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Israel elections: Netanyahu’s ‘back’ and...

Israel elections: Netanyahu’s ‘back’ and what’s in it for India

No one expected the results of the elections held in Israel on Tuesday to give a clear winner—in its 67-year history no party has won outright majority in the Knesset. With 99% of the votes counted the Likud party, led by current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has got 29 seats and is five... read more »

Former Singaporean prime minister Lee Ku...

Former Singaporean prime minister Lee Kuan Yew ‘critically ill’...

The condition of former Singaporean premier Lee Kuan Yew has deteriorated further and he is critically ill in intensive care, the government says. Mr Lee, the country’s first elected prime minister, has been receiving treatment for severe pneumonia at Singapore General Hospital since February... read more »

White House review panel proposes curbs on some NSA programs
Letter Bound for White House Tests Posit...

Letter Bound for White House Tests Positive for Cyanide

WASHINGTON — A letter intended for the White House tested positive for cyanide at an off-site mail screening facility on Tuesday, according to a statement from the Secret Service. The statement said the letter was received at the screening facility on Monday, and tested negative for biological... read more »

Class 11 student jailed for allegedly at...

Class 11 student jailed for allegedly attributing ‘objectionable̵...

A class 11 student from Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh was arrested and sent to prison by Rampur police following a complaint filed by Samajwadi leader Azam Khan’s aide Fasahat Ali Khan, say reports. Fasahat Ali claims that the boy had put up a post offending a particular community and attributed it... read more »

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Delhi CM Mr. Kejriwal skips defamation case, court allows exempti...

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday stayed away from court here in a case filed against him by Sheila Dikshit’s ex-political secretary for his alleged remarks against the former CM... read more »

‘Sudden unnatural death’ for Sunanda P...

New Delhi – The last rites of Sunanda Pushkar Tharoor, wife of Union minister Shashi Tharoor, are being conducted at the Lodhi Road... read more »

Union Minister Shashi Tharoor’s wife Sunanda Pushkar de...

Early Life : Sunanda Pushkar was born in a Kashmiri family of landlords and Indian Army officers native to Bomai. She was the only daughter of Lt. Col. Pushkar... read more »

Sunanda Pushkar Tharoor’s autopsy underway at Del...

Sunanda Pushkar Tharoor's autopsy underway at Delhi's AIIMS hospital

New Delhi – The autopsy of Sunanda Pushkar Tharoor, the wife of union minister Shashi Tharoor, is being conducted by a three-doctor panel at... read more »

18 killed in Mumbai stampede

At least 18 people died in a stampede and about 45 were injured early on Saturday morning in the Malabar Hill area, where an overwhelming crowd from the... read more »

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US judge rules NSA data collection unconstitutional

US judge rules NSA data collection unconstitutional

By Arun Kumar Washington – In what the media here called a “powerful rebuke” to the Obama administration, a US federal judge has ruled the US National Security Agency’s... read more »

Khobragade case: India seeks details of possible U.S. tax violations

US hides behind “standard procedures” ...

By Arun Kumar Washington – As media reports that Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade was “strip-searched” after her arrest in New... read more »

6.2 magnitude quake rattles New Zealand

6.2 magnitude quake rattles New Zealand

Wellington – A severe earthquake measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale has been recorded off! the coast of Fiordland, shaking New Zealand’s Southland... read more »

Al Qaeda militants kill over 100 Syrians near Damascus

Al Qaeda militants kill over 100 Syrians near Damascus

Damascus – Radical rebels from the Al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front have massacred more than 100 people in a suburb of the capital Damascus, the... read more »

Russia deploys missiles along borders with NATO countri...

Russia deploys missiles along borders with NATO countries

Moscow – Russia confirmed Monday that it has deployed its tactical Iskander-M missiles along the borders with NATO countries, insisting the deployment... read more »

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Sharapova wants to play her top tennis in New Year

Maria Sharapova says her target for 2015 is playing her best tennis rather than wrestling the World No.1 ranking back from Serena Williams. Should World No.2 Sharapova win the Brisbane... read more »

BUTT-ASIF-AAMER CASE TO BE RE-EXAMINED

Prosecutors are re-examining the criminal convictions of three Pakistan players jailed in 2011 over spotfixing allegations, according to a report in Britain’s Guardian newspaper, The... read more »

RSS wants Modi government to ban Flipkart, Amazon and eBay?

Claiming that foreign e-commerce firms such as Amazon and eBay are ‘killing domestic players in the Indian market’, the economic wing of the RSS has asked the government to ban... read more »

Google in Talks to Buy Mobile-Payments Company Softcard: Report

Google Inc is in talks to buy mobile-payments company Softcard, technology news website TechCrunch reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. The deal could help pair... read more »

US oil spill finding could cost BP $13.7bn in fines

A US judge has said more oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico following the deadly rig explosion in 2010 than BP estimated — a decision that could potentially cost the oil giant $13.7bn District... read more »