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Tarun Tejpal Gets 3 Week Break in Trial ...

Tarun Tejpal Gets 3 Week Break in Trial to Collect Documents for his Defenc...

Tehelka founder Tarun Tejpal, who is accused of raping a junior colleague, has three weeks to collect documents and evidence to argue his case. The Supreme Court today directed a trial court to adjourn the case for that period and  asked the Goa police to hand over documents to Mr Tejpal. Mr... read more »

Delhi elections: Kiran Bedi joins BJP; A...

Delhi elections: Kiran Bedi joins BJP; Amit Shah says CM choice only after ...

Moving to meet the AAP challenge in Delhi, the BJP inducted on Thursday former IPS officer-turned-activist Kiran Bedi amid indications that she could be the chief ministerial choice of the party if it were to win the polls. “She will contest the Delhi Assembly elections,” BJP president Amit... read more »

Indian Among 22 Missing After Boat Sinks...

Indian Among 22 Missing After Boat Sinks in China: Media Report

SHANGHAI: More than 20 people were missing today after a tugboat sank on a trial voyage on the Yangtze, China’s longest river, state media and authorities said. The newly built vessel was undergoing testing with 25 people aboard in the eastern province of Jiangsu on Thursday afternoon when... read more »

Pak Court Declares Taliban Chief ‘...

Pak Court Declares Taliban Chief ‘Proclaimed Offender’

Pakistani Taliban chief Mullah Fazlullah and the outfit’s former spokesman Shahidullah Shahid were today declared “proclaimed offenders” by a court here in connection with last year’s deadly assault on Karachi airport. The Karachi Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) declared... read more »

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Police summons to Chaudhury, witnesses in Tejpal case

Police summons to Chaudhury, witnesses in Tejpal case

Panaji – Goa Police Wednesday issued summons to former Tehelka managing editor Shoma Chaudhury and three other key witnesses, seeking their presence in the state for recording of statements in... read more »

Trinamool adheres to government policy on Teesta, says Mamata

Trinamool adheres to government policy on Teesta, ...

Kolkata – Notwithstanding her party’s opposition to the land boundary agreement and Teesta water sharing pact with Bangladesh, West... read more »

Delhi assembly polls: ‘People will remove the cor...

Delhi assembly polls: 'People will remove the corrupt', says Kejriwal

New Delhi- Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday expressed confidence that people will root out corrupt forces from Delhi by exercising... read more »

Delhi assemble election: 48 per cent polling till 3 pm

Delhi assemble election: 48 per cent polling till 3 pm

Amid brisk polling, an estimated 48 per cent of around 1.2 crore voters exercised their franchise till 3 pm in Delhi Assembly election, which is witnessing a... read more »

Centre working for conclusion on Telangana issue: Ghula...

Centre working for conclusion on Telangana issue: Ghulam Nabi Azad

Kolkata- Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Wednesday said the Telangana Bill is at an advanced stage, and added that the government... read more »

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Syrian opposition sets Assad's departure precondition for Geneva talks

Syrian opposition sets Assad’s departure precondition for G...

ISTANBUL – The Syrian National Coalition ( SNC), the main opposition group based in Istanbul, said on Monday that it agreed to join the Geneva II conference on condition that President Bashar... read more »

Philippines declares state of national calamity post Typhoon Haiyan

Philippines declares state of national calamity po...

London – The Philippines has declared a state of national calamity following the devastation caused by the strongest storm on record Typhoon... read more »

Obama was ‘cocaine-using gay hustler’, clai...

Obama was 'cocaine-using gay hustler', claims ex-classmate

Washington – A woman, who claims to have been a classmate of Barack Obama, said that the president was gay and used cocaine in school. In a bizarre... read more »

Kerry says Obama ‘didn’t order all NSA snoo...

Kerry says Obama 'didn't order all NSA snooping'

Sydney – The US Secretary of State John Kerry has reportedly said that President Barack Obama did not order all NSA spying on other countries. During his... read more »

Philippines typhoon death toll climbs to 1,774

Philippines Typhoon Haiyan: Death toll rises to 5,209 in 2 weeks.

Manila – The number of deaths in the Philippines caused by super typhoon Haiyan, locally called Yolanda, rose to 1,774 by Monday night, a government... read more »

Flaunting an AK-47 in Jammu & Kashmir is not ‘shocking’: It’s a sta...

A protective ring by gun-wielding policemen is the new language of power in Kashmir. Flaunting swanky cars as a status symbol is no longer fashionable among the young, the wannabe and those... read more »

Kerry to meet Abbas as new Israeli settlements fan tensions

JERUSALEM: US Secretary of State John Kerry is set for talks on Thursday (Nov 13) with the Palestinian leader on easing regional tensions, after Israel approved new settler homes in east... read more »

What next? Can Fadnavis lead minority govt survive for 5 years with some help from NCP?

Although chief minister Devendra Fadnavis’ minority government passed its first test on the floor of the state Assembly through a controversial voice vote, the question on... read more »

Appetite for jewellery boosts India gold demand: WGC

Indian appetite for gold jumped by more than a third in the last quarter, in sharp contrast to the rest of the world, boosted by jewellery demand for the wedding season, an industry body... read more »

WTO standoff is over: India, US finally end impasse over food sto...

After months of stalemate, Commerce Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that India and US had reached an agreement with regard to public food stock holding and it was expected to help resolve the... read more »