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Pune, Aug 1: The toll in a landslide disaster in Maharashtra’s Malin village touched 50, with another 22 injured, an official said here Friday. “So far we have recovered 50 bodies. The relief and rescue work continues on a war-footing,” Pune Collector Saurabh Rao, who is monitoring the situation round-the-clock, said. The village was entirely swept under a landslide Wednesday. It has also come to

New Delhi, Aug 1: The World Trade Organization failed on Thursday to reach a deal to standardise customs rules, which would have been the first global trade reform in two decades but was blocked by India's demands for concessions on agricultural stockpiling. "We have not been able to find a solution that would allow us to bridge that gap," WTO Director-General Roberto Azevedo told trade diplomats

New Delhi, Jul 31: With former External Affairs Minister Natwar Singh creating a row with his comments about Sonia Gandhi, the Congress President today said that she will come out with her own book, which will reveal the "truth". "I will write my own book and then you will come to know everything...the only way truth will come out is if I write...I am serious about it and I will be writing," she

New Delhi, Jul 31: Gen Dalbir Singh Suhag, whose appointment as Army Chief had kicked up a row, today took over as the head of the 1.3 million strong force succeeding Gen Bikram Singh. Gen Suhag assumed charge after his predecessor handed over to him the Chief of Army Staff baton in his South Block office here. The new Chief takes over at a time when the force is facing challenges of modernsation

Lucknow, Jul 31: A United States report on the status of religious freedom in countries across the globe has slammed the Uttar Pradesh government for choosing "not to combat discrimination on the basis of religion and intolerance." Released by the US department of state, the 2013 International Religious Freedom Report is in its 16th year, and chronicles where and when the universal right to

New Delhi, July 31: US Secretary of State John Kerry, who has said that the US is prepared to work "hand in hand" with the Narendra Modi government, is to co-chair the fifth annual India-US Strategic Dialogue with External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj here Thursday. Kerry, who arrived on a three-day visit Wednesday at the head of a high-power delegation, is meeting National Security Advisor Ajit

New Delhi, Jul 30: Sonia Gandhi declined to become Prime Minister in 2004 because of strong opposition from her son Rahul Gandhi who was afraid she would be killed like his father and grand mother if she accepted the post, former External Affairs Minister K Natwar Singh claimed today. Singh(83), an estranged Gandhi family friend who quit the Congress in 2008 after he had to resign from the UPA-I

Pune, Jul 31: The death toll in the landslide at Malin village near here rose to 23 this morning even as rescue workers resumed operations, which were hampered during the night due to rains and poor visibility. As many as 44 houses were crushed in Malin village, situated in Ambegaon taluka, some 120 kms from the district headquarters here in Western Maharashtra, by the massive landslide that

Thanjavur, Jul 30: 10 years after a fire at a primary school in Kumbakonam in Tamil Nadu killed 94 children, the Thanjavur district principal sessions court on Wednesday convicted 10 of the 21 accused in the case. The court pronounced Krishna English Medium School founder Pulavar Palanichamy, his wife and school correspondent Saraswati, headmistress Santhanalakshmi and others guilty under section

Lucknow, Jul 30: A United States report stating that Uttar Pradesh saw the highest number of deaths in communal violence in India last year has raised the political temperature in the state, with opposition political parties charging the ruling Samajwadi Party government with complete failure of law and order in the State. The Akhilesh Yadav government has also been accused of sullying the image