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DMK wins Tirumangalam by-poll

Staff Reporter · Nov 13, 2009 · 2 min read

MADURAI (TN), Jan 12 (Agencies): Tamil Nadu's ruling DMK has won the Tirumangalam Assembly constituency by-poll in the state, officials said on Monday. DMK cand...

Chhattisgarh forms ATS to tackle terrorism

Staff Reporter · Nov 13, 2009 · 1 min read

RAIPUR, Jan 12 (Agencies): Chhattisgarh has set up an Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) to counter any Mumbai-like terrorist strike in the state. "ATS came into existe...

Rahul Gandhi to visit Amethi

Staff Reporter · Nov 13, 2009 · 1 min read

AMETHI, Jan 12 (Agencies): AICC general secretary and Amethi MP Rahul Gandhi will be on a two-day tour of his constituency from January 14, Congress sources sai...

India, Pak commerce ministers

Staff Reporter · Sep 6, 2009 · 4 min read

meet, favour resuming dialogue KT NEWS SERVICE NEW DELHI: Pakistan on Saturday said its traders were looking at India for opportunities and called for resumptio...

Security agencies of India, Pak must engage in talks: Durrani

Staff Reporter · Sep 6, 2009 · 3 min read

KT NEWS SERVICE NEW DELHI: Former Pakistan National Security Advisor (NSA) General Mahmud Ali Durrani here on Saturday called for a candid dialogue between secu...

Ansari for reforms to make teachers professionally empowered

Staff Reporter · Sep 6, 2009 · 2 min read

NEW DELHI, Sept 5(Agencies): Concerned over teachers in the country being professionally "disempowered", Vice President M Hamid Ansari on Saturday pitched for r...

Ghaziabad protest turns violent; police open fire in air

Staff Reporter · Sep 6, 2009 · 3 min read

New Delhi, Sept 5(Agencies): A clash between police and local residents of a Ghaziabad residential colony on Saturday got uglier and violent resulting in police...

5,000 copies of Jaswant Singh's book sent to Gujarat

Staff Reporter · Sep 6, 2009 · 2 min read

NEW DELHI, Sept 5(Agencies): The publishers of former BJP leader Jaswant Singh's controversial book on Jinnah have rushed about 5,000 copies to Gujarat within 2...

CPM Politburo meets to discuss organisational problems

Staff Reporter · Sep 6, 2009 · 3 min read

NEW DELHI, Sept 5(Agencies): The CPI(M) Politburo on Saturday began a two-day meeting to finalise a document to deal with its organisational problems which led ...

Rs 15 cr being realised as goonda tax in UP: Mulayam

Staff Reporter · Sep 6, 2009 · 2 min read

LUCKNOW, Sept 5(Agencies): Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav on Saturday accused the Uttar Pradesh government of failing to ensure relief work in drough...

Independent is DUSU chief; ABVP, NSUI bag one seat each

Staff Reporter · Sep 6, 2009 · 2 min read

New Delhi, Sept 5(Agencies): Manoj Chaudhary, an independent, was on Saturday declared the new president of the Delhi University Students Union (DUSU) following...

Arrest warrant against Bal Thackeray

Staff Reporter · Sep 6, 2009 · 1 min read

ARA (BIHAR), Sept 5(Agencies): A Bihar court has issued a non-bailable arrest warrant against Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray for allegedly making uncharitable ...

Jharkhand to raise 10 bomb disposal squads

Staff Reporter · Sep 6, 2009 · 3 min read

RANCHI, Sept 5(Agencies): Jharkhand will raise 10 bomb disposal squads to tackle rising threats from Maoists and other terrorist groups, a senior police officia...

Three Chhota Rajan aides arrested in Allahabad

Staff Reporter · Sep 6, 2009 · 1 min read

Lucknow, Sept 5(Agencies): Three aides of underworld don Chhota Rajan were arrested from Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh, police said Saturday. Prateek Singh, Rahul ...

Mumbai woman gives birth to five babies

Staff Reporter · Sep 6, 2009 · 1 min read

Mumbai, Sept 5(Agencies): In the first case of its kind, a 24-year-old woman gave birth to five babies at a private hospital in Mumbai. Sabeera Khan, a housewif...

YSR chopper's Blackbox found, probe intensified

Staff Reporter · Sep 6, 2009 · 2 min read

HYDERABAD, Sept 5(Agencies): Intensifying its probe into the helicopter crash, which claimed the lives of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajashekhar Reddy, t...

AP announces relief to kin of officers, pilots killed in crash

Staff Reporter · Sep 6, 2009 · 1 min read

HYDERABAD, Sept 5(Agencies): The Andhra Pradesh government on Saturday announced an immediate financial assistance of Rs 10 lakh each to the kin of security off...

Evacuation drill of Air India under scanner

Staff Reporter · Sep 6, 2009 · 2 min read

NEW DELHI, Sept 5(Agencies): The evacuation drill followed by Air India, after the engine of a Boeing aircraft bound for Riyadh from Mumbai caught fire on Frida...

'India may be forced to act'

Staff Reporter · Sep 6, 2009 · 2 min read

NEW DELHI, Sept 5(Agencies): Indian Army Chief General Deepak Kapoor has indicated that India is losing patience over frequent cease-fire violations by Pakistan...

Pak not serious in punishing Mumbai attackers: Krishna

Staff Reporter · Sep 6, 2009 · 1 min read

Bangalore, Sept 5(Agencies): Accusing Pakistan of not being serious in punishing perpetrators of the Mumbai terror attacks, External Affairs Minister S M Krishn...

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