywood-Hollywood crossover.
Mumbai: The live-in partner of 27-year-old Jet Airways pilot, Varun Agarwal, may have accused him of rape after he refused to marry her, but legal experts say police should be more careful when investigating cases like these. Lawyers say rape is a heinous crime that deserves strict punishment, but whether the provisions governing rape are applicable here is the question.
Kolkata: Little Shirin and Sharmin hardly knew who Maoists were or why they would target their train. On their first ever vacation, all that the mirror-image twins could think about was what they would do in Mumbai, pose for pictures in identical frocks, take the ferry to Elephanta… They went to sleep hugging each other. They died that way.
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Bangalore: It was once the Grand Old Lady of the Indian roads, the drive of choice for India’s prime ministers, Bollywood stars, top bureaucrats and corporate chieftains. With its trademark balloonish shape and roomy interiors, the brawny Ambassador ruled the roads here for more than a quarter of a century.
Bangalore: Mohammed Naseer (45), a Dubai-based businessman of Indian origin, is a man in mourning. He lost not one but 25 people he knew well in the Mangalore air crash. The dead include relatives, friends and his business partner Iqbal Siddiqui. Naseer, who visited the crash site in Mangalore after the area was opened to the public on Monday afternoon, said, "I don’t know for whom to mourn.
Mumbai, India — The price of gold rose to its all-time high dollar value on Wednesday — more than $1,240 an ounce — which is more than triple what it was in 2001 when it started its climb.What is India, the world’s largest importer of the metal, to do? India accounts for 20 percent of global demand. But skittish global investors throughout the recession have flocked to the metal as a safe asset when real estate and stocks tottered.
Ranchi, India: In a hair-raising incident, a husband stitched the private parts of his wife with wire in Jharkhand’s Dhanbad city after her request to visit her parents enraged him, police said on Friday. The woman, Sabitri, is in critical condition after being operated at a Dhanbad hospital, doctors said. The man, Sannimar Munda, is on the run.
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