Patna: The second phase of the Bihar assembly elections began in 45 constituencies spread across the Tirhut-Mithilanchal belt Sunday amid reports of Maoist violence in Sitamarhi district.

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Hollywood actor Randy Quaid and his wife Evi, who are on the run from the law in the US, have sought refugee status in Canada.
The Oscar-nominated actor, who is known for his roles in films like Independence Day and The Last Detail, and his wife face arrest warrants for staying illegally in the guest house of a property in Santa Barbara which they once owned.

Patna: Maoists Sunday abducted four polling officials and released them in an hour in Bihar's Sitamarhi district and also attempted to ransack a polling station during the second phase of the assembly

Hyderabad: Indian archery coach Ch. Lenin was killed and two Delhi Commonwealth Games silver medallists were injured in a road accident near Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh early Sunday.

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Kathmandu: Taking advantage of the long festival season in Nepal, groups from India's Bihar state across the border are bringing hundreds of Indian women to the Himalayan republic to stage obscene nud

London: Two strains of Africa's most notorious malaria mosquitoes are evolving into new species, having implications for combating the disease as the vectors could become immune to control strategies.

Srinagar: Widely condemned when their names were first made public, the three interlocutors on Jammu and Kashmir have begun to raise hopes in the Kashmir Valley by breaking loose from official protoco

Islamabad: Pakistani forces have attacked militant hideouts in northwestern tribal region, killing 23 militants and injuring 19, a media report said Sunday.

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The US is pushing to expand the presence of its Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officers in Pakistan in order to help Islamabad target the safe havens of Al Qaeda and other militants more aggressive