Braveheart girl on Chandigarh cops’ receiving end over FB comments
September 18th, 2012 - 9:26 pm ICT by IANS
Chandigarh, Sep 18 (IANS) She fought robbers as a 10-year-old in 2000 and got a national bravery award from the prime minister for it after her brave act led to ... Read more...
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Chavez bumps opposition hopeful from airwaves
September 18th, 2012 - 12:34 pm ICT by IANS
Caracas, Sep 18 (IANS/EFE) Television coverage of a speech by opposition presidential candidate Henrique Capriles was interrupted Monday when incumbent head of state Hugo Chavez commandeered Venezuela's airwaves for an ... Read more...
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Metallica loving Dimple enters Lok Sabha in style
June 9th, 2012 - 7:49 pm ICT by IANS
Lucknow, June 9 (IANS) For 35-year-old Dimple Yadav, politics was never a favoured option as a career. Neither did 'netas' matter much in her life. But on Saturday, life ... Read more...
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Indian army eyes youth in Uttarakhand
March 23rd, 2012 - 11:51 am ICT by IANS
Dehradun, March 23 (IANS) With the youth showing little interest in joining the Indian Army, the force is devising new ways to lure young men and women to sign up.The ... Read more...
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Chavez vows to come back stronger after surgery
February 25th, 2012 - 4:03 pm ICT by IANS
Caracas, Feb 25 (IANS/EFE) Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez who left the country Friday to undergo a surgery in Cuba for a lesion has vowed to come back stronger after the ... Read more...
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Chavez to travel to Cuba for surgery
February 24th, 2012 - 1:01 pm ICT by IANS
Caracas, Feb 24 (IANS/EFE) Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced Thursday his impending departure for Cuba to undergo an operation for a lesion in the same part of his body where ... Read more...
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Arrest Nasheed: Maldives court
February 9th, 2012 - 2:50 pm ICT by IANS
Colombo, Feb 9 (IANS) A court in Maldives Thursday ordered the arrest of ousted president Mohamed Nasheed and former defence minister, a media report said.The Criminal Court ordered the arrest ... Read more...
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Army colonel is new Maldives defence minister
February 9th, 2012 - 1:48 pm ICT by IANS
Colombo, Feb 9 (IANS) In a bid to shore up his power, new Maldives President Mohamed Waheed has appointed two new ministers including an army colonel who will be the ... Read more...
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Karachi Police arrest fake army general
January 20th, 2012 - 8:14 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Jan 20 (IANS) A Pakistani man who grabbed land and solicited favours from officials by posing as an army general for three years has been arrested in Karachi, a ... Read more...
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Army colonel in dock over cash, pistol in luggage
October 10th, 2011 - 9:50 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Oct 10 (IANS) A colonel of the Indian Army, deputed to a paramilitary force and posted in the northeast, has landed in the dock after a pistol and ... Read more...
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Moore gets British citizenship
August 30th, 2011 - 1:53 pm ICT by IANS
London, Aug 30 (IANS) Actress Julianne Moore, who was born in the US, is "thrilled" after gaining British citizenship and says that the move will please her late mother Anne, ... Read more...
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Nepal’s strong Chandigarh connections
August 30th, 2011 - 1:37 pm ICT by IANS
Chandigarh, Aug 30 (IANS) It is not usual for the head of a state and the leader of the government of that country to have a strong bond with a ... Read more...
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A retired colonel uses Facebook for a clean city
July 11th, 2011 - 5:35 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 11 (IANS) Facebook has turned into a useful tool in the hands of a 78-year-old retired army colonel to clean up Delhi's walls. Shivraj Kumar is ... Read more...
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Ex-Russian colonel, guilty of Chechen war crime, buried
June 14th, 2011 - 4:22 am ICT by IANS
Moscow, June 14 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Yury Budanov, the former Russian army colonel who served nine years for the murder of a Chechen woman during the second war in Chechnya, was ... Read more...
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Russia opens criminal case into Moscow’s journalist beating
May 2nd, 2011 - 11:16 pm ICT by BNO News
MOSCOW (BNO NEWS) -- Russian police on Monday opened a criminal case into the violent beating of a local journalist in northern Moscow, RIA Novosti reported.Dmitry Andryushchenko, a journalist working for Russian ... Read more...
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Islamic clerics hail Osama killing
May 2nd, 2011 - 8:39 pm ICT by IANS
Lucknow, May 2 (IANS) Leading Islamic clerics here Monday hailed the killing of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Pakistan as a "major blow to terrorism."Lucknow's Naib Imam Maulana ... Read more...
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‘Gaddafi’s daughter Aisha is Claudia Schiffer of North Africa’
March 22nd, 2011 - 9:32 pm ICT by IANS
Tripoli, March 22 (IANS) The Arab media describes Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's only daughter Aisha as the "Claudia Schiffer of North Africa", a media report said Tuesday.Aisha has stopped ... Read more...
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Bangladesh asks Canada to deport Mujib killer
February 21st, 2011 - 3:34 pm ICT by IANS
Dhaka, Feb 21 (IANS) Bangladesh has asked Canada to deport a former army colonel who is one of the six fugitive convicts in the 1975 assassination of Bangladesh's founding president Sheikh ... Read more...
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Malegaon blast accused not part of RSS: Ram Madhav
February 11th, 2011 - 9:44 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, Feb 11 (ANI): Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) spokesperson Ram Madhav on Friday categorically denied that Srikant Purohit and Dayanand Pandey, the accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast case, are ... Read more...
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A civic-conscious couple seeks to make Delhi poster free
January 10th, 2011 - 5:33 pm ICT by IANS
By Cindrella Thawani
New Delhi, Jan 10 (IANS) It all began with an idea to remove soggy, half-peeled posters that made walls around his home look ugly after the rains. And now, ... Read more...
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Gujjars end quota agitation (Lead)
January 5th, 2011 - 11:45 pm ICT by IANS
Jaipur, Jan 5 (IANS) The Gujjar community in Rajasthan late Wednesday called off their 17-day-old agitation for reservation in government jobs and said they had reached an agreement with the state government ... Read more...
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Gujjars reach agreement with Rajasthan government
January 5th, 2011 - 9:36 pm ICT by IANS
Jaipur, Jan 5 (IANS) An agreement has been reached during talks between the agitating Gujjar community and the Rajasthan government over the community's demand for five percent reservation in government jobs, ... Read more...
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Gujjars again talk to Rajasthan government
January 5th, 2011 - 3:57 pm ICT by IANS
Jaipur, Jan 5 (IANS) A 36-member Gujjar team began another round of talks Wednesday with the Rajasthan government even as the community continued to block rail tracks for the 17th day demanding ... Read more...
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Indian Army officer’s daughter is Nepal’s new global hero
November 22nd, 2010 - 2:53 pm ICT by IANS
By Sudeshna Sarkar
Kathmandu, Nov 22 (IANS) The daughter of a former Indian Army colonel has become Nepal's new global hero, receiving a prestigious American award for her relentless work to prevent the ... Read more...
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15 killed in pre-election Afghan violence
September 16th, 2010 - 9:50 pm ICT by IANS
Kabul, Sep 16 (DPA) Officials said Thursday that a NATO soldier, a dozen suspected insurgents and two Afghan children were killed in separate attacks ahead of parliamentary elections at the weekend.
The ... Read more...
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Tharoor, Pushkar to tie the knot at ancestral home in Kerala
August 21st, 2010 - 4:12 pm ICT by ANI
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for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor will tie the knot with his fiancée Sunanda
Pushkar in a quiet ... Read more...
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Ex-army officer hangs himself in Russian jail
July 23rd, 2010 - 4:35 pm ICT by IANS
Moscow, July 23 (IANS) A former Russian army colonel hanged himself in a police station after he was arrested on charges of raping two underage girls.
The unnamed former army officer, now a ... Read more...
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Tommy Lee Jones Joins Captain America Cast
July 1st, 2010 - 4:57 pm ICT by Sampurn Wire
July 1, 2010 (Sampurn Wire): Hollywood star Tommy Lee Jones of Batman Forever fame has got a role in the upcoming movie Captain America: First Avenger. He will be playing ... Read more...
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Australia, Canada change immigration rules
June 28th, 2010 - 6:43 pm ICT by IANS
Chandigarh, June 28 (IANS) Australia and Canada have announced major changes in immigration rules which could favourably affect the prospects of future immigrants from India, especially Punjab, immigration experts feel.
Both countries have ... Read more...
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Colonel had just celebrated wedding anniversary
June 23rd, 2010 - 9:46 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, June 23 (IANS) The Indian Army colonel killed by militants in Jammu and Kashmir Tuesday celebrated his 12th marriage anniversary only a month ago with his wife and 11-year-old daughter.An ... Read more...
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Army colonel killed in Kashmir ambush
June 23rd, 2010 - 11:05 am ICT by IANS
Srinagar, June 23 (IANS) A senior army officer has been killed in a separatist guerrilla ambush in Jammu and Kashmir's Kupwara district, police said Wednesday.
Colonel Neeraj Sood, commanding officer of 18 Rashtriya ... Read more...
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Pak Punjab IG’s meeting with LeT jihadi chief lays bare govt-terror outfits’ links
June 18th, 2010 - 1:06 pm ICT by ANI
Lahore, June 18(ANI): A direct nexus between the Pakistan Punjab government and banned outfits in the province has come out in the open after its Inspector General met the Lashker-e-Tayyaba's jihadi ... Read more...
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J-K MLA placed under house arrest for defying prohibitory orders
June 7th, 2010 - 9:15 pm ICT by ANI
Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir), June 7 (ANI): Independent MLA Sheikh Abdul Rashid was placed under house arrest ahead of Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh's visit here on Monday, when he along ... Read more...
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J-K fake encounter case: Major suspended, Colonel removed
June 6th, 2010 - 3:48 pm ICT by ANI
Srinagar, June 6 (ANI): An Army Major named in the alleged fake encounter case in Jammu and Kashmir has been suspended on Sunday.Another Army Colonel has also been removed from command.The ... Read more...
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Afghan National Army graduates 400 recruits
June 5th, 2010 - 2:37 am ICT by BNO News
KABUL (BNO NEWS) – Four hundred Afghan National Army recruits graduated from the Ghazi Military Training Center (GMTC) in Kabul on Wednesday after completing and eight-week course, a NATO spokesperson said on ... Read more...
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