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Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus to benefit region: Britain

Staff Reporter · Feb 18, 2005 · 1 min read

NEW DELHI, Feb 17 (UNI): Britain today welcomed the decision of India and Pakistan to start the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus service from April 7, stating that it ...

Sonia, Manmohan, Atal to campaign in Jharkhand

Staff Reporter · Feb 18, 2005 · 2 min read

RANCHI, Feb 17 (UNI): With a few days remaining for the 'make-or-break' third phase of the Jharkhand Assembly elections, political parties are gearing up to unl...

ATR flights to NE still suspended, pilot sacked

Staff Reporter · Feb 18, 2005 · 2 min read

KOLKATA, Feb 17 (UNI): ATR-42 flights of the Alliance Air (AA) to the Northeast remained suspended for the third day today following en masse leave by pilots, e...

Urban Areas Rent Control Act 1974 to be amended

Staff Reporter · Feb 18, 2005 · 1 min read

AIZAWL, Feb 17 (UNI): The Mizoram government has approved the proposal to amend the Mizoram Urban Areas Rent Control Act of 1974. Official sources said the cabi...

IFJ president in Nepal

Staff Reporter · Feb 18, 2005 · 1 min read

NEW DELHI, Feb 17 (UNI): International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) president Christopher Warren, who is on a four-day visit to Nepal, has sought a meeting w...

Straw appreciates Indo-Pak CBMs

Staff Reporter · Feb 18, 2005 · 7 min read

AITSAR, Feb 17 (UNI): British Foreign Minister, Jack Straw today said that the new developments between India and Pakistan as part of the Confidence Building Me...

SAARC SSI conference from February 16-20

Staff Reporter · Feb 16, 2005 · 3 min read

KOLKATA, Feb 15 (UNI): As many as 42 speakers from SAARC countries will address various issues relating to the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) sector in an in...

21 Bangladeshis arrested near Jammu

Staff Reporter · Feb 16, 2005 · 1 min read

JAMMU, Feb 15 (UNI): Twenty-one Bangladesh nationals, including six women and two children, were arrested by security forces near here last evening, a Defence M...

Dead body of boy found in fields

Staff Reporter · Feb 16, 2005 · 1 min read

HOSHIARPUR, Feb 15 (UNI): The dead body of a 16-year-old boy, Abhi Verma, who was kidnapped here yesterday, was found in the fields of Alawalpur village in the ...

Star TV crew escapes attack

Staff Reporter · Feb 16, 2005 · 1 min read

RANCHI, Feb 15 (UNI): A TV team from a private news channel escaped unhurt when unidentified miscreants fired at them in a jungle in between Simdega and Kaliber...

Natwar Singh leaves for Pakistan; Afghan visit cancelled

Staff Reporter · Feb 16, 2005 · 2 min read

NEW DELHI, Feb 15 (UNI): External Affairs Minister K Natwar Singh left for Pakistan after the Afghanistan leg of the three-day two- nation tour was cancelled th...

'Festival of Letters' opens in capital

Staff Reporter · Feb 16, 2005 · 1 min read

NEW DELHI, Feb 15 (UNI): This year's Festival of Letters of the Sahitya Akademi began with an exhibition in honour of India's regional writers here this morning...

12 idols stolen from Jain temple

Staff Reporter · Feb 16, 2005 · 1 min read

ETAH, Feb 15 (UNI): As many as 12 ancient 'ashtadhatu' idols have been stolen from a Jain temple in this district. SSP Anand Swaroop today said the information ...

Mishra's death is a loss to country

Staff Reporter · Feb 16, 2005 · 2 min read

NEW DELHI, Feb 15 (UNI): Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman K Rahman Khan today described Vidya Niwas Mishra a visionary and said in his death, the country has lost a ...

Waugh discusses business, cricket with Bengal CM

Staff Reporter · Feb 16, 2005 · 3 min read

KOLKATA, Feb 15 (UNI): Former Australian cricket captain Steve waugh today called on West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee to explore the possibili...

Police seek time to file report; Geelani requests CBI probe

Staff Reporter · Feb 16, 2005 · 3 min read

NEW DELHI, Feb 15 (UNI): The Supreme Court will hear on Tuesday next an application by Delhi University teacher S A R Geelani seeking a CBI probe into the murde...

Security think-tank calls for long-term defence planning

Staff Reporter · Feb 16, 2005 · 4 min read

NEW DELHI, Feb 15 (UNI): Stressing the need for a public debate on defence planning in India, a former Army Chief today called for making the process more respo...

Govt mulling FDI in housing, township

Staff Reporter · Feb 16, 2005 · 1 min read

NEW DELHI, Feb 15 (UNI): The government is actively considering to allow foreign direct investment in construction of housing and township, Commerce and Industr...

Police find no leads in Geelani's statement

Staff Reporter · Feb 16, 2005 · 1 min read

NEW DELHI, Feb 15 (UNI): Police have found no leads in S A R Geelani's description of the man he said had attacked him last week. Geelani, freed after being sen...

Iran refuses to deliver gas at Rajasthan

Staff Reporter · Feb 16, 2005 · 5 min read

NEW DELHI, Feb 15 (UNI): Iran today rejected India's request to deliver natural gas at Indo-Pak border in Rajasthan, saying the delivery point should be the Ira...

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