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Tejas Successfully Test Fires Beyond Vis...

Tejas Successfully Test Fires Beyond Visual Range Missile

The test-firing was conducted on a manoeuvrable aerial target at the interim test range in Chandipur in Odisha. NEW DELHI:  Light combat aircraft Tejas today “successfully” test fired an air-to-air missile, paving the way for powering the indigenously-built aircraft with missiles... read more »

EVM tampering: Sad that EC has backed ou...

EVM tampering: Sad that EC has backed out from hackathon, says Arvind Kejri...

Delhi Chief Minister on Friday alleged that the Election Commission (EC) has “backed out of the proposed hackathon” to ascertain the reliability of EVMs and expressed disappointment over the decision of the EC. Delhi Chief Minister on Friday alleged that the Election Commission (EC) has... read more »

Amitabh Bachchan is WHO’s goodwill ambas...

Amitabh Bachchan is WHO’s goodwill ambassador for hepatitis

MUMBAI: To check the spread of the hepatitis epidemic, the World Health Organisation(WHO) on Friday appointed actor Amitabh Bachchan as its goodwill ambassador for hepatitis in the South-East Asia region. The actor (74) was diagnosed with hepatitis B infection during a routine health scan in... read more »

Two killed in Pak shelling along LoC in ...

Two killed in Pak shelling along LoC in Rajouri district

This is third ceasefire violation along Indo-Pak border in J&K in past three days. Two persons were killed and three injured when Pakistani army fired mortar bombs and automatic weapons along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district on Saturday. It is the third... read more »

Former Thai PM Yingluck faces criminal charge, political ban

Ousted Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra will face criminal charges in the Supreme Court and a possible jail term, the Attorney General’s Office said on Friday. The move is... read more »

Efforts on to secure release of hostages: Japanese Minister

Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida said on Friday that Japan was making all efforts for the swift release of two men held captive by the Islamic State but added that there was no... read more »

Emami buys majority stake in Australian firm

Personal and healthcare FMCG company Emami, through its subsidiary Emami International FZE, has acquired controlling stake in Australia-based Fravin Pty Ltd. along with its three... read more »

India poised for 6.5% growth: Jaitley

The economy is set to clock a 6.5 per cent growth next year and then take off to reach 8-9 per cent in the years to come on the back of huge public support for reforms initiated by the... read more »

Oil prices rise after Saudi King’s death

Oil prices rose on the news of the death of Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah Thursday, but the king’s death is not expected to change the course of oil prices over the next several months. The price... read more »