May 15th, 2008 - 11:38 pm ICT by admin
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New York, May 15 (IANS) As the world is facing a severe food crisis, agriculture needs to be reinvigorated to produce enough food to feed the burgeoning global population, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said. "After a quarter century of relative neglect, agriculture is back on the international agenda, sadly ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 11:37 pm ICT by admin
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Allahabad, May 15 (IANS) Two prisoners here asserted Thursday that they saw jail authorities beat up Allahabad High Court lawyer S.K. Awasthi, who died in police custody Tuesday. Accompanied by their advocate K.K. Mishra on the district court premises, two witnesses Rakesh Kumar Tiwari and Shiv Prasad told IANS that ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 11:29 pm ICT by admin
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Chennai, May 15 (IANS) City-based petroleum company Chennai Petroleum Corporation Limited (CPCL) is looking for locations on the southern coast for its proposed refinery-cum-petrochemical complex in Tamil Nadu, a company official said here Thursday. The company initially planned to set up the 15 million tonne per annum (TPA) facility at ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 11:29 pm ICT by admin
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Chennai, May 15 (IANS) In order to meet its customer's demands in northern India, Rane NSK Steering Systems Limited Thursday announced the opening of a new steering systems plant at Bawal in Haryana. The Rs.377-million-plant will have an annual capacity of 200,000 electric power steering systems.
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May 15th, 2008 - 11:26 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, May 15 (IANS) Half centuries from Gautam Gambhir and Shikhar Dhawan helped Delhi Daredevils post a mammoth total of 194 runs for the loss of four wickets in an Indian Premier League match at the Feroze Shah Kotla stadium here Thursday. Gambhir was the top scorer with 79 ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 11:24 pm ICT by admin
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By Dipankar De Sarkar
London, May 15 (IANS) Manjula Sood, an Indian-born councillor, Thursday made history by becoming the first Indian woman to be made a Lord Mayor in Britain - appropriately, in a city dubbed Little India. Although the post is largely ceremonial - unlike that of the elected mayor ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 11:18 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, May 15 (IANS) The Supreme Court Thursday threw out a public interest lawsuit demanding disclosure of assets of the superior courts' judges under the new transparency law. A bench of Justice Arijit Pasayat and Justice P. Sathasivam dismissed the lawsuit, terming it as "thoroughly misconceived".
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May 15th, 2008 - 11:16 pm ICT by admin
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Kozhikode (Kerala), May 15 (IANS) The bickering between ruling allies - the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) and the Communist Party of India (CPI) - in Kerala intensified Thursday with the senior leaders of both parties lashing out at one another over proposed food security scheme. The scheme aims at ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 11:09 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, May 15 (IANS) The Supreme Court Thursday endorsed a plan for creating nine judicial districts, on the lines of the existing nine police districts, in the national capital city of Delhi. A bench of Justices B.N. Agarwal, P.P. Naolekar and D.K. Jain ratified the June 2000 notification of ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 11:07 pm ICT by admin
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Jaipur, May 15 (IANS) The Jaipur police Thursday released sketches of three more people suspected to be involved in Tuesday's serial blasts in this capital city which claimed at least 61 lives. The sketches were prepared on the basis of eye-witnesses, especially the owners of shops from where cycles used ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 11:02 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, May 15 (IANS) Four Delhi colleges, including Ramjas and Daulat Ram, can go ahead with recruiting teachers after the Delhi High Court Thursday lifted a stay on new appointments, with the rider that they would have to first fill up the three percent seats meant for disabled candidates. ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 10:59 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, May 15 (IANS) The Right to Information (RTI) Act has become a complicated tool for the common man to use because of different rules framed by various state governments, a study by a voluntary organisation says. On the basis of a research in seven states - Bihar, Chhattisgarh, ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 10:58 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, May 15 (IANS) Lawyers at the Tis Hazari courts here went on a strike Thursday protesting the Supreme Court's endorsement to a plan to divide the capital into nine judicial districts. The lawyers approached the apex court challenging the formation of more district courts in the capital, which ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 10:57 pm ICT by admin
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Jerusalem, May 15 (DPA) Visiting US President George W. Bush expressed unequivocal support for Israel Thursday, saying it had a right to defend itself against attacks by extremists and had American backing in opposing Iran's nuclear ambitions. "We believe that targeting innocent lives to achieve political objectives is always and ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 10:56 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, May 15 (IANS) India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has conveyed its concerns about cross-border terrorism to visiting Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader Maqdoom Amin Faheem, a party spokesman said here. "Cross-border terrorism is the biggest hurdle in the peace process between India and Pakistan. We have ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 10:54 pm ICT by admin
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Adare (Ireland), May 15 (IANS) Jeev Milkha Singh set the course ablaze with his first round flawless six-under 66 to take early lead in the Irish Open here Thursday. The Indian professional, who has twice been thwarted at the doorstep of victory on the Asian leg of the European Tour ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 10:49 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, May 15 (IANS) India Thursday said negotiations were on to secure release of four Indians kidnapped in the oil-rich south Sudan and assured they are “in good health and high spirits.” Four Indian nationals working as technical personnel for Petro Energy Contracting Services, a Sudan-registered private company that ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 10:48 pm ICT by admin
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Vatican City, May 15 (DPA) Pope Benedict XVI praised Thursday the Catholic women who have vowed to remain virgins, a choice which is "as luminous and fruitful in the eyes of the faith as it is obscure and futile in the eyes of the world". Virginity "recalls the transitory reality ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 10:46 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, May 15 (IANS) The Indian infrastructure sector comprising six core industries grew at 9.6 percent in 2008 fiscal, according to data released by the ministry of commerce and industry here Thursday. Barring cement and finished steel, the other industries - crude oil, petroleum refinery products, coal and electricity ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 10:44 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, May 15 (IANS) Delhi Police Thursday evening received an anonymous call threatening to blow up the Sai Baba Temple in south Delhi, though it turned out to be a hoax. “There was panic when an anonymous caller called around 5 p.m. threatened to blow up the temple at ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 10:39 pm ICT by admin
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Lahore, May 15 (ANI): Senior Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan today said that no consultations were made with PML-N leaders for the appointment of the new governor in Punjab.
Addressing a press conference here at PML-N Chief Nawaz Sharifs residence, he termed appointment of Salman Taseer ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 10:35 pm ICT by admin
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By Sahil Makkar
Jaipur, May 15 (IANS) Probing Tuesday's serial blasts in Jaipur that claimed at least 61 lives, the city police Thursday grilled owners of the shops from where the bicycles used in the terror bombings were purchased. "We have questioned owners of the shop from where these bicycles were ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 10:26 pm ICT by admin
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By Pinaki Das
Agartala, May 15 (ANI): Controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen has said that she would like to stay in Tripura when she returns to India if not allowed to stay in Kolkata, before the expiry of her Swedish visa in August.
Talking to 'Ajker Fariad', a leading Bengali ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 10:25 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, May 15 (IANS) The Professional Golf Tour of India (PGTI) Thursday announced the Players Championships, a series of four events, which will be held in the four zones of the country every season. The first Players Championship, a Rs. 3 million event, will be played at the Chandigarh ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 10:24 pm ICT by admin
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Jaipur, May 15 (IANS) The police Thursday released sketches of three more people suspected to be behind Tuesday's serial blasts in Jaipur that claimed 61 lives. The sketches were prepared on the basis of eye-witnesses, especially the owners of shops from where cycles used in the blasts were purchased.
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May 15th, 2008 - 10:24 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, May 15 (IANS) Two days after the serial bombings that ripped through Jaipur leaving 61 people dead, the Indian government said there was yet no breakthrough in investigation to establish the perpetrators of the dastardly act. India's National Security Advisor (NSA) M.K. Narayanan Thursday informed the cabinet "there ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 10:22 pm ICT by admin
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Kabul, May 15 (DPA) A UN Human Rights Council official said Thursday that Afghan and international forces in the country have killed at least 200 civilians during their operations this year, while in some incidents foreign intelligence services were also responsible for such deaths. Special Rapporteur for the UN Human ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 10:21 pm ICT by admin
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London, May 15 (ANI): British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said that the United Nations is to organise an emergency summit on the Myanmar cyclone disaster, and added that it would be held in Asia.
"I understand that this emergency summit will be convened by the UN secretary-general with the ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 10:07 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, May 15 (IANS) To boost scientific research in India, the government Thursday decided to set up a Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB). After a cabinet meeting Thursday, Finance Minister P. Chidambaram told reporters that the contours of advanced basic scientific research are changing extremely fast at the ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 9:59 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, May 15 (IANS) The government Thursday moved the Supreme Court against a Calcutta High Court order that has suspended the quota for other backward classes (OBC) students at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (IIM-C). Appearing for the government, Solicitor General G.E. Vahanvati apprised the bench of Chief ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 9:55 pm ICT by admin
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By Girija Shankar Ojha
Tamar (Ranchi), May 15 (ANI): People in Jharkhands Tamar Village, 75 kilometers from Ranchi, the State capital recently celebrated their favourite Koka festival that is devoted to Lord Shiva.
Koka festival is also known as Chaitra Parv because of its celebration in Chaitra month as per ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 9:54 pm ICT by admin
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Agra, May 15 (IANS) A post office at Idgah colony here was looted of Rs.20,000 by three men at gun point Thursday afternoon. Post Master Munna Lal told the police that the three escaped on a motorcycle. Lal was alone at the post office when the incident occurred as the ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 9:54 pm ICT by admin
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By Sarada Lahangir
Puri, May 15 (ANI): A five-day folk fair organized to promote various facets of the art and culture, which are facing extinction with the growing influence of modernism, captivated a huge number of people here recently.
The main objective of the annual fair was to promote and ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 9:53 pm ICT by admin
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By Lokendra Singh
Jaipur, May 15 (ANI): Terrorism has no religion. The serial bomb blasts, which created havoc in old Jaipur on Tuesday, devastated a Muslim family that lost three of its daughters in the incident.
The bomb blasts suspected to have been carried out by Bangladesh-based terrorist outfit Haraka ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 9:53 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, May 15 (IANS) Describing India's ties with Bhutan as a "model of inter-state relations", Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said his two-day visit beginning Friday would reinforce that relationship with the Himalayan nation - South Asia's youngest democracy. The prime minister left Thursday for the state visit, during which ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 9:52 pm ICT by admin
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By Hemant Chauhan
Sangla (Kinnaur) Himachal Pradesh, May 15 (ANI): Popularity of the traditional Kinnauri cuisine of Himachal gained a new high, when it attracted a lot of tourists and residents during the recently held tourism festival.
A variety of most popular local items served during the two-day festival won ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 9:49 pm ICT by admin
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Bangalore, May 15 (IANS) Over 55,000 security personnel and almost an equal number of poll officials were Thursday all set to conduct balloting Friday in 66 assembly constituencies in the second phase of elections to the 224-member Karnataka assembly. All eyes are on Shikaripura in Shimoga district from where Bharatiya ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 9:48 pm ICT by admin
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Lucknow, May 15 (ANI): At least 60 people were feared killed in 13 districts of Uttar Pradesh after strong dust storm lashed the state. The officials have said that the toll could further go up.
With details of the storm damage on Wednesday still being collected, the maximum deaths ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 9:46 pm ICT by admin
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London, May 15 (IANS) As Britain's first Indian woman Lord Mayor Manjula Sood began her historic job in the city of Leicester Thursday she was told to cultivate "Indian grace." The advice for her came from Britain's first elected Asian woman mayor.
"She will have to do everything gracefully. But there's ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 9:44 pm ICT by admin
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Rampur (Uttar Pradesh), May 15 (IANS) A total fo 32 labourers were injured Thursday when the mini-truck they were travelling in collided with a tanker carrying chemicals in Manpur village in Rampur district, an official said. Six of them sustained burn injuries as the chemical in the tanker spilled over ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 9:42 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, May 15 (IANS) The Sudanese government has assured India help in securing the release of four Indian workers of an oil company who have been kidnapped in that oil-rich country amid a clash between rival tribes. “Yes, some Indians have been kidnapped. We are trying to find out ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 9:38 pm ICT by admin
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Beirut, May 15 (DPA) The pro-Iranian Shia movement Hezbollah said Thursday it was ready for dialogue with the Western-backed ruling majority to safeguard the unity of the government. "We should solve the issue inside the Lebanese arena and are ready for dialogue to end the Lebanese crisis," Hezbollah's deputy secretary ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 9:32 pm ICT by admin
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