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Functioning of Local bodies made more liberal

Kerala government on Monday decided to rationalise procedures to speed up plan works undertaken by l...

Shortage of petrol, diesel hits Chennai

An acute shortage of petrol and diesel has gripped Chennai as several petrol bunks went dry on Monda...

Siachen avalanche: Three bodies found

Search teams have found the bodies of two of the 139 people who were buried under dozens of feet of ...

Up to 200 UK soldiers to stay in Afghan after 2014

Up to 200 British special force soldiers could remain deployed in Afghanistan to help combat terrori...

Tamil Nadu: 824 detained in storming operation

More than 800 persons were taken into preventive custody here during a storming operation conducted ...

Over 1,000 bodies found in Delhi this year

Over 1,000 unidentified bodies have been found in the national capital this year.

Italy: Olive tree to be named after Michelle Obama

Michelle Obama has used her high-profile position to educate Americans about the importance of healt...

13,498 people died in AIIMS from 2009-12: Govt

Nearly 13,500 people have died during treatment in All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS) in...

Bihar: 61% votes polled in polls to urban bodies

An estimated 61% votes were on Thursday polled in urban bodies elections in Bihar which passed off p...

TN Assembly adjourned sine die

The Tamil Nadu Assembly was on Wednesday adjourned sine die following the conclusion of the near mon...

Soldier`s wife commits suicide

Divya was found hanging from a ceiling fan at her house by her husband, a soldier posted in Delhi Ca...

Five Iraqi soldiers killed in suicide bombing

Iraqi officials say a suicide bomber who drove an explosives-rigged fuel truck into front gate of an...

Robotic buttocks can tense, twitch and respond to touch

A Japanese scientist has come up with a realistic pair of robotic buttocks, which exhibits some of t...

Bulgarian envoy to Yemen escapes abduction attempt

Bulgarian Ambassador in Yemen, Boris Genadiev Borisov, had a miraculous escape when armed men interc...

Ex-soldier turns 100, gifts hospital to village

Rao Kabool Singh, a World War-II veteran from Rajasthan who has turned 100, Sunday gifted a 15-bedde...

Famous Mandela trial records to be digitised

Google in association with The Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory in March created online digital archi...

Captured US soldier is key in talks with Taliban

Bowe Bergdahl was captured on June 30, 2009, in Paktika province in Afghanistan.

Muslim MPs welcome SC order on Haj subsidies

Muslim Members of Parliament sought an arrangement which will directly benefit the pilgrims and impr...

Delhi government, civic bodies lock horns

Delhi Govt asked civic bodies to focus on better tax collection and financial management to improve ...

Parl panel asks govt to decide on bio-fuel programme

The Planning Commission had set up a committee on development of bio-fuels, which in its report in 2...

Assam ferry disaster: 13 bodies recovered, toll mounts to 122

Rescuers found bodies of 13 victims of Monday`s deadly ferry disaster here pushing the toll to 122 T...

Graves of Muslim soldiers desecrated in France

The graves of several Muslim soldiers in a cemetery in southeastern France were desecrated over the ...

‘Evolve pol consensus to remove social maladies’

CM Parkash Singh Badal asked Union govt to make concerted efforts for a political consensus at the n...

Al Qaeda in Yemen says it frees captured soldiers

The terror network said the freeing of the soldiers followed mediation efforts by tribal elders and ...

Pak students to protest Rushdie books` inclusion

The proposed inclusion of two famous works of author Salman Rushdie at the University of Peshawar ha...

Permission to research on Rushdie`s book condemned

The Society, in a letter to PM, said the book contained objectionable references to the holy Quran a...

Austrian national dies in hotel room

56-year-old Taylor Helmut, staying here since September 19, 2011, was running a hotel in the city.

Inclusion of Rushdie books spark protests at Pak uni

A Pakistani university included Salman Rushdie`s two famous books `Midnight`s Children` and `Shame` ...

Japan astronomers find most distant galaxy cluster

Japanese astronomers said today they had found a cluster of galaxies 12.72 billion light-years away ...

Goa to place lifeguards at inland water bodies

Inland water bodies, including tourist spots, in Goa will soon be manned by trained lifeguards.

US opens `American Corner` in Uttar Pradesh

With an aim to promote American studies in India, an American Corner and American Studies Curriculum...

Delhi govt to give Rs 5326 crore to 3 new civic bodies

Delhi government decided to provide a financial assistance of Rs 5,326 crore to the three new munici...

Doctors going to US for studies to sign bond

The govt said any doctor going to the US for higher studies would have to sign a bond with it before...

Search on for entangled whale off Calif. Coast

Boats and helicopters scoured the Southern California waters Wednesday for a 40-foot gray whale that...

US soldiers found posing with remains of suicide bombers

US troops posed with mangled remains of suspected Taliban suicide bombers in a new macabre incident ...

SC asks UP to reserve seats for local bodies poll

The Supreme Court asked the Uttar Pradesh government to complete the procedure for reserving seats i...

Pak to dig 130-foot tunnel to rescue buried soldiers

Rescuers were focussing on six "priority points" at the army`s battalion headquarters in Gyari.

BJP wins 22, Cong 9 in Guj local bodies by-poll

In by-elections for 32 seats in different local self governing bodies in Guj, BJP won 22 seats while...

Pak avalanche: Rescue ops on; no bodies found yet

Pak soldiers are digging for a second day to find 135 people buried by a massive avalanche that engu...

Australian military faced with another sex scandal

The Australian military is facing another sex scandal just weeks after it handed down wide-ranging r...

Civic Centre to house two municipal bodies

The two municipal corporations of North and South Delhi will operate from the 28-storeyed Civic Cent...

Power hike: Jaya announces subsidies

Under attack for the steep hike in power tariff, Tamil Nadu CM Jayalalithaa announced subsidising pa...

Puducherry Assembly adjourned sine die

Puducherry Assembly adjourned sine die after CM N Rangasamy presented replies to debate on the mot...

Teddy bear-faced robot to help injured soldiers

Scientists have designed a 500-pound teddy bear that is capable of lifting and carrying an injured f...

Ex-Union Minister NKP Salve passes away

Former union minister and ex-BCCI president NKP Salve passed away early Sunday morning at a private ...

`Radical` Pak brigadier planned to bomb GHQ: Rpt

Brig Ali Khan was arrested last year on suspicion of having contacts with the Hizb-ut-Tahrir.

Pawar takes stock ahead of polls to 5 civic bodies

Union Agriculture Minister and NCP chief Sharad Pawar discussed with the party`s senior leaders th...

`Queen Mother was daughter of French cook`

The Queen Mother was the daughter of her aristocratic family’s French cook, who gave birth to her in...

Delhi`s stargazers to watch skies during Earth hour

Stargazers in the capital will Saturday get a chance to observe celestial bodies in a sky free from ...

No foul play in Zimbabwe general`s death: Report

Former Army commander General Solomon Mujuru was burned beyond recognition in a fire at his farmhous...

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