Month: October 2006

Live Punjab News Service

Mumbai — Indian equity markets were on a roll Monday, riding on robust results posted by corporate houses and pushing a key index to an all-time high on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE).

Sensex scales to …

Colombo — Face-to-face talks between the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) rebels in Geneva over the weekend have failed due to the issue of opening a highway, the government said Monday.

Health Minister Nimal …

Shimla — Congress president Sonia Gandhi is scheduled to address a public rally in Himachal Pradesh’s Dharamsala town Monday.

Police said Gandhi’s helicopter is expected to land at Dharamsala, some 280 km from here, at around 11:30 a.m.

After the …

New Delhi — With the ICC Champions Trophy cricket matches in full swing, Delhi Police Friday busted an illegal betting racket, the second in two days, with the arrest of three people.

Police raided a house in Rohini area in …

New Delhi — More than 28 percent schoolchildren in the capital have been found to be overweight or obese with one-fourth of them at a risk of getting diabetes, heart disease, stroke and possible early death, a new study has …

Gangtok — The death toll in a bus accident in Sikkim mounted to 25 with four more people succumbing to their injuries at a hospital, officials said Thursday.

At least 21 people were killed and 49 injured late Wednesday when …

Thiruvananthapuram — Nalini Jameela, a 53-year-old sex worker, has been using make-up to attract customers since 1978, but she donned the grease paint Thursday to act in an English documentary film titled “Sex, Lies and a Book”.

The 28-minute documentary, …

Aizawl — The Border Security Force (BSF) is turning to yoga to keep its troopers fighting fit.

When A. Jayapaul, a former commandant of the Tripura-Cachar-Mizoram (TCM) frontier of BSF, saw his “boys” suffering from stress, he decided to opt …

Dharamsala — Twelve Tibetan export firms will display native products like beer, mineral water, textiles and daily needs commodities in the 26th Indian International Trade Exposition in New Delhi from Nov 14 to 27.

Tibetan beer is considered to be …

Shimla — Unusual autumn showers over the weekend have caused the temperature in the Himachal Pradesh capital to plummet to a record low Monday, making it the coldest October day in 33 years, an official said here Tuesday.

Shimla recorded …

ew Delhi — Even after weeks of concentrated efforts to control dengue in the capital, 69 new cases were reported here and a woman died of the deadly mosquito-borne virus Tuesday.

The identity of the woman was not immediately known. …

London — British actress Sienna Miller refused to go on a drastic diet for the movie “Factory Girl” because she felt she needed the energy to deal with the demanding shooting schedule.

According to contactmusic.com, Miller plays Edie Sedgwick, who …