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Female Suicide Bomber Kills 10 in a Nige...

Female Suicide Bomber Kills 10 in a Nigerian Region Racked by Islamist Viol...

DAMATURU, Nigeria — A suicide bomber blew herself up at a crowded bus station in this northeastern Nigerian city on Sunday, killing 10 people and wounding 30, the police said. Damaturu is in a region that is frequently attacked by Islamist militants. Adamu Muhammad, a witness, said he heard a... read more »

China’s Foreign Minister Pushes Ir...

China’s Foreign Minister Pushes Iran on Nuclear Deal

BEIJING: A deal with Iran on its controversial nuclear programme would help it escape from sanctions and allow more efforts to be spent on economic development, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said during a trip to Tehran. The negotiations between Iran and the United States, Russia, China, France,... read more »

UN Security Council OKs resolution again...

UN Security Council OKs resolution against Yemen rebels

The United Nations Security Council has voted unanimously to adopt a resolution that demands that Shiite rebels immediately relinquish control of Yemen’s government in a crisis that has pushed the Arab world’s poorest country near collapse. The United States and ten other countries... read more »

Bihar political crisis: Court to give ru...

Bihar political crisis: Court to give ruling on decisions taken by Manjhi g...

New Delhi/ Patna: A Bihar court is slated to give its ruling on a petition by the Janata Dal (United) against the decisions taken by the Manjhi government in Bihar. Bihar is undergoing a political crisis as Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi defied his own party JDU and refused to resign from his post... read more »

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Devyani Khobragade is the only victim: MEA

Devyani Khobragade’s arrest: angry India takes reciprocal s...

Furious with the US for the arrest and alleged strip search of its high-ranking diplomat Devyani Khobragade, India today retaliated with a slew of measures to pare down the privileges of American... read more »

India downgrades privileges of US diplomats

India downgrades privileges of US diplomats

 India on Tuesday reacted strongly to the arrest of its Deputy Consul-General in New York by initiating series of steps to strip U.S. diplomats and... read more »

Indian diplomat arrest: Khurshid says U.S. action unacc...

Indian diplomat arrest: Khurshid says U.S. action unacceptable

 India on Tuesday said it has taken “very seriously” the treatment meted out to its Deputy Consul General in New York Devyani Khobragade by the US... read more »

Bring PM under Lokpal, says Ravi Shankar Prasad

Bring PM under Lokpal, says Ravi Shankar Prasad

New Delhi – The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Tuesday demanded the prime minister should be brought under the Lokpal bill while supporting the anti-graft... read more »

Andhra’s special status to stay without constitut...

Andhra's special status to stay without constitutional amendment

Hyderabad – The central government has decided that constitution’s article 371D will continue in both successor states of Telangana and Andhra... read more »

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Princess Diana’s `fairy-tale` dress set to fetch 80,000 pounds at auction

Princess Diana’s `fairy-tale` dress set to fetch 80,000 pounds at...

Melbourne – Princess Diana’s “most ornate and romantic” ball gown is all set to go under the hammer and is expected to fetch around 80,000 pounds. The shimmery frock, which was designed... read more »

Imran Khan wants CIA's Pak chief charged with `murder` over drone strike

Imran Khan wants CIA’s Pak chief charged wit...

London – Former cricketer Imran Khan’s party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has alleged that the CIA’s most senior officer in Islamabad... read more »

Stop praising Tendulkar, Taliban tells Pakistan media

Stop praising Tendulkar, Taliban tells Pakistan media

Islamabad – The Pakistani media has been warned by the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan to immediately stop praising India’s cricket legend Sachin... read more »

More bodies found in Mexico mass graves

More bodies found in Mexico mass graves

Mexico City – The number of corpses found in clandestine mass graves located in a western Mexico state have increased to 55, authorities said... read more »

Gen Sharif shifted army from India-centric position: Da...

Pak's new army chief Gen Raheel has no presence on Facebook, Twitter

Islamabad – Pakistan’s new army chief General Raheel Sharif is credited with “shifting the army away from its India-centric position”,... read more »

Govt eyes Rs 1.47 lakh cr from 92 coal blocks

Government is targeting a revenue of Rs 1.47 lakh crore from the allotment and auction of 92 coal blocks out of those being given out in the first phase to private as well as public... read more »

Gold Falls by Rs 45 to Rs 27,265 on Sluggish Demand

New Delhi: In a mixed pattern of trading, gold prices declined by Rs 45 to Rs 27,265 per 10 grams at the bullion market on Monday, owing to slackened demand from jewelers at prevailing... read more »

RBI warns of rising tide of NPAs

RBI’s credibility loss: It’s wrong to blame Subbarao alone; UPA is equally res...

The mid-year economic review of the Narendra Modi government has made some strong-worded, direct observations against former RBI governor D Subbarao saying the monetary policy lost... read more »

Six killed in US drone strike in Pakistan

Syria claims downing of Israeli spy drone

The Syrian army has claimed it shot down an Israeli reconnaissance drone flying near the occupied Golan Heights, state media said today. “A military source announced last night that... read more »

U.S. will intervene in South Sudan: Obama

Obama says Sony hack not an act of war

U.S. President Barack Obama moved to prevent U.S. anger at North Korea from spiraling out of control on Sunday by saying the massive hacking of Sony Pictures was not an act of war but instead was... read more »