
| Bhubaneswar: Conversion and re-conversion were among the major factors which led to the riots in Orissa’s Kandhamal district last year, Justice S.C. Mohapatra Commission probing the violence has said in his interim report. — ... |
| While presenting Rail Budget, Mamata Banerjee said focus would be on better amenities, safety, security and food, without any increase in passenger fares. |
![]() | On the cusp of history, Federer awaits Roddick in Wimbledon final for shot at 15th major title |
| HRD minister Kapil Sibal on Friday promised that the government would also come with regulations to deal with ragging in schools. |
| John Demjanjuk moved one step closer to another trial after German prosecutors said doctors had deemed the 89-year-old fit to ... |
| Five-time champion Roger Federer delivered a masterful grass-court performance Friday to beat Tommy Haas in straight sets and reach his seventh straight Wimbledon final, putting him within one win of a record 15th Grand Slam title. |
| President Bashar al-Assad sends congratulatory message to US president to mark July 4 holiday, says values he has adopted are what the world needs today |
| The Statue of Liberty's crown reopens to the public July 4. |
| Oil brokerage firm PVM Oil Futures identified the broker involved in unauthorized oil trades by the firm earlier this week, causing a loss totaling "a little under $10 million." |
![]() | Vice President Biden pressed Iraqi leaders Friday to do more to foster national reconciliation and offered U.S. assistance in ... |
| Ubiquitous pitchman mourned at Pittsburgh-area funeral. |
| Like James Bond, the Harry Potter movies just keep chugging along, immune to the outside cinematic world, ensconced in their universe of quidditch and muggles, inferi and death eaters. They have perfectly fitted their source material from day one: each arriving regularly with a thud on the doormat every year or so since 2001, achieving a near-institutional status that has eluded the Narnia adaptations.There had been mutterings, however, over this sixth in the Potter series, pushed back from its original planned release date last Christmas. Monkeying with the schedule tends to alert the paying public that all is not well. The Half-Blood Prince is adapted from JK Rowling's penultimate novel, but so desperate are the producers not to compromise their revenue stream that the final book, the Deathly Hallows, will be divided into two parts.Nevertheless, there's little here to suggest there has been any let-up in the Potter machine. The eponymous schoolboy – still in owlish spectacles as he hits 17 or so – is up against skeleta . . . |
| Roddick ends Murray’s and Britain’s hopes; Paes and Black in mixed doubles final |
| Given intravenously, Propofol is used for inducing general anesthesia in the operating room, and for heavy sedation of patients who are intubated in the intensive care unit |