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New Delhi: The national capital registered its highest-ever voter turnout of 65.86 per cent in the keenly contested Assembly polls with men and women coming out in almost equal numbers to vote.Delhi’s Election Commission today said out of 1.19 crore ...

The principal ruling party in Jammu and Kashmir and a constituent of the United Progressive Alliance at the Centre, National Conference (NC) on Thursday declared that the Union Minister of New and Renewable Energy Dr. Farooq Abdullah would be repeated as its ...

Unabated price rise, coupled with unending stories of venal acts at high places, has caused wide discontent across the nation.The Congress, the principal constituent of the coalition government in New Delhi, has not escaped the opprobrium for all that has been happening. It has reason to take alarm at reports streaming in concerning its prospects in the on-going polls in five states of the country, which are to be followed, in a short while, by general elections for the next Lok Sabha.

Snapping two days of losses, gold prices rose by Rs 450 to Rs 31,250 per ten gram in the national capital on Thursday on emergence of buying by stockists at existing lower levels for the ongoing marriage season amid a strong global trend. Silver, however, fell for the third straight session by losing Rs 200 to Rs 43,800 per kg on lack of buying support from coin makers and industrial units. Traders said emergence of buying by stockists at existing lower levels for the ongoing wedding season ...

America's National Security Agency cannot be possibly tracking only suspected terrorists in India, says Vicky Nanjappa The furore over its global snooping programme has not stopped American intelligence behemoth National Security Agency from listening in and collecting information on private phone calls, according to a report by the Washington Post. The Post article should give Indian security agencies enough reasons to worry as it states that of the staggering 5 billion phone calls are ...

Two medallists at the 29th Junior National Athletics Championships were disqualified on Wednesday after they failed to report for dope tests while syringes in the toilets told a tale of continued use of banned substances at the lower levels. Haryana's Anand, ...

Retired Supreme Court judge, Justice MK Sharma; former Kerala High Court judge and Supreme Court lawyer V Giri; Additional Solicitor Generals (ASG) Mohan Jain and Siddharth Luthra; and Singh & Associates Founding Partner Manoj Kumar Singh were among ...

West Bengal's Sanchay K.R. Paul came up with a standout performance as he shattered the national and meet records twice while winning the boys Under-14 100 metres sprint in the 29th Junior National Athletics Championships here Thursday.Paul had clocked 11.19 ...

Washington: Pulitzer Prize winning Indian-American author Jhumpa Lahiri's new novel, "The Lowland" failed to win the 2013 US National Book Award in fiction losing out to author James McBride.McBride's "The Good Lord Bird", about the journey of a