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Bengaluru, Hyderabad bear the brunt of h...

Bengaluru, Hyderabad bear the brunt of heavy October downpour, civic servic...

The monsoon has caused much havoc in parts of southern India even at the fag end of the season. The regions which bore the brunt this time were the cities of Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Mysuru and nearby areas. Bengaluru on Thursday witnessed 65 mm rainfall, which was the highest rainfall in a day in the... read more »

Pakistan warns India against targeting i...

Pakistan warns India against targeting its nuclear installations.

WASHINGTON: Pakistan Foreign Minister Khawaja Mohammad Asif has warned that if India launched a surgical strike on the countrys nuclear installations, nobody should expect restraint from Islamabad either, the media reported on Friday. Asif’s made the remarks on Thursday in response to Indian... read more »

GST Council meet today: Narendra Modi ne...

GST Council meet today: Narendra Modi needs to save small units, not let ri...

Small companies are feeling the heat of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) rollout. And, this adds to the pain faced by the economy at this juncture. The simple reason is that millions of tiny entrepreneurs, commonly known as micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), are a major employer in the... read more »

Sir Edward Heath ‘would have been ...

Sir Edward Heath ‘would have been questioned’ over abuse claims...

Sir Edward Heath would have been questioned over sex abuse claims if he was alive when they came to light, police have said. Wiltshire Police launched Operation Conifer two years ago after the former Conservative prime minister was accused of historical child sex abuse. He would have been... read more »

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No alliance with Congress or BJP, says Karunanidhi

No alliance with Congress or BJP, says Karunanidhi

Chennai – DMK president M. Karunanidhi Friday clarified that he had announced at the party’s general council meeting that they will not align with the Congress or Bharatiya Janta Party... read more »

India, US will come to logical conclusion: Salman Khurshid

India, US will come to logical conclusion: Salman ...

New Delhi – External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid Friday said he is in touch with his US counterpart and would come to “a logical... read more »

India finally flies indigenous fighter jet

India finally flies indigenous fighter jet

By Prashant Sood Bangalore – Thirty years after it was conceived, India’s indigenous light combat aircraft Tejas – the lightest military jet... read more »

Hotel Taj ‘disappointed’ at 26/11 compensat...

Hotel Taj 'disappointed' at 26/11 compensation case in Britain

Mumbai – The Indian Hotels Co. Ltd expressed “disappointment” over a London High Court ruling that a victim of the 26/11 terror attacks in... read more »

Maharashtra Cabinet rejects Adarsh Commission report

Maharashtra Cabinet rejects Adarsh Commission report

Nagpur – The Maharashtra cabinet today rejected the report of a judicial commission on the Adarsh housing scam. The government was expected to table the... read more »

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Desmond Tutu to attend Mandela's funeral

Desmond Tutu to attend Mandela’s funeral

London – South Africa’s Nobel peace laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu will attend the funeral of anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela Sunday. “Tutu will be travelling to Qunu early... read more »

Air defence zone remarks: China refutes Japanese PM

Air defence zone remarks: China refutes Japanese P...

Beijing – Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Hong Lei has strongly refuted Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s recent remarks on... read more »

Experts gather in Cyprus to remove Syria’s chemic...

Experts gather in Cyprus to remove Syria's chemical weapons

Nicosia – A joint Danish and Norwegian task force of chemical specialists is being set up in Cyprus in preparation for the removal of chemical weapons... read more »

Egypt president sets date for referendum

Egypt president sets date for referendum

Egypt will hold a public referendum on its newly-drafted constitution on January 14 and 15, interim President Adly Mansour said on Saturday. The vote will be... read more »

Ex-army chief to testify in Mubarak retrial

Ex-army chief to testify in Mubarak retrial

Cairo – Egypt’s former army chief and defence minister Hussein Tantawi appeared in Cairo Criminal Court Saturday ! for testimony in the retrial of... read more »

Third round of coal auction takes off; JSPL, others in race

The third phase of coal auction started on Tuesday, with companies such as Jindal Steel and Power (JSPL) and Godawari Natural Resources queuing up for the two mines on offer on Day... read more »

AirAsia India unveils Rs 990 flight offer; Rs 3,699 sale for international travel also ann...

AirAsia India offer says all-in-fares have been slashed to as low as Rs 990 to celebrate the group having achieved the 300 mn passengers flown mark – the AirAsia Group reached the mark... read more »

Xiaomi ties up with Foxconn in India, unveils Redmi2 Prime as first locally made smartphon...

Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi Inc has tied up with Taiwan’s Foxconn to start assembling phones in India – its first such move in the world’s third largest smartphone... read more »

The rise and rise of Google’s new CEO Sundar Pichai

Many of the people who use Google’s ubiquitous Chrome browser and Android mobile software may have never heard of Sundar Pichai, named the new CEO of the search giant. He is a decidedly... read more »

20,000 kgs of Maggi seized from a Nestle warehouse in Lucknow

Lucknow: In more trouble for Maggi, the Uttar Pradesh Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has seized 20,000 kgs of the two minute noodles from a Nestle warehouse in Lucknow. Earlier in 2015, food... read more »