Unidentified gunmen attacked the bus taking the Sri Lankan cricket squad and its police escort to a cricket stadium in the eastern Pakistan city of Lahore on Tuesday.
Several players were reported to have received “superficial” injuries.Five policemen were killed and three injured.
The attack happened in Gulberg, a upmarket area of the city, at around [...]
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Lok Sabha polls will be held in five phases from April 16 to May 13, the Election Commission announced on Monday.
Chief Election Commissioner N Gopalaswami here today announced the Lok Sabha election dates. Lok Sabha polls from April 16 to May 13. Counting date is May 16.
5 phases in Lok Sabha polls.
In the first [...]
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February 13th, 2009
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A Special CBI court today awarded death punishment to Moninder Singh Pander and Surinder Koli, convicted in infamous Nithari killings.
The CBI today sought death penalty for Nithari serial killings case convict Surinder Koli while leaving it to the court the quantum of punishment for businessman Moninder Singh Pandher in the rape and murder of [...]
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India’s Mahesh Bhupathi and Sania Mirza beat Israel’s Andy Ram and Nathalia Dechy of France to lift the Australian Open mixed doubles title here on Sunday. This was their second consecutive year in the finals, and followed a rather lacklustre year for Ms. Mirza. Their opponents were unseeded, and the match was won handily [...]
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was today discharged from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, where he underwent redo bypass heart surgery on January 24.
Singh’s illness came as his Congress party prepares its campaign for a month-long general election likely to begin in early April.
Doctors operated on the 76-year-old leader on Jan. 24 after [...]
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At least 11 people, including three policemen, were injured in fresh violence in the city where protesters defied curfew at a few places as rest of the Jammu region observed a shutdown on Monday over the Amarnath land row.
Security forces fired in the air to scatter protesters who, defying curfew, took to the streets [...]
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Rumours are rife that one of the hottest couples in Bollywood, Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif, is heading for splitsville. The final blow to their relationship came in the form of the spat between Salman and Shah Rukh Khan on Katrina’s birthday.
After splitting from his former girlfriend Aishwarya Rai, Salman had finally cashed in [...]
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi have reached Ahmedabad to assess the situation on the ground in the wake of serial blasts that rocked the city killing 49 people.
The Prime Minister and Sonia Gandhi visited the injured undergoing treatment at LG Hospital, Civil Hospital and Sarabhai Hospital.
They were accompanied by Union [...]
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Many would say BJP’s prime ministerial candidate LK Advani is a fascinating politician — someone who was the first to challenge the Nehruvian consensus on socialism and secularism from the Right, someone who made the BJP an electable force.
But will his memoirs My Country, My Life, change his hardline image?
Over 900 pages long, Advani’s [...]
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