http://www.indiatime.com Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:26:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Indo-US nuclear deal made a big bang in the parliament yesterday, with UPA, the ruling coalition surviving the confidence vote with the help of cross-voters from the opposition. The opposing BJP cried foul by showing bundles of one Crore Rupees as evidence of last week's horse-trade. The communist ... http://www.indiatime.com/2008/07/23/top-10-players-of-indo-us-nuclear-deal-vote/ A new concept in reprieve seems to be emerging on the backdrop of India's most important political vote happening in the parliament this hour. Six members of India's parliament, have been granted bail for the purposes of participating in today's confidence vote. Five of those will be supporting the ... http://www.indiatime.com/2008/07/22/mps-from-hell/ Three stories from three different corners of India illuminate the strange land that we live in: 1. In Sawargaon, Maharashtra, the police arrested Bhaskar Haramkar when his own son filed a complant against the father. His crime? Bhaskar is in for murdering his wife in a fit of anger. ... http://www.indiatime.com/2008/07/21/three-tales-of-anger-and-terrorism/ The current hallabaloo in India's parliament has its seeds in the Indo-US nuclear deal initiated about 3 years ago signalling an end to the 30-year US embargo/moratorium on any nuclear cooperation with India. That embargo resulted from the 1974 nuclear expolsion that India conducted in the desert sands of ... http://www.indiatime.com/2008/07/20/top-10-interesting-facts-about-indias-1974-explosion/ As the confidence vote nears for India's ruling party, small-timers and parties with literally two or three members in the parliament have suddenly come into focus. So what would you do if you were a member of one of these smaller parties, had never given a thought to any ... http://www.indiatime.com/2008/07/19/the-horse-trade-in-the-indian-parliament/ A woman who had been missing and wandering all over the country for last 9 years, has now been reunited with her husband in Uttar Pradesh. The reunion, however, came at the cost of a devastating tragedy for the 45-year old, who the family knew to be a little ... http://www.indiatime.com/2008/07/18/rape-tragedy-reunites-missing-woman-with-family/ Dipesh (10) and Abhishek Vaghela (11), two young boys, went missing from the Asaram Bapu spiritual Ashram on July 3 and turned up dead a few days later, on the banks of river Sabarmati. It has now been about 2 weeks to that tragedy. The only eyewitness to the ... http://www.indiatime.com/2008/07/17/murder-mystery-in-the-asaram-bapu-ashram/ This morning, India's major TV channels were busy highlighting a happening at Mumbai's famous Siddhivinayak Temple. Recently, an unknown devotee, apparently offered a diamond-studded motorola mobile phone to Lord Ganesh, the temple deity that devotees believe fulfills wishes and destroys their woes. The temple authorities have claimed that ... http://www.indiatime.com/2008/07/16/mumbais-siddhivinayak-gets-a-cell-phone/ The World Youth Day, a Christian promotional event, starts in Sydney, Australia today. Several youthful pilgrims are said to be making their way to the event from India as well. But days before showing up in Sydney, almost 3 dozen Indian pilgrims are said to have gone missing on ... http://www.indiatime.com/2008/07/15/pilgrims-immigration-progress/ A Christian community magazine in India's most Christian state, is evoking strong sentiments, for its depiction of Jesus Christ. The Vachana Jyotis, a magazine published by diocese of Neyyattinkara, in the southern state of Kerala, recently printed a picture of Jesus holding cigarette in his right hand and a ... http://www.indiatime.com/2008/07/14/unsacred-hearts-and-cruel-temptations/