Indians look at US favourably; want Obama to win: Pew survey
September 11th, 2012 - 6:00 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Sep 11 (IANS) While a majority of Indians is favourably disposed toward the United States, only a third of urban Indians approve of China and just 13 percent ... Read more...
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Shirish Kunder apologises to SRK
August 25th, 2012 - 9:41 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, Aug 25 (IANS) Filmmaker Shirish Kunder has finally put an end to the ongoing animosity between him and superstar Shah Rukh Khan by tweeting a public apology.The editor-turned-director, ... Read more...
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Promote tolerance, repulse extremism: Zardari
August 20th, 2012 - 2:19 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Aug 20 (IANS) Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf have called on the people to reject "extremist trends" and "negative propaganda of misguided elements" ... Read more...
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Kyrgyzstan court bans ‘extremist’ rap song
July 25th, 2012 - 7:14 pm ICT by IANS
Bishkek, July 25 (IANS/RIA Novosti) A court in the Kyrgyz city of Osh, where violent ethnic clashes claimed hundreds of lives in 2010, has banned an Uzbek-language rap song for ... Read more...
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Chris Gayle puts controversy behind him
June 16th, 2012 - 3:34 pm ICT by IANS
London, June 16 (IANS/CMC) Talismanic opener Chris Gayle says he has put to rest the last 14 months of animosity with the cricket board and is now focussed on helping to ... Read more...
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Indonesian jailed for ‘God doesn’t exist’ Facebook post
June 15th, 2012 - 7:23 pm ICT by IANS
London, June 15 (IANS) An Indonesian man has been jailed for two-and-a-half-years for sharing explicit material about Prophet Mohammed online and writing "God doesn't exist" on his Facebook page, ... Read more...
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Pranab vs Mamata: A tale of differences behind show of bonhomie
June 14th, 2012 - 9:52 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, June 14 (IANS) Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee have never quite gelled, despite their apparent show of bonhomie from time to ... Read more...
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Two folk singers killed in Uttar Pradesh
June 9th, 2012 - 4:48 pm ICT by IANS
Lucknow, June 9 (IANS) A leading folk singer and a woman singer were shot dead at Ghazipur in Uttar Pradesh, police said Saturday.Ramji Yadav and Suneeta Tyagi were going from ... Read more...
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CPI-M protests Mamata’s assassination plot charge
May 24th, 2012 - 12:20 am ICT by IANS
Kolkata, May 23 (IANS) West Bengal's Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) Wednesday termed as "ridiculous", Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's allegation that the Marxists and the Maoists were plotting to ... Read more...
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Teacher shot dead in Uttar Pradesh
May 7th, 2012 - 4:22 pm ICT by IANS
Lucknow, May 7 (IANS) In a sensational daylight killing in Uttar Pradesh, a teacher was shot dead in Basti district Monday when he was going to an education centre to ... Read more...
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Jaya Prada takes on Azam Khan
March 3rd, 2012 - 3:00 pm ICT by IANS
Rampur (Uttar Pradesh), March 3 (IANS) Who will emerge the winner in Rampur? Actor-politician Jaya Prada or bitter rival and Samajwadi Party leader Mohammed Azam Khan?The 'Battle Royale' in ... Read more...
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Another arrest in Shehla Masood murder case (Lead)
March 2nd, 2012 - 10:04 pm ICT by IANS
Bhopal/New Delhi, March 2 (IANS) The CBI Friday arrested a woman friend of Zahida Parvez, an interior designer arrested for the murder of RTI activist Shehla Masood.According to the Central ... Read more...
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Dhaka seeking apology from Islamabad justified: Pakistani daily
November 23rd, 2011 - 1:24 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Nov 23 (IANS) Bangladesh seeking an apology from Pakistan for war crimes committed in 1971 is "justifiable" and the "least our government can do is learn lessons from ... Read more...
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Ex-Mayawati aide claims threat from minister
November 19th, 2011 - 9:34 pm ICT by IANS
Lucknow, Nov 19 (IANS) Former Uttar Pradesh cabinet minister Babu Singh Kushwaha, once considered close to Chief Minister Mayawati, Saturday accused a state minister and two bureaucrats of conspiring ... Read more...
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Pakistan won’t take dictation from anyone: Daily
September 17th, 2011 - 1:13 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Sep 17 (IANS) It is high time to tell the US that Pakistan "would not take any dictation from anyone", said a daily Saturday.The Nation editorially said: "It ... Read more...
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9/11: World no safer than 10 years back, says Chinese daily
September 9th, 2011 - 1:56 pm ICT by IANS
Beijing, Sep 9 (IANS) Two terrorist attacks - one in India and the other in Pakistan - show that the world is no safer than it was 10 years ago ... Read more...
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America to blame for trust deficit with Pakistan: Musharraf (Lead, Superseding earlier story)
June 9th, 2011 - 4:36 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, June 9 (IANS) Blaming "a strategic shift of US policy towards India" for an "acute deficit of trust" between Washington and Islamabad, former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf has ... Read more...
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US policy to blame for trust deficit with India: Musharraf
June 9th, 2011 - 10:37 am ICT by IANS
Washington, June 9 (IANS) Blaming "a strategic shift of US policy towards India" for an "acute deficit of trust" between them, former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf has suggested open ... Read more...
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US not too fond of Pakistan: Poll
May 28th, 2011 - 11:22 am ICT by IANS
Washington, May 28 (IANS) Americans have an unfavourable opinion of Pakistan which has appeared in the news consistently since the US killed Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, ... Read more...
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Geelani lone Kashmiri leader to condemn Osama killing
May 3rd, 2011 - 4:16 pm ICT by IANS
Srinagar, May 3 (IANS) Syed Ali Geelani, who heads the hardline faction of Jammu and Kashmir's separatist Hurriyat Conference, is the only leader to condemn the US operation to kill ... Read more...
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A bitter poll rivalry - all in family
March 31st, 2011 - 3:40 pm ICT by IANS
Bankura (West Bengal), March 31 (IANS) Relatives may be on different sides of the political divide but rarely is the rift so deep that they even refuse to speak to ... Read more...
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Agarkar testifies “very good” relations between India, Pak cricketers in his time
March 27th, 2011 - 4:14 pm ICT by ANI
Kolkata, Mar 27(ANI): Although the much-awaited Indo-Pak semi-final World Cup clash on March 30 is being touted as the 'mother of all matches' and an equivalent to war, former Indian all-rounder Ajit ... Read more...
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Brit wife ‘happily married’ despite losing tribunal fight with dentist hubby
February 18th, 2011 - 6:30 pm ICT by ANI
London, Feb 18 (ANI): A woman in Britain, who worked for her dentist husband and then sued him for unfair dismissal, has revealed that despite the court rejecting her plea she still ... Read more...
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Revenue official’s jeep set afire
February 18th, 2011 - 5:35 pm ICT by IANS
Gadchiroli (Maharashtra), Feb 18 (IANS) Unidentified miscreants set afire the government jeep allotted to a revenue official (tehsildar) of Maharashtra's Gadchiroli district early Friday, police said."The jeep, set afire around 2 a.m. ... Read more...
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Lawyer attacked outside Chandigarh court premises
February 15th, 2011 - 7:27 pm ICT by IANS
Chandigarh, Feb 15 (IANS) Four unidentified men attacked a lawyer with iron rods and sharp-edged weapons outside the premises of a district court complex in Sector 17 here Tuesday and also damaged ... Read more...
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Salman Khan And Aamir Khan Next On Karan Johar’s Koffee Couch
January 5th, 2011 - 5:36 pm ICT by Sampurn Wire
The saying in Bollywood which goes like nobody can say a no to Karan Johar is probably true. Else how would you explain the fact that Salman Khan has given ... Read more...
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NIA files chargesheet in Kerala against SIMI members
December 31st, 2010 - 12:01 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Dec 30 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency Thursday filed a chargesheet against 17 members of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India outfit for holding a "seditious" secret meeting in ... Read more...
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Congress legislator booked after man dies in clash
December 20th, 2010 - 1:00 pm ICT by IANS
Mohali (Punjab), Dec 20 (IANS) Police have booked Balbir Singh Sidhu, a Congress legislator from the Punjab town of Kharar, his brother and four others after a clash between two groups left ... Read more...
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Shahrukh Khan: Turning All Foes Into Friends
December 14th, 2010 - 5:50 pm ICT by Sampurn Wire
However there is something else that SRK is being spoken about quite appreciatively. Now what could that be?
Well the fact that Shahrukh Khan had recently gone on to publicly acknowledge the ... Read more...
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‘Raktha Charithiram’ - Weak script a let down (Tamil Film Review; Rating: **1/2)
December 4th, 2010 - 7:46 pm ICT by IANS
By Aravindan D.I.
Film: "Raktha Charithiram"; Cast: Suriya, Vivek Oberoi, Shatrughan Sinha, Kota Srinivasa Rao, Kitty, Priyamani, Radhika Apte and others; Direction: Ram Gopal Verma; Producer: Sheetal Talwar; Rating: **1/2The cudgels are ... Read more...
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Full text of Jaganmohan Reddy’s letter to Sonia Gandhi
November 29th, 2010 - 3:39 pm ICT by IANS
Hyderabad, Nov 29 (IANS) The following is the text of an open letter written by Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy to Congress president Sonia Gandhi Monday while resigning from the Congress party and ... Read more...
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Michael, Dina Lohan’s therapy could help Lindsay: Experts
November 18th, 2010 - 5:59 pm ICT by ANI
New York, Nov 18 (ANI): The team taking care of Lindsay Lohan in rehab has noted if her parent Dina and Michael Lohan agree to sign up for counselling, it could ... Read more...
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WWE Friday Night, Nexus Invades Smackdown!
November 6th, 2010 - 2:00 pm ICT by Angela Kaye Mason
Nov 5 (THAINDIAN NEWS) As WWE Friday Night Smackdown began last night, a match was beginning between Edge and Alberto Del Rio. From the beginning of the fight, Del Rio seemed to ... Read more...
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Indian team visits Poonch trade post to review infrastructure, security
October 29th, 2010 - 1:49 pm ICT by ANI
Poonch (Jammu and Kashmir), Oct. 29 (ANI): A Union Home Ministry team, led by Joint Secretary K Skandan, visited the Poonch trade facilitation centre on Thursday to review trade infrastructure facilities with ... Read more...
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2008 Batla House shootout may have been staged: Digvijay Singh
September 22nd, 2010 - 5:21 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, Sep. 22 (ANI): Congress General Secretary Digvijay Singh accepted here on Wednesday that the Batla House shootout, which took place in a Muslim-dominated area of south Delhi in 2008, might ... Read more...
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