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Karachi: Former dictator Gen Pervez Musharraf has said ex-army chief General Raheel Sharif's intervention helped him in exiting Pakistan, indicating the powerful influence wielded by the military in the country's affairs. Participating in…
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New Delhi: Weeks before he presents India's first combined general and railway budget, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today said rail commuters must pay for the service they receive even as he made a strong case for outsourcing of non-core…
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Chennai: VK Sasikala, confidante of late J Jayalalithaa, has thanked President Pranab Mukherjee, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi for personally paying condolences on the death of the AIADMK supremo on…
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London: Viswanathan Anand played out a draw with long-time rival Vladimir Kramnik of Russia to end the London Chess Classic with a shared third result after the end of the ninth and final round here. The highlights of Anand's campaign were…
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Chennai: England got through to lunch unscathed, reaching 97 without suffering any early setback, as India looked for a breakthrough on day five of the fifth and final Test here. Having already conceded the five-match series, England had…
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Washington: Donald Trump today won the Electoral College vote to secure his election as the US' 45th president, easily staving off a long-shot bid by opponents to turn Republican electors against him. The Electoral College affirmed Trump…
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Tokyo: Japan began killing about 122,000 farm birds today to contain another outbreak of a highly contagious strain of avian flu, officials said. It is the sixth mass cull this winter, with nearly a million birds slaughtered in total as…
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New Delhi: A Rs 2,000-crore development package, approved by the central government recently, will be applicable to the displaced people of Pakistan occupied Jammu and Kashmir (POJK) and not to those from West Pakistan. The central…
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Srinagar: Cold wave tightened its grip on Kashmir Valley ahead of the onset of 'Chillai-Kalan' the 40-day harshest winter period - with the summer capital Srinagar and Leh town recording the coldest night of the season. Chillai-Kalan,…
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Sydney: Australia today signed a 50 billion dollars deal with France for 12 sophisticated submarines to be built by French defence major DCNS that was at the centre of a controversy this year surrounding the leak of documents relating to…
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