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Indian-American Congressman condemns Sikh's shooting

Washington, March 6 (IANS) Indian-American Congressman Ami Bera has denounced the shooting of a Sikh man in Washington state, which is being investigated by the FBI and the police as a possible hate crime. &

/ 6th March 2017
China has the right to "step in" to Hong Kong election, top official says

HONG KONG, March 6 (Reuters) - China's third most powerful leader said on Monday that Beijing had the right to "step in" to Hong Kong's leadership contest, according to local politicians who met him, in remarks

/ 6th March 2017
Jostling contenders for party elite play it safe at China parliament

BEIJING, March 6 (Reuters) - Avoiding controversial questions and sticking closely to the script, three leading candidates jostling for a spot on the Communist Party's apex of power made rare public appearances

/ 6th March 2017
Dalai Lama says Chinese hardliners have parts of brain missing

BEIJING, March 6 (Reuters) - Chinese hardliners have parts of their brains missing, exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama said in an interview aired this week, comments likely to infuriate Beijing, whi

/ 6th March 2017
Wider image: Opening a new chapter at India's 'grandmothers' school'

FANGANE, India, March 6 (Reuters) - Aajibaichi Shaala is not your ordinary school in India. The students at "grandmothers' school" in the village of Fangane are elderly women who are getting the ch

/ 6th March 2017
Doing business gets easier, but India still among worst performers

By IANS/IndiaSpend India improved its ease of doing business ranking last year -- moving up from 131 to 130 in a list of 190 countries -- by reducing the average time taken to start an enterprise a

/ 6th March 2017
Tata Steel says in 'constructive discussions' with ThyssenKrupp

MUMBAI, March 6 (Reuters) - Tata Steel Ltd is still in talks with Germany's ThyssenKrupp AG about a potential merger of their European steel assets, the Indian company said on Monday. The statement

/ 6th March 2017
Pujara, Rahane keep India afloat in second test

BENGALURU (Reuters) - Cheteshwar Pujara and Ajinkya Rahane shared an unbroken fifth-wicket stand of 93 to keep alive India's hopes of a series-levelling win over Australia, giving the hosts a lead of 126 on a s

/ 6th March 2017
More time on social media may make you feel lonelier

New York, March 6 (IANS) If you are feeling cut off from the rest of society, spending more time on social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter may only make things worse, a new study warns. T

/ 6th March 2017
Manipur High Court declares economic blockade illegal

Imphal, March 6 (IANS) The full bench of Manipur High Court has declared the over four-month-old economic blockade of the state as "illegal", an official confirmed on Monday. The full bench, compri

/ 6th March 2017
Will be blown away if I get a National Award: Alia Bhatt

New Delhi, March 6 (IANS) She is on a winning spree at various award galas for her impactful portrayal of a Bihari migrant in "Udta Punjab". And even though she doesn't work for trophies, the young and versatil

/ 6th March 2017
Ex-policeman says behind 200 killings in Philippine death squad under Duterte

MANILA, March 6 (Reuters) - A retired policeman testified before a Philippine Senate hearing on Monday to killing nearly 200 people as part of a "death squad" under President Rodrigo Duterte when Duterte was Da

/ 6th March 2017
Malaysian PM chides N.Korea as "rude", envoy sent packing

KUALA LUMPUR, March 6 (Reuters) - Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak rebuked North Korea on Monday as his government prepared to kick out its envoy following his disrespectful comments over the investigation

/ 6th March 2017
China confirms 7 percent increase in 2017 defence budget

BEIJING, March 6 (Reuters) - China's defence budget will rise 7 percent in 2017, to 1.044 trillion yuan ($151.43 billion), state media said on Monday, after the omission of exact figures from an annual report s

/ 6th March 2017
SK Hynix says informed by Toshiba of new memory business stake sale plans

SEOUL, March 6 (Reuters) - South Korean memory chip maker SK Hynix Inc said on Monday it has received information from Toshiba Corp about new plans for the Japanese firm's plan to sell a stake in its memory chi

/ 6th March 2017
N.Korea fires four ballistic missiles into sea near Japan

SEOUL/TOKYO, March 6 (Reuters) - North Korea fired four ballistic missiles into the sea off Japan's northwest coast early on Monday, South Korean and Japanese officials said, days after the reclusive state prom

/ 6th March 2017
Muir leads British medal harvest as Spanovic shines

BELGRADE, March 6 (Reuters) - Laura Muir led an impressive final day for Britain at the European indoor athletics championships with her second gold medal of the three-day event after winning the 3,000-metre ra

/ 6th March 2017
Polluted environments kill 1.7 million children a year – WHO

LONDON, March 6 (Reuters) - A quarter of all global deaths of children under five are due to unhealthy or polluted environments including dirty water and air, second-hand smoke and a lack or adequate hygiene, t

/ 6th March 2017
Tottenham and Man City keep up the chase

LONDON, March 6 (Reuters) - Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester City both issued timely reminders to Chelsea that the Premier League title race might not be over with impressive victories on Sunday. A

/ 6th March 2017
French conservatives in disarray as Fillon clings on

PARIS, March 6 (Reuters) - France's conservatives appeared to be at war with themselves less than 50 days from the presidential election as Francois Fillon clung on to his struggling, scandal-tainted campaign a

/ 6th March 2017