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Monday 16 November '09

India will completely shut down, and subsequently decommission, the 40-MW CIRUS nuclear research reactor at Bhabha Atomic...
Andhra goes ahead with YSR memorial in reserve forest as ecologists protest

Monday 16 November '09

Even as the Centre awaits a report from it on the proposed YSR memorial, the Andhra Pradesh government has gone ahead with the project inviting...
Pranab takes up Tamil refugee issue with Rajapaksa

Monday 16 November '09

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday called on Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa and discussed bilateral relations and...
Defiant Pak brothers get rich with erotic wear

Monday 16 November '09

Two Pakistani brothers who earn millions by selling leather-made erotic wear to the West are still going strong despite threats from hardliners.
Granta editor who rejected Rushdie’s essay sacked, author denies any role

Monday 16 November '09

Sir Salman Rushdie has got into a literary row, after it is claimed that he may have been involved in the sacking of books magazine Granta’s editor...
No nightouts without permission, Indian board tells cricketers

Monday 16 November '09

The BCCI on Sunday made it clear that the Indian cricketers would not be allowed nightouts which may endanger their security during the Test series again Sri Lanka.
Essar picks up majority stake in Warid Telecom in Uganda, Congo

Monday 16 November '09

The Ruias-owned Essar group today announced the acquisition of a majority stake in Dhabi Group’s Warid Telecom operation in Uganda and...
SP to decide on support to UPA ‘at the right time’: Mulayam

Sunday 15 November '09

Amid strained ties with Congress after the Firozabad Lok Sabha by-election, SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav today said his party will take the decision “at the right time” on the issue of support to the UPA.
Fearing ban, federation pulls lifters out of world meet

Sunday 15 November '09

Facing a possible ban from international competition, India has withdrawn its weightlifting team from the world championships in Korea next week, the national federation said on Saturday....
Heroin: 1-yr jail for

Sunday 15 November '09

A woman, who was arrested by Narcotics Control Bureau for carrying over 200 grams of heroin...
Global recovery a razor-edge walk amid asset bubbles: FM

Sunday 15 November '09

Remarks follow IMF warning that surge in capital flows into developing countries may destabilise asset prices....
AI to get Rs 800 cr as first tranche in Dec

Sunday 15 November '09

Air India is likely to receive about Rs 800 crore as the first tranche of equity infusion from the government by December, Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel said on Saturday....
Rajapaksa could deny Fonseka official farewell

Sunday 15 November '09

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s acceptance of former top General Sarath Fonseka’s resignation with immediate effect....
2 Earth-sized stars with oxygen found

Sunday 15 November '09

Planetary scientists have discovered two Earth-sized bodies with oxygen rich atmospheres. However, they are not planets, but two unusual white dwarf stars....
‘Maj Hasan may have wired money to Pak’

Sunday 15 November '09

US Army psychiatrist Maj Nidal Hasan, paralysed from waist down due to bullet wounds received during his shooting spree that killed 13 soldiers....
At IITF, Manmohan wife checks buying temptation

Sunday 15 November '09

Going around the Trade Fair on its opening day, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s wife Gursharan Kaur had admiration for several khadi and handloom items but did not pick any...
Trade Fair opens, 2 million visitors expected this year

Sunday 15 November '09

President Pratibha Patil on Saturday inaugurated the annual India International Trade Fair, which is expected to attract 2 million visitors.
Akhilesh is to Rahul what I am to Marlon Brando: Raj Babbar

Saturday 14 November '09

Newly-elected Congress MP from Firozabad Raj Babbar on Friday took a swipe at Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav for challenging Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi following the defeat of his wife Dimple Yadav in the Lok Sabha bypoll.
Singur hots up: Mamata dangles a rail factory after CM’s ‘power’ play

Saturday 14 November '09

A day after the state government invited BHEL to set up a power plant at Singur in collaboration with it, Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee today reiterated her proposal to set up a rail coach factory in Singur.
Koda: I-T to question UBI chief

Saturday 14 November '09

Ex-CM’s aide deposited Rs 991 cr in Union Bank account in 2008-2009....
Suicide bomber hits ISI office in Peshawar

Saturday 14 November '09

Suicide bombers on Friday struck Pakistan’s powerful ISI hitting its operational headquarters in Peshawar and a police station in Bannu, killing 20 people, including seven personnel of the spy agency....
Was replaced as Rajapaksa feared coup: Fonseka

Saturday 14 November '09

Sri Lanka’s former top General Sarath Fonseka has claimed fears that he could launch a coup had led President Mahinda Rajapaksa to sideline him and ask India to put its troops on alert for an intervention....
Prachanda gives 7-day deadline to Nepal govt

Saturday 14 November '09

Notwithstanding the government’s call for talks, Maoist chief Prachanda on Friday gave it a seven-day ultimatum to restore “civilian supremacy”....
Modi to felicitate Tendulkar

Saturday 14 November '09

Chief Minister Narendra Modi will felicitate Sachin Tendulkar at the start of the first Test match between India and Sri Lanka for completing 20 years in international cricket.
Former players criticise Butt, say Pakistan cricket needs to change

Saturday 14 November '09

Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Ejaz Butt has come under criticism from former players for his mishandling of the internal rift in the national team which led to Younis Khan forced out of captaincy for the New Zealand tour....
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