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Chinese media keeps up angry tirade on Dalai Lama's Arunachal visit

Beijing, April 6 (IANS) The Chinese media on Thursday kept up its tirade against India over the Dalai Lama's visit to Arunachal Pradesh, with an editorial in a state-run daily suggesting that if China, with its

/ 6th April 2017
Best way for India's sex trafficking victims to get justice? Study law

"The brothel madam and my trafficker have remained free all these years that I have spent at a shelter home. I want traffickers to fear law, and me" MUMBAI, April 6 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - I

/ 6th April 2017
'India's growth to bounce back to 7.4% in 2017-18'

New Delhi, April 6 (IANS) India's growth which was likely to slow down to 7.1 per cent in 2016-17 due to demonetisation, will bounce back to 7.4 in the current fiscal on improved investor confidence and busines

/ 6th April 2017
Is North Korea putting a nuclear-tipped bargaining chip on the table?

SEOUL, April 6 (Reuters) - As the leaders of China and the United States sit down for a summit on Thursday, North Korea has made sure it also has something on the negotiating table: A nuclear-tipped bargaining

/ 6th April 2017
UK's May heads for electoral test over Brexit and her leadership

LONDON, April 6 (Reuters) - Prime Minister Theresa May unleashed a scathing attack on Britain's main opposition party on Thursday, launching a campaign for local elections next month that will be the biggest el

/ 6th April 2017
FACTBOX: North Korea's missile and nuclear tests

SEOUL, April 6 (Reuters) - North Korea fired a ballistic missile on Wednesday ahead of a summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and China's President Xi Jinping in Florida, where North Korea's weapons progr

/ 6th April 2017
Thai king signs constitution, paving way for election

BANGKOK, April 6 (Reuters) - Thailand's King Maha Vajiralongkorn signed a new constitution at a glittering palace ceremony on Thursday, an essential step towards holding an election that the military government

/ 6th April 2017
RBI moves to cut system's excess cash to help contain inflation

MUMBAI, April 6 (Reuters) - The Reserve Bank of India surprised markets on Thursday by raising a secondary rate while holding the key rate steady, a move to help mop up liquidity and signal its worries about a

/ 6th April 2017
55% Americans approve of Obamacare now: Poll

Washington, April 6 (IANS) Former US President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act is more popular now than it was on Election Day, despite President Trump and the GOP's efforts to dismantle it, a poll said.

/ 6th April 2017
Hard to survive in showbiz if you are honest: Raveena Tandon

Mumbai, April 6 (IANS) National Award-winning actress Raveena Tandon says she faced many difficulties in her professional life for speaking the truth and that it is hard to survive in the entertainment industry

/ 6th April 2017
Tripura set to supply extra 60 MW to Bangladesh

Agartala, April 6 (IANS) Tripura is ready to supply an additional 60 MW of power to Bangladesh. The transmission is likely to start during Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's four-day visit to India, a Minister said

/ 6th April 2017
Myanmar leader says no ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims – BBC

LONDON, April 6 (Reuters) - Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi said ethnic cleansing was too strong a term to describe what was happening in the Muslim-majority Rakhine region, the BBC reported on Wednesday. &n

/ 6th April 2017
Rural jobs scheme: 3 northeastern states on top, two at the bottom

Agartala, April 6 (IANS) Three northeastern states -- Mizoram, Tripura and Sikkim -- topped the country in the just-concluded 2016-17 fiscal in providing work under a flagship rural jobs scheme while two others

/ 6th April 2017
Nightmare looms for transgender Thais at army draft

BANGKOK, April 6 (Reuters) - A group of young transgender Thais sits together in women's clothes behind rows of men, waiting for military officers to call their names and decide whether they must be drafted as

/ 6th April 2017
Philippines' Duterte plans to visit disputed South China Sea island

MANILA, April 6 (Reuters) - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Thursday he plans to visit an island the Philippines claims in the disputed South China Sea and raise the Philippine flag. D

/ 6th April 2017
Little progress reining in North Korea, U.S. commander says before Trump-Xi summit

TOKYO/SEOUL, April 6 (Reuters) - Diplomatic and economic measures taken to rein in North Korea's missile programme have not had the desired effect, a senior U.S. military commander said on Thursday after the No

/ 6th April 2017
Merkel, Trump discuss Afghanistan, Ukraine - German spokesman

BERLIN, April 6 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel discussed the situation in Afghanistan and eastern Ukraine on the telephone on Wednesday, a German government spokesma

/ 6th April 2017
For Trump, Mar-a-Lago is place to break the ice with China's Xi

WASHINGTON, April 6 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump has told visitors that his Mar-a-Lago retreat is set up perfectly for foreign visits, but the Chinese side was initially hesitant when word came that

/ 6th April 2017
Experts want special clinics to prescribe ketamine as antidepressant

LONDON, April 6 (Reuters) - The party drug ketamine can have powerful beneficial effects on severely depressed patients who have struggled for years to recover, and the drug should be developed responsibly as a

/ 6th April 2017
Boxing - Pacquiao to fight Australia's Horn in July

MELBOURNE, April 6 (Reuters) - Filipino great Manny Pacquaio will defend his WBO welterweight title against unbeaten Australian Jeff Horn in Brisbane in July after a bout with Amir Khan fell through, local medi

/ 6th April 2017