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The country now wants 'Sach Bharat', says Rahul

New Delhi, August 17 (IANS) Accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi of lying, Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Thursday said he speaks about 'Swachh Bharat' (Clean India) but now the country wants 'Sach Bh

/ 17th August 2017
Hundreds still missing in Sierra Leone mudslide as search intensifies

FREETOWN, August 17 (Reuters) - By Christo Johnson Soldiers and volunteers equipped with shovels and pickaxes dug through the perilous site of a mudslide in Sierra Leone on Thursday in se

/ 17th August 2017
Mars 2020 rover to use X-ray techniques to find signs of life

Paris, August 17 (IANS) NASA's Mars 2020 rover mission, which aims look for signs of past life on the Red Planet, will use smart X-ray techniques originally developed to find the oldest life on Earth,

/ 17th August 2017
Skipping breakfast could make your kid undernourished

London, August 17 (IANS) Is your son or daughter in the habit of skipping breakfast regularly? If so, he or she may fall short of the daily required amounts of nutrients that are essential for their g

/ 17th August 2017
Irom Sharmila gets married in Kodaikanal

Chennai, August 17 (IANS) Civil rights activist Irom Chanu Sharmila on Thursday married her lover Desmond Coutinho in Kodaikanal in Tamil Nadu. The low-key ceremony was held in the sub-re

/ 17th August 2017
Thousands living under open sky in flood-hit Bihar

Bagaha/Purnea (Bihar), August 17 (IANS) Sundari Devi and her family of seven, including an elderly mother-in-law and children, are struggling to survive along an elevated road here for the last three

/ 17th August 2017
Floods disrupt train services in northeast

Agartala/Guwahati, August 17 (IANS) Due to severe floods in Assam, West Bengal and Bihar, the northeastern region has been cut off by rail from the rest of India for about a week, officials said on Th

/ 17th August 2017
Apache attack helicopters cleared for Army

New Delhi, August 17 (IANS) The Defence Acquisition Council on Thursday cleared a proposal to buy six Apache attack helicopters for the Indian Army at a cost of around Rs 4,168 crore. The

/ 17th August 2017
Ivanka Trump to lead US team for entrepreneurship summit

New Delhi, August 17 (PTI) The upcoming 3-day Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Hyderabad, likely to be attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is billed as "a big event", with presence of US Presid

/ 17th August 2017
India can face China, Pak but threat is from inside: Farooq

New Delhi, August 17 (PTI) India could face China and Pakistan but somebody within the country was determined to spoil everything, National Conference leader Farooq Abdullah said today without naming

/ 17th August 2017
Less pressure in doing multi-starrers: Parineeti

Hyderabad, August 17 (PTI) Parineeti Chopra enjoyed working in a multi-starrer like "Golmaal Again" as the actor felt she could go ahead and act without facing any performance anxiety. Th

/ 17th August 2017
Queen Elizabeth sends condolences to victims of Sierra Leone mudslide

LONDON, August 17 (Reuters) - Britain's Queen Elizabeth sent her deepest sympathies to hundreds of victims of a mudslide in Sierra Leone that swept away homes on the edge of country's capital city in

/ 17th August 2017
Apple's Cook says he disagrees with Trump, vows donations to rights groups

August 17 (REUTERS) - Apple Inc CEO Tim Cook has joined a chorus of business leaders who have voiced their opposition to President Donald Trump after he blamed white nationalists and anti-racism activ

/ 17th August 2017
Citizen scientists will take to the field for U.S. eclipse

August 17 (REUTERS) - When the moon passes directly in front of the sun on Aug. 21, casting a deep shadow across the United States, thousands of citizen scientists will be watching the eclipse while m

/ 17th August 2017
Special Report: How Syria continued to gas its people as the world looked on

THE HAGUE, August 17 (Reuters) - In the spring of 2015 a Syrian major general escorted a small team of chemical weapons inspectors to a warehouse outside the Syrian capital Damascus. The international

/ 17th August 2017
Bangladesh ramps up border patrols to deter fresh Rohingya inflow

COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh/YANGON, August 17 (Reuters) - Bangladesh has stepped up patrols on its border with Myanmar, following reports that about 1,000 Rohingya Muslims crossed into the country in the

/ 17th August 2017
Pakistan's Malala Yousafzai "excited" after winning place at Oxford University

BIRMINGHAM, England, August 17 (Reuters) - Pakistani education activist Malala Yousafzai, the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize when she was 17, said on Thursday she was "excited" after winning

/ 17th August 2017
Deepika Padukone out of Forbes' list of highest paid actresses

Los Angeles, August 17 (IANS) Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone has dropped out of Forbes magazines World's Highest-Paid Actresses 2017 list, which is led by Hollywood actress Emma Stone. Deepika,

/ 17th August 2017
Assam's country liquor gets branded, to be flavoured

Guwahati, August 17 (IANS) Here's spirited news for tipplers in Assam who favour the raw and rustic country liquor over its refined cousin that goes by the IMFL (Indian Made Foreign Liquor) moniker. I

/ 17th August 2017
What will Kim do next? Sixth nuclear test seen critical for N.Korea

SEOUL/WASHINGTON, August 17 (Reuters) - North Korea says it has developed intercontinental missiles capable of targeting any place in the United States. Now comes the hard part of fulfill

/ 17th August 2017