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Harvard takes top spot in US News college rankings

Aug 17th, 2010 | Category: World News

Harvard University has taken top spot in America’s best universities in the influential US News & World Report college rankings.
According to the US News rankings, this year only a single point out of 100 separated Harvard and second-placed Princeton, with Harvard taking the gold medal thanks to its superior student graduation rates, financial resources and [...]



Abdul Nasser Madani Arrested by Bangalore Police

Aug 17th, 2010 | Category: Breaking News, India News

Abdul Nasser Madani, the Chief of Peoples Democratic Party, Kerala has been arrested by the Bangalore police in 2008 Bangalore serial blasts case today.
Madani is to be produced before the Special Metropolitan Magistrate in Bangalore for which he was taken to Bangalore by Air route. The hearing of this case is being carried on [...]



Pappu Yadav arrested in Gurgaon

Aug 16th, 2010 | Category: Breaking News, India News

Pappu Yadav, former Rashtriya Janata Dal MP, has been arrested on Sunday, ten days after he went missing following the Supreme Court’s confirmation of its order canceling his bail in a 12-year-old murder case.
The CBI and Gurgaon police nabbed him from a private hospital in a joint operation. A CBI official said that Yadav [...]



Ludhiana boy killed in Austalia

Aug 16th, 2010 | Category: Breaking News, India News, Punjab News

A youth from Punjab was murdered by some unidentified assailants in Brisbane city of Australia. The youth, identified as Rajveer from Ludhiana, was brutally thrashed and strangulated before he was thrown near his house.
Rajveer was attacked at his house in Brisbane on August 8. “Dad save me, they have entered my home, they will kill [...]



Eight shot outside Buffalo’s City Grill restaurant, leaving four dead

Aug 14th, 2010 | Category: Breaking News, World News

At least four people have been killed and four others injured in a shooting that took place Saturday morning outside the City Grill restaurant on Main Street near Swan of Buffalo.
The gunfire erupted outside the bar and restaurant at about 2:30 a.m. when a large party was leaving the venue.
Police said that the dead [...]



60 dead, 90 injured as trains collided in West Bengal

Jul 19th, 2010 | Category: Breaking News, India News

At least 60 people have been killed and more than 90 passengers injured when a train in high speed tore through the rear of another at the Sainthia station in Birbhum district of West Bengal, after it apparently overshot the signal in the small hours of the day.
Driver M C Dey and assistant driver N [...]