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Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss has won the National Book Critics Circle fiction award in New York.

Jacques Chirac is expected to announce that he will not stand for another presidential term on Sunday.

The Orissa government is mobilising forces for removing a road blockade by tribals on an express highway.

India's booming IT and ITeS sector is estimated to have hired 3,80,000 people during the current financial year.

Cuba is not ready for American tourists who would be expected to visit the island if a US ban is ever lifted.

India has emerged as the fastest growing country of Internet users surpassing the growth rated of US, China and Japan.

Women-only taxis will have feminine touches like bigger mirrors, makeup kits. Only males allowed in will be boys under 12.

Cambridge students are drinking so much that they are putting the health of university staff at risk.

IIM-Bangalore has placed restrictions on the revelation of the fat salary figures of the campus recruits.

After a week-long carnage, stock markets seemed on a recovery track. Sensex rebounded by 304.77 points at 12,719.

An obese Beijing bus conductor has given birth to a 6.250 kg baby in China.

A report from Beijing apparently says that China fears it's small exporting firms may be cheated by Indians.

A foreign investor has to submit a NOC from its existing Indian partner for another venture in the same sector.

However steel makers took a divergent path by cutting prices to help the Government keep inflation under wraps.

Hamid Karzai has condemned the deaths of 10 civilians shot by US troops after an attack on their convoy.

Kerala has topped the list of states in providing better primary and upper primary education.