A court-ordered search of vaults beneath a temple in India has turned up a treasure worth at least $11 billion, according to reports from the Indian state of Kerala. An inventory of what lies beneath the Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Thiruvananthapuram, as reported on the website Business-Standard.com and others, reads like a prop list [...]

Brisbane, Jul : An Australian pub chain is apologizing to a Sikh man who was evicted from a bar for wearing a turban. Spirit Hotels said in a statement said the man was wrongly evicted from a pub in the east coast city of Brisbane on Sunday because staff decided that his religious turban did [...]

  Toothpaste even though (in some form or another) has been around as long as the Ancient Greeks have, the formula (as we know it) did not become popular until World War I. As soon as companies began manufacturing toothpaste, people began to purchase the magical concoction – guaranteed to produce glistening teeth! White teeth [...]

The IndiGo order is the biggest ever in terms of aircraft numbers – but may soon be topped Airbus piled up the orders at the Paris Air Show as it confirmed the largest single order of aircraft in aviation history. Indian budget airline IndiGo is buying 180 planes from Airbus worth about $15.6bn (£9.7bn) at [...]

‘ Pakistan’s army has been accused of harbouring extremists for years Four majors in the Pakistani army are being investigated for alleged links with banned extremist group Hizb ut-Tahrir, the army has said. Army spokesman Gen Athar Abbas told the BBC the men were not under arrest but were being interrogated in connection with the [...]

  Islamabad, Jun : A woman was stoned and shot to death in a case of honour killing by her husband and over a dozen other men in a village near Mardan on Tuesday, Dawn reported. Police said they have found the body of Shazia in nearby hills. “The body was in a bad shape [...]

  Sao Paulo, Jun : A Brazilian woman listed by Guinness World Records as the world’s oldest person died Tuesday, just weeks shy of her 115th birthday. The title now reverts to a woman in the United States. Maria Gomes Valentim died of multiple organ failure, said Helerson Lima, a spokesman for the nursing home [...]

  Islamabad, Jun 22 : Osama bin Laden was involved in former Pakistan premier Benazir Bhutto’s assassination and the perpetrators of her murder have been identified, Interior Minister Rehman Malik has claimed. Al-Qaeda chief bin Laden, killed in a US raid on May 2, was involved in Bhutto’s killing in 2007, Malik told reporters at [...]

Read more:Shweta Rani|Nitish Kumar PATNA: Few state employees, if any, appear to be deterred by chief minister Nitish Kumar’s avowed war on corruption. So audacious are the corrupt that they spare no one, not even a VIP with right and high connections. Take this: Probationer sub-inspector Shweta Rani of the city’s Kotwali police station allegedly [...]

Abhishek and Aishwarya are finally going to be parents, after four years of marriage. Unable to contain his joy, the Big B had proudly announced the joyful tidings on a micro-blogging site. Soon after, everyone who knew the Bachchans was on phone talking with one or the other member of the family. Close friends just [...]