Army’s special recruitment drive in northeast India
The Indian Army has given a special dispensation for the youth of northeast India to join the military, an official said here on Wednesday.
Ex-king’s kin flees Nepal
Kathmandu, Aug. 11: Former king Gyanendra’s son-in-law, Raj Bahadur Singh, has fled Nepal after his brush with the law last week that got him handcuffed and cooling his heels inside a police cell.
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US okays bill to hike visa fee
Washington, Aug. 11: Amid protests from India, the US House of Representatives has passed a bill to steeply hike US visa fee for skilled workers to raise $600 million in emergency funding to help secu
US man marinates cat in car
New York, Aug. 11: An American man who was caught marinating his cat in a mixture of peppers, salt and oil inside a cage in the car bonnet said he was doing so because the feline was mean and ill-temp
Hollywood racist, says jobless Dev
Hollywood is ins-titutionally racist and Asi-ans are offered limited roles such as terrorists, taxi drivers or geeks, Slumdog Millionaire star Dev Patel said.
Human brain on a microchip almost ready
Toronto, Aug. 11: The human brain on a microchip is almost ready! Turning into reality science fiction of films such as The Terminator, where machines and men meld into reality, Canadian scientists ha
US House approves bill to hike visa fees amid Indian protests
Amid protests from India, the US House of Representatives has passed a bill to steeply hike US visa fees for skilled workers to raise $600 million in emergency funding to help secure the US-Mexico bor
Facebook saturated in Britain
London, Aug. 11: Social networking website Facebook is nearing its saturation point in Britain and its growth in the country has gone down over the past six months.
Britain, however, has the second-l
1 killed as terrorists attack bus, Army jeep in Jammu
A woman was killed and 15 people hurt when terrorists attacked a civilian bus and an Army jeep in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district on Wednesday, the police sources said.
China to resettle 45,000 mudslide-affected people
The Chinese government has chalked out a three-stage resettlement programme for the thousands of people affected in rain-triggered mudslides in Gansu province that left at least 702 dead while over 1,