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[Anup Tiwari]

US defense secy Ashton Carter to visit India in May

 

[Anup Tiwari]

WASHINGTON: For President Barack
Obama, the so-called nuclear deal
with Iran is said to be a legacy issue
even as he maintains it will arrest
Teheran's nuclear weapons plans
and advance peace in the region. For
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu, it is a question of
Israel's survival even as his critics
insist it is all about political
posturing.

 

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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan prime minister
Nawaz Sharif today left for a day-
long official visit to Turkey to hold
discussions with the country's top
leadership on the Yemen crisis.
During his visit, Sharif will meet
with Turkish prime minister Ahmet
Davutoglu and president Recep
Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara.

 

[Anup Tiwari]

ISLAMABADakistan's former
president and PPP co-chairman Asif
Ali Zardari is planning to launch his
daughter into politics, a move
indicative of strained ties with his
son Bilawal.

Zardari plans to launch daughter into politics - TOI Mobile | The Times of India Mobile Site

 

[Anup Tiwari]

NEW DELHI: The controversy over
Supreme Court Chief Justice HL
Dattu holding a conference on Good
Friday has drawn the prime minister
into its ambit, with justice Kurian
Joseph taking his complaint to
Narendra Modi.
Justice Joseph had written to Dattu
earlier objecting to the conference of
chief justices of high courts being
scheduled on Friday and refused to
attend it on the ground that his
faith did not allow him to do so.

Irked over judges' meet on Good Friday, Justice Kurian Joseph writes to PM Modi - TOI Mobile | The Times of India Mobile Site

 

[Anup Tiwari]

Officials said that one police
constable was killed and another
circle inspector was injured during
the operation.
The incident occurred near Janakipur
village in Mothkur mandal of
Nalgonda district.
According to reports, the incident
happened between police and an
inter-state gang, while the former
were out on a routine patrolling
duty in the area.


2 gangsters killed in encounter in Telangana; 1 cop killed - TOI Mobile | The Times of India Mobile Site

 

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NEW YORK: India-born ex-Goldman
Sachs director Rajat Gupta's
conviction on insider trading charges
should not be thrown out as the
government provided "overwhelming"
proof against him for passing on
illegal information in return for
"expected potential pecuniary
gains," US prosecutors said.
The prosecutors said the IIT and
Harvard-educated former McKinsey
head, who is serving a two-year
sentence, had a "powerful" financial
incentive to tip his billionaire
hedge-fund operator friend Raj
Rajaratnam.

 

[Anup Tiwari]

Two Indians
charged with
insider trading in
US

 

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Expect no rate cut
in Apr 7 RBI meet: Geojit

 

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BJP slams opponents of Land Bill

Telangana:2 suspected SIMI militants killed

Jat Mahasabha asks Khaps to support BetiBachao campaign

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