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About 1,400 people are dying every week at the giant Manik Farm internment camp set up in Sri Lanka to detain Tamil refugees from the nation’s bloody civil war, senior international aid sources have told The Times.
The death toll will add to concerns...
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The media write about drought and starvation in Orissa, the channels show a grim picture of agriculture here — and our employers in Gujarat use this to depress our wages,” says Bikala Swain reproachfully. “The malik says: ‘I know you have...
Officials in Indonesia say they hold little hope for the miners still buried underground after a gas explosion in a coal mine in West Sumatra.
At least 17 people are now said to have died in the explosion, with 23 others feared dead below ground.
The...
Bollywood actor Shiney Ahuja, arrested for allegedly raping his domestic help at his residence, was remanded to police custody till June 18 by a local court.
Ahuja, arrested early this morning, was produced before a magistrate’s court in suburban...
India has agreed to pull its troops out of inhabited areas of Kashmir for the first time in almost 20 years, one of its boldest moves yet to resolve the issue at the core of its dispute with neighbouring Pakistan.
It has also agreed to review a hugely...
UPA government on Thursday adopted an ambitious target of making India
slum-free in five years with President Pratibha Patil
announcing the launch of a special housing scheme for urban poor and slum-dwellers.
Aiming to “create a slum free...
Expressing distress at the killing of a Sikh sect leader in Vienna, government on Monday said it was in touch with Austrian authorities to ensure that those guilty of violence in the gurdwara there were brought to book and asked the people of Punjab to...
India’s ‘Fourth Front’ fell flat on its face in the current Lok Sabha elections.
The combine of Lalu, Paswan and Mulayam, which had boasted that the Congress could not come to power without its support, on May 16 found itself in a shambles,...
P Chidambaram, the Harvard educated lawyer has earned the reputation of being a good economic administrator capped by his image as a
tough taskmaster during his short stint as home minister.
For Palaniappan Chidambaram, it is a long journey from a...
The Indian Premier League (IPL) has withdrawn accreditation for a number of journalists for the finals of the series that will be played at the Wanderers here this weekend, citing oversubscription.
“If you have not been explicitly notified that...
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