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PM Modi to visit Varanasi on July 16

PM Modi to visit Varanasi on July 16

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Varanasi on July 16, after he had to cancel an earlier trip here due to adverse weather conditions. Prime Minister Modi had on June 28 cancelled his plan to address ‘Vikas Sabha’ in his parliamentary constituency after heavy downpour led to water... read more »

KCR writes to PM Modi, calls for Jwala G...

KCR writes to PM Modi, calls for Jwala Gutta to be included in TOP scheme

Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao, also known as KCR, wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday, urging him to include the names of top shuttler Jwala Gutta and her doubles partner, Ashwini Ponnappa in the ‘Target Olympic Podium’ (TOP) scheme. As you are aware,... read more »

Dulat’s revelations: IC-814 was Va...

Dulat’s revelations: IC-814 was Vajpayee’s fault, but what woul...

It is India’s great fortune that we have not had a repeat of IC-814 incident. Had another plane been hijacked under similar circumstances, we would have known how much of “we-don’t-negotiate” bombast of the current politicians survived public pressure. So, the Congress can... read more »

Missing UK schoolgirls, who fled Britain...

Missing UK schoolgirls, who fled Britain to join Islamic State, seen in Syr...

A video footage, believed to be of the Bethnal Green schoolgirls, giving glimpse of their life in Syria has surfaced months after they fled Britain to join the Islamic State. In the video footage, accessed by the Daily Telegraph, two out of the three British schoolgirls are seen shopping for... read more »

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India's growth momentum will revive, says PM Manmohan Singh

PM lays foundation stone of Punjab cancer hospital

Chandigarh – Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Monday laid the foundation stone of a Rs.450-crore cancer hospital in Mullanpur of Mohali district in Punjab, 20 km from here, that will be run on the... read more »

DJB officials meet Kejriwal

DJB officials meet Kejriwal

Ghaziabad – Delhi Jal Board officials were holding discussions with Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal at his residence on supplying free-of-charge... read more »

AAP govt. of Delhi to give Rs.1 crore to killed constab...

AAP govt. of Delhi to give Rs.1 crore to killed constable's family

New Delhi – The Delhi government Monday announced Rs. 1 crore compensation to the family of the 48-year-old excise department constable, who died after... read more »

Jaitley accuses Virbhadra Singh of corruption, writes t...

Jaitley accuses Virbhadra Singh of corruption, writes to PM

New Delhi – BJP leader Arun Jaitley Monday alleged that there was an “open and shut case of corruption” against Himachal Pradesh Chief... read more »

Gold imports curbs should continue: Chidambaram

Govt mulls strengthening regulatory coordination panel: Chidambaram

Notwithstanding the likelihood of the current account deficit (CAD) narrowing to less than $50 billion, Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Monday made a case... read more »

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Al Qaeda militants kill over 100 Syrians near Damascus

Al Qaeda militants kill over 100 Syrians near Damascus

Damascus – Radical rebels from the Al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front have massacred more than 100 people in a suburb of the capital Damascus, the country’s foreign ministry said Monday. In a... read more »

Russia deploys missiles along borders with NATO countries

Russia deploys missiles along borders with NATO co...

Moscow – Russia confirmed Monday that it has deployed its tactical Iskander-M missiles along the borders with NATO countries, insisting the... read more »

$13 bn needed in 2014 for humanitarian aid, says UN

$13 bn needed in 2014 for humanitarian aid, says UN

Geneva – The United Nati! ons and humanitarian partners Monday appealed for some $13 billion in 2014 to help millions of people in humanitarian need... read more »

Israel fires into Lebanon in retaliation

Israel fires into Lebanon in retaliation

The Israeli army has said it fired across the Lebanese border in retaliation after accusing Lebanese troops of gunning down one of its soldiers as he drove... read more »

Iraqi forces free hostages in city council

Iraqi forces free hostages in city council

Baghdad – Iraqi security forces Monday freed the hostages held by gunmen who stormed the city council of Tikrit in the north. Six people were killed,... read more »

New York Times media columnist David Carr dies at 58

Media columnist David Carr, who wrote the Media Equation column for The New York Times and penned a memoir about his fight with drug addiction, collapsed at his office and died on Thursday.... read more »

Bengaluru-Ernakulam train derails; 11 killed, more than 60 injured

Anekal: At least 11 passengers were on Friday killed and over 60 injured, some of them critically, when an express train bound for Ernakulam in Kerala from Bengaluru derailed near Anekal,... read more »

Sri Lanka to secure delay of UN war crimes report

Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera said on Thursday he was optimistic about securing a delay in the release of a UN report on alleged war crimes during his country’s... read more »

South Korean airline boss’ daughter imprisoned for one year in ‘nut row’

The daughter of a South Korean national airline’s boss has been imprisoned for a period of one year for hampering aviation safety as she forced a plane to return to the New York gate... read more »

US officer who assaulted Indian grandfather arrested; FBI to prob...

Washington: An Alabama policeman, who allegedly assaulted a 57-year-old Gujarati man, has been arrested, six days after the brutal accident sent shockwaves among the Indian community. In another... read more »