KHAIRAIR (UP): Rejecting Pakistan's allegations, Army chief General Bikram Singh on Wednesday said Indian troops have not crossed the Line of Control (LoC) or indulged in unprovoked firing and that any casualty on the other side may have been due to retaliatory firing.

"Our jawans don't cross the LoC. We honour human rights. We fire in retaliation when provoked," he said here after meeting the family of Lance Naik Hemraj, who was beheaded by Pakistani soldiers in a cross-LoC attack in Poonch sector of Jammu and Kashmir on January 8.

Responding to the Pakistani charge that one of its soldiers was killed in "unprovoked firing" along LoC

LONDON: British police said two people had been killed after a helicopter crashed into a crane on top of a residential block in central London on Wednesday.

"Two people have been confirmed dead at the scene. We have no further details," police said in a statement. Two others had been taken to hospital, the police added.

The helicopter crashed into a crane near a railway station in central London during the morning rush hours, bursting into flames and throwing plumes of smoke into the air.

"It appears a helicopter was in collision with a crane on top of a building," London police said.

Sky News said one pilot was

India is one of the fastest developing countries these days and it’s dependence on technological items is increasing with the passing of each day. This is reason why world’s leading firms target it for increasing their market share. Samsung is one of these firms who are looking to expand in the market of smartphones in this region. According to their vice president Asim warsi: “Next year, we will like to have 50 percent market share in overall mobile phone market, including smartphones and feature phones,” This statement signifies that the demand for the smartphone from Samsung in India is at a very high currently. In the year 2012, Samsung recorded a 40

WASHINGTON: Pakistan's foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar went on a strident diplomatic offensive in the US on Tuesday, accusing India of "war-mongering" and embarking on a "narrative of hostility," while presenting her country as a paragon of peace and amity in the context of border tensions between the two countries.

"I thought war-mongering was a thing of yesteryears and we had put it behind us," the foreign minister of a country that is recognized as having initiated three wars against India said at an Asia Society talk, artfully glossing over her country's well-chronicled record of hostilities towards India to change the status-quo. P

Air Quality Suffering in China Residents of Beijing and many other cities in China were warned to stay inside in mid-January 2013 as the nation faced one of the worst periods of air quality in recent history. The Chinese government ordered factories to scale back emissions, while hospitals saw spikes of more than 20 to 30 percent in patients complaining of respiratory issues, according to news reports.

At the time that this Jan. 14 image was taken by satellite, ground-based sensors at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing reported PM2.5 measurements of 291 micrograms per cubic meter of air. Fine, airborne particulate matter (PM) that is smaller than 2.5 microns (about one thirtieth th

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's top court ordered the arrest of the prime minister in a corruption case on Tuesday, the latest clash between the government and a judiciary that has repeatedly pressured the country's political leaders.

The ruling is sure to inflame the already antagonistic relationship between the court and the government, pushing the country toward yet another political crisis. It also could provide ammunition to Tahir-ul-Qadri, a firebrand Muslim cleric who was leading tens of thousands of people in a second day of rallies in Islamabad to press for the removal of the government, which he criticized as corrupt and indifferent to the common man.

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Kochi: Still smarting from their narrow nine-run defeat in the opening ODI, a struggling India will have to work on their bowling frailties and inconsistent batting as they take on England in the second one-dayer Today with the pressure on the home team.   Nothing seems to be going right for Mahendra Singh Dhoni and his men as after their 1-2 series loss in the three-match ODI series against Pakistan, India again started on the wrong foot against England last Friday.   The Indians will have to give a serious thought to the team composition as another defeat may put immense pressure on the team and may make it very difficult to stage a comeback.   With the top order

NEW DELHI: Terming as "unpardonable" the beheading of a soldier by Pakistan on the Line of Control, Army chief Gen Bikram Singh on Monday warned that India's military will retaliate aggressively in case of any further provocation.

Talking tough, he said the killing of two Indian soldiers on the LoC in Mendhar area of Jammu and Kashmir on January 6 was a pre-planned and pre-meditated action by Pakistani troops and India reserves the right to retaliate at "time and place of its choice".

Addressing a press conference here on the eve of Army Day, Gen Singh said India's response to Pakistani firing at its posts in LoC in J and K is measure

ALLAHABAD: The Maha Kumbh began on Monday morning with lakhs of devotees as well as ascetics and religious leaders of various orders converging on the confluence of Ganga, Yamuna and the mythical river Saraswati here for a holy dip on the occasion of Makar Sankranti.

The inaugural day of the two-month-long congregation, often described as the "greatest show on earth", was marked by the first "Shahi Snan" of 13 "akharas" wherein Naga Sadhus - a martial order of ascetics who move about either naked or scantily clad with matted hair and ash smeared bodies - marched to Sangam in processions with their leaders perched atop ornately decorated elephants,

NEW DELHI: Pakistan on Sunday finally agreed to the flag meeting being demanded by India between rival formation commanders in the Poonch district of J&K, a day after IAF chief NAK Browne warned that "other options for compliance" would have to be examined if Islamabad continued to blatantly flout the line of control's sanctity.

However, even as the two sides prepared for the flag meeting to be held at the Chakkan Da Bagh crossing point in Poonch district at 1pm on Monday, Pakistan army was at it again to violate the ceasefire agreement — a well-honed strategy to give covering fire to terrorists trying to sneak into J&K.

On Sunday eve

MELBOURNE: Internet and other components of information communication and technology (ICT) industry annually produces over 830 million tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2), the main greenhouse gas, and is expected to double by 2020, a new study has found.

Researchers from the Centre for Energy-Efficient Telecommunications and Bell Labs explain that the ICT industry, which delivers internet, video, voice and other cloud services , produces about 2% of global CO2 emissions — the same the aviation industry produces.

Researchers said their projections suggest that ICT sector's share in emissions is expected to double by 2020. They have also found new models of e

KOLKATA: In a year when India should have actually fired a second rocket to the moon, after Chandrayaan-1, space scientists will instead send a mission to Mars in November that, if successful, will propel India into the elite club of four—the US, Russia, Europe and Japan.

The announcement was made on Friday by J N Goswami, director of the Physical Research Laboratory in Ahmedabad and the principal scientist of Chandrayaan-1, at the Indian Science Congress (ISC). Magalayaan, as India's Mars mission has been christened, will look for signs of life and reasons why the red planet lost its atmosphere.

"Chandrayaan-2 (an India-Russia collaboration), whi

WASHINGTON: The Milky Way contains at least 17 billion planets the size of Earth, and likely many more, according to a study out on Monday that raises the chances of discovering a sister planet to ours.

Astronomers using NASA's Kepler spacecraft found that about 17 percent of stars in our galaxy have a planet about the size of Earth in a close orbit.

The Milky Way is known to host about 100 billion stars, meaning that about one of every six has an Earth-sized planet around it.

The finding does not mean that all those planets beyond our solar system, or exoplanets, could be habitable, though it increases the chances of finding planets similar t

NEW DELHI: Pakistan on Sunday agreed to a flag meeting in Poonch at 1pm on Monday after the brutal killing of two Indian soldiers. India will reportedly strongly protest against jawan's beheading at flag meeting and demand the severed head, according to TV reports.

Indian and Pakistan troops on late Saturday night traded heavy gunfire along the Line of Control in Poonch sector after the movement of a group of suspected infiltrators was detected, in fresh escalation of tension.


"There was a movement of 6 to 7 persons close to LoC opposite Krishagati sub-sector in Poonch sector at around 2145 hours tonight", Defence spokesman Col R K Palta to

Railways is mulling linking of train tickets with Aadhar cards to tackle the menace of touts in bookings.

"We are exploring the possibility of linking Aadhar system with issuing of train tickets and if this happens, the tout menace will be effectively curbed in ticketing system," Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal said here today.

Passengers often do not get tickets in advance as bulk tickets are being cornered by touts.

"I have recently met Nandan Nilekani and discussed the issue with him. Our aim is to ensure availability of tickets by genuine passengers as there are complaints of touts booking bulk tickets in the name of tour an

Expressing concern over food produce going waste, the experts opined that lack of skilled manpower and shortage of infrastructure has been resulting in wastage of upto 40 per cent of the total food produce in India every year.

India has rejected Pakistan’s proposal for a United Nations (UN) probe into the chain of killings along the Line of Control (LoC) that began on Sunday morning and led to the killing of two Indian soldiers on Tuesday. The Indian response was to a Pakistani suggestion for investigating the incidents by the UN Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) which is present on both sides of the LoC. But high-level sources said the brutality with which the Indian soldiers were killed on Tuesday will be taken up with Pakistan through back channels. “If you stand up and start shouting, Pakistan Army will never agree. There are other ways of approaching them on the issue,&rd

Microsoft has announced that, in future, the free of charge version of Visual Studio will only be able to create Metro-style applications. This significantly increases the barrier to entry for open source and freeware developers on Windows   Source:-https://www.linux.com/news/software/multimedia/582352-new-obstacle-for-open-source-on-windows-8

AHMEDABAD: "Who will marry me, saheb?" the 19-year old had asked when the policeman met her outside the court to bid her farewell. The dalit girl had been raped by five villagers belonging to an upper caste community in Junagadh. After the accused were sentenced to prison, the police sub-inspector (PSI) had advised the girl to settle down with a nice man.

All over India, men in khaki are in news for their callous attitude towards rape victims- either they fight over jurisdiction as the victim lies unattended on the road, ask humiliating questions or question the character of the girl. However, a policeman in Gujarat had dared to marry a rape victim almost 30 years ba

The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the Centre to file its response to a public interest litigation petition challenging the constitutional validity of certain provisions of the Representation of the People Act 1951 which allow convicted persons to contest elections to Parliament and the State Legislatures six years after release from jail. A Bench of Justices A.K. Patnaik and Gyan Sudha Misra directed that further hearing be listed for February 12. Amicus curiae Fali Nariman contended that Article 326, which barred citizens from being registered as voters on grounds of criminal antecedents, equally prohibited such people from becoming MPs and MLAs. However, Sections 8 and 9 of the RP