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Jajpur: The bodies of five Maoists including four women killed during anti-Maoist operation at Raighati area under Tamka police limits have been identified. However, their bodies were shifted to district headquarters hospital mortuary after post-mortem and other formalities were carried out at Danagadi Community Health Centre (CHC). Their bodies are yet to be claimed by […]

Bhubaneswar: Illegal fishing using mechanized trawlers off Astarang coast is posing a serious threat to the endangered Olive Ridley turtles visiting the state every year for mass nesting. While laws under Wildlife Protection Act are in place to ensure the safety of these endangered species, some fishermen seem to take advantage of lax sea patrolling […]

Islamabad: Pakistani police on Monday claimed they had foiled a possible terrorist attack by arresting two men in Punjab province`s Taxila city and seizing 150 kg of explosives and 2,000 detonators from them. Police said they intercepted an explosives-laden vehicle at a check post on Thatta Road in Taxila, located over 30-km from Islamabad. The […]

Mumbai: Indian Premier League franchises, Rajasthan Royals and Kings X1 Punjab, on Monday filed separate affidavits in the Bombay High Court affirming they had complied with the condition of furnishing bank guarantees to the Cricket Board. The High court had earlier stayed the termination of contract of Kings XI Punjab and Rajasthan Royals with BCCI. […]

New Delhi: The Bofors ghost returned to haunt the Congress party with an income tax tribunal saying that kickbacks of Rs 41 crore were paid to late Win Chaddha and Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi in the Howitzer gun deal and that they are liable to pay tax in India on such income. "….inaction in this […]

Ghaziabad: A special CBI court here on Monday questioned the “hurry” on the part of the agency to close the investigations in the Aarushi Talwar murder case and asked it to file annexures to its report. “The closure report has been registered. Now the court will give the time to the investigating officer to submit […]

Srinagar: A senior Hurriyat leader has created a flutter by saying that two separatist leaders and his brother were killed by "our own people" and not security agencies, prompting J-K government to term it as a "late admission" and a call for a probe to fix responsibility. "No police was involved (in the killings)…. It […]

Johannesburg: Gary Kirsten has the uncanny ability to extract the best out of the players in pressure situations and India will sorely miss him if he does not renew his contract with the Cricket Board after the World Cup starting next month, captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni said. "We fought back after losing the first Test […]

Melbourne: Batting icon Sachin Tendulkar and skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni were among the four Indian cricketers who found a place in former Australia captain Ian Chappell`s `2010 World XI`, which did not feature a single Aussie. Dashing opener Virender Sehwag and pace spearhead Zaheer Khan were the other two Indians in the XI, which features […]

Sydney: Usman Khawaja’s initial eight balls in international cricket provided some of the rare flourishes on Monday in the fifth Ashes Test before he was out for 37 on the last ball of a gloomy, rain-shortened opening day when Australia’s batsmen struggled again to get on top of England. With no chance of regaining the […]

Thiruvananthapuram: The major coalition formations in the country were trying to weaken the Left movement, which had always put forward an alternative to the Centre`s neo-liberal and anti-imperialist policies in the states governed by them, CPI-M polit bureau member Sitaram Yechury said on Monday. Inaugurating a symposium on the `role of transitional governments` as part […]

Chennai: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi on Monday said Congress-DMK alliance was `strong`, seeking to end the speculations on the ties between the two UPA allies amid signs of strain against the backdrop of the 2G Spectrum scam. “Well, the alliance remains as strong as ever,” Dr. Singh told […]

New Delhi: Six months after his expulsion was revoked and he returned to the party-fold, senior BJP leader Jaswant Singh was on Monday entrusted with the task of improving relations with other political parties and winning new allies. "BJP national President Nitin Gadkari has entrusted the task of maintaining continuous contact and relation-building with all […]

San Francisco: The weak and woozy California sea lion found on a San Francisco Bay-area beach in December with buckshot embedded in its skull has become an all-too-common sight for wildlife officials. Wildlife officials have seen a slight rise in the shooting of ocean mammals in recent years, and investigators often struggle to find a […]

Huron Beach: In the never-ending battle to prevent blood-sucking sea lamprey from wiping out some of the most popular fish species in the Great Lakes, biologists are developing new weapons that exploit three certainties in the eel-like parasites` lives: birth, sex and death. Researchers are beginning the third and final year of testing lab-refined mating […]