Plane Hijacked in Restive Western Xinjiang China, China’s state news agency says a plane has been hijacked in the restive western region of Xinjiang, which was rocked by ethnic riots last month. China’s official News Agency did not give any details about the hijacking in a brief report Sunday. A man on duty...
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TAIPEI: Taiwan’s government mobilised troops on Sunday to rescue tens of thousands of residents trapped in the island’s worst flooding in 50 years, which left one person dead and at least 29 missing, officials said. Typhoon Morakot pounded Taiwan over the weekend with powerful winds and torrential rain
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Uttarakhand: Fifteen people were killed and 38 others feared trapped in debris after a cloud burst triggered a massive landslide in the district early on Sunday. At least 16 houses were destroyed in Chachna, Lah and Rumiadola villages trapping 43 people, including 11 children and eight women, following heavy rains in Mushiyari block,...
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BANGALORE: Over 1,000 pro-Kannada activists were rounded up across Karnataka on Sunday, while a man consumed pesticide on the eve of unveiling of the statue of Tamil savant Thiruvalluvar here. As the stage was set for Monday’s unveiling, a 33-year-old activist of Karnataka Rakshana Vedike (KRV) consumed pesticides when police reached there to...
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NEW DELHI: After over a week of diffidence, the Congress today came out openly backing Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the controversial Indo-Pak joint statement in Egypt that has come under a lot of criticism. “The Congress is confident that when the Prime Minister speaks in Parliament on July 29, he will set...
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New Delhi: Bahujan Samaj Party member Brajesh Pathak created a scene in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday when he displayed a currency of Rs 500, which the MP claimed to be ‘fake.’ Pathak, who was participating in a debate on General Budget, tried to grab the attention of the members by displaying Rs...
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New Delhi, India : Union Minister of Law and Justice, Veerappa Moily, on Monday said that more than 2.6 crore cases were pending in the subordinate courts and over 39 lakh cases were pending in high courts across the country.
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Tehran: SMS text messaging services in Iran have been unblocked for the first time since disputed June 12 presidential elections.
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Beijing: China is planning for an installed nuclear power capacity of 86 gigawatts (gW) by 2020, up nearly 10-fold from the 9 gW capacity it had by the end of last year, said two people familiar with the matter. The revised target for nuclear power is part of the government’’s efforts to increase...
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Washington: A new piece of research suggests that inbreeding can trigger a downward spiral of reduction among the already declining bumblebee populations. Published in the open access journal BMC Evolutionary Biology, the study has for the first time provided proof that inbreeding reduces colony fitness under natural conditions by increasing the production of...
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