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Gold, silver prices rise on brisk buying, global cues
Gold drops Rs 400, silver plunges by Rs ...

Gold drops Rs 400, silver plunges by Rs 1,350

Gold prices tumbled by Rs 400 to hit one-week low of Rs 26,750 per 10 grams at the bullion market today amid a weak global trend and low demand from jewellers and retailers. Silver also plunged by Rs 1,350 at Rs 36,650 per kg on poor offtake by industrial users and coin makers. Bullion merchants... read more »

AAP hits back at BJP for protests outsid...

AAP hits back at BJP for protests outside Arvind Kejriwal residence

New Delhi: Hitting back at the BJP over its protests outside Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s residence against the road rage incident, the AAP on Thrsday took a jibe at the saffron party saying, does Prime Minister Narendra Modi approve of the ‘Naxalite’ and... read more »

Satyam verdict: Ramalinga Raju, the man ...

Satyam verdict: Ramalinga Raju, the man who knew too much, gets 7 years in ...

A special court in Hyderabad found all the ten accused in the Satyam scam guilty of cheating, forgery, destruction of evidence and criminal breach of trust. This includes the founder and the Chairman of the company B Ramalinga Raju. The court pronounced a seven year-jail term for the founder and... read more »

8 years later, court finds Satyam’...

8 years later, court finds Satyam’s Raju, 9 others guilty of corporat...

A special court in Hyderabad today convicted former chairman B Ramalinga Raju and other nine accused following a seven-year trial. Sentencing in the case will be pronounced tomorrow ( 10 April, 2015). The 10 were convicted under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), including 120B... read more »

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This 25-year-old is powering Lalu Prasad’s social media bli...

Patna – When Lalu Prasad joined Twitter last month, he batted down the snide remarks of political rivals by tweeting that “youth power cannot be ignored.” The Bihar leader’s... read more »

IIT-Kanpur student commits suicide, third on campu...

Lucknow – A student of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur on Wednesday committed suicide by hanging himself from the ceiling fan... read more »

Nido Taniam’s death: how can post-mortem take so ...

Delhi High Court today said it was “dissatisfied” with the police report on Nido Taniam, who died last week after being beaten by shopkeepers at a... read more »

Uproar in Rajya Sabha over anti-communal violence Bill

2.12 pm: Trinamool Congress leader Derek O’Brien: “I can detail how the UPA-II has butchered the federal structure of the country.” 2.09 pm:... read more »

Barack Obama watching Narendra Modi speech on TV?

Washington/New Delhi: “Even Obama listens (to) the speech of NaMo,” says the caption of a doctored picture showing the US President watching a... read more »

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Edward Snowden Denies Being a Russian Spy

Mission already accomplished, says Snowden

 National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden said his “mission’s already accomplished” after revealing NSA secrets that have caused a reassessment of U.S. surveillance policies Mr. Snowden... read more »

South Sudan army says not received ceasefire order

South Sudan army lose capital of oil-producing sta...

Khartoum – South Sudan’s army admitted Monday that it had lost control of Bantiu, capital of the oil- producing Unity State, media... read more »

Bangladesh Navy to get two submarines soon

Bangladesh Navy to get two submarines soon

Dhaka – President Abdul Hamid has said the Bangladesh Navy will soon get two submarines in its flee. He said the addition would be part of the... read more »

19 jailed Bangladeshi fishermen return from India

19 jailed Bangladeshi fishermen return from India

Dhaka – Nineteen Bangladeshi fishermen have returned to their homeland after completing three-year jail-term in India for having illegally entered the I!... read more »

Preparations for upcoming Geneva II on track: UN chief

Preparations for upcoming Geneva II on track: UN chief

United Nations – UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon Monday said that preparations for the Geneva II c! onference were “on track” while calling... read more »

PRECIOUS-Gold rebounds to 5-month high after ECB launches QE program

Gold turned higher and touched a five-month high above $1,300 per ounce on Thursday, after the European Central Bank (ECB) launched a multi-billion euro bond-buying program aimed at... read more »

Paes, Bopanna, Sania crash out in Australian Open doubles

On a largely disappointing day for Indian tennis players, Leander Paes, Rohan Bopanna and Sania Mirza lost their respective doubles matches in the second round of the Australian Open... read more »

Taylor's double-century puts Kiwis into `strong position` in first Windies Test

New Zealand beats Sri Lanka by 108 runs, leads series 3-1

New Zealand’s Luke Ronchi blasted 170 not out and Grant Elliott made 104 in a record unbroken 267-run partnership which lifted the Black Caps to a 108-run over Sri Lanka on Friday, taking... read more »

Federer out of Australian Open, beaten by Andreas Seppi

Roger Federer is out of the Australian Open in the third round, beaten by Italian Andreas Seppi 6-4, 7-6 (5), 4-6, 7-6 (5) on Friday. Federer was trying to come from two sets down for the... read more »

South Korean president nominates new prime minister

SEOUL: South Korean President Park Geun-hye has nominated ruling party lawmaker Lee Wan Koo to replace Prime Minister Chung Hong-won nearly 10 months after Chung offered to resign over a ferry... read more »