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India blocks access to 857 porn sites
India blocks free access to 857 porn sites in what it says is a move to prevent children from accessing them.
3 August 2015, 11:44 AM
India floods kill more than 100
Heavy monsoon rains in India have killed more than 100 people in the past week and forced tens of thousands of people to take shelter in relief camps, India's home ministry has said.
3 August 2015, 06:36 AM
Komen triggers heavy rains killing 70 in India
The depression that resulted from cyclone Komen triggers heavy rain in northeastern and eastern states of India, killing at least 70 people in Manipur, West Bengal and Odisha.
2 August 2015, 15:18 PM
Pakistan releases 163 Indian fishermen in goodwill gesture
Pakistan on Sunday released 163 Indian fishermen held for violating its territorial waters as a goodwill gesture amid tensions over the disputed Himalayan territory of Kashmir and an attack on a police station.
2 August 2015, 12:44 PM
Meet the Facebook reporters of India-Bangladesh enclaves
A group of "Facebook reporters" have been the main source of information from the enclaves of India and Bangladesh in the past few years.
1 August 2015, 15:53 PM
BGB-BSF conference begins Monday
A director general level conference between Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and Indian Border Security Force (BSF) to begin on Monday in New Delhi.
1 August 2015, 13:49 PM
Pakistani Bajrangi Bhaijaans want to reunite Indian woman with family
Alike Bajrangi Bhaijaan, Pakistani activists launches fresh campaign to unite a hearing and speech impaired Indian woman who has been stranded in the neighbouring country for at least 15 years.
1 August 2015, 12:07 PM
Freedom's anxious wait over (video)
As the long wait of almost 70 years approached its end, Nurul Islam was gripped by a sensation he had not felt before - the anticipation of freedom.
1 August 2015, 08:27 AM
Indian teachers 'kidnapped in Libya'
Four Indian teachers are kidnapped in Libya, India's foreign ministry says.
31 July 2015, 09:42 AM
Illegal foreign workers get 3 more months to leave Oman without fine
Oman extends an amnesty for illegal foreign workers to leave the country without being fined till the end of October.
30 July 2015, 14:59 PM
Emotional farewell to APJ Kalam
Thousands of teary-eyed people bid an emotional farewell to former Indian president APJ Abdul Kalam who has been laid to rest at a burial site near his ancestral house in southern Indian town of Rameswaram with full state honour.
30 July 2015, 10:50 AM
Trespasser in one’s own country
It was like any other mundane day for Aziza Rahman, the sixty-year-old man - except that he landed in jail.
Life in the enclaves has little variations. You get up in the morning, if you have land to cultivate, then you go there and do the job.
30 July 2015, 09:28 AM
Why Delhi buys water on the black market
20 percent of Delhi population have no access to piped water and have to be supplied by water tankers, but difference between demand and supply is over 750 million litres a day.
29 July 2015, 15:41 PM
Depression likely to cross Bangladesh tomorrow
A deep depression over the northeast Bay of Bengal and adjoining coastal areas of Bangladesh and Indian state of West Bengal is likely to cross Bangladesh tomorrow morning.
29 July 2015, 10:54 AM
Return Kohinoor to India, says UK MP Keith Vaz
Indian-origin British MP Keith Vaz calls for the world-famous Kohinoor diamond to be returned to India during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's UK visit in November, reports the Times of India.
28 July 2015, 14:11 PM
Pak army releases pics to 'prove' Indian drone claim
Pakistan Army's media arm releases several photos and videos that purportedly show the drone was launched from the Indian side for a spying mission.
28 July 2015, 12:43 PM
Abdul Kalam: People's president, extraordinary Indian
Dr Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen (APJ) Abdul Kalam, India's 11th president, dies aged 83, on Monday evening while doing what he loved - addressing students - was an extraordinary Indian.
28 July 2015, 11:47 AM
Indian ex-president Abdul Kalam's body brought to Delhi
Indian President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Narendra Modi received the body of former President APJ Abdul Kalam at the Palam airport in Delhi a little after noon today.
28 July 2015, 08:49 AM
Indian ex-president Abdul Kalam passes away
Former Indian president APJ Abdul Kalam passes away after suffering a massive heart attack in Shillong. He was 84.
27 July 2015, 15:49 PM
Political tension puts India-Pakistan series in doubt
Anurag Thakur, the BCCI secretary, says that any bilateral series between India and Pakistan was unlikely until the political relationship between the two countries was stable.
27 July 2015, 15:37 PM