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No threat to government: Chavan

Staff Reporter · Jun 28, 2008 · 1 min read

NEW DELHI, Jun 26 (Agencies): Government today sought to play down suggestions on any threat to it over the Indo-US civil nuclear deal. "There was no threat to ...

Mumbai Defence Estates office faces extortion charge

Staff Reporter · Jun 28, 2008 · 3 min read

NEW DELHI, Jun 26 (Agencies): The Defence Ministry is caught in a piquant situation with its Estates Directorate in Mumbai facing allegations of "demanding brib...

Four children dead, over a dozen injured in bus mishap

Staff Reporter · Jun 28, 2008 · 1 min read

SITAMARHI, Jun 26 (Agencies): Four children were killed and over a dozen others injured, three seriously, when their school bus overturned in the wee hours in B...

Marxist-reformist legacy not a hit with Indian cinema-goers?

Staff Reporter · Jun 28, 2008 · 4 min read

NEW DELHI, Jun 26 (Agencies): Seasoned filmmakers of India like Mrinal Sen, Saeed Mirza, Goutam Ghose and M S Sathyu among others tried to touch the subject of ...

Chandrayaan launch date to be announced next month: Nair

Staff Reporter · Jun 28, 2008 · 2 min read

BANGALORE, Jun 26 (Agencies): The date for the launch of the Chandrayaan mission, a 'unique' one in which scientists will get a total mapping of the moon, would...

Cabinet nod for spl drive to recruit OBCs against backlog

Staff Reporter · Jun 28, 2008 · 4 min read

NEW DELHI, Jun 26 (Agencies): Paving the way for a special drive to recruit Other Backward Classes (OBCs) for over 28,000 reserved posts, the government today d...

Talks can be held without ULFA chief's participation: Gogoi

Staff Reporter · Jun 28, 2008 · 2 min read

GUWAHATI, Jun 26 (Agencies): With the ULFA virtually splitting, Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today said talks with the group was now possible without the pa...

Tribals protest against Tata Steel project in Orissa

Staff Reporter · Jun 28, 2008 · 2 min read

BHUBANESWAR, Jun 26: Hundreds of tribal people armed with bows and arrows stormed a proposed factory site in Orissa of one of the country's biggest steel compan...

Kafeel didn't show leadership qualities: Ex-employers

Staff Reporter · Jun 10, 2008 · 11 min read

BANGALORE, July 10 (Agencies): Kafeel Ahmed, a suspect in the failed terror plot in Britain, showed no distinct leadership qualities and did not significantly s...

FIR against RPF DIG for trying to outrage modesty

Staff Reporter · Jun 10, 2008 · 8 min read

PATNA, July 10 (Agencies): A DIG of the Railway Protection Force (RPF) has been accused by the wife of an IPS officer of trying to outrage her modesty in a Patn...

Supreme Court dismisses petition against Medha Patkar

Staff Reporter · Jun 10, 2008 · 1 min read

NEW DELHI, July 10 (Agencies):The Supreme Court Tuesday dismissed a petition seeking a probe into the alleged misuse of foreign funds by Narmada Bachao Andolan ...

Hundreds of thousands stranded in India floods

Staff Reporter · Jun 10, 2008 · 4 min read

KOLKATA, July 10 (Reuters): - Hundreds of thousands of people remained stranded with little food and water for a seventh day in eastern India, while heavy rains...

PM unhappy over poor upkeep of INA memorial

Staff Reporter · Jun 10, 2008 · 1 min read

NEW DELHI, July 10 (Agencies):Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Tuesday visited the Indian National Army (INA) memorial in the capital and expressed his concern at ...

Tens of thousands remain marooned in flood-hit Orissa

Staff Reporter · Jun 10, 2008 · 2 min read

BALASORE (ORISSA), July 10 (Agencies):Tens of thousands of people remain marooned in flood-affected Balasore District in Orissa, even as the State administratio...

DIG assaults women on train, Lalu gives clean chit

Staff Reporter · Jun 10, 2008 · 5 min read

NEW DELHI, July 10 (Agencies): A Railway Protection Force Deputy Inspector General (DIG) has been accused of misbehaving with a woman Indian Administrative Serv...

SC notice on Monica Bedi's petition

Staff Reporter · Jun 10, 2008 · 1 min read

NEW DELHI, July 10 (UNI): The Supreme Court today issued notices to the state of Madhya Pradesh on a petition filed by Monica Bedi, wife of underworld don Abu S...

Bardhan frontrunner to be Left nominee for VP

Staff Reporter · Jun 10, 2008 · 3 min read

NEW DELHI, July 10 (UNI): With the Election Commission issuing notification for the Vice-Presidential poll, hectic political activity has started in the Left pa...

Railways' revenue up 10.75 per cent

Staff Reporter · Jun 10, 2008 · 4 min read

NEW DELHI, July 10 (UNI) Buoyed by its phenomenal strides in both freight and passenger segments, Railways registered earnings of Rs. 16535.97 crore during firs...

Indian view of 1857 War exhibited

Staff Reporter · Jun 10, 2008 · 3 min read

NEW DELHI, July 10 (UNI): Commemorating the hundred and fiftieth year of the First War of Independence of 1857, the reflection of the historic uprising through ...

Remarried widow has a share in dead husband's property: SC

Staff Reporter · Jun 3, 2008 · 2 min read

NEW DELHI, Feb 19 (Agencies): A widow who remarries cannot be deprived of a share in her dead husband's property, the Supreme Court has ruled. The widow becomes...

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