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Jun 16 2009
India booked a semi-final berth in the women’s Twenty20 World Cup after humbling Sri Lanka by five wickets in a rain-marred pool B match, on Monday. Poonam Raut hit a patient 30 off 41 balls, while Mithali Raj cracked an unbeaten 22-ball 32 to...
Jun 8 2009
On the windswept Tibetan plateau, his closest aides look for divinations in a sacred lake. A mountain god transmits oracular messages by possessing a high lama. Monks scour villages for boys precocious in their spiritual attunement. All that is about...
Jun 8 2009
Delhi reported its first case of human-to-human transmission of the deadly H1N1 influenza virus on Sunday with scientists confirming that an infected middle aged man who had recently returned from New York had passed on the virus to his 60-year-old...
Jun 5 2009
Free from Left obstacles, the UPA government, in its first unambiguous statement on economic reforms, today said it would divest equity in public sector undertakings, rejuvenate the banking system and push the pension Bill, besides finetuning the...
Jun 3 2009
Angry protests greeted West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee during his visit on Tuesday to some relief camps in North 24 Parganas district, where hundreds of victims of Cyclone Aila have taken shelter. Soon after Mr. Bhattacherjee’s...
May 25 2009
The Supreme Court on Monday granted bail to civil rights activist Dr Binayak Sen, who has been lodged in jail for the last 22 months on charges of aiding and abetting naxalite activities in Chhattisgarh. A bench comprising Justices Markandey Katju and...
May 25 2009
Riots have broken out in almost all towns and cities in the Indian state of Punjab after a Sikh guru was killed by a rival group in a temple in Austria. Thousands of angry protesters have taken to streets, damaging public property and setting trains on...
May 22 2009
New Delhi: Squabbling top leadership, disconnect with grassroot workers and Varun Gandhi’s hate speech - these and many more are the reasons posted by Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) online supporters for the party’s debacle in the...
May 20 2009
At least 153 of the newly-elected MPs in India have criminal cases pending against them, according to a study by civil society groups. Groups working on electoral reforms say the opposition BJP has the highest number of tainted MPs at 43 while the...
May 19 2009
New Delhi, May 19 (PTI) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today sought to give a push to the economic reforms saying India could not afford to lag behind the rising economies of the East. “We cannot afford to miss the bus now,” he said pointing...