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DoT to allocate spectrum to winning companies by May

NEW DELHI: The Department of Telecom will take about 2 months to allocate 1800 Mhz band spectrum won by companies in the February auction. "1800...

Mother Tongue

BY JO LATEU Whatever your memories of your school days – and let’s face it, for most of us, they were not ‘the best years...

Muslims Can Forgive BJP If It Rebuilds Babri: Azam Khan

RAMPUR (UP): Days after BJP made overtures to Muslims, Uttar Pradesh minister Azam Khan said the community can think of extending support to the...

Mid-day meal scheme should not be teachers’ responsibility: HC

Mumbai: In a significant order, the Bombay High Court has asked the Maharashtra Government not to impose the burden of managing mid-day meal scheme...

RAW official, family found dead

New Delhi: A RAW official, his wife and two children were found dead under mysterious circumstances in their official residence in South Delhi’s Sadiq...

By Mir Suhail

No Change in Policy on 2002 Gujarat Riots: US

WASHINGTON: Washington’s position on the 2002 Gujarat riots has not changed and the omission of BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi’s name from a...

Punjab: 62 Indian Soldiers’ Bodies Dug Out From Well

AJNALA: Volunteers Saturday dug out the mortal remains of 40 more Indian soldiers from a well where more than 200 of them were dumped...

SC verdict on death sentence commutation patently illegal: Govt

NEW DELHI: The Centre on Saturday moved the Supreme Court seeking review of its verdict holding that undue delay by the government in deciding...

US Court Permits Sikh Group to Summon Manmohan Singh

WASHINGTON: A US court has granted a Sikh group’s plea to serve summons on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in India under an international convention...

Pak Taliban announce month-long ceasefire

PESHAWAR/ISLAMABAD: The Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militant organisation on Saturday announced a month-long ceasefire, a development likely to break a deadlock in peace talks with...

MSME Ministry seeks waiver of loan to Khadi Village Board

NEW DEHLI: The Ministry of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises has appealed to the government to waive the outstanding principal amount of Rs 296...

Pak economy grows beyond targets

KARACHI: Pakistan has recorded five percent growth in the first quarter of the current fiscal year, the central bank said, beating its target and...

Hajin on boil over arrest of 4 youth

Azim Jan Bandipora: Amid a complete shutdown, violent protests broke out Saturday in Hajin town of this north Kashmir district against the arrest of four...

All-round SA pip Pakistan to maiden title triumph

DUBAI: South Africa finally broke their Under-19 World Cup jinx by beating crowd favourites Pakistan by six wickets in a predominantly one-sided final in...

Price cut push Maruti, Hyundai sales higher in Feb

New Delhi: Leading car makers Maruti Suzuki India and Hyundai Motor India recovered some ground in February as buyers made their way to the...

New Delhi: Senior off-spinner and Punjab captain Harbhajan Singh on Saturday said that Parveez Rasool, who was a part of the Rest of India...

Asia Cup: Team India face Pakistan in do-or-die clash

MIRPUR: Driven into a corner after their defeat to Sri Lanka, India will look to regroup quickly and plug their loopholes as they go...

India’s Power Pyramid

Titled The Saint and The Doctor, Arundhati Roy’s introduction to a new, annotated edition of Dr. B R Ambedkar’s Annihilation of Caste is an...

Warner ton puts Australia on top

CAPE TOWN: Opener David Warner hit a run-a-ball century as Australia took charge of the third and final test by reaching 294 for three...

Unique identification number for hallmarked jewellery: BIS

KOLKATA: The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) is introducing Unique Identification Number for hallmarked jewellery to ensure better traceability and consumer protection. "We have decided...

It’s India’s batting vs Pakistan’s bowling, says Zaheer Abbas

Mirpur: Pakistan's chief cricket consultant Zaheer Abbas feels it would be an intense contest between India's famed batting and his team's "stronger" bowling when...

Flickering Hopes for a Syrian Future

BY VIJAY PRASHAD In late February, Filippo Grandi, the Commissioner General of UNRWA, the United Nations agency tasked with the welfare of the Palestinians, visited...

1954: US Envoy in India Cables Washington

“Prime Minister Nehru’s statement in the House of People yesterday that US members of (the) UN observer group in Kashmir can no longer be...

J-K govt announces deadline for completion of work on Tagore Hall

JAMMU: The ongoing work at Tagore Hall would be completed by coming May, Jammu and Kashmir government said as it announced a timeframe for...

7 policemen killed in Naxal ambush in Ch’garh

Raipur: A Station House Officer (SHO) and six police jawans were Friday killed and two others injured, one of them critically, in a Naxal...

A Dynast Who Chose Not to Be

BY NIRUPAMA SUBRAMANIAN Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, the former President of Sri Lanka, has among her photographs a collector’s item taken when she was an 11-year-old...

Lt Gen PR Kumar to be new Army DGMO

New Delhi: Lt Gen PR Kumar will tomorrow take over as Director General Military Operations (DGMO) from Lt Gen Vinod Bhatia, who is retiring...

Significant rights abuse by Indian cops, forces: US Report

Lalit K Jha Washington: A US Congress-mandated report on Friday said that abuses by police and security forces are the most significant human rights problems...

Malik, aides detained as police foil JKLF rally

Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front( JKLF) chairman  Mohammad Yasin Malik and several of his party colleagues were Friday detained when they were preparing...

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