Palestinians hold candles as they take part in a memorial ceremony marking the one-year anniversary of Israel's offensive in Gaza, in Gaza City.
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Police detain one of the activists of AIDWA during a protest demanding resignation of Andhra Pradesh Governor N D Tiwari, over his alleged involvement in a sexcapade, in Hyderabad....
Army too was embroiled in corruption this year as the land scam made headlines. The controversy revolves around a piece of land next to the army's 33 Corps Headquarters in Siliguri...
When a local TV channel telecast explicit clippings purportedly of the veteran Congress leader ND Tiwari, the 86-year old governor of Andhra Pradesh, in bed with three women, cyn...
Protesters attack a vehicle of Telugu Desam party's legislative members during a strike to press the demands for the creation of a separate Telangana state at Osmania University ca...
On January 7, Ramalinga Raju’s faxed confession heralded the new year-- a Rs 7000 crore fraud that turned out to be the biggest in India Inc's history. Postcript:
The year 2009 ...
After being on top of the Test rankings, India did not wait for the year to end before they sealed off the One Day series against Sri Lanka with the help of chanceless centuries fr...
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Sock It To ’Em
The climate certainly changed for the worse—in Pilibhit and beyond—in the spell of one tempestuous campaign by a Gandhi.
Tribhuvan Tiwari
N. Gopalaswami vs Navin Chawla
CEC N. Gopalaswami took on CEC-in-waiting, Navin Chawla, saying the latter should be sacked for his Congress bias. Swami even took except...
Illustrations by SORIT
Corruption in higher judiciary remained in news through the year. Finally, a petition seeking impeachment proceedings against beleaguered Karnataka High Court Chief Justice PD Dina...
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Former Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda was in news for alleged money laundering, diversion of state funds and making huge hitherto unheard of illegal investments abroad running...
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Freida Pinto
Anyone knew her earlier movies? Ask her quickly discarded boyfriend.
Nitin Gadkari
Gadkari who? The RSS man was plucked out of obscurity to lead a young BJP.
David Headley
American, Pakistani, Jew, immigration office owner, CIA double agent?
Susan Boyle
The frumpy, dumpy wonder-voice of England wowed globally. Then, she woke up.
Ravindra Jadeja
Unknown until the day he scored a painful 35-ball 25, with one four, during a desperate chase against England in the T20 World Cup. India lost.
Kobad Ghandy
Doon School alumnus, CA from London, hailing from an affluent Parsi family; he gets a face after decades in the Maoist movement.
Kishanji
He may be Bengal's "Most wanted"but we don't know what the Maoist leader looks like.
Jarnail Singh
Chidambaram ducked, but Sajjan Kumar and Jagdish Tytler could not.
The Japanese team performs during the team free final of the synchronized swimming, at the FINA Swimming World Championships in Rome.