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Reserve Bank warns banks against making ...

Reserve Bank warns banks against making “mockery” of its lendin...

The Reserve Bank of India is getting tougher on extending unlimited credit to the country’s banks to try to ensure they push interest rate cuts through the financial system and to stop them from making what one official called a “mockery” of its operations. India’s... read more »

Jitan Ram Manjhi resigns as Bihar CM, al...

Jitan Ram Manjhi resigns as Bihar CM, alleges he and his MLAs got death thr...

Bihar chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi resigned on Friday ahead of a crucial trust vote in the assembly in which he was expected to face a certain defeat. Manjhi met governor Keshari Nath Tripathi  an hour before the start of assembly proceedings and tendered his resignation. Later addressing a... read more »

Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal meets disabled ...

Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal meets disabled at janta darbar

Physically disabled people were given preference on the second day of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s Janata Darbar at the Aam Aadmi Party’s Kaushambi office in Ghaziabad that lasted more than an hour on Thursday. A three-tier security ring was thrown around the CM during the... read more »

CBI files final report in coal block cas...

CBI files final report in coal block case

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Thursday filed its final report with the statements of a witness recorded during the probe in a coal block allocation case allegedly involving industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla and others. The CBI filed the statement in a sealed cover before special Judge... read more »

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Sushma Swaraj insists Congress backing Tejpal

Sushma Swaraj insists Congress backing Tejpal

New Delhi – A day after Law Minister Kapil Sibal blamed BJP leader Sushma Swaraj for drawing h! is name into the Tarun Tejpal controversy, the Leader of Opposition in ! the Lok Sabha Thursday... read more »

Tejpal withdraws bail plea in HC to move “appropriate” court

Tejpal withdraws anticipatory bail plea from Delhi...

In a change of strategy, Tarun Tejpal, accused of sexual assault against a woman colleague, on Thursday withdrew his bail plea in the Delhi High... read more »

Abu Salem gets seven-year jail in fake passport case

Abu Salem gets seven-year jail in fake passport case

Hyderabad – A special court here Thursday sent! enced gangster Abu Salem to seven years in jail in the 2001 fake passport case. The Central Bureau of... read more »

Modi takes on Gehlot, says Rajasthan Govt. missing in a...

Modi takes on Gehlot, says Rajasthan Govt. missing in action

Sikar (Rajasthan) – Lashing out at the Ashok Gehlot-led Government for failing to do or achieve anything in Rajasthan, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) prime... read more »

After Sonia poser, Modi hits back

After Sonia poser, Modi hits back

Sikar (Rajasthan) – BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi Thursday targeted Congress p! resident Sonia Gandhi, asking voters not to be... read more »

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Biden, Kerry seek delaying fresh sanctions on Iran

Biden, Kerry seek delaying fresh sanctions on Iran

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State John Kerry have requested lawmakers to delay imposing any fresh sanction on Iran and give some more time to the negotiations that the six-nation... read more »

22 killed in Iraq attacks

22 killed in Iraq attacks

Baghdad – At least 22 people were killed and 58 others wounded Wednesday in separate bomb attacks in Iraq, including bombings that targeted... read more »

Rift in ISI-Haqqani network?

Rift in ISI-Haqqani network?

Islamabad – The killing of senior Haqqani network leader Naseeruddin Haqqani has fuelled talks of a rift between Pakistan’s spy agency... read more »

No stability in Egypt unless coup is reversed: Morsy

No stability in Egypt unless coup is reversed: Morsy

Egypt’s ousted President Mohamed Morsy accused the military chief who deposed him of treason in a message from prison read by lawyers on Wednesday, saying... read more »

Al Shabaab confirms members killed in Kenya mall attack

Al Shabaab confirms members killed in Kenya mall attack

Mogadishu – Islamist group Al Shabaab has said its fighters who attacked the Westgate sho! pping mall in Kenya’s capital Nairobi in September were... read more »

Gold, silver prices rise on brisk buying, global cues

NEW DELHI: Any revision in gold import duty is unlikely to take place before the Budget and there is no proposal as of now to reduce the 10 per duty, a finance ministry official... read more »

Putin denies forcing Ukraine on EU integration decision

Russia’s Putin calls for Russians to be self-reliant

Speaking to both chambers in the Kremlin, Mr Putin condemned Western governments for seeking to raise a new iron curtain around Russia. Russia has been hard-hit by falling oil prices and by... read more »

It’s official: Sena will join Maharashtra govt on Friday, says CM Fadnavis

Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Thursday announced that the Shiv Sena would be a part of the BJP-led government, and announced that 12 legislators will be inducted... read more »

Protests After Grand Jury in Eric Garner Chokehold Case Doesn’t Indict Officer

A Staten Island grand jury on Wednesday ended the criminal case against a white New York police officer whose chokehold on an unarmed black man led to the man’s death, a decision that... read more »

Hong Kong student leaders mull protest retreat

Members of the Hong Kong Federation of Students said on Thursday that they’re mulling whether to stay or go, with spokeswoman Yvonne Leung telling a local radio station that the group hopes to come... read more »