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 Modi, Jaya slam Centre at internal security meet...more
 Pak-based Haqqani group behind Kabul attacks: Afghan minister...more
 1 dead, many trapped in Jalandhar building collapse...more

Taliban launch coordinated attacks on Kabul, 3 other cities
n Explosions rock Afghan capital
n Parliament, NATO & embassies targeted
Kabul, April 15
Heavily-armed Taliban suicide bombers today unleashed a wave of coordinated attacks in Afghanistan with several explosions and gunfire rocking the diplomatic area and Parliament in Kabul and three other cities. The attack is bound to intensify worry in the run-up to the planned withdrawal of foreign combat troops by the end of 2014.

A NATO soldier takes up position near a site of attack in Kabul on Sunday. Govt: All Indians in Afghanistan safe


A NATO soldier takes up position near a site of attack in Kabul on Sunday. — Reuters


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In the remote Wheeler Island off the Odisha coast, the countdown has begun for the first test of India's most sophisticated and powerful ballistic missile ever built, Agni V. If all goes well, the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) which built the missile, is expected to launch Agni V on Wednesday, April 18, from the Island.

Mamata to skip CMs’ meet on internal security in Capital today
New Delhi, April 15
Trinamool Congress chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has decided not to attend chief ministers’ meeting on internal security to be held here tomorrow. This is likely to create another embarrassing situation for the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre.

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Pak turning Dilip Kumar’s house into heritage site
Islamabad, April 15
Eight decades after Bollywood icon Dilip Kumar left his ancestral home near the famous Qissa Khwani Bazar in Peshawar city, Pakistani authorities are in the final stages of acquiring the crumbling building so that it can be preserved as a national heritage site.

Coriander, s/o Pulav, gets Aadhaar card in Andhra! 
Hyderabad, April 15
Can any official goof-up get as bizarre as this? The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has issued an Aadhaar card in the name of a coriander leaf!

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UK’s legendary spymaster in trouble for conniving with Gaddafi
One of the UK’s legendary spymasters is undergoing a trial by public opinion for his alleged role in conniving at the kidnapping of a Libyan dissident who was subsequently tortured by the Gaddafi regime. Oxford-educated Mark Allen is now a retired agent of MI6, Britain’s equivalent of RAW, who played a critical role in rebuilding ties between London and Tripoli in 2004 when late Colonel Muammar Gaddafi was still in power.

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