LONDON: A British court has clinched a settlement for an 81-year-old Indian widow in a long-running dispute over the ownership of a precious gallantry medal awarded to her late husband, a World War II soldier in the British Indian Army. The high court of London, in an order on June 5, approved a pre-trial settlement that the George Cross posthumously awarded to Naik Kirpa Ram is the property of his wife ...

NEW DELHI: Debt-laden Kingfisher Airlines Ltd, which has not flown since last October, reported yet another quarter of loss, and the resumption of operations is still not in sight as it struggles to win regulatory approvals. Kingfisher, once India's No.2 carrier, said net loss widened to 21.42 billion rupees ($380 million) for its fiscal fourth quarter ending in March, compared with a net loss of 11.5 billion rupees a year earlier. The ...

India and China may have announced an end to their 20-day stand-off in Ladakh sector, but the situation has not entirely settled down judging from a recent incident when the Chinese intercepted an Indian Army patrol and prevented it from going to line of actual control (LAC). The incident took place near Finger-VIII area, also known as Siri Jap, on May 17, two days before Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang ...

JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia on Saturday assured India that its decision to deport foreign workers, following implementation of its nitaqat law, will only impact illegal blue-collar workers saying that the kingdom's actions will only encourage legally employed people to work in the country. Following his meeting with his Indian counterpart Salman Khurshid, Prince Saud Al Faisal said what Saudi Arabia was doing is in the interest of Indian workers. "It is ...

ROHTAK: A youth was dead and around 25 others injured in a violent clash between the Arya Samaj activists and the police near Karontha village in Rohtak on Sunday morning. The police opened fire on the villagers when they started pelting stones while trying to march towards the Satlok ashram of a dera head, Sant Rampal, at the outskirts of the village. The injured include villagers as well as cops who ...

LONDON: Deputy speaker of Britain's lower house of parliament and Conservative gay lawmaker Nigel Evans has been arrested by police for allegedly raping a man and sexually assaulting another. Detectives visited his home in Pendleton, Lancashire, yesterday following allegations by two men who were in their 20s at the time of the alleged attacks, which are said to have taken place at the property in July 2009 and March 2013. The house ...

Most women spend loads of money on cosmetics for their face but their lips are often neglected. Other than a cursory swipe of lipstick or a touch of lipgloss, many women do not bother too much about taking care of or worrying too much about their lips. But it is important to remember that looking after the lips, can not only add to your beauty, but also enhance any colour ...

YAMUNANAGAR: A court here convicted a practitioner of 'black magic' and his accomplice of killing five members of a family, including a pregnant woman, and sentenced the duo to life imprisonment till death. The court awarded the sentence of imprisonment till death under sections 302 and 120B of IPC. The orders were pronounced by additional sessions judge Ritu Garg on Friday. The convicts were also awarded 10 years of jail for ...

CHANDIGARH /NEW DELHI: BJP today held a protest demonstration in Chandigarh demanding immediate resignation of Railway Minister and Chandigarh MP Pawan Kumar Bansal, whose nephew Vijay Singla was arrested on Friday night by the CBI for allegedly taking bribe. Railway minister Pawan Kumar Bansal on Saturday met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and offered to resign over the bribery scandal involving his nephew, according to TV reports. The decision on Bansal will ...

WASHINGTON: NASA's Cassini spacecraft has provided scientists the first close-up, visible-light views of a behemoth hurricane swirling around Saturn's north pole. In high-resolution pictures and video, scientists see the hurricane's eye is about 2,000 kilometres wide, 20 times larger than the average hurricane eye on Earth. Thin, bright clouds at the outer edge of the hurricane are travelling 150 meters per second. The hurricane swirls inside a large, mysterious, six-sided weather pattern ...