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Bangkok bomb: Thai TV apologises for bom...

Bangkok bomb: Thai TV apologises for bomb re-enactment

The re-enactment on Thursday evening sparked outrage among Thais at the shrine and online. Executives at Nation TV have since acknowledged it was insensitive and disrespectful to the dead. The bomb blast on Monday evening killed 20 people and injured scores more. Police are hunting for the... read more »

Sri Lanka: Ranil Wickremesinghe takes of...

Sri Lanka: Ranil Wickremesinghe takes office as new Prime Minister

Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka’s new Prime Minister on Friday as the island nation’s two major political parties signed an agreement to work together in the new parliament. His victory in Monday’s election thwarted a political comeback bid by the country’s former strongman... read more »

India ‘advises’ Pakistani NS...

India ‘advises’ Pakistani NSA Aziz not to meet Hurriyat leaders

India has advised Pakistani NSA Sartaj Aziz not to meet separatist Hurriyat leaders before talks with his Indian counterpart Ajit Doval, raising a question mark about the meeting of the NSAs scheduled for Monday. External affairs ministry spokesperson Vikas Swarup said in a series of tweets that... read more »

Android 6.0 Marshmallow: Top six feature...

Android 6.0 Marshmallow: Top six features you need to know

After the guessing game that went on for months, Google has finally announced its next Android iteration will be named after the sweet treat Marshmallow. So, now M is for Marshmallow. Marshmallow was one of the highly speculated name that fits Google’s nomenclature of sweet treats like – Cup... read more »

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India to install HVDC power link with Nepal, Bhutan

India to install HVDC power link with Nepal, Bhutan

New Delhi – India is working to install a high voltage direct current (HVDC) power transmission line to Nepal and Bhutan, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said Thursday. “We are... read more »

Spectrum auction notice in 15-20 days: Farooqui

Spectrum auction notice in 15-20 days: Farooqui

New Delhi – The notice inviting applications (NIA) for the spectrum auctions in January 2014 is expected ! to come in another 15-20 days, M.F.... read more »

Reliance Life to launch 25 products, targets Rs.4,000 c...

Reliance Life to launch 25 products, targets Rs.4,000 crore premium

By Venkatachari Jagannathan Panaji (Goa) – The Reliance Life Insurance Company will launch 25 new policies starting January next year and file more... read more »

Gold prices rose by Rs 450 to Rs 31,250 per ten gram

Gold prices rose by Rs 450 to Rs 31,250 per ten gram

Snapping two days of losses, gold prices rose by Rs 450 to Rs 31,250 per ten gram in the national capital on Thursday on emergence of buying by stockists at... read more »

RIL’s KG-D6 output slips to 10 mmscmd

RIL’s KG-D6 output slips to 10 mmscmd

Reliance Industries on Thursday said natural gas production from its eastern offshore KG-D6 block has slipped further to about 10 million standard cubic meters... read more »

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Delhi Power-Hungry. Huge Outages in Record-Setting Heat

New Delhi – Sweltering heat in Delhi and massive power outages have the capital begging for relief. Union Power Minister Piyush Goyal called an emergency meeting with top officials in Delhi... read more »

AAP MLAs stage protest outside Harsh Vardhan’s hou...

As Delhi continued to face long power cuts, over 20 AAP MLAs on Tuesday staged a protest outside Union Minister Harsh Vardhan’s house in East Delhi... read more »

Reviving economy is priority: Pranab Mukherjee

Putting the economy back on track is of paramount importance for the government, said President Pranab Mukherjee, addressing the first joint sitting of both... read more »

Tibetan Exiles a Source of Tension in China-India Ties

New Delhi – China’s state news media has welcomed India’s new prime minister, Narendra Modi, as a pragmatic new partner on economic matters,... read more »

Facebook post on Ambedkar sparks violence in Maharashtr...

Facebook unlikely to launch auto-play video ads this year

The posting of allegedly objectionable images of Dalit leader Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar on Facebook on Saturday night, sparked stray incidents of arson in Pune,... read more »

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Libya votes in poll hoping to end post-Gaddafi chaos

Tripoli: Libyans were voting Wednesday in a legislative election the authorities hope will end political turmoil and deadly violence that has gripped the country since the ouster of dictator Muammar... read more »

‘4 bombs in Cairo metro stations, at least 2...

Four makeshift bombs exploded within minutes of each other at three Cairo metro stations during morning rush hour on Wednesday, wounding at least two... read more »

Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama’s political reunion ...

WASHINGTON: First Lady Michelle Obama has shot down speculation that she is poised to enter politics while maintaining that the United States should elect a... read more »

Pakistan: Gunmen open fire on plane at Peshawar airport...

Bannu: Gunmen opened fire on a passenger jet as it landed in Pakistan’s troubled northwest, killing a woman passenger and wounding two crew in an attack... read more »

More than 60 women, girls abducted in Nigeria: local of...

Suspected Boko Haram militants have abducted more than 60 women and young girls in restive northeast Nigeria, a local official and a vigilante leader said... read more »

“Scared” by number of deaths in Vyapam scam

Union Minister Uma Bharti on Monday said she is “scared” by the number of deaths associated with the Vyapam scam in Madhya Pradesh and said there is “panic” in the... read more »

Uttarakhand CM Harish Rawat assures safety to Char Dham yatris

Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat on Monday said that each person taking up the Char Dham yatra is the responsibility of the state government. “Each person that comes here is... read more »

With stakes so high, politicians won’t give up easy in Vyapam scam

Cracking the mystery behind the serial deaths of people involved in the Vyapam scam in Madhya Pradesh is perhaps the most complex whodunit in Indian history. That, more than 40 people,... read more »

Rajinikanth rejects Drishyam remake

Superstar Rajinikanth rejected an offer to star in the Tamil remake of Malayalam blockbuster Drishyam because he feared that two particular scenes in the film would not have gone down too... read more »

Kim Kardashian, Kanye West are ‘opposites’

Reality TV star Kim Kardashian has admitted she and rapper husband Kanye West are two very different people. “You can’t expect me to jump up onstage and start singing, it’s not what I do…... read more »