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Chennai, August 14: Union minister and former Maharashtra chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh, who has been battling liver cancer in a city hospital, died here on Tuesday afternoon. He was 67. Having registered with the Tamil Nadu organ registry for a liver and a kidney, Vilasrao's case was cleared as a 'super ultra emergency'. He was to receive the organs from a 31-year-old man who was declared

New Delhi, August 14: Yoga guru Baba Ramdev on Tuesday called off his indefinite fast against corruption and black money at Ambedkar Stadium in the capital but said the agitation will continue till his demands are met. Ramdev broke his five-day fast with lemon water given to him by two children. "I am ending the fast in the stadium, but agitation will go on till our demands are met," Ramdev said

Mumbai, August 14: Ahead of the Independence Day, CNN-IBN brings the story of the bravehearts during the fire at the Mumbai Mantralaya. Even as a major fire raged on and people were being evacuated, seven men waited on the roof just so they could protect the Indian flag. When a fire raged across the Mantralaya, everyone was busy getting out of the building, but seven men waited fearlessly

New Delhi, August 14: If the government decides to bring Kudankulam's third and fourth units under the purview of the nuclear liability law, which makes suppliers liable for compensation in case of accidents, Russia will mount double pressure on India. Russia will not only increase the cost of the reactors, but also seek a change in the conditions for the credit line being provided by it to build

Mumbai, August 14: Mumbai Police Commissioner Arup Patnaik on Monday rubbished reports of intelligence failure on Saturday’s riots in the Azad Maidan area here and asserted there was enough force to control the mob. They had intelligence reports that the protest might turn ugly, prompting them to deploy additional forces. “Otherwise when do you see a Joint Commissioner [Law and Order], four Deputy

Attari, August 13: Amidst confusion over the travel plans of 223 Pakistani Hindus who arrived in India in two batches on Friday and Saturday following reports of their persecution, another Hindu family - husband, wife and four children from Sibi district in Balochistan (Pakistan) said goodbye to their friends, relatives and their country with the intent to settle in India. The family which arrived

New Delhi, August 13: Yoga guru Baba Ramdev was on Monday detained to prevent his march, with thousands of supporters, to Parliament. Sporting a black bandana, Ramdev said, “We had to go till Parliament. All these protestors were marching peacefully; we never intend to resort to violence. Police is not allowing us to move forward but we are not protesting…we are being stopped at the behest of

New Delhi, August 13: Senior politicians Nitin Gadkari and Sharad Yadav loaned VIP presence this morning to yoga guru Baba Ramdev's protest camp in Delhi, organised as a war-cry against corruption and unrecovered black money or undeclared income stashed by Indians in foreign bank accounts. Mr Gadkari is the President of the BJP; Mr Yadav heads the JD(U). Together, the parties run Bihar and are

Mumbai, August 13: Women activists want an apology from anti-corruption activist and former top cop Kiran Bedi for talking about "small rape" cases on a public stage. They have accused her of extreme insensitivity and say she shows a "feudal mentality." Ms Bedi denies she said that rape is a small crime. Ms Bedi had lashed out at the media for what she called inadequate reportage of Team Anna's

August 13: Armed with the latest monsoon rainfall data, weather experts finally conceded this month that India is facing a drought, confirming what millions of livestock farmers around the country had known for weeks. For over three months, even state agencies have been providing free fodder to those most vulnerable to a shortfall in India's annual monsoon -- farmers who eke a living out of small