Nokia has managed to enter the top-five list in the feature phone market within six months of its comeback
Indians at large harbour a notion that their country is cherrypicking out of the American basket of goodies, but the policymakers in Delhi and the political leadership are well aware that it can only be a pipe dream since a military alliance with a superpower is a profound irrevocable commitment, observes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
Adamant on External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj's resignation, Congress forced three adjournments in pre-lunch session of Rajya Sabha
Dosanjh said he's urging, "Dr Manmohan Singh to take action at his level. I am hoping that the Indian government acquires these items and places them in a museum in India or at a place open to the public."
Protesting Congress members had on Tuesday too blocked a debate on the bill. The monsoon session ends on Thursday.
Country's premier home loan financier, Housing Development Finance Corporation on Tuesday slashed its lending rates by 0.5 per cent effective.
Canada's Premier Stephen Harper has apologized for the infamous Komagata Maru ship incident of 1914 in which over three hundred Indians, mostly Sikhs, seeking a better life were refused entry into the country.
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The NCB claimed that the students were both addicts and suppliers of these drugs.
The mishap occurred during a sortie as part of the rehearsal for AeroIndia.
Kohli, Rohit join Messi, CR7 to release videos for 'Unscriptd'.
'Significantly, Foreign Secretary Gokhale was received at very high level in Beijing.' 'It only shows China's keenness to move forward and put the relationship on a 'win-win' footing,' says Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
The formal trial of former Pakistani former military ruler Pervez Musharraf in connection with the 2007 assassination of Benazir Bhutto began on Tuesday.
Former England batsman Kevin Pietersen says he still harbours dreams of turning out for his country despite being controversially axed from the national team.
Asking the Pakistan government to create a level-playing field for a credible and transparent elections next month, Britain has said Islamabad should use the period to "build confidence in the democratic process".
The protesters started marching towards the PM's residence shouting slogans and holding anti-government placards.
Pakistan's former premier Nawaz Sharif on Sunday returned home from exile after being deported to Saudi Arabia on September 10.
Twenty-six people were killed when a bomb went off in the parking lot of the Federal Investigation Agency office, while four people, including two children, were killed in a separate blast in Lahore's Model Town residential area.Hours later, unidentified gunmen opened fire at a passenger train here, killing four persons and injuring three others, police said.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh left Frankfurt for New York on a five-day visit to the US, during which he will address the UN General Assembly and hold bilateral talks with world leaders.
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The Supreme Court, on Tuesday, asked the Delhi High Court to decide by July end the appeal challenging a trial court order discharging several cricketers, including S Sreesanth, in the sensational IPL spot-fixing case.
Customs officials, on both sides of the border, need to be caring, hospitable and less fussy. At the Indian border check point at Gede, the Customs officials insisted on thoroughly inspecting the tiffin box of eminent Bengali writer Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay. As part of their 'security check', they counted the number of puris in his tiffin box and raised questions about the bananas he was carrying.
Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn will succeed the king, Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha said in a televised address.
Sreesanth has signed a South Indian movie which will be multi-lingual.
Bhutto had been handed down a seven-day detention order on November 13 at the residence of a Pakistan People's Party leader in Lahore to prevent her from leading a 'long march' to Islamabad against the emergency. Jahangir, the chairperson of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, was put under house arrest in her residence in Lahore shortly after President Pervez Musharraf proclaimed the emergency on November 3.
In a clear mockery of the sanctity of the press box, Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) has decided to accommodate VVIPs inside enclosure reserved for the scribes at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai during next week's farewell 200th Test of senior player Sachin Tendulkar.
Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena sacked Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and appointed former strongman Mahinda Rajapaksa as the new premier. Sirisena's move has triggered a constitutional crisis in the country. Here are some points about the unfolding crisis and the role of key players:
Swedish Prime Minister Lofven lauded India as 'global power' and said the two countries are a 'perfect match'.
These projects are targeted at financially well-off and upwardly mobile Indians.
The tickets for the Indian Premier League semi-final matches, to be held at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on May 30 and 31, are going to cost the cricket fans dear with the rates fixed between Rs 1000 and Rs 12000 for most stands barring the popular East Lower. This is double the amount the fans paid for the matches during the league stages.
Federal authorities in the United States have seized two valuable artefacts stolen from India valued at about $450,000 (Rs 3 crore) from the premier auction house Christie's, just days before a scheduled auction of the items as part of planned festivities to celebrate Asia week.
The duo seem to get on like a house on fire.
'Beijing is comfortable with Hasina's pragmatism -- perceived as 'pro-India', but staying out of Indian orbit and receptive to forging close ties with China and yet, siding with neither neighbour,' says Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
Disgraced former Indian Premier League (IPL) commissioner Lalit Modi has slammed the BCCI chief and new ICC chairman N.Srinivasan, saying that he has a bad influence on Indian cricket.
Yeo Moriba laughed as she recalled her showdown with the fearsome Alex Ferguson, one of many confrontations with football authority over the future of her son Paul Pogba. Ferguson was notorious for his 'hairdryer' blasts at players in the Manchester United dressing room and the proud mother told AFP how the tough Scots manager had once left her son in tears in his office. And that may be why Pogba escaped the clutches of the Red Devils to join Juventus. The 23-year-old French midfielder will be one of the most watched players at the European Championship finals. After three years struggling for a first team place, Pogba refused to sign a new contract in 2012. Ferguson took matters into his own hands and decided to confront Moriba, who acts as her son's agent, manager and advisor as well as her two other twin sons Guinea internationals Florentin and Mathias. "I said: 'What? Ferguson coming to my house! He came alone'," said the mother, laughing heartily again. Ferguson left alone disappointed. "We had got together with his brothers and we decided: he won't re-sign," added Moriba.
The joint forces also arrested the assistant personal secretary to former state minister for home affairs Lutfozzaman Babar and one of Babar's cousins.
Israelis began voting on Tuesday in a general election following a high-pitched campaign
Upping the ante, former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto Tuesday asked Pervez Musharraf to quit as President saying the days of dictatorship in Pakistan were over. "We say Musharraf must leave. The time for dictatorship is over. It's time to bring a transfer to democracy," Bhutto told Britain's Sky News in a telephonic interview from Lahore, where police have placed her under house arrest to stop her from leading an anti-emergency rally to Islamabad.
Ignoring the warning of women's outfit Dukhtaran-e-Millat, a group of 30 girl students from various schools in Srinagar have embarked on an Army-sponsored educational tour.
'The critics were writing so well about me, I was shocked!' 'My phone didn't stop ringing!' 'This is the biggest tribute for a senior actor.' 'Now, I can pack up.'
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