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Karachi, Sep.16 (ANI): The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has expressed hope that the drought of international tournaments for the national squad would soon be over with several foreign tours and multi nation events scheduled for the next few months.

“The dry spell is finally over and that’s a good sign for our cricket,” PCB’s Chief Operating [...]

Guwahati, Sep 9 (ANI): As experts claim that a big earthquake might hit Assam region shortly, locals are rushing to get their houses insured while the authorities are conducting sensitization campaigns as a precautionary measure.

The region was rocked by four earthquakes in past three weeks, including a tremor with 5.9 magnitude, the biggest in [...]

New Delhi, Aug 26 (ANI): The Delhi High Court on Wednesday sought response from the CBI on a petition filed by Buta Singh accusing the agency of illegally summoning him for questioning in connection with a multi crore corruption case.

Buta Singh, who holds a post of Cabinet rank, argued that the agency couldn’t question him [...]

New Delhi, Aug. 24 (ANI): Buta Singh’s son Sarabjot Singh was summoned to CBI headquarters on Monday for further questioning in connection with a multi crore corruption case.

Sarobjot Singh was arrested by the agency on July 31 for allegedly demanding [...]

Chandigarh, July 13 (ANI): The Indian footwear market has recently seen a demand shift from low-priced footwear to medium and high-priced products. But the huge potential that this development creates is as yet largely untapped.

The growing aspiration [...]

Islamabad, July 11 (ANI): The United States has reprimanded Pakistan for the multi billion rupee Railway scam in which an US firm was denied a fair chance to secure a contract of a whopping 12.5 billion rupees.

According to The News, US Senator, Robert P Casey Jr has [...]

New Delhi, July 8(ANI): Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Ajay Maken on Wednesday said that Government would establish a secure and dedicated online information network between state police forces and Central intelligence agencies.

These will be established at 30 locations across the country as part [...]

Jerusalem, July 5 (ANI): The United States has forced an Israeli company to back out of the multi-billion dollar tender to sell new multi-role fighter jets to the Indian Air Force.

Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has been pressurized by the Pentagon to back out of a joint partnership with a Swedish aerospace company, Saab Gripen.

The six [...]

New Delhi, July 3 (ANI): Presenting the Railway Budget 2009-10, Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee today said that about 50 stations are to be developed into world class stations with international level facilities.

Banerjee said that these stations would [...]

Imphal, May 29 (ANI): A centre for apparel manufacturing has been set up in Imphal in a first of its kind initiative in the northeastern region. It has come as a boon for educated unemployed youth of the [...]

Washington, May 20 (ANI): Constant exposure to tobacco smoke puts kids at a higher risk of developing early emphysema later in life, say researchers.

“Emphysematous ‘holes’ in the lung that begin as small areas of damage or impaired development may expand according to a fractal trajectory after an earlier insult,” said Dr Gina Lovasi, of Columbia [...]

Madrid (Spain) , April 20, 2009 (ANI): President Pratibha Devi Singh Patil on Monday called for strengthening the forces of peace soon after arriving in Spanish capital Madrid.

Patil, who was received by Spain’s Minister for Science and Innovation, Cristina Garmendia, said she was delighted to be visiting both Spain and Poland, countries with whom India [...]

Cape Town (South Africa), Apr.17 (ANI): Compulsory ‘time-outs’ are to be introduced into the Indian Premier League, which starts on Saturday in South Africa, in an attempt to squeeze in more television advertising.

According to a Sports24 report, the breaks – each lasting seven-and-a-half minutes – will [...]

Baghdad – Two simultaneous explosions killed nine policemen on Sunday in Anbar province west of Baghdad, police said.
A police source told the German Press Agency dpa that the bombs ripped though a patrol in Faluja, 70 kilometres west of Baghdad, killing an officer and eight other policemen.
The Iraqi security forces took over security responsibility [...]

Baghdad, April 5 (DPA) Two simultaneous explosions killed nine policemen Sunday in Anbar province west of Baghdad, police said.
A police source told the DPA that the bombs ripped though a patrol in Faluja, 70 km west of Baghdad, killing an officer and eight other policemen.
The Iraqi security forces took over security responsibility for the Sunni-dominated [...]

India’s gold demand turned quiet on Friday as most banks, the primary sellers of gold, were closed for a holiday, traders and dealers said.
“Since morning demand is absolutely calm…,” said Daman Prakash, director with MNC Bullion in Chennai.
Traders picked up bargains as gold fell about 2.5 percent in the previous session to replenish stocks in [...]

India’s gold futures extended losses on Friday on sustained selling pressure after the previous day’s fall by over 2.5 percent on renewed talks of gold sales by the IMF as well as a rally in equity markets, analysts said.
The benchmark June gold contract was 0.41 percent lower at 14,631 rupees per 10 grams at 11:18 [...]

Bangalore, Mar 18 (ANI/Business Wire India): Cranes Software International Ltd. (Cranes Software), a company that provides enterprise statistical analytics and engineering simulation software products and solutions across the globe, today announced the bagging of BR.net order from L and T Finance Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Larsen and Toubro that provides financial products and [...]

Hyderabad, Mar 12 (ANI/Business Wire India): Online marketing has been made easy and accessible to manufacturers, organised and individual retailers with the introduction of a multi-channel online retail solution by Reasoning Global e Applications.

Following the present menacing gloom of recession on markets across the board, Reasoning launched MartJack, the multi channel online retailing solution [...]

Kathmandu, Mar 6 (ANI): India has agreed to provide technical aid to Nepal for upgrading the central food laboratory and the laboratory of the Department of Standards and Meterology (DoSM).

This assistance will help to harmonize the standards and accreditation [...]