Israel bombs Hezbollah-bound missiles in Syria Reuters | Washington
Israel had yesterday carried out an air strike targeting a shipment of missiles in Syria bound for Hezbollah guerrillas in neighbouring Lebanon, an Israeli official said today. Israel had long made...
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Bansal's nephew caught with Rs 90 lakh; alleged to have taken bribe for...
Blowing the lid off yet another scandal involving members of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government, the arrest of Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal's nephew, Vijay Singla, and a senior...
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Vijay Singla, the man who hit the headlines for taking a bribe of Rs 90 lakh in Chandigarh on Friday, allegedly in lieu of a plum posting of a senior railway officer, is known in the city’s business...
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Mahesh Kumar: Man with many records BS
Mahesh Kumar was general manager (Western Railways) till this Wednesday. The next day he was appointed as Member Railway Board, a post equivalent to secretary with the Union government, in charge of...
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In the hands of the govt, CBI probe can be denied, delayed: Arun Bhagat BS
Arun Bhagat, former Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) additional director and Intelligence Bureau retiree tells Gyan Varma that the CBI has never been autonomous, thanks to government interference...
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BlackJet is a new iPhone app that connects travellers with private jets that...
Wealthy travellers wanting to fly in style can book empty seats on private planes with a new app for a jet-sharing service. Although there are dozens of apps for buying seats on commercial flights,...
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Israeli strikes on Syria 'co-ordinated with terrorists'
Syrian journalist in Damascus Alaa Ebrahim said witnesses described feeling "a mild earthquake'', and seeing something "fall from the sky"Israeli strikes on Syrian army targets show co-ordination with...
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Choco pies: The smuggled treats of North Korea
By Rupert Wingfield-HayesBBC News, Seoul The prevailing image of North Korea in Western minds is a closed society where the people have little sense of life beyond its borders. How, then, does one...
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Polls close in Malaysia in closely contested elections
Jonathan Head reports from a polling station queue in Kuala Lumpur, where he says turnout was "very impressive", driven by a "real hunger" for changeVoting has ended in Malaysia in what is widely...
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How Bollywood mirrors Indian realities
Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara is a road movie about male bonding Bollywood turned 100 on Friday. Eminent economist and Bollywood fan Lord Meghnad Desai explores whether it has reflected the life and times...
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Malaysia vote: PM Najib Razak's Barisan Nasional wins
The BBC's Jonathan Head reports from inside the hotel where the defeated opposition leader made allegations of abuse against the winning partyThe ruling National Front coalition has won a simple...
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UK community leader Mueen-Uddin indicted in Bangladesh
Mr Mueen-Uddin (left) has held several public positions in the UK A British community leader has been indicted in Bangladesh for his alleged role in the killing of 18 people during the 1971 liberation...
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Power generators linked to Dhaka building collapse
Cranes are now being used to clear the site and retrieve bodies Four generators inside the Bangladesh garment factory building that collapsed last month may have caused the disaster, a top...
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'Speed money' puts the brakes on India's retail growth Nandita Bose/Reuters
Hong-Kong entrepreneur Ramesh Tainwala spent 18 months operating branded clothing retail stores in India before deciding it was impossible to succeed without paying bribes.Tainwala, a 55-year-old...
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Murugappa group plans Rs 450 crore capex IANS Chennai
Industrial conglomerate $4.17 billion Murugappa group, while consolidating its acquisitions of last year, will invest around Rs.450 crore to complete on-going expansion plans, a top group official...
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Lokpal must oversee CBI Gopal Subramanium
Gopal Subramanium, former Solicitor General of IndiaI think the attempt on the part of judiciary to insulate the CBI has been completely unequivocal. The judgments in Vineet Narain's case (in 1993 when...
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Trend Micro warns against fake Facebook security page phishing scam...
Anti-virus and internet security provider Trend Micro has issued a warning about a new Facebook phishing scam that directs users to key in their credit card information as part of a security check....
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Salman Khurshid's Tehran visit signals change in stance Anilesh S Mahajan BT
{mosimage}In a significant shift of stance, India is warming to Iran again, despite pressure from the United States and the European Union to boycott the country because of its controversial nuclear...
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The economic benefits of the Golden Quadrilateral project are already...
A glimpse of National Highway 4 - the Chennai-Mumbai corridor of the Golden Quadrilateral Photo: Nishikant Gamre/www.indiatodayimages.com Prashant Agarwal, Director at Kanpurbased Sparsh Industries,...
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Core group has decided Bansal won't quit IANS New Delhi
Railway Minister Pawan Bansal and PM Manmohan Singh.Backing Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal and Law Minister Ashwani Kumar, the Congress Sunday said no action will be taken against them...
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