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Bihar polls: BJP focusses on women, yout...

Bihar polls: BJP focusses on women, youth, backward castes in first list of...

New Delhi: BJP on Tuesday night released the first list of 43 candidates for the high-stakes Bihar polls, giving about 60 per cent representation to those from SC and backward castes in an apparent attempt to target the base of rival JD(U)-RJD combine. Five nominees in the list are Yadavs, the most... read more »

Blast Accused Missing, His Wife and Chil...

Blast Accused Missing, His Wife and Children Questioned by Police

JHABUA: The wife and children of the man wanted for a massive explosion that killed over 90 this weekend in Madhya Pradesh were tracked down and questioned by the police last night. But Rajendra Kasawa, the main accused in the restaurant blast at Jhabua, remains missing. Sources say the police are... read more »

UAE deports 4 Indians for suspected Isla...

UAE deports 4 Indians for suspected Islamic State link

Four young men from Kerala who had been staying in the UAE were sent back to India Tuesday for allegedly sharing Islamic State (IS) propaganda. Intelligence agencies, meanwhile, have learnt that a man from Kerala, identified only as Riyaz, had been instrumental in getting the youths together and... read more »

India says Indians bombed in boats betwe...

India says Indians bombed in boats between Yemen and Somalia

Warplanes bombed two boats carrying 20 Indian crew members as the vessels traveled between Somalia and Yemen, India’s Foreign Ministry said Wednesday, a day after the Yemeni coast guard said a Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemeni Shiite rebels bombed boats off the war-torn country’s... read more »

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Centre committed to growth of IT sector: PM M. Singh

Centre committed to growth of IT sector: PM M. Singh

Noting that the country has witnessed phenomenal growth in the Information Technology sector, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said the Centre was committed to providing an enabling environment to... read more »

Petrol prices may come down by Rs 2 a litre this week

Petrol prices hiked by 75 paise and diesel by 50 p...

New Delhi – Petrol price was on Friday hiked by 75 paise and diesel by 50 paise a litre as rise in global oil rates and fall in rupee value... read more »

Bharti Retail appoints Former Walmart India president R...

Bharti Retail appoints Former Walmart India president Raj Jain as CEO

Former Walmart India president Raj Jain will now be heading the retail operations of Bharti Enterprises. Bharti Retail had roped in Jain as its group advisor... read more »

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) for overhaul of financial b...

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to ease liquidity as govt holds on to cash

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday suggested an overhaul of existing financial benchmarks, including steps to strengthen the quality, methodology and... read more »

Capital goods stocks drop

Capital goods stocks drop

A bout of volatility was witnessed as key benchmark indices hovered in negative zone in morning trade. The barometer index, the S&P BSE Sensex, was down... read more »

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Acting is what I live for: Vidya Balan

Acting is what I live for: Vidya Balan

New Delhi – She loves campaigning for causes, but National Award winning actress Vidya Balan has no intention of stepping out of the arclights to make it a full-time career because acting is... read more »

The Jiah Khan case has taken a new international twist after the dead actress' mother Rabiya Khan asked the US to intervene and has sought help from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to aid in the investigations in the case of her daughter's demise. The US government's legal attaché at its New Delhi embassy and chief of American Citizen Services Unit at the Mumbai consulate Rosemary Macray have forwarded their appeal to the state Home ministry, seeking approval to involve the FBI and provide forensic and technical assistance to the city police in the case. On Monday (January 27), Rabiya and her lawyer Dinesh Tiwari were called to the Consulate office at Bandra-Kurla Complex to inform her that they had sought approval from Home Minister RR Patil. The offer to help came after Rabiya wrote a letter to US Ambassador to India Nancy J Powell last October asking for help, as Jiah was an American passport holder. Confirming the same, Rabiya said, "Once the Indian authorities agree, the FBI will assist in the probe," She added that in a week's time, she would file a petition in the High Court, asking for a fresh probe, saying the police suppressed facts into its probe. Rabiya said that the police had not investigated the case thoroughly. "If Jiah committed suicide, how could the blood in the other room belong to her?" she questioned about the presence of Jiah's blood samples in two different rooms, adding that the police had not explained that in the chargesheet. Another important aspect that the police failed to explain was the injury marks on Jiah's face and neck that were present in the photographs taken by the police, she added. "I want to find out if Jiah was killed by someone and I want the police to investigate this," said Rabiya. Her lawyer Tiwari also claimed that the statements taken by the police of witnesses were completely contrary to their statements in the chargesheet filed by the cops. "The facts have been changed and there are many such reasons why we want the FBI to intervene."

Jiah Khan’s mother files petition, seeks CBI...

Mumbai – Late actress Jiah Khan’s mother Rabiya Khan has filed a fresh petition in the Bombay High Court alleging that her daughter could... read more »

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Enough material to charge sheet Marans: Attorney General

Attorney-General Mukul Rohatgi on Tuesday informed the CBI that there was enough prosecutable evidence to file a charge sheet against former Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran for alleged acts of... read more »

Soldier, intruder killed on Jammu border

The Army on Tuesday claimed to have foiled a major infiltration attempt by suspected militants in Akhnoor area of the International Border in Jammu.... read more »

India home to one in every three child brides in world:...

India has the sixth highest prevalence of child marriages in the world, with one in every three child bride living in India, a United Nations report... read more »

SC issues notice to NGT chairperson

The Supreme Court on Monday issued a notice to the Chairperson of the National Green Tribunal, Justice Swatanter Kumar, on a petition filed by a former law... read more »

Katju clarifies on timing of corruption allegations

Press Council of India chairman Markandey Katju on Tuesday sought to put to rest questions about the timing of his article on the continuation of a... read more »

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Atletico cruise into Champions League last 16

Atletico cruise into Champions League last 16

Madrid – Atletico Madrid booked their place in the last 16 of the Champions League with a comfortable 4-0 win at home to Austria Vienna. Atletico went into the game Wednesday as clear... read more »

Arsenal upset Dortmund in Champions League

Arsenal upset Dortmund in Champions League

Berlin – Aaron Ramsey’s header smoothed the way for Arsenal’s 1-0 triumph over Borussia Dortmund at a sold-out Signal Iduna Park in... read more »

Lunch scoreboard: India vs West Indies

Lunch scoreboard: India vs West Indies

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

India 120/5 at lunch against West Indies

India 120/5 at lunch against West Indies

Kolkata – Despite a steady start, India finished 120/5 at lunch following a middle order collapse on day two of the India West Indies Test match at the... read more »

Ronaldinho to play in World Club Championship

Ronaldinho to play in World Club Championship

Brasilia – Two-time World Player of the Year, Ronaldinho Gaucho, has confirmed he is winning his race to be fit for the World Club Championship in... read more »

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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 welcomed first by the mayor of Philadelphia as a... 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... 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 »

WikiLeaks reveals Australian gagging order over politic...

A sweeping gagging order issued in Australia to block reporting of any bribery allegations involving several international political leaders in the region... read more »

Four killed as terrorists storm Punjab police station

India tightened security on its border with Pakistan on Monday after terrorists dressed in army uniforms stormed a police station in Punjab’s Gurdaspur district, killing at least four... read more »

BJP plan for the monsoon session: Big on political firepower, low on legislation

Having weathered the opposition’s protests over its leaders’ alleged involvement in various scandals by simply holding firm, the BJP-led NDA government has decided to follow the... read more »

Kejriwal in trouble as constables file FIR against him for referring to Delhi cops as R...

New Delhi: A Delhi Police constable has lodged a complaint of criminal defamation against Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for allegedly using a derogatory word about cops during a recent... read more »

We were sick and tired of losing: Sikander Raza

Harare: “We were sick and tired of just competing against better nations and losing in the end,” said Zimbabwe’s stand-in cricket captain Sikander Raza as he lavished... read more »

Pro Kabaddi League’s Jadhav chose the sport over cricket, m...

Cricket and movies are two obsessions that Indians can never get enough of. For 21-year-old Onkar Jadhav, though, when a choice came up to pursue one of the two as a career, he chose kabaddi... read more »