Eggs pelted at Sheila Dikshit at function
A day after she was heckled and shown black flags, Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit was Saturday hit by eggs thrown at her by irate protestors, Congress party sources said.
Dikshit had gone to att
Rhino battles for life after poacher attack
A rhino is struggling for life after poachers shot at the animal and chopped off its horn in Assam's Kaziranga National Park, forest officials said Sunday.
Forest guards launched a hunt for the attac
Mother jailed for 99 years for assaulting daughter
A US mother has been sentenced to 99 years in prison for cruelly beating her two-year-old daughter and gluing her hands to a wall, Xinhua reported.
Elizabeth Escalona, from the Texas city of Dallas,
Four, including woman, held for attack on Malala
Police in Pakistan's northwestern Swat region have arrested four suspects, including a woman, in connection with the attack on Malala Yousafzai, a media report said.
According to Geo News, police cla
Shiela Dikshit heckled over power bills
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit was heckled at a function here on Friday and shown black flags by a crowd, angry over inflated electricity bills.
"There were anti-government slogans and black fla
Bill Gates, Kofi Annan back leniency for Rajat Gupta
Rajat Gupta, Goldman Sachs' former Indian-American director convicted of insider trading, has received letters of support from the likes of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and former UN Secretary Gene
Haryana khaps to discuss lowering marriage age for girls
Haryana's Sarva Khap Jat Panchayat, which has been at the forefront of demanding reservations for Jats in government jobs, will now discuss the bizarre suggestion that the marriage age for girls be lo
Dubai to build its own Taj Mahal
The UAE emirate of Dubai plans to build its own Taj Mahal at a cost of $1 billion.
Taj Arabia will be about four times the size of the original monument in India, the Gulf News quoted the developers
Fire destroys Sikh temple in Washington state
A Sikh temple and school that was under construction in Vancouver in Washington state has been burned to the ground in an early morning fire, according to a media report.
The fire sparked just before
Schoolkids to embark on roller skates marathon
A group of 20 school children will embark on a four-day roller-skating marathon from Pune to Mumbai to celebrate Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru's birth anniversary in a unique manner, an organiser said here