Bratislava, Dec 28 (DPA) Russia has warned of a possible halt in oil supplies to three European Union (EU) members via Ukraine, Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico said Monday.
Russia had informed the EU that Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Hungary could be affected by disruptions in oil supplies in the
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Islamabad, Dec 28 (DPA) A suicide bombing tore through a procession of Shia Muslims in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi Monday, killing at least 30 people and injuring more than 80, officials said.
Hundreds of Shia mourners were marching on the main M A Jinnah Road lined with multi-storey buildings
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Chandigarh, Dec 28 (IANS) After playing hide and seek with Chandigarh police for over four months, Congress councillor Devinder Singh Babla finally surrendered before the police late Monday evening.
Babla, Congress councillor in the city's municipal corporation and a general secretary of the Congress' Chandigarh unit, had gone into hiding in
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New Delhi, Dec 28 (IANS) Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni Monday said that match referee Alan Hurst decided to abandon the fifth one-day international against Sri Lanka at Ferozeshah Kotla after consultation with both the teams.
Dhoni said the track at Ferozeshah Kotla was indeed bad.
'If you look at my career,
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Agra, Dec 28 (IANS) The situation continued to remain tense in some parts of Agra Monday, two days after the death of a member of a religious sect.
Scores of families in Sikandarpur and Lal Garhi areas of Agra have reportedly fled following violent clashes between villagers and Satsangis of the
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New Delhi, Dec 28 (IANS) The Congress launched its year-long 125th anniversary celebrations here Monday, and the theme was 'Building the Future on the Foundation of the Past', but the party's youth icon and future leader Rahul Gandhi was not present, surprising many.
The function of the country's oldest political party
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New Delhi, Dec 28 (IANS) At least two people died due to swine flu Monday taking the countrywide toll to 880, health authorities said, adding that 124 new cases have taken the infection tally to 25,236.
The two deaths were reported from Maharashtra and Assam. With this, the casualty figure has
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Kolkata, Dec 28 (IANS) Kolkata recorded the season's coldest day Monday with the mercury plummeting to 10.8 degrees Celsius, the lowest temperature on this day in the last five years.
The minimum temperature recorded Monday is three degrees below the average, the met office said.
The regional meteorological centre at Alipore also
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Kolkata, Dec 28 (IANS) Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee took an auto rickshaw ride to the airport here Monday after her vehicle got stranded in a Muharram procession.
Banerjee, on her way to catch a Delhi-bound flight, found her convoy stalled at the busy V.I.P road-Teghoria crossing close to the N.S.C. Bose
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New Delhi, Dec 28 (IANS) Aamir Khan starrer comedy-drama '3 Idiots' has created a record by grossing over Rs.100 crore in its first four days. Reliance BIG Entertainment, distributor of the film, released about 2,000 prints across 40 countries.
Based on Chetan Bhagat's bestseller 'Five Point Someone', the film has been
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