

Saturday 21 November '09
Sri Lanka’s former top General Sarath Fonseka, who resigned last week following a spat with President Mahinda Rajapaksa, has vowed to protect democratic freedom and human rights....Saturday 21 November '09
The US must address Pakistan’s concerns about a possible troop surge in Afghanistan and ensure that its new Afghan policy....Saturday
21 November '09Terming the Centre’s announcement of a special package of Rs 7,266 crore for Bundelkhand as a “delayed decision”, the Uttar Pradesh government has said it will not benefit the local people.Saturday
21 November '09Three days after being separated from her conjoined sister, Krishna began regaining consciousness and is coming out of her induced coma, doctors said....Saturday
21 November '09Quite reminiscent of what her father, former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, used to do, Priyanka Gandhi drove a green Toyota Qualis after she landed at Fursatganj airport in Sultanpur district on Friday morning.Saturday
21 November '09Despite an improvement in child mortality figures, 5,000 children under the age of five die in India everyday due to preventable causes....Saturday
21 November '09Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said he was confident of India soon returning to nine per cent growth level, helped by resumption in capital...Saturday
21 November '09Terming Naxalism the foremost challenge before Jharkhand, Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Friday said violence could not be a solution to any problem and that everything must be solved through dialogue.....Saturday
21 November '09Assaulted by MNS MLAs for not taking oath in Marathi, Samajwadi Party legislator Abu Asim Azmi has started taking classes to learn the language and is confident of facing Raj Thackeray in a TV debate in Marathi next year.Saturday
21 November '09Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Ejaz Butt believes it is next to impossible for injury-plagued pacer Shoaib Akhtar to make a comeback to the national team.Saturday
21 November '09Pankaj Advani and Geet Sethi hardly broke a sweat but compatriot Yasin Merchant had to toil for his win in the IBSF World Snooker Championship.Friday
20 November '09Bal Thackeray credited the Shiv Sena for bringing down the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya.Friday
20 November '09Pune long-distance runner Jagannath took less than two-and-a-half hours to win the 25th Indira Gandhi Prize Money Marathon...Friday
20 November '09Three labourers died and two others were seriously injured after being trapped in a mine in Gauri village of Mahoba district, about 300 kms from Lucknow, on Wednesday.Friday
20 November '09Following the arrest of alleged Pakistani spy Mohammad Sayeed Ali along with a driving licence issued from Lucknow, the transport office has decided to check original copies of documents for issuing such new documents.Friday
20 November '09Cremation of a woman who died of HIV-AIDS was performed by sex workers here after no one from victim’s acquaintances came forward to take up the responsibility.Friday
20 November '09One of the newly separated Bangladeshi Siamese twins, Trishna on Thursday woke up from the induced coma to cuddle her caretaker...Friday
20 November '09A fresh wave of terror gripped Pakistan’s northwest on Thursday when a suicide bomber struck a court complex here...Friday
20 November '09Six more persons were arrested on Thursday in connection with the gruesome murder of an Indian-origin woman found lying on a street...Friday
20 November '09Thirty-four years after Bangladesh’s founder Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was assassinated in a military coup, the country’s Supreme Court...Friday
20 November '09Fiona MacKeown, the mother of British teenager Scarlett Keeling who was allegedly raped and murdered in Goa last year...Friday
20 November '09The administration of the Union Territory of Daman and Diu has reiterated its warning to fishermen not to fish near the Pakistan border.Friday
20 November '09The government today ruled out limiting companies from borrowing money from overseas market and said that the surge in foreign...Friday
20 November '09Geet Sethi shrugged off a first-frame deficit to beat Kuwait’s Ayyoub Alsharrah in the masters category while world champion Pankaj Advani...Thursday
19 November '09The state government has provided a financial assistance of Rs 50,000 to the bereaved family of junior Indian cricketer Gagandeep Singh, who was shot dead in a freak incident outside a roadside eatery in Meerut last month.