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Convicted Gilani must quit, says opposition

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Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, who was convicted on Thursday for contempt of court, must resign immediately, demanded opposition leaders, including former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. Cricketer-tu

Myanmar to buy electricity from China

Myanmar will buy back 100 megawatts of electricity from China, a major investor in the country's hydropower projects and receives bulk of the power generated from these plants.

The move will help mit

India sparks solar energy market: Report

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India's ambitious national solar programme has catalysed rapid growth in the solar market driving solar energy prices low and demonstrating how government policy can stimulate clean energy markets, ac

Sri Lanka to have blood pressure meters in public places

Sri Lanka will install meters in Colombo's public places to measure blood pressure of people, in a country where at least 350 die every day due to heart attacks, hypertension and respiratory diseases.

What do ratings, outlook downgrades mean?

Ratings agency Standard & Poor's on Wednesday cut its outlook on India to ‘negative’ from ‘stable’. What does it mean?

Outlook indicates potential direction of ratings in short to medium term, typica

Mumbai dabbawallas hike rates again

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The soaring inflation has pinched hard Mumbai's famous tribe of dabbawallas, who ferry lunch boxes to and fro in the city daily.

From June 1, they plan to hike their monthly delivery charges by Rs.5

Naked body of woman found in Delhi hospital premises

A naked body of an unidentified woman was recovered near the doctors' hostel inside Lok Nayak Hospital in the capital, police said on Wednesday.

The body has extreme burn injuries and was recovered a

Darren Bravo may not play in IPL this season

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Left-handed West Indies strokemaker Darren Bravo may not play in the current edition of the lucrative Indian Premier League even after the current Australia series ends in the Caribbean.

The 23-year-

Sudden rains wash out RCB-CSK tie in Bangalore

Intermittent rains even two hours after the game was to begin forced the organisers to call off the Indian Premier League match between hosts Royal Challengers Bangalore and Chennai Super Kings late o

Indian rocket being fuelled for Risat-1 launch

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With 5.47 a.m. on Thursday set for the blast-off of the Indian rocket carrying a remote sensing/earth observation satellite - Radar Imaging Satellite (Risat-1) - into space, the Indian space agency is

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