Orissa Assembly on Thursday passed Vedanta University Bill – 2009 after a marathon debate that began on Wednesday by simple voice vote with some amendments.
Allaying the apprehension of some members about the credibility of the Ani Agarwal Foundation, the higher education minister said, the proposed Vedanta University would be a world class research driven education [...]

The Hazratbal mosque situated to the north-west of Dal Lake, enshrines a hair of the Prophet Muhammad.
In 1989, a widespread armed insurgency started in Kashmir, which continues to this day. India contends that this was largely started by the large number of Afghan mujahideen who entered the Kashmir valley following the end of the Soviet [...]

Bonded workers crush rocks in Mongbwalu, eastern Congo. Whole families work in slave conditions for warlords, controlling huge amounts of land, where gold is extracted to finance their military campaigns. 2004

And finally, however painful it may be for us delicate souls, and however intractable the Congo’s ills may appear, and however drained of compassion we [...]

For the first time ever, three top sportspersons — boxers M C Mary Kom and Vijender Singh and wrestler Sushil Kumar — were on Wednesday 
selected for the country’s highest sporting honour, the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award.
While the prestigious award has been previously shared by two sportspersons in 1996-97 and 2002-03, it is the first [...]

Rajmata Gayatri Devi of Jaipur, who recently underwent intestinal endoscopy, has died at the age of 90.
Gayatri Devi, the elegant former princess of Cooch Behar who became the maharani of Jaipur, was once considered among the world’s most beautiful women.
She was admitted to the Santokba Durlabhji Memorial Hospital (SDMH) on July 17, IANS reported.
“She developed [...]

Singh Faces Doubts on Pakistan Strategy
Indian Prime Minister Singh is preparing to explain an agreement to improve relations with Pakistan after facing sustained political flak on the issue.

Gammon India May Be Blacklisted
India’s Minister for Urban Development S. Jaipal Reddy said in Parliament that Gammon India, the company which [...]

The newly launched search engine Bing seems to have stumped Indians. In fact they are loving the way it looks and helps users.
Hariharan, a software engineer with a leading IT company says that he had not thought that Microsoft will be able to launch such an efficient search engine. He says that he has started [...]

Star Plus, the general entertainment channel that telecasts the controversial show Sach Ka Samna sent its reply to the Information & Broadcasting ministry to the show cause notice issued to it last week. In its reply the channels has denied having violated any programming guidelines prescribed under the Cable TV (Regulation) Act, 1995.
Buzz up!Star Plus [...]

A total of 816 people died of swine flu worldwide, with most of the deaths occurring in South America, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Monday.
So far, 707 people have died in the Americas, 44 in South-East Asia, 34 in Europe, 30 in the Western Pacific region and one in the [...]

It may be a ‘baby’ but it’s a ‘boomer’ all right. India’s new stealth nuke weapon packs an awesome punch, armed with 12  nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles in four silos on its ‘hump’, as also a wide array of anti-ship and land-attack cruise missiles and torpedoes.
India’s first indigenous nuclear-powered submarine equipped with ballistic missiles, dubbed an [...]