PM Modi’s China visit before May 26 (Photo: PTI)

Congress president Sonia Gandhi at a rally in Badarpur, New Delhi, on Sunday.—(Photo: PTI)

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP CM candidate Kiran Bedi during an election rally at Karkarduma in New Delhi. AP

Former minister Matang Sinh in Kolkata on Saturday. — PTI

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International

ISIS beheads second Japanese hostage

Feb 02, 2015 - AFP | Reuters

ISIS militants said they had beheaded a second Japanese hostage, journalist Kenji Goto, prompting Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to vow to step up humanitarian aid to the group’s opponents in West Asia and

Business

MAT rate cut, equity scheme likely in budget

Feb 02, 2015 - Age Correspondent

The Budget is likely to reduce the minimum alternate tax (MAT) rate to boost growth in the manufacturing sector and bring in a new equity investment scheme in place of the Rajiv Gandhi Equity Savings

India

CMS College to turn 200 in March, first in India

Feb 02, 2015 - Vinod Nedumudy

One of the most prestigious colleges in Kerala, the CMS College, Kottayam, is set to turn 200 next month, becoming the first one in the country to achieve the feat.

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Metros

Over 8,000 illicit liquor bottles seized

Feb 01, 2015 - Age Correspondent

Just a week before Delhi polls, a joint team of Delhi police and Election Commission officials on Friday seized nearly 500 boxes of illicit liquor worth Rs 15 lakhs from west Delhi’s Uttam Nagar area.

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Sports

Minnows in sharks’ tank

Feb 02, 2015 - Agencies

At an indoor academy in Kabul, Afghani stan’s cricketers are training hard for their debut in the upcoming World Cup tournament in Australia and New Zealand next month.

Editorial

Team India? Where is it?

Feb 01, 2015

The Indian team went without a win in the one-day tri-series Down Under, thus ending a generally miserable tour of Australia on the same disastrous note as it had begun.

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Bollywood

Amitabh Bachchan to turn commentator at Indo-Pak match
After lending his much loved baritone...

Hollywood

Beyonce’s vegan diet secrets!
Beyonce’s trainer has spilled the...

Dining

Spicily Indian, stiffly Brit!
Anglo Indian cuisine takes tenets from...

Age On Sunday

Modi art sells for Rs 1.30 crore

NaMo is the buzz in the art world after an artwork titled ‘Om Namo Shivay’, created by artist Satish Gupta in collaboration with PM Narendra Modi, ...

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Cover Story

Visiting the Banaras Hindu University on February 4, 1916, Mahatma Gandhi in his address said: “I visited the Vishwanath temple last evening.

In 2007, when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh began pushing the Indo-US nuclear deal, the entire Opposition objected to it.

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