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NEW DELHI: Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama is expected to arrive here from Tokyo Saturday evening before leaving for Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh for a visit denounced by China, an aide said.

New Delhi: Almost 20 per cent polling was recorded by mid-day for the assembly by-elections in seven states.

Tajikistan News.Net Saturday 7th November, 2009 India has purchased 200 tons of gold from the International Monetary Fund to diversify its foreign exchange reserves.

AT least 30 people have died in northern India when an overcrowded bus veered off a road and plunged into a gorge, police said.

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan did a Raj Thackeray when he said that jobs in the state should not be allowed to be taken away by Biharis, evoking sharp condemnation from Bihar leaders Lalu Yadav and Ram Vilas Paswan.

Witness statements in the investigation into the rape and murder of British teenager Scarlett Keeling have suggested that drugs were freely available near the beach where her body was found.

By Iftikhar Gilani NEW DELHI: India on Thursday prevented foreign journalists to cover Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama's visit to the disputed state of Arunachal Pradesh on the borders of China.

A crowded bus plunged down a steep mountain gorge in northern India today, killing 32 people, a local official said.

South East Asia News.Net Friday 6th November, 2009 Islamabad, Nov.6 : Pakistan has once again raked up the issue of India's alleged hand in terror activities inside its territory, saying New Delhi must explain its role in promoting terrorism in the country, The Daily Times reports.

NEW DELHI: India's economy will grow by eight percent next year and could return to nine percent the following year as the global economy picks up, a top government policy adviser said Wednesday.

File photo of Ambika Soni, Information and Broadcasting Minister of India Image: World Economic Forum .

JAMMU: Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy Farooq Abdullah told Home Minister P. Chidambaram to reconsider the continuation of the ban on pre-paid mobile services in Jammu and Kashmir when Chidambaram concluded his day-long visit to the state Wednesday night, officials said.

The Dalai Lama, center left, visits "Cornerstone of Peace" at Okinawa Senseki Quasi-National Park in Itoman, on a southern island of Okinawa, Japan, Thursday, Nov.

The Haryana government Wednesday gave a cheque of Rs.200,000 to the aggrieved family of the 32-year-old man who died Tuesday at the gate of a hospital here because the prime minister's security hindered his access to timely medical treatment.

NEW DELHI: Asserting that the involvement of tribal communities in developmental processes was "highly important", Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Wednesday urged state governments to give a "healing touch" to victims of "systemic exploitation". "The states should endeavour to give a healing touch to the tribal communities.

David Coleman Headley and Tahawwur Hussain Rana, arrested last month by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, were part of a Lashkar-e-Tayiba [ Images ] plan of a major terror attack on the facilities of a Danish newspaper and the National Defence College in New Delhi [ Images ], federal prosecutors have said.

At least eight children drowned Wednesday when a boat carrying at least 35 students capsized in southern India, police said.

New Delhi: Cross Border terrorism emanating from Pakistan is expected to top the agenda of talks between foreign ministers of India and Iran due to be held in mid-November in the national capital.

The Dalai Lama is scheduled to visit the northeastern Indian state, a part of which Beijing claims, next week.

Wednesday, November 04, 2009 NEW DELHI: Indian authorities were investigating on Tuesday a former state chief minister accused of siphoning off hundreds of millions of dollars to buy himself mines in Africa and properties across Asia.