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Motihari: Six Naxalites were killed and eight others were arrested after an encounter with security forces in Darmaha village in Bihar`s east Champaran district in the wee hours today. The over 12-hour-long encounter ended at 4 AM today, Director General of Police (DGP) Neelmani said. The bodies of all the six Naxalites have been recovered […]

New Delhi: With increasing broadband penetration across the country, the number of people watching videos online has risen in India, according to a recent survey.        Nasdaq listed company comScore today reported 72 per cent of the 30.2 million total online population of India watch videos on the Internet in January 2011.        "Online video […]

(image) London: Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 1` has become the highest grossing film in the blockbuster fantasy franchise. The seventh movie of the series about a boy wizard, has overtaken the first film, 2001`s `Harry Potter And The Philosopher`s Stone`, with a box office collection of USD 657 million. The first film […]

London: You may lose sleep over this study- going without a night`s rest helps shed the flab, a new study says. Earlier researches have linked chronic lack of sleep to weight gain. Now an international team claims to have found that losing a night`s shut-eye helps burn 135 calories, almost the same amount of energy […]

Bhubaneswar: In a bid to avoid any further untoward incident in the naxal hit areas, the state government on Sunday issued special security guidelines for the legislators, bureaucrats and common men residing in the Maoist hit areas.  After bowing down before the Maoists in the recent Collector abduction case, the state government has framed these […]

Srinagar: Army`s Northern Command Chief Lt Gen K T Parnaik conducted a two-day tour of Kashmir to take stock of the security situation in the Valley. The General officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Northern Command, who arrived here on Friday, was briefed about the security situation in the Valley by GoC Chinar Corps Lt Gen S […]

Bangalore: Defending Champions Australia beat Kenya by 60 runs in their Group A match of the cricket World Cup here on Sunday. Brief Score: Australia: 324 for 6 in 50 overs (Michael Clarke 93, Brad Haddin 65, Nehemiah Odhiambo 3/57, Jimmy Kamande 2/46). Kenya: 264 for six in 50 overs (Collins Obuya 98 not out, […]

Mumbai: Through to the World Cup quarterfinals with an impressive league campaign so far, New Zealand`s hard-hitting batsman Brendon McCullum on Sunday said his team will have to turn up the intensity some more before the knock-out stage of the mega event. Man-of-the-match Mccullum slammed his maiden World Cup century (101 off 109 balls) as […]

New Delhi: India has sent a reminder to Mauritius for its cooperation in the 2G spectrum scam probe citing information about some companies and its directors under the Mutual legal Assistance Treaty. After sending the Letters Rogatory, the CBI has despatched a reminder requesting the Mauritius Government to give details about certain transactions of 12 […]

New Delhi: Unearthing major tax evasion, Delhi Government has detected swindling of tax to the tune of staggering Rs 230 crore by mobile phone dealers who imported handsets from China and sold them "illegally". Top officials in the tax department said apart from evasion of tax, the dealers were found selling Chinese mobile phones not […]

New Delhi: Civil engineering and construction company Simplex Projects has said it has provided all the information and clarification to CBI officials during search operations in connection with the irregularities in Commonwealth Games related contracts. The agency officials had on March 10 carried out searches at the company`s premises at Kolkata and here. "The search […]

New Delhi: Civil engineering and construction company Simplex Projects has said it has provided all the information and clarification to CBI officials during search operations in connection with the irregularities in Commonwealth Games related contracts. The agency officials had on March 10 carried out searches at the company`s premises at Kolkata and here. "The search […]

Jajpur: A mob torched at least six vehicles of a construction company following recovery of the body of a contractor from a construction site at Jenapur area in Jajpur district on Sunday, the police said. Suspecting that Subash Swain, 38, a small contractor working for a company which was awarded construction of railway line, was […]

Paradip: With state government set to submit its report to Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) on proper implementation of Forest Rights Act-2006 (FRA), opponents of Posco on Sunday threatened statewide agitation if the BJD regime gives false assurance to the Centre. "If the state government tells MoEF that no tribals or other traditional forest […]

Cairo: After a series of counter-attacks by forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi, the outgunned and loosely organized rebels were on Sunday pushed out of eastern oil town of Brega, as the Arab League supported a `no-fly` zone to halt the advance of the Libyan military to opposition stronghold of Benghazi. The military, loyal to Muammar […]