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New Delhi, Sep 3 (ANI): India has conveyed its concerns to Beijing on Chinese activities in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK).
India’s Ambassador to China S. Jaishankar met Chinese Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs Zhang Zhijun in Beijing on Friday.
Jaishankar conveyed New Delhi’s concern over the reported presence of Chinese troops in the Gilgit Baltistan region of [...]

New Delhi, Sep 3 (ANI): Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad held a meeting with Delhi Health Minister Kiran Walia on Friday to review the situation arising out of rise in dengue cases, which has become a concern for the Government prior to the 2010 Commonwealth Games.
“Azad emphasised the need for a [...]

Seoul (South Korea), Sep 3 (ANI): India and South Korea on Friday inked two landmark Memoranda of Understandings (MoUs) to give a huge boost to strategic defence cooperation between the two nations.
The two MoUs were signed in the presence of Defence Minister A K Antony and his South Korean counterpart Kim Tae-young in Seoul.
The [...]

Sydney, Sep 3(ANI): Australian chief selector Andrew Hilditch is confident that wicket-keeper Brad Haddin would recuperate from his elbow injury to be a part of the national squad for the Ashes.
Hilditch further said that Haddin, who was not included in the 16-man squad for the two-Test tour of India, could even return for the three-match [...]

Amethi (Uttar Pradesh), Sep 3 (ANI): Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi has launched 3G services in his parliamentary constituency of Amethi.
Rahul said telecommunication services have played an important role in the development of the country and are successfully bridging the gap between the rich and the poor.
“I remember that my father, when he was alive, [...]

London, Sep 3 (ANI): Indian-origin shopkeeper, Gurmail Singh, was battered to death in his own shop by a gang of robbers in Britain’s Cowcliffe area of Huddersfield, after he denied giving away his ”hard-earned money” to them, West Yorkshire, prosecutor Adrian Waterman told Bradford Crown Court on Thursday.
“Gurmail Singh did not meekly hand over his [...]

New Delhi, Sep.3 (ANI): Nine members of Canada’s Standing Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade will be visiting Delhi, Mumbai and Hyderabad from September 4 to 9.
According to a Canada High Commission release, the delegation will meet Indian ministers, government officials, business leaders and academics to understand the potential that India holds as [...]

New Delhi, Sep 3 (ANI): Over 100 workers have been killed during the construction of the metro railway in India’s capital city, New Delhi, since 1998, according to a submission by the metro authorities.
The first line opened in 2002 in the city, offering commuters an air-conditioned and swift alternative to overcrowded buses and three-wheelers.
There has [...]

Cheenai, Sep 3 (ANI): Film star Rajinikanth’s daughter Soundarya wed Ashwin, a Stanford graduate, here on Friday. The typical Brahmin ceremony was organised at the Rani Meyammai Hall in Chennai.
Invitees belonging to the film industry, business world and politics attended the high profile ceremony, a television report said.
Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and other high [...]

Melbourne, Sept 3 (ANI): After nine years of research, panspermia theorists have said that the ‘red’ rains that occurred in India in July 2001 contained bugs that were unlike anything ever found on the Earth, suggesting that it may be an alien form of life.
Panspermia is the idea that all life on Earth was seeded [...]

New Delhi, Sep 3 (IANS) Food inflation in India rose to 10.86 percent for the week ended Aug 21 from 10.05 percent a week earlier, snapping a two-week decline, official data released Friday showed.
The inflation for the fuel and primary articles groups also inched higher, according to the data released by the commerce ministry.
The [...]

Mumbai, Sep 3 (IANS) Actress Juhi Chawla, who has given voiceover for Sita’s character in 3D animation film ‘Ramayana – The Epic’, said she hasn’t quit the film industry and will soon make an appearance in director Onir’s ‘I AM’.
‘There may be gaps in between, but I am not going anywhere. I have a [...]

New Delhi, Sep 3 (IANS) A Canadian foreign affairs and trade delegation will visit India Sep 4-9 to meet ministers, officials and business leaders to understand the potential that the country holds as an emerging market and one of the fastest developing economies.
The nine-member delegation of Canada’s Standing Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs and [...]

New Delhi, Sep 3 (IANS) India, looking to launch a second green revolution to boost its food security, has begun looking at distant South America where countries have been able to ramp up food production with new technology and farming methods. And to take lessons first-hand, Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar will visit Argentina, Brazil [...]

Kolkata, Sep 3 (IANS) Be it soccer legend Diego Maradona, tennis star Martina Hingis or football World Cup hero Diego Forlan – they have all visited the plain two-storey Missionaries of Charity headquarters here that houses Mother Teresa’s grave. It’s a must-see for foreign tourists visiting eastern India even 13 years after her death.
Sep 5, [...]

Amritsar (Punjab), Sep 3 (IANS) Punjab police remained clueless Friday about the whereabouts a 40-year-old Pakistanti prisoner who disappeared from a jail here Tuesday.
The prisoner, Nayamat Ali, was arrested by the Border Security Force (BSF) an year ago for illegally entering India in the Lopoke area near this Sikh holy city. Police said he was [...]

Mumbai, Sep 3 (IANS) Legendary filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak’s ‘Meghe Dhaka Tara’ completes 50 years this year. Sadly, despite critics globally considering it to be one of a handful of most important films from India, the excitement is not palpable.
‘The only retrospective of the film happened in Lincoln Centre in New York and another screening [...]

Ipoh (Malaysia), Sep 3 (IANS) At least 24 Indian men who were found locked up in a house in a Malaysian town have been rescued and two Pakistani men allegedly involved in a human trafficking racket have been detained, a media report said Friday.
Malaysian police found a clue to the Indian men’s detention from [...]

London, Sep 3 (IANS) Indian-origin shopkeeper Gurmail Singh was battered to death after he restricted a gang of robbers at his shop in Britain Feb 20, a court has heard.
The 63-year-old man who came to Britain from India in 1963 was beaten over the head with bottles of wine taken from the shelves as [...]

New Delhi, Sep 2 (IANS) The clock is ticking fast and furious to the 19th Commonwealth Games here Oct 3-14. As Delhi works away at a feverish pitch in the last lap, the missed deadlines, corruption allegations, debris and resulting disease have put a question mark on the whopping Rs.16,000 crore ($ 3.2 billion) [...]