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Islamabad, Dec 4: A senior Pakistani minister has blamed the suspension of trade with India for the current price hike of food items in the country as the prices of tomatoes skyrocketed to Rs 300 per kg. Minister for Economic Affairs Hamad Azhar's remarks came on Tuesday evening when senior members of the economic team of Prime Minister Imran Khan were briefing the media about the latest economic

New Delhi, Dec 4: Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram's 106-day incarceration was vengeful and vindictive, former party chief Rahul Gandhi said on Wednesday, hours after the Supreme Court granted bail to the former finance minister in the INX-Media money laundering case. A three-judge bench, headed by Justice R Banumathi, granted bail to Chidambaram. The 74-year-old Congress leader has been in

Lahore, Dec 4: Page after page, the names stack up: 629 girls and women from across Pakistan who were sold as brides to Chinese men and taken to China. The list, obtained by The Associated Press, was compiled by Pakistani investigators determined to break up trafficking networks exploiting the country's poor and vulnerable. The list gives the most concrete figure yet for the number of women caught

Khartoum, Dec 4: Several Indians were among the 23 people killed and over 130 injured in an LPG tanker blast in a ceramic factory in Sudan, according to the Indian mission here. The Indian Embassy in Sudan reported about the Indians killed in the incident that happened on Tuesday, without mentioning the number of casualties. "So far reports suggest that there are several casualties and injuries

San Francisco, Dec 4: Google chief executive Sundar Pichai will assume the CEO role at parent firm Alphabet in a shakeup at the top of the Silicon Valley titan, the company said Tuesday. Pichai will take over from Larry Page, a co-founder of the internet giant, at the holding firm which includes Google as well as units focusing on "other bets" in areas including self-driving cars and life sciences

New Delhi, Nov 4: P Chidambaram will finally walk out of Tihar Jail after over 100 days as the Supreme Court on Wednesday granted bail to the former finance minister in the INX Media case. The court granted bail on a bond of Rs 2 lakh with two sureties each and asked Chidambaram not to leave the country without permission. The former Union minister also cannot make public statements or press

Mumbai, Dec 3: With the new Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government in power, NCP President Sharad Pawar and veteran Congressman Digvijaya Singh have favoured reopening of the case involving the mysterious death of Judge BH Loya. With the Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress government headed by Shiv Sena President Uddhav Thackeray coming into power in Maharashtra, several old cases are being reexamined. At the time

New Delhi, Dec 3: Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) Spokesperson Amit Malviya and industrialist, Kiran Mazumdar Shaw were on Monday locked in a fiery argument whether she funds the Independent Public Spirited Media Foundation (IPSMF), which in turn supports anti-Modi propaganda. As panelists on a TV debate, Malviya and Shaw were part of a heated argument on Shaw funding this new age media which is a

New Delhi, Dec 3: Depositors in failed and liquidated banks will get only up to ₹1 lakh as insurance cover, regardless of the amount in their accounts, according to the Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation (DICGC), a wholly owned subsidiary of the Reserve Bank of India. This covers savings, fixed, current and recurring accounts, the DICGC, which insures all bank deposits, said in

Guwahati, Dec 3: A young Congress MLA cut his left palm and wrote on a banner with his blood in the entrance of Assam Assembly's main hall on Tuesday morning to stage a protest against the BJP-led government's move to hand over two paper mills, a tea garden, and a fertilizer firms to private companies. The MLA, Rupjyoti Kurmi, who represents Mariani constituency took to the extreme way of protest