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Trinamool MP was only a Saradha Group employee: Mamata 23 Apr 2013 - 03:51 am

Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee yesterday tried to defend a party MP who headed the media operations of the chit fund-funded...

Advani accused of taking bribe 23 Apr 2013 - 03:51 am

Bangalore: BJP leader L K Advani had taken money from erstwhile Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa to allow him to remain in...

Akhilesh calls for third front 23 Apr 2013 - 03:51 am

Chennai: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav yesterday called for a third front at the national level as the Congress and the Bharatiya...

Modi may meet Cardinal in Kerala 23 Apr 2013 - 03:51 am

Thiruvananthapuram: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s proposed visit here has already kicked up a row in Kerala, but it could become more “colourful”...

Former chief justice J S Verma dead 23 Apr 2013 - 03:50 am

New Delhi: Justice J S Verma, who headed the panel which suggested changes to the anti-rape laws in the aftermath of the December...

Shinde pitches for NCTC post-Bangalore blast 23 Apr 2013 - 03:31 am

New Delhi: Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde yesterday said there was a need to strengthen the intelligence set-up of states and quickly put in...

Supreme Court defers ruling on Italian Marines 23 Apr 2013 - 03:31 am

New Delhi: The Supreme Court will pronounce on Thursday its order on the Italian government’s plea against the invoking of a stringent act...

SFI activists held for heckling Mamata 23 Apr 2013 - 03:31 am

New Delhi: Six activists of the SFI were arrested yesterday for heckling West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and state Finance Minister Amit...

Afghan Taliban hold foreigners from helicopter 23 Apr 2013 - 03:29 am

A man sells weapons in Kabul, yesterday. PULI ALAM: Afghanistan’s Taliban insurgents have seized 11 civilians including eight Turks after their helicopter was...

Afghan girls’ school feared hit by poison gas 23 Apr 2013 - 03:28 am

Schoolgirls who fell ill after smelling gas at their school receive treatment at a hospital in Takhar province, Afghanistan. TALUQAN: As many as...

Govt refuses to try Musharraf for treason 23 Apr 2013 - 03:27 am

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s caretaker government yesterday refused to put former military ruler Pervez Musharraf on trial for treason, telling the Supreme Court that it...

Ahmadis to boycott Pakistan election: Spokesperson 23 Apr 2013 - 03:27 am

LAHORE: Some 200,000 members of Pakistan’s minority Ahmadi community will boycott next month’s election in protest at their treatment by the authorities. Ahmadis,...

Kerry to host Afghan-Pakistani talks 23 Apr 2013 - 03:26 am

BRUSSELS/KABUL: US Secretary of State John Kerry will host talks between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and senior Pakistan officials in Brussels tomorrow, officials...

Court lets ex-PM contest polls 23 Apr 2013 - 03:26 am

LAHORE: A Pakistani court yesterday allowed former prime minister Raja Pervez Ashraf to contest May 11 polls, striking down a disqualification order by...

China-US diplomacy 23 Apr 2013 - 03:25 am

US General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (right), and Fang Fenghui, chief of the People’s Liberation Army general staff,...

EU ends Myanmar sanctions 23 Apr 2013 - 03:24 am

LUXEMBOURG: EU foreign ministers agreed yesterday to lift the last of the bloc’s trade, economic and individual sanctions against Myanmar, hailing “a new...

S Korea cancels Japan trip over shrine visits 23 Apr 2013 - 03:24 am

SEOUL: South Korea yesterday shelved a proposed trip by Foreign Minister Yun Byung-Se to Tokyo in protest at visits by Japanese cabinet ministers...

Philippine rebels warn politicians 23 Apr 2013 - 03:24 am

MANILA: Philippine communist rebels warned politicians yesterday to seek their permission before campaigning in the insurgents’ strongholds following an ambush that wounded a...