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Chennai: The Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Tuesday formally decided to forge an alliance with the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam to fight the Tamil Nadu Assembly elections, saying the need of the hour was to bring all secular and Left democratic forces under one umbrella to defeat the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam-Congress combine. […]

London: A drug commonly used to treat breast cancer may also help reduce the risk of lung cancer deaths, a new Swiss study has claimed. Researchers at the University of Geneva found that women who were given "Tamoxifen" to treat their breast cancer had a very low death rate from lung cancer. The scientists said […]

Washington: Scientists have found a blood protein which causes significant mental decline in elderly people — a risk which they claim could be detected early through a simple blood test. Researchers at the University of California found that elderly people who have low blood levels of beta-amyloid 42 protein are more prone to cognitive decline […]

Paris: Scientists on Monday said their discovery of a "rogue gene" could stop the spread of most late-stage cancers, providing one day the right drug is found. Known as WWP2, the gene controls an enzyme which attacks a natural inhibitor that prevents cancer cells from spreading. Researchers at the University of East Anglia in eastern […]

NEW DELHI: Unfazed by opposition attacks and questions from the Supreme Court, government on Tuesday maintained that it cannot disclose information received from foreign entities on black money held by Indians abroad because of absence of legal framework. Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee, however, dismissed opposition criticism that it was not disclosing information because such disclosure […]

Lucknow: An IPS officer has lodged an FIR against social networking site Facebook for allegedly maligning the image of Mahatma Gandhi through an online group. Amitabh Thakur, an IPS officer of UP cadre, has lodged the FIR against Facebook and others at Gomti Nagar police station here for allegedly portraying Gandhi in a wrong manner […]

New Delhi:The Supreme Court today expunged two controversial sentences in its ruling on the killings of Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two minor sons, which had upheld the life imprisonment for Bajrang Dal activist Dara Singh and his accomplice. Expunging the second last sentence of paragraph 43 of the 76-page ruling, a bench of […]

Pathankot: Senior BJP leaders Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitely were today brought to Madhopur in Punjab from Jammu, where they were stopped from leaving the airport in the run-up to the party`s plan to hoist the tricolour in Srinagar on Republic Day. The leaders were transported in separate vehicles by officials of the Jammu and […]

Mumbai: With a view to rein in high inflation, the Reserve Bank of India today raised its key short-term lending and borrowing rates by 0.25 per cent each with immediate effect. The short-term lending (repo) rate has been hiked to 6.50 per cent and the borrowing (reverse repo) to 5.50 per cent, a move that […]

Moscow: A suspected `black widow` is said to be behind the suicide blast in Russia`s busiest Domodedovo International Airport in which at least 35 were killed and 178 injured, reports said today. One of the eyewitnesses questioned by the investigators said he had seen how the hand baggage of a woman dressed in black exploded, […]

Mumbai: Filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar, who has changed gears from realism to romantic-comedy in his upcoming film `Dil Toh Baccha Hai Jee` says he would soon return to issue-based cinema, which brought him recognition. "I will definitely return to serious or issue based cinema. I will very soon make a hard-hitting film. Because it is this […]

Mumbai: The Indian rupee gained 20 paise to Rs 45.48 against the US dollar in early trade at the Interbank Foreign Exchange today, supported by a higher opening in the stock market and weakness of the American currency against other major currencies. The rupee had depreciated by 6 paise against the greenback to close at […]

Mumbai: The Sensex gained by over 99 points in opening trade on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE)today on sustained buying by funds, taking cues from other Asian markets but investors remained cautious ahead of the RBI monetary policy. The 30-share index of the BSE, which gained almost 144 points in the previous session, rose further […]

New Delhi: The JD(U) today made a fresh appeal to ally BJP today to drop its plan to hoist the national flag in Lal Chowk in Srinagar, saying issues related to Jammu and Kashmir were "sensitive". "Earlier also I had given the suggestion…, I again appeal to them (BJP)," JD(U) President Sharad Yadav told reporters […]

New Delhi: The Shunglu committee going into charges of corruption and procedural lapses in conduct of Commonwealth Games and related projects may get additional manpower from the government to speed up the probe. Sources said Chairman of the V K Shunglu has expressed concern over lack of executive rank staff to help him in compiling […]