BHUBANESWAR - The Orissa unit of the Bajrang Dal Tuesday threatened to disrupt the screening of Shah Rukh Khan's movie "My Name Is Khan" across the state if the actor does not apologise for his alleged "pro-Pakistan" statement.
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - Malayalam thespian Thilakan has launched a protest against film organisations for denying him an opportunity to act in the new film "Christian Brothers".
Feb 9, 2010 (Sampurn Wire): Doubtlessly, this question is topmost on the minds of Maddy’s fans who are eagerly looking out for his next Tamil release.
Feb 9, 2010 (Sampurn Wire): Gorgeous Anjana Sukhani has been in the B-town for quite sometime and has also featured in sizeable roles in films- ‘Salaam-e-Ishq: A Tribute To Love’, ‘Golmaal Returns’ and ‘Jashn’.
McDonald's Inc. sales, the world's largest fast food chain, said Tuesday a sales in stores open at least 13 months, a key sales comparison, rose 2.6 percent in January.
WASHINGTON - Senate Democrats are unable to muscle through President Barack Obama's choice of a union attorney for the National Labor Relations Board, because one of their own has joined the Republicans to block the nomination.
NEW DELHI - Environment and Forests Minister Jairam Ramesh Tuesday said India needs to have a seed policy and the country's agriculture should not be dependent on the private sector seed industry.
FRANKFURT - GM's Opel unit asked European governments for billions of euros (dollars) in aid on Tuesday even as it formally presented a restructuring plan that will result in some 8,300 job cuts in Europe.
JERICHO, West Bank - The security men brandished their weapons and ordered the suspicious car to halt, forcing the occupants to get out and put their hands in their air.
NEW DELHI - Days after upsetting India by excluding it from a conclave on Afghanistan, Turkey Tuesday agreed to jointly combat terror and back the comprehensive convention on international terrorism, the first member of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) to do so.
JAFFA, Israel - There's a reason for the gritty feel of reality in "Ajami," an Oscar-nominated Israeli film about the lives of Arabs and Jews in the impoverished, crime-ridden neighborhoods of this Mediterranean city: Its amateur actors' lives eerily mirror their art.
DHAKA - Main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Tuesday denied reports that its key official and party chief's son Tarique Rahman had met Indian fugitive militant Paresh Barua.
PATNA - One student died of critical injuries when a coaching centre security guard opened fire here while half a dozen others were injured in clashes with police Tuesday as over 1,000 students rampaged to protest alleged fleecing by the coaching institutes in the city.
KABUL - Massive avalanches roaring down a mountain pass north of Kabul may have killed more than 60 people Tuesday, Afghan officials said, as rescuers evacuated about 400 injured victims.
BOULDER, Colo. - A glider pilot who flew to safety through a fireball from the midair collision of two planes over Boulder says it was just seconds between when he saw one plane approaching and when it collided with the plane towing him.
KABUL - Massive avalanches roaring down a mountain pass north of Kabul may have killed more than 60 people Tuesday, Afghan officials said, as rescuers evacuated about 400 injured victims.
HYDERABAD - A day after Andhra Pradesh High Court quashed four percent reservations for Muslims, the state government Tuesday decided to file an appeal in the Supreme Court.
NEW DELHI - The Supreme Court Tuesday allowed the Uttar Pradesh government to take up some minor maintenance work at the memorial sites to various Dalit leaders in Lucknow, where all further construction and masonry work had been halted by the court last September.
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WASHINGTON - Google Inc. is shaving $200 off the fee that it charges customers of its new Nexus One phone to break a service contract with T-Mobile, as federal regulators continue to probe such fees and the rationale for them.
Now you can download Microsoft Office 2010 free (both home office and professional versions), no kidding.
TEANECK, N.J. - Cognizant Technology posted surprisingly large numbers for profit and revenue Tuesday and topped the fourth-quarter report with a 2010 outlook that exceeded most expectations as technology spending rebounds.
VALENCIA, Spain - Strong wind has kept Alinghi and BMW Oracle from practicing for Race 1 of their America's Cup showdown.
SHIMLA - Road connectivity to Manali in Himachal Pradesh, which was snapped due to heavy snow, was restored Tuesday evening, an official said.
SRINAGAR - The Jammu-Srinagar national highway remained closed for traffic for the fourth day Tuesday, following landslides.
NEW DELHI - Many state governments and scientists Tuesday hailed Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh's decision to reject for the time being the commercial release of Bt Brinjal, the genetically modified (GM) form of the common vegetable.
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NEW DELHI - India and Turkey on Tuesday denounced terrorism and mutually agreed to the need to recognize the threat being posed to global peace and security by terrorism besides approving that terrorism should not be associated with any religion, nationality, civilization or ethnic group.
AMMAN, Jordan - The head of the U.N.
NEAR LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan - U.S.
WASHINGTON - The Food and Drug Administration is working with doctors and medical manufacturers to reduce unnecessary radiation exposure from medical scans, a problem that has been growing for decades.
NEW DELHI - India and Turkey on Tuesday desired to develop and expand cooperation in science and technology and in other areas of common interest and launched an Advanced Science and Technology Dialogue, besides offering to actively study the possibilities of working together in mutually identified projects in areas such as telecommunications, computerization, non-technology space research, bio-technology and environmental technology and convene a joint workshop in 2010.
PITTSBURGH - The nation's first double hand transplant recipient has left a Pittsburgh hospital after medicine cleared up a rash that signaled he might be rejecting his new hands.
MELBOURNE - Smoking prevents Alzheimer's disease is a myth, claims a new study.
WASHINGTON - U.S. scientists say a new way of genetically modifying human embryonic stem cells would enable rapid development of stem cell lines that could be used for research into human genetic diseases.
Sickle cell disease is an inherited life-long blood disorder.
LONDON - Scientists in Cambridge have made a significant step towards developing a so-called "artificial pancreas" system for managing type-1 diabetes in children.
LONDON - Obese people who have type 2 diabetes in their 20s are likely to be at higher risk of a heart attack or stroke in their 40s, if they do not change their lifestyle, warn health experts.
WASHINGTON - While swelling commonly occurs in the corneas of mountain climbers at high altitudes, a new study shows it doesn't appear to affect visibility.
TORONTO - Bifocal glasses may be effective in slowing the onset of myopia or nearsightedness among children, according to a new study.
DHAKA - India finished with 175 medals, including 90 gold in the 11th South Asian Games here, underlining its supremacy as the regional sports powerhouse.
NEW DELHI - Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh Tuesday briefed party chief Sonia Gandhi about his visit to Uttar Pradesh's Azamgarh where he received petitions from families of young men arrested on terrorism charges.
TULSA, Okla. - Two of the top scorers for the Detroit Shock may not be making the move to Oklahoma next season.
KEARNS, Utah - Katherine Reutter remembers figure skating lessons as a little girl, thinking how much more fun it would be to just cut loose and zip around the rink as fast as she could.
NAGPUR - Shell-shocked by the massive loss to South Africa in the first cricket Test, the Indian selectors dropped two young seamers and brought in Dinesh Karthik and Suresh Raina to bolster batting for the second cricket Test, starting at the Eden Gardens, Kolkata, Sunday.
What Sven Kramer wants, Sven Kramer gets.
SAGUACHE, Colo. - A 31-year-old Indiana man says he had not food but kept himself hydrated with Mountain Dew and snow while he was stuck in his snow-covered SUV in southwestern Colorado for three days.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand - New Zealanders who for decades have endured jokes about being outnumbered 20-to-1 by sheep have a new farm animal majority to worry about: cows.
NEW CASTLE, Del. - New Castle County Police said a man pointed a gun at a neighbor who was shoveling snow on Saturday at the Hampton Walk Apartments.
NEW DELHI - The 10 percent quota in government jobs for backward Muslims in West Bengal is being welcomed by leaders of the community who say it's not really enough but add that something is better than nothing.
LUCKNOW - Leading Islamic clerics have taken strong exception to union minister Farooq Abdullah's reported views against Muslim women wearing the burqa.
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan will set its agenda for the proposed foreign secretary-level talks with India at a high-level meeting Wednesday chaired by Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, a media report Tuesday said.
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - A government official says Sri Lanka's president has dissolved the country's parliament setting the stage for new elections.
KOLKATA - Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Murli Manohar Joshi Tuesday said that reservation in the name of religion is "unconstitutional" and his party would oppose it.
NEW DELHI - Away from political activities after his expulsion from the Samajwadi Party, blogger Amar Singh Tuesday chose Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi to comment on, describing the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader as unavoidable.
NEW DELHI - After the Common Admission Test (CAT) for admission to top business schools in the country, some Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) conducted their post-graduation entrance examination - Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) - for two papers online.
AGARTALA - Pointing out that nearly 77 percent students in India do not reach Class 12, the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) has demanded a radical change in the country's policy to ensure education for all.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Lenders have assumed ownership of a stalled luxury resort in Anguilla that has the tiny tourism-dependent island's only golf course and was codeveloped by a U.S.
CANBERRA, Australia - Australia announced its response Tuesday to the attempted terrorist attack on an airliner over the United States last Christmas: a 200 million Australian dollar ($173 million) upgrade of airport security around the country that will cause passenger delays.
HARIPURA - The Uttarakhand Government has initiated a mass awareness programme about conservation of migratory birds that flock to Haripura wetland in the State among people, including children.
DUSSELDORF, Germany, February 9 - - Sales on like-for-like basis almost at prior year level (-1.5 percent) - Adjusted EBITDA margin of 19.2 percent (on like-for-like basis) better than expected - CEO Dr.
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