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The clemency plea for Mohammed Afzal Guru is among 24 such petitions pending with the Union Home Ministry.

While industry leaders admit that the 'rotten apples', they also assert that the industry is already aware of risks.

Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf has appointed Lt. General Tariq Majid to head the key Rawalpindi Corps.

American Roger D Kornberg won the 2006 Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday.

A court in Amreli issued show cause notices to BJP state President Vaju Vala and 13 others on a petition.

Thailand's deposed premier Thaksin Shinawatra resigned from his once all-powerful party in a letter faxed from London on Tuesday.

A business daily had received a leaked email outlining management's plans to shift 80 jobs offshore.

Even as we were celebrating Dussehra in India, the Indian community in New York went ahead and celebrated Diwali.

Players will be competing for a record prize pool of $14.95 million at the Australian Open next January.

KANK and Ashiq Banaya Aapne have been nominated in three categories for the Bollywood Music Awards.

Satyagraha celebrations were briefly disrupted at the Sahara Stadium in Durban by Jacob Zuma supporters.

Thrice Gandhi made it to the Nobel shortlist, but every time he was left out in the last count. Nobody knows why.

India's Natasha Suri failed to make it to the final six in the Miss World 2006 pageant held in Warsaw.

US President George W Bush argued that critics are wrongheaded to argue for a different policy in Iraq.

Sri Lanka has withdrawn the name of Jayantha Dhanapala, a career diplomat from the race to succeed Kofi Annan.

"The people of UP are fed up with destructive rule of Mulayam Singh government," Congress president Sonia Ganghi said.