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Anticipating protests in support of MIM MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi, who survived a murderous attack by his rivals last Saturday, the Hyderabad city police is making tight security arrangements around Makkah Masjid tomorrow. The condition of Akbaruddin Owaisi is stated to ...

YSR Congress Party president Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy on Thursday ruled out joining hands with the Congress or the BJP. In his campaign here on Thursday, Mr. Jagan alleged that several parties and forces had “ganged up” against him like Abhimanyu ...

Football's ruling body FIFA is investigating claims that over 300 matches on three continents were influenced by match-fixers, it was reported on Friday.  FIFA suspects match officials were paid as little as $10,000 to help engineer specific results in international ...

Facebook and Google are separately considering a tie-up with Skype after the web video conferencing service delayed its initial public offering , two sources with direct knowledge of the discussions told Reuters.  Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has taken part ...

America's CIA maintained a safe house near Abbottabad town for a small team of spies who conducted extensive surveillance on Osama bin Laden's compound for months before President Barack Obama signed an order to kill the most wanted terrorist on ...

A powerful aftershock has rocked an area of Japan still reeling from the deadly March 11 earthquake and tsunami disaster, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said on Thursday. The 6.1-magnitude quake struck at 12:58 am (2028 IST), 276 kilometres east ...

Actor couple Jeevitha and Rajasekhar who forayed into active politics in July 2008 by joining Congress party are now set to join the TDP on Monday.  They spoke to TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu, who is campaigning in Kadapa for ...

The search operation for the missing Pawan Hans chopper carrying Arunachal Pradesh chief minister Dorjee Khandu and four others has narrowed down to three locations at the Indo-Bhutan border. The chief minister's office sources informed that based on the inputs ...