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42 years after liberation, Bangladesh covicts former Pakistani collaborator
15 Jul 2013
A 91-year-old former chief of an Islamic party in Bangladesh, Ghulam Azam, was awarded a 90-year jail term today for crimes against humanity during the country's 1971 independence war
Bose Corporation founder, Amar Gopal Bose passes away
13 Jul 2013
Indian-American engineer and inventor, Amar Bose, a former member of the MIT faculty and the founder of Bose Corporation, passed away on Thursday. He was 83
Bollywood bids adieu to its famous villain, Pran
13 Jul 2013
Pran, Bollywood’s famous and prolific villain, was cremated at the Shivaji Park electric crematorium in Mumbai today.
Education a must, Pak Taliban victim Malala Yousafzai tells UN
12 Jul 2013
Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head at close range by Taliban gunmen in October in Pakistan's Swat Valley for campaigning against the Taliban's efforts to prevent women’s education
Former telecom secretary R Chandrashekhar to head Nasscom
05 Jul 2013
Chandrashekhar will take over after current president Som Mittal's tenure ends in January 2014
Railgate: CBI names Pawan Kumar Bansal as witness
04 Jul 2013
The CBI has filed charges against Bansal's nephew Vijay Singla and nine others for their involvement in the railway recruitment scam
Doug Engelbart, father of the mouse, dies at 88
04 Jul 2013
Apart from the ubiquitous computer attachment, Doug Engelbart also laid the foundation for word processing, email, and the internet
Snowden widens asylum search after Russia says ‘nyet’
02 Jul 2013
Snowden has now nowhere to go with Ecuador saying it never intended to facilitate his flight from Hong Kong and Venezuela dilly-dallying on the issue of providing asylum to the fugitive whistleblower
Mark Weinberger becomes EY global chairman and CEO
01 Jul 2013
Global consulting giant EY today announced the appointment of Mark Weinberger as global chairman and CEO
'Bad English' saved Japan's banks from global crisis: Japanese Dy PM
28 Jun 2013
Lax understanding of English helped Japanese banks emerge largely unscathed from the global financial crisis, says Japan's deputy prime minister and finance minister Taro Aso
Rudd back as Australian PM after Gillard loses labour ballot
27 Jun 2013
Julia Gillard lost the Labour Party leadership ballot just months ahead of the general elections due in September to rival Kevin Rudd, whom she had ousted in 2010
Pak agency formally charges Musharraf with Benazir killing
25 Jun 2013
The chargesheet submitted today contained the statements of four witnesses, including two American reporters
Italy’s ex-PM Berlusconi gets 7-yr sentence in sex scandal
25 Jun 2013
Italy's former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been sentenced to seven years in jail and banned from public office by a lower court in Milan
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