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New Delhi, March 9 : India Sunday condoled the death of Afghanistan's First Vice President Marshal Mohammad Qasim Fahim, describing him as a close friend of India.

A Chinese relative of passengers aboard a missing Malaysia Airlines plane, center, cries as she is escorted by a woman while leaving a hotel room for relatives or friends of passengers aboard the missing airplane, in Beijing, China Sunday, March 9, 2014.

Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal, Delhi's former chief minister, travels in a jeep during a road show before the 2014 general elections in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad March 8, 2014.

Indian laborers dig a coal depot in Meghalaya, India. For six years in a row, India's monopoly coal producer has missed its production targets.

Mumbai, March 9: Actor-filmmaker Mahesh Manjrekar will contest the Lok Sabha election from Mumbai North-West as a Maharashtra Navnirman Sena candidate.

One Indian worker was killed in an accident during construction of a nuclear submarine, a defence statement said Sunday, the latest in a string of deadly mishaps to hit the navy.

In this Feb. 16, 2014 photo, Indians suffering from leprosy wait outside a food distribution hall at a leper colony in New Delhi, India.

SkyBlu, one half of the American electro-pop band LMFAO, says that he will play all his new singles when he performs in Mumbai tonight at The Lalit Mumbai If you have ever swung your hips and stomped your feet to Party Rock Anthem and Sexy And I Know It, then it's time to put on your party shoes and head to The Lalit Hotel in Andheri East tonight.

Chennai, March 8 : Vennira Aadai Nirmala, who made her debut in Tamil cinema along with now Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa, will be one of the star campaigners for the AIADMK in the Lok Sabha polls.

Premature deaths of their fathers has also propelled some yuvarajs into frontline positions, but in the Congress they cannot get to the top as the slot is pre-booked.

New Delhi, March 7 - Two Italian anti-piracy marines accused of killing two Indian fishermen two years ago filed a petition against Indian authorities permitting that country's NIA anti-terrorism police to probe the case, judicial sources told ANSA on Friday.

Seoul, March 8 : South Korea, almost a quarter of whose population of 50 million are Buddhists, has received a sapling of the sacred Bodhi Tree from India's Bodh Gaya town, a fulfilment of an offer Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh made to South Korean President Park Geun-hye, as a special gesture of India's friendship and goodwill, when she ... (more)

The right wheels of the Airbus 320 operated by budget airline Indigo caught fire during the landing and passengers were quickly evacuated.

A rear wheel of an Airbus A320 operated by an Indian budget airline caught fire after landing at Nepal's international airport in Kathmandu on Saturday, officials said.

A rear wheel of an Airbus A320 operated by an Indian budget airline caught fire after landing at Nepal's international airport in Kathmandu on Saturday, officials said.

Pakistan and India have agreed to form a joint working committee to finalise a 500MW electricity project after a successful visit of a Pakistani delegation to India this week, according to sources in the ministry of water and power.

An onlooker watches the digital broadcast on the facade of the Bombay Stock Exchange during intra-day trade in Mumbai yesterday.

An international tech consulting firm confirmed Friday the federal government is investigating its use of U.S. visas to bring in foreign workers.

It is the sheer scale of the endeavour that seizes the imagination - 814 million voters, 930,000 polling stations, 1.4 million electronic voting machines, 11 million police and security officers.

An Indian naval officer was killed and "some" dock workers were injured on Friday in a gas leak aboard a yet-to-be commissioned naval ship, the defence ministry said.