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The new aid package for Pakistan passed by Congress last month — a promise of $7.5 billion for civilian needs over the next five years — has unwittingly thrust the United States into the center of the perennially uneasy relationship between...
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National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Wednesday gave clean chit to Delhi Police in Batla House encounter case in which two
suspected Indian Mujahideen terrorists and a decorated police officer were killed last year.
The NHRC, which had conducted...
No one can label us as criminals now,’’ said Rohit sporting an ear-to-ear grin. ‘‘The thought that we can’t be harassed on the pretext of law is
a big relief,’’ added the gay rights activist in Chandigarh.
Gay activists like Rohit...
The chief minister of India’s only Muslim-majority state cuts a slightly surprising figure. Nattily dressed in a beige linen suit, purple tie, and well-polished brogues, Omar Abdullah welcomes visitors to his residence with a warm...
Disinvestment is back. Policy-makers believe that there is no reason to oppose it, since at least 51 per cent of the equity holding in the public sector enterprises (PSEs) would continue to remain with the government, which would retain their managerial...
When Priyanka Gandhi’s clothes became a major political story last week, I realised sadly that it was time for me to stop being a conscientious objector to dynastic democracy. You cannot argue with the box office. And, if Priyanka’s fashion...
After promising to reveal his identity at the end of Kolkata Knight Riders’ Indian Premier League campaign, the blogger, who calls himself a Fake IPL Player, has left everyone guessing by not coming out with the much-awaited disclosure in what is...
Sri Lanka is shaped like a teardrop below southern India. People there are weeping at the dramatic events of this week.
But, contrary to what our Foreign Secretary David Miliband and the commentariat of the BBC would have you believe, not all the tears...
Strangely, Congress lost the race in Bantwal and Mangalore taluk panchayats despite having more numbers than the BJP. In Bantwal, Congress suffered as two if its members supported BJP flouting the party whip and in Mangalore, BJP won with the support of...
The C-130 Hercules aircraft ploughed into several houses on the ground, scattering debris and sending flames and billowing smoke into the air, TV footage showed.
Rustam Pakaya, the head of the health ministry’s crisis centre, told Reuters by...
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