Pretty Women: French actress Rachida Brakni (left), US actress Eva Longoria Parker and actress Aishwarya Rai arrive at the opening ceremony of the 61st edition of the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday. (AFP)

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Hunt on for faces of terror

Jaipur/Bangalore, May 15: The Rajasthan police on Thursday released sketches of three more men suspected to be involved in the Jaipur blasts.Full story

11 more killed in Cachar hills, trains stopped

Guwahati, May 15: In what may be called a gross failure of the security forces in containing militant violence in Assam, the rampaging Dima Halam Daogah (Jewel faction) rebels on Thursday massacred 11 people,Full story

124 die as duststorm sweeps UP

Lucknow, May 15: At least 124 persons were killed in various accidents across Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday night when a duststorm, accompanied by a short spell of rain, lashed through several parts of the state, according to official sources.Full story

Email sent from Gz’bad

New Delhi, May 15: The Centre is grappling hard to establish the links between Tuesday’s serial blasts in Jaipur with the earlier blasts in cities like Varanasi, Hyderabad and Mumbai, working on the lead it has received from an email purportedly sent by militant outfit Full story

Cong objects to RSS men in wards as Sonia visits

Jaipur, May 15: As blast victims lay writhing in agony on hospital beds in Jaipur, a political battle erupted between the Congress and the BJP on Thursday over the presence of RSS workers at the Sawai Man Singh Hospital wards during the visit of Congress president Sonia Gandhi.Full story

Bumper harvest joy: It’s short soccer time

Chandigarh, May 15: Weary but contended after an unprecedented wheat harvest, Punjabi farmers in the prosperous central Doaba region have hit upon an interesting way to spend their few evenings of respite before the summer paddy is ready to be sown.Full story

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