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Strengthening India's presence over the Indian Ocean region, Defence Minister A K Antony on Monday inaugurated the first fighter aircraft base here in southern India where the IAF is stationing its most lethal Su-30MKI combat aircraft.
In 1946, the United States conducted a series of nuclear weapon tests at Bikini Atoll in what is known as Operation Crossroads.
Grandmasters P Harikrihsna and Abhijeet Gupta played in copy book style to give Indian men their third victory in a row in the 40th Chess Olympiad in Istanbul.
Haresh Pandya pays tribute to noted radio commentator Suresh Saraiya, who passed away in Mumbai on Wednesday following a heart attack.
Launching a scathing attack on the Centre for its "callous and adamant attitude" in training Sri Lankan defence personnel in India, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Monday demanded that New Delhi desist from such acts and that they be sent back to their county immediately.
Acting on a Central Bureau of Investigation's plea, a special CBI court has issued judicial requests to four countries seeking details of the money trail in the Aircel-Maxis deal, in which former telecom minister Dayanidhi Maran is an accused. The Letters Rogatory to the United Kingdom, Bermuda, Malaysia and Mauritius were issued by a Patiala House court last week in the case. The CBI has alleged that Maran had received Rs 547 crore as kickbacks.
Three persons were injured in a fire that broke out on Saturday in a boat off the Mumbai coast.
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Twenty one Indian sailors aboard the ship MV Fairchem Bogey, which was hijacked last August, have been released by the pirates, the Directorate General of Shipping said on Saturday. This is the second piece of good news for the Indian seafaring community within a fortnight. Seventeen sailors from a hijacked Iranian ship had been released late in December. "All the 21 sailors are safe and the ship is now on its way to a safe port," said Director General of Shipping.
'The 67 sorties mounted from Jamnagar broke the Portuguese's will to fight, the army columns advanced unresisted, and the Portuguese threw in the towel. The formal surrender took place about midday on December 19.' M P Anil Kumar on the liberation of Goa, Daman and Diu 50 years ago.
Indian Navy on Thursday commissioned highly maneuverable fast attack warship INS Karuva at the Eastern Naval Command in Visakhapatnam with an objective to thwart asymmetric threats emanating from the sea.
An oil tanker with 21 Indian crew members on board was hijacked on Saturday off the coast of Oman, Directorate General of Shipping said in Mumbai.
The 14th Annual Meeting of the Asia Pacific Group on Money Laundering and Annual Technical Assistance Forum concluded in Kochi on Friday with a resolve to strengthen efforts in this direction.
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The government may have to wait a little longer to get a trail of illegal money stashed by Indians in Liechtenstein.
As the debate on revealing names of those who had stashed money abroad was hotting up, a Parliamentary panel grilled finance ministry officials on why the confidentiality clause was put in tax treaties in the first place.
Seeking to give a fillip to bilateral military ties, army chief General V K Singh is set to undertake a five-day visit to Sri Lanka from Sunday to discuss defence cooperation.
The film is the highest grossing Karan Johar movie abroad.
Nearly 23 people were feared dead after a boat carrying about 40 suspected asylum seekers sank on Monday, hundreds of nautical miles off the Cocos Islands, west of Australia.
With an instrument on board India's lunar mission Chandryaan discovering water molecules on the Moon, scientists are now confident of harvesting water from the lunar surface in the future, which could help sustain lunar astronauts and even propel missions to Mars.
Believe it or not, Bollywood actor Shilpa Shetty's endorsement of Michael Bloomberg last month during India Day Parade has become the most-watched video clip of the 2009 mayoral election.
The best way of judging currencies is by finding out how they are performing at the foreign exchange market.
An enforced vacation to rest his aching knees may have been just the tonic Rafael Nadal needed as he had a bounce in his step on Wednesday when he bludgeoned Richard Gasquet of France at the US Open.
Shilpa Shetty, who suffered racial discrimination during the British reality television show Celebrity Big Brother, claimed that Shah Rukh Khan's detention by US immigration officers at Newark Airport was a very unfortunate incident.
President Barack Obama has nominated his friend and former room-mate and major campaign fund-raiser Vinai Thummalapally of Colorado Springs, Colorado, as the next US Ambassador to Belize, the only country in Central America where English is the official language.
The appointment of veteran diplomat Peter Burleigh as charge d'affaires at the American embassy in New Delhi was a Department decision and not on the recommendation of Richard Holbrooke, Special Representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan, as had been rumored because of their earlier longtime working relationship, senior Administration sources have told rediff.com.
Texas billionaire Allen Stanford and three of his companies were charged with "massive" fraud on Tuesday as federal agents swooped down on his US headquarters. In a civil complaint filed in federal court in Dallas, the US Securities and Exchange Commission accused Stanford, who sponsored international cricket matches, and two other executives of fraudulently selling $8 billion in high-yield certificates of deposit in a scheme..
To validate the concept of flexi-use of airspace to fight battles and to secure the peninsular skies including the coastal belt, the Indian Air Force is all set to carry out the second edition of its mammoth exercise Dakshin Prahar from February 18.
Suspected pirates on Thursday attempted to hijack an Indian ship in the Gulf of Aden, but were apprehended by a United States missile cruiser, which 'quickly' responded to the merchant vessel's distress call. The Indian-flagged Motor Vessel Premdivya sent a distress call reporting that she had been fired by a small skiff and suspected pirates were attempting to board it. The guided missile cruiser Vella Gulf intercepted the call and navy copter signaled for the skiff to stop
Relatives of one of the sailors claimed that pirates had initially demanded $15 lakh and later raised it to $25 lakh for the release of the crew but it was not clear whether the ransom was paid or not.
Left-hander Devon Smith was recalled to the West Indies squad on Friday for next month's first Test against England while Barbados opener Dale Richards earned his first call-up.
The ongoing financial crisis, poverty reduction, reforms including expansion of the Security Council, uneven progress in the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals and Darfur conflict are likely to dominate the agenda of the United Nations General Assembly that begins on Tuesday. More than 170 heads of state and governments, foreign ministers and senior diplomats will participate in the discussion lasting about two weeks.
West Indies opening batsman Xavier Marshall has tested positive for a banned substance
West Indies opening batsman Xavier Marshall has tested positive for a banned substance, a senior cricket board official said. Jamaican Marshall and Tonito Willett from Leeward Islands tested positive last month at a camp to pick the side to face England in the Stanford Twenty20 winner-take-all $20 million (11.1 million pound) match on November 1, a report said.
Deepika Padukone, who made her Bollywood debut with Om Shanti Om last year, will lead the annual India Day parade in New York on August 17.
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