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Modi takes "rest" on Good Friday; dissidents active

Staff Reporter · Mar 27, 2005 · 2 min read

GANDHINAGAR, Mar 25 (UNI): Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, whose visit to the UK was cancelled last night, remained in his official residence here today t...

No proxy politics and war in J&K: Human Rights groups

Staff Reporter · Mar 27, 2005 · 3 min read

NEW DELHI, Mar 25 (UNI): Several human rights organisations haveurged both India and Pakistan to end their "proxy politics andwar" in Jammu and Kashmir in the l...

Former bureaucrat denies irregularities

Staff Reporter · Mar 27, 2005 · 2 min read

INDORE, Mar 25 (UNI): Denying irregularities-related charges levelled against AICC General Secretary and former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Digvijay Singh bes...

Building digital bridge over the Brahmaputra

Staff Reporter · Mar 27, 2005 · 2 min read

NEW DELHI, Mar 25 (UNI): Majuli, the largest riverine island in the world, situated in the middle of the mighty Brahmaputra in Assam, is undergoing a silent rev...

BJP criticises UPA for passing Patent bill in haste

Staff Reporter · Mar 27, 2005 · 3 min read

CHENNAI, Mar 25 (UNI): The BJP today criticised the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre for hastily passing the Patent bill, and accused the left parties,...

Musharraf's brother visits Khajuraho

Staff Reporter · Mar 27, 2005 · 1 min read

KHAJURAHO, Madhya Pradesh, Mar 25 (UNI): Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's elder brother Javed has expressed the hope that relations between India and his c...

Revoke visas of Cong suspects in 1984 riots, Akalis urge US

Staff Reporter · Mar 27, 2005 · 2 min read

NEW DELHI, Mar 25 (UNI): The US should revoke visas of Congress politicians accused of involvement in the 1984 riots, using the same approach as it did in Gujar...

Centre did not stop Modi from visiting UK: Patil

Staff Reporter · Mar 27, 2005 · 2 min read

NEW DELHI, Mar 25 (UNI): The Centre had not stopped Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi from going to London but had apprised himof the security threat in case...

Modi's decision right: Venkaiah

Staff Reporter · Mar 27, 2005 · 2 min read

CHENNAI, Mar 25 (UNI): Asserting that the BJP stands firmly behind Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, former party President M Venkaiah Naidu today termed as...

Commissions for police, admin, judicial reforms on anvil

Staff Reporter · Mar 27, 2005 · 3 min read

NEW DELHI, Mar 25 (UNI): The government will constitute separate Commissions for Centre-State relations, administrative and police reforms, judicial reforms (if...

Witness names K P S Gill in murder case

Staff Reporter · Feb 18, 2005 · 3 min read

PATIALA, Feb 17 (UNI): A key witness in the Khalra murder case, Kuldeep Singh, has named former Punjab DGP K P S Gill as one of the senior officials present at ...

Ominous echo of 'tsunami' rattles Bihar politicos

Staff Reporter · Feb 18, 2005 · 5 min read

PATNA, Feb 17 (UNI): More than a month after it slammed the southerncoast of India, tsunami has its echo, loud, clear and ominous, in the faraway land-locked st...

Hardoi students know Mahatma as PM, Mayawati as CM

Staff Reporter · Feb 18, 2005 · 2 min read

HARDOI, UP, Feb 17 (UNI): For some students of primary schoolsin the district, state chief minister is Ms Mayawati while Fatherof the Nation Mahatma Gandhi is t...

Final phase of polling crucial for RJD

Staff Reporter · Feb 18, 2005 · 1 min read

PATNA, Feb 17 (UNI): The final phase of assembly elections in Bihar for 93 seats on February 23 is crucial for Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) with the fate of Chief...

Cabinet defers FDI in construction

Staff Reporter · Feb 18, 2005 · 1 min read

NEW DELHI, Feb 17 (UNI): The Union Cabinet today deferred its decision on allowing Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the construction sector in view of the ong...

Shooting charges make parties turn to older forms

Staff Reporter · Feb 18, 2005 · 3 min read

PATNA, Feb 17 (UNI): With hiring charges of choppers for VIP tours claiming lions share of campaign budgets, all major political parties have tightened their be...

Aftershock in Sumatra

Staff Reporter · Feb 18, 2005 · 1 min read

NEW DELHI, Feb 17 (UNI): An earthquake of moderate intensity jolted the Northern Sumatra region in the Indian Ocean this morning. The India Meteorological Depar...

100 hurt in Hong Kong ship collision

Staff Reporter · Feb 18, 2005 · 1 min read

HONG KONG, Feb 17 (Reuters): Nearly 100 people were injured in two separate ship collisions in Hong Kong waters today during foggy weather. Ninety-eight people ...

TV scribes attacked in Zahira's neighbourhood

Staff Reporter · Feb 18, 2005 · 1 min read

VADODARA, Feb 17 (UNI): Two journalists of local television channels were allegedly assaulted by a group of youths in the Bhailal Park Society here where Best B...

Parties fall back on caste in decisive phase of election

Staff Reporter · Feb 18, 2005 · 7 min read

PATNA, Feb 17 (UNI): As the grand electoral battle, Bihar Assembly Election 2005, enters its third and final stage on a relatively violence-free note, political...

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