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'King of Romance' Yash Chopra dies at 80

Hindustan Times - ‎19 minutes ago‎
Legendary Bollywood filmmaker Yash Chopra, 80, passes away on Sunday evening at the Lilavati Hospital in Bandra, where he was being treated for dengue for the past one week.

Saina Nehwal wins Denmark Open

Hindustan Times - ‎42 minutes ago‎
Shuttler Saina Nehwal on Sunday beat Juliane Schenk of Germany to win the Denmark Open Super Series Premier tournament. Schenk had pulled off a massive upset on Friday when she overcame world number two and Olympic champion Li Xuerui.

Narendra Modi meets RSS chief amidst speculations

The Hindu - ‎1 hour ago‎
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi met the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Chief Mohan Bhagwat in Nagpur on Sunday amidst speculations of his projection as the prime ministerial candidate for the 2014 general elections.

Globalisation has brought about new challenges: Hooda

Zee News - ‎32 minutes ago‎
"I have a feeling that we as a nation have not prepared ourselves to deal with these developments," Hooda said while speaking at the launch of the Chandigarh edition of The Sunday Guardian, edited by noted journalist M J Akbar, here.

Pope Canonizes 7 Saints, Including 2 With New York Ties

New York Times - ‎1 hour ago‎
VATICAN CITY - Tens of thousands of faithful, some wearing feathered headdresses and beads, others in colorful Hawaiian shirts and leis, turned out Sunday as Pope Benedict XVI canonized seven saints, including the first Native American and a ...

Kingfisher Airlines lenders say recovery last option

Economic Times - ‎4 hours ago‎
Mumbai: Lenders to Kingfisher Airlines, whose combined exposure of nearly Rs 7,500 crore is at risk, have said they will go in for recovery measures only as the last resort and expressed hope that its promoters will be able to find an investor and resume ...
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Khurshid cancels Haj pilgrimage amid speculation of cabinet reshuffle

IBNLive - ‎45 minutes ago‎
New Delhi: Law Minister Salman Khurshid, who is embroiled in a controversy over allegations of misappropriation of funds by his trust, has put off his Haj pilgrimage, according to sources close to him.

LeT militant involved in Delhi-blast plot killed in Kashmir

Hindustan Times - ‎1 hour ago‎
Two Lashkar-e-Toiba militants were killed including a divisional commander of the outfit in a 24-hour encounter with security forces in Kashmir's northern town of Sopore, police said on Sunday.

13 sentenced to six years RI in Kandhamal riots case

Zee News - ‎3 hours ago‎
Pronouncing the judgement yesterday, the court of additional sessions Judge (Fast Track Court-1) Sobhan Kumar Das acquitted six others due to lack of evidence.

Probe Nitin Gadkari's company for fraud: Digvijaya Singh to NDTV

NDTV - ‎4 hours ago‎
New Delhi: All of last week, BJP president Nitin Gadkari was the focused target of Arvind Kejriwal's anti-corruption expose. Political opponents seized the opportunity to level charges of their own, accusing Mr Gadkari of using shell companies to fund his ...

Sushilkumar Shinde attacks Pakistan for aiding terrorists' infiltration into India

India Today - ‎38 minutes ago‎
Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde on Sunday targeted Pakistan for its help to terrorists infiltrating from across the border into the country.

Syrian civil war spills over: Lebanon protests killing of top intel official

Daily News & Analysis - ‎31 minutes ago‎
Heavy gunfire erupted in central Beirut on Sunday after protesters tried to storm the offices of Prime Minister Najib Mikati, demanding that he quit over the assasination of Brigadier General Wissam al-Hassan, a top intelligence official who was killed by car ...

Libyans react to reported capture of Gadaffi spokesman Moussa Ibrahim

Telegraph.co.uk - ‎17 minutes ago‎
Libyans react to reported capture of Gadaffi spokesman Moussa Ibrahim. Residents of Tripoli overjoyed by reports of the capture of former Libyan government spokesman Moussa Ibrahim, on the first anniversary of the death of Colonel Gadaffi.

Iran, like US, denies plan for one-on-one nuclear talks

Reuters - ‎1 hour ago‎
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran followed the United States on Sunday in denying that the two countries had scheduled direct bilateral negotiations on Iran's controversial nuclear program.

Push for four-day truce in Syria

The Australian - ‎2 hours ago‎
Mr Brahimi, the UN and Arab League envoy, earlier met Foreign Minister Walid Muallem and opposition leaders tolerated by the Assad regime to push for the truce over the four-day Eid al-Adha holiday, beginning on Friday.

Malala making headways in recovery

The News International - ‎36 minutes ago‎
BIRMINGHAM: Malala Yousafzai is making headway in terms of recovery at Queen Elizabeth Hospital where she is under treatment for a brain injury that she sustained after Taliban shot her in the head for her defying their anti-education especially girls' ...

SEBI sets one-year target for probes, warns manipulators of action

The Hindu - ‎6 hours ago‎
Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has set a one-year target to complete investigations, saying that the long-drawn probe processes are a thing of past and manipulators can't escape the long arm of the law.

Yahoo CEO's comeback plan hones in on technology, not media

NDTV - ‎1 hour ago‎
Marissa Mayer, who earned a reputation for decisive action and intensity during her 13-year stint at Google Inc, has spent her first months as Yahoo Inc CEO quietly moving the Internet pioneer back to its roots in technology.

ONGC looking to hire RIL's ununtilised production facilities

NDTV - ‎1 hour ago‎
Oil and Natural Gas Corp is in talks to hire Reliance Industries' unutilised production facilities on the east to quickly bring to production its gas finds in the Krishna Godavari basin.

'No plans for Starbucks' killer pricing'

Financial Express - ‎3 hours ago‎
Mumbai : Undeterred by the entry of iconic US-based coffee chain Starbucks at competitive prices, entrenched players such as CCD, Barista and Costa Coffee are unlikely to go in for price war, and plan to continue with differentiated pricing strategy.

Shenzhen to get its first Apple store

Hindustan Times - ‎Oct 19, 2012‎
The Xperia ion is a modest upgrade over the Xperia S but improves upon key factors such as display and build quality. What makes things worse for the ion, though, is its pricing, which puts it right in the One X and Galaxy S... Sony Xperia ion. Nokia Lumia 610 ...

Apple and Microsoft go head-to-head with tablet launches

The Guardian
10 minutes ago
Written by
Jemima Kiss
It's the tale of two touchscreens this week as Microsoft and Apple go head-to-head launching their latest tablet devices. Microsoft has pulled out all the stops to convince the world that Surface is the tablet to beat, with a no-expenses-spared New York event on ...

Varun Elated with his debut film's success!

Galatta.com - ‎15 minutes ago‎
A positive start for newcomers Varun Dhawan, Alia Bhatt and Siddharth Malhotra, excited Varun says he never dreamt of such a great response for his debut film, Student Of The Year.

'Dabangg 2' making in full swing: Malaika Arora

IBNLive - ‎2 hours ago‎
Gurgaon: Model-turned-actress Malaika Arora Khan says that production on the sequel of 2010 film 'Dabangg' is in full swing and the team can hardly wait for its release.

Ajay Devgn hikes his price to 'one crore per day'

Daily News & Analysis - ‎2 hours ago‎
Ajay Devgn has reportedly increased his price to Rs1 crore rupees per day. The 43-year-old actor, who is on cloud nine these days after the astonishing success of his latest comedy Bol Bachchan, demanded Rs7 crore from a leading producer-director who ...

I want a Christian-style wedding: Sushmita Sen

Indian Express - ‎7 hours ago‎
Bollywood actress Sushmita Sen has marriage on her mind and says it's her dream to have a lavish Christian style wedding. "It is my childhood dream to have a Christian style wedding, just like the fairy tales.

Mumbai Indians seek consolation win

Cricbuzz - ‎32 minutes ago‎
The Mumbai Indians led by Harbhajan Singh will play for pride and honour when they take on the Group B toppers, the Sydney Sixers in a dead rubber in Durban on Monday.

Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir's form a worry for Kapil Dev

India Today - ‎6 hours ago‎
With Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir going through a prolong form slump, former India captain Kapil Dev said the signs are "worrying" not only for the Indian team but also for the future of the two openers.

Kevin Pietersen flops again with bat at Champions League

Times of India - ‎30 minutes ago‎
CAPE TOWN: An unhappy Champions League Twenty20 tournament for recalled England batsman Kevin Pietersen continued Sunday when he made a meagre nine runs.

F1: Motorsport in India lacks drive

India Today - ‎7 hours ago‎
Formula One fever has not yet caught on in the Capital, though the Indian Grand Prix is just a week away. Promotional activities are on in full swing and ticket rates have been slashed.

Consensus at the eleventh hour caps off CoP-11

Times of India - ‎Oct 19, 2012‎
HYDERABAD: After two long weeks of deliberations, countries finally reached a consensus on resource mobilisation by midnight on Friday, the final day of the 11th conference of parties (CoP) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).

Mars rover starts 'to eat dirt'

BBC News - ‎Oct 19, 2012‎
Nasa's Curiosity rover has ingested its first Martian soil sample. The robot has taken a pinch of dust into the CheMin instrument, one of its two big onboard analytical tools.

Women heart attack victims 'twice as likely to die as men'

Indian Express - ‎2 hours ago‎
Women wait longer to call an ambulance after a heart attack than men do and they are not treated as effectively by doctors as men are, a new study has claimed.

Osteoporosis rising among youth: doctors

The Hindu - ‎Oct 19, 2012‎
The threshold age for osteoporosis - traditionally thought to be somewhere around 50 or 60 years - appears to be shifting downwards in Kerala, orthopaedics from a private clinic in the city who addressed a press conference here on Friday said.

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