Archive for August 2009

Bollywood producer Ashok Khullar booked for misbehaving with model Survi Chaterjee

Aug 29th, 2009 | Category: Breaking News, Entertainment News, India News

A non-cognisable offense has been registered against a Bollywood producer for allegedly misbehaving with a model during the release of a music album in suburban Andheri.
In an inebriated state, producer Ashok Khullar, held the model Survi Chaterjee in public and misbehaved with her during the release of an album at a restaurant at Amboli police [...]



15 killed in suicide attack in NW Pakistan

Aug 27th, 2009 | Category: Breaking News, World News

At least 15 people, most of them policemen, have been killed in a suicide attack on Thursday in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal region near the Afghan border. The attack took place in the Khyber tribal region while policemen were gathering to break their fast.
A suicide bomber blew himself up in the residential barracks of the local [...]



Sudheendra Kulkarni quits BJP

Aug 23rd, 2009 | Category: Breaking News, India News

Sudheendra Kulkarni, a key aide of senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani and previously of former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, has ended his association with the party over “ideological differences”.
He, however, maintained that his decision had nothing to do with the expulsion of Jaswant Singh over his book “Jinnah: India, Partition, Independence”. [...]



Muthoot Chief’s son Paul George Muthoot killed

Aug 23rd, 2009 | Category: Breaking News, India News, Kerela News

Paul George Muthoot, a prominent businessman of the Kerala-based Muthoot Finance group, was stabbed to death by a 12-member gang in the wee hours today at Pallathuruthi near Alappuzha.
Paul, son of M G George who heads the Muthoot group, was waylaid and killed by the gang while he was returning home from a resort in [...]



Two die of swine flu in Chennai, India’s H1N1 toll at 42

Aug 21st, 2009 | Category: Breaking News, India News

India’s swine flu toll reached 42 after two H1N1 deaths were reported from Chennai. They were admitted to the hospital after duo tested positive for H1N1 where they succumbed to the virus.
Swine flu claimed a 35-year-old man in Ahmedabad’s civil hospital on Thursday, taking the toll due to the viral disease to four in [...]



Swine flu: Two die in Bangalore, 27 in India

Aug 16th, 2009 | Category: Bangalore News, Breaking News, India News

Two women, both aged 27, have succumbed to swine flu in this IT hub, raising the toll here due to the virus to five and across the country to 27. With this, Bangalore accounts for the second largest number of flu deaths after Pune, where the toll is 12.
Besides Pune and Bangalore, one person each [...]