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Cricket World Cup launched with quirky o...

Cricket World Cup launched with quirky opening ceremony

Children mingled with cricketing greats in “backyard” matches and Maori warriors shared the stage with morris dancers as the Cricket World Cup opened today with a vibrant and quirky ceremony in Christchurch. Thousands of fans crammed leafy Hagley Park to see the launch of the first World Cup in... read more »

Sachin has faith on Indian team

Sachin has faith on Indian team

News Details :  In his interview regarding the new Worldcup season Sachin Tendulkar the cricket god of India said all his experiences and favourites for world cup. Uncovering an obscure passionate side to his identity, resigned batting legend Sachin Tendulkar reviewed how “happy... read more »

Gold demand up 2% in Dec quarter, down 1...

Gold demand up 2% in Dec quarter, down 15% in 2014

MUMBAI, FEB 12: Gold demand in the December quarter was up two per cent at 223 tonnes, largely due to pent up demand from jewellers during the festival season on the back of drop in prices. In value terms it was down four per cent at Rs 53,343 crore. Jewellery demand in the quarter under review was... read more »

Reliance Capital Q3 net profit rises 28%...

Reliance Capital Q3 net profit rises 28% at Rs 213 crore

Financial services major, Reliance Capital today reported 28 per cent rise in its third quarter net profit at Rs 213 crore on robust growth in insurance and mutual fund businesses. The total income for the quarter ended December 2014 rose 11 per cent to Rs 2,105 crore. The company said the... read more »

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Can't forget this day: B'town on Dec 16 gang rape

Can’t forget this day: B’town on Dec 16 gang rape

Mumbai – A year since the brutal gang rape of a 23-year-old trainee physiotherapist in the capital city, Bollywood celebrities like Gauri Shinde and Mallika Sherawat said days like this... read more »

Rape cases doubled in Delhi post Dec 16

Rape cases doubled in Delhi post Dec 16

New Delhi – The number of reported rape cases has doubled! and sexual assault cases increased fourfold in the national capital after the Dec... read more »

Telangana bill tabled, lawmakers clash

Telangana bill tabled, lawmakers clash

Hyderabad – The bill for bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh was Monday tabled in the assembly amid unprecedented acrimony, as legislators of Seemandhra and... read more »

Passing Lokpal bill top priority for us: Kamal Nath

Passing Lokpal bill top priority for us: Kamal Nath

New Delhi – The anti-corruption Lokpal bill is top pr! iority for the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) and, if needed, the government will extend... read more »

Congress declare Rahul Gandhi its PM candidate on Jan 1...

Congress declare Rahul Gandhi its PM candidate on Jan 17: Report

In a bid to revive party’s fortunes after its debacle in Assembly polls conducted in four out of five major states, Congress is expected to declare Rahul... read more »

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German coalition agreement emerging

German coalition agreement emerging

Berlin – Germany’s two main parties agreed on various issues in their final round of coalition talks Tuesday night, sending a signal that an agreement for forming Germany’s new... read more »

Coalition deal reached in Germany

Coalition deal reached in Germany

Leaders of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative-led bloc and the Centre-Left Social Democratic Party reached a coalition agreement early... read more »

UN rights committee adopts anti-spying resolution

Probe human rights abuses in Cote d'Ivoire: UN

United Nations – A UN rights committee Tuesday passed a “right to privacy” resolution drafted by Germany and Brazil, which have led... read more »

US bombers defy China’s air-defence zone

US bombers defy China's air-defence zone

Washington – Two US B-52 bombers defied China’s new air-defence zone over the East China Sea, flying directly into the demarcated zone without... read more »

No confirmation on invitees for Syria conference: UN

No confirmation on invitees for Syria conference: UN

United Nations – The UN has said that there has been no confirmation on any invitees for the international conference on Syria, scheduled to begin in... read more »

LIVE: Army seizes Pak-made arms, food packets from slain terrorists

Taking a jibe at PDP leader Mehbooba Mufti over her statement blaming the media for yesterday’s terror attacks, Bharatiya Janata Party leader Subramanian Swamy today said the high... read more »

Obama fell prey to Indian propaganda, says Hafiz Saeed

Pak support for Hafiz Saeed nothing short of mainstreaming terrorism: India

New Delhi: Lashing out strongly, India on Friday said Pakistan’s support to UN-designated terrorist and Mumbai terror attacks mastermind Hafiz Saeed and his proscribed Jamaat-ud-Dawah... read more »

Rahul Gandhi attacks PM Narendra Modi’s style of functioning

Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s style of functioning, saying that he wants complete power in his hands. “Prime Ministerji has a different... read more »

Partial success, but principles more important: AAP on compromise deal

AAP wooing Dalit voters in Delhi? Party’s SC/ST wing launched

As Delhi is inching closer to Assembly polls, the Aam Aadmi Party is leaving no stones unturned to woo as many voters as possible to come back to power in the capital state. AAP’s... read more »

Punjab horror: 60 patients lose eyesight after cataract operation...

Amritsar: At least 60 persons have lost their eyesight after an operation at an eye camp organised by an NGO in Gurdaspur district, civil and medical authorities said on Thursday. While 16 persons... read more »