India

Hyderabad, Oct 26: Incessant rains have claimed as many as 29 lives in Andhra Pradesh during the past four days while more than 72,000 people have been evacuated from low-lying areas. The rain and flood-battered southern state is unlikely to get respite anytime soon as the Met department has forecast heavy downpour in the next 48 hours. According to an official note from the commissioner, disaster

New Delhi, Oct 26: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's displeasure with Pakistani PM Nawaz Sharif's on failing to restore ceasefire on the border followed a blunt message he delivered to Sharif in New York about a month ago when he said, "I have not become prime minister of India to redraw the boundary." The PM's September 29 meeting with Sharif, which took place amid escalating firing on the Line of

Srinagar, Oct 25: With Rahul Gandhi claiming that there is intelligence that Pakistani agencies were approaching victims of Muzzafarnagar riots, BJP today said the Home Minister must answer that in what capacity intelligence officials are briefing the Congress MP. The party criticised the Intelligence Bureau (IB), asking how can it brief a Member of Parliament or a party office bearer. "In what

Washington, Oct 25: Scientists have found that bioinformatically optimised HIV vaccine antigens may help design a global HIV vaccine. A scientific team led by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) conducted the study in monkeys. "A global HIV vaccine would offer major biomedical and practical advantages over most other HIV vaccine candidates, which are limited to certain regions of the

Hyderabad, Oct 25: Heavy rains triggered by northeast monsoon and a low pressure area over Bay of Bengal lashed several parts of Andhra Pradesh for the fourth consecutive day today, prompting authorities to evacuate thousands of people from low-lying areas. According to official figures, 12 people have been killed in various rain-related incidents in the state and crops in 2.5 lakh hectares have

Washington, Oct 25: Identifying India as one of the five fragile economies of the world, a senior US official has predicted an uncertain outlook for its future in view of the next year's general elections. "The big question about India now is what happens in the election next year and who will be the new government. That's a very complicated question," Assistant Treasury Secretary for

Indore, Oct 25: Rahul Gandhi on Thursday accused BJP of creating a divide in Uttar Pradesh for political gain, even as he claimed that Pakistani agencies were approaching some victims of the Muzaffarnagar riots to lure them to terrorism. The Congress vice-president said he had gone to Muzaffarnagar after the riots to meet people of different communities, where he was told that there is no enmity

On Board Air India One, Oct 24: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Thursday said he "was not above the law" and was willing to be questioned by the CBI in the coal block allocations as he had "nothing to hide". In an affable mood after ending a two-nation tour to Russia and China, he also exuded confidence that Congress would "surprise" everyone and win the 2014 general elections and felt the BJP

New Delhi, Oct 24: Amid rising domestic demand and a firming global trend, gold prices today regained Rs 32,000 per ten gram level after seven weeks in the national capital. Gold prices spurted by Rs 480 to Rs 32,410 per ten gram, a level last seen on September 4, while silver held steady at Rs 50,200 per kg on lack of support from industrial units. Traders said increased buying of gold by

New Delhi, Oct 24: The Supreme Court on Thursday awarded a whopping Rs.5.96 crore as compensation to be paid by Kolkata- based AMRI Hospital and three doctors to a US-based Indian- origin doctor for medical negligence which led to the death of his wife in 1998. A bench of justices S J Mukhopadhaya and V Gopala Gowda asked the hospital and the three doctors to pay the amount within eight weeks to