Kota. The state government's ambitious plans for the state feedback is kicked off on its informants. The state police's intelligence agency has been assigned this task. Positive and negative feedback related to these plans of the public who reach the Chief Minister.....

GUWAHATI: Militancy-hit Assam was able to shirk off this tag on Tuesday with the biggest surrender of over 1,600 cadres of nine outfits in a day. However, a few remnant groups, including Ulfa hardliners led by Paresh Baruah, did not join the peace process....

New Delhi: Salman Rushdie on Tuesday said that it was very convenient for everyone in the Congress that he did not come to India just before the Uttar Pradesh elections scheduled in February-March....

New Delhi: Sachin Tendulkar's name has not been recommended for the Bharat Ratna award. Sources have said that the BCCI did not send any names, not even Sachin's. They say that the Sports Ministry has recommended the names of hockey legend Major Dhyan Chand and mountaineer Tenzing Norgay for India's highest civilian honour.....

WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama says "America is back'' as a world power.

The president gave a flag-waving defense of American power and influence Monday night as part of his State of the Union address. He said world opinions about the United States are on the rise, and he calls America the "indispensable nation'' in world affairs....

New York: Oil prices rose after the European Union agreed to ban imports of Iranian crude from July, Tehran threatened again to close the Strait of Hormuz shipping channel, and on additional support from the weak dollar.

While deciding to ban new contracts to import, buy or transport Iranian crude and to freeze assets of Iran's central bank, EU foreign ministers agreed to phase in the oil embargo, allowing countries with existing contracts until July 1 to end those deals......

London, Jan 25: Charles Lewis, 24,  has a staggering 12 sisters and presently he lives at home with none of his dozen female siblings in Dorset.

His sisters range in age from eight to 28, but he has spent most of his waking hours waiting outside the locked bathroom door that he now has his own en suite, reports Daily Mail.....

MELBOURNE: Roger Federer can avenge one of his most painful defeats in the Australian Open semifinals on Thursday in a rematch with Rafael Nadal, which has extra spice after a rare slight from his great rival.

The last time they met in Melbourne, Federer was left a weeping wreck when Nadal remorselessly ground him down in 2009's nail-biting five-set final to claim his first hard court Grand Slam title....

NEW DELHI: Rahul Dravid was clean bowled for the ninth time in last 11 Tests in the over after Virender Sehwag was dismissed on the second day of the fourth and final Test against Australia at the Adelaide Oval in Adelaide on Wednesday.

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Dravid looked to poke at a Ben Hilfenhaus delivery that had just a little extra bounce and the ball ricocheted off his elbow onto his stumps.....

MELBOURNE: Russia's Maria Sharapova cruised into the semifinals of the Australian Open when she defeated fellow countrywoman Ekaterina Makarova in straight sets on Wednesday.

The former champion easily handled 56th-ranked Makarova's left-handed serves and overpowered her in the baseline rallies to win 6-2, 6-3 and set up a semifinal against Petra Kvitova.....