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Urgent need to augment fleet of Coast Gu...

Urgent need to augment fleet of Coast Guard vessels: Parrikar

Stating that the country cannot afford to be complacent on its national security, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar said there is an urgent need to augment the Coast Guard fleet to the sanctioned quota of 184 vessels. Parrikar was speaking on Monday after commissioning four Coast Guard ships ‘ICG... read more »

65-yr-old man arrested for sexually assa...

65-yr-old man arrested for sexually assaulting minor girl in Tamil Nadu

A 65-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a five-year-old girl at Veerappanchatram village in the district, police said. The minor’s parents had gone out when the man allegedly took the girl to his house yesterday and sexually assaulted her. The parents returned a... read more »

Illegal mining case: Janardhan Reddy get...

Illegal mining case: Janardhan Reddy gets conditional bail

After spending three years and four months in Bengaluru’s Parappana Agrahara Prison, mining baron and former Karnataka Minister Gali Janardhan Reddy, accused in the illegal mining case, has been granted conditional bail by Supreme Court on Tuesday. Though the bail has been granted, Reddy had to... read more »

Secret Service Inspects Taj Mahal for Ob...

Secret Service Inspects Taj Mahal for Obama Trip, Agra is Watchful

Barack Obama is the first US president to visit India twice while in office. His three-day visit will include a townhall in Delhi with students among the audience, a private dinner with Prime Minister Narendra Modi at his residence a day -long trip to the Taj Mahal with his wife Michelle. President... read more »

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Mischievous use of social media to foment trouble needs to be checked: Shinde

Threat is not country specific: Shinde

Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Wednesday said the external threat to India was not country specific and it would have to be on alert all the time. “It is not a matter of any specific country... read more »

Meet the man who beat ten inmates at chess

Meet the man who beat ten inmates at chess, blindf...

Melbourne – A chess champion played ten games of chess blindfolded against Cook County jail inmates and won all the games. The chess... read more »

Kerala announces schemes for Saudi Arabia returnees

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Thiruvananthapuram – The Kerala government Wednesday announced a slew of schemes for returnees from Saudi Arabia, including a subsidy in both capital and... read more »

Gandhi for empowerment of village heads in Kashmir

Gandhi for empowerment of village heads in Kashmir

Jammu – In a veiled attack on the National Conference, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi said Wednesday that elected village representatives needed to... read more »

Modi already has NSG cover: R.P.N. Singh

Modi already has NSG cover: R.P.N. Singh

New Delhi – The central government provides security to people as per threat perception and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi already has National... read more »

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Pakistan supports Saudi Arabia rejection of UN seat

Pakistan supports Saudi Arabia rejection of UN seat

Islamabad – Pakistan has supported Saudi Arabia’s rejection of its non-permanent seat in the UN Security Council, praising its call for reform, the foreign ministry said Saturday. Saudi... read more »

5 dead, 38 injured in Beijing car blaze

Chinese company supplies trains to Delhi Metro

Beijing – CSR Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive, a subsidiary of major Chinese train manufacturer, CSR Corporation Ltd., has sold 21 trains to Delhi... read more »

Pak court extends Musharraf’s custody in 2007 Lal...

Pak court extends Musharraf's custody in 2007 Lal Masjid case

Islamabad – A Pakistani court has extended the custody of former President retired General Pervez Musharraf in the 2007 Lal Masjid raid case, banning him... read more »

German spy chiefs to visit US to investigate claims of ...

German spy chiefs to visit US to investigate claims of snooping on Merkel

London – Germany has decided to send its top intelligence chiefs to the US to investigate the claims that Chancellor Angela Merkel’s phone... read more »

More tsunami advisories issued after strong quake hit o...

More tsunami advisories issued after strong quake hit off NE Japan

TOKYO – More tsunami advisories were issued by the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) early Saturday after a 7. 1 magnitude quake hit off Fukushima... read more »

Obama to send 1,500 more troops to Iraq as campaign expands

(Reuters) – President Barack Obama has approved sending up to 1,500 more troops to Iraq, roughly doubling the number of U.S. forces on the ground helping Iraqi and Kurdish forces... read more »

How to avoid emotional fatigue

Stress, a poor diet, or a hormone imbalance, are known factors that play havoc with your mood. But there are subtle contributors that can cause a deeper type of tiredness. It’s call... read more »

Gold, silver at multi-year lows on overseas cues

NEW DELHI: Gold and silver prices slumped to their multi-year lows to trade at Rs 25,800 per 10 grams and Rs 34,900 per kg, respectively in the national capital today amid weak cues from... read more »

US-led air strikes hit Qaida branch in Syria: Monitor

BEIRUT: US-led coalition air strikes hit al-Qaida’s Syrian branch overnight, expanding the raids to jihadists outside the Islamic State group for only the second time, a monitoring... read more »

Hope to make India power surplus by 2019: Piyush Goyal

NEW DELHI: The government is working towards making India a power surplus country by 2019, minister of state for power, coal and renewable energy Piyush Goyal said on Thursday. He said that ensuring... read more »