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NY allows headgear for Sikh, Muslim workers

The MTA had cited security concerns after 9/11 as the reason for its "brand or segregate" policy.

Pope breaks silence over Vatileaks scandal

Pope Benedict XVI feels betrayed by his butler who was recently arrested for illegal possession of s...

Pakistan: Three killed in roadside bomb blast

Three persons were killed and seven others injured when a police van was targeted with a roadside bo...

`NYPD Muslim surveillance legal`

Muslim leaders want a formal investigation and a clampdown on the NYPD`s cross-border operations.

Theft at Upper City Magistrate`s residence

Cash and jewellery worth Rs 3 lakh was allegedly stolen from the official residence of the upper cit...

‘Delhi govt has joined hands with water mafia’

BJP on Tuesday said it will raise the issue of water scarcity during the Assembly session beginning ...

Disputed dinosaur fossil auctioned in NYC

Despite the Mongolian government`s objections and a judge`s order blocking the sale, a fossil of a f...

19 years on, water woes continue to haunt Taj city

Nineteen years after many people died in a water tragedy that struck the Taj city, residents of Agra...

Vietnam: 36 dead in bus accident

At least 36 people died in Vietnam when their bus fell into a river after crashing through the banis...

Pak Taliban releases video of jailbreak

The Pakistani Taliban have released a dramatic video of an attack by militants on a jail in the coun...

US lifestyle would need 4 earths to sustain: WWF report

Mankind is draining the earth’s resources so quickly that the globe would be bled dry before the end...

Kashmiri Pandits want free electricity for Jagti

Reeling under acute power crisis and poor financial conditions, the Kashimiri Pandits (KP) have dema...

Atrocity cases: Guj promises NHRC on conviction

NHRC chairperson KG Balakrishnan said Gujarat govt had assured it that to review implementation of t...

Vatican mystery intensifies, bones found in grave

Emanuela Orlandi was 15 when she disappeared in 1983 after leaving her family`s Vatican City apartme...

Electricity generated from harmless viruses

The team from the Berkeley Lab have developed a way to generate power using harmless viruses that co...

Mumbai lawyers protest on jurisdiction issue

Lawyers abstained from work to protest against a Maha govt legislation which limits jurisdiction of ...

Scientific ghost city to test gen-next technology

“World first” scientific ghost city, which will cost 1 billion dollars, is set to be built in New Me...

Indian diplomat`s daughter sues New York City

Krittika Biswas claims that the investigation that led to her arrest in school was a "sham," lacking...

‘States should generate electricity of their own’

Amid ever growing demand for power, Union Power Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said each state should g...

Twin city model to be replicated: Gujarat CM

Narendra Modi said Ahmedabad-Gandhinagar are the twin city model of urban development which would be...

Concern in LS over child labour, water scarcity

Members in the Lok Sabha today drew the government`s attention towards several issues, particularly ...

NYC man convicted in thwarted subway bomb plot

A Bosnian-born US citizen has been convicted for his role in a suicide-bomb plot on New York City s...

Wind turbine produces water out of thin air

Imagine wind turbines that conjure drinking water out of thin air and how they could help developing...

Rogue stars ejected from Milky Way found in intergalactic space

Researchers have identified a group of more than 675 stars on the outskirts of the Milky Way that th...

Rs 100 cr science city project to come up in Kottayam

A Rs 100 crore Science City project, to be jointly set up by the Centre and Kerala governments, woul...

Space shuttle Enterprise zooms over NYC on jet

An unusual flying object came to New York from Washington on Friday — the space shuttle Enterprise.

Ukraine: 27 injured in 4 blasts

Four blasts within minutes rocked the center of the eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk Friday,...

‘Mexican woman pregnant with nine babies’

A Mexican woman is pregnant with nine babies - six girls and three boys - the country`s main broadca...

US judge to rule on Strauss-Kahn lawsuit next week

Nafissatou Diallo, a maid at Sofitel Hotel in midtown Manhattan, accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn of a...

Police chief in Martin case remains under scrutiny

City commissioners want to wait for the results of a federal investigation to decide if they will ac...

NY judge set to decide on Strauss-Kahn

A city judge is expected to rule Friday whether disgraced French politician and former IMF chief Dom...

Osama planned shoe bombers to follow up on 9/11

A British man who trained to be a shoe bomber a decade ago says Osama bin Laden told him after the S...

Water scarcity claims one life in Thane

Acute shortage of drinking water claimed the life of a woman, who died of exhaustion, allegedly whil...

JP`s village gets power 65 yrs after Independence

Believe it or not, this nondescript Bihar village where Loknayak Jaiprakash Narayan was born got ele...

Mexico volcano spews glowing rock, tower of ash

The Popocatepetl volcano shot a heavy plume of ash into the sky southeast of Mexico`s capital and sp...

Rivers could provide energy for half billion people

A new genre of power plants, using only a tenth of the global river flow into the oceans, could meet...

California city approves deal with Facebook

A Silicon Valley city where Facebook recently opened its new headquarters approved a deal that will ...

Bomb maker in NYC subway plot testifies

Najibullah Zazi took the witness stand in federal court in Brooklyn to begin recounting his role in ...

Tibet to have solar power generation base

The 30-megawatt solar power generation base is being built in Xigaze city. The plant is the first ph...

Pope marks milestones amid signs of frailty, succession talk

Benedict, one of the oldest popes in history, turns 85 on Monday, and he marks the seventh anniversa...

‘Would continue providing free power to farmers’

Punjab govt would continue providing free electricity to farmers in the state, Chief Minister Parka...

A day after clashes, situation peaceful in Hyd

The situation in trouble-hit parts of the old city remained peaceful even as indefinite curfew con...

Naveen urges Shinde to implement decisions

Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has appealed to Union Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde to t...

Hyderabad: Curfew in old city areas after clashes

Tension prevailed in some parts of the Old City after two groups clashed and indulged in stone-pelti...

Hamas executes 3 in Gaza, including "traitor"

Under Palestinian law, collaboration with Israel, murder and drug trafficking are all punishable by...

Pope reaffirms ban on women priests, assails disobedience

Pope Benedict restated the Roman Catholic Church`s ban on women priests and warned that he would not...

Bomb plotter on NYC terror trial witness list

Two would-be suicide bombers who targeted New York City subways in 2009 are on a list of potential...

Madhya Pradesh: Power tariff hiked by 7.17 %

The Madhya Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission has given its approval to the power distribut...

Five killed by speeding train in West Bengal

The speeding Ranchi-Howrah Intercity Express knocked down the five people when they were crossing t...

New York police arrest Caribbean diplomat

A senior Caribbean diplomat has accused New York City Police Department of flagrant violation of the...

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