2 trains collide in Uttar Pradesh due to fog ,3 killed
January 16, 2010
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Tags: Bhiwani-Kanpur Central Kalindi Express, collide, Delhi, fog, guard bogey, injured, kanpur, killed, Nitawali-Tundla, railway, Shakti Express, Uttar Pradesh
At least three persons were killed and 14 others injured when the Kalindi Express train rammed into Kanpur-bound Shram Shakti Express near Tundla amid dense fog on Saturday morning.
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The Bhiwani-Kanpur Central Kalindi Express hit the stationary train from rear near Nitawali-Tundla crossing at around 8.15 am, police and railway officials said.
The guard bogey and the attached coach of Shram Shakti Express, which was travelling from Delhi to kanpur,were damaged in the mishap.
Indian taxi driver beaten,abused in Australia
January 15, 2010
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Tags: Australia, beaten, Indian taxi driver, physical abuse, verbal threats, victoria
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According to the Australian police, the taxi driver was beaten by a drunk passenger in Victoria. Verbal threats escalated to a physical assault when the……. Read More…
Major quake hits Haiti many casualties expected
January 13, 2010
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Tags: Building, Caribbean, Dangerous, disaster, earthquake, injured, journalists, National Palace, normal conditions, surivors
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – A powerful earthquake struck Haiti’s capital on Tuesday with withering force, toppling everything from simple shacks to the ornate National Palace. The dead and injured lay in the streets even as strong aftershocks rippled through the impoverished Caribbean country.
Associated Press journalists based in Port-au-Prince said the damage from the quake — the most powerful to hit Haiti in more than 200 years — is staggering even in a country accustomed to tragedy and disaster. Thousands of people gathered in public squares late into the night, singing hymns and weeping.
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Many gravely injured people sat in the streets early Wednesday, pleading for doctors. With almost no emergency services to speak of, the surivors had few other options.
The scope of the disaster remained unclear early Wednesday, and even a rough estimate of the number of casualties was impossible. But it was clear from a tour of the capital that tens of thousands of people had lost their homes and that many had perished. Many buildings in Haiti are flimsy and dangerous even under normal conditions.
Six students feared drowned as boat capsizes:Assam
Six students are feared drowned after a boat, ferrying them and 11 of their schoolmates from a picnic spot, capsized in Brahmaputra river near Sualkuchi village in Assam’s Kamrup (rural) district.
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While local fishermen rescued 11 people on the boat, four girls and two boys went missing.
A joint team of National Disaster Response Force and Border Security Force is helping in the rescue efforts and……Read More…
Explosions rock downtown Baghdad, killing 5
December 15, 2009
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Tags: Baghdad, blasts, car bombs, detectors, Embassy, explosions, government, Iraq, Iraqi capital, killing, military, U.S. forces, wounding
BAGHDAD – Car bombs ripped through downtown Baghdad early Tuesday, killing five and wounding at least 16 people in the latest attack near government buildings in the Iraqi capital, police and health officials said.
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At least three blasts occurred within minutes of each other near the heavily protected Green Zone, which houses the U.S. Embassy, the Iraqi parliament and other government offices. The attacks raise fresh questions about the government’s ability to protect itself and its citizens as U.S. forces prepare to leave Iraq.
“There were two military checkpoints using detectors at the beginning of the street, how can such car bombs manage to enter and explode?” said a woman who identified herself as Um Ali, her cheeks smeared with blood….
Indian student attacked in Australia
In yet another attack on Indian students in Australia, a 23-year-old youth from the community was stabbed in the chest by unidentified assailants in Melbourne on Wednesday, police said.
The student, who was also a cabbie, was attacked and left to bleed on a Brunswick West street, police said.
The victim parked his taxi outside his girlfriend’s home on Collier Crescent in the wee hours on Wednesday and rang her to bring his dinner outside when someone approached his vehicle, The Age reported.
His girlfriend heard the driver scream out over the phone as he was attacked, police officer Greg Johnson was quoted as saying by the paper.
The woman ran outside and found… Read More on the attack…
Google CEO joins Twitter
December 8, 2009
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Tags: CEO, chief executive, conference, email system, Eric Schmidt, Google, micro-blogging, Technology, Twitter
Google chief executive Eric Schmidt, who took some flak earlier this year for calling Twitter a “poor man’s email system,” has joined the hot micro-blogging service.
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Schmidt is “tweeting” under the handle @ericschmidt, a Twitter spokeswoman said in a Twitter message.
The Google’s CEO’s account was activated on December 1.
Schmidt has sent two “tweets,” one of which was a link to an opinion piece he wrote last week in The Wall Street Journal, and has amassed nearly 7,500 followers in less than a week.
Schmidt made his disparaging remark about Twitter at the Morgan Stanley Technology conference in San Francisco in March but quickly backed away from the description in later comments, saying….Read More on what the CEO said…
Google unveils online dictionary
December 7, 2009
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Tags: company, dictionary, Economic Times, English, failure, Google, google.com, languages, launched, online, service, translate, Web page, Wikipedia
San Francisco: Google has launched an online dictionary which will offer meaning of words in two dozen languages. A visit to a Google Dictionary service at google.com/dictionary showed a clean, simple Web page with a box for selecting languages from a drop-down list and a second box for typing in words to be defined, according to Economic Times.
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The dictionary service offered definitions of words in 28 languages and to translate terms from or into English.Although Google’s attempt to compete with Wikipedia via its Knol offering has been a remarkably dismal failure for a company that tends to get things right, this is a tool that could displace plenty of …. Read More….
Delhi’s 177 new cases of swine flu
Swine flu cases continued to surge in the city with 177 people testing positive for the virus on Thursday.
Till date, a total of 24 deaths have been reported due to the H1N1 influenza in the city.
“Swab samples of 177 people including 120 children tested positive for swine flu. With this, the total number of positive cases of H1N1 virus in the city mounted to 5,416. Of these 3,155 samples were of …. Read More…
Tamil Nadu School van falls into pond
Eight school children and a teacher died as their school van fell into a pond in Tamil Nadu’s Nagapattinam district on Wednesday.
Rescue work is on at the mishap site.
More details are awaited.
