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Kalam appealed to private hospitals in the country to make available their state-of-the-art facilities in villages as well.

Among public sector entities, India Post and IFCI also submitted applications for bank licence while micro finance institutions.

Blatter declared the Confederations Cup football tournament a success despite clashes between police and protesters near some matches.

People in crisis-hit villages of Uttarakhand will get employment for 150 days instead of 100 days under the MNREGA scheme in view of the huge losses they have suffered in the recent calamity, Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh on Monday said.

David Ferrer overcame another slow start to reach the Wimbledon quarter-finals with a 6-7 (3), 7-6 (6), 6-1, 6-1 victory over Ivan Dodig.

India's own GPS: first dedicated navigation satellite IRNSS-1A to be launched.

Wimbledon is the only Grand Slam tournament that schedules all 16 men's and women's fourth-round matches on the second Monday.

The three drivers made late charges in the final laps of the incident-marred race to earn top five finishes.

Croatia is only the second of the seven states carved from Yugoslavia to enter the EU, Slovenia was the first.

EU was seen using unusually strong language to confront its closest trading partner over its alleged surveillance activities.

It was a measure of redemption for Italy after a loss to Spain, also in a shootout, in the semi-finals.

Paul Casey made a 50-foot eagle putt on the 18th hole Sunday and won the Irish Open by three strokes.

Minister for Water and Power said that due to shortage of power Pakistan had sustained a huge loss of Rs 1,000 billion in the last five years.

The decrease in the second cut-off list is a mere 0.25 to 1 per cent, on average, for humanities courses.

British actor Art Malik will make his Bollywood debut with Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra's 'Bhaag Milkha Bhaag'.

Madhur Bhandarkar says he is keen to study Bengali literature in his upcoming films.