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Sensex drops 367 pts on foreign fund outflows

India, Dec. 27 -- The benchmark BSE Sensex dropped by 367 points on Friday, marking its third consecutive day of losses, amid foreign fund outflows and a lack of major domestic triggers. In a low-vol... Read More


Govt amends rules to streamline approvals for opening coal, lignite mines

India, Dec. 27 -- The government on Friday said that it has amended the rules to streamline approvals for opening coal and lignite mines.The changes remove procedural redundancies to speed up operatio... Read More


Palestinian filmmaker Mohammad Bakri dies at 72

India, Dec. 27 -- Mohammad Bakri, a Palestinian director and actor who sought to share the complexities of Palestinian identity and culture through a variety of works in both Arabic and Hebrew, has di... Read More


Myanmar to hold general election on December 28

India, Dec. 27 -- Myanmar will hold the first phase of a general election on Sunday, its first vote in five years and an exercise that critics say will neither restore the country's fragile democracy ... Read More


15 injured in knife attack at factory in Japan

India, Dec. 27 -- A man was arrested after stabbing eight people and injuring seven others with what was believed to be bleach at a tire factory in central Japan on Friday, officials said. There was n... Read More


Protesters block key Dhaka junction seeking justice for Hadi's killing

India, Dec. 27 -- Bangladesh's slain radical leader Sharif Osman Hadi's party activists on Friday blocked one of Dhaka's busiest intersections, demanding justice for his killing, disrupting traffic in... Read More


South Korea prosecutors seek 10-year sentence for ousted President Yoon

India, Dec. 27 -- An independent counsel on Friday demanded a 10-year prison term for South Korea's ousted President Yoon in the first of seven criminal cases related to his ill-fated attempt to impos... Read More


NCCF starts onion sale at 19/kg in Delhi-NCR

India, Dec. 27 -- National Cooperative Consumers' Federation (NCCF) has started subsidised retail sale of onions at 19 per kg in Delhi-NCR, well below the prevailing market price of 25-35 per kg. Onio... Read More


NBCC Settles Govt Dispute, gets 21-ACRE Land for Project

India, Dec. 27 -- State-owned NBCC on Friday said it will get a 21.23-acre land parcel in south Delhi as its share following settlement of a dispute with the Delhi Governmentand the company will devel... Read More


'Papa, I cannot bear pain', Indian-origin man dies after 8-hour wait at Canada hospital

India, Dec. 27 -- A 44-year-old Indian-origin man has died of suspected cardiac arrest after waiting for more than eight hours for treatment in a Canadian hospital's emergency room area, a media repor... Read More