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Akash testfired from ITR

Staff Reporter · Jun 18, 2005 · 11 min read

ORISSA, Jun 17 (UNI) India today successfully testfired medium-range surface-to-air missile 'Akash' from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur-on-sea, ab...

BJP urges Kalam to seek report on statue's removal

Staff Reporter · Jun 18, 2005 · 2 min read

NEW DELHI, June 17 (UNI) The BJP today urged President A P J Abdul Kalam to seek a report from the Uttar Pradesh government on the removal of Jan Sangh ideologu...

Variations between DC and Delhi Govt's Metro Phase II plan

Staff Reporter · Jun 18, 2005 · 2 min read

NEW DELHI, June 17 (UNI) While discrepancies exist between the Delhi Metro Rail Corp and the State Government's Metro Phase II corridor plans, both sides insist...

Naval divers to rescue of trapped coalminers

Staff Reporter · Jun 18, 2005 · 2 min read

NEW DELHI, June 17 (UNI) Expert divers from the Indian Navy were today rushed to Jharkhand where 14 miners have been trapped in the Saunda coalmine since Wednes...

Sonia's Russian trip successful, says Congress

Staff Reporter · Jun 18, 2005 · 2 min read

NEW DELHI, June 17 (UNI) The Congress today said the four-day visit of Congress President Sonia Gandhi to the Russian Federation had been successful. "It will g...

92 Indians among '1000 Women for Nobel Peace Prize'

Staff Reporter · Jun 18, 2005 · 2 min read

NEW DELHI, Jun 17 (UNI) Ninety-two Indian women, who work at the grassroots level for justice, rights and good governance, are among a group of 1,000 women from...

Mizoram Congress splits

Staff Reporter · Jun 17, 2005 · 1 min read

AIZAWL, June 16 (UNI) State Congress president Lalthanhawla's detractors have engineered a split in the party following a meeting held here last evening, party ...

Bin laden, Mulla Omar alive and in good health: Media reports

Staff Reporter · Jun 17, 2005 · 2 min read

NEW DELHI, June 16 (UNI) Terrorist mastermind and Al Qaida chiefOsama bin Laden and Taliban leader Mulla Mohammad Omar, on the runfrom the US forces for more th...

BJP women workers break 'matkas' to protest water crisis

Staff Reporter · Jun 17, 2005 · 1 min read

LUCKNOW, Jun 16 (UNI) In a novel protest, women members of the BJP today broke earthen pots (matkas) to protest the water crisis here. The demonstrators gathere...

CCEA approves increasing TMC mini-missions target

Staff Reporter · Jun 17, 2005 · 1 min read

NEW DELHI, June 16 (UNI) The government today approved increasingthe overall target under Mini Missions-III and IV of theTechnology Mission on Cotton (TMC) to d...

Cabinet approves upgradation of post of Coal Mines PF Commissioner

Staff Reporter · Jun 17, 2005 · 1 min read

NEW DELHI, June 16 (UNI) The Union Cabinet today approved the upgradation of the post of Coal Mines Provident Fund Commissioner in the Coal Mines Profit Fund Or...

IAF rescues stranded Canadian lady trekker

Staff Reporter · Jun 17, 2005 · 2 min read

NEW DELHI, June 16 (UNI) The Indian Air Force today successfully carried out the rescue of an injured Canadian lady trekker stranded in a deep khud in the mount...

Former minister sent in judicial custody

Staff Reporter · Jun 17, 2005 · 1 min read

PATNA, Jun 16 (UNI) A special CBI court today sent former Bihar road construction minister Mohammed Ilyas Hussain to judicial custody till June 28 in connection...

Several BJP workers injured during protest against power crisis

Staff Reporter · Jun 17, 2005 · 1 min read

PATNA, June 16 (UNI) More than 50 youth activists of the BJP sustained injuries following violent clashes during a demonstration today in protest against the on...

India to give dual citizenship to Overseas Indians

Staff Reporter · Jun 17, 2005 · 2 min read

NEW DELHI, June 16 (UNI) In a decision of far-reaching significance for Indians settled abroad, the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) today redeeme...

Foreign publications allowed facsimile editions: Cabinet

Staff Reporter · Jun 17, 2005 · 2 min read

NEW DELHI, June 16 (UNI) The government today decided to allow foreign newspapers and periodicals to bring out facsimile editions from India and liberalise FDI ...

Run-up to PM Washington visit;India,US to set up CEOs Forum

Staff Reporter · Jun 17, 2005 · 2 min read

NEW DELHI, Jun 16 (UNI) In the run-up to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to Washington in July, India and the US have decided to set up a CEOs Forum compr...

US clears sale of latest Patriot Anti-Missile System to India

Staff Reporter · Jun 17, 2005 · 3 min read

NEW DELHI, June 16 (UNI) Seeking to further consolidate bilateral defence ties, Washington has cleared the sale of the advanced Patriot Anti-Missile Defence Sys...

Sankararman murder case posted to July 12 for framing of charges

Staff Reporter · Jun 17, 2005 · 3 min read

CHENGALPATTU, June 16 (UNI) The Chengalpattu Sessions Court today adjourned to July 12 the framing of charges in the sensationalSankararaman murder case in whic...

Zaheera's brother Nafituallah to restart Best bakery

Staff Reporter · Mar 27, 2005 · 3 min read

VADODARA, Mar 25 (UNI): More than three years after the Best bakery carnage, prime witness Zaheera Sheikh's elder brother Nafitullah has taken up the bakery's r...

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