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Baseless rumours create panic in Mumbai

November 28th, 2008 - 4:40 pm ICT by IANS -
Mumbai, Nov 28 (IANS) Rumours of fresh firing at a busy railway station in Mumbai created panic before police clarified there was no shooting. "At around 1 p.m. the rumours originated that ...

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Chiranjeevi offers blood for Mumbai victims

November 27th, 2008 - 8:20 pm ICT by IANS -
Hyderabad, Nov 27 (IANS) Telugu superstar-turned-politician Chiranjeevi Thursday offered to provide blood from his blood bank for the injured in Mumbai terrorist attacks.He wrote to the Maharashtra chief minister and chief secretary ...

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Govt. proposed new guidelines for Industries

November 26th, 2008 - 2:08 pm ICT by Lambodar Prasad Dash -
Bhubaneswar(orissa),26/11: Government of Orissa proposed new guidelines for different companies and industries, who want to set up their ventures in orissa. yesterday After a high level meeting state chiefminister Nabin pattanaik informed ...

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Maharashtra top cop gets notice on Pragnya’s torture claim

Maharashtra top cop gets notice on Pragnya’s torture claim

November 25th, 2008 - 9:56 pm ICT by IANS -
New Delhi, Nov 25 (IANS) The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued notice to Maharashtra's director general of police and the chief secretary over the alleged torture of Malegaon bomb blast ...

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High-level meeting discusses border-related issues at Attari

November 24th, 2008 - 10:07 pm ICT by ANI -
Attari (Punjab), Nov 24 (ANI): Union Home Secretary Madhukar Gupta chaired a meeting at Attari near Amritsar on Monday where matters relating to the Punjab sector of the India-Pakistan border with ...

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Top Uttar Pradesh bureaucrat calls for more teeth to RTI

November 24th, 2008 - 1:07 pm ICT by IANS -
Lucknow, Nov 24 (IANS) Uttar Pradesh chief secretary Atul Kumar Gupta, who insists that the state government is "ready to part with all information", has joined rights activists in their demand for ...

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Bihar youth Rahul Raj not shot at point blank: forensic report

Bihar youth Rahul Raj not shot at point blank: forensic report

November 22nd, 2008 - 11:40 pm ICT by IANS -
Mumbai, Nov 22 (IANS) Patna youth Rahul Raj was not shot dead at point blank range but from a distance of more than 12 feet after he hijacked a commuter bus with ...

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Gujarati-origin entrepreneurs in Uganda, Kenya seek Gujarat’s help

Gujarati-origin entrepreneurs in Uganda, Kenya seek Gujarat’s help

November 21st, 2008 - 9:29 pm ICT by IANS -
Ahmedabad, Nov 21 (IANS) A group of entrepreneurs of Gujarati origin settled in Uganda wants to set up an industrial development park in Gujarat, a senior state government official said here ...

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Supreme Court endorses Uttar Pradesh move to suspend information commissioner

November 18th, 2008 - 9:18 pm ICT by IANS -
New Delhi, Nov 18 (IANS) The Supreme Court Tuesday temporarily endorsed Uttar Pradesh Governor T.V. Rajeshwar's July 9 order suspending the state's Chief Information Commissioner Justice (Retd) M.A. Khan.A bench of Justice ...

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Haryana government launches schemes to empower women

November 17th, 2008 - 5:52 pm ICT by IANS -
Chandigarh, Nov 17 (IANS) Haryana, which has one the worst sex ratio's in the country and where two teenage girls were recently lynched in a case of "honour killing", is planning to ...

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Tribals protest ”police excesses” in West Bengal

November 14th, 2008 - 9:01 pm ICT by ANI -
Midnapur (West Bengal), Nov 14 (ANI): Tribals in Jhargram-Lalgarh belt of West Midnapore district of West Bengal staged a protest against the alleged ''police excesses'' in the area on Friday. The residents ...

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NHRC issues notice to Tamil Nadu Government on student violence

November 14th, 2008 - 7:32 pm ICT by ANI -
New Delhi, Nov.14 (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued a notice to Tamil Nadu''s Chief Secretary and the Director General of Police, seeking reports within four weeks in ...

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Karunanidhi rejects scribes’ prosecution in phone-tapping scandal

November 14th, 2008 - 6:40 pm ICT by IANS -
Chennai, Nov 14 (IANS) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi told the state assembly Friday that the government has rejected the P. Shanmugham enquiry commission's recommendations to prosecute leading English and vernacular ...

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Goa minister’s son gets bail in rape case

November 10th, 2008 - 1:37 pm ICT by IANS -
Panaji, Nov 10 (IANS) Goa Education Minister Atanasio Monserrate's son Rohit, charged with raping a minor German girl, was granted conditional bail here Monday, a day after the victim's mother sought to ...

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Election Commission reviews poll arrangements in Rajasthan

October 31st, 2008 - 8:29 pm ICT by ANI -
Jaipur, Oct 31 (ANI): Election Commission (EC) today reviewed poll arrangements for the Assembly elections in Rajasthan. Chief Election Commission N. Gopalaswamy, Election Commissioners S.Y. Qureshi and Naveen Chawla addressed the ...

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20 primitive tribals die in Jharkhand in one month

October 31st, 2008 - 11:50 am ICT by IANS -
Ranchi, Oct 31 (IANS) Despite a plethora of welfare schemes, 20 members of three primitive tribes of Jharkhand have died in the last one month, with the government attributing this to food ...

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Centre seeks report on Assam serial blasts

Centre seeks report on Assam serial blasts

October 30th, 2008 - 7:14 pm ICT by ANI -
New Delhi, Oct 30 (ANI): The Union Home Ministry has sought an immediate report from the Assam Government on serial blasts, in which at least 26 people are feared dead and ...

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Home minister condemns Assam blasts

Home minister condemns Assam blasts

October 30th, 2008 - 3:20 pm ICT by IANS -
New Delhi, Oct 30 (IANS)Home Minister Shivraj Patil Thursday condemned the serial blasts in Assam that have killed at least 30 people and injured over 100, even as he went into an ...

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Shivraj Patil condemns Assam blasts

Shivraj Patil condemns Assam blasts

October 30th, 2008 - 2:54 pm ICT by IANS -
New Delhi, Oct 30 (IANS) Home Minister Shivraj Patil Thursday condemned the serial blasts in Assam that have killed at least 60 people and injured over 100, even as he went into ...

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Punjab assembly accounts panel summons chief secretary

October 29th, 2008 - 6:37 pm ICT by IANS -
Chandigarh, Oct 29 (IANS) The Punjab assembly's Public Accounts Committee has summoned the state's chief secretary to explain "serious flaws" in funding for Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal's public meet prorgammes.The committee ...

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Maharashtra chief secretary to probe lynching of Uttar Pradesh youth

October 29th, 2008 - 5:33 pm ICT by IANS -
Mumbai, Oct 29 (IANS) The Maharashtra government Wednesday announced an inquiry by the chief secretary into the lynching of a youth from Uttar Pradesh in a suburban train outside Mumbai and Rs.200,000 ...

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Jharkhand asks Maharashtra for the body of violence victim

Jharkhand asks Maharashtra for the body of violence victim

October 26th, 2008 - 8:03 pm ICT by IANS -
Ranchi, Oct 26 (IANS) Jharkhand has approached the Maharashtra government to secure the body of a person reportedly killed in violence against North Indians Oct 19, an official said Sunday.According to official ...

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Goa government has no plans to hand over German rape case to CBI

October 26th, 2008 - 6:17 pm ICT by ANI -
Panaji, Oct 26 (ANI): The Goa government on Sunday said that it has no plans of handing over of the alleged rape case of a German minor to the Central Bureau ...

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More security at international borders for Mizoram polls

October 25th, 2008 - 6:03 pm ICT by IANS -
Aizawl, Oct 25 (IANS) Security will be strengthened along the international borders which Mizoram has with Myanmar on one side and Bangladesh on the other in view of the state assembly elections, ...

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Four jailed for landmine explosion in West Bengal

October 24th, 2008 - 10:19 pm ICT by IANS -
Kolkata, Oct 24 (IANS) A West Bengal court Friday remanded four people to judicial custody and one person to police custody for a landmine explosion in West Midnapore district Wednesday in which ...

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NHRC notice to Maharashtra Government on MNS activities

NHRC notice to Maharashtra Government on MNS activities

October 23rd, 2008 - 4:17 pm ICT by ANI -
New Delhi, Oct 23 (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) issued a notice to the Maharashtra Government after having taken the suo-motu cognizance of the incidents of attack on north ...

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NHRC issues notice to Maharashtra Govt.on MNS activities

October 22nd, 2008 - 3:12 pm ICT by ANI -
New Delhi, Oct.22 (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission has taken suo-motu cognizance of a distressing incidents of attack on north Indian aspirants for railway jobs by the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena ...

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Uttar Pradesh fixes Rs.140 per quintal of sugarcane

October 19th, 2008 - 12:27 am ICT by IANS -
Lucknow, Oct 18 (IANS) The Uttar Pradesh government Saturday revised the sugarcane purchase price for all sugar mills in the state from Rs.125 to Rs.140 per quintal.Making the announcement at a press ...

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Kolkata Port Trust to get four more dredgers

October 18th, 2008 - 12:23 am ICT by IANS -
Kolkata, Oct 17 (IANS) The Kolkata Port Trust (KoPT) will get four additional dredgers for clearing the channels at Haldia port where siltation is causing severe problems for cargo movements, a top ...

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NHRC notice to Assam over ethnic violence (Lead)

October 14th, 2008 - 10:04 pm ICT by IANS -
New Delhi, Oct 14 (IANS) The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), taking suo-motu cognisance of the ethnic clashes in Assam in which over 50 people were killed, has issued a notice to ...

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