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India’s Ashwini Chidananda celebrates after winning gold as she stands in the podium with silver medallist from China and bronze medal-winner of Japan at the medal ceremony of the women’s 400m hurdles at the 16th Asian Games in Guangzhou, China on Thursday. PTI     Sports Minister M S Gill on Friday congratulated the Indian [...]

  Supreme Court questions appointment of P.J.Thomas as the CVC when a criminal case is pending against him. While Congress and the government struggles to provide satisfactory answers, the suspicion that his Christian tag and support from Sonia have helped his rise has been  strengthened.  Supreme Court of India made strong observations on the appointment [...]

   Picture: Nira Radia,  Vir Sanghvi and Burkha Dutt The Niira Radia episode raises questions about the boundary between legitimate news gathering, lobbying and influence peddling. The publication of taped conversations between Niira Radia — a lobbyist for Mukesh Ambani and Ratan Tata with a keen interest in the allocation of ministerial portfolios — and editors, [...]

Karnataka Chief Minister B.S.Yedyurappa was expected to resign under the directions of BJP high command after the allegations of land scams in the state. But BJP decided to continue Yedyrappa. “After consultation with party leaders, the party has decided Yeddyurapp a will continue as the chief minister of Karnataka,” party spokesperson Prakash Javadekar told reporters. [...]

North Korea fired more than 100 artillery shells onto Yeonpyeong Island Tuesday, killing two South Korean marines and two civilians. In March, Seoul blamed North Korea for sinking South Korea’s Cheonan warship, killing 46 sailors. The United States and South Korea prepared for war games between November 28 – December 1, 2010 as South Koreans [...]

Anti Indian statements by politicians and social activists are being contested by NGOs and social leaders. Two days after Hurriyat leaders Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Bilal Lone were heckled allegedly by activists of right-wing Hindu outfits at a seminar here, a criminal complaint was filed in a local court on Saturday, 27th Nov 2010, accusing [...]

Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has hit out at Indian Intelligence agencies saying that the RAW or Research and Analysis Wing is inciting violence in the Balochistan province of South-West Pakistan and is actively trying to foster anti-Pakistan sentiments in Afghanistan. Musharraf, currently living in self-exile in Britain, repeated his claims that the involvement of [...]

Nitish Kumar-led Janata Dal(U)-Bharatiya Janata Party combine, which won four-fifths majority in the recent Bihar election, secured a vote share of only 39 per cent — just a three percentage point improvement over what it polled in October 2005. The ruling alliance won 206 seats, leaving the combined Opposition clutching at all of 37 seats [...]

Around one in a hundred deaths worldwide is due to passive smoking, which kills an estimated 600,000 people a year, World Health Organization (WHO) researchers said on Friday, 26th Nov 2010. In the first study to assess the global impact of second-hand smoke, WHO experts found that children are more heavily exposed to second-hand smoke [...]

Egypt’s attorney general ordered the detention of 156 protesters involved in clashes with riot police after the authorities blocked construction of a church in a Cairo suburb. The authorities had halted construction of the church although the Copts said they had an official permit. Some Christians demonstrated near the church and others near the Giza [...]