The court also said it would pass its order on the application seeking warrants against 35 persons wanted in the case on Tuesday. most of the absconding accused are believed to be in Pakistan and thus the government will have

Pakistani Taliban commander Maulana Fazlullah had been injured in an attack or surrounded by troops, which intensified operations and pounded militants' hideouts, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said today.

The world will witness a rare astronomical event- a series of triple eclipses starting July 2009. The fist in the series of triple eclipses will be a lunar eclipse on July 7 which will be followed by a solar eclipse

The Jammu and Kashmir government suspended four police officers and an official of the forensic science laboratory (FSL) in the rape-and-murder of the two young women in Shopian town.

In this sixth part of a series, rediff India Abroad discusses another perspective in its analysis of the growing gun-culture among Indian Americans.

The world's second-fastest growing economy may also see negative inflation for the next 3-6 months triggering expectation of rate cuts by banks, the research arm of London-based Economist added.

The Indian IT and IT-enabled services industry is expected to grow at 10.8 per cent in 2009, the lowest in the last five years, due to the global economic meltdown, a report said.

The business services sector in the United Kingdom may see over 300,000 job losses in next four years due to the impact of the recession, a report by economics consultancy Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) has said.

State-run fuel retailers are losing about Rs 135 crore (Rs 1.35 billion) per day on sale of petrol, diesel, LPG and kerosene and the government is looking at proposals to make up for these losses, a senior official said.

The World Bank on Monday forecast India's economy to expand by 5.1 per cent this fiscal, the slowest in six years, although the country has consistently outperformed the multilateral funder's estimates in the past.

SMOKERS are putting off quitting because they are stressed by the economic downturn, according to a report released today.

FREE care for all on the NHS cannot continue indefinitely, doctors will be told today amid calls for a major debate on the future funding of the health service.

WESTMINSTER should pay the £100 million bill for vaccinating everyone in Scotland against swine flu, the Scottish Government said yesterday as 60 new cases were confirmed.

CARELESS talk costs lives and it may cost us our NHS. We are told an ageing population and rising patient expectations are placing inexorable demands on the NHS, but these cla

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WESTERN BUREAU: Hungry for freedom, democracy and harmony in their homeland, Burmese parents across the island placed Father's Day on the back burner yesterday, instead paying tribute to 'Mother of Burma,' imprisoned Opposition Leader Aung San Suu Kyi...

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