In a second incident in a span of two months a dacoit gang robbed passengers of Hyderabad bound Chennai Express at Nadikudi railway station in Guntur in early hours of Thursday. The gang made away with gold ornaments from women passengers.

The Indian Uber Cup team's blood and sweat might have won them bronze in the tournament but it took a toil on their body which forced Saina Nehwal to pull out from the $250,000 Japan Open Super Series to be held in Tokyo from June 10-15.

“We trained really hard for Uber Cup. The tournament drained us out completely,” said Saina, who was here for a promotional event.

Four more of the girls kidnapped by Boko Haram last month have escaped than previously thought, Nigeria's Borno state said on Wednesday, but 219 others were still missing and assumed held by the Islamist militants.

The girls were taking exams at a secondary school in the remote northeastern village of Chibok on April 14 when the Islamist gunmen surrounded it, loaded 276 of them onto trucks and carted them off, according to official figures.

Attacks across Iraq, including a spate of car bombs in Baghdad and the northern city of Mosul, killed 63 people today in the bloodiest violence to hit Iraq since April elections.

The worst of the blasts went off during the evening and left dozens of people wounded, fuelling fears a protracted surge in violence is pushing Iraq back into the brutal communal conflict that left tens of thousands dead in 2006 and 2007.

When Prime Minister Narendra Modi goes in for a cabinet expansion, he may augment his council of ministers by inducting 20-30 more into it.

Most additions to the 45-member team are likely to be as ministers of state, though a few allocations are expected to be made in cabinet portfolios like defence, which finance minister Arun Jaitley now holds.

The Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) has called for a Telangana shutdown today to protest the Narendra Modi-led government's reported move to issue an ordinance merging certain villages in Khammam district into residuary Andhra Pradesh.

Telangana chief minister-designate, K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Tuesday said that his government would oppose the Central ordinance on Polavaram project aimed to transfer the seven mandals of Khammam district to Seemandhra state.

Australian search officials said on Thursday they had finished searching an area near where four acoustic signals thought to be related to a missing Malaysian jetliner had been picked up, and had now discounted it as the final resting place of the plane.

Authorities narrowed the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet last month after picking up a series of pings near the site where analysis of satellite data put the last location of the plane some 1,600 km (1,000 miles) off Australia's northwest.

American author and poet Maya Angelou, whose groundbreaking memoir I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings earned her international acclaim with its unflinching account of rape and racism in the segregated South, died on Wednesday at age 86.

The prolific African-American writer, known for her lyrical prose and regal speaking voice, died quietly at her home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Angelou's family said in a statement. No cause of death was given.

The rupee on Wednesday rose for the first time in four days and closed 11 paise higher at 58.93 against the US dollar following late selling of the American currency by exporters, amid stable local equities.

In the previous three days, the rupee had fallen 57 paise or nearly one per cent on equity-linked capital outflows.

In a bid to manage unclaimed deposits, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has authorised banks to convert into rupee the credit balance in any inoperative foreign currency denominated deposit.

According to RBI, if a foreign currency denominated deposit with a fixed maturity date remains inoperative for a period of three years from the date of maturity of the deposit, at the end of the third year, the bank shall convert the balances lying in the foreign currency denominated deposit into rupee keeping in mind the exchange rate prevailing as on that date.

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