A general view shows the damaged road after the gas explosions in southern Kaohsiung, Taiwan, on Friday. -AP

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with US Secretary of State John Kerry (L) during a meeting in New Delhi on Friday. -PTI

Palestinian children wounded in Israeli shelling are treated in a hospital in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, Friday -AP

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US secretary of state John Kerry shakes hands with national security adviser Ajit Doval after their meeting at South Block. PTI

Vikas Shive Gowda of India celebrates after winning the men's discus final at Hampden Park Stadium (Photo: AP)

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Business

Rate cut likely to pull rupee down

Aug 02, 2014 - Age Correspondent

An interest rate cut could trigger a rupee de-preciation, affecting 53 per cent of the BSE 500 companies that are tot-ally import dependent.

India

‘Pakistan used US military funds to fight India’

Aug 02, 2014 - PTI

Most of the American military aid to Islamabad for counter-insurgency has gone into buying equipment to fight India, a former US diplomat has told legislators as he described Pakistan as a country whi

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Metros

CAG: De-silting not done on time

Aug 02, 2014 - Age Correspondent

The CAG has heavily criticised the city administration for not making adequate arrangements for monsoon to check water-logging of roads and other related problems in the national capital.

Newsmakers

Tidal forces caused the moon to take bulging shape

Aug 01, 2014 - PTI

Tidal forces acting billions of years ago gave moon the shape it holds now, according to new research.

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Sports

India showed zero resistance: Sunil Gavaskar

Aug 02, 2014 - PTI

Severely critical of the Indian cricket team’s poor show against England in the third Test, former captain Sunil Gavaskar said the old habit of getting complacent after a big win seems to have affecte

Editorial

US, India need to readjust positions

Aug 02, 2014

The visit of US secretary of state John Kerry to New Delhi on Thursday for the fifth annual India-US Strategic Dialogue with external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj can essentially be seen as an effort to erect the right platform for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s coming visit to the United States in September — in effect, to try regain the zone of comfort that has been absent in bilateral ties for the past two years as relations began to sag after a marked upswing following the signing of the India-US civil nuclear agreement.

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