Kathmandu, Oct 9 (Inditop.com) Nepal’s former Maoist guerrillas have denounced the award of the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature to German author Herta Mueller by the Swedish Academy Thursday, saying it reflected the institution’s growing bias towards the communists.
The 56-year-old ethnic Romanian writer experienced persecution and censorship under the repressive Nicolae Caeusescu regime in Romania [...]
Kabul, Aug 15 (DPA) A large explosion rocked Kabul Saturday causing numerous casualties near the headquarters of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force and in the neighbourhood where the presidential palace and the US embassy are located.
Local Tolo television reported 60 people were killed and injured, including foreign nationals.
The blast occurred five days before Afghanistan [...]
Hyderabad, July 7 (Inditop.com) A software engineer from Andhra Pradesh has been shot dead by unidentified assailants in South Africa, his family members said Tuesday.
B. Kiran, 28, who was injured in the attack Thursday, died at a hospital in Johannesburg early Tuesday. His family members in Andhra Pradesh’s Warangal district said a doctor hailing from [...]
New Delhi, July 11 (Inditop.com) India’s private carrier Kingfisher Airlines is planning to launch flights on eight international routes this year, it said Saturday.
“We have planned a roadmap for the next phase of international routes. We will start flying on the Mumbai-Hong Kong, Mumbai-Singapore sector Sep 16,” said an airline spokesperson.
The six other routes on [...]
New Delhi, July 7 (Inditop.com) Dune Kossatz, Genna Cloud and Dunay Nortje – the three winners of the Indian Premier League (IPL) Miss Bollywood contest in South Africa – are set to make their debut in tinsel town with “24×7 Raftaar”.
All the three South Africans, who were chosen during the five-week Twenty20 extravaganza in April, [...]
New Delhi, July 7 (Inditop.com) As leaders of the world’s 13 major countries prepare to meet at the G8+5 summit in Italy this week, 24 leading scientists from these countries have appealed to them to take immediate action to combat climate change.
“We come together to call on our government leaders to recognise both the unacceptable [...]
Dehradun, July 5 (Inditop.com) The father of a 24-year old management graduate, allegedly killed by police in a fake gun battle, Sunday demanded a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the incident.
The family has alleged that Ranvir Singh, who had come to this Uttarakhand capital to take up an assignment with a financial firm, [...]
New Delhi, July 2 (Inditop.com) A 30-year-old gynecologist, who had a fight with her surgeon husband, injected her twin daughters as well as herself with a poisonous substance, police said here Thursday, adding that the two girls have died and she was battling for life.
Rupa Kopari and her twin daughters Tanya and Twinkle were found [...]