Aggrieved by the actions taken against them during and after the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, a group of victims has now approached Delhi Lt. Governor Tejendra Khanna to lodge a case against former Indian Police Services (IPS) officer Amod Kanth.
In a letter to the lt. governor, the victims urged him to take action against the then [...]
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JEAN SMART welcomed a new addition to her family in 2009 – she and her husband adopted an orphan from China.
The Samantha Who? star, her husband Richard Gilliland and their teenage son Connor travelled to East Asia in May (09) to bring home a 10-month-old baby girl.
And according to the proud mum, the toddler, who [...]
New Delhi, Dec 19 (IANS) The Delhi High Court has asked a victim of the 1984 anti-Sikh to approach an appropriate court for seeking proceedings against senior Indian Police Services (IPS) officer Amod Kanth and other officers.
The order came on a petition filed by Amrik Singh Lovely, one of a group of 16 victims, in [...]
Chandigarh, Dec 12 (IANS) A two-month-old baby boy and a 45-year-old woman have succumbed to swine flu in Chandigarh, officials said Saturday.
The victims are baby Harshit, of neighbouring Mohali town, and Kamlesh of Panchkula town in Haryana.
Health officials of the respective areas have been told to quarantine people who had come in contact with [...]
LAW & ORDER star JEREMY SISTO will have two unlikely travel companions when he honeymoons with his new wife ADDIE LANE – he’s taking his mum and mother-in-law along with them.
The actor married Lane in a casual, low-key ceremony in New York in October (09) with just their daughter Charlie and her nanny present.
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London, Nov.23 (ANI): The British taxpayer is reportedly paying up millions of pounds a year to “bribe” foreign murderers, rapists and other prisoners to go home after a 60 per cent jump in cases, The Telegraph reports.
One in four of the foreign criminals who were deported last year only went home after being offered [...]
Jalpaiguri (West Bengal), Nov 19 (ANI): A woman here was compelled to sell her three-month old baby in order to release her husband, who has been allegedly held by the hospital authorities from the last [...]
Beijing, Nov 12 (IANS) A rare brown baby giant panda has been discovered by researchers in northwest China.
The two-month old baby has brown fur where usual pandas sport black. The cub still hasn’t opened its eyes nor walked, said experts with Foping Giant Panda Reserve in Shaanxi province.
The baby’s mother has normal colour, said [...]
London, Nov 9 (ANI): Cinematon, the world’s longest film, which has a playtime of 150 hours and has taken 30 years to make is to be screened in France.
The film was started in 1978 and comprises three and a half minute segments of [...]
Chandigarh, Oct 30 (IANS) Five new positive cases of influenza A (H1N1) virus were detected in this union territory Thursday, a health official said here Friday.
Among the new patients are two sisters, their children and a teenager.
‘We had collected the throat and nasal swab samples of a 19-year-old boy yesterday (Thursday) and his reports were [...]
Melbourne, October 27 (ANI): The Indian-origin mother of a baby that survived after his pram toppled from a platform and was hit by a Melbourne train has spoken of the horrible moment.
Shweta Verma narrated the incident to A Current Affair when the train ploughed into the pram at 35km/h, shunting it 30m along the tracks.
Miraculously, [...]
Sydney, Oct 16 (DPA) Australians were aghast Friday at security camera footage that shows a young mother watching in horror as a pram with her six-month-old baby rolls off a Melbourne train platform and is dragged 30 metres up the track.
Miraculously, the baby survived Thursday’s accident with only a bump to his head.
The footage shows [...]
London, Oct 7 (ANI): Rooks are cleverer than chimpanzees when it comes to understand the basic laws of physics, according to a new study.
Experts have found that they better grasp the principle of gravity by using reasoning than chimpanzees-one of man’s closest animal cousins.
In their experiments, [...]
Wellington, Oct 1 (DPA) More than 6,000 people were reported homeless Wednesday in South Pacific island states as the official toll from the huge earthquake and tsunami that ravaged the region climbed past 110.
Authorities in Samoa, where at least 20 villages and several tourist resorts were wiped out, reported 83 confirmed deaths and said 3,000 [...]
London, Sep. 22 (ANI): He might have been a convicted rapist and a wife beater, but world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson now insists that life has transformed him into a family man.
“As far as my personal life goes, everything has changed. I’ve an eight-month-old baby and a new wife. I’m [...]
Mumbai, Sep 5 (ANI): A 24-year-old woman gave birth to five babies at a private hospital in Mumbai.
Sabeera Khan, a housewife from Mira Road, delivered male quintuplets at the Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital here.
According to hospital souses, the woman, who already has a 10-month-old baby boy, is doing well. Of the five babies, two [...]
London, August 16 (ANI): A British teenage girl, whose binge drinking led to her getting pregnant after a one-night stand, is on the lookout for the father of her 22-month-old baby.
Elsie Hunt said she has no recollection of the man who got her pregnant with [...]
North Carolina (US), Aug.14 (ANI): Former U.S. presidential candidate John Edwards will admit he is the father of his former campaign aide’s 18-month-old baby, a TV news station in North Carolina reports.
WRAL says sources told the station Edwards’ public admission could come before the end of the ongoing criminal investigation into whether his campaign illegally [...]
Pune, Aug 13 (ANI): A nine-month-old baby succumbed to the deadly swine flu virus in Pune on Thursday taking the country’s swine flu death toll to 18.
According to sources, the infant, who was suffering from acute respiratory distress syndrome, died at the Sahyadri Munot Hospital.
On Wednesday, a 48-year-old had succumbed to swine flu [...]
