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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has arrived in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan. He was received by Minister of Oil and Gas, Kazakhstan, Sauat Mynbayev and Astana Mayor Imangali Tasmagambetov.Dr Singh will attend a summit-level meeting with Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev in Astana on...
16:40
Iran is building a concrete fence all along its 700-km long border with Pakistan to stop cross-border movements of terrorists, according to the country's defence minister.The three feet thick and 10 feet high fence, built with concrete and fortified by steel rods, will span the impenetrable...
16:21
The Supreme Court-appointed Central Empowered Committee has said that large-scaleillegal mining was on in Karnataka particularly in Bellary district in connivance with officials and public representatives.Special forest bench headed by Chief Justice S H Kapadia issued notice to the state...
16:10
Union Minister and Trinamool Congress leader Mukul Roy, whose son allegedly assaulted an Election Commission team in West Bengal, on Friday met Chief Election Commissioner S Y Quraishi in New Delhi and raised the issue of alleged violence by Communist Party of India-Marxist cadres in Nandigram....
16:09
The Japanese government has ordered the embattled operator of radiation-leaking Fukushima nuclear plant to urgently pay $12,000 in provisional compensation to each of 50,000 affected households near the facility, amid frantic efforts to tackle the atomic crisis.
16:03
A Singapore court has sentenced to death a Malaysian of Indian-origin for drug trafficking, a media report said on Friday. Dinesh Pillai Reja Retnam, 27, carried the drug from Johor in Southern Peninsular Malaysia on a motorcycle via a causeway link to Singapore on December 19 2009, a third run...
15:46
TV reports on Friday claimed that Indian Premier League team Kochi Tuskers Kerala has sought the permission of the IPL governing council whether it could include former Team India captain Saurav Ganguly as a replacement player. The reported development might be a result of Australian player...
15:36
In the backdrop of protests by political parties, Maharashtra government on Friday opened the doors of the sanctum of the famous Mahalaxmi temple in Kolhapur district for women. So far only men were permitted to enter the sanctum and perform 'abhishek' (ritual) in the temple of goddess Ambabai...
15:32
Home Minister P Chidambaram on Friday expressed happiness over the Supreme Court decision to grant bail to rights activist Binayak Sen, who had been convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for sedition by a Chhattisgarh court. I am happy to know that Binayak Sen has got bail from the...
14:15
The Andhra Pradesh government on Friday told the Supreme Court that it would be agreeable to a Central Bureau of Investigation inquiry into the killing of top Naxalite leader Cherukuri Rajkumar alias Azad and journalist Hemchandra Pandey by state police in a gunbattle in July last year. A...
14:03
Pakistani police on Friday claimed to have foiled a terror plot by seizing 204 kg of explosives and arresting three suspected militants in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province in the country's troubled northwest. Police seized the explosives when they intercepted a Peshawar-bound pick-up truck near the...
13:48
A major fire broke out in the densely populated Habba Kadal area in Srinagar in which several houses were gutted, police said. No causality is, however, reported so far, they said. The fire broke out from a house in Habba Kadal and soon engulfed the nearby houses, officials said. So far, three...
13:46
By-election to a Maharashtra legislative council seat, which is expected to pave the way for Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan to get elected to the legislature would now be held on May 4. The bypoll has been advanced by a day in view of the EC deputing the chief electoral officer of Maharashtra...
13:42
Union minister and National Conference president Farooq Abdullah was hospitalised on Friday after suffering a bout of vomiting. 73-year-old Abdullah, Union minister for new and renewable energy, was on his way to Kala Kendra to attend a function in Vikram Chowk area of Jammu, when he suffered a...
13:38
The Supreme Court on Friday directed UK-based telecom major Vodafone to appear before the income tax department which had instructed the company to pay penalty in the $ 2 billion tax case relating to the telecom major's stake purchase in Hutchison-Essar. A three-judge bench headed by Chief...
12:59
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Friday sought detention of five corporate executives chargesheeted by it for their alleged role in the 2G scam, saying that they might abscond and impede the trial. Opposing their bail pleas, the CBI, in its reply to the court of Additional Session Judge...
12:37
The Supreme Court on Friday granted bail to civil rights activist Binayak Sen, sentenced to life imprisonment on charges of sedition and links with Naxalites. Sixty-one-year-old Sen had challenged the order of the Chhattisgarh high court, which had rejected his bail plea on February 10. A...
12:29
Ammunition and explosives were recovered by the security forces near the Line of Control in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said in Jammu on Friday. During a search operation, security forces recovered 37 rounds of AK rifle, 2 AK rifle magazines, one grenade and a radio set...
12:15
A day after activists of Raj Thackeray led-Maharashtra Navniramn Sena targeted 'pani and bhelpuri' vendors in Mumbai for dishing out unhygienic fare, the party on Friday decided to give written complaints to all Brihanmumbai Municipal Commission ward officers seeking strict action against them....
12:09
The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha on Friday announced it will fight Jamshedpur Lok Sabha by-poll, for which the Election Commission has not yet set a date. Our party President Shibu Soren has decided that JMM will field a candidate from Jamshedpur and the party supremo's decision cannot be revoked,...
12:06
Inflation rose to 8.98 per cent in March 2011, from 8.31 per cent in previous month, the latest report from the Central Statistical Organisation stated. However, food inflation declined to 8.28 per cent for the week ended April 2, from 9.18 per cent in the previous week.
11:55
Pakistan plans to hike its defence budget by 18 per cent to Rs 582 billion during the upcoming fiscal year due to inflation and expenses on the war against terrorism, according to a media report. The defence ministry has sent a proposal to the federal government for allocating Rs 582 billion for...
11:51
Two French Muslim men have been detained by law enforcement agencies in Lahore for alleged links with terrorist groups in Pakistan. Sharafuddin, a Pakistani-born French national, and Zohaib Afzal, a French national of Moroccan origin, had arrived in Lahore about two months ago from France,...
11:48
Several parts of Mumbai will on Friday face 30 per cent water cut as two main pipelines, supplying water to the city from Tansa Lake burst near Chinchavli and Bhiwandi areas. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation announced 30 per cent cut in water supply in 18 of the city's 24 wards after two...
11:47
The Malayali community in Kerala on Friday celebrated their summer harvest festival Vishu with traditional fervour and gaiety. In wee hours people woke up at homes to see the 'Vishu Kani', the ceremony of looking at auspicious articles such as rice, gold, the glowing seasonal flower 'konna' and...
11:04
United States President Barack Obama kicked off a massive fundraising campaign for his 2012 reelection bid during a visit to his hometown Chicago. The last two and a half years have obviously been extraordinary, Obama, who was in a light and jovial mood, said at the Democratic National Committee...
10:55
Sathya Sai Baba, who has been undergoing treatment for multi-organ dysfunction, continues to be critical but stable, doctors attending on him said in Puttaparthi on Friday. Sathya Sai Baba continues to be in a stable state of health. Most of his vital systems have shown positive response to the...
10:07
The NATO forces would continue their action in Libya until Muammar Gaddafi is in power and a Libyan future including the strongman is unthinkable, the leaders of France, United States and United Kingdom have said. As long as Gaddafi is in power, NATO must maintain its operations so that...
10:06
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday left for Kazakhstan, completing his three-day stay in Sanya during which he attended the BRICS Summit and held bilateral talks with the presidents of China, Brazil, Russia and South Africa. Singh will be in Kazakh capital Astana for two days during which...
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