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Centre discusses ruling on gay sex
Muslims hold a protest in Bhopal on Friday against the Delhi High Court judgment decriminalising homosexuality.
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India, Japan focus on strategic ties
External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna and his Japanese counterpart, Hirofumi Nakasone, at a joint press announcement in Tokyo on Friday.
UP Govt gives nod to file chargesheet against Varun
Uttar Pradesh government on Friday gave the green signal for filing of chargesheet in a court against BJP MP Varun Gandhi for making allegedly inflammatory speeches in Pilibhit, moving a step closer to his trial in the case.
AI staff go on two-hour strike, airline warns of wage cuts
NEW DELHI: Employees of national carrier Air India went on a two-hour strike at airports across the country from 1 p.m. in protest against the delay in salary payments despite a warning from the management that this would entail a pay cut.
Social commitment highlighted in Railway Budget
NEW DELHI: Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee began presenting her ministry's budget for the current fiscal shortly after noon Friday with the promise of addressing the concerns of average passengers.
Pakistan bomb blast kills at least 1
A police officer stands guard next to the wreckage of a bus that was blown up Thursday by a suspected suicide bomber riding a motorcycle in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
Delhi High Court legalises homosexuality
India News: In a historic judgement, the Delhi High Court Thursday decriminalised homosexuality by striking down section 377 of the Indian Penal Code .
Treasury moves against Pakistani men suspected of supporting terror networks in Pakistan
The Treasury Department on Wednesday took action against four Pakistani men suspected of providing support to terror groups in the country.
An employee fills a customer's tank at a petrol pump in Kolkata NIdhi Verma NEW DELHI: The government unexpectedly raised gasoline and diesel prices by as much as 10 percent on Wednesday, its first increase this year, passing some of oil's rally into an economy just beginning to find its feet amid a global recession.
You don't scare me A Kashmiri woman argues with Indian police officers during a protest in the summer capital of Indian-held Kashmir.
Intelligence input indicates terror threat to west coast: Chidambaram
Launching the NSG hubs, Home Minister P Chidambaram today said intelligence agencies have indicated a terror threat to the country's west coast but it did not mean that there will be an imminent attack.
India picks envoy to China as foreign secretary
NEW DELHI: Nirupama Rao, India's ambassador to China, will be its next foreign secretary, the government said on Tuesday.
Minister's call to HC judge a gross impropriety: CJI
NEW DELHI: Chief Justice India K G Balakrishanan has strongly reacted to the sensational disclosure by Justice R Regupathi of the Madras High Court that a Union minister had called him to influence him to grant anticipatory bail to the accused in a forgery case.
Biz environment has improved in 3 yrs: WB
It is easier to start and operate business in India than it was three years ago in many large cities of the country, a report by IFC and World bank says.
Sonia Gandhi inaugurates India's first sea bridge
UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi today declared open the country's first sea bridge that links Mumbai's western suburbs of Bandra and Worli.
Zardaria s a Exclusion of India as Threata Blown out of Context: Pak Minister
June 30, 2009 Visionmp.com news service In what can be seen as a lack of consensus between Pakistani leaders on ties with India, the Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira has said that President Asif Ali Zardaria s statement a India is no more a threat for Pakistana was blown out of proportion.
After 17 yrs, Liberhan panel submits Babri demolition report
New Delhi Seventeen years after it was set up, the Liberhan Commission probing the 1992 demolition of Babri Masjid in Ayodhya on Tuesday submitted its report to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Suspected Rebels Kill Family Of 4 In India
Suspected militants used automatic weapons and machetes to kill a family of four migrant workers Tuesday in India's insurgency-hit northeast.
More than 20 die in Pakistan's northwest
Pakistani fighter jets bombed suspected Taliban hideouts on Monday and a stray mortar crashed into a mosque during prayers as violence in the volatile northwest claimed more than 20 lives.
AT LEAST 35 people including eight children were killed after they were struck by lightning in the adjoining eastern Indian states of Bihar and Jharkhand, officials said on Monday.