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  • Islamic militants release hostage in Philippines: military

    Al-Qaeda-linked militants in the southern Philippines have released a school principal they kidnapped a month ago after her family paid a ransom, the military said Wednesday. The gunmen turned over Celia Sosas to local officials on Basilan island late Tuesday after her family paid the kidnappers USD 4,500, military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Randolph Cabangbang said. […]

    China completes construction of key tunnel in Tibet

    China Wednesday completed construction of a 3,310-metre tunnel as part of an ambitious plan to build a highway connecting a remote Tibetan county close to the Indian border with rest of the Himalayan region. State television showed live pictures of the workers breaking into celebrations after explosives ripped through one of the ends of the […]

    KLA behind deadly human kidney trade: Report

    Civilians detained by the Kosovo Liberation Army were allegedly shot to death in northern Albania so their kidneys could be extracted and sold on the black market after the war in Kosovo ended in 1999, according to a report prepared for Europe’s premier human rights watchdog. The report by Council of Europe investigator Dick Marty, […]

    Emanuel testifies in residency challenge

    Former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, who left his powerful job to run for Chicago mayor, has testified for nearly 12 hours at a city election board hearing to determine whether he meets the residency standard required to run for the February mayoral elections. Emanuels opponents say he is not eligible to run […]

    Centre sanctions Rs 470.20 crore for six road projects in Assam

    The Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has sanctioned Rs 470.20 crore for six road projects in Assam, officials said in Guwahati. The Centre has sanctioned the work for two laning on Lumding-Diphu-Manja road, Haflong-Jatinga road, Baska-Bamara road, Morigaon-Jagiroad road, Kokrajhar-Karigaon road and Udalguri-Rowta road in the state. Union Minister for Road Transport and […]

    Nobody will be spared in Adarsh scam: Antony

    Defence Minister A K Antony has said the govt and the armed forces will not spare any person found guilty of wrongdoing in the Adarsh Housing Society scam in Mumbai. “Whoever is found guilty will be punished. Nobody will be spared,” he told reporters on the sidelines of an aerospace seminar in New Delhi on […]

    Court reserves verdict on Swamy’s plea to try Raja in 2G scam

    Janata Party President Subramanian Swamy on Wednesday moved a designated CBI court seeking prosecution of former Telecom Minister A Raja in the 2G scam case in which he wants to be appointed as the Prosecutor. Filing a private complaint in the court of Special Judge Pradeep Chaddah, Swamy made a three-fold prayer which included that […]

    28 drown as tempo plunges into lake

    Atleast 28 persons, including 24 women and four children, drowned when the tempo in which they were travelling skidded off the road and plunged into a lake near Mandakalli airport in Mysore on Tuesday. The mishap occurred when a 34-member group from Paduvarahalli village on the outskirts of the city was returning home after attending […]

    SC restrains Delhi govt from demolishing night shelters

    Taking suo motu cognisance of reports that night shelters have been razed in the city in the midst of winter, the Supreme Court has restrained the Delhi govt from demolishing any such shelter, temporary or permanent, in the capital. A bench of justices Dalveer Bhandari and Deepak Verma while asking the government to refrain from […]

    Assange gets bail, yet to get freedom

    WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was granted bail by a British court on strict conditions in a case related to charges of sexual offences but the Australian will remain in prison after Swedish prosecutors decided to appeal the judgement. The court had earlier granted Assange conditional bail on the requirement of a bond amount of 240,000 […]