A course in accent training is something usually associated with Business Processing Outsourcing. However, investigations have now revealed that the Lashkar-e-Tayiba has been imparting accent training too to potential terrorists.
With safety being top priority this Eid in view of recent bomb blasts in Pakistan, most Pakistanis played safe and stayed indoors, but -- like always it was difficult to dampen their sense of humour.
The mish mash plot involving several caricature-like characters is a dud. Go only if you have nothing better to do.
"It is for the first time that books in the newly recognised Bodo and Santhali language were selected for the awards," Narang said while declaring the awards.
Baroda were 58 for four at close on the second day in the Elite 'B' Group Ranji Trophy match against Andhra.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has welcomed Pakistan's ambassador designate to the United States Sherry Rehman as they held their first meeting and discussed various bilateral issues.
'The BJP politics of appropriating icons from its ideological adversaries could only be a desperate attempt to extend the Jat-Muslim divide in Uttar Pradesh. Why this desperation when it can comfortably get votes on the plank of economic development?'
Madan Laxmandas Tahiliyani, the judge who sent Ajmal Kasab to gallows, is versatile in both criminal and civil laws, an experience that came in handy during many a tricky moment during the Mumbai terror attack trial.
A raid is being conducted on the Rajkot home of Gujarat cricket bookie Arjun\nNihalchandani, who was arrested for alleged links with Shoban Mehta, a top police official said in Ahmedabad on Saturday.
Karachi is not reputed as a sub-continental beauty spot. Jihadist battles, gang wars and gunfire are familiar street sights and sounds, drug trafficking in its vast slums, kidnappings and political violence between Sindhi nationalists and MQM, the muhajir party of immigrants from UP and Bihar, are the stuff of everyday life.
The fifties and sixties was a time of hectic filmmaking for Sippy, when his banner produced memorable flicks like Shrimati 420, Chandrakant, Light House, Bhai Behan and Andaaz. It stands to his credit that G P Sippy, besides producing, also directed all of these films
Oxford-educated Pakistani leader Benazir Bhutto's clumsy speeches in Urdu, sprinkled with English words, have become a good way to pep up party conversations in Pakistan.
"What is the matter with these Commonwealth guys, why can they not trust me when I say maybe I will take off my uniform in a few days; I might remove the emergency after the elections, within a few days I intend to free the judges, lawyers, human rights activists, that I am the only true democrat in all of Pakistan," said one satirical post at thespoof.com.
In an online chat with readers on August 10, Vidya Bala, Vidya Bala, head of mutual fund research at FundsIndia, answered their queries. For hose who missed the chat, here is the transcript.
Pakistan believes Afghanistan is developing into an Indian garrison and has been nurturing groups like the Taliban and Lashkar-e-Tayiba over the years to counter it, a key United States Senate Committee has been told. "I am not making any accusations against any given country in the region. All of them are looking out for their vital interests. But India is becoming involved in Afghanistan and Pakistanis consider Afghanistan as developing into an Indian garrison," he said.
He is the second Sikh to be appointed in any of the forces, the first being in Army. The Pakistan Army has also appointed a Hindu. Gulab did not tell his family when he applied for the Sub Inspector post.
Majlis-e-Shura of Masjid committee has appealed to Muslim youths to marry within the community and keep away from inter-religious marriages that cause embarrassment, committee secretary Syed Wasimuddin told PTI.
The Indian community in Guangzhou has widely welcomed the country's decision to open a Consulate-General in the booming southern Chinese city, which they say will further boost bilateral trade and facilitate easier travel for businessmen between the
Warning that no force could prevent Pakistan from disintegrating if military rulers remained in power, an opposition alliance and Baloch parties have threatened to launch a joint civil disobedience movement
22wcb\nCentre to set up Wildlife Crime Bureau.
On November 12, 1970, a cyclone of devastating magnitude struck the then East Pakistan. Over 3 lakh people -- majority of them Bengalis perished and East Pakistan's economy suffered extensive damages.
The decision to regularise the buildings was taken at a meeting of the state cabinet in Mumbai.
Sachin Rana, who scored 121 in the first innings, was out on 99 in the second as the Ranji Trophy match between Haryana and Baroda ended in a draw.
An unbeaten 59 by Rakesh Solanki gave Baroda the first innings lead against Haryana in the Ranji Trophy Elite division match on Saturday.
A dogged century by number nine batsman S Rana helped Haryana post a respectable 260 against Baroda on day 1 in the Ranji Trophy match.
Jacob Martin slammed an unbeaten knock of 242 as Baroda cruised to a mammoth 562 for seven against Uttar Pradesh
Both hit unbeaten centuries as Baroda raced to 268 for 2 in reply to Uttar Pradesh's first innings total of 346 in the Ranji Trophy match.
Baroda bundled out hosts Andhra for 204 and bagged two points by virtue of their first innings lead
The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a petition filed by Sanjeev Bhatnagar seeking a review of the apex court order rejecting his plea for deletion of the word "Sindh" from the national anthem.
After playing a traditional bahu, telly star Sampada Vaze will transform into a trendy host!
The Uttar Pradesh police have been continuously informed with intelligence inputs about the concentration of Pakistanis in Akbarpur, from where the attackers had travelled to Faizabad and its adjoining districts.
Chandio Munir Ahmad is an activist of All Pakistan Trade Union Organisation. He has been a grassroots' worker for many years. He, like the overwhelming number of grassroots activists in Pakistan, is upset with the Indian government for giving tacit support to President Musharraf's regime and America's gameplan in the region.
The court said that the national anthem was an immortal classic not subject to change.
Noted lawyer Ram Jethmalani on Wednesday made an impassioned plea before the Supreme Court against deleting 'Sindh' from the national anthem.
The Center has filed a petition before the SC saying that the National Anthem is a literary work and cannot be alterered.
The Centre is contesting the writ petition in the Supreme Court seeking the deletion of the word 'Sindh', he pointed out.
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