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Sonia holds strategy meet ahead of Parliament session

With the second phase of Parliament's Budget session set to start next week, Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Friday held a strategy meeting with senior leaders at a time when the Opposition is......

Nitish snubbed me twice in review meet: Kirti Azad

In an indication that all was not well between National Democratic Alliamnce partners in Bihar, Bharatiya Janata Party MP Kirti Azad Sunday accused Chief Minister Nitish Kumar of snubbing him at a......

Prominent Shia scholar shot dead in Pakistan

A prominent Shia scholar and his companion were gunned down by unidentified armed men in the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi on Tuesday. Agha Aftab Haider Jaffri, a leader of the Jaffaria......

UP police drop fraud case against Amar Singh

In a relief for Amar Singh, the Uttar Pradesh police has submitted a closure report in a district court in Kanpur in the three-year-old fraud and embezzlement case against the Rajya Sabha MP,......

Bilawal Bhutto to contest 2013 Pak elections

Former Pakistan premier Benazir Bhutto's son and Pakistan Peoples Party's heir apparent, Bilawal, will test electoral waters for the first time in 2013 from the party stronghold of Lyari, his......

Saarc members reach consensus on expediting develo

Finance Ministers of the eight-nation regional bloc South Asian Association for Regional Cooperationin their second meeting here agreed to expedite early operationalisation of the Saarc Development......

Irdai launches standard personal accident cover

The product, named Saral Suraksha Bima, will have a maximum sum assured of Rs 1 crore and minimum Rs 2.5 lakh. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com The insurance regulator has come out with a......

Accenture, Oracle numbers dampen Indian IT spirits

The recent financial numbers of global IT majors such as Accenture and Oracle have given enough indication that the demand environment continues to remain subdued.Global IT services and consulting......

Amartya Sen deplores lawgivers not debating Food Bill

The food subsidy bill which was tabled last week could not be taken up for a debate due to the ruckus in Parliament Nobel laureate Amartya Sen on Saturday called it unfortunate that Parliament......

TVS Motor, BMW tie up to tap technology, market access

TVS Motor and BMW AG's motorcycle division announced a deal on Monday to jointly develop bikes that would give the Indian automaker access to BMW technology as it looks to stem its falling market......

'I want Amitabh to see my documentary Liv & Ingmar'

Norwegian actress Liv Ullmann was 25 years old when she came to Sweden to act in Ingmar Bergman's film Persona. Bergman was 47 at that time. They were both married but they fell in love during......

Big B suffers from hernia, to undergo surgery

Amitabh Bachchan has developed multiple hernia in his lower abdomen which is causing him severe pain but the actor, who has already undergone three operations, is trying to avoid another surgery.......

CA approves split-innings ODIs for National Cup

The players might have opposed it but Cricket Australia on Friday approved a controversial 45-over, split innings one-day format for trial in the National ODI Cup this season. "The modified format......

JCT goes Mahindra way, disbands football team

In a big jolt to Indian football, Punjab-based JCT Club disbanded itself from professional football on Monday, citing lack of public interest in the game in the country.\\nThe development was not a......

'Bhai the Way': BCCI goofs up

IMAGE: Rahul Chahar did well during the recent colts tour to England. Photograph: Facebook In what turned out to be comedy of errors, the Board of Control for Cricket in India first named named......

Border-Gavaskar scholarship

Three of India's promising cricketers -- Vikram Rajvir Singh, Rudra Pratap Singh and Cheteshwar Pujara -- have won the 2005 Border-Gavaskar scholarship to undergo training at Australia's......