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Hyderabad/Bhubaneswar, Oct 27: Thirty-two people dead, 15,000 houses collapsed across 4,000 villages, 72,000 people evacuated and crops over 564,000 hectares destroyed – the floods in Andhra Pradesh are getting worse by the hour. And the deluge can only get worse, with more rains expected in the next 48 hours. The situation is somewhat better in Odisha. But though flood waters are receding, seven

New Delhi, Oct 26: BJP on Saturday termed as "explosive" former Coal Secretary PC Parakh's 2005 letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh alleging coal mafia in the ministry and asked the latter to reveal the names of MPs who reportedly pressurized government for making coal allocations to their favourites. "Coal Secretary PC Parakh's letter to the Prime Minister in 2005 is very important and

United Nations, Oct 26: The exclusion of the African continent from permanent membership of the UN Security Council raises question on the credibility of its representativeness, India has said, underlining the need for reforms in the world body to address "historical injustices". "It is indeed an irony and a continuing question on the credibility of the Security Council's representativeness to not

Hyderabad, Oct 26: Incessant rains have claimed as many as 29 lives in Andhra Pradesh during the past four days while more than 72,000 people have been evacuated from low-lying areas. The rain and flood-battered southern state is unlikely to get respite anytime soon as the Met department has forecast heavy downpour in the next 48 hours. According to an official note from the commissioner, disaster

New Delhi, Oct 26: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's displeasure with Pakistani PM Nawaz Sharif's on failing to restore ceasefire on the border followed a blunt message he delivered to Sharif in New York about a month ago when he said, "I have not become prime minister of India to redraw the boundary." The PM's September 29 meeting with Sharif, which took place amid escalating firing on the Line of

Srinagar, Oct 25: With Rahul Gandhi claiming that there is intelligence that Pakistani agencies were approaching victims of Muzzafarnagar riots, BJP today said the Home Minister must answer that in what capacity intelligence officials are briefing the Congress MP. The party criticised the Intelligence Bureau (IB), asking how can it brief a Member of Parliament or a party office bearer. "In what

Washington, Oct 25: Scientists have found that bioinformatically optimised HIV vaccine antigens may help design a global HIV vaccine. A scientific team led by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) conducted the study in monkeys. "A global HIV vaccine would offer major biomedical and practical advantages over most other HIV vaccine candidates, which are limited to certain regions of the

Hyderabad, Oct 25: Heavy rains triggered by northeast monsoon and a low pressure area over Bay of Bengal lashed several parts of Andhra Pradesh for the fourth consecutive day today, prompting authorities to evacuate thousands of people from low-lying areas. According to official figures, 12 people have been killed in various rain-related incidents in the state and crops in 2.5 lakh hectares have

Washington, Oct 25: Identifying India as one of the five fragile economies of the world, a senior US official has predicted an uncertain outlook for its future in view of the next year's general elections. "The big question about India now is what happens in the election next year and who will be the new government. That's a very complicated question," Assistant Treasury Secretary for

Indore, Oct 25: Rahul Gandhi on Thursday accused BJP of creating a divide in Uttar Pradesh for political gain, even as he claimed that Pakistani agencies were approaching some victims of the Muzaffarnagar riots to lure them to terrorism. The Congress vice-president said he had gone to Muzaffarnagar after the riots to meet people of different communities, where he was told that there is no enmity