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Forbes' Most Powerful: US President Barack Obama Tops List; Manmohan Singh, Sonia Gandhi Make it to Top 20

US President Barack Obama is the world's most powerful person for the second year running, according to Forbes magazine.

Dec 6, 2012

Pope Benedict XVI Joins Twitter; Followers Swell Up [PHOTOS]

The Vatican has announced that Pope Benedict XVI would join Twitter on December 12, coinciding the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe.

Dec 5, 2012

Notable Deaths of 2012: From Whitney Houston to Neil Armstrong [PHOTOS]

Many big personalities passed away this year, leaving their footprints on the sands of time. Notable people like Neil Armstrong, Whitney Houston, Robin Gibb, Helen Gurley Brown, Tony Scott and Ernest Borgnine passed away in 2012.

Dec 5, 2012

Anonymous OpsIndia Hacks IT Minister Kapil Sibal's Website

Internet vigilante group Anonymous OpsIndia appears to have hacked the official website of Minister of Communications and Information Technology Kapil Sibal.

Nov 30, 2012

High Inflation, Economic Slowdown Hits Indian PC Market; Sales Decline by 5.9 Percent

The overall sale of desktops and laptops in India has gone down in the third quarter of this year as compared to last year, recent data showed.

Nov 29, 2012

Pakistan Test Fires Nuclear-Capable Ballistic Missile Hatf V Ghauri; Matches india's Missile Strength?

Pakistan on Wednesday successfully test fired a medium-range nuclear-capable ballistic missile with a range of 1,300 km (807 miles), the military said.

Nov 28, 2012

India Annoyed With China Map On Passports Claiming Arunachal

China and India are back to bickering over their longstanding territorial disputes - this time due to a few offending strokes on a Chinese map, printed on China's revised passports, that show Beijing staking its claim on the regions of contention between the two nations.

Nov 25, 2012

Bangladesh Garment Factory Fire Claims 120 Lives [PHOTOS]

A fire in a multi-storey garment factory on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, killed at least 120 people and injured many others, the chief of the fire brigade said on Sunday.

Nov 25, 2012

Pushkar Mela 2012: World's Largest Camel Fair Kicks Off in Ajmer [PHOTOS]

The world famous Pushkar Fair or Pushkar Mela, the annual five-day cattle fair at Pushkar in Rajasthan, began on Wednesday with camel race, music, songs and other cultural programmes.

Nov 24, 2012

Ajmal Kasab a Victim of Dengue or Was He Hanged till Death?

Soon after the news of Mohammed Ajmal Kasab's hanging was announced, several people started raising questions about the government's secrecy over his execution.

Nov 21, 2012

Horrifying Pictures of Israel-Palestine Conflict; Death Toll Rises to 110 [PHOTOS]

A weeklong conflict has taken the Palestinian death toll to at least 110 though Israel has temporarily put on hold a possible ground attack on Gaza, Palestine, following pressure from several quarters.

Nov 20, 2012

Bal Thackeray: Sea Of Mourners Witness Late Sena Chief's Final Journey [PHOTOS]

The mortal remains of Shiv Sena party chief Bal Thackeray was cremated at Shivaji Park on Sunday following a moving funeral procession from his Matoshree residence to the final destination where he was given full state honours.

Nov 19, 2012

Bal Thackeray's Newspapers Mourn His Death with Black Front Pages; Rare Pictures of Shiv Sena Patriarch [PHOTOS]

Shiv Sena's mouthpiece newspapers 'Saamna' and 'Dopahar Ka Saamna' have paid respect to their founder-editor Bal Thackeray on Sunday with full black front pages.

Nov 18, 2012

Balasaheb Thackeray Dead: Shiv Sena Chief's Political Journey in Pictures [PHOTOS]

Balasaheb Keshav Thackeray, founder and chief of the Shiv Sena party, died of cardiac arrest on Saturday evening. Thackeray breathed his last at around 3.30 pm at his Mumbai residence "Matoshree".