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Indian court acquits ex minister, executives in telecoms corruption case
New Delhi - An Indian court on Thursday acquitted a former minister, politicians and business executives of graft and money laundering charges...
Pakistan Summons Indian Envoy Over Ceasefire Violations
Islamabad - Pakistan on Thursday summoned the Indian deputy high commissioner and lodged protest over the recent cross-border shelling by Indian forces that...
India launches 20 satellites in single mission–Space Agency
New Delhi - The Indian Space Research Agency, said that it has set a new record for the country's space programme, with the...
Polio virus resurfaces in India after 5 years-minister
New Delhi - Rajeshwar Tiwari, Indian State Health Secretary, on Wednesday said that the crippling polio virus has resurfaced in India after over five...
Bomb threats on three flights from Indian capital in 24 hours
New Delhi - Three flights from the Indian capital were subjected to bomb scares over a period of 24 hours, news reports said on...
Police arrest 13 suspects with fake international passports
Kano - The Kano State Police command has arrested 13 persons with fake international passports and ECOWAS travel certificates.
The Commissioner of Police, Mr Muhammad...
India introduces net neutrality rules barring Facebook’s free Internet
India introduced rules on Monday to prevent Internet service providers from having different pricing policies for accessing different parts of the Web, in a...
Indian national arrives Lagos on bicycle
Lagos - An Indian national, Mr Somen Debnath, on Thursday said that he arrived Lagos on bicycle after visiting 110 other countries in the...
Gov. Masari on a five-day working visit to India
Katsina - Gov. Aminu Bello Masari of Katsina state on Tuesday left Nigeria for India on a five-day working visit, according to a statement...
Bangladesh hands over Indian insurgent leader
Dhaka - Bangladeshi Home Minister, Asaduzzaman Kamal said Bangladesh on Wednesday, handed over a jailed Indian rebel leader nearly two decades after he was...
Court hands down sentences in Delhi Commonwealth Games scandal
New Delhi - An Indian court on Wednesday jailed five men in a case linked to financial wrongdoings during the 2010 Commonwealth Games held...
India blocks 857 pornographic websites
New Delhi -The Indian government on Monday in New Delhi, told internet service providers and telecom operators in the country to block 857 pornographic...
Four Indians detained in Islamic State stronghold in Libya
NEW DELHI - Four Indian nationals have been detained in the Libyan coastal city of Sirte, an Indian government spokesman said on Friday, an...
Doubts emerge over India heat wave death claims
NEW DELHI - Indian disaster management officials said on Monday that death toll from a scorching heat wave across India rose to over 2,300...
Indian govt. working toward affordable healthcare for all
NEW DELHI - Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, said on Tuesday in New Delhi that his government has been working hard to ensure that...
20 killed in police, smugglers shoot out in India
NEW DELHI - Indian Police on Tuesday said over 20 people were killed when police shot at a group of sandalwood smugglers in a...
Sonia Gandhi slur prompts call for penalties against India’s sexist politicians...
By Nita Bhalla
NEW DELHI - Indian politicians who make bigoted comments should be punished by their parties, activists said on Thursday, after a government...
India cardinal calls for protection of humans not just cows
NEW DELHI - Cardinal Baselios Cleemis, Head India Catholic Bishops, has challenged the country to be more concerned about the welfare of its people...
Google in talks to buy Indian startup InMobi: source
(Reuters) - Google Inc (GOOGL.O) is in talks to buy Bangalore-based mobile advertising venture InMobi, a source with direct knowledge of the matter said,...
NDLEA arrests 33 in Ekiti over cultivation of Indian hemp
ADO-EKITI - The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Ekiti said on Tuesday that it had arrested 33 suspects over the cultivation of...