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Telugu cinema icon Nageswara Rao is dead 23 Jan 2014 - 12:28 am

Hyderabad: Telugu cinema icon Akkineni Nageswara Rao (pictured) died yesterday at the age of 89, plunging the Telugu film industry into gloom. His...

Six snow leopards to be tracked by GPS 23 Jan 2014 - 12:27 am

SHIMLA: Six snow leopards in the icy state of Himachal Pradesh will be fitted with satellite-linked collars in a project aimed at deepening...

Flower market 23 Jan 2014 - 12:26 am

Vendors at the Mallick Ghat flower market in Kolkata yesterday. More than 10,000 flower sellers come every day to the market and sell...

Protest against Essar Group 23 Jan 2014 - 12:25 am

Greenpeace activists hang a giant banner on Essar Group headquarters during a protest in Mumbai yesterday. The activists demanded Essar to drop plans...

Kerala: 12 guilty in Chandrasekheran murder case 23 Jan 2014 - 12:23 am

Kozhikode: The special additional sessions court here yesterday found 12 people, including three CPI-M leaders, guilty in the T P Chandrasekheran murder case....

BJP is ahead in four states: LS poll survey 23 Jan 2014 - 12:23 am

New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is likely to garner the maximum vote share in the Gujarat, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh...

Khurshid and Kerry discuss diplomat case 23 Jan 2014 - 12:23 am

New Delhi: External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid and US Secretary of State John Kerry held bilateral talks yesterday on the sidelines of the...

AAP membership crosses 50 lakh 23 Jan 2014 - 12:23 am

New Delhi: More than 50 lakh people from all over India have joined the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) till now, senior party leader...

Reddy opposes Telangana bill in assembly 23 Jan 2014 - 12:22 am

Hyderabad: Strongly opposing the bill for bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh, Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy yesterday said that it was his misfortune...

Congress rules out Tharoor’s resignation 23 Jan 2014 - 12:22 am

New Delhi: The Congress yesterday ruled out any possibility of union minister Shashi Tharoor resigning from the government in wake of the death...

Currency notes issued before 2005 to be withdrawn: RBI 23 Jan 2014 - 12:22 am

Mumbai: Currency notes issued before 2005 will be completely withdrawn from circulation by the end of the current financial year ending March 31,...

Before a bullet leaves the gun barrel 23 Jan 2014 - 12:07 am

After about a year of peaceful protests in Al Anbar province, the Prime Minister of Iraq, Nouri Al Maliki, has sent army troops...

Has Human Resources Law been frozen? 23 Jan 2014 - 12:06 am

Most Qatari employees are concentrated in the public sector. They rarely practise commercial activities and this shows what matters to them is the...

The Cabinet and its role to follow up 23 Jan 2014 - 12:05 am

The corridors and offices of some state institutions are home to some negative practices by some civil servants and officials. This requires effective...

7 die in polio van attack 22 Jan 2014 - 11:01 pm

A rescue services official searches a police vehicle after a bomb attack in Sir Dheri, some 30km north of the main northwestern city...

Jobless 22 Jan 2014 - 11:00 pm

Two women walk on the outskirts of Herat in search of work yesterday. Some nine million Afghans or 36 percent of the population...

Pakistan rejects $33m US deal over Dr Afridi 22 Jan 2014 - 11:00 pm

ISLAMABAD: Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in the cabinet meeting reportedly rejected the US bill linking $33m aid to the release of Dr...

10,000 troops or none in Afghanistan: US 22 Jan 2014 - 10:59 pm

WASHINGTON: Military leaders have proposed keeping 10,000 troops in Afghanistan after Nato’s combat mission ends in December -- or else pull out all...