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Germanwings: Terrified passengers scream...

Germanwings: Terrified passengers screamed as co-pilot ‘calmly’...

Paris: Passengers with moments to live screamed in terror and the pilot frantically pounded on the locked cockpit door as a 27-year-old German co-pilot deliberately and wordlessly smashed an Airbus carrying 150 people into an Alpine mountainside. The account on Thursday of the final moments of... read more »

Singapore Extends Viewing for Lee With M...

Singapore Extends Viewing for Lee With Mile-Long Line

Singapore’s government extended viewing hours for people to file past the coffin of first prime minister Lee Kuan Yew as thousands lined up in the city’s midday heat. The line stretched across a mile mostly along the Singapore river through the financial district. Roads had been closed earlier... read more »

Congress lashes out at Bharatiya Janata ...

Congress lashes out at Bharatiya Janata Party over SC order on Section 66A

Congress on Tuesday hit back at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over the Supreme Court order on Section 66A of the IT Act noting that Arun Jaitley who had dubbed the law as “online emergency” while in opposition, had defended it when the BJP came to power. AICC Media department in charge... read more »

French Alps air disaster: Investigators ...

French Alps air disaster: Investigators seek clues into the Germanwings mys...

French investigators will sift through wreckage on Wednesday for clues into why a German Airbus ploughed into an Alpine mountainside, killing all 150 people on board including 16 schoolchildren returning from an exchange trip to Spain. The A320 jet operated by Lufthansa’s Germanwings budget... read more »

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MNS chief Raj Thackeray always looks for cheap publicity, says NC...

Mumbai – The NCP has hit out at MNS chief Raj Thackeray for telling his workers to not pay toll even if that means resorting to violence. “Raj Thackeray is always looking out for means to... read more »

Vinod Kumar Binny alleges Aam Aadmi Party wants De...

New Delhi –  Expelled Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Vinod Kumar Binny on Monday said that his party wants the Delhi government to collapse so that... read more »

Will contest Lok Sabha election: Veteran BJP leader LK ...

Will contest Lok Sabha election: Veteran BJP leader LK Advani

New Delhi – Veteran BJP leader LK Advani on Sunday said he will contest the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, putting an end to speculation that he could be... read more »

Delhi CM Mr. Kejriwal is star attraction at President&#...

New Delhi   Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, dressed casually in a simple maroon pullover and his trademark muffler around his neck, was the centre of... read more »

Now, a NaMo temple with ‘Modi chalisa’

Modi represents corrupt political system, not change: The Aam Aadmi Party

Allahabad – The residents of a remote village in neighbouring Kaushambi district, it seems, have gone a bit too far in their adulation of Narendra Modi.... read more »

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Musharraf lawyers urge UN to intervene into 'show trial'

Musharraf lawyers urge UN to intervene into ‘show trialR...

Islamabad – Lawyers of Pakistan’s ex-President Pervez Musharraf have reportedly urged the United Nations to intervene in the dictator’s treason trial, which they believe is... read more »

Obama nominates Senator Max Baucus as ambassador to China

Obama nominates Senator Max Baucus as ambassador t...

President Barack Obama nominated Senator Max Baucus on Friday as US ambassador to China. “Max Baucus is going to be an outstanding ambassador to... read more »

Taiwan court suspends trial of ailing ex-president

Chen Shui-bian

Taipei – A Taiwanese court has suspended the trial of former president Chen Shui-bian on the ground that he is suffering from depression, dementia and... read more »

Israeli PM amongst NSA, GCHQ’s 1,000 ‘snoop...

Israeli PM amongst NSA, GCHQ's 1,000 'snoop-op' targets

London – The US and UK spy agencies reportedly spied on targets that include a European Union commissioner, humanitarian organizations and an Israeli PM... read more »

Indian dam will affect Neelum-Jhelum project: Pakistan

Indian dam will affect Neelum-Jhelum project: Pakistan

Islamabad – The construction of the Kishanganga project by India in Jammu and Kashmir will result in 14 percent decrease in the flow of water for... read more »

Gilead licences Strides to make, distribute AIDS drug in 112 countries

U.S. pharmaceutical major Gilead Sciences has signed a licensing agreement with Bengaluru-based Strides Arcolab, under which Gilead has extended non-exclusive rights to Strides to make and... read more »

World Bank to commit $1 billion in clean India programme

World Bank today said it will commit $1 billion in the government’s Swachh Bharat (Clean India) campaign. World Bank’s country director in India Onno Ruhl said the World Bank is... read more »

‘New packaging practice helped in lifting of EU ban on mango’

The European Union’s decision to lift ban on mango imports from India is a recognition of inspection process and new packaging practice now adopted by exporters, industry body FIEO... read more »

Britain ‘wide open to abuse by freeloading migrants’, says Foreign Secretary

Britain is “wide open to abuse” by “freeloading” European Union migrants who are exploiting the welfare state, the Foreign Secretary has said. Philip Hammond said that the... read more »

Economy, IS policy, Guantanamo and more: Obama’s speech in ...

US President Barack Obama on Tuesday declared America has turned the page on years of war and economic hardship, in a populist-tinged State of the Union address that set up the battle to succeed... read more »