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Over 100 held in FBI mafia sweep
New York: The FBI and other US agencies arrested more than 110 people on Thursday in a massive operation targeting organised crime in the Northeast and New England, Attorney General Eric Holder said.
CWG dues: Now, UK asks for nearly Rs 100 crore in unpaid bills
British High Commissioner Richard Stagg on Friday asked India's public broadcaster Prasar Bharti to clear dues of Rs.96 crore ($21 million approx) on account of the coverage of the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi.
Sukhna land scam: Lt Gen P K Rath found guilty
An Army court martial on Friday pronounced former 33 Corps Commander Lt. Gen. Rath guilty on three counts in a land scam in the Sukna military station in West Bengal.
Husain's paintings out of India Art Summit
New Delhi: Art lovers who hoped to catch M.F. Husain's paintings at the India Art Summit here have disappointment in store, with the organisers on Friday saying they had received at least 20 e-mails w
Army top boss held in land scam
Shillong: An army court martial on Friday pronounced former 33 Corps Commander Lt. Gen. Rath guilty on three counts in a land scam in the Sukna military station in West Bengal.
The sentence in the ca
ISI helped Taliban chief get treated at Karachi
Washington, Jan. 19: Pakistan spy agency ISI rushed Afghan Taliban leader, the one-eyed Mullah Omar, to hospital after he suffered a heart attack earlier this month. He was treated at a hospital in Ka
9/11 mastermind killed Daniel Pearl
Washington: Khalid Sheik Mohammed, a top Al Qaeda leader and 9/11 attack mastermind, killed US journalist Daniel Pearl and even re-staged the killing by decapitating his victim so that it could be fil
Bryan asks for 100 white towels for India tour
Popular International singer Bryan Adams, who is set to rock India on February 12-16, has made a slew of demands ranging from 100 white towels and hospitality parties to forklifts before he arrives in
Rapist legislator's wife comes to his rescue
Accused of raping a 17-year-old tribal girl from Banda, ruling Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MLA Purshottam Naresh Dwivedi Thursday got his wife Asha Dwivedi to come to his rescue. Short of terming him as "impotent", she said everything to claim he was "innocent." "My husband is 50 years old with acute diabetes and is not capable of committing rape," Asha told a press conference here on Thursday.
US welcomes China's peaceful rise: Obama
Washington: US President Barack Obama has said cooperation between America and China is good for both countries as well as the world.
"I absolutely believe that China's peaceful rise is good for the
