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Sania Mirza to be conferred Rajiv Gandhi...

Sania Mirza to be conferred Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna

NEW DELHI: Sania Mirza is all set to become the first woman tennis player to be conferred India’s highest sports award Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, Times Now reported on Tuesday. Sania is only the second tennis player to get the coveted award after Leander Paes in 1996-97. Earlier this month, the... read more »

Kohli looks to end 22-year wait for seri...

Kohli looks to end 22-year wait for series win in Sri Lanka

Indian Test captain Virat Kohli’s aggressive strategy to deploy five specialist bowlers will be tested when India begin the three-match Test series against Sri Lanka in Galle on Wednesday, hoping to end a 22-year-old wait for a series triumph on Lankan soil. While the baton had passed on to... read more »

Yogendra Yadav’s detention violation of ...

Yogendra Yadav’s detention violation of fundamental rights: Prashant Bhusha...

Senior Supreme Court lawyer and Swaraj Abhiyan co-founder Prashant Bhushan on Tuesday approached the Delhi High Court against the ‘illegal detention’ of around 90 people late last night by the Delhi Police. Swaraj Abhiyan leader Yogendra Yadav as well as several volunteers were allegedly... read more »

Sexually harassed Punjab girl immolates ...

Sexually harassed Punjab girl immolates self, dies at Chandigarh

Fed up of being sexually harassed by four youth from the Jat community, a 16-year-old Dalit girl from a village in Sangrur town of Punjab set herself ablaze on Saturday and succumbed to 70% burns at Chandigarh’s Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research on Tuesday morning. The... read more »

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Finance Minister P Chidambaram takes a dig at Gujarat Chief Minister Modi for giving lesson in economy

CAD to remain within limit: Chidambaram

Encouraged by better-than-expected growth in the July-September quarter, Finance Minister P. Chidambaram, on Monday, expressed confidence that the economy would expand by 5 per cent, and the fiscal... read more »

Wipro revenues up by 18 per cent

Wipro to acquire US-based Opus CMC for Rs 467 cr

Country’s third largest software services firm Wipro on Monday said it would acquire US-based Opus Capital Market Consultants for $75 million... read more »

Gold tumbled by Rs 510 to Rs 31,015 per ten grams, weak...

Gold tumbled by Rs 510 to Rs 31,015 per ten grams, , weak global cues

After two days of gains, gold tumbled by Rs 510 to Rs 31,015 per ten grams in New Delhi on Monday on stockists selling at existing higher levels amid a weak... read more »

Hyundai reports 10.9% fall in November sales

Diesel cars lose steam; Maruti, Hyundai sales zoom on petrol variants

Hyundai Motor India Ltd on Monday reported a 10.9 per cent fall in its total sales in November at 49,681 units as against 55,762 units in the same month last... read more »

India Q2 GDP growth rate encouraging: World Bank

Encouraged by the 4.8 per cent India GDP growth rate in the second quarter (Q2), the World Bank India head Onno Ruhl expressed hope that the trend will... read more »

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Tejpal seeks in-camera hearing of bail plea

Supreme Court extends Tarun Tejpal’s interim bail till June...

The Supreme Court today extended till June 27 the interim bail of Tehelka founder editor Tarun Tejpal in a sexual assault case. A bench comprising justices J S Khehar and C Nagappan extended the... read more »

Black money: Will SIT be able to do what the ED co...

While the UPA government was almost hesitant to set up an SIT to probe and track down black money stashed abroad, the Narendra Modi-led government in... read more »

How Munde made his mark in Maharashtra politics

Union minister Gopinath Munde’s death when he was set to play a major role in the BJP’s bid to wrest power in Maharashtra from the Congress-NCP combine has... read more »

‘Let Media Go, Mahabharat Bana Denge’: Thre...

Badaun, UP – The family of the two young girls who were gang-raped and found hanging from a mango tree in Katra Sahadat Ganj village in Badaun, Uttar... read more »

Jayalalithaa to Meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi in De...

Police given free hand: Jayalalithaa

New Delhi – Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi today amidst speculation that the BJP is trying to... read more »

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Militants Claim Mass Execution of Iraqi Soldiers

Baghdad – Militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant boasted on Twitter that they had executed 1,700 Iraqi government soldiers, posting gruesome photos to support their claim. The... read more »

President Barack Obama sets pre-condition for acti...

President Barack Obama has said that U.S. will not indulge in a military action against the Islamist militant group ISIL in Iraq in absence of a... read more »

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Aziz discuss India-...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Pakistan National Security Advisor Sartaj Aziz has discussed Pakistan’s relations with India and Afghanistan, regional... read more »

Moderate earthquake rocks Pakistan: official

An official says a moderate earthquake has struck northwest Pakistan, causing panic in towns and cities, but there are no immediate reports of casualties or... read more »

Iraq to allow US airstrikes against al Qaeda militants

Al Qaeda militants kill over 100 Syrians near Damascus

Iraq has said it would allow the United States to launch airstrikes against al-Qaeda-linked militants in the north of the country, the Wall Street Journal... read more »

Bangladeshi family from UK traced to ISIS

A Bangladeshi family of 12 from England, who went missing on the way back from a holiday in Dhaka, have confirmed in a statement issued by ISIS terrorists that they are in the... read more »

Syrians increasingly desperate for healthcare as barrel bombs strike hospitals

in southwestern Syria with barrel bombs last month was only the latest episode in a long series of attacks by the Assad regime on medical facilities across the country. It was one of 10... read more »

Philippines ferry capsize toll rises to 59

The toll in the ferry capsize in central Philippines` Leyte province has risen to 59, officials said on Saturday. The passenger vessel MV Kim Nirvana-B, which capsized on Thursday near the... read more »

‘Sweeper’ boxer Krishna Rout seeks a job of dignity from West Bengal governmen...

Former national boxer Krishna Rout, who has been cleaning open drains for the past 15 years as a temporary worker of Howrah Municipal Corporation, on Saturday said he would appeal to Chief... read more »

Bubba Watson to paint over Confederate flag on ”Dukes of Ha...

Golfer Bubba Watson says he will paint a U.S. flag over the contentious Confederate battle banner on his “General Lee” Dodge Charger from the hit 1980s TV show “The Dukes of... read more »