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Nadal and Verdasco both won on Friday to give Spain a 2-0 lead over Ukraine in their Davis Cup World Group playoff.

Radek Stepanek swept Juan Monaco 7-6 (3), 6-3, 6-2 to give defending champion Czech Republic a 1-0 lead over Argentina in the Davis Cup semi-finals.

Jaishankar, India's envoy to China, has been named the new ambassador to the US while his successor in Beijing will be Ashok K Kantha, it was announced in New Delhi.

Raghuram's 'Fair And Lovely' stars Premkumar and Shwetha Srivatsav.

Scientists and officials associated with the project are quite hopeful of a good performance as the first trial on April 19, 2012 was a total success.

Egypt's ousted president Mohamed Morsi has been remanded in custody for 30 more days on charges of jailbreak, relevant murder and spying for the Palestinian Hamas movement.

New Delhi: The arrest of Yasin Bhatkal and his associate Asadullah Akhtar has given Delhi police hope of nabbing the other conspirators involved in the September 13, 2008 serial terror bombings in Delhi even as the kin of those killed in the attack contin...

In a push to make agriculture more profit-oriented, the Madhya Pradesh government provided Rs 9,000 crore in loans to 30 lakh farmers on zero per cent interest rate in 2012.

"We will always stand with the people in their fight against crimes against women," the braveheart's mother said.

A history teacher, Rangrez said that people have now started calling him 'Crorepati Rangrez'.

Nisha Desai Biswal, President Barack Obama's Indian-American nominee to be US pointperson for South Asia, believes India's nuclear liability law poses a tough challenge to the implementation of India-US nuclear deal.

With Pakistan's powerful Army chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani's term coming to an end in November, names of top Generals who are likely to succeed him are being discussed in the political circles and in the corridors of power in Islamabad.

As controversy continues over senior UP Minister Azam Khan keeping away from its Agra meet, Samajwadi Party on Friday said no one can "blackmail" the party as nobody has the stature which SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav enjoys among the Muslim community SP...

Amid efforts to convince top BJP leaders on declaring Narendra Modi as party's prime ministerial candidate ahead of general elections, Bihar unit of the party has prominently shown the Gujarat Chief Minister in hoardings for its next month's 'Hunkar Rally...

The use of the Radar, costing Rs 16 crore, will aid the air traffic controllers to give direct and shorter routes to aircraft.

New Delhi: The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs on Thursday approved an additional allocation of 50 lakh tonnes of foodgrain for below poverty line (BPL) families, said an official statement.