Friday, 19 October 2012

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Digvijaya slams 'self-serving, ambitious' Kejriwal, says he has Hitler's 'streak'

Hindustan Times - ‎23 minutes ago‎
Arvind Kejriwal is a "self-serving ambitious megalomaniac" with a "streak" of Hitler, Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh alleged on Friday in the sharpest attack on the activist.

Gujarat polls would force Sonia to change direction: Narendra Modi

Times of India - ‎1 hour ago‎
VADODARA: Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi on Friday asked the voters to reject Congress, which is contesting the coming assembly election with the promise of changing 'dasha' and 'disha' (conditions and direction) of the state.

Kandahar hijack case: Court acquits 19 accused

IBNLive - ‎43 minutes ago‎
Mumbai: A local court on Friday acquitted 19 persons, accused to have helped get fake passports for the hijackers of the Indian Airlines flight IC-814 in December 1999.

India proposes middle path

The Hindu - ‎17 minutes ago‎
The Hindu Minister of Environment and Forests Jayanthi Natrajan and CBD Executive Secretary Braulio Ferreira de Souza, in a pensive mood during the deliberations on the adoption of a resolution on the final day of the high-level segment of the High level ...

Beirut: 8 killed including top official in car blast

Zee News - ‎31 minutes ago‎
Beirut: 8 killed including top official in car blast Zeenews Bureau Beirut: At least eight people were killed and around 78 were injured in a deadly car bomb blast in Lebanon capital, central Beirut, on Friday evening.
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China's 'Haqeeqat': A stark documentary on the 1962 war

India Today - ‎1 hour ago‎
For most Indians who even remember India and China went to war a half-century ago, the only movie reference is Haqeeqat, a black and white Hindi film made by Chetan Anand in 1964.

US seeks India's help over Iran nuclear issue

Hindustan Times - ‎38 minutes ago‎
The US on Friday sought India's help to influence Iran to join international negotiations to break the logjam over Tehran's suspect nuclear programme and pitched for stronger economic and strategic ties between the two countries.

Controversial godman Nithyananda sacked as junior pontiff

NDTV - ‎17 minutes ago‎
Madurai: Controversial self-styled godman Nithyananda was on Friday sacked by the senior pontiff as his successor of a 1,500-year old Saivaite mutt in Madurai, an appointment which had attracted widespread condemnation from various quarters including ...

Reports that I may quit BJP are "baseless": Vasundhara

Zee News - ‎4 hours ago‎
Reports that I may quit BJP are New Delhi: Leader of the Opposition in Rajasthan Assembly Vasundhara Raje on Friday dubbed as "misleading and baseless" media reports that she is likely to quit BJP and float her own party before Assembly Elections are ...

Manmohan sees new threats from space, cyber world

The Hindu - ‎2 hours ago‎
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday stressed upon the need for increasing the country's capabilities in emerging areas like cyber and space which could be the sources of new threats.

Shot Pakistani schoolgirl can stand, communicate, hospital says

CNN - ‎47 minutes ago‎
NEW: Hospital releases first photographs of Malala since she was admitted for treatment; Malala understands where she is and wants to thank people for their support, hospital says; Malala is communicating through written notes; she can't talk because of a ...

Mitt Romney still struggling to convince Pennsylvania's female voters

The Guardian - ‎49 minutes ago‎
To Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, Briana Mihok is gold dust. She ticks the three boxes that qualify her to be exactly the type of voter the presidential candidates are focusing all their attention on as the White House race enters its final three weeks.

Peace envoy Brahimi pushes in Syria for ceasefire

Reuters - ‎59 minutes ago‎
DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Mediator Lakhdar Brahimi will meet Syrian officials over the next few days in an effort to secure a brief ceasefire in the worsening war between President Bashar al-Assad's government and rebel forces.

China flexes muscles with drills amid island row

AFP - ‎12 hours ago‎
By Neil Connor (AFP) - 1 minute ago. BEIJING - China dispatched naval vessels, aircraft and helicopters to the East China Sea on Friday, flexing its muscles in exercises likely to further stoke a bristling territorial dispute with Japan.

Reliance Infotel, Sistema, RCom to keep off 2G spectrum auction

Hindu Business Line - ‎1 hour ago‎
Six operators, including Airtel, Vodafone, Tata Teleservices and Idea Cellular, have filed applications to participate in the spectrum auction set for November.

Sensex falls 110 points on earnings caution

Business Standard - ‎26 minutes ago‎
The BSE Sensex fell on Friday, as Reliance Industries extended a recent losing run on continued worries about the outlook for its refining margins and as recently outperforming financial stocks such as HDFC were hit by profit-taking.

Indian Hotels tries to woo Orient-Express with 40% premium

Moneycontrol.com - ‎17 minutes ago‎
Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 22:57. Indian Hotels tries to woo Orient-Express with 40% premium. CNBC-TV18's Menaka Doshi reports that Indian Hotels hopes to be third-time-lucky when it comes to acquiring Orient-Express Hotels.

TCS posts 44% profit growth

mydigitalfc.com - ‎26 minutes ago‎
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Asia's largest software services exporter said its net profit beat analysts estimates to rise by 44 per cent year on year to Rs 3,512 crore on revenues that were up 34.3 per cent to Rs 15,621 crore in the quarter ending ...

Sebi duty bound to take action against Sahara: SC

Business Standard - ‎26 minutes ago‎
Refusing to grant more time to the Sahara group of investment companies, the Supreme Court on Friday allowed the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) to take action against the companies if they failed to provide details about some three crore ...

What Do You Want to Know About Windows 8?

PC Magazine
27 minutes ago
Written by
Chloe Albanesius
Microsoft's Windows 8 will be released next Friday, Oct. 26, and while we've had glimpses of the new OS for more than a year, consumers likely have a number of questions about the update.

Facebook said to let some companies see pages you like

CNET
Oct 16, 2012
Written by
Donna Tam
Facebook is letting some companies look at the other "Likes" of their fans. This means if you like a brand's page, that brand's marketers knows what your other "Likes" are, whether it be your favorite bands or TV shows, unidentified sources told the advertising ...

Movie Review: 'Student Of The Year' is phoney but fun!

Apun Ka Choice - ‎3 hours ago‎
The ApunKaChoice movie review of Student Of The Year. Switch off reality for a moment and transport yourself into Karan Johar's fantasy world of St. Teresa High School in Dehradun.

NEW SONG: Kareena seduces Aamir in Talaash number

Hindustan Times - ‎10 hours ago‎
Wearing a loud make-up and a seductive smile, Kareena Kapoor Khan looks smouldering hot in the latest song Muskaanein Jhooti Hai from Talaash.

Kashif Qureshi eliminated from the Bigg Boss house

Daily News & Analysis - ‎1 hour ago‎
Kashif Qureshi, who went in as a common man into the Bigg Boss house this season, has been evicted at the end of the second week of the reality show.

Bollywood in full attendance at the Mumbai Film Festival

NDTV - ‎2 hours ago‎
The 14th edition of the Mumbai Film Festival kick-started with the screening of Silver Linings Playbook, starring Anupam Kher, in the presence of several Bollywood celebrities including Sridevi, Jaya Bachchan, Anil Kapoor and Ashutosh Gowariker.

Supreme Court dismisses Deccan Chargers' plea

NDTV - ‎1 hour ago‎
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has dismissed Deccan Chargers' plea for extending the time to pay the bank guarantee of 100 crore to Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Friday.

DD vs AA: Delhi Daredevils-Auckland Aces match abandoned due to rain

Times of India - ‎18 minutes ago‎
NEW DELHI: The Champions League T20 match between Delhi Daredevils and Auckland Aces was abandoned due to rain without a single ball being played at Kingsmead in Durban on Friday.

Global warming may take ocean sounds back to dinosaur era

CBC.ca - ‎2 hours ago‎
New research suggests that sounds, such as whale noises in the low-frequency sound range, by the year 2100 will be able to travel twice as far as they do now because of global warming.

Mars rover starts 'to eat dirt'

BBC News - ‎7 hours ago‎
Nasa's Curiosity rover has ingested its first Martian soil sample. The robot has taken a pinch of dust into the CheMin instrument, one of its two big onboard analytical tools.

Dengue outbreak: Don't hit that panic button yet, say docs

Daily News & Analysis - ‎14 hours ago‎
Despite the increase in the number of cases of dengue this year, doctors in the city are not yet reaching for the panic button. They assure that there is no reason to worry as due to the severity of the disease, patients are recovering within 10 days.

The promiscuity pill: £30 tablet that can be taken five days later 'will lead to ...

Daily Mail - ‎18 hours ago‎
The promiscuity pill: £30 tablet that can be taken five days later 'will led to unsafe sex'. Any woman aged 18 or over will be able to buy the powerful medication - called EllaOne - from certain branches of the Co-operative Pharmacy; But campaigners say that ...

BJP MLA demands inquiry into working of ESIC hosptials

Daily News & Analysis - ‎9 hours ago‎
Two days before labour minister Hasan Mashrif's visit to the city, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Madhuri Misal demanded an in-depth inquiry into the incompetence of the two hospitals running under the Employee State Insurance Corporation (ESIC).

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