March 31st, 2008 - 11:54 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, March 31 (IANS) The new airport policy, expected to be announced next month, would pave the way for the Greater Noida airport project, which has been in limbo for quite some time, a top aviation ministry official said Monday. "The new airport policy would cover all practical problems ...
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March 31st, 2008 - 11:52 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, March 31 (IANS) A city court Monday remanded Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officer D.K. Thakur, who allegedly took a bribe of Rs.200,000 from the kin of an accused in a multi-million-rupee land scam case, in judicial custody till April 11. The CBI arrested Thakur last week from ...
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March 31st, 2008 - 11:51 pm ICT by admin
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Kanpur, March 31 (IANS) Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi Monday spelt out a new slogan for the party - "Congress ke dono haath, garibon ke saath" (Both Congress hands for the poor), drawing loud applause from the hundreds gathered to hear him in this Uttar Pradesh city. Addressing ...
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March 31st, 2008 - 11:45 pm ICT by admin
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Vadodara, March 31 (IANS) City-based Alembic Ltd, one of the leading pharma entities in India, completed its year-long centenary celebrations Monday with a resolve to become a Rs.20-billion ($500 million) company in the next four years. Unfolding the promise, Alembic chairman Chirayu Amin said the company was on the threshold ...
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March 31st, 2008 - 11:44 pm ICT by admin
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Bangalore, March 31 (IANS) Essar Group's Aegis BPO Services was acquiring city-based AOL's (American On-Line) call centre operations for an undisclosed amount, the company said here Monday. The buyout, to be completed by April, will enable the Mumbai-based Aegis to enhance its voice and non-voice offerings in the tech support ...
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March 31st, 2008 - 11:44 pm ICT by admin
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Chennai, March 31 (IANS) The contract labourers' strike at Neyveli Lignite Corp Ltd (NLC) is set to enter fourth day as no breakthrough was achieved at the conciliation meeting held at the regional labour commissioner's office here Monday afternoon. According to officials at the labour commissioner's office, the contractors' union ...
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March 31st, 2008 - 11:43 pm ICT by admin
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Hyderabad, March 31 (IANS) Veteran film actress Waheeda Rehman has been chosen for the NTR National Film Award for her contribution to the film industry. The award named after popular Telugu actor and former Andhra Pradesh chief minister N.T. Rama Rao, popularly known as NTR, carries a cash award of ...
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March 31st, 2008 - 11:42 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, March 31 (IANS) A city court Monday sentenced a man to life imprisonment for killing his wife allegedly for having an illicit relationship with another man. Additional Sessions Judge Reena Singh Naag awarded life imprisonment to Vikas Bansal, who killed his wife Radha Oct 21, 2005 and messed ...
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March 31st, 2008 - 11:26 pm ICT by admin
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Srinagar, March 31 (IANS) Security forces Monday surrounded a mosque in Jammu and Kashmir, where two separatist guerrillas are holed up, a senior police official said. Troops of 57 Rashtriya Rifles, paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and Special Operations Group (SOG) of the state police surrounded the mosque in ...
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March 31st, 2008 - 11:24 pm ICT by admin
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Washington, March 31 (DPA) The US Federal Reserve will get broad new powers of regulation over financial institutions under a government plan unveiled Monday to clamp down on investment banks wracked with billions of dollars in losses from the ongoing mortgage crisis. The proposal announced by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson ...
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March 31st, 2008 - 11:20 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, March 31 (IANS) The National Herald, the newspaper started by India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, and its Urdu edition the Quami Awaz will come out with their last editions Tuesday, April 1, following a notice of "temporary suspension of publication". The editions of both dailies will carry ...
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March 31st, 2008 - 11:19 pm ICT by admin
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Mumbai, March 31 (IANS) The Anil Ambani-promoted Reliance Energy Ltd has bought back 951,500 equity shares of the company since the start of the offer March 25, aggregating Rs.1.22 billion ($30.4 million). The company announced that it bought back 121,500 equity shares Monday alone.
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March 31st, 2008 - 11:16 pm ICT by admin
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Kolkata, March 31 (IANS) Four Grandmasters (GMs) - Krishnan Sasikiran, Koneru Humpy, Sandipan Chanda and Viktor Laznicka - share the lead after the eighth round Monday at the third Kolkata Open Grandmaster Chess Tournament here. GM Sasikiran of India, having the advantage of the white pieces, outplayed GM Nguyen Anh ...
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March 31st, 2008 - 11:12 pm ICT by admin
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Shimla, March 31 (IANS) A former Congress minister and a retired official of the Himachal Pradesh government were arrested Monday for procuring a fake school leaving certificate. Former horticulture minister Singhi Ram and former state school education board chairman B.R. Rahi were arrested after the district and sessions court cancelled ...
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March 31st, 2008 - 11:12 pm ICT by admin
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Mumbai, March 31 (IANS) Mumbai Police have arrested a 22-year old youth for allegedly conniving with his aunt to kill her husband. The accused,Ashok Harilal Kanojia, 22, was staying with his uncle Keshav Pijoo Kanojia, 33, at Jogeshwari, a suburb in northwest Mumbai.
Joint Police Commissioner (Crime) Rakesh Maria said Keshav ...
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March 31st, 2008 - 10:56 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, March 31 (IANS) Four men early Monday forced a 22-year-old woman into a car and assaulted her in an incident that is a grim reminder of how unsafe the national capital's roads can be for women. The incident occurred in northwest Delhi's Pitampura area around 3 a.m. when ...
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March 31st, 2008 - 10:52 pm ICT by admin
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Kanpur, March 31 (IANS) Speaking in chaste Hindi in this Uttar Pradesh city, Congress president Sonia Gandhi Monday lashed out at the opposition parties, describing them as "Ek hi thali ke chatte batte" (two sides of the same plate) and "Ganga gaye Gangadas, Jamuna gaye Jamunadas" (changing colours ...
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March 31st, 2008 - 10:46 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, March 31 (IANS) Domestically produced wine and beer may soon be served on Indian flights. The government is under pressure from the airline operators as well as politicians to permit serving of alcoholic drinks on domestic flights, a top aviation official said Monday. "There is no reason why ...
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March 31st, 2008 - 10:38 pm ICT by admin
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Chennai, March 31 (IANS) Software services major Wipro Technologies is expanding its presence here by setting up an 80-acre facility in the Sholinganallur-Elcot special economic zone (SEZ). According to Sudip Banerjee, president, enterprise solutions of Wipro, "In order to sustain our growth, we need to expand our presence in the ...
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March 31st, 2008 - 10:37 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, March 31 (IANS) The northern plains saw another warm day Monday even as northeastern parts of the country witnessed rain. Delhi is witnessing an unusually moderate spell with day's high at 35 degrees Celsius and the low around 22 degrees Celsius.
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March 31st, 2008 - 10:36 pm ICT by admin
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By Parveen Chopra
New York, March 31 (IANS) A lottery is expected to grant the available 65,000 H-1B visas in the US as demand far outstrips supply, but a majority of them will again be cornered by Indian high-tech professionals, say immigration attorneys as they rush to file applications starting April ...
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March 31st, 2008 - 10:21 pm ICT by admin
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Noida, March 31 (IANS) The Noida Police have issued a notice to noted Bollywood filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma on a complaint from Super Cassette Industries Pvt Ltd, the maker of T-Series brand of audio and video cassettes, alleging that Varma had cheated the company of Rs.15 million. The notice, posted ...
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March 31st, 2008 - 10:20 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, March 31 (IANS) Survivors of the Bhopal gas tragedy are living like orphans and the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government has let them down, Left Front leader D. Raja said here Monday. "When you look at the condition of the Bhopal victims, they are living like orphans. This ...
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March 31st, 2008 - 10:16 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, March 31 (IANS) Senior officials in the home ministry held an elaborate meeting Monday to review the security arrangements for the Olympic torch relay. The meet was convened a week after China's envoy Zhang Yan met Home Minister Shivraj Patil here.
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March 31st, 2008 - 10:08 pm ICT by admin
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By P. Karunakharan
Colombo, March 31 (IANS) Sri Lankan jets Monday carried out two air raids on a suspected fresh airstrip of the Tamil Tigers in their heartland in Mullaitivu in the island's north, the military said. "Air Force Kfirs and Mig-27s bombed an LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) runway ...
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March 31st, 2008 - 10:05 pm ICT by admin
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Mumbai, March 31 (IANS) Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Y.V. Reddy Monday said the inflation rate was unexpectedly high and the central bank "if necessary after due assessment, will take immediate action to contain it". Reddy, in an impromptu talk to the media at the state government headquarters, said ...
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March 31st, 2008 - 10:04 pm ICT by admin
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Mumbai, March 31 (IANS) Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari Monday presented the Cancer Aid & Research Foundation (CARF) annual awards to four eminent cancer doctors. The doctors honoured include Ram Mohan Tiwari of Bangalore Institute of Oncology, presented with the Life Time Achievement Award for his services in the field ...
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March 31st, 2008 - 10:04 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, March 31 (IANS) Saying that law and order is the responsibility of the administration, the Supreme Court Monday ticked off the Chhattisgarh government for arming tribals to form a civil militia movement, Salwa Judum, to counter Maoist guerrillas. A bench of Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan and ...
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March 31st, 2008 - 10:02 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, March 31 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Monday blamed the policies of the ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government for the current spiralling inflation. "A series of steps were taken which remain unexplained but have damaged the morale of Indian farmers," BJP spokesman Ravi Shankar Prasad told ...
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March 31st, 2008 - 9:56 pm ICT by admin
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Washington, March 31 (DPA) The US Federal Reserve will get broad new powers of regulation over financial institutions under a government plan unveiled Monday to clamp down on investment banks wracked with billions of dollars in losses from the ongoing mortgage crisis. The proposal announced by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson ...
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March 31st, 2008 - 9:54 pm ICT by admin
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Kanpur, March 31 (IANS) Congress president Sonia Gandhi Monday said her own party was to blame for its dismal state in Uttar Pradesh where it was the dominant force for decades. "While the rise of caste and communal forces are to blame for various ills facing Uttar Pradesh, our own ...
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March 31st, 2008 - 9:52 pm ICT by admin
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Beijing, March 31 (DPA) Amid protests around the world about China's handling of the Tibet unrest, Beijing Monday blasted the European Union (EU) for interference at the time China made a show of business as usual in staging the launch of the Olympic torch relay. The Chinese foreign ministry warned ...
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March 31st, 2008 - 9:49 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, March 31 (IANS) Unlike the funeral that was attended only by a solitary police official, the top brass of Delhi Police Monday turned up for the condolence meeting of the slain cop and ace sharpshooter Rajbir Singh, but none said a word about their dead colleague. The commiseration ...
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March 31st, 2008 - 9:47 pm ICT by admin
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Mumbai, March 31 (IANS) In a move to guard insider trading, market regulator Securities Exchange Board of India (SEBI) Monday proposed to ban brokers from recommending shares to investors based on subjective and arbitrary information. "Trading members shall not recommend to their clients securities or derivative contracts on such securities ...
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March 31st, 2008 - 9:45 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, March 31 (IANS) The Delhi government Monday said it was planning to put up its vegetable and fruit stalls to tackle rising prices in the city. The government will also stop the export of tomatoes whose wholesale price has gone up to Rs. 11.25 per kg.
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March 31st, 2008 - 9:44 pm ICT by admin
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Kanpur/Kochi, March 31 (IANS) Congress president Sonia Gandhi Monday launched her sharpest attack on Uttar Pradesh's Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) Chief Minister Mayawati amid speculation that her party and the Samajawdai Party were moving closer. Calling the less than a year old BSP government in Uttar Pradesh "corrupt", Sonia Gandhi ...
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March 31st, 2008 - 9:39 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, March 31 (IANS) Britain will launch a new points-based visa regime Tuesday for professionals and highly-skilled people from India wishing to migrate to that country. India will become the first country to get a taste of the new British visa regime, which will be extended to the rest ...
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March 31st, 2008 - 9:36 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, March 31 (IANS) Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan Monday got a reprieve from the Supreme Court when it dismissed a Uttar Pradesh government plea to prosecute him on charges of forgery in acquiring a government land at Barabanki in the state. A bench of Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan and ...
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March 31st, 2008 - 9:34 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, March 31 (IANS) To express solidarity with the Tibetan struggle for freedom, India football captain Bhaichung Bhutia has declined to be a part of the 2008 Beijing Olympics torch relay in India. "I got an invitation from the Indian Olympic Association a couple of weeks ago to join ...
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March 31st, 2008 - 9:30 pm ICT by admin
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Guangzhou (China), March 31 (Xinhua) A south China court Monday commuted the life sentence given to a migrant worker who took 175,000 yuan ($24,400) from a faulty ATM, to five years in jail. The Intermediate People's Court of Guangzhou in the southern province of Guangdong convicted Xu Ting in the ...
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March 31st, 2008 - 9:28 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, March 31 (IANS) With inflation in India on the rise and fears growing over possible food shortage, an official agency Monday said enough buffer stocks will be bought to be distributed to the poor and the needy. "I am absolutely sure that we will achieve the target," Food ...
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March 31st, 2008 - 9:26 pm ICT by admin
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Raipur, March 31 (IANS) The Chhattisgarh government Monday said it would restore the divisional commissioner system in the state that the previous Congress government abolished in November 2002. "The state cabinet has approved the proposal to set up four divisional commissions in the state to make administration more effective and ...
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March 31st, 2008 - 9:24 pm ICT by admin
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Mumbai, March 31 (IANS) The Oberoi Group will re-brand its Trident Hilton chain of boutique hotels as Trident hotels and expand the brand in India and abroad, said chairman P.R.S. Oberoi here Monday. The group's existing Trident Hilton hotels located in Mumbai, Gurgaon, Agra, Jaipur, Udaipur, Kochi, Bhubaneswar and Chennai ...
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March 31st, 2008 - 9:09 pm ICT by admin
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