Pressure on Andhra chief minister to ‘bail out’ colleagues
August 21st, 2012 - 4:01 pm ICT by IANS
Hyderabad, Aug 21 (IANS) Ministers in Andhra Pradesh are mounting pressure on the chief minister not to accept the resignation of their colleague Dharmana Prasada Rao and bail out others ... Read more...
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Disbanding Team Anna was collective decision, say members (Lead)
August 6th, 2012 - 10:02 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Aug 6 (IANS) While some of its members appeared perplexed over the disbanding of Team Anna, an official statement of the group Monday said the decision was ... Read more...
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Karnataka opposes shifting air show out of Bangalore
July 4th, 2012 - 1:08 am ICT by IANS
Bangalore, July 3 (IANS) The Karnataka government has opposed shifting the biennial mega air show Aero India hosted at the Indian Air Force (IAF) base on Bangalore's outskirts out of ... Read more...
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Rani Mukerji’s ‘Aiyya’ now set for Dussehra release
June 15th, 2012 - 6:10 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, June 15 (IANS) Actress Rani Mukerji-starrer "Aiyya" was earlier scheduled for a Sep 28 release, but it has been postponed and now it will hit screens during Dussehra.Co-produced by ... Read more...
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Sangma seeks support, not many takers (Lead)
May 22nd, 2012 - 9:08 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 22 (IANS) Former Lok Sabha speaker P.A. Sangma Tuesday urged political parties to back his candidature for the president's post, but there appeared to be no ... Read more...
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Sangma pushes himself for president
May 22nd, 2012 - 3:01 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 22 (IANS) Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader P.A. Sangma, whose name has been proposed for president by the AIADMK and the Biju Janata Dal (BJD), Tuesday ... Read more...
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Dikshit expresses shock over auto driver’s murder (Third Lead)
March 23rd, 2012 - 10:41 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 23 (IANS) Expressing shock over an autorickshaw driver being beaten to death after his three-wheeler nicked an Innova car, Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit Friday said the ... Read more...
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Affected telecom firms file review pleas in Supreme Court (Lead)
March 2nd, 2012 - 9:34 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 2 (IANS) Three telecom service providers -- Uninor, SSTL and Videocon -- affected by the Supreme Court's order scrapping their 2G licenses, Friday filed separate petitions ... Read more...
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Apex court to hear Krishna’s plea Friday
January 26th, 2012 - 10:03 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Jan 26 (IANS) The Supreme Court will Friday hear a petition by External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna challenging the registration of an FIR by the Karnataka Lokayukta (ombudsman) ... Read more...
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Krishna moves apex court against Lokayukta proceedings
January 24th, 2012 - 9:49 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Jan 24 (IANS) External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna Tuesday moved the Supreme Court seeking quashing of a private complaint and the probe ordered by the Karnataka Lokayukta for ... Read more...
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Digvijay supports Kalmadi’s bail
October 28th, 2011 - 7:58 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Oct 28 (IANS) Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh Friday advocated bail for Suresh Kalmadi, jailed former chief of the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee, while the party appeared to ... Read more...
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Congress legislators loyal to Jagan plan to quit
August 19th, 2011 - 6:16 pm ICT by IANS
Hyderabad, Aug 19 (IANS) Furious over searches by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) at the premises of YSR Congress party chief Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy, ruling Congress party legislators in ... Read more...
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I was left in total shock and depression: Madhur Bhandarkar
July 5th, 2011 - 3:26 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 5 (IANS) After "Heroine", his "most ambitious project", was put on the backburner indefinitely following the news of his lead actress Aishwarya Rai's pregnancy, acclaimed filmmaker ... Read more...
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Hurriyat suspends Ansari for meeting interlocutors (Lead)
April 20th, 2011 - 11:27 pm ICT by IANS
Srinagar, April 20 (IANS) The moderate Hurriyat group led by Mirwaiz Umer Farooq suspended its senior leader Molvi Abbas Ansari from the separatist conglomerate taking strong exception to his meeting ... Read more...
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Married couples take turns to win arguments
April 19th, 2011 - 10:26 am ICT by IANS
London, April 19 (IANS) Husbands and wives take turns to win arguments while unmarried couples do not, a study has found.Rather than fighting it out among themselves to be the ... Read more...
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Married couples ‘focus on maintaining fairness in their relationships’
April 18th, 2011 - 6:30 pm ICT by ANI
London, April 18 (ANI): A novel experiment has found that husbands and wives take it in turns to win arguments while unmarried couples do not.Rather than always battling it out to be ... Read more...
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Ignoring court orders Jats block rail tracks (Lead)
March 25th, 2011 - 11:50 pm ICT by IANS
Chandigarh, March 25 (IANS) Despite the Punjab and Haryana High Court ordering Jat protestors to immediately vacate the rail tracks in Haryana, the agitators, including scores of women, continued squatting ... Read more...
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Jats continue blockages despite court orders
March 25th, 2011 - 1:01 pm ICT by IANS
Chandigarh, March 25 (IANS) Jat protestors continued blocking railway traffic in Haryana Friday despite the Punjab and Haryana High Court's orders to immediately vacate the tracks and the Supreme Court ... Read more...
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Kerala seeks re-investigation of palm oil import case
February 26th, 2011 - 6:21 pm ICT by IANS
Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 26 (IANS) Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan, who came under fire from the Congress-led opposition over allegations against him and his son, hit back Saturday with the state government seeking a ... Read more...
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Kalmadi demands JPC to probe CWG scam (Lead)
February 24th, 2011 - 6:52 pm ICT by IANS
Ranchi, Feb 24 (IANS) A day after two of his close aides and senior officials of the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee were arrested, Indian Olympic Association (IOA) president and MP Suresh Kalmadi ... Read more...
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Why only OC officials targeted in CWG probe: Kalmadi
February 24th, 2011 - 5:18 pm ICT by IANS
Ranchi, Feb 24 (IANS) Indian Olympic Association (IOA) President Suresh Kalmadi Thursday questioned why the investigating agencies were calling only the organising committee (OC) officials in their probe into the Commonwealth Games ... Read more...
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Jyoti Basu was a perfect communist: Karat
January 17th, 2011 - 10:44 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Jan 17 (IANS) Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) general secretary Prakash Karat Monday said Marxist patriarch Jyoti Basu was a perfect communist and was unique in many ways."Jyoti Basu for ... Read more...
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The Pirate Bay founders sentenced and fined over $6 million
November 27th, 2010 - 1:45 am ICT by BNO News
STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN (BNO NEW) — Three of the founders of file-sharing website The Pirate Bay on Friday were sentenced to 10 months in prison by a Swedish Court of Appeals, officials said.The ... Read more...
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All party delegation meeting separatists was scheduled: Omar Abdullah
September 21st, 2010 - 5:08 pm ICT by ANI
Srinagar, Sep 21 (ANI): Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Tuesday said the all-party delegation's decision to meet the separatist was scheduled and "we had only worked towards it to ... Read more...
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Meeting separatists in groups was not collective decision: Swaraj
September 21st, 2010 - 1:03 pm ICT by IANS
Srinagar, Sep 21 (IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Sushma Swaraj, part of the all-party delegation on a two-day visit to Jammu and Kashmir, said Tuesday that the decision to meet ... Read more...
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Butt wants ties with India resumed, no leniency for trio (Lead)
September 16th, 2010 - 6:45 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Sep 16 (IANS) Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Ijaz Butt Thursday appealed to International Cricket Council (ICC) president Sharad Pawar for the resumption of India-Pakistan cricket ties and also assured ... Read more...
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How bird flocks move in unison
September 16th, 2010 - 4:01 pm ICT by ANI
Washington Sept 16 (ANI): They don't have a leader and yet bird flocks often move in surprising synchronicity, a phenomenon which has remained puzzling to many researchers.Now, a new study has ... Read more...
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OC official surprised at New Zealand’s talk of security concern (Lead)
September 13th, 2010 - 9:03 pm ICT by IANS
Wellington/New Delhi, Sep 13 (IANS) The New Zealand Olympic Committee (NZOC) Monday said it will wait for its chef-de-mission Dave Currie's return from a 10-day visit to New Delhi for an on-the-spot ... Read more...
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New Zealand still unsure of participating in CWG
September 13th, 2010 - 6:20 pm ICT by IANS
Wellington, Sep 13 (IANS) The New Zealand Olympic Committee (NZOC) Monday said it will wait for its chef-de-mission Dave Currie's assessment after his 10-day visit to New Delhi before deciding on participation ... Read more...
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Antony denies differences between Home and Defence ministries
September 12th, 2010 - 9:56 pm ICT by ANI
Thiruvanthapuram, Sep. 12 (ANI): Defence Minister A K Antony on Sunday denied existence of any differences within the ministries in the United Progressive Alliance government.Speaking on the sidelines of a function ... Read more...
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India big player at Cancun climate change summit: Mexico
August 17th, 2010 - 11:33 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Aug 17 (IANS) India, one of the four BASIC (Brazil, South Africa, India, China) countries, will play an important role in the process of arriving at a consensus at ... Read more...
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No division in ICC over Howard: Pawar
July 1st, 2010 - 9:26 pm ICT by IANS
Singapore, July 1 (IANS) Indian Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar, who took over as International Cricket Council (ICC) president Thursday, has insisted that the rejection of former Australian prime minister John Howard's nomination ... Read more...
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Gillard becomes Australia’s first female PM (Lead)
June 24th, 2010 - 5:41 pm ICT by IANS
Sydney, June 24 (DPA) Julia Gillard became Australia's first female prime minister Thursday after incumbent Kevin Rudd stood aside in a party vote amid plunging approval ratings and a run-in with ... Read more...
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Rs.6.53 Cr released for Tripura under Swarnjayanti Gram Swarojgar Yojana
June 7th, 2010 - 11:26 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, June 7 (ANI): The Centre has released over 6.5 crore rupees for implementation of centrally sponsored Swarnjayanti Gram Swarojgar Yojana in Tripura's four districts."The Ministry of Rural Development has ... Read more...
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Central aid to uplift northeast’s poor
June 7th, 2010 - 6:30 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, June 7 (IANS) The rural development ministry Monday released aid to four northeastern states under a government scheme that aims to organise the rural poor into self-help groups and ultimately ... Read more...
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