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Rajiv Gandhi Assassination Case: Supreme Court Stops Tamil Nadu Government from Releasing 4 Killers

The Supreme Court has stopped the Tamil Nadu government from releasing four killers of Rajiv Gandhi, who are serving life terms. The Court made the ruling after the Centre had argued that Tamil Nadu had no right to free the assassins.

Feb 27, 2014

Ugandan opposition leader criticises anti-gay laws

Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye on Wednesday criticised tough new anti-gay laws, saying that homosexuality was not "foreign" and that the issue was being used to divert attention from domestic problems.Duration:01:12

Feb 27, 2014

South Asia Newsline - Feb 26, 2014

Feb 27, 2014

Rivals brawl in Ukraine's Crimea as Putin orders drills

Brawls erupted between rival factions on Ukraine's volatile Crimean peninsula as the former Soviet nation's new leaders prepared to unveil a unity cabinet and Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered snap military drills. Duration: 01:08

Feb 27, 2014

St Peter's colonnade unveiled after five-year restoration

Scaffolding around the famous 17th-century marble colonnade on St Peter's Square designed by architect and sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini was taken down this week following a five-year restoration. Duration: 00:41

Feb 27, 2014

'Shocking' scenes in besieged Syria refugee camp

The head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees spoke Tuesday of the "shocking" conditions he had seen inside a Syrian camp which has been under siege and bombardment for months.

Feb 27, 2014

Ukraine to unveil unity cabinet, disband riot police

Ukraine's new pro-Western leaders pledged to unveil a unity cabinet Wednesday after disbanding the feared riot police as they sought to build confidence in the splintered and economically ravaged ex-Soviet state. Duration: 01:23

Feb 27, 2014

Oscar-nominated film holds mirror to Indonesia's dark past

Joshua Oppenheimer's Oscar-nominated documentary 'The Act of Killing' turns its cameras on to the perpetrators of massacres that claimed the lives of at least 500,000 people in Indonesia in 1965. Duration: 01:07

Feb 27, 2014

Abu Dhabi Air Expo kicks off for third year

The third Abu Dhabi Air Expo kicked off on Wednesday with a trade show of executive business jets, exhibits from over 170 companies specializing in aviation services and an aerobatic air show.

Feb 27, 2014

Italy's captain Schettino returns to site of disaster

Residents of Italy's Giglio Island reacted with mixed emotions on Wednesday to the first return visit by captain Francesco Schettino since a tragedy in which 32 people on his Costa Concordia cruise ship died. Duration: 01:08

Feb 27, 2014

Russian gay couple marry in Buenos Aires

Dimitri and Alexander Zaitsev Eremeev, a couple of Russian homosexuals who left the country before the Sochi Winter Olympic Games, were married on Tuesday in Buenos Aires, where they intend to live now and denounce anti-gay Russian legislation.

Feb 27, 2014

Development work will solve people's problems: Rajasthan PWD Minister

Sawai Madhopur, Feb 26 (ANI): Rajasthan's Public Works Department Minister Yunus Khan during his Sarkar Aapke Dwar or 'Government at your door step' campaign recently visited more than a dozen villages like Morpa, Barnala, Dabur, Khedli, Sitod, Koela in Sawai Madhopur district of Rajasthan. During his visit, Khan enquired about the problems of the area and while talking to villagers said that the government is with them in their day to day problems

Feb 26, 2014

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Submarine INS Sindhuratna Mishap: Chief of Naval Staff Admiral DK Joshi Resigns

The government has accepted the resignation of Admiral Joshi with immediate effect, a statement from Press Information Bureau stated.

Feb 26, 2014

Telangana: Congress Insists for TRS Merger

Congress might be expecting the merger of Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) once the party-headed UPA government annouced the Telangana state. But TRS cadre are not willing to lose the identity of TRS, which has been fighting for the Telangana state formation for 13 years.

Feb 26, 2014

Development work will solve peoples problems: Rajasthan PWD Minister

Sawai Madhopur, Feb 26 (ANI): Rajasthan’s Public Works Department Minister Yunus Khan during his Sarkar Aapke Dwar or ‘Government at your door step’ campaign recently visited more than a dozen villages like Morpa, Barnala, Dabur, Khedli, Sitod, Koela in Sawai Madhopur district of Rajasthan. During his visit, Khan enquired about the problems of the area and while talking to villagers said that the government is with them in their day to day problems

Feb 26, 2014