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Dempsey for Pak aid cut; Pentagon says no comment

General Martin Dempsey has said that Senate lawmakers made the right call by voting to trim aid to P...

Pak authorities step up security for Afridi

Pakistani authorities stepped up security in jail for Shakeel Afridi after an intelligence agency re...

‘Amend Constitution to provide reservation to Muslims’

The Andhra Pradesh High Court had quashed the 4.5 per cent reservation for Muslims from the 27 per c...

‘Sympathy factor won`t work for Jagan in bypolls’

The "sympathy factor" would not work for Jagan, arrested in a disproportionate assets case, TDP pres...

Young South African girls forced to marry HIV+ men

Young girls are being forced to “marry” older HIV-positive men because of the myth that having sex w...

Naidu panel issues notices to Odisha govt officials

The Naidu panel has asked secretaries of excise and health departments to file their respective affi...

UP: Maid accuses techie of torture, 2 domestic helps rescued

A software engineer has been arrested on charges of torturing her maid while police have rescued two...

Mermaids may have actually been ‘sea apes’

People usually ascribe sightings of mermaids to sea-weary mariners mistaking large animals like mana...

US cuts aid to Pakistan over Afridi`s conviction

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called the jail term to a Pakistani doctor as unjust and unwar...

Five aid workers kidnapped in Afghanistan

NATO-led forces said they had no information on the kidnapping, while NGOs operating in the area dec...

Assets case: TDP chief wants Jagan arrested

TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu on Monday demanded the arrest of YS Jaganmohan Reddy in connection wit...

TDP will win most seats in AP by-elections: Naidu

The TDP will win majority of the seats in the ensuing bye-elections in Andhra Pradesh on June 12, pa...

Zimbabwean MPs to be circumcised

The idea of a mass circumcision of MPs was first floated by the MDC Deputy PM Thokozani Khupe, who c...

US House passes $643 bn defence bill; defies veto threat

US House of Representatives has passed the USD 643 billion defence authorisation bill for 2013 that ...

CBI raids residence of its former SP

The CBI carried out searches at the residence of one of its former superintendent of police for alle...

US Congress vetoes bill restricting aid to Pak

Members of the US Congress have cast a substantial 335 votes against the Pakistan Terrorism Accounta...

Jharkhand RS polls: CBI raids 15 MLAs` houses

The CBI on Friday conducted fresh raids on the residences of at least 15 MLAs in connection with the...

Strauss-Kahn files countercharge against maid

Dominique Strauss-Kahn is filing a civil lawsuit against former hotel maid who accused him of sexual...

White House opposes conditional aid to Pak

The White House has strongly opposed the conditions on US aid to Pakistan by the powerful House Arme...

Strauss-Kahn files $1 mn suit against NY hotel maid

Shamed former International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has filed a one million...

One killed in clash over plucking of mangoes

The deceased was allegedly beaten to death when he and his brother Ram Mohan clashed with their thre...

Ponty Chada’s `undisclosed` income - Rs 175 cr

Three months after the Income Tax department conducted searches on his businesses, liquor baron Pont...

‘Women must bathe less, shave heads to avoid AIDS’

A Zimbabwean politician has asserted that women should be compelled to bathe less and shave off thei...

Gunmen kill 7 police officers in Nigeria

Suspected Islamic militants on Monday shot dead seven police officers and wounded several others in ...

Egypt security raid Iranian TV station`s offices

Egyptian security officials have raided the offices of an Iranian TV station and confiscated its equ...

IT officials raid relative of Chiranjeevi

Income Tax sleuths have conducted raids at the premises of a relative of actor-politician Chiranjeev...

US house body passes bill to ‘punish’ Pakistan

The bill also prohibits the preferential procurement of goods or services from Pakistan till Islamab...

MP: Assets worth Rs 100 crore found in raids

Madhya Pradesh Lokayukta police on Thursday claimed to have unearthed assets worth over Rs 100 crore...

US panel OKs bill that makes Pak aid conditional

The overwhelming support to the Pakistan provision of the bill showed it had bipartisan support.

MP Lokayukta raids medical health director, junior

The MP Lokayukta on Thursday raided the residences of Medical Health Director Amarnath Mittal and Ju...

US cuts $800 million aid to Pakistan

A Congressional Committee in its budgetary proposals for the year 2013 has prohibited economic and s...

US Bill links Pak aid to terror war cooperation

A Congressional Committee in its budgetary proposals for the year 2013 has prohibited economic and s...

AIDS claimed 175 lives in one year in Punjab

A total of 175 people have succumbed to the dreaded AIDS in Punjab during the year 2011-2012.

Maharashtra CM rushes Delhi to seek central aid

Alarmed by the foodgrain and water scarcity gripping the state at the height of summer, Maharashtra ...

Ramlila crackdown: Review petition dismissed

SC has dismissed a petition filed by the Ramdev-run trust seeking review of its judgement in which i...

TDP to abide by Centre`s decision on Telangana

The Telugu Desam Party has reiterated that it was not against Telangana.

Never met Chidambaram over Telangana: Naidu

Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu has condemned Union Home Minister P Chidambaram`s c...

`Osama offered no resistance to US commandos`

Al Qaeda emir Osama bin Laden all his life boasted that he would ask his bodyguards to shoot him if ...

‘Pak govt, military had a hand in catching Osama’

Defence Minister Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar on Wednesday said Pakistani government and forces "had a han...

Maha to seek central aid to fight drought

Maha CM Prithviraj Chavan said that the govt would demand central aid for tackling the serious situa...

‘Osama planned to change name of al Qaeda’

Osama bin Laden, towards the last phase of his life, had considered to change the name of al-Qaeda b...

US to release few Osama documents: Brennan

US commandos had gathered the documents when they raided Osama`s hideout in Pakistan`s Abbottabad on...

One more Indian held in China prostitution raid

One more Indian trader was detained in China on charges of indulging in prostitution in addition to ...

Goa mining trader raided for illegally stacking iron ore

The Goa government has swooped down on a mining trader who was illegally stacking the ore in the rur...

No need to release Osama’s pictures: US

The US does not plan to release images related to the Osama raid, fearing that this might incite emo...

Pakistan needs $840 mn for rehabilitation: UN

Pakistan needs around $840 million to meet the requirements of 7.2 million people affected by floods...

China`s search engine market reaches $877 mn

The size of China`s search engine market hit 5.53 billion yuan ($877 million) in the first quarter o...

Sudan raids on South leave at least 16 dead: UN

Sudan`s air raids on South Sudan killed at least 16 civilians and wounded 34, UN officials told the ...

`Financier of Qaeda`s Yemen branch killed`

A senior Yemen security official said Wednesday that the financier of Yemen`s Al-Qaeda branch was ki...

NY judge set to decide on Strauss-Kahn

A city judge is expected to rule Friday whether disgraced French politician and former IMF chief Dom...

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