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India's relentless search for hydrocarbons to fuel its booming economy has managed the rather neat diplomatic trick of annoying Washington, delighting Tehran and intriguing Baghdad, all the while leaving the Indian Treasury fretting about how to pay for its oil imports, given tightening sanctions on fiscal dealings with Iran.

New Delhi, June 17 : Actress Manisha Koirala, who has successfully battled ovarian cancer, maintained a vibrant and cheerful demeanour as she stepped out for a public function in New York recently.

In perhaps the last reshuffle and expansion of the Union Council of Ministers, Mallikarjun Kharge was today made the Railways Minister as eight more were inducted with veterans Sis Ram Ola and Oscar Fernandes making a comeback.

Last week, Bloomberg news reported that sales of George Orwell's novel 1984, featuring a futuristic totalitarian state jumped on the Amazon.com website following reports of a classified programme that lets the US government collect personal data.

By buying up billions of dollars worth of foreign gold, they are sending Indian cash overseas, disrupting the balance money entering and leaving the country, and thus driving down the value of the rupee.

An Indian man looks at the water splash from the tyres of a bus, as he walks with his bicycle through a water-logged road during a prolonged spell of pre-monsoon rain in Amritsar, India, 15 June 2013.

Men lying down on the ground mimicking dead bodies at a protest on Dec. 29, 2012, as they mourned the death of a 23-year-old woman who was gang raped in Delhi on Dec. 16. Last December, a young woman we call "Nirbhaya" was so brutally assaulted and raped by six men on a bus that she died from her injuries two weeks later.

An Indian fruit-seller covers his cart with a plastic sheet during a heavy downpour in New Delhi on June 17, 2013.

At much personal cost, Advani is wise enough now to understand that BJP is not capable of winning 272 seats in the Lok Sabha on its own.

An Indian street child dances in the middle of a road as monsoon rains fall in New Delhi on June 16, 2013.

Chaperones Reba and Wendell Barnes pose with Darlington students at the airport before the group left for India.

Coinciding with the Environment month, June 2013, Maruti Suzuki India have rolled out the CNG variant of the its popular Ertiga MPV.

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America's "pivot" to the Asia-Pacific continues to hog the limelight even though the official phrase in Washington is now "strategic re-balancing."

New Delhi: The Indian economy is in a crisis with growth slowing down, fiscal and current account deficits running high amid persistent inflation, says a study by an economic think tank.

New Delhi: Parts of north India, including Delhi, received heavy showers on Saturday as the southwest monsoon advanced further into central and northern India, the India Meteorological Department said.

New Delhi, June 15 : The 7th IILM Distinguished Global Thinker Award was conferred on Sam Pitroda, Advisor to the Prime Minister of India, at a ceremony on Friday.

India has slashed its oil imports from Tehran, but remains Iran's second-largest customer for crude.

Vijay Zol is the only member from this squad who was part of the Under-19 World Cup team that triumphed last year © AFP New Delhi: Jun 15, 2013 Maharashtra's Vijay Zol has been named captain of the Indian junior team that will compete in a tri-series to be played in Australia in June-July.

New Delhi, June 15: Hrithik Roshan is likely to pull out all stops to promote his much-awaited film "Krrish 3", the third part of the successful Bollywood superhero franchise, with the busy actor said to have kept aside an entire month to promote his home production across the world.