SRINAGAR: Young Kashmiri artists – Pandits as well as Muslims –performed a musical show, 'Salaam Mahara', on the banks of Dal Lake here to showcase the communal harmony of the valley.The show, organized by Space Communications at SKICC on the banks of the Dal Lake last evening, commenced with 'Lal Vaakh'(The sayings of Lal Ded) and concluded with 'Mashaal'.'Gulrez',...
DEHRA DUN: Yoga guru Ramdev's aide Balkrishna was today arrested by the CBI after a non-bailable warrant was issued against him by a special court here in an alleged fake documents case.
Ramdev is scheduled to start an agitation against corruption and black money issue from August 9 at Ram Lila ground in the national capital.CBI sources said Balkrishna was...
MUMBAI: Bollywood's original superstar Rajesh Khanna, who charmed his way into the hearts of millions of swooning women in the 1960s and 70s, died here today.69-year-old Khanna, who shot to superstardom with the 1969 hit 'Aradhana' opposite Sharmila Tagore, passed away at his home, two days after being discharged from Lilawati hospital. He had been ailing since April.Though a...
WASHINGTON: The US House of Representatives has demanded that Pakistan-based dreaded Haqqani network be designated as a foreign terrorist organisation, ramping up pressure on the Obama administration to act tough on the issue amid Islamabad's lame efforts to rein in the al-Qaeda-linked outfit.The House cleared a bill yesterday through a voice vote expressing the sense of the Congress that...
WASHINGTON: HSBC's staff in India have come under the scanner for deficiencies in their role as "offshore reviewers" of the global banking giant's compliance to safety mechanism against money laundering and terrorist financing.A probe by the US Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations found that HSBC's Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Compliance Department, which included employees in India, was highly inadequately staffed.Besides,...
NEW DELHI: Indian athletics' biggest doping scandal involving six top women athletes, including three Asian and Commonwealth Games gold medallists, ended with the Switzerland-based Court of Arbitration for Sports awarding an enhanced ban of two years on them.The world's highest sports tribunal upheld International Athletics Federation's (IAAF) appeal to increase the ban period of the six Indian athletes from...
NEW DELHI: Indian batsman Yuvraj Singh, who has started training after recuperating from a rare germ cell cancer, was on Wednesday named in India's 30-member list of probables for the September-October World Twenty20 Championships in Sri Lanka.Seasoned off-spinner Harbhajan Singh, 32, who has been on the sidelines for a quite some time due to poor form, has also been...
DUBAI/RAMESWARAM: An Indian fisherman was killed and three others were seriously wounded today when a US Navy supply ship opened fire at their small boat off the coast of Dubai, a United Arab Emirates official said."An Indian fisherman was killed and three others, also Indians, were seriously injured," UAE's state-run news agency WAM quoted Foreign Ministry official Tariq Ahmed...
HOUSTON: Record-setting Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams along with two other cosmonauts today successfully docked their Soyuz spacecraft with the International Space Station (ISS) for a four-month long stay during which they will conduct over 30 scientific missions.46-year-old NASA astronaut Williams, Russian Soyuz Commander Yuri Malenchenko and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency flight engineer Akihiko Hoshide arrived at the ISS after...