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  • India and China agree to boost trade and paper over border differences India and China agree to boost trade and paper over border differences

    NEW DELHI - India and China Monday played down a recent border stand-off and agreed to maintain peace along their disputed boundary as well as boost economic relations. Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang, who decided to make India the first stop of his maiden foreign jaunt as premier, stressed that the population of the two nations comprised one third of the world. Both countries have ...

  • SSB soldier shoots two colleagues in Kashmir

    A Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) trooper killed two of his colleagues and injured two others in Jammu and Kashmir's Kishtwar town early Tuesday, police said. "An SSB soldier, identified as Vijay Kumar, opened fire from his service rifle on his colleagues sleeping in a camp in Kishtwar. Two soldiers have died while two others have been injured in the shooting," Superintendent of Police (SP) Kulbir ...

  • No respite from heat in Delhi

    It was another scorching day in the capital Tuesday with the minimum temperature settling at 28 degrees Celsius, a notch above average for the season, and the maximum likely to hover around the 45 degrees Celsius mark. The Met Office said the heatwave conditions would continue to sweep across the city. "Heatwave conditions would continue across the national capital. The maximum temperature ...

  • Another arrest in IPL spot fixing case

    Former Ranji player Baburao Yadav is the latest to be arrested for spot fixing in the Indian Premier League, Delhi Police said Tuesday. Yadav was arrested late Monday. He was the person who had introduced Rajasthan Royals cricketer Ajit Chandila to bookie Sunil Bhatia, who is already in custody, a police official said. This takes the total number of arrests in the case to 16. Sreesanth, ...

  • Prayer spirituality gets the doctors nod

    Hardly anyone doubts the power of prayer and almost everyone has a turnaround tale - maybe personal, or of someone else's - that credits the "miracle" to a prayer. Now while science and spirituality may not always see eye to eye, holistic treatment is now finding greater acceptance, and spirituality, among everything else, is recommended by doctors as part of the healing process. "Spirituality ...

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Walk the Line

Walk the Line

From a distance, Walk the Line, which traces the life of country/rock legend Johnny Cash, is a standard-issue biopic that follows a tried-and-true formula about a deprived rural kid who finds his voice and makes it to the top of the music industry, battling drugs and inner demon ... ...

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  • Afghan President Karzai to hold talks with Manmohan Singh today

    Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai, who is in India on a three-day visit, will meet Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh here this evening. Security, infrastructure development and peace and reconciliation process in Afghanistan are likely to figure prominently during their talks. This is Karzai's second visit to India in the last six months. President Pranab Mukherjee on Monday conferred ...

  • No house cost escalation after dues paid possession taken

    A builder cannot seek additional money from a house allottee who has paid all dues and taken possession on the ground that the cost calculated at the time of handing over the property was tentative, the top consumer court has ruled. National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission Presiding Member V.B. Gupta and Member K.S. Chaudhari said if the builder failed to justify the need for demanding ...

  • Indian think tanks need more institutional support

    Strong policy research is the cornerstone of policy formulation and a necessary condition for sustained good governance. However, it is widely acknowledged that the quality of policy research in India has been found wanting, both within and outside the government. Indicatively, not a single Indian think tank featured in the top 50 in 2012 Global Go To Think Tanks Rankings, and only six of them ...

  • Nayar Ram named for lifetime achievement award

    Two veteran journalists - Kuldip Nayar and N. Ram - have been selected for this year's 'RedInk Lifetime Achievement Award' instituted by the Mumbai Press Club, an official said here Monday. Maharashtra Governor K. Sankaranarayanan will bestow the awards on them and 20 other journalists who have won it in different categories, at a special function May 25. They were selected by the club based ...

  • Mobile towers not illegal dont affect health

    The Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) Monday said that cell phone towers in the city were not illegal and that radiation from them doesn't affect health adversely. The COAI and Tower and Infrastructure Providers Association (TAIPA) reiterated that mobile towers shouldn't be termed "illegal" as they have been installed as per the guidelines issued by the department of ...

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