Everything you need to know about Ind Area Phillaur: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
Everything you need to know about Ind Area Phillaur: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
Beijing, June 1 Jun 14 (IANS) An American teacher at a French school in China's Shanghai city has been arrested on suspicion of child molestation, local authorities said.
Washington, June 11 (ANI): An HIV health care center has created a wedding dress, made entirely of condoms, to raise awareness for the alarming raise in chlamydia, a sexually transmitted infection, diagnoses recently.
Beijing, May 29 (IANS) The Chinese military will conduct an exercise next month to test new types of combat forces, including units using digital technology, amid efforts to adjust to informationalized war, it announced.
Havana, May 16 (IANS) After a four-year absence, Cuba will send a team to participate in America group III of Davis Cup tennis to be held June 17-22 in La Paz, Bolivia, the National Tennis Commission (NTC) announced here.
Washington, May 11 (IANS) Two Indian young entrepreneurs are among 20 Under 20 Thiel Fellows chosen to "pursue innovative scientific and technical projects, learn entrepreneurship from the ground up, and begin to build the innovative companies of tomorrow."
Declaration of results of class 12th board has begun and students passing 12th examination usually face a state of confusion on deciding about their future education and leaves with a question: What after class 12th? Presently, wide range of undergraduate courses after 12th are available in different streams but it is advisable for the candidates to choose the best suited course for them so as to deliver the best in that field in future.
Chandigarh, May 5 (IANS) All 57 prisoners from Pakistan lodged in various jails in Punjab will be segregated from the rest of the inmates to ensure their safety, following the recent assault on a Pakistani prisoner in a Jammu jail.
Chandigarh, May 3 (IANS) Following the attack on a Pakistani prisoner in a Jammu jail by a fellow inmate Friday, authorities in Punjab have imposed curbs on the movement of Pakistani prisoners lodged in jails in Punjab for their safety.
Scientists have discovered new drug-resistant strains of the parasite responsible for causing malaria. These malaria-causing parasites were found in western Cambodia and have found to be different from the other strains present across the world. The researchers also found that, these parasites have the ability to withstand treatment by artemisinin - a frontline drug in the fight against malaria.
Mumbai, April 22 (IANS) Videocon Industries Monday announced a significant natural gas discovery in its offshore Rovumal block in Mozambique.
Washington, Apr. 10 (ANI): An upcoming documentary film about UFOs has claimed that it will be offering evidence of aliens' existence including the cutting-edge scientific analysis of a recovered body.
Kathmandu, April 9 (Xinhua-ANI): A pregnant woman was burnt alive on Monday by her family members in a settlement near Morang, some 550 km east of Kathmandu.
Kathmandu, April 9 (Xinhua-ANI): A pregnant woman was burnt alive on Monday by her family members in a settlement near Morang, some 550 km east of Kathmandu.
Thane (Maharashtra), April 7 (ANI): Enraged survivors and victims of the building collapse that claimed 74 lives and left 65 injured on Sunday demanded justice following the arrest of two builders in Thane,Maharashtra.
Tokyo, April 5 (Xinhua-ANI):Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday unveiled a Japan-U.S. time frame on returning Okinawa's land used by the U.S. military to the Japanese southernmost prefecture, according to local media.
Toronto, March 8 (IANS/CMC) Olympic and world 400 metre champion Grenada's Kirani James says he was shocked on hearing the South African double amputee athlete, Oscar Pistorius, was accused of murder.
Chandigarh, March 5 (IANS) On the defensive after its personnel were caught on camera thrashing a young woman in public in Tarn Taran district, Punjab Police Tuesday said that it was "examining all evidence" of the incident.
Chandigarh, March 5 (IANS) Even as the victim of an assault by Punjab Police personnel sought their dismissal, an embarrassed Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal Tuesday ordered a magisterial probe into the incident.
Tarn Taran (Punjab), March 4 (IANS) Two Punjab police personnel were suspended Monday after they were caught on camera beating a young woman - who was being sexually harassed by truck drivers - and her aged father here after she called police for help.
Shanghai, Feb 18 (IANS) Students in 21 primary and middle schools here were ordered to stop wearing their uniforms Monday after a toxic dye was found in the products of a garment firm.
Aizawl, Feb 15 (IANS) The number of foreigners visiting Mizoram is rising.
Aizawl, Feb 15 (IANS) The number of foreigners visiting the northeastern state of Mizoram increased last year, with a larger number of US citizens than other foreigners stopping over in this state that borders Myanmar and Bangladesh, officials said.
Shimla, Feb 14 (IANS) A businessman from Punjab was shot dead in Himachal Pradesh's Una district Thursday, police said.
New Delhi, Jan 30 (IANS) Pakistan's exports to India in April-December 2012 grew by 66 percent over the same period in 2011, while India's exports to it increased by 16 percent, officials said Wednesday.
Washington, Jan 26 (ANI): The US military technology developer, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), is working on two new plans to make laser weaponry a reality, a report has said.
Washington, Jan. 21 (ANI): A five-year-old girl has been suspended from elementary school in Pennsylvania after she made what the school called a 'terrorist threat'.
New Delhi, Jan 16 (IANS) Iraqis will travel to India from April to get trained in irrigation and land reclamation.
Dubai, Jan 7 (IANS/WAM) An Emirati company has donated $1 million to UNICEF for polio eradication in Afghanistan.
Beijing, Jan 5 (IANS) An astounding 7,300 couples got married in China's Shanghai metropolis on a date considered auspicious - 2013-1-4 - as the six digits when spoken in Chinese sound like the phrase "love you for life".
Karachi, Jan.2 (ANI): The funeral prayers of four persons, who died in the blast that occurred at Ayesha Manzil on Tuesday night, will be offered today, even as the MQM has announced that it will observe a mourning day here on Wednesday.
Islamabad, Jan 2 (ANI): At least one person has been killed and 32 were injured in a massive blast in Karachi, Pakistan.
Beijing, Jan 1 (IANS) At least five workers died and 18 others injured after an under construction concrete platform of a building collapsed in China's Shanghai city, Xinhua reported Tuesday.
Islamabad, Dec 28 (ANI): Trade normalisation between Delhi and Islamabad may hit a deadlock as Pakistan has not yet decided to implement its decision of granting the Most Favoured Nations (MFN) status to India, a report has said.
New York, Dec. 18 (ANI): Diet Pepsi has secretly added a new artificial sweetener to its formula, in a desperate bid to improve its declining sales, it has been revealed.
Beijing, Dec 13 (IANS) China has organised a 10-day air war competition in which over a hundred ace fighter pilots were pitted against each other at speeds of 1,800 km per hour and had to take the right decision in barely 10 seconds.
Dhaka, Dec 3 (IANS) India would adopt a liberal visa policy to boost economic partnership and encourage Indian business to invest in Bangladesh to address the imbalance in trade and reap mutual benefit.
New Delhi, Nov 22 (IANS) The union cabinet Thursday approved revision of the core network under the prime minister's rural roads scheme by connecting 2,697 villages in tribal areas that have no roads.
New Delhi, Nov 20 (IANS) Congress leader Oscar Fernandes Tuesday said all the MPs should use their Member of Parliament Local Area Development (MPLAD) funds for building infrastructure for welfare of children.
Islamabad, Nov. 16 (ANI): Pakistan's Minister for Commerce Makhdoom Amin Fahim has said that Pakistan will confer India with the Most Favoured Nation (MFN) status from January 1, 2013, by abolishing negative list and assured of no delay on it.
London, Oct. 11 (ANI): A film crew from the British broadcasting network, BBC was arrested at gunpoint for sneaking into a top-secret UFO military base in the United States.
Beijing, Sep 18 (IANS) The Chinese army has conducted a series of military drills over the past few weeks to finetune its capabilities of amphibious operations, media reports said.
Washington, Sep 14 (ANI): The mother of slain U.S. envoy to Libya Chris Stevens has said he wanted to be posted in that volatile nation.
Sydney, Sept. 6 (ANI): News Limited chief executive Kim Williams has hit out at 'draconian' government proposals for a new media regulator, by which it can threaten to send journalists to jail.
Chandigarh, Aug 23 (IANS) With vulgar and obscene content growing in some videos and Punjabi songs, the Punjab government wants to set up a censor board to regulate the content, a minister said Thursday.
Phillaur (Jalandhar, Punjab), Aug.19 (ANI): Police in Phillaur in Punjab's Jalandhar District, have confirmed the arrest of a Maoist who was absconding since 2009.
Shanghai, Aug 7 (IANS) There was panic when a 1.5-metre-long crocodile was found in a creek in a suburban residential area in this Chinese business hub.
Washington, July 27 (ANI): Web giant Google has unveiled its new Google Fiber service in Kansas City, USA, which is capable of providing Internet access at over 100 times faster than today's average broadband rate.
New York, July 23 (ANI): Tom Cruise is reportedly searching for a bachelor pad in New York to be near daughter Suri.
Washington, July 12 (ANI): Almost 65 years after the July 8 UFO crash in America, which was described by local papers as a "flying saucer", some Central Californians believe that their region remains a hotspot for aliens the bottom leg of a "UFO triangle" as mysterious as Bermuda's.
London, June 20 (ANI): British lawmakers have passed a landmark vote ordering judges to stop granting foreign criminals 'human rights' to stay in the country. he motion was passed after the Commons was informed about the scale at which overseas convicts abuse the Human Rights Act, Daily Mail reports.
With the completion of 2012 G-20 Mexico summit on 19th June, a number of possible outcomes and measures have been concluded for stabilisation and up gradation of world economy. G-20 Summit, 2012 winded up with lots of declarations to be implemented for welfare of international economy that looks quite convincing. The major declarations of 2012 G-20 Mexico summit are:
Text of the G-20 Summit declaration in Los Cabos, Mexico, June 18-19:
Washington, June 12 (ANI): NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope detected the highest-energy light ever associated with an eruption on the sun during a powerful solar blast on March 7.
Washington, June 10 (IANS) Indian-American director Prashant Bhargava chose to set his award-winning first feature film "Patang" (Kite) about family conflict in Ahmedabad because of the unique way people of Gujarat handled tragedy with kites playing a key role.
Islamabad, June 5 (IANS) Pakistan Tuesday successfully test-fired the indigenously developed cruise missile Hatf-VII (Babur), having a range of 700 km, the military said.
Shanghai, June 3 (IANS) Half-naked men and women in bikinis took part in an annual bicycle ride to promote the use of green energy, healthy lifestyle and zero-carbon transportation in this Chinese metropolis.
Factfile on Myanmar, where Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Sunday began a three-day visit - the first by an Indian prime minister in 25 years.
Washington, May 10 (IANS) Hindu and Buddhist groups have grown steadily in the US, being concentrated in Texas, California, the New York Metropolitan Area, Illinois and Georgia, says a new study.
Waco, Texas May 10(ANI): Hindu and Buddhist groups have grown steadily in the United States since changes in immigration laws in 1965 and 1992, a professor of Baylor University in Waco, Texas, has claimed.
Chandigarh, May 7 (IANS) The Punjab government Monday ordered a probe against a jail official in Bathinda town after he was caught red-handed while selling drugs to inmates in the prison there.
Bokaro, Apr 28 (ANI): Rekha Manjhi, wife of former top Maoist leader Varun Manjhi has urged the rebels to join the mainstream and derive benefits of central government's rehabilitation schemes.
Madrid, April 26 (IANS) Bayern Munich have qualified for the final of the Champions League football after knocking out Real Madrid in a penalty shoot-out.
Yinchuan (China), April 18 (Xinhua-ANI): An unmanned Chinese military drone recently completed its first digital mapping mission near north China's Helan mountain, capturing high-definition imaging data during more than five consecutive hours of aerial photography.
Washington, Apr 3 (ANI): Nearly 80 percent of the matter in the universe is invisible to telescopes, yet its gravitational influence is manifest in the orbital speeds of stars around galaxies and in the motions of clusters of galaxies.
Washington, March 22 (ANI): Scientists have identified two areas of the brain that compare the movements of the eye with the visual movements cast onto the retina so as to correctly perceive objects in motion.
Washington, March 22 (ANI): Scientists have identified two areas of the brain that compare the movements of the eye with the visual movements cast onto the retina so as to correctly perceive objects in motion.
If someone thinks that noise affects only birds and animals in our surroundings, then we are wrong.
London, Mar 12 (ANI): A US girl is suing her school after she was forced to hand over her Facebook password and punished for posts she made on the social networking site.
Washington, Feb 20 (ANI): The Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope has recorded the ighest energy portion of the gamma-ray bursts, which last for a few seconds.
Washington, Feb 9 (ANI): New images of a neighbouring dwarf galaxy have revealed a dense stream of stars in its outer regions, the remains of an even smaller companion galaxy in the process of merging with its host, researchers say.
Washington, Feb 9 (ANI): New images of a neighbouring dwarf galaxy have revealed a dense stream of stars in its outer regions, the remains of an even smaller companion galaxy in the process of merging with its host, researchers say.
London, Jan 16 (ANI): A team of scientists including one of Indian-origin has spotted an area in the brain, which is involved in the visual categorization process.
London, Jan 16 (ANI): A team of scientists including one of Indian-origin has spotted an area in the brain, which is involved in the visual categorization process.
Washington, Jan 11 (ANI): NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, which has been surveying high-energy sky for more than three years, is extending its view into a largely unexplored electromagnetic range.
Zemithang, Jan 5 (ANI): Seven Black Necked Cranes (BNCs) have been spotted in Zemithang Valley in Tawang district of Arunachal Pradesh much to the delight of the local denizens.
Washington, Dec 14 (ANI): The remains of shattered Tycho's supernova, which is one of the few supernovae visible to the naked eye in historical records, shine in high-energy gamma rays, subsequently hinting at cosmic ray origins, a new study has revealed.
Washington, Dec 13(ANI): The ultra-conservative 'Tea Party' group has said its description of US President Barack Obama as a skunk was satirical, after it was slammed as a racist group.
Islamabad, Dec 5 (ANI): The Pakistani Taliban has splintered into over 100 smaller factions, weakened and running short of cash, over the country's military operations and US drone strikes, security officials, analysts and tribesmen from the insurgent heartland have said.
Kathmandu, Nov 29(ANI): The number of snow leopards in central Asia is much lower than between 350 to 500 as originally believed, a new study has suggested.
Beijing, Nov 15(ANI): A series of images captured by Google Maps showing mysterious patterns in a desert near the Chinese province of Xinjiang, have caught online conspiracy theorists off guard.
Tokyo, Nov 3 (ANI): Japan's nuclear safety panel is likely to expand priority areas that should be prepared for possible atomic accidents to a 30- kilometers radius of a nuclear power plant from the current eight to ten kilometers.
New Delhi, Oct 31 (ANI): Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram today said the government has approved the enhanced grant of risk/ hardship allowance for the CAPFs personnel deployed in 35 'focus' districts in LWE-affected areas.
Canberra, Oct 10 (ANI): A female soldier serving with Australian forces in Afghanistan has logged a formal complaint of being sexually assaulted at a military base in that country last month.
Melbourne, Sept 18 (ANI): The Australian Defence Force has been hit by by a fresh sex scandal after a young female navy member claimed that she was allegedly raped aboard a mine hunting ship.
London, Sept 8 (ANI): Computer-dependent cars could soon become targets of hackers aiming to steal vehicles, track movements or disrupt car's safety systems, security experts have claimed.
Swat, Sept 6(ANI): Clashes between Pakistani security forces and suspected militants have erupted in Swat's Bishban area at a time when the region seemed to have returned to 'normal', a Pakistani newspaper has said.
Karachi, Sept 3(ANI): Karachi's business community blames mobile phone service providers more than the government for the ever-increasing extortion and 'kidnapping for ransom' cases in the Pakistani city.
London, July 7 (ANI): Illegal migrants can enter Britain without their passports being checked, it has emerged.
New Delhi, May 19 (ANI): The Union Cabinet today approved an additional grant of 200 crore rupees to provide drinking water facilities to the Bundelkhand region in Uttar Pradesh.
Washington, May 19(ANI): Test flights of the U-2 spy planes, built at the United States' Area 51 military base, were often confused for UFOs, Annie Jacobsen, a contributing editor and investigative reporter at the Los Angeles Times Magazine, has revealed in her new book.
London, May 14 (ANI): Since the late 1970s the Roswell Incident of 1947 has been the subject of intense controversy and of conspiracy theories as to the true nature of the 'alien spacecraft' that crashed in the desert of New Mexico.
Shanghai, Apr.8 (ANI): Yu Zhengsheng, head of the municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), has announced the commencement of the construction work on the Shanghai Disneyland theme park after a ground-breaking ceremony was held at the city's Pudong New Area today.
New Delhi, Apr 6 (ANI): India and Thailand have agreed to double trade volume by 2014, which currently stands at six billion dollars.
New Delhi, Apr 6 (ANI): India and Thailand have agreed to double trade volume by 2014, which currently stands at six billion dollars.
New Delhi, Mar 11 (ANI): Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee announcing a substantial hike in the Member of Parliament Local Area Development (MPLAD) scheme, on Friday said that each MP will get now five crores instead of two crores in the scheme.
Imphal, Mar 1 (ANI): The Central Government is leaving no stones unturned in its effort to develop the northeastern region. Recently it excluded Manipur, Nagaland and Mizoram from the protected area permit to promote tourism in the region.
Imphal, Mar 1 (ANI): The Central Government is leaving no stones unturned in its effort to develop the northeastern region. Recently it excluded Manipur, Nagaland and Mizoram from the protected area permit to promote tourism in the region.
Washington, Feb 25 (ANI): A new study suggests that professional ballet and modern dancers are not as emotionally in sync with their bodies as are people who regularly practice meditation.
Melbourne, Feb 11 (ANI): A quirky new tourism campaign in the US featuring scantily clad Bavarian women, a nutcracker and lots of beer has garnered a lot of attention.
Thimpu (Bhutan), Feb 6 (ANI): Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao on Sunday said that with the completion of 25 years of SAARC, the process is maturing and gradually the focus is now on providing more services for the economic and development needs of the people.
