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13 girls in hospital after midday meal 19 Jul 2013 - 03:33 am

Chennai: Around 155 girl students fell ill yesterday after taking a midday meal at their school in Neyveli in Tamil Nadu, a senior...

Four protesters killed in Kashmir; doctor shot at 19 Jul 2013 - 03:33 am

Srinagar: At least four people were killed and about two dozen injured in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ramban district yesterday when security forces opened...

Hemant Soren wins confidence vote 19 Jul 2013 - 03:33 am

Ranchi: Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren yesterday won a crucial trust vote with 43 legislators voting in favour of the government in the...

Apex court restricts acid sale after attacks 19 Jul 2013 - 03:33 am

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that authorities must regulate the sale of acid used in a spate of attacks on women...

Trinamool slammed for inciting violence 19 Jul 2013 - 03:33 am

Kolkata: A day after a ruling Trinamool Congress leader stirred up controversy by exhorting his party workers to hurl bombs at police and...

SC: No common medical test 19 Jul 2013 - 03:32 am

New Delhi: The Supreme Court yesterday set aside a Medical Council of India notification mandating a common National Entrance Eligibility Test (NEET) for...

Dikshit not to take witness box 19 Jul 2013 - 03:32 am

New Delhi: A fast track court hearing the December 16 gang rape case yesterday dismissed the plea of an accused to make Delhi...

Iftar gathering 19 Jul 2013 - 03:31 am

Men break their fast during Ramadan at the Hazrat-e-Ali shrine in Mazar-i-Sharif in northern Afghanistan.

US aid to boost role of Afghan women 19 Jul 2013 - 03:30 am

WASHINGTON: The US is launching a $200m programme to boost the role of women in Afghan society, a figure that could double with...

22 of family poisoned in Pakistan ‘political feud’; cook arrested 19 Jul 2013 - 03:30 am

MULTAN: Police in Pakistan have arrested a cook on suspicion of murder after 22 members of a powerful landowning clan were poisoned in...

Rebels kill eight workers 19 Jul 2013 - 03:30 am

PULI ALAM: Taliban gunmen yesterday shot dead eight Afghan civilians on their way to jobs at a US military base south of Kabul,...

Foreign currency account holders in spot 19 Jul 2013 - 03:30 am

KARACHI: Foreign currency account holders in Pakistan are facing problems to access their holdings in private banks. They are told to return after...

Two Pakistani soldiers killed near Afghan border 19 Jul 2013 - 03:29 am

KHAR: Gunmen ambushed a vehicle carrying government paramilitary forces in a restive Pakistani tribal region near the Afghan border yesterday, killing two soldiers,...

Pakistan Taliban’s letter to Malala ‘propaganda gimmick’ 19 Jul 2013 - 03:29 am

PESHAWAR: A Pakistani Taliban letter to Malala Yousafzai, the teenage education activist shot by the militants, was a bid to strike back in...

Sharif meets British official 19 Jul 2013 - 03:28 am

Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif met British Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Secretary William Hague in Islamabad and discussed relations, peace in Afghanistan...

Iftar preparation 19 Jul 2013 - 03:27 am

Muslims cook ‘lemang’, a typical Indonesian food of sticky rice, in a bamboo in Jakarta for iftar yesterday.

N Korea asks Panama to free cargo ship 19 Jul 2013 - 03:27 am

SEOUL: North Korea has broken its silence over a ship’s cargo of arms seized in a dramatic raid by Panama, demanding the vessel’s...

Abe playing ‘dangerous politics’ 19 Jul 2013 - 03:26 am

BEIJING: Two of China’s top newspapers accused Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe yesterday of dangerous politics that could threaten regional security, as Tokyo...