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In a significant development, the Bangladesh government has decided to allow India to ferry food grains and essentials for the mountainous northeastern states via its territory, Assam Tribune reported yesterday quoting a Tripura minister.

Two Western aid workers kidnapped in Pakistan in January are being held by the Pakistan Taliban near the border with Afghanistan, a senior militant commander told Reuters on Saturday.

Hyderabad, Feb 11 : At least 10 patients have died since Friday night at government-run hospitals in Andhra Pradesh where emergency services are crippled following a strike by junior doctors, officials said Saturday.

London, Feb 11 : A 36-year-old man of Indian origin who was jailed for 12 months for groping a pregnant patient at a British hospital where he worked will not be deported because of his "right to family life". Milind Sanade pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting the 21-year-old pregnant woman at a hospital in Harlow, Essex, in February 2010.

In this Nov. 10, 2009 file photo, Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan speaks during an interview in London.

Dating Girl advice columnist Josey Vogels says: "Dating" is crucial if you want to keep the spark in your relationship, especially if you have kids.

Independent researchers believe that it is difficult to conceive of any reason, other than radiation, for the human and environmental catastrophe.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh shakes hands with European Council President Herman Van Rompuy as European Commission President Jose Manual Barroso watches.

After the cancellation of Salman Rushdie's festival appearance, Taslima Nasrin attacks the growing 'appetite for censorship' in India which has prevented her own book launch Fans of censorship ... protesters at the Kolkata Book Fair hold up copies of Taslima Nasrin's latest book.

The former head of the Maldives criticized the United States on Friday for recognizing the Indian Ocean nation's new government, which he says came to power in a coup.

Ghaziabad, Feb 9: A large stock of liquor, intended to be used to woo voters in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh, was seized in Ghaziabad and two people were held, police said Thursday.

Dungarpur , Feb 9: Upset over the birth of a girl, a woman flung the baby out of an ambulance in Rajasthan when she was being taken to her house from a health centre after delivery, police said Thursday.

AS SCANDALS go, it is a corker. It involves secret recordings of lobbyists talking to tycoons about ministers, fraudulent documents, unrelated firms that share the same e-mail address, clueless foreigners piling into a vast market, bank drafts with dates that make no sense, PR flacks taped schmoozing hacks with honking traffic in the background, ... (more)

In a court battle testing the impunity long enjoyed by Pakistan's intelligence service, the Pakistani military said Thursday that it would not bring forward seven men who were mysteriously kidnapped from prison in 2010 - allegedly by intelligence agents - because they were in extremely poor health.

The former wife of Sir Paul McCartney did not authorise former News of the World editor Piers Morgan, or anybody else, to listen to her voicemails, she told the inquiry into press standards.

Indian Minister for Commerce and Industry Anand Sharma, left, talks with European Union Commissioner Kari De Gucht during a meeting in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Feb.

India's most populous state went to the polls Wednesday in a contest pitting the scion of the Gandhi political dynasty against the ruling party of local low-caste leader Mayawati.

Male, Feb 8: Maldives' new President Mohamed Waheed said he would form an all-party national unity government Wednesday, the day calm returned to the capital after weeks of protests that culminated in Mohamed Nasheed stepping down as head of state.

Ahmedabad, Feb 8: The Gujarat High Court Wednesday criticised the Narendra Modi government in the state for 'inaction and negligence' during the 2002 post-Godhra riots that led to large-scale destruction of religious structures.

Pakistani children play snooker in slums of Rawalpindi city in Pakistan on Tuesday, Feb 7, 2012.