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Feeling vindicated: Fernandes

Staff Reporter · Feb 17, 2004 · 1 min read

NEW DELHI, Feb 4 (UNI) Defence minister George Fernandes today said he felt vindicated by the Phukan Commission having reportedly given him a clean-chit in the ...

Purulia arms drop convict Peter Bleach released

Staff Reporter · Feb 17, 2004 · 1 min read

KOLKATA, Feb 4 (UNI) British national and Purulia arms drop convict Peter Bleach, whose remaining sentence in India was remitted by the president following dipl...

HC relaxes stringent bail conditions on Vaiko

Staff Reporter · Feb 17, 2004 · 2 min read

CHENNAI, Feb 4 (UNI) Marumalarchi DMK (MDMK) general secretary and POTA detenu Vaiko is all set to be released on bail as Madras High Court today relaxed some o...

BJP jubilant over Fernandes exoneration

Staff Reporter · Feb 17, 2004 · 1 min read

NEW DELHI, Feb 4 (UNI) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today expressed happiness over the report of the Justice S N Phukan Commission probing the "Tehelka scan...

Phukan submits report, wants it made public

Staff Reporter · Feb 17, 2004 · 2 min read

NEW DELHI, Feb 4 (UNI) Justice S N Phukan probing the alleged corruption in defence deals today submitted to the prime minister part I of his report that looks ...

JPC upholds CSE findings of pesticides in soft drinks

Staff Reporter · Feb 17, 2004 · 4 min read

NEW DELHI, Feb 4 (UNI) A Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) has found correct the findings of the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) on presence of pesti...

Vajpayee keen on replacement for Maran from DMK

Staff Reporter · Dec 3, 2003 · 1 min read

CHENNAI, Dec 2 (UNI) Prime minister AB Vajpayee is keen that the replacement in his cabinet for late union minister and DMK idoelogue Murasoli Maran must be fro...

Maran was NDA's best minister: Venkaiah

Staff Reporter · Dec 3, 2003 · 1 min read

CHENNAI, Dec 2 (UNI) BJP president M Venkaiah Naidu today described union minister Murasoli Maran, who died last month, as "a very good administrator and the be...

Lok Sabha ajourned

Staff Reporter · Dec 3, 2003 · 10 min read

NEW DELHI, Dec 2 (UNI) The Lok Sabha adjourned today for the day after paying homage to union cabinet minister Murasoli Maran, sitting BJP member from Karnataka...

Opposition to move adjournment motion in LS today

Staff Reporter · Dec 3, 2003 · 8 min read

NEW DELHI, Dec 2 (UNI) The combined opposition in the Lok Sabha will move an adjournment motion tomorrow on corruption issues involving minister of state for en...

POTA court grants bail to Cong councillor in Godhra case

Staff Reporter · Dec 3, 2003 · 2 min read

AHMEDABAD, Dec 2 (UNI) A special court today granted conditional bail to Congress councillor Salim Abdul Gaffar Sheikh, one of the prime accused in the Godhra c...

CAS, consumers confusion confounded as concessions come in

Staff Reporter · Jun 4, 2003 · 5 min read

NEW DELHI, Jun 2 (UNI) The CAS-weary consumer in the four metros is a confused person today. Even as he is still to understand how the Conditional Access System...

Centuries old water distribution system discovered

Staff Reporter · Jun 4, 2003 · 6 min read

BHOPAL, June 2 (UNI) Distribution of water using siphon technique and use of fountains was practised nearly four centuries back, archaeological excavations have...

SSB to guard Indo-Bhutan border

Staff Reporter · Jun 4, 2003 · 2 min read

NEW DELHI, Jun 2 (UNI) The Special Services Bureau (SSB), a para-military force which recently came under the home ministry, has been designated as the border g...

Vajpayee recovering well : PMO

Staff Reporter · Oct 24, 2002 · 20 min read

NEW DELHI, Oct 24 (UNI): Prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who is recovering from a viral infection that had forced him to take complete rest for the past fe...

All-party meet for consensus on reforms bill today

Staff Reporter · Aug 2, 2002 · 16 min read

NEW DELHI, Aug 1 (UNI) An all-party meeting will be held here tomorrow to evolve a consensus on a draft bill drawn up by the centre to replace the Election Comm...

*Says US firm breached contract

Staff Reporter · Dec 12, 2001 · 5 min read

NEW DELHI, Dec 11 (UNI) Defence minister George Fernandes today defended the procurement of coffins during the Kargil conflict without evaluation saying it happ...

17 books launched on Indias first war strategist

Staff Reporter · Dec 10, 2001 · 3 min read

CHANDIGARH, Dec 9 (UNI): An astonishing 17 books were launched yesterday on Maharaja Ranjit Singh, who was hailed by a modern day general as Indias first war st...

Afghans Qanooni in India

Staff Reporter · Dec 8, 2001 · 1 min read

NEW DELHI, Dec 7 (UNI) Mr Younis Qanooni, interior minister of the interim government of Afghanistan, arrived here today on a three-day official visit for talks...

Pak should stop interference in Afghan affairs: Qanooni

Staff Reporter · Dec 8, 2001 · 1 min read

NEW DELHI, Dec 7 (UNI) Mr Younis Qanooni, interior minister of the Afghanistan interim authority, today asked Pakistan to stop its interference in the Afghan af...

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