Former Indian president APJ Abdul Kalam was frisked by US authorities at New York airport for explosives on September 29 before boarding an Air India flight, Geo News reported quoting Indian media. Indian External Affairs Minister SM Krishna spoke to Indian Ambassador to US Nirupama Rao and directed her to take up the matter in writing at the "highest level" with Washington. The US authorities apologized on the matter and ordered an inquiry after …

A girl was born to star couple Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan at a private hospital here Wednesday morning. The baby, their first child, was born at the Seven Hills Hospital. Mother and daughter were both doing fine. Proud grandfather Amitabh Bachchan too couldn’t control his happiness and tweeted: “I AM DADA to the cutest baby girl, A dada ji … Ecstatic.” Hospital sources said the delivery was normal and came a few minutes before 10 a.m. …

A petition has been filed against yoga guru Ramdev in a local court, seeking registration of a criminal case against him for his alleged statement over organising a revolt against the government on the lines of Libya and Syria. Additional Civil Judge Bhagirathi Varma, while admitting the petition on Tuesday filed by social worker Mohammad Ali, scheduled the matter for hearing on November 21. In his complaint, Ali charged Ramdev with conspiring …

Dengue has claimed four more lives including two women in Lahore, Geo News reported Saturday. In Lahore alone the total dengue death toll now stands as high as 236, whereas 265 deaths have been registered in overall Punjab. With 242 more confirmed cases the tally of total patients, so far, has jumped to 18,300. On the other hand 199 more cases have surfaced in Lahore to take the figure for the city to 15,609. At the moment, around 1,385 patients …

Hyderabad: Ayazuddin, son of former cricketer and Moradabad MP Mohammad Azharuddin, passed away on Friday, five days after being critically injured in a road accident in Hyderabad. The 19-year-old was critically injured when the Suzuki GSX-R1000 superbike he was riding on the Outer Ring Road, skidded and crashed near the tollgate at Poppalguda. Ayazuddin responded to resuscitation and was later operated on to stop the bleeding in his chest. His kidneys …

As Team Anna and tens of thousands celebrated Sunday after Anna Hazare broke his hunger strike for strong anti-corruption legislation, it was clear that more battles are around the corner. Hazare himself and his confidants said in speeches at the Ramlila ground that people should brace themselves for more such campaigns revolving around issues ranging from corruption to governance. And with Team Anna proving the potency of “People Power”, it will …

HYDERABAD: The power supply to various grid stations suspended following the continued heavy rainfall across the Sindh province that has also damaged vast farmlands. Rainfall affected hundreds of acres of standing crops in Badin district only. More than 700 coastal villages were cut off from the main cities. According to the details, the power that suspended at 2pm on Wednesday in various areas of Hyderabad could not yet been restored. The prolonged …

Just three weeks into the annual Amarnath yatra in Jammu and Kashmir, the number of pilgrims visiting the cave shrine is heading for a record after crossing the half-a-million mark Friday. The previous record of 537,0000 pilgrims of 2008 can be broken any time now as nearly 520,0000 pilgrims have already had a glimpse of the ice stalagmite that is considered a symbol of Lord Shiva, says an official of the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board that manages …

Over 68 percent, or 833 million, of Indians still live in villages despite a sharp decline recorded for the first time in the overall growth rate of the country’s rural population, according to the census data released Friday. According to the rural urban distribution of population census, of the 1.21 billion Indians, 377 crore stay in urban areas. The census data on the rural-urban break-up of population, which is considered very useful for policy-making, …

Resignations of members of parliament, ministers and legislators from Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh continued for the second consecutive day Tuesday. Intensifying the movement for a separate state of Telangana, Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) chief K. Chandrasekhara Rao and his colleague Vijayshanti faxed their resignations to Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar. KCR, as the TRS chief is popularly known, and Vijayshanti said they would soon visit …