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Court summons former Army Chief, four other senior officers

Updated: Friday at 18:10 hrs (IST)
Former Army Chief Gen V K Singh and four top serving officers were on Friday summoned as “accused” in a criminal defamation case filed by Lt Gen (retd) Tejinder Singh, in perhaps the first occasion when top-ranking officials have been called by a court. ...   | Read..
 

Gold tumbles by Rs 700 per 10 gm in second biggest fall this year

Updated: Friday at 20:30 hrs (IST)
Gold prices tumbled on Friday by Rs 700 per 10 grams to Rs 29,500, the second biggest fall this year as investors looked for safer havens amid signs that the Eurozone cri...   | Read..
 

Re down 48 paise against USD but logs 1st gain in 10 weeks        

Updated: Friday at 20:00 hrs (IST)
The rupee on Friday closed down by a whopping 48 paise at 55.42 against the dollar amid spurt in demand for the US currency after Fitch's downgrade of Spain worsened the...   | Read..
 

Karuna backs Chidambaram; slams demand for his resignation        

Updated: Friday at 18:20 hrs (IST)
Dravida Munnettra Kazhagam chief M Karunanidhi on Friday criticised the demand for Union home minister P Chidambaram’s resignation in the wake of a high court or...   | Read..
 

No proof that ‘high’ interest rate led to low growth: RBI

Updated: Friday at 16:45 hrs (IST)
Reserve Bank Deputy Governor K C Chakrabarty on Friday sought to stave off criticism that the nine-year low in the economy’s growth rate reported recently was prim...   | Read..
 

BJP General Secretary Sanjay Joshi resigns from party post

Updated: Friday at 16:20 hrs (IST)
Bharatiya Janata Party’s General Secretary Sanjay Joshi requested the party president Nitin Gadkari to relieve him from party post and his request has been accepted, acc...   | Read..
 

CBI summons BCCI boss Srinivasan for Cement industry links with Jagan Reddy

Updated: Friday at 13:30 hrs (IST)
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has summoned BCCI Chief and India Cements Managing Director N Srinivasan for questioning in connection with disproportionate ass...   | Read..
 

Govt expects new initiatives to help exports hit target of $500 billion by 2013-14

Updated: Friday at 14:34 hrs (IST)
India is likely to achieve the export target of $500 billion by 2013-14, helped by market diversification and incentives announced in the foreign trade policy....   | Read..
 

SC notice to Centre, Rajasthan and Haryana on illegal mining

Updated: Friday at 15:45 hrs (IST)
The Supreme Court on Friday sought response from the Centre and the Rajasthan and Haryana governments on allegations that large scale illegal mining and depletion of fo...   | Read..
 

Easier to tell unborn future

Scientists have for the first time sequenced the genome of a foetus using only the blood sample of the mother and a saliva sample of the father, promising a new era of non-in...   | Read..
 

2 off, 19 on: PC faces election trial

Madras High Court today removed two key allegations against P. Chidambaram from a petition challenging his election to the Lok Sabha but allowed the remaining 19 charges ...   | Read..
 

Nitishji, I beg you to give cop this bribe

If beggars can’t be choosers, neither can a chief minister be....   | Read..
 

Ibobi Singh breaks ice with Rio

The ice seems to be melting between the hills and vales of Nagaland and Manipur, where Nagas and Meiteis have experienced a widening rift of late, especially on the issue of ...   | Read..
 

Ram kin object to CBI report

The family of slain Food Corporation of India senior executive P.C. Ram today challenged the closure report filed by the CBI in the murder case....   | Read..
 

JAC spat takes ugly turn

Human resource development minister Baidyanath Ram has made up his mind to serve a showcause notice to Jharkhand Academic Council chief Laxmi Singh, indicating that the glove...   | Read..
 

BJP plays unity card

The lack of a clear winning trend in the June 12 Hatia bypoll makes it a psephologist’s nightmare, but for the BJP, it is a do-or-die battle for which partymen have...   | Read..
 

Jumbos flourish in Saranda

More than a decade of Naxalite presence in Saranda has had little impact on the elephant population, the latest census figures from Asia’s largest sal reserve proof...   | Read..
 
Morning and evening rain in Calcutta brought some relief. They were thundershowers, not monsoon rain. Picture shows how the sky over Howrah Bridge loo ...  | Read
 
 
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I am astonished by the monumental ignorance displayed by certain political leaders
P Chidambaram