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Afghanistan: 21 dead, 10 wounded in wedd...

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 province, said a gunfight broke out between two groups attending the wedding in Andarab district late Sunday.... read more »

Delhi on high alert after Gurdaspur atta...

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 terrorist attack in Punjab’s Gurdaspur district that left five people dead. A burst tyre near Parliament also... read more »

At least 13 dead in al Shabaab attack on...

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 the rebel group said. A Reuters witness said blood and pieces of flesh were spattered around the site... read more »

Four killed as terrorists storm Punjab p...

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 people and injuring several others. The dead included two civilians and two policemen. Unconfirmed reports,... read more »

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Gold prices gaining up by Rs 220 to Rs 31,720 per ten gram

Gold prices gaining up by Rs 220 to Rs 31,720 per ten gram

Gold prices moved up by Rs 220 to Rs 31,720 per ten gram in the national capital on Thursday on marriage season demand amid a firm global trend. However, silver held steady at Rs 48,000 per kg on... read more »

BMW launched the facelifted Z4 roadster car

BMW launched the facelifted Z4 roadster car at Rs....

Pune!  – German luxury car maker BMW Thursday launched the facelifted Z4 roadster car at Rs.68.9 lakh. The two-seater sports car with a... read more »

Yahoo’s `forgotten` domain names up for grabs ranging f...

Yahoo announces News Digest, digital magazines at CES 2014

Washington – Yahoo is reportedly set to auction off its old web domains this week that the search engine claims to have ‘stumbled across’, such as... read more »

Tata Motors global sales down 12% in October

Tata Motors global sales down 12% in October

Auto major Tata Motors on Thursday said its global sales of vehicles declined by 11.70 per cent to 88,881 units in October, compared to the year-ago... read more »

Apple under probe for evading $1.35 bln in taxes in Ita...

Apple denies knowledge of iPhone exploit allowing NSA interception

Washington – Apple is under investigation for allegedly evading more than 1.35 billion dollars in taxes in Italy. The world’s most valuable technology... read more »

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5 dead, 30 injured in West Bengal bus mishap

Five bus passengers were killed and at least 30 others injured, 12 of them serious, when a bus fell into a ditch in West Bengal’s Midnapore district on May 15. The driver of the Cuttack-bound... read more »

BJP using Tejpal incident to settl! e scores, says Patkar

Kirit Somaiya, Sanjay Dina Patil exceeded poll exp...

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Medha Patkar today alleged that her rival candidates from Mumbai North East seat, namely Kirit Somaiya and Sanjay Dina... read more »

Amid talks of drastic change in BJP, Rajnath meets RSS ...

Patna blasts an act of terror: Rajnath Singh

As part of meetings to discuss the BJP’s post-poll strategy, party President Rajnath Singh on Thursday met RSS leader Suresh Soni. Sources said the party is... read more »

History will be kind to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh

History will be kind to Manmohan Singh. It will remember him as the finance minister who launched India’s economic reforms in 1991, and the Prime... read more »

New Indian Mujahideen module suspected to be behind Che...

South Indian Mujahideen (SIM), a hitherto unknown separate module of the Indian Mujahideen, is now suspected to be behind the twin blasts on the... read more »

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One dead, 30 injured in southern Pakistan earthquakes

KARACHI: At least one person was killed and 30 others were injured when a series of quakes hit southern Pakistan on Friday, officials said. One of the quakes struck at the relatively shallow depth of... read more »

Moscow kicks off annual military parade amid Ukrai...

MOSCOW: Thousands of Russian troops on Friday marched in Red Square to mark 69 years since victory in World War II in a show of military might amid... read more »

High-tech podcars to take to Dubai streets in a few yea...

Dubai: Dubai is set to have a new mode of public transport — high-tech podcars — in the next couple of years, a senior official announced at a conference... read more »

Grenade thrown at home of Thailand judge

A grenade was thrown on Thursday at the home of one of the judges of Thailand’s Constitutional Court that had ousted the country’s caretaker Prime Minister... read more »

South Korea ferry owner held; may face manslaughter cha...

Sewol: The head of the company that operated the ill-fated ferry Sewol, was on Thursday detained for questioning by the prosecutors in wake of the sinking... read more »

Ahmed Shehzad’s half-century steadies Pakistan against Sri Lanka in 2nd Test, Day 3

slammed his third Test half-century as Pakistan cruised ahead towards Sri Lanka‘s lead on Day Three of the second Test at P Sara Oval, Colombo. Pakistan were 129 for the loss of one... read more »

Separatist shutdown affects life in Srinagar

A separatist-called shutdown to protest ‘police high-handedness’ affected normal life in Srinagar on Saturday. The traffic on the strategic Srinagar-Jammu national highway,... read more »

BSF doing commendable job in guarding international border

Interacting with BSF jawans and officers posted in the Mizoram and Cachar Frontier yesterday, Pathak appreciated the hard work done by the troops and said they were doing a commendable job... read more »

Chennai metro tunnelling causes cave-in, road gulps car

Acrater more than 10 feet across swallowed a car after a combination of metro rail tunnelling and layers of loose soil apparently caused a sudden cave-in near Rajiv Gandhi Government... read more »

GOVT HIKES MINIMUM EXPORT PRICE OF ONION TO CHECK DOMESTIC MARKET...

In an effort to curb soaring prices of onion in the domestic market, the government has increased the minimum export price (MEP) of onion by more than 140% from $175 per tonne to $425 a... read more »