Pakistani PM faces possibility of disqualification: court
Islamabad, (IANS) Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani faces the possibility of being disqualified as a member of parliament for five years following his conviction of contempt of court last month, the country’s top court ruled on Tuesday. The Supreme Court issued a 77-page detailed verdict regarding the prime minister’s conviction for refusing to accept [...]
Ramallah/Gaza, (IANS) Palestinian National Authority (PNA) and Islamic Hamas movement officials said Tuesday that they see no big hope in reviving the stalled peace talks with Israel after Israel’s Likud and Kadima parties agreed to form an unity government. Nabil Shaath, member of the central committee of the Fatah party said this agreement “will bring [...]
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Mumbai, (IANS) Air India will raise $1.1 billion to fund its new aircraft acquisition programme and meet working capital requirements, the national carrier said Tuesday, on the day it sacked 10 pilots who went on mass sick leave and derecognised their union. The sum would include $300 million for its subsidiary Air India Charters Ltd, [...]
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New Delhi, The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Tuesday rubbished arguments that the Supreme Court amicus curiae’s report on the post-Godhra riots is an indictment of Chief Minister Narendra Modi, saying that the SIT closure report giving him a “clean chit” was filed after reviewing the former report. “The closure report was filed by the SIT [...]
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New Delhi/Mumbai, (IANS) Air India Tuesday sacked 10 pilots who went on mass sick leave protesting against the airline providing Boeing-787 Dreamliner training to pilots from the erstwhile Indian Airlines and derecognised the Indian Pilots Guild (IPG). “We have sacked 10 pilots who are first officers. IPG has been derecognised and its Mumbai office will [...]
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Bhubaneswar, Upping the ante, suspected Maoist guerrillas in Odisha Tuesday shot dead a 43-year-old police officer, just hours after they had abducted him, and left his bullet-riddled body for the police to find it. Assistant Sub-Inspector Kruparam Majhi had been kidnapped near Budhas village in Nuapada, about 550 km from here, Deputy Inspector General of [...]
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Samsung and AT&T have announced an upgrade for the 2010’s Samsung Focus Windows Phone handset. The new device, dubbed the Samsung Focus 2, is to come with some interesting enhancements. AT&T will start selling the Focus 2 on May 20 for $50 with data contract. The handset boasts a glossy and all-white design, though contrasting [...]
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Following is a short comparison review of three great smartphones including Samsung Galaxy S3 Vs HTC One X Vs Apple iPhone 4S Samsung has just uncovered its third generation Galaxy S3. The new version of Galaxy S3 is set come with a large display, quad core processor and a powerful battery. HTC announced its first [...]
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One of Google’s driverless, self-driving cars has got license from the Department of Motor Vehicles to drive it on public streets. The DMV has approved the car after demonstrations on the Las Vegas Strip and Carson City. In tests, the car is found safe, perhaps safer than a car with a human driver. “It gets [...]
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HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE is hogging limelight. Though, a good phone, it fails against another HTC smartphone, HTC One X. Here is specs and features comparison of the two phones It may not be hogging as much limelight as Samsung’s galaxy s3, but Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer HTC’s Droid Incredible 4G LTE is a great [...]
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New Delhi: The Indian government’s Haj subsidy for pilgrims should be phased out of over the next 10 years, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday, spelling the beginning of the end of the only such facility in the world. Coming out against the government policy of subsidies to pilgrims going for Haj to the holy city [...]
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New York, (IANS) The daughter of an Indian diplomat has filed a $1.5 million suit against New York City over her arrest on cyberbullying charges – but her suit doesn’t demand the key to the city that her lawyer had asked for. Krittika Biswas, daughter of Debashish Biswas, vice consul in the Indian consulate general [...]
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Bhubaneswar, (IANS) The bullet-riddled body of a police officer was found in Odisha’s Nuapada district shortly after he had been kidnapped by Maoist guerrillas Tuesday, officials said. Assistant Sub-Inspector Kruparam Majhi had been kidnapped near Budhas village in Nuapada, about 550 km from here, Deputy Inspector General of Police Soumendra Priyadarshi told IANS. Just hours [...]
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By NVONews.Com Staff correspondent, Whether it is the result of positive discrimination or the girls are really brighter could be a matter of debate but there seems to be a growing feeling that boys now need a quota. Though the first such attempt has been reportedly shot down in New Delhi but the reverberations of [...]
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