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New Delhi, Jun 2: India has asked the US to "temporarily" hand over LeT terrorist David Headley for a year and extradite his accomplice Tahawwur Hussain Rana to get more information about the conspiracy hatched to carry out Mumbai terror attacks. In its fresh efforts to get access to the Pakistani American terrorist, India has conveyed to the American interlocutors to "temporarily" hand over

Tumkur, Jun 1: The increase in prices of petrol and diesel was to respond to the rupee depreciation, Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Veerappa Moily said today defending the hike effected after the rupee hit a 11-month low making oil imports costlier. "Petrol price you should know that (for) every one rupee depreciation it will cost Rs 9,000 crore. Where do you find that Rs 9,000 crore. We

New Delhi, Jun 1: Against the backdrop of scams such as the VVIP chopper deal, a new defence procurement policy came into force today which aims at enhancing transparency and probity in military purchases and gives first right of refusal to Indian vendors to promote indigenous industry. "The Defence Procurement Procedure 2013 which takes effect from today, aims to balance the competing

New Delhi, Jun 1: In his first remarks on the scandal in Indian cricket, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Friday said politics and sport should not be mixed. The comment reflected caution — but also concern over developments in a tournament whose chairman Rajeev Shukla is also a minister of the union. "I wouldn't like to comment on this issue," Singh said when asked if the government should lean on

New Delhi, May 31: Pulled down by poor performance of farm, manufacturing and mining sectors, economic growth slowed to 4.8 per cent in the January-March quarter and fell to a decade's low of 5 per cent for the entire 2012-13 fiscal. The economic growth or gross domestic product (GDP) had expanded by 5.1 per cent in January-March quarter of last fiscal. Economy had grown at 4 per cent in 2002-03

Mumbai, May 31: Falling for the fourth day in a row, the rupee declined by 20 paise to hit one-year low of 56.58 against the dollar in early trade today at the Interbank Foreign Exchange on increased demand for the American currency from importers. Besides, a weak opening in the local equity market put pressure on the rupee but the euro's gain against the dollar, capped the losses, traders said

Hyderabad, May 31: In a psychological setback to the Congress in Andhra Pradesh, former Congress Working Committee member and senior party leader from Telangana K Keshava Rao and MPs G Vivekanand and M Jagannatham on Thursday announced their decision to join the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS). The announcement came after the expiry of the deadline set for the party leadership to take a decision

Singapore, May 30: Gold jumped more than a percent to a one-week high on Thursday as investors dumped equities, but the metal still risked losing its safe-haven appeal on worries the U.S. Federal Reserve could scale back its bullion-friendly bond buying programme. The Fed's stimulus programme has pushed money into riskier assets such as commodities and stoked inflation fears, but signs of strength

New Delhi, May 30: Expelled Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Ram Jethmalani has threatened to retaliate, exposing what he claims are ''undesirable elements within the party, who are in league with corrupt leaders''. Saying that the BJP’s decision to throw him out of the party for six years over a “breach of discipline” was “stupid”, the noted lawyer and Rajya Sabha member added that “there are

New Delhi, May 30: Congress on Wednesday alleged that BJP and Maoists stood to gain directly from the attack on "Parivartan Yatra", with the objective being to keep Congress from beefing up its base in the Maoist stronghold that was swept by the saffron camp in 2008. The Congress has decided to boycott Thursday's all-party meeting called by chief minister Raman Singh to discuss security