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Naxal-planted explosives unearthed in Gondia

Four days after the Naxals killed a village sarpanch in the Gondia district, C-60 commandoes along with the local police found 16.5 kilograms of ammonium nitrate stuffed in two steel boxes, in a tunne

Somali pirates hijack oil tanker with 11 Indians

A Liberian-flagged oil tanker, MT Smyrin, with 11 Indians, 14 Filipinos and a Romanian, was hijacked by Somali pirates on Wednesday off Oman’s coast from the Arabian Sea.

Ex-NCERT adviser’s office ransacked

The row over Dr B.R. Ambedkar’s cartoon took a nasty turn on Saturday, as four persons ransacked the office of Prof. Suhas Palshikar in the Pune University.

Lost and found: Laptops, gold, cash, cells...

In a city that is always on the run, as many as 6,008 incidents of lost baggage while travelling in local trains were reported in the past 16 months, revealed the data compiled by the Government Railw

2 traders stuck in China losing hope

While diplomatic dialogue and legal intricacies drag on with no end in sight, Indian traders Shyamsunder Agrawal and Deepak Raheja, stuck in China for the last five months, are steadily slipping into

Naveen may hold talks with Jaya

Orissa chief minister and the BJD president Naveen Patnaik on Thursday left for a two-day visit to Chennai amidst speculation that he might hold talks with the AIADMK supremo and Tamil Nadu chief mini

Hawkers to get moveable kiosks

The Mamata Banerjee government will demolish all the permanent structures of the hawkers across the state and will replace those with moveable kiosks.

Deccan Chargers score 187/4 against Daredevils

In-form Shikhar Dhawan notched up a scintillating 49-ball 84 to guide Deccan Chargers to a challenging 187 for four against Delhi Daredevils in their Indian Premier League match here today.

‘India should go for sustainable food growth’

Speaking about the need to increase food production to feed the growing population, India’s representative from the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), Dr Peter Kenmore, on Monday

Revised Indo-Pak visa pact soon

India and Pakistan are expected to sign a revised visa agreement making liberalised provisions for businessmen when the home and interior secretaries of the two countries meet for talks in Islamabad l

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