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New Delhi, July 10: The humble navel has been an onscreen scorcher in many Bollywood and south Indian movies but now, the belly button is all set to don a more responsible role - the scarless route to treat common abdominal conditions like appendix, gall bladder stones and the weight loss bariatric surgery. Surgeons in Delhi will for the first time in Asia Pacific use what is called a 'spider

Mumbai, July 9: The Bombay high court on Monday acquitted five accused in the 2002 Best Bakery riots case for want of evidence but upheld the conviction of four others sentenced to life term by the trial court. A division bench comprising Justices V M Kanade and P D Kode, who had on July 3 reserved the judgement on the appeals filed by the accused against the trial court verdict, upheld the life

New Delhi, July 9: Seeking to rubbish the Time Magazine report on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the UPA government, Home Minister P Chidambaram on Monday said that it was "just a magazine". "It is just a magazine... The BJP's comments (on the PM and the government) are distasteful," he said. Time Magazine, in its latest issue, had dubbed the Indian PM 'The Underachiever', criticising him for

Hyderabad, July 9: They may have handed over blank papers but they have still qualified for admission into professional degree courses in Andhra Pradesh. Unbelievable but true, say officials. Twenty-two of 78 students who scored zero in the entrance test this year will get admission in engineering and agriculture courses as they belong to Scheduled Caste (SC) or Scheduled Tribe (ST) communities

New Delhi, July 9: Congress has propped up Vice-President Hamid Ansari's name for a second term with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh beginning the exercise to solicit support for his candidature. Singh discussed Ansari's name with former Prime Minister and JD-S leader HD Deve Gowda on Saturday. JD-S supported Ansari's candidature. "Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called our leader H D Deve Gowda on

New Delhi, July 9: An Air India plane made an emergency landing at Nawabshah airport in Sindh in Pakistan on Monday at 3:30 am. The flight, Airbus 319, was on it's way from Abu Dhabi to New Delhi. Local media reports say all 130 passengers on board the Air India flight were still inside the plane, but were safe. The flight was forced to land due to a suspected hydraulic failure. A relief plane

Bhopal, July 9: BJP-supported Presidential candidate P.A. Sangma said he hoped to win on the basis of a “conscience vote,” which helped V.V. Giri win against Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy, both Congress-backed candidates, in the 1969 elections. (During the 1969 elections, several Congress stalwarts backed Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy as the official Congress nominee for the post of President. However, Prime

New Delhi, July 9: The incumbent Vice-President, Mohammed Hamid Ansari, is likely to get a second term as the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) has decided to field him in the vice-presidential poll. Though it was known in the Congress circles that Mr. Ansari was the front-runner, the first official indication of the candidature of the former diplomat and scholar came when Prime Minister Manmohan

New Delhi, July 9: The day is not far when you pay your vegetable vendor, hair dresser and neighbourhood grocer with your credit card. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has prepared a road map to provide card swipe machines to more than one crore retail businesses in the next three years to promote electronic transactions for ushering in a less-cash society in the country. The central bank has come

New Delhi, July 8: Seeking to spread awareness among public about fake notes, the Reserve Bank has launched a website explaining ways to detect counterfeit notes. With a tagline 'Pehchano Paise Ki Boli, Kyunki Paisa Bolta Hai', the website -- www.paisaboltahai.rbi.org.in -- gives visual presentation with pointers on currency notes of 10, 20, 50, 100, 500 and 1,000 rupee denominations. Consumers