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Dance challenge 27 Oct 2013 - 01:05 am

Physically challenged dancers of the Ability Unlimited Foundation (AUF) perform Bharatanatyam on wheelchairs, a classical Indian dance, at an event in Bangalore. AUF...

Cop told Rahul about ISI link, says Modi 27 Oct 2013 - 01:04 am

Jaipur: BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi yesterday claimed a Rajasthan police officer, who wanted to contest elections, had given Congress vice-president Rahul...

Food minister accuses onion traders of cheating buyers 27 Oct 2013 - 01:03 am

NEW DELHI: India’s ruling Congress government has accused traders of cheating consumers as it struggles to reduce the cost of the vegetable known...

Three Pakistani drug smugglers shot dead while crossing border 27 Oct 2013 - 01:02 am

AMRITSAR: Border troops shot dead three Pakistani smugglers carrying drugs worth millions of dollars as they sought to sneak into India through the...

Odisha cyclone death toll rises to 60 27 Oct 2013 - 01:01 am

Policemen pull a boat through a water-logged street while ferrying residents to a safer place in Kolkata yesterday. Bhubaneswar: Authorities yesterday confirmed seven...

Heavy rains throw life out of gear in Bengal 27 Oct 2013 - 01:01 am

Kolkata: Three people including a father and son were killed in house collapses yesterday following heavy overnight rain that lashed the southern districts...

Seven dead in Andhra floods 27 Oct 2013 - 01:00 am

Hyderabad: Seven more people died as heavy rain continued in coastal Andhra Pradesh for the fifth day yesterday. The death toll in the...

Bank official slit husband’s throat before hanging herself 27 Oct 2013 - 12:59 am

New Delhi: The post-mortem report on a government official and his wife found killed in their home revealed she killed him before committing...

Lashkar-e-Taiba leader killed in Kashmir 27 Oct 2013 - 12:59 am

Srinagar: The “district commander” of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) was killed in a gunfight with security forces yesterday in Jammu and Kashmir’s Shopian district, police...

Car bomb kills two soldiers in Quetta 27 Oct 2013 - 12:49 am

Security officials check vehicles after a bomb blast targeted a Frontier Corps vehicle, at Lac pass tunnel in Balochistan province, Pakistan, yesterday. QUETTA:...

Pakistan asks UN to help halt drone strikes 27 Oct 2013 - 12:49 am

UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan has renewed demands for an end to US drone strikes on its territory as two UN experts called for greater...

Gunfight pits Afghans against foreign soldiers, one dead 27 Oct 2013 - 12:48 am

KABUL: A gunfight broke out between Afghan and foreign soldiers on the outskirts of the capital Kabul yesterday, killing at least one Afghan...

National Accountability Bureau urged to speed up railway corruption cases 27 Oct 2013 - 12:48 am

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Federal Minister for Railways Khawaja Saad Rafique met National Accountability Bureau chief Qamar Zaman Chaudhry yesterday to seek early disposal of...

Panel prepares tentative schedule for local elections 27 Oct 2013 - 12:48 am

ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan has prepared a tentative schedule for local government elections across the country but is not sure if...

Amendments to strengthen role of MPs 27 Oct 2013 - 12:47 am

ISLAMABAD: A proposal for tabling the 21st Amendment to Pakistan’s Constitution is being considered to give greater purpose and meaning to the role...

Rare talks to defuse Bangla crisis 27 Oct 2013 - 12:46 am

A bus burns as police try to regain control of a street in Dhaka on Friday. At least three people were killed when...

Japan, Pacific leaders to hold summit near Fukushima 27 Oct 2013 - 12:46 am

TOKYO: Top leaders from Japan and Pacific island nations will hold a summit in a city near the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant...

Small tsunami hits Tokyo after undersea quake 27 Oct 2013 - 12:45 am

TOKYO: A small tsunami hit Japan yesterday after a powerful and shallow undersea quake, although there were no immediate signs of serious damage...