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Mirage upgrade deal by March-end
Bengaluru: India will finalise a deal with France by March-end to upgrade its 51 Mirage-2000 fighter jets, the Indian Air Force (IAF) chief, Air Chief Marshal P.V. Naik, said on Thursday.
The two cou
US now focused on LeT threat
Washington: The United States has 'focused' its attention on Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), the Pakistan-based terror outfit behind the Mumbai terror attacks, as it 'could pose a threat' to the US and Europe,
Now, camels in wrestling
Islamabad: Thousands of people turned up in Pakistan's Rahim Yar Khan city to watch a unique sport - camel wrestling.
The event took place on Wednesday at Ehsanpur where tickets for the event were pr
Rain: ICC shifts warm-ups from Pallekele
Bengaluru: Heavy rains at Pallekele in Sri Lanka, have forced the International Cricket Council (ICC) to shift two warm-up matches to a different venue.
The decision was taken by local and ICC offici
Rs.70 bn compensation to states on reduced sales tax
New Delhi: The government on Thursday approved Rs.7,029 crore (over Rs.70 billion) as compensation to states for losses incurred on reducing central sales tax (CST) during the current fiscal.
"The ca
Apex court gives one-year jail to former Kerala minister
The Supreme Court on Thursday sentenced former Congress minister from Kerala R. Balakrishna Pillai and two others to one-year imprisonment for abusing their position in the award of contract for the Edamalayar hydroelectric power project.
Supreme Court reserves verdict on CVC's appointment
The Supreme Court on Thursday reserved its verdict on a petition which has challenged P.J. Thomas' appointment as central vigilance commissioner on the grounds that he was facing a chargesheet in a palm oil imports case and was not an outstanding civil servant of impeccable integrity.
Food inflation falls to 13.1 per cent
New Delhi: India's annual food inflation dropped by nearly four percentage points to 13.07 percent for the week ended January 29 - the lowest level in nearly one-and-a-half months - on decline in the
Three killed in Bombay House fire
Three people were killed and one suffered serious injuries when a major fire broke out on Wednesday morning in the basement of Bombay House, the headquarters of the Tata Group, an official said.
‘World Cup format tweaked to favour India, Pakistan’
New Delhi: Tournament director Ratnakar Shetty said the early exit of the game's financial powerhouses India and Pakistan in the 2007 World Cup forced the International Cricket Council (ICC) to change
