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In a major drive against illegal weapons, police seized 1,950 pistols from Bihar's Munger district and West Bengal's Howrah district, a police officer said in Munger on Sunday.

CPI(M) on Sunday released the first list of candidates for 24 Lok Sabha seats spread across in 12 states and a Union Territory.

Other studies have examined how Twitter can be used to predict outbreaks of infections like influenza.

With 2013 being touted as the best year of cinema in Hollywood, it is being seen as the most competitive year.

BJP stalwart Atal Bihari Vajpayee's niece Karuna Shukla, who has joined Congress, Saturday attacked Chhattisgarh Chief Minister and BJP leader Raman Singh, saying that he had "played with the pride and esteem of the state."

Doctors in Heilongjiang Province spent over two hours removing the needles that were buried in the child's stomach.

Hundreds of ruling JD-U workers on Sunday disrupted train services and blocked roads at many places to enforce a statewide shutdown to press for a special status for Bihar.

There have been demands for a long time for inclusion of the two languages in the 8th Schedule to the Constitution.

Russia's Parliament granted President Vladimir Putin permission to use the country's military in Ukraine and also recommended Saturday that Moscow's ambassador be recalled from Washington over comments made by President Barack Obama.

Doctors at a government medical college and hospital in Kanpur on Saturday went on an indefinite strike in protest against the police lathicharge against them following their clash with a group of Samajwadi Party supporters, police said.

Putin says the move is needed to protect ethnic Russians and the personnel of a Russian military base in Crimea.

Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi interacted on Saturday with rickshaw pullers and auto drivers and later prayed at the famous Kashi Vishwanath temple in Varanasi, on the second day of his visit to Uttar Pradesh.

Sources say the report does not name or indict any individual politician.

Wimbledon champion Murray won the opening set but the 22-year-old Dimitrov fought back to take the next two sets on tie-breaks.

Putting pressure on Congress, RJD chief Lalu Prasad on Saturday offered 11 seats to Congress and asked the party to give its acceptance by Sunday when his party's Parliamentary Board will meet in Patna.