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A US court on Thursday again turned down the bail plea of terror suspect Tahawwur Rana, accused of plotting terror attacks in India at the behest of LeT, saying the Pakistani-Canadian is charged with "very serious crimes" which give him a motive to flee.
Democrats claimed momentum on Wednesday in their drive to enact the sweeping health care legislation sought by President Barack Obama, citing near agreement on crucial issues despite persistent Republican efforts to knock them off stride.
After a recent spate of attacks on Indian students in Australia, it was the turn of a wheelchair-bound Canadian man who was beaten by Australian teenagers in Sydney on Tuesday, reports here said.
A US woman operating online under the name “Jihad Jane” recruited jihadist fighters in the United States, Europe and Asia in a bid to carry out terror plots “or die trying,” prosecutors said on Tuesday.
Burma’s military rulers have barred the pro-democracy leader, Ms Aung San Suu Kyi, from running in upcoming elections and may force her own political party to expel her under a new election law unveiled on Wednesday.
An agent linked to disgraced Pakistani scientist A.Q. Khan had offered Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in 1990 a $150 million “nuclear package deal” to build an atomic bomb in three years, according to a new book.

Dr Jill Biden (left), wife of US Vice-President Joseph Biden, shakes hands with a young Palestinian patient during a visit at the Augusta Victoria hospital in east Jerusalem, on Wednesday.
Claims that the man charged with the manslaughter of three-year-old Gurshan Singh Channa is living in Australia on a fake passport is being investigated by Australian immigration officials.

Gone are the days when a single show captured the imagination of Indian viewers for years together. With competition fierce, viewers’ loyalties are fickle too.

When 13-year-old Ulka Gupta was finalised to play the title role of Manikarnika, aka Manu, in Jhansi Ki Rani, she had no inkling that the responsibility of carrying the historical would rest heavily on her slender shoulders.

The normally diplomatic Karan Johar let go of his politically correct stance on Headlines Today. He confessed that the industry may be a fraternity, but is not really united because it has become an industry now.
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