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Will India dominate this century???

Administrator — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:42:16 +0100

Delhi is celebrating its 100th birthday as India’s capital on 12 December 2011. Delhi was crowned as the capital city of India in 1911, replacing Calcutta (now Kolkata). On 12 December 2011, Delhi has completed a total of 100 year...

Azim Premji among six Indians in global thinkers list.

Administrator — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 04:37:32 +0100

Social activist Anna Hazare, software czar Azim Premji and four other Indians have been named in the US-based Foreign Policy magazine's list of the top 100 global thinkers for 2011.

Economist Abhijit Banerjee, writer-activist Arundhati Roy, researcher Deepa Narayan and scholar Arvind Subramanian are the other Indians in the list topped by Arab activists who helped bring democracy to the Middle East. US President Barack Obama is ranked 11th on the list.

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Azim Premji among six Indians in global thinkers list.

Administrator — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 04:33:57 +0100

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Meet the Indian-born Cambridge topper!

Administrator — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 05:43:19 +0100

Stevenson award is one of the highest honours of the Cambridge University. Amartya Sen and and Sir Partho Dasgupta were proud winners of this award. Noble laureate Sen was the first Indian to bag this award in 1956. Dasgupta, a Cambridge professor won the award in 1967 for his contribution to nutrition and developmental economics.

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No dearth of funds to keep protests on at Ramlila

Administrator — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 07:42:25 +0100

"It is a wonderful tourist season and all of us are praying things stay this way in the coming months and the next year as well", said Muhammad Ramzan, 54, the owner of a Dal Lake houseboat.

There is a heavy rush of visitors daily to the Mughal gardens of Nishat, Shalimar and Chashmashahi in Srinagar and roads outside these gard...

Baby boy with 34 fingers and toes sets record

Administrator — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 05:25:49 +0100

Akshat, a baby boy over the age of one, registered his name in the Guinness world records for having a total of 34 fingers and toes.

He has set the record for having the highest number of fingers and toes and hails from the Bareilly district in Uttar Pradesh.

Amrita Saxena, the mother of the child, sai...

The Countries Most Expensive Temple

Administrator — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 07:13:23 +0100

It is considered to be the ultimate ride on rails. The Royale Indian Rail Tours offers one of the mo...

Is Ramdev a ‘dhongi’ baba?

Administrator — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 06:37:46 +0100

If nothing else, the Delhi police raid on Baba Ramdev's camp on Sunday has helped clear some confusion. The midnight swoop was unexpected, but we now know that the central government, which treated the yoga guru like an honoured state guest when he first arrived in Delhi, is his enemy.

Congress leader Digvijay Singh has describe...

BCCI honours World Champions India

Administrator — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 06:50:30 +0100

The Indian cricket team was felicitated on Tuesday for winning the 2011 World Cup while former charismatic all-rounder Salim Durrani was honoured with the Col CK Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award at the 4th annual Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) Awards here.

Durrani, a former Test cricketer, was presented with a trophy and Rs. 15 lakh.

Sachin Tendulkar was given the Polly Umrigar award for being the best Indian cricketer in the 2009-10 ...

Truck driver's son cracked IIT-JEE

Administrator — Fri, 27 May 2011 05:05:58 +0100

Bihar's Super 30 has done it again! Wards of a roadside vendor, mobile phone mechanic, private marginal farmer or truck driver and a class four employee have cracked the IIT-JEE this year.

"It may sound strange but it is true. Boys and girls from socially and economically marginalised families have passed the highly competitive In...

Amusing pictures from around the world

Administrator — Tue, 17 May 2011 08:44:03 +0100

A Chinese woman poses with a four-dimensional (4D) painting on display at a contemporary art exhibition in Jilin.

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<h1>Pak Army and ISI selected Indian targets</h1>
<p>Administrator — Tue, 10 May 2011 06:51:15 +0100</p>
<p><br/> </p><br/><br/> <br/><br/> <br/><br/> <br/><br/> Pakistan's Inter-Services intelligence facilitated terrorists to cross the border to carry out strikes on Indian targets chosen by the Pakistan Army, several detainees at the Guantanamo Bay facility told US interrogators, according to a fresh set of American diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks.<br/><br/> <br/>...
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<h1>Is India's Ready to Handle Terrorist Attack?</h1>
<p>Administrator — Tue, 10 May 2011 06:35:57 +0100</p>
<p><br/> </p><br/><br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> The killing of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has raised one primary question -- will India, which is one of the biggest victims of Pakistan-sponsored terrorism, be able to undertake an operation of this magnitude and bring to justice the likes of Lashkar-e-Tayiba...
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<h1>ISRO builds India's fastest supercomputer</h1>
<p>Administrator — Tue, 03 May 2011 05:45:23 +0100</p>
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India's Two Talented Women's selected as Yale World fellows

Administrator — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 07:06:32 +0100

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