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Monthly News February 2014

Congress needs to change, the process ha...

Congress needs to change, the process has begun: Rahul Gandhi

Rahul Gandhi today said there was a need to bring a change in the Congress and the process has begun. “There is a need to bring change in the party and we will do it fast. The first step in this direction is to make the selection of candidates from among the people,” Gandhi said in a... read more »

Nokia X Android platform the newest weap...

Nokia X Android platform the newest weapon in low-cost phone battle

Nokia, soon to be acquired by Microsoft Corp, is turning to software created by arch-rival Google for a new line of phones it hopes will make it a late contender in the dynamic low-cost smartphone market. Its first models, Nokia X, X+ and XL, rely upon an open version of the Android mobile software... read more »

Barricades and street fires in Venezuela...

Barricades and street fires in Venezuela as restless goes on

Barricades were erected by anti-government demonstrators in Caracas on Monday, another mark of the worst unrest in Venezuela for 10 years. Thirteen people have so far died, mostly from gunshot wounds. Despite calls from president Nicolas Maduro for national dialogue as well as opposition leader... read more »

Pakistani Air Strikes Kill 27 Militants

Pakistani Air Strikes Kill 27 Militants

Pakistani military officials said the air force has bombarded the suspected hideouts of Taliban militants in tribal areas near the Afghan border, killing at least 27 militants. Officials said on Tuesday the early-morning attack targeted areas of North and South Waziristan, in the fourth of a series... read more »

Fodder scam case: CBI has been unjust to me, says Lalu

Nitish Kumar has gone crazy after divorce with BJP, says Lalu Prasad alleging conspiracy

Patna –  Lalu Prasad, in damage control mode, has accused arch rival and Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar of scripting a conspiracy to break his Rashtriya Janata Dal. He has also... read more »

New Delhi - In a bid to increase it! s outbound passenger traffic, Air India entered into a single codeshare agreement with Slovenian national airline Adria Airways. According to senior Air India official, the codeshare agreement will provide seamless travel experience to passengers from India to Slovenia. “Passengers can now travel on a single ticket from India to Slovenia. Air India will fly passengers to Frankfurt and there onwards Adria Airways will ferry passengers to Slovenia's capital Ljubljana,” a senior official with Air India told IANS. The agreement comes nearly two months after Air India's chairman and managing director (CMD) Rohit Nandan visited Slovenia to follow up on an earlier memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed between the two airlines.

Airlines in fare war again, seats cheaper by up to 75%

Low-cost carrier SpiceJet on Monday triggered a third round of fare war by cutting ticket prices by a massive 75 per cent, a move which was soon followed by its rivals GoAir and... read more »

Centre files review petition against Supreme Court verdict on gay sex

Should India allow ‘living will’ for right to die? Constitution bench to decid...

New Delhi –  A five-judge Constitution bench will decide whether a “living will”, allowing people to choose death if they are terminally ill or may go into a vegetative... read more »

Would be happy to see Sharad Pawar as PM, says Sushilkumar Shinde

Meant social media, not journalism: Sushil Kumar Shinde after shocker on ‘crushing m...

Solapur –  Last evening, Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde served a shocker when he threatened to “crush” what he called “elements in the electronic media... read more »

Bomb blasts as rioters fight police

MANAMA: Two home-made bombs exploded last night as security forces confronted saboteurs who were blocking roads and pelting policemen with Molotov cocktails in Saar. The Northern Police director... read more »