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Female Suicide Bomber Blows Herself Up i...

Female Suicide Bomber Blows Herself Up in Northeast Nigeria Market

KANO, NIGERIA: A female suicide bomber travelling on a tricycle blew herself up Friday at a market in the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri, witnesses said, as Nigeria and its neighbours finalize a force to combat Boko Haram jihadists. “There had been a suicide attack on Gamboru market... read more »

Jerusalem gay pride stabbing suspect rem...

Jerusalem gay pride stabbing suspect remanded

Israeli police say an anti-gay ultra-Orthodox extremist suspected of stabbing revelers at Jerusalem’s gay pride parade has appeared in court. The suspected attacker, Yishai Schlissel, was remanded Friday and his arrest was extended for 12 days as the investigation against him... read more »

Hopes for Afghan peace talks rise as Tal...

Hopes for Afghan peace talks rise as Taliban names new chief

Mullah Akhtar Mansour was named as the new Taliban leader on Friday – a historic power transition that raises hopes for a way to end Afghanistan’s bloody war as the relative moderate’s leadership comes in. The Taliban also announced his deputies – Sirajuddin Haqqani, who... read more »

At least 30 killed in Nepal landslides

At least 30 killed in Nepal landslides

The landslides came crashing into villages and homes just after midnight. One survivor said they sounded like an earthquake. Multiple slides, triggered by torrential rains, struck communities near the resort town of Pokhara, west of the capital Kathmandu. In the village of Lumle, about half of... read more »

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Gold prices tumbled by Rs. 520 to Rs. 31,300 per ten gram

Gold prices tumbled by Rs. 520 to Rs. 31,300 per ten gram

Gold prices tumbled by Rs. 520 to Rs. 31,300 per ten gram in the national capital on Thursday on brisk selling by stockists, triggered by a sharp fall in overseas markets. Silver also fell by Rs. 850... read more »

India safe investment destination: Chidambaram tells investors

India safe investment destination: Chidambaram tel...

Seeking investment in infrastructure and capital markets, Finance Minister P. Chidambaram on Thursday emphasised that India is a safe destination... read more »

Sri Lanka trade show attracts $1 bn investment

Sri Lanka trade show attracts $1 bn investment

Colombo – Sri Lanka has attracted investment of $1 billion from the largest trade exhibition held on the sidelines of the Commonwealth leaders summit. A... read more »

Google unveils prepaid debit card

Google unveils prepaid debit card

San Francisco – Google Inc will offer a prepaid debit card that will allow consumers to purchase goods at stores and to withdraw cash from ATM machines,... read more »

Gold range-bound as markets await Fed minutes for stimu...

Gold range-bound as markets await Fed minutes for stimulus clues

Singapore – Gold was trading in a tight range on Wednesday as investors awaited the release of the minutes of a U.S. Federal Reserve policy meeting later... read more »

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Kolkata’s American Center Attack: Supreme Court Commutes De...

Kolkata – Two men convicted for the 2002 attack on the American Center in Kolkata won’t hang, the Supreme Court ruled today. While commuting their death sentence, the court ordered one of... read more »

Kejriwal turns down security cover

Arvind Kejriwal Apologises For Delhi Exit, Says Po...

New Delhi – Arvind Kejriwal, the chief of the Aam Aadmi Party, today said he had debated forming a government in Delhi again but realized that... read more »

Foreign Media on Narendra Modi’s Emotional Speech

New Delhi – Narendra Modi, the son of a provincial tea seller, was overcome by emotion on Tuesday after members of his political group, the Bharatiya... read more »

Modi appointed PM, swearing-in on May 26

Narendra Modi, who steered the BJP and the NDA to a landslide victory in the Lok Sabha elections, was on Tuesday appointed Prime Minister. “I came to call on... read more »

People voted for their hope, aspiration : Modi

Elected leader of the BJP Parliamentary Party, Narendra Modi on Tuesday declared that the Lok Sabha election results represent a new hope for the common man,... read more »

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Nuclear Talks Will Continue, Have Not Reached A Deadlock: Iran

TEHRAN, May 19 (Bernama) — Ali Akbar Velayati, the senior foreign policy advisor to the Supreme Leader, said on Saturday that he believes that the nuclear talks between Iran and world powers... read more »

South Korean president to disband coast guard over...

South Korean President Park Geun-hye announced Monday that she would disband the coast guard because of its inept efforts to rescue those stranded... read more »

Obama pays tribute to 9/11 victims as National Septembe...

Washington – The National September 11 Memorial Museum, which was in the making for more than a decade, was dedicated in New York City. President... read more »

Nuclear discussions moving forward but ‘difficult’: Ira...

TEHRAN: Nuclear discussions between Iran and six world powers are advancing in a good atmosphere but progress is “slow and difficult”, a senior... read more »

Korea Ferry Captain, Three Crew Charged With Homicide

SEOUL—South Korea on Thursday indicted the captain of the sunken ferry Sewol and three senior crew members on homicide charges, an official at the... read more »

Maruti Picks Up Pace, Sales Grow 1.8%

The company said its domestic sales increased 1.6 per cent in the month to 1,02,626 units as against 1,00,964 units a year ago. Sales of mini segment cars, including Alto and WagonR,... read more »

Michelle Obama to promote girl education in more developing countries

First Lady Michelle Obama has announced she will take her Let Girls Learn and Let’s Move initiatives further to other countries soon after a halt to Japan, Cambodia and the UK. US... read more »

Time of the ‘mute Prime Minister’ has gone

Taking a jibe at former prime minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday said that the Congress has forgotten the time of the ‘mute Prime... read more »

Congress furnishes new documents on Dholpur Palace ownership

The party also demanded an independent probe into the entire controversy. Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh produced documents, allegedly showing that Raje’s son Dushyant Singh and... read more »

Never said govt would scrap Section 377

A day after reports quoted DV Sadananda Gowda as indicating that India could abolish Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code decriminalising ‘unnatural sex’, the Union Law Minister on... read more »