MUMBAI - The Maharashtra government Friday admitted that Mumbai Joint Police Commissioner (Crime) Rakesh Maria is "upset" over allegations leveled by the widow of the slain police officer Ashok Kamte and is threatening to quit.
WASHINGTON - The Secret Service may begin a criminal investigation against the Virginia couple who crashed a high-profile White House dinner, an agency spokesman said Friday.
REVERE, Mass. - The mayor of Revere, Massachuetts, has verbally reprimanded the fire chief for allowing a firefighter to ride a department ladder truck nine miles to his wedding.
DHARAMSHALA - Tibetan Prime Minister-in-exile Samdhong Rinpoche on Friday blamed China of emerging as a training ground for the militants.
SOLAN - An eight-year-old boy of this Himachal Pradesh town, suffering from swine flu, died in a government hospital in Chandigarh, making it the second death of the state resident due to the H1N1 virus, a health official said Friday.
NEW DELHI - Women in Delhi are catching up with men in an unusual field -- avoiding burn injuries.
NEW DELHI - The national capital has recorded seven new dengue cases, taking the total number of people affected by the mosquito-borne disease to 1,061, a health department official said Friday.
NEW DELHI - Over Rs.1.15 crore ($246,000) were raised in aid of the victims of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks at a charity event in London attended by Bollywood stars and members of British royalty, a statement said Friday.
NEW YORK - Season two of the FX drama "Sons of Anarchy" is primed to end with bloody payback.
PANAJI - Europeans coming to India for enlightenment is the theme of well-known German filmmaker Roland Reber's forthcoming Indo-European film and he is in talks with Indian producer Bobby Bedi to co-produce it.
MUMBAI - Aamir Khan, who is currently busy promoting "3 Idiots", has decided not to take any new acting assignments in 2010 because he wants to concentrate on his three home productions.
San Francisco- American departmental store Sears is also taking part in the Black Friday Deals 2009 in a bid to attract customers with its wide variety of items.
BEIJING - Personal computer maker Lenovo Group said Friday it is joining the race to develop products that link phones and PCs by buying back a mobile phone business that it sold last year.
San Francisco- Cyber Monday is to the virtual stores what Black Friday is to their brick-and-mortar counterparts.
San Francisco- The one thing that is conspicuous in the Kohl's Black Friday ad 2009 is the $10 cash back offer that the company is offering on every purchase of $50 and above.
TORONTO - Breathing in carbon dioxide is known to trigger panic attacks.
CLEVELAND - Federal agents in Ohio say a former doctor admitted making pipe bombs that were part of an arsenal seized at his apartment.
PORT OF SPAIN - India Friday backed the IAEA resolution against Iran for having developed a secret uranium-enrichment facility, but opposed "renewed punitive approach or sanctions" and underlined the need to "keep doors open for dialogue" with Tehran.
VIENNA - The row over Iran's nuclear programme came one step closer to escalating Friday, as the country threatened to reduce its cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in reaction to a resolution censuring the Islamic republic.
BISMARCK, N.D. - A group that funds developers of North Dakota farm products is giving money to four projects.
MEREDITH, N.H. - A lawyer for the owner of a closed mortgage company being investigated by the state says his client is back in New Hampshire.
MINNEAPOLIS - Airline shares fell with the broader market on Friday, even though airline investors got something that would usually count as good news - falling oil prices.
NEW DELHI - Virat Kohli struck 145 but could not save Delhi from an innings and 22 runs defeat against Uttar Pradesh on the fourth and last day of their Ranji Trophy Super League round three match at Luknow Friday.
CHICAGO - Agriculture futures fell early Friday on the Chicago Board of Trade.
WASHINGTON - The young invincibles. That's what the insurance industry calls them.
LONDON - Market fears of a possible intervention by the Bank of Japan to support the dollar helped the U.S.
NEW DELHI - The Indian International Trade Fair (IITF) concluded successfully Friday drawing a mammoth 150,000 visitors on the last day.
GURGAON - Ankur Chadha lived up to his reputation and fired a level par 72 to win the category A title with a four-day total of 221 in the inaugural Albatross International Junior Golf Championship 2009 at the Jack Nicklaus-designed Classic Golf Resort, here Friday.
PARIS - The man who coached France to its first World Cup win in 1998, Aime Jacquet, has fiercely criticized the current manager, saying in comments published Friday that Raymond Domenech should already have been fired.
LONDON - India's Mahesh Bhupathi and his Bahamian partner Mark Knowles lost their last Group A match, but are already through to the semifinals of the ATP World Tour Finals.
NEW DELHI - : In view of the upcoming Commonwealth Games 2010 in Delhi, the Home Guards and Civil Defence Directorate has initiated a programme to train its personnel in spoken English.
WARSAW, Poland - Visitors to Warsaw's zoo are being greeted by two "Homo sapiens" peering out from a cage - humans in animal skins trying to spark interest in man's caveman ancestors.
LONDON, November 27 - Women in the City is pleased to announce that Sacha Romanovitch, Head of People and Culture at Grant Thornton, beat 6 finalists to win the prestigious Jaguar Woman of Achievement Award 2009, presented by property guru Kirstie Allsopp at the 7th Annual Women in the City Lunch & Awards Ceremony.
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