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Indian teachers 'kidnapped in Libya'
Four Indian teachers are kidnapped in Libya, India's foreign ministry says.
31 July 2015
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
BSF kills Bangladeshi on Naogaon border
Indian Border Security Force shoot dead a Bangladeshi cattle trader near Sapahar border in Naogaon.
27 July 2015
Gurdaspur attack: 10 killed in Indian police station siege
Gunmen in army uniform kill five people including a policeman in what is suspected to be a terror attack in Indian state of Punjab bordering Pakistan.
27 July 2015
80 people die in Delhi everyday from air pollution, Parliament is told
Air pollution in Delhi is killing around 80 people every day, according to an international study
24 July 2015
Salahuddin to be repatriated for trial: Kamal
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal says BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed will be repatriated for trial in several arson and vandalism cases soon after completion of his legal procedures in Indian court.
23 July 2015
Charge framed against Salahuddin
A court in Meghalaya frames charges against Salahuddin Ahmed for trespassing into Indian territory, a charge the BNP leader denied. Salahuddin, who went missing in Dhaka in March and was found in Shillong two months later, maintains that he was taken there forcibly.
22 July 2015
China's Brittle Development Model
After gaining independence from Britain in 1947, India was something of a poster child for the virtues of democracy – in stark contrast with China, which became a Communist dictatorship in 1949.
21 July 2015
Enclave exchange body dissolves Aug 1
The India-Bangladesh Joint Enclave Exchange Coordination Committee will be dissolved after July 31 midnight.
21 July 2015
979 enclave people opt to go to India
Total 979 people living in Indian enclaves inside Bangladeshi territory will move into mainland India with the implementation of land boundary treaty between the neighbouring countries.
20 July 2015