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Taiwan leader Tsai’s Houston visit raises hackles in Beijing

09 Jan 2017

Taiwan leader Tsai’s Houston visit raises hackles in Beijing

09 Jan 2017

Iran mourns death of ‘voice of moderation’ Rafsanjani

09 Jan 2017

Former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was a key backer of President Hassan Rouhani and supported Iran`s landmark nuclear deal with world powers that brought peace to the country

Madras HC might order exhumation of Jayalithaa’s body for investigation

09 Jan 2017

''One day it was told that she is walking, another day you said that she will come out and suddenly what happened,'' Justice S Vaidyanathan, who was heading a two-judge vacation bench, asked, adding that the public had a right to know

Gloucester man reveals he is four months pregnant

09 Jan 2017

Aircel case: SC orders Maxis, Ananda Krishnan to appear

07 Jan 2017

Veteran actor Om Puri passes away

06 Jan 2017

The veteran theatre and film actor, reportedly suffered a heart attack, and was found dead at his Mumbai house on Friday morning

Trump vows to press for more ‘efficient, effective’ UN

06 Jan 2017

SC dismisses pleas for probe into Jayalalithaa’s death

06 Jan 2017

Trump names former Reagan administration official as USTR

04 Jan 2017

Robert Lighthizer, who was deputy US trade representative under President Reagan, would work with secretary of commerce-designate Wilbur Ross and Peter Navarro, head of the newly created White House National Trade Council to “strengthen” US manufacturing base and help stop the flight of jobs

Global media squarely blame Ratan for mess in Tata Group

04 Jan 2017

TMC protests as MP Sudip Bandopadhyay arrested in Rose Valley scam

03 Jan 2017

Former Deutsche Bank top exec Anshu Jain joins Cantor

03 Jan 2017

Jain will be doing something different from his Deutsche Bank job, helping the Wall Street underdog that lost 658 or two-thirds of its employees in the September 2001 terrorist attacks, expand in Europe and into Asia

Former Deutsche Bank top exec Anshu Jain joins Cantor

03 Jan 2017

Jain will be doing something different from his Deutsche Bank job, helping the Wall Street underdog that lost 658 or two-thirds of its employees in the September 2001 terrorist attacks, expand in Europe and into Asia

Mongolia buckles to Chinese pressure over Dalai Lama visit

02 Jan 2017

New UN chief Anonio Guterres seen as ideal for the job

02 Jan 2017

`Adaptable, consensual, affable, intellectual, Guterres is perhaps better qualified than any of his nine predecessors for the world’s most demanding job,’ feels The Guardian

Anurag Thakur, Shirke out of BCCI as SC upholds Lodha panel

02 Jan 2017

Indian cricket board president Anurag Thakur and secretary Ajay Shirke have been sacked by the Supreme Court for failing to implement the reforms suggested by the Lodha Committee

Mulayam postpones national convention as Samajwadi Party splits

02 Jan 2017

With almost 200 MLAs extending support for Akhilesh at a meeting called by the chief minister immediately after the Saturday night reprisals, sources say, the Mulayam camp is apprehensive of a poor turnout and is buying time

BJP forms govt in Arunachal with backing from Khandu and 32 other MLAs who quit PPA

31 Dec 2016

General Bipin Rawat takes over as 27th Chief of Army Staff

31 Dec 2016

Air Chief Marshal BS Dhanoa takes over as 25th Chief of Air Staff

31 Dec 2016

Mulayam goes soft on Akhilesh, revokes suspension

31 Dec 2016

A meeting of party MLAs held earlier by the chief minister Akhilwsh Yadav saw almost 200 legislators turn up, signalling that he enjoyed the support of a majority of party legislators

SP chief Mulayam Singh expels UP CM Akhilesh Yadav from party for 6 years

30 Dec 2016

Admiral Sunil Lanba to head Chiefs of Staff Committee

29 Dec 2016

Admiral Sunil Lanba, who received the Chairman, Chiefs of Staff Committee baton from outgoing Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha at a ceremony in South Block today, will be assuming charge in the afternoon of 31 December

Madras HC judge says he too has doubts over Jayalalithaa's death

29 Dec 2016

The Madras High Court today said it has doubts over Jayalalithaa’s death and asked why the former CM's dead body could not be exhumed for investigations