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PKK bomb attack, clashes kill 12 in sout...

PKK bomb attack, clashes kill 12 in southeast Turkey: Sources

Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants killed three Turkish police officers overnight in a bomb attack on their armoured vehicle as they travelled along a highway in southeast Turkey, security sources said on Wednesday. Another officer was seriously wounded in the attack in the Nusaybin district... read more »

Mexico demands speedy probe over tourist...

Mexico demands speedy probe over tourists’ killing in Egypt

Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto speaking with his Egyptian counterpart Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi reiterated Mexico’s call for a “swift and in-depth” investigation to determine who was responsible for shelling the group. Pena Nieto over the phone on Tuesday expressed “Mexican... read more »

China to buy millions of tonnes of U.S. ...

China to buy millions of tonnes of U.S. soybeans during Xi visit

the world’s top soybean buyer, will purchase millions of tonnes of the oilseed from the United States during President Xi Jinping’s visit to the country next week, industry sources said. A Chinese delegation will likely sign deals to buy “several million” tonnes of soybeans... read more »

Australian warplanes make first air stri...

Australian warplanes make first air strike in Syria

Australian warplanes have carried out their first air strike against the Islamic State group in Syria, destroying an armoured personnel carrier, defence minister Kevin Andrews has revealed. “This is part of our logical extension in the fight against Daesh to operate not only over northern... read more »

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Kingfisher Airlines employees likely to go on hunger strike from today

Kingfisher Airlines employees likely to go on hunger strike from ...

New Delhi – Trouble seems to be brewing once again for the crisis-hit Kingfisher Airlines with its employees threatening a hunger strike from Monday demanding a stringent action against the... read more »

Services downturn worsens in Dec but hiring picks ...

Activity in India’s services sector shrank at a faster pace last month as new orders dwindled, but firms hired at their fastest in five months,... read more »

Government auditor CAG can investigate private telecom ...

Government auditor CAG can investigate private telecom companies, rules Delhi High Court

Government auditor CAG can investigate private telecom companies, rules Delhi High Court New Delhi:  The Delhi High Court today said the national auditor, the... read more »

Gold drops by Rs. 130 to Rs. 30,360 per 10 grams on slu...

New Delhi – Snapping a three-day rally, gold prices fell by Rs. 130 to Rs. 30,360 per 10 grams in the national capital on Saturday on stockists selling... read more »

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) to set up world’s...

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Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), country’s largest software services firm, today said it will set up the world’s largest corporate learning and... read more »

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Acting needs to be learned, practised: Anupam Kher

Acting needs to be learned, practised: Anupam Kher

He argues that reproducing emotions in front of the public needs work, which is something acting schools teach. “Practice makes an actor excel. It is like cycling and motor driving. It is an... read more »

Taylor Swift, Beckham to star in spy flick, The Secret Service

Taylor Swift, Beckham to star in spy flick, The Se...

Taylor Swift will be starring alongside David Beckham, in the upcoming Mark Millar comic books adapted spy film, The Secret Service. A production... read more »

Thank god, I’m not in ‘Bigg Boss 7’: ...

Thank god, I'm not in 'Bigg Boss 7': Shweta Tiwari

Mumbai – Actress Shweta Tiwari, winner of “Bigg Boss 4”, is horrified after seeing the kind of tasks being given to the inmates in the... read more »

Anything for Narendra Modi: Mallika Sherawat

Anything for Narendra Modi: Mallika Sherawat

Mumbai – Actress Mallika Sherawat, who calls Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi the most eligible bachelor in the country, says she will do anything... read more »

Mallika doesn’t want to marry anyone from filmdom

Mallika doesn't want to marry anyone from filmdom

Mumbai – A “pathetic” and “lonely” life has led Mallika Sherawat to find “real” love via a TV show. And the actress... read more »

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Access to govt. health care services poor, says report

A new privately-funded, first-of-its-kind National Health Care Survey 2013 has found that awareness of government health and nutrition schemes is low and their utilisation even lower. The issue of... read more »

India rescues 58 more nurses from troubled Iraq

India has rescued 58 Indian nurses from violence-hit Iraq in an “extremely difficult” operation, days after rescuing 46 Indian nurses who were in... read more »

‘Corruption, faulty design are reasons for poor quality...

Leader of the Opposition Jagadish Shettar during a debate on the demands of the Public Works Department in the Legislative Assembly in Bangalore on Wednesday.... read more »

10 students killed as train rams bus in Medak

More than 10 students were killed when a train rammed into a school bus at an unmanned level crossing near Masaipet village of Medak district, about 60... read more »

Top Naxal commander killed in Jharkhand

In a pre-dawn operation, security forces on Wednesday killed a prominent Naxal commander operating in Jharkhand in the forests of Khunti district of the... read more »

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Rohit's debut century rescues India

Rohit’s debut century rescues India

Rohit Sharma stamped his class by hitting a sparkling century on debut as India recovered from a top-order collapse to take a firm grip of the first Test against the West Indies with a 120-run... read more »

Ex-F1 boss wins court case against Google over blo...

Sydney – Former Formula One chief Max Mosley has reportedly won an ongoing court battle with Google after a landmark French court ruling... read more »

Tea scoreboard: India vs West Indies

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Kolkata – The following is the scoreboard at tea on the second day of the first cricket Test between India and the West Indies at the Eden Gardens here... read more »

Debutant Rohit rescues India

Debutant Rohit rescues India

By Sirshendu Panth Kolkata – Rohit Sharma struck a half century on debut and featured in two valiant partnerships which pulled India out of trouble on... read more »

Ajax beat Celtic for first Champions League win

Ajax beat Celtic for first Champions League win

Amsterdam – Ajax kept their European dreams alive by defeating Celtic 1-0 here after grabbing their first victory this season in the Champions... read more »

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Public service whistleblowers ‘treated shockingly’, r...

Whistleblowers who risk their careers to uncover wrongdoing within public services are being victimised by managers who nearly always escape sanction, a public accounts committee report will say on... read more »

Meriam Ibrahim arrives in US

A Sudanese woman who refused to recant her Christian faith in the face of a death sentence arrived on Thursday in the United States, where she was... read more »

Heavy Gaza fighting ahead of proposed 3-day truce

Palestinian officials say 17 Palestinians, including 10 members of one family, were killed in Israeli strikes ahead of a planned three-day ceasefire in the... read more »

Australia gets approval to send armed officers to MH17 ...

AUSTRALIA has won approval to send elite armed officers to protect investigative teams in their efforts to scour the Malaysia Airlines crash site for human... read more »

Gaza conflict: Israel calls up 16,000 reserve soldiers

Israel is calling up 16,000 extra reservists to bolster its military as the conflict in Gaza continues. The deployment brings the total called up by Israel to... read more »

Former PM Deve Gowda begins hunger strike on farmers’ suicide issue

Former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda on Monday began a hunger strike here demanding discussion in Parliament on the farmers’ suicide in the country. Flanked by party MPs, MLAs, and... read more »

To fullfill Sardar Patel's unity dream, ways of violence will not work: Modi

PM Modi Meets Ministers Over Punjab Attack

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday met Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar and other senior ministers over a terror attack in a Punjab town that left nine people dead. Finance Minister... read more »

Afghanistan: 21 dead, 10 wounded in wedding gunfight

KABUL: A shootout at a wedding party in northern Afghanistan has left 21 people dead and another 10 wounded, an official said Monday. Jaweed Basharat, spokesman for the governor of Baghlan... read more »

Delhi on high alert after Gurdaspur attack, security stepped up

Authorities sounded high alert across Delhi on Monday with hundreds of policemen deployed at railway stations, railway stations, shopping malls and crowded markets in the wake of a... read more »

At least 13 dead in al Shabaab attack on Somali hotel

The Somali militant Islamist group al Shabaab attacked a Mogadishu hotel on Sunday, driving a car packed with explosives through the hotel gate and killing at least 13 people, a first responder and... read more »