Everything you need to know about Pondicherry North: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
Everything you need to know about Pondicherry North: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
New Delhi, May 20 (IANS) "Black" fame actress Ayesha Kapur enjoys shopping for accessories so much that she decided to make it her business and launched her own label - Ayesha Accessories.
London, May 18 (ANI): George Michael, who suffered non-threatening injuries following a car crash on Thursday, has now been released from the hospital.
Washington, May 17 (ANI): Bernie Madoff, the American investor accused of ruining countless lives through his bogus pyramid scheme, has said he should be blamed for the suicide of his son in 2010.
New Delhi, May 15 (IANS) In a move to plug distribution leakages the government will start direct transfer of cash subsidy on cooking gas (LPG) in 20 districts from June 1.
London, May 10 (IANS) Boston marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was killed by police during a manhunt, held extreme views of jihad and expected to find a full-fledged war when he visited Russia's Muslim-dominated North Caucasus region, media reports said.
Gandhinagar, May 10 (ANI): Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi will address non-resident Indians (NRIs) in 18 American cities via satellite from here on Sunday.
London, May 6 (IANS) Posters expressing support for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the second man charged with last month's bombings at the Boston Marathon, have been put up on walls in Chechnya's capital Grozny, BBC reported.
Washington, May 3 (IANS) The Boston Marathon bomber brothers initially planned to carry out a suicide-bomb attack on America's July 4 Independence Day, the surviving suspect told the investigators, according to various media reports.
London, Apr.28 (ANI): Cocaine smugglers in Britain have reportedly joined hands with the terror group Al Qaeda to spread cocaine usage in UK and Western Europe worth 168 million pound.
Sydney, Apr. 26 (ANI): Hacking group Anonymous have attacked the website of the North American Man-Boy Love Association - one of the most prominent pedophilia advocate groups in the world.
London, April 25 (IANS) A primary school teacher has been jailed for filming students while changing for swimming and sharing the images on the internet in "a level of betrayal rarely seen", British police said Thursday.
Washington, April 23 (ANI): New test results have provided further evidence that the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide and Earth's surface temperature are inextricably linked.
London, Apr. 22 (ANI): Archaeologists, excavating near the Royal Borough, have found a 4400-year-old skeleton of an upper class woman, who was almost certainly a member of the local ruling elite.
London, Apr 22 (ANI): Late North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong-il ate snakes, hippos and spiders, a defector has claimed.
Sochi, April 17 (IANS) Security measures to be taken in the Sochi Winter Olympic Games will be appropriate, a high-ranking official of the International Olympic Committee (I0C) said Wednesday.
Seoul, April 15 (IANS/RIA Novosti) North Korean leader Kim Jong-un appeared in public for the first time in the past two weeks, as he laid a wreath at his grandfather's tomb Monday in Pyongyang.
Vishakapatnam, April 15 (ANI): The annual ban on fishing in Vishakapatnam commenced from Monday and would continue till May 31, pushing the local fishermen into a net of financial burden and lack of supply.
Moscow, April 7 (IANS/RIA Novosti) A woman doctor at a maternity clinic in Russia was detained by police when he tried to sell a newborn baby for one million rubles (around $32,000), police said.
New York, Apr. 5 (ANI): A brewery from Pennsylvania has debuted a beer can in which the entire lid is lifted, so that the drinkers can sip from it as a normal cup.
Chennai, April 1 (IANS) An increasing number of films is being shot at picturesque international locales, but the unit of upcoming Tamil thriller "Netru Indru" shot the movie in uninhospitable forests of Tamil Nadu and on edges of bordering states. The director admits it was challenging.
Moscow, March 21 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Security officials from Russia and the US will meet in May to discuss a recent Washington decision to curtail its planned European missile defence system, a Russian defence official said Wednesday.
Islamabad, Mar. 18 (ANI): The Pakistani Army has no reservations or danger from dialogue with the Taliban, Corps Commander Peshawar Lt General Khalid Rabbani has said, adding that a decision in this connection has to be taken by the government.
Moscow, March 17 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Five militants have been killed in a special operation on the border between Chechnya and Ingushetia, two volatile regions in Russia's North Caucasus, the National Anti-Terrorism Committee said.
New York, Mar. 12 (ANI): Pee Pants - designed to allow people in high-pressure jobs to relieve themselves when they can't take a bathroom break - is being tested out by female mushers during the ongoing Iditarod dog sled race in Alaska.
London, Mar. 1 (ANI): A church in Harrogate has apologised after a vicar accidentally flashed a picture of a naked woman up on a PowerPoint screen during a sermon.
London, Mar. 1 (ANI): A church in Harrogate has apologised after a vicar accidentally flashed a picture of a naked woman up on a PowerPoint screen during a sermon.
Washington, February 14 (ANI): A study has concluded that triple-negative cancers, and basal-like breast cancers should not be considered as a single type, since more than 30 percent of triple-negative cancers lack biological markers associated with basal-like tumors.
Pondicherry University MCA results have been declared. The result of all the semesters has been announced by the Pondicherry University.
Johannesburg, Jan 29 (ANI): Google's operating system Android and Apple smartphones captured a whopping 92 percent of global sales in the fourth quarter, giving the two systems an effective duopoly, according to a research firm.
Washington, Jan. 21 (ANI): The next-generation wearable devices market, which include smart glasses, will double year-on-year to some 1.5 billion dollars by 2014.
New Delhi, Jan 13 (IANS) Men make cautious buyers, but Indian men are even more conservative and traditional when it comes to their dressing style, feels British designer Fabian Lintott, who is currently in India to launch a new range of bags.
The thinning of cornea, a transparent outer covering of the eye, could be an alarm for the risk of blindness, a research has found.
Sydney, Jan 10 (IANS) When the cornea, a transparent outer covering of the eye, starts thinning, it becomes a ticking bomb, a risk factor for blindness.
New Delhi, Jan 5 (IANS) Budget carrier SpiceJet will start commercial flights between the national capital and Karnataka's second largest city Mysore Jan 14.
Islamabad, Jan 3 (ANI): Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar has denied having any links with the Pakistan Taliban, and condemned the banned militant outfit's strategy of blowing up schools and blocking girls' education.
Islamabad, Dec 28 (ANI): US drone strikes against militants in Pakistan's tribal areas has decreased for the second year in a row, according to a Washington-based think tank.
Tirupati, Dec 27 (IANS) President Pranab Mukherjee Thursday called for exploring the antiquity of Telugu language and civilization and for making every effort for its healthy growth and development.
Tirupati, Dec. 27 (ANI): President Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday called upon all stakeholders to provide greater exposure to Indian languages so that the creativity embedded in Indian literature is spread across the world.
Film: "Rise of The Guardians"; Director: Peter Ramsey; Voices: Chris Pine, Alec Baldwin, Jude Law, Isla Fisher and Hugh Jackman; Rating: **
Washington, Dec. 19 (ANI): North Korean dictator Kim Jong Eun has been selected by Time magazine as their man of the year.
Washington, December 11 (ANI): The asteroid collision widely thought to have killed the dinosaurs also led to extreme devastation among snake and lizard species- including the extinction of a newly identified lizard species that Yale and Harvard scientists have named Obamadon gracilis, according to a new research.
New Delhi, Dec 10 (IANS) Uttar Pradesh provided the maximum number of 7,600 soldiers to the Indian Army in 2011-12 compared to none by Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Pondicherry, parliament was told Monday.
Islamabad, Dec. 6 (Xinhua-ANI): At least four people were killed in a U.S. drone strike launched in Pakistan's northwest tribal area of North Waziristan on early Thursday morning, reported local media Ary.
New Delhi, Dec 3 (IANS) The innovative Project Humsufar against HIV/AIDS been able to reach over 38,000 truckers to create mass awareness amongst them in high prevalence states like Rajasthan, Haryana, Pondicherry, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, its initiator says.
London, Nov 30 (ANI): A Playboy ad featuring scantily clad women was banned after it appeared on the side of a lorry parked outside a hotel popular with the elderly in a seaside town.
London, Nov 28 (ANI): Two loved-up pups have been joined in furry matrimony after their owners spent more than 6,000 pounds on a lavish canine wedding, it has been revealed.
New Delhi, Nov 28 (IANS) India and France are set to further their diplomatic and cultural ties January 2013, as the French festival in India, "Bon Jour", opens again under the aegis of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations.
Mumbai, Nov 25 (IANS) Filmmakers Karan Johar and Shekhar Kapur can't stop praising Oscar?winning filmmaker Ang Lee's "Life Of Pi", based on Yann Martel's Booker Prize winning novel of the same name.
New Delhi, Nov 24 (IANS) Oscar?winning filmmaker Ang Lee's "Life Of Pi" has garnered an opening collection of Rs.3.5 crore in India.
New Delhi, Nov 24 (IANS) Acclaimed dance and entertainment troupe Moulin Rouge has made inroads to Indian television with Channel V's youth show "D3: Dil Dosti Dance".
Film: "Life of Pi"; Director: Ang Lee; Cast: Irrfan, Suraj Sharma, Tabu, Adil Hussain, Ayush Tandon, Gerard Depardieu, Rafe Spall; Rating:***
London, Nov. 18 (ANI): Shocking images have emerged from inside a terror camp in Pakistan's North Waziristan where boys as young as five are being brainwashed into waging Jihad and becoming suicide bombers.
Islamabad, Nov. 9 (ANI): The government of Pakistan has devised a strategy to stop drone strikes by America, which is considered counterproductive in combating terrorism, Defence Minister Naveed Qamar has said.
London, Nov 3 (ANI): Former 'Baywatch' star Pamela Anderson is returning to the water for a campaign to save the whales.
Washington, Nov.2 (ANI): The U.S.-based Baloch Society of North America (BSO-NA) hails the concern of US Ambassador to the UN in Geneva, Eileen Donahoe over 'growing instability' in Balochistan perpetrated by Pakistan.
New Delhi/Chennai, Oct 30 (IANS) Nilam, a cyclonic storm centred over the Bay of Bengal, is expected to cross the coast of northern Tamil Nadu and southern Andhra Pradesh by Wednesday, the Met Office said Tuesday.
Mumbai, Oct 30 (IANS) Bollywood actor Anupam Kher gifted a copy of his book "The Best Thing About You Is You" to Oscar-winning filmmaker Ang Lee, who is currently in the country to promote his movie "Life Of Pi".
Mumbai, Oct 30 (IANS) Actor Irrfan Khan says director Ang Lee has used 3D in "Life Of Pi" in a very poetic manner.
New York, October 29 (ANI): Mila Kunis, who has kept dating rumours with Ashton Kutcher afloat with casual hangouts and motorcycle rides, is the latest Hollywood actress to come under scrutiny with what looks to be a bit of a baby bump.
Mumbai, Oct 29 (IANS) Oscar-winning director Ang Lee wanted to explore Indian culture while shooting for his much awaited movie "Life Of Pi" in the country. He says in the process he has discovered that Indian children have "the best smile" and are "always happy".
Islamabad, Oct 20 (ANI): A far-right-wing and religious conservative political party in Pakistan, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F), has warned the country's government against undertaking a military operation in North Waziristan.
London, Oct 17 (IANS) A US jeweller is offering customers a free rifle with each engagement ring worth $1,999 or more, a media report said Tuesday.
Islamabad, Oct. 16 (ANI): An editorial in a Pakistani daily has said that unless the Army - which directly controls Pakistan's foreign policy- cuts off all support to the proponents of the Kashmir 'jihad' who feed into the killing machine of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), and acts against these rogues, incidents like the attack on 14-year-old Malala Yousufzai would continue to terrorise the masses.
Islamabad, Oct. 14 (ANI): The Pakistan Army has put the ball in the political leadership's court on the question of whether or not to launch an operation in the North Waziristan Agency (NWA), after Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) chief Lieutenant General Asim Bajwa said it would be a "political decision".
London, Oct 9 (ANI): A Finnish couple has won the 13th annual North American Wife Carrying Championship, held in Maine, USA.
London, October 8 (ANI): A father-of-three, who set himself the challenge of making 365 curry dishes in a row including Christmas Day banquet of spicy turkey with Bombay potatoes, spiced up his life by feeding his family curry every day for one year.
Washington, October 6 (ANI): Continuing advances in vehicle technology have led many to predict that the commercialization of automated cars is a real possibility in the not-so-distant future.
Washington, Sep. 28 (ANI): President Barack Obama has a considerable lead over Republican challenger Mitt Romney in three key swing states of New Hampshire, Nevada and North Carolina, a new poll has found.
Washington, Sep. 27 (ANI): Nearly half of U.S. chief financial officers (CFO) are more pessimistic about their companies' prospects this quarter, a new survey has revealed.
Pondicherry, Sept 23 (ANI): Minister of State in Prime Minister's Office (PMO), V Narayanasamy, on Sunday, ruled out the possibility of the government falling out, and said the government was in majority as they had the requisite numbers in the parliament.
Washington, Sep 18 (IANS) The Al Qaeda's affiliate in North Africa Tuesday urged Muslims in the region to kill US government representatives and called the death of ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens a "gift", CNN reported.
Washington, Sept. 18 (ANI): a Majority of Americans think that the government is meddling in to too many things and should leave these activities for individuals and businesses to do, a new poll has found.
London, Sep 18 (IANS) A 71-year-old woman, suffering from terminal cancer, committed suicide along with her husband of more than 50 years because they could not face living without each other.
London, Sept 17 (ANI): Amy Winehouse's family has bid their last farewell to the singer, by burying her ashes and unveiling a pink and black headstone.
London, Sept 17 (ANI): Amy Winehouse's family has bid their last farewell to the singer, by burying her ashes and unveiling a pink and black headstone.
Washington, Sept. 13 (ANI): President Barack Obama said he is 'mindful of his own failings' , and during the recently held Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, he admitted as much while accepting his nomination.
Los Angeles, Sep 9 (IANS) Socialite Kim Kardashian's appearance at a club failed to attract fans and very few turned up to see her.
Washington, Sep 7 (IANS) "Have a surplus? Try a tax cut." "Deficit too high? Try another." "Feel a cold coming on? Take two tax cuts, roll back some regulations and call us in the morning!"
London, September 6 (ANI): Madonna reportedly asks for a new toilet seat in every venue on her tours.
Washington, Sept. 3 (ANI): Pakistan's ambassador to the United States Sherry Rehman has said Islam and democracy are not only compatible but also complementary with each other.
Islamabad, Aug 23 (ANI): Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman has said there is no reason for launching a military operation in the North Waziristan Agency, as no success has been gained through previous operations conducted in the Swat and the tribal areas by former military ruler Pervez Musharraf and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) led current government.
Islamabad, Aug 21 (IANS) At least three suspected militants were killed in a drone strike Tuesday evening in Pakistan's northwest tribal region, media reports said.
Islamabad, Aug 19 (ANI): An editorial in a Pakistani daily has said that as long as Pakistan persists with proxies to project foreign and security policy interests, the terrorists in the country can never be eliminated.
Islamabad, Aug 18 (IANS) At least four people were killed and two injured in a drone strike in Pakistan's northwest tribal region Saturday.
Moscow, Aug 16 (IANS/RIA Novosti) A Russian Army Mil Mi-28N helicopter, one of the force's newest machines, crashed Thursday at its base in Mozdok, North Ossetia.
Berlin, Aug 16 (IANS) A German court has stopped a man from making a Rolling Stones tattoo on a horse saying it is wrong to inflict pain on animals "without just cause".
London, Aug (IANS) A Briton has come forward to claim the 148.7 million pounds Euromillions jackpot, making it the nation's second largest lottery win, the Telegraph reported saturday.
Washington, Aug 5 (IANS) Having a healthy heart and lungs may help middle school students secure higher grades in math and reading, says a new research.
London, July 16 (ANI): A woman, who grew up in a small community, found a novel way to cure her homesickness when she moved to North Carolina - with hugs
New Delhi, July 13 (IANS) India's exports dropped 5.45 percent to $25.07 billion in June, falling sharply for the second consecutive month due to weak demands in North America and European countries, government data showed Friday.
London, July 12(ANI): Scientists at the University of Bristol have found the cause of rapid sea level rise in the past using climate and ice sheet models.
Washington, July 6 (ANI): An American woman has made dog toys in the shape of President Barack Obama and Presidential nominee Mitt Romney.
Washington, July 3 (ANI): In an attempt to forge a new image for himself and his country, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is allowing women to wear pants, platform shoes and earrings, reducing restrictions imposed on his people.
Puducherry, June 29 (ANI): Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will undertake a two-day visit of Puducherry from this evening.
Islamabad, June 14 (IANS) At least four people were killed Thursday in a US drone strike in Pakistan's northwest tribal region, media reports said.
New Delhi, June 12 (IANS) The presidential poll will be held on July 19 and the name of the new occupant of the Rashtrapati Bhavan will be declared on July 22, Chief Election Commissioner V.S. Sampath announced Tuesday. The term of incumbent President Pratibha Patil ends July 24.
Tbilisi (Georgia), June 10 (IANS) Defending champions Georgia trounced Ukraine 33-3 to finish their 2012 European Nations Cup rugby tournament with a fifth title.
London, June 9 (ANI): A Victorian vampire-slaying kit is expected to fetch 2,000 pounds when it goes under the hammer in North Yorkshire.
Washington, June 7 (ANI): Images of a remarkable crater on Mars captured by ESA's Mars Express may provide evidence that the red planet underwent significant periodic fluctuations in its climate due to changes in its rotation axis.
London, June 7 (ANI): After the death of Al-Qaeda no. 2 Abu Yahya al-Libi, analysts say the Egyptian surgeon known as "Dr Death" must see himself as the next target.
