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MP Home Minister dismisses call for CBI ...

MP Home Minister dismisses call for CBI enquiry

Madhya Pradesh Home Minister Babulal Gaur on Monday dismissed calls for a CBI enquiry into the deaths of those involved in the Vyapam scam. “One who has come will eventually go. The prisoners die daily because of illness. There is no need for a CBI enquiry,” Gaur said. As per reports,... read more »

HDFC Bank breaches RBI limits on loans t...

HDFC Bank breaches RBI limits on loans to Reliance Industries

Leading private sector lender HDFC Bank has “exceeded” the single-borrower limits prescribed by regulator RBI in case of its credit exposure to corporate giant Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL). The bank, however, said its board of directors approved “the said excess in respect of this... read more »

L&T secures new orders worth Rs 2,0...

L&T secures new orders worth Rs 2,035 crore

Engineering and construction major Larsen & Toubro (L&T) today said it has received orders worth Rs 2,035 crore across various business verticals. “The construction arm of L&T won orders worth Rs 2,035 crore across various business segments in June 2015,” the... read more »

Anthony Anderson cracks ‘whiteR...

Anthony Anderson cracks ‘white’ joke on 2015 BET awards winner ...

If Sam Smith isn’t available to collect his ” Best New Artist” title at the 2015 BET awards, Anthony Anderson will wear his wig and do it for him, but not without a joke. Wearing Smith’s signature look, the 44-year-old actor collected the award on the singer’s behalf,... read more »

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AAP to stake claim

AAP gets positive response to government formation

New Delhi – Aam Aadmi Party Saturday said the response of Delhiites in public meetings was very positive and if things keep on going this way they will definitely form the government in... read more »

Lawmakers question Maharashtra Govt. over Adarsh Housing Scam report rejection

Lawmakers question Maharashtra Govt. over Adarsh H...

New Delhi/Mumbai – Opposition parties flayed the Government of Maharashtra on Saturday for rejecting the report of the Adarsh Housing Society... read more »

U.S must understand the value of partnership and retain...

U.S must understand the value of partnership and retain dignity of Khobragade: Salman Khurshid

New Delhi – Taking a stand on the case of Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade, who was arrested and strip searched in New York last Thursday, External... read more »

Chouhan inducts 23 ministers

Chouhan inducts 23 ministers

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Saturday expanded his ministry with the induction of 19 Cabinet Ministers and four ministers of... read more »

India should have politician as PM, says Jaitley

India should have politician as PM, says Jaitley

New Delhi – In an apparent attack on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, BJP leader Arun Jaitley Saturday said that the country cannot afford to have... read more »

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Thai "red shirts" prepare rally to back PM against protesters

Thai “red shirts” prepare rally to back PM against pr...

Bangkok – The red-shirted supporters of Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said on Wednesday they could take to the streets to protect the government from protesters who have forced her to... read more »

Mandela's body taken to presidential inauguration site

Mandela’s body taken to presidential inaugur...

Pretoria – The body of former South African president and anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela was Wednesday brought back to the Union Buildings... read more »

Nelson Mandela ceremony interpreter was ‘fakeR...

Nelson Mandela ceremony interpreter was 'fake'

The national director of the Deaf Federation of South Africa says a man who provided sign language interpretation on stage for Nelson Mandela’s memorial... read more »

Tears and tributes as Nelson Mandela lies in state

Tears and tributes as Nelson Mandela lies in state

Pretoria – Nelson Mandela’s tearful widow was among scores of family and dignitaries who stopped to pay their last respects before his open casket... read more »

Bomb blast near Kabul airport

Bomb blast near Kabul airport

A car bomb went off on Wednesday near a gate used by NATO troops in the northern section of the Kabul airport, the Afghan Interior Ministry said. The Taliban... read more »

Federer out of Australian Open, beaten by Andreas Seppi

Roger Federer is out of the Australian Open in the third round, beaten by Italian Andreas Seppi 6-4, 7-6 (5), 4-6, 7-6 (5) on Friday. Federer was trying to come from two sets down for the... read more »

South Korean president nominates new prime minister

SEOUL: South Korean President Park Geun-hye has nominated ruling party lawmaker Lee Wan Koo to replace Prime Minister Chung Hong-won nearly 10 months after Chung offered to resign over a... read more »

US officials detail Islamic State kills, but hard part ahead

LONDON: The US and its allies sought to put a good face on the coalition’s deliberate campaign to roll back the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria on Thursday, boasting of having... read more »

Historic move: UK begins transfer of powers to Scotland

LONDON: The British government began a historic transfer of powers to Scotland on Thursday, keeping a pledge it had given to persuade Scots to reject independence as renewed nationalist... read more »

Probe into Neruda’s death to be reopened

Chile will reopen an investigation into the death of Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda to determine if the poet was poisoned more than 40 years ago by a military dictatorship, after tests on his exhumed... read more »