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Indonesia today ramped up efforts to help those on remote islands hit by a devastating tsunami as an official put the latest death toll at 449, with 96 missing and feared dead. Rescuers trying to reach isolated villages were hampered by torrential rains and heavy seas on Saturday as three-metre-high waves pounded the coastline. But [...]
// The BCCI is opposed to it but Indian opener Virender Sehwag today gave a big thumbs up to the controversial Umpires Decision Review System which has not been favoured even by his idol Sachin Tendulkar. “I am a big fan of UDRS. I want it to be there for the India-New Zealand series, India-South [...]
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today said the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will try to strike a balance between growth and inflation at its monetary policy review next week. “The RBI is trying to find a balance between the need of growth and the need to contain inflation,” Mukherjee told reporters after laying the foundation [...]
Union Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh today said that he had not recommended any case for membership of the controversial Adarsh Housing Society and that allegations in this regard were a “conspiracy to defame” him. “I had not recommended anybody’s case. There is nobody in the society who can claim to be my relative or near and [...]
A day after offering to step down, embattled Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan is expected to meet senior Congress leader Pranab Mukherjee tonight to present his side of the story on the Adarsh housing society scam. Mukherjee, who was in Murshidabad in West Bengal, told television channels that he did not know much about the [...]
In what could open up the world for people suffering from neurological disorders, scientists have developed a new machine that allows such individuals to play computer games using just the power of their thoughts. Developed by researchers at the University of California and California Institute of Technology, the device has enabled people to move a [...]
Star quotient ruled the National Film Awards presentation ceremony on Friday as superstar Amitabh Bachchan and a host of Bollywood and regional cinema achievers were honoured by President Pratibha Patil in New Delhi. Veteran producer D Ramanaidu was conferred with the Dada Saheb Phalke award. Except veteran musician Illyaraja, who bagged the award for his background score [...]
Amidst high volatility, the BSE benchmark Sensex dropped 134 points due to profit-booking from investors following expiry of near-month October contracts and doubts over the quantum of quantitative easing by US Federal Reserve at a policy meeting in early November. Realty, power, public sector units, IT and metal sectors were the major losers of the [...]
Pitching for greater integration between India and South East Asian countries, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh pressed for early free trade agreement in services and investment and announced visa-on-arrival facility to nationals of Cambodia, Vietnam, Philippines and Laos. He also pushed for early completion of all formalities for implementing the India-ASEAN Trade in Goods Agreement, which [...]
A man has been arrested over a plot to bomb Metro stations in the US capital. Farooque Ahmed, 34, of Ashburn in the state of Virginia was conspiring with people he believed were from al-Qaeda, the Department of Justice said. Mr Ahmed was taken into custody on Wednesday morning. If convicted he faces up to [...]