Katrina no more RCB mascot
Mumbai: Actress Katrina Kaif has stepped down as the brand ambassador of Indian Premier League team Royal Challengers Bangalore because she feels she will not be able to do justice to her responsibili
India named global host of World Environment Day 2011
United Nations: The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has named India for the first time as the global host of World Environment Day 2011 (WED) on June 5 for "embracing the process of a tran
Pak singer Rahat mulls legal action
Islamabad: Pakistani singer Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, who was arrested at the Delhi airport for carrying undeclared foreign currency, is contemplating legal action against the Indian authorities for alleg
Apple to unveil new iPad
Washington: Tech giant Apple is set to unveil a new version of its hugely successful iPad in March. The iPad 2 will be thinner than its predecessor and feature an improved display.
Analysts expect th
Ponting reprimanded for TV smash
Nagpur: Australian captain Ricky Ponting has been reprimanded by the International Cricket Council (ICC) for breaching its Code of Conduct during the team's World Cup match against Zimbabwe in Ahmedab
Anxious wait for kidnapped collector
Bhubaneswar: Thousands of people in Orissa on Wednesday anxiously awaited the arrival of a district collector and a junior engineer kidnapped by Maoists last week after a mediator said they will be re
Palestinian PM turns to FB for advice
Ramallah: Acting Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad is using Facebook to ask young Palestinians whom they would like to see in the new government that he is forming.
"In your opinion, in light o
T protests force Lok Sabha disruption
New Delhi: Pro-Telangana MPs on Wednesday shouted slogans and flashed placards demanding that a new state be carved out of Andhra Pradesh, disrupting question hour in the Lok Sabha.
Speaker Meira Kum
IAS officer slaps child for scratch on car
Chandigarh: A woman Indian Administrative Service officer here has been booked by the child rights panel for slapping a four-year-old girl who had accidentally caused an autorickshaw to scratch her ca
Trade unions begin march in Delhi against price rise
Members of eight major trade unions and national federations of workers on Wednesday began their march to Parliament House against price rise.