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Why judicial reform should start with lower courts

By Shobhit Mathur & Ram Prasath IANS/ IndiaSpend Of the 30 million pending court cases in India as of December 2014, over 80 per cent are in district and subordinate courts, which are short

/ 31st March 2017
Mukherjee inaugurates Namami Brahmaputra in Assam

Guwahati, March 31 (IANS) President Pranab Mukherjee on Friday inaugurated the five-day-long Namami Brahmaputra river festival here in Assam. Mukherjee inaugurated the programme by lighting a cerem

/ 31st March 2017
Best-performing IITs still far behind two top world varsities: Study

Kolkata, March 31 (IANS) India's best performing IITs, including IIT-Kharagpur and IIT-Bombay, are far behind in research performance of the two top ranking world universities, the Massachusetts Institute of Te

/ 31st March 2017
Pakistan trying to destabilise India: Rajnath

New Delhi, March 31 (IANS) Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday accused Pakistan of trying to destabilise India and said cross-border terrorist groups in Jammu and Kashmir egged on youths to stone security for

/ 31st March 2017
Korean murder suspects go home with victim's body as Malaysia forced to swap

KUALA LUMPUR, March 31 (Reuters) - Three North Koreans wanted for questioning over the murder of the estranged half-brother of their country's leader returned home on Friday along with the body of victim Kim Jo

/ 31st March 2017
China's popular first lady takes the stage in Xi's U.S. visit

BEIJING, March 31 (Reuters) - Glamorous, popular and passionate about fighting AIDS, Chinese first lady Peng Liyuan is Beijing's diplomatic not-so-secret weapon spreading Chinese soft power around the world.

/ 31st March 2017
Australians cling to roofs as floodwaters swamp towns

SYDNEY, March 31 (Reuters) - Flooding rivers swamped towns along Australia's east coast on Friday forcing tens of thousands of people to be evacuated as fast-flowing waters cut roads and destroyed bridges after

/ 31st March 2017
Philippine media groups cry foul over Duterte's diatribes

MANILA, March 31 (Reuters) - Philippine media organisations have hit back at President Rodrigo Duterte for an expletive-laden speech that lashed out at a domestic newspaper and a television network, saying thre

/ 31st March 2017
Rosneft-led deal to buy India's Essar delayed, seen closing in April

NEW DELHI/MOSCOW, March 31 (Reuters) - The purchase of Indian refiner Essar Oil by a consortium led by Russian oil company Rosneft has been delayed, the two sides said on Friday, because some Indian lenders to

/ 31st March 2017
Festival drives Indian gold demand; higher prices curb buying elsewhere

BENGALURU/MUMBAI, March 31 (Reuters) - Gold demand in India rose this week due to a festival and as local prices adjusted to an appreciating rupee, while higher prices kept a check on demand elsewhere in Asia.

/ 31st March 2017
China opposes India hosting Dalai Lama in disputed border region

BEIJING, March 31 (Reuters) - China on Friday said it opposes plans by Indian government officials to host Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama in a sensitive border region controlled by India but claimed by

/ 31st March 2017
Eat a billion bacteria daily for better health

By Charu Bahri IANS/ IndiaSpend Food is comforting, it can be a heady gastronomical experience, and many traditional systems of medicine believe various foods can help prevent and cure disease. Now, new r

/ 31st March 2017
SpaceX successfully launches first recycled rocket booster

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., March 31 (Reuters) - A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket recovered at sea from its maiden flight last year blasted off again from Florida on Thursday in the first successful launch of a recycled orbi

/ 31st March 2017
South Korea court approves warrant to arrest ousted president Park Geun-hye

SEOUL, March 31 (Reuters) - A South Korean court on Friday approved a warrant to arrest ousted president Park Geun-hye, the country's first democratically elected leader to be thrown out of office, on accusatio

/ 31st March 2017
INSIGHT - Terror threats transform China's Uighur heartland into security state

KASHGAR/HOTAN, China, March 31 (Reuters) - Three times a day, alarms ring out through the streets of China's ancient Silk Road city of Kashgar, and shopkeepers rush out of their stores swinging government-issue

/ 31st March 2017
In Afghanistan, martial arts league a distraction from war, poverty

KABUL, march 31 (Reuters) - In a custom-built arena in Kabul, crowds cheered as young Afghan men punched, kicked, and wrestled in the country's first professional mixed martial arts league, a welcome distractio

/ 31st March 2017
Venezuela's Maduro decried as 'dictator' after Congress annulled

CARACAS, March 31 (Reuters) - Opposition leaders branded Venezuela's socialist President Nicolas Maduro a "dictator" on Thursday after the Supreme Court took over the functions of Congress and pushed a lengthy

/ 31st March 2017
Trump says trade gap will make China meeting 'a very difficult one'

WASHINGTON/BEIJING, March 31 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump set the tone for a tense first meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping next week by tweeting on Thursday that the United States could no lo

/ 31st March 2017
Wozniacki beats second seed Pliskova to reach Miami final

March 31(Reuters) - Caroline Wozniacki capitalised on her renowned endurance as she made few unforced errors in wearing down Karolina Pliskova to win 5-7 6-1 6-1 in the Miami Open semi-finals on Thursday. &n

/ 31st March 2017
Nagaland CM assures to look into excess appointments

Our Correspondent Kohima | March 30 Nagaland State Chief Minister, Dr Shurhozelie Liezietsu today stressed on the need to take a closer look into the problem of excess appointments in the state. &nbs

Nagaland / 30th March 2017