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Grosjean had qualified behind Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton, on pole, and Red Bull's triple champion Sebastian Vettel.

'Pattathu Yaanai' delivers more entertainment as a comedy entertainer than as an action flick.

The Madhya Pradesh government on Saturday launched the "Samvridhhi" scheme for sustainable access to development in a bid to ensure financial inclusion of marginalised people of society and provide them with the facilities of direct benefits transfer.

The 28-year-old Scot had two eagles and eight birdies in his bogey-free round at 6,807-yard, par-71 Hillcrest Country Club.

CPI on Friday demanded early passage of Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill by Parliament and gave a call for Jharkhand shutdown on July 29 in protest against Tuesday's firing incident at Pagar village of the district.

An intelligence official said that both attackers used explosive-rigged motorbikes in the attacks to cause maximum damage.

Suicide bombers on motorcycles blew themselves up within a minute of each other outside Shi'ite mosques in a volatile Pakistani town near the Afghan border on Friday, killing at least 39 people, officials said.

Jharkhand High Court on Friday allowed JMM MLA Nalin Soren, now in judicial custody in connection with Rs 26 crore seed scam, to attend the ongoing assembly session.

Srinivasan, however, lauded the economic reforms initiated by the Narasimha Rao government in 1991.

The new policy, which has been passed by the Authority, allows land-owners to pool their land for development by DDA.

The main opposition Pakistan People's Party on Friday decided to boycott next week's presidential election, saying it was left with no other option after the Supreme Court ordered the advancing of the poll.

Arun Nehru, former union minister, was cremated in New Delhi on Friday in the presence of Sonia Gandhi and her family, including her 13-year-old grandson Raihan who lit the pyre.

Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday said that the mandate of the 2010 Bihar Assembly elections was not for estranged ally BJP to switch over to the opposition benches and said it 'betrayed' the people's sanction.

Two youths were arrested for allegedly raping a four-year-old girl in Rajgarh, police said on Friday.

A week-long monsoon session of the Bihar assembly began on Friday with opposition members creating a ruckus over the death of 23 children not finding mention in the obituary reference by Speaker Uday Narayan Chaudhary.

The new Nexus 7 may lack the cachet and many of the apps that the iPad Mini has, but you'll be able to do a lot with it.