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Volkswagen launches refreshed Jetta

Volkswagen launches refreshed Jetta

Volkswagen, on Tuesday, launched face-lifted Jetta here. The new version comes with changes in exterior and interior. The 1.4 TSI petrol variant comes in two trims — Trendline priced at Rs.13.87 lakh and Comfortline at Rs.15.36 lakh. The Diesel 2.0 TDI comes in four trims — Trendline at... read more »

Danish intelligence was alerted by polic...

Danish intelligence was alerted by police on the attacker

Denmark’s domestic intelligence service acknowledged on Tuesday that prison officials alerted the agency last year to the suspected gunman in last weekend’s shooting attacks that killed two people and wounded five in Copenhagen. The Danish Security and Intelligence Service, known by its Danish... read more »

Jamaat leader sentenced to death in Bang...

Jamaat leader sentenced to death in Bangladesh

A top leader of Jamaat-e-Islami party was sentenced to death on Wednesday by a special tribunal in Bangladesh for crimes against humanity during the independence war against Pakistan in 1971. Abdus Subhan, in his early 80s, was sentenced by the three-member International Crimes Tribunal-2 in Dhaka,... read more »

Sushma Swaraj insists Congress backing Tejpal
More reforms on the anvil: Sushma

More reforms on the anvil: Sushma

The new Indian government will unveil more reforms in the coming days, including in the forthcoming budget this month to woo foreign investment and make India a manufacturing destination, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has said. Addressing a gathering of the Indian diaspora here in the... read more »

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Law school trashes apex court ruling on 377

Supreme Court ruling has pushed us backwards: Vikram Seth

By Shilpa Raina New Delhi – Writers don’t need to talk on every subject but they must not keep quiet if they witness injustice, says celebrated author-writer Vikram Seth, speaking out on... read more »

India finally flies indigenous fighter jet

Tejas gets initial official clearance

Bangalore – Tejas, India’s indigeneously-designed Light Combat Aircraft, Friday got initial operation clearance (IOC-II). Defence... read more »

Will not accept US mockery: Kamal Nath

Will not accept US mockery: Kamal Nath

New Delhi – Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath Friday said India will not accept this US “mockery” and demanded it drop charges... read more »

Andhra delegation meets PM over Krishna water row

Andhra delegation meets PM over Krishna water row

New Delhi/Hyderabad – An all-party delegation from the Andhra Pradesh Friday met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, seeking his intervention on the... read more »

Indian ship captain to reach home Friday

Indian merchant navy ship captain Sunil James

Mumbai – Indian merchant navy ship captain Sunil James, released from a Togo jail Thursday, is expected to reach his home in suburban Malad here Friday... read more »

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Britain’s Cameron pushes EU free trade deal in China visit

British Prime Minister David Cameron pushes EU free trade deal in...

British Prime Minister David Cameron marked his arrival in China on Monday with a call for the European Union to negotiate a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the world’s second-largest economy. Mr.... read more »

Thailand braces for more violence

Thailand braces for more violence

Bangkok – The United Nations closed its main office in Bangkok, dozens of schools closed and many civil servants stayed away from work on... read more »

33 dead in Mozambican plane crash: Namibia police

33 dead in Mozambican plane crash: Namibia police

A Mozambique Airlines plane carrying 33 people crashed in a remote border area, killing all on board, Namibian media reported Saturday. The Namibia Press... read more »

US offers to destroy Syrian chemical weapons

US offers to destroy Syrian chemical weapons

The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical weapons says the United States has offered to help destroy some of the most lethal parts of Syria’s chemical... read more »

32 people taken to hospitals after Galsgow chopper cras...

32 people taken to hospitals after Galsgow chopper crash: Police

London – Scottish police say 32 people have been taken to hospitals across Glasgow after a police helicopter crashed into a crowded pub... read more »

Ex-minister sentenced to death in Bangladesh

Syed Mohammad Qaisar, 73, was found guilty of 14 out of 16 charges including genocide, rape, extortion, arson and torture committed during the 1971 war, prosecutors said. Pakistani-backed... read more »

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe close to deal on controversial US base on Okinawa

Japan parliament reelects Shinzo Abe as prime minister

Japan’s parliament reelected Shinzo Abe on Wednesday to serve another term as prime minister after his party won a snap election earlier this month. Abe won 328 votes out of the 470... read more »

Rebels say new Ukraine peace talks to take place today

A meeting of a so-called contact group aimed at ending violence in eastern Ukraine is planned for Wednesday, Russian state television quoted Denis Pushilin, vice speaker of the... read more »

Army called out as Bodo militants kill 48 in Assam

Guwahati: National Democratic Front of Boroland (Songbijit faction) militants shot dead at least 48 adivasis, including women and children, at five different places in Assam on Tuesday.... read more »

Cabinet approves ordinance on coal and insurance

NEW DELHI: Seeking to move ahead on crucial reforms, the Cabinet on Wednesday approved the ordinance route for coal and insurance reforms. Frustrated by the opposition in its bid to get parliamentary... read more »