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Two years apart, two young women stand before police vans
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Sri Lanka uses navy drones to tackle dengue
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‘He has received punishment’: Mother rejects body of rape suspect shot dead by West Bengal police
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Gunmen kill 9 police officers near dam project in southwest Pakistan: officials
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At least 40 dead after bus falls into ditch in Pakistan
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Pakistan strikes on eastern Afghanistan kill dozens
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Three Pakistani troops killed in terror attack in Karachi
28 June 2026, 11:19 AM
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Two roadside blasts in northwest Pakistan kill 7
21 June 2026, 00:00 AM
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Pak checkpoint: Militants kill 6, abduct 8 paramilitary troops
10 June 2026, 00:00 AM
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Pakistan suspends all prisoner exchange agreements
Pakistan has suspended all prisoner exchange agreements with other countries after it discovered that prisoners repatriated from Britain
16 March 2015, 18:00 PM
W Bengal Nun rape case: 2 more detained
The CID and the Nadia district police have not made any heady way with the Ranaghat nun rape case, except for detaining two more
16 March 2015, 18:00 PM
Security audit is not snooping
Faced with accusations of an effort to turn India into a police state like Pakistan, the Government yesterday told the Rajya Sabha that the
16 March 2015, 18:00 PM
Maldives resists pressure to free jailed ex-leader
The Maldives government yesterday vowed to resist mounting foreign pressure to free former president Mohamed Nasheed after he was
16 March 2015, 18:00 PM
Modi scraps Brussels visit
Upset by what the government perceives as a snub from the European Union, India has called off plans for Prime Minister Narendra
16 March 2015, 18:00 PM
Maldives defends jailing of Nasheed
The Maldives government yesterday told its critics to respect a controversial decision to jail the honeymoon islands' first-ever
15 March 2015, 18:00 PM
Goa drops Gandhi Jayanti holiday
In a decision that could spark nationwide outrage in India, the BJP government in Goa has dropped Gandhi Jayanti, the birth anniversary
15 March 2015, 18:00 PM
Modi visits Tamil heartland
Narendra Modi visited Jaffna yesterday, making a highly symbolic first trip by an Indian prime minister to Sri Lanka's war-ravaged
14 March 2015, 18:00 PM
Congress accuses Modi govt of political spying
A day after a Delhi policeman visited Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi's Tughlak Road residence to make enquiries, the party
14 March 2015, 18:00 PM
Woman lies dying as Kolkatans take photos
A 28-year-old woman lay dying on AJC Bose Road as hundreds streamed past, unconcerned, on Friday morning. Afsa
14 March 2015, 18:00 PM
Lakhvi to remain in jail
A defence lawyer yesterday said Pakistan has again detained LeT terrorist and Mumbai attack mastermind Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi for one
14 March 2015, 18:00 PM
Elderly nun gang-raped in West Bengal
A group of miscreants allegedly gang-raped a nun at a convent school in Ranaghat, in West Bengal's Nadia district, police said yesterday.
14 March 2015, 18:00 PM
Swine flu kills 4 in Mumbai
Even as Indian and US scientists spar over genetic alterations in the H1N1 virus and its enhanced virulence, the city reported four deaths
14 March 2015, 18:00 PM
Indian nun raped in convent attack
A 74-year-old nun was gang raped in a convent school in West Bengal
14 March 2015, 14:24 PM
Google launches virtual tour of Everest
Google launched a virtual tour of Nepal's Everest region yesterday, allowing armchair tourists a rare glimpse of life in one of the toughest
12 March 2015, 18:28 PM
Sri Lanka pledges war crimes probe
Sri Lanka hopes to set up a domestic inquiry within a month into atrocities from the civil war, President Maithripala Sirisena has told
12 March 2015, 18:26 PM
Swine flu in India turns even more dangerous: MIT study
The swine flu virus in India which has already killed more than 1,500 people since December may have acquired mutations that make it
12 March 2015, 18:26 PM
India to develop two islands in Indian Ocean
In a major boost for India in the Indian Ocean, the government has bagged ''infrastructure development rights'' for two islands in the
12 March 2015, 18:25 PM
Pakistan tried to strike a deal with Osama?
President Obama on Wednesday nominated career diplomat David Hale as the US ambassador to Pakistan amid continuous misgivings
12 March 2015, 18:23 PM
Sonia leads solidarity march for Manmohan
Congress leaders yesterday took out rallies and stopped trains at several places across Uttar Pradesh to protest against the court
12 March 2015, 18:21 PM