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  • Cong unveils action plan against corruption

    Buffeted by staggering scams and controversies over suspected involvement of right wing elements in terrorism, the Congress on Sunday unveiled a five-point action plan to deal with corruption and counter attacked BJP by demanding probe into “links” between RSS and its affiliates and terror. A party plenary attended by over 15,000 delegates held against the […]

    Links between RSS and terror groups need to be probed: Cong

    Congress on Sunday said the links between terrorists and the RSS and its sister organisations needed to be investigated. “The Indian National Congress calls upon the government to tackle this menace in the strongest possible manner and investigate links between terrorists and the RSS and its sister organisations that have been uncovered in some recent […]

    Cold conditions intensify in Northern India

    Severe cold sweeps across different parts of the country specially northern states with dense fog disrupting traffic in morning by reducing visibility to a few metres only. In Punjab and Haryana, cold conditions intensified on Sunday with mercury dipping by up to three notches below normal, MET officials said. Amritsar remained coldest in the region with a minimum […]

    Naidu hunger strike: AIADMK, MDMK extend solidarity

    Support for Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidus fight “for justice to farmers” is growing with AIADMK and MDMK on Sunday joining other major parties like CPI, CPM, JD (U) and JD (S) in extending solidarity to the fasting leader. The former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh is on an indefinite hunger-strike for the […]

    Heavy snow hits air travel, roads across Europe

    Heavy snow and freezing temperatures continued to wreck havoc across Europe as thousands of air travellers were stranded at airports and motorists were stuck on highways in Germany and several other countries. At Germany’s largest airport in Frankfurt, several hundred passengers were forced to stay overnight, many of them for the second consecutive day, after […]

    Queen’s head to go from British stamps?

    Queen Elizabeth II’s head could soon banish from all future British postage stamps, if the UK government goes ahead with its controversial plan to privatise Royal Mail, a media report said. According to Postal Affairs Minister Ed Davey, the proposed sell-off rules will let future private owners to stop using a representation of the English […]

    Parliament session to elect Nepal PM adjourned amid deadlock

    Nepal’s special session of parliament to elect a new prime minister was adjourned on Sunday after a brief meeting, amid a political deadlock among the ruling alliance and the main Opposition Maoists. The Special Session of the Parliament, which just lasted for less than 10 minutes, was adjourned after Speaker Subash Nemwang announced the next […]

    15 dead, 12 injured in Philippine hotel fire

    A fire tore through a budget hotel, rousing some guests and trapping others in upper floor bathrooms on Sunday in the northern Philippines. Many of the 15 dead and 12 injured were nursing students in town to take a licensing exam, police said. Some firefighters wept and prayed as they retrieved badly burned bodies. Grieving […]

    Israeli airstrike kills 5 Gaza militants

    An Israeli airstrike has killed five Gaza militants in the deadliest attack against the coastal strip in months. The Israeli military says the men were about to launch a rocket attack against southern Israeli communities when they were struck. Palestinian officials confirmed the five dead were militants. There were no further details immediately available about […]

    UNSC to hold emergency consultations today on Korean tensions

    The UN Security Council has called an emergency meeting on Sunday on the increasing tensions on the Korean Peninsula, amid serious concerns expressed by Russia on the situation in the region. The decision to hold the meeting later in the day came after Russian Ambassador to the UN, Vitaly Churkin, noted that the Korean situation directly […]