April 10th, 2008 - 8:46 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, April 10 (IANS) A city court Thursday ordered a separate trial of Gulam Ahmed Khan, one of the accused in the 2005 Diwali eve bombings in Delhi that killed over 60 people, after a medical report said he was mentally ill. Additional Sessions Judge Babulal ordered a separate ...
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April 10th, 2008 - 5:04 pm ICT by admin
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Kochi, April 10 (IANS) A farmers' organisation that owes allegiance to the Congress announced Thursday that it would take to task banks in Kerala that do not write off farmers' loans according to a waiver announced by the central government. Addressing reporters here, Kerala Pradesh Karshaka Congress president Lal Varughese ...
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April 6th, 2008 - 12:36 am ICT by admin
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Baghdad, April 5 (DPA) A priest, three civilians and five policemen were killed and 18 wounded in separate incidents in Iraq, media reports said Saturday. Security sources told the Voices of Iraq (VOI) news agency that three civilians were killed and 15 injured when a bomb targeted a bus ...
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April 5th, 2008 - 7:34 pm ICT by admin
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Baghdad, April 5 (Xinhua) Unidentified gunmen shot dead a Christian priest in central Baghdad Saturday, an interior ministry source said.
The incident took place at around midday. The gunmen shot dead Yousif Adel, a priest of the Saint Peter Church, in the Karrada neighbourhood, the source told Xinhua on condition ...
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April 3rd, 2008 - 3:17 pm ICT by admin
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Kuala Lumpur, April 3 (IANS) The detention of five Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) leaders under the stringent Internal Security Act (ISA) is unconstitutional as due process of law was not followed, their counsel has told the Malaysian Federal Court. Lawyer-lawmaker Karpal Singh said the five who were arrested on ...
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April 3rd, 2008 - 1:59 pm ICT by admin
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Putrajaya (Malaysia), Apr.3 (ANI): The detention of five Hindu Rights Action Force (HINDRAF) leaders under the Internal Security Act (ISA) is unconstitutional, their counsel Karpal Singh has told a Federal Court here.
He said the five who were arrested on December 13 last year should have been first detained ...
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April 2nd, 2008 - 5:35 pm ICT by admin
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Ankara, April 2 (DPA) Seven Kurdish separatists were killed in clashes with Turkish soldiers in south-east Turkey, bringing the toll from two days of fighting near the border with Iraq to 19, the Turkish General Staff announced Wednesday. The clashes took place Tuesday night in Bestler and Dereber districts of ...
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March 27th, 2008 - 6:29 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, March 27 (IANS) The cabinet Thursday approved a debt relief fund with an initial corpus of Rs.100 billion ($2.5 billion) to reimburse commercial banks for waiving off Rs.600 billion of loans of an estimated 40 million farmers. Approval was also given to the schedule that specifies how much ...
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March 25th, 2008 - 6:22 pm ICT by admin
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Nagpur, March 25 (IANS) Leaving behind a suicide note, a farmer with five children has ended his life near here, taking to 61 the farmer suicide toll in Maharashtra's Vidarbha region after Finance Minister P. Chidambaram's "historic loan waiver budget" of Feb 29. Shrikrishna Kalamb, a 48-year-old farmer from Babhulgaon ...
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March 24th, 2008 - 2:53 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, March 24 (IANS) An estimated four million employees of the central government will get up to 40 percent hike with effect from Jan 1, 2006, if the recommendations of the Sixth Pay Commission submitted Monday is accepted. According to officials, the commission has recommended higher allowances in areas ...
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March 21st, 2008 - 1:15 pm ICT by admin
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UN recommends transfer of $100 mn fund for Iraq development
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United Nations, March 21 (Xinhua) UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has asked the Security Council to transfer $100 million from the UN Iraq Account to the Development Fund of Iraq to initiate development activities in the country. The UN Iraq Account is ...
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March 21st, 2008 - 12:40 pm ICT by admin
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Dhaka, March 21 (IANS) The long-awaited Dhaka-Kolkata train service may begin on Bengali New Year's Day mid-April, as the two south Asian neighbours are set to sign a supplementary deal here Sunday on the commissioning of the Maitree (Friendship) Express. The opening of the train was stalled due to India's ...
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March 18th, 2008 - 6:07 pm ICT by admin
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Beijing, March 18 (Xinhua) Construction of a second airport in the Chinese capital will start before 2010, the General Administration of Civil Aviation (CAAC) said Tuesday. The new airport is being built under the national civil airport development programme, which runs till 2020.
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March 18th, 2008 - 4:00 am ICT by admin
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Islamabad, March 18 (DPA) At least two policemen were killed Monday when a suicide bomber blew himself up in northwest Pakistan's Swat valley, the officials said. "The suicide attacker was trying to sneak into the Mangora police lines by climbing over a wall, but he blew himself up as soon ...
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March 17th, 2008 - 5:26 am ICT by admin
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Guatemala City, March 17 (DPA) Four Belgian tourists who had been taken hostage in Guatemala have been released, officials said Sunday. A group of farmers and hired rural workers seized the tourists and three Guatemalans Friday to demand the release of one of their leaders who has been jailed for ...
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March 14th, 2008 - 10:29 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, March 14 (IANS) A Rs.600 billion ($15 billion) debt waiver package for farmers, announced in the annual budget, will be funded entirely in cash, with two-thirds disbursal in just 15 months, Finance Minister P. Chidambaram said here Friday. "We will complete two-thirds of the package in just 15 ...
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March 14th, 2008 - 8:26 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, March 14 (IANS) Finance Minister P. Chidambaram Friday said the grand debt waiver scheme of Rs. 600 billion ($15 billion) for an estimated 40 million farmers will be funded fully in cash with two-third disbursal in just 15 months. "We will complete two-thirds of the package in just ...
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March 13th, 2008 - 2:21 am ICT by admin
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Ankara, March 13 (DPA) Eleven Kurdish guerrillas have been killed in clashes with troops in southeast Turkey, media reports said. CNN-Turk television reported that the fighting took place in the mountain ranges of Gabar, Kupeli and Kato in the southeast province of Sirnak near the border with Iraq.
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March 12th, 2008 - 9:24 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, March 12 (IANS) At least 11 cases of road rage took place in the Indian capital in the first two months of this year, and the number is rising, the government said Wednesday. Minister of State for Home Affairs Radhika V. Selvi informed the Rajya Sabha that the ...
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March 12th, 2008 - 8:09 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, March 12 (IANS) Finance Minister P. Chidambaram's budget for 2008-09 came up for discussion Wednesday in the Lok Sabha with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) criticising its "communal" approach and the Congress praising it for boosting development. V.K. Malhotra, the deputy leader of the BJP in the lower ...
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March 10th, 2008 - 7:52 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, March 10 (IANS) The Indian Army Monday assured the country's public and private sectors of "total transparency" and "a level-playing field" in purchases of military hardware. The assurance came from Indian Army deputy chief Lt. Gen. Z.U. Shah during his keynote address at the second interactive Army-Industry Meeting ...
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March 9th, 2008 - 12:07 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, March 9 (IANS) Farmers in thousands thronged the Ramlila grounds here Sunday to take part in the rally organised by the Congress party to send across the message of a farmer-friendly government ahead of the Lok Sabha elections. The rally started with sundry speakers eulogising the Nehru-Gandhi family ...
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March 8th, 2008 - 2:07 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, March 8 (IANS) Congress president Sonia Gandhi Saturday praised Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for waiving off farmers' loans to the tune of Rs.600 billion, saying the decision will bring smiles to the faces of the beneficiaries. Gandhi, while giving away the Stree Shakti Puraskar awards here, said: "If ...
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March 7th, 2008 - 8:35 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, March 7 (IANS) Within a week of welcoming the Rs.600 billion loan waiver for farmers announced by the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government, the Samajwadi Party has now done a u-turn terming it an attempt to "divide" and "cheat" the farmers. The national executive of the Samajwadi Party, ...
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March 7th, 2008 - 7:52 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, March 7 (IANS) A newly-married couple Friday pleaded with the Supreme Court for security after the bride's brother, angry at their inter-caste marriage, allegedly shot at and critically injured the groom's mother and sister. The apex court asked the couple to approach the concerned high court. A bench ...
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March 7th, 2008 - 4:21 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, March 7 (IANS) Despite a tight money policy of the central bank and the government's resolve to tame prices, India's annual rate of inflation based on wholesale prices crept up to a nine-month high on higher food prices. The inflation rate, as measured by the official Wholesale Price ...
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March 6th, 2008 - 2:00 pm ICT by admin
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Johannesburg, Feb 29 (IANS) South Africans across the spectrum have been unanimous in their rejection of a racist video made by four white university students that shows elderly black cleaning staff being humiliated, including eating food in which one of the students had allegedly urinated. But two of ...
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March 6th, 2008 - 1:59 pm ICT by admin
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Johannesberg, Feb 29 (IANS) Home-based antiretroviral treatment (ART) could significantly cut down mortality rate among adults with HIV, especially in resource-poor countries, a new study has found. ART is the most effective clinical intervention for reduction of HIV-related mortality. It is increasingly available in developing countries where 90 percent of ...
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March 6th, 2008 - 1:59 pm ICT by admin
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Nairobi, Feb 29 (DPA) Congratulations to Kenya's reconciled leaders poured in from across the world Friday, mere days after the international community threatened to push the politicians into a deal if they did not strike one soon. President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga signed a much-awaited power-sharing deal ...
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March 6th, 2008 - 1:45 pm ICT by admin
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By Zofeen T. Ebrahim
Karachi, March 6 (IANS) Working as a maid on a salary of Rs.4,000 a month, Perveen Riaz, 45, supplements her husband's Rs.5,000. "We're barely able to make ends meet," said the mother of seven children of whom five go to school. Rashida, who earns the same, is ...
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March 5th, 2008 - 8:17 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, March 5 (IANS) Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh Wednesday sought a revision in the criteria for loan waiver to farmers, saying only 76 percent of farmers will benefit from the concession announced by the central government in then national budget 2007-08. Deshmukh said the proposed loan waiver announced ...
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March 5th, 2008 - 12:55 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, March 5 (IANS) More and more political leaders across the spectrum feel that the country is inching towards an early parliamentary election, possibly later this year.
The national budget Finance Minister P. Chidambaram unveiled Feb 29 giving huge sops to millions of farmers weighed down by debts as well ...
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March 5th, 2008 - 12:37 am ICT by admin
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New Delhi, March 4 (IANS) Stating that school teachers should be "role models of society", the Supreme Court sacked a "goonda" teacher of a Rajasthan government school for assaulting the principal. A bench of Justices H.K. Sema and Markandey Katju ordered the sacking of a Kendriya Vidyalaya teacher of Surtagarh ...
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March 4th, 2008 - 10:01 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, March 4 (IANS) Finance Minister P. Chidambaram Tuesday said there was no question of any reversal of his budget proposals, even as he promised to look at areas where there may have been some inadvertent errors. "There will be no rollback," the finance minister told industrialists during an ...
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March 4th, 2008 - 10:00 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, March 4 (IANS) In the wake of Indian exporters losing conventional markets to their competitors such as Brazil and China due to a strong rupee, Commerce and Industry Minister Kamal Nath will meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to discuss their concerns. "With the rupee appreciation, Indian exporters are ...
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March 4th, 2008 - 9:45 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, March 4 (IANS) The Indian government will like to see the first institute under its ambitious skill development programme to be in place by July. "I want to move very fast on this," Finance Minister P. Chidambaram told an interactive session with members of the Confederation of Indian ...
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March 4th, 2008 - 8:06 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, March 4 (IANS) A city court Tuesday asked the Tihar jail superintendent to procure the medical report of Gulam Ahmed Khan, one of the accused in the 2005 Diwali eve blasts in Delhi that killed over 60 people. Additional Sessions Judge Babulal asked the jail authorities to submit ...
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March 4th, 2008 - 5:32 pm ICT by admin
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Dharamsala, March 4 (IANS) The Tibetan government-in-exile has appealed to Tibetan refugees in India to avoid resorting to violence during the 2008 Beijing Olympics Torch relay through India next month. A spokesperson of the Tibetan government-in-exile said here Tuesday that the guideline was issued Feb 29.
The spokesman said: "Resorting to ...
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March 4th, 2008 - 4:33 pm ICT by admin
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New York, Mar 4 (ANI): She has been diligent in her party hopping, but Lindsay Lohan crossed all limits when she hit three Los Angeles clubs in one night only.
The Freaky Friday star was first spotted stopping at by The Wiltern Theatre on Feb 29, where she picked up a ...
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March 3rd, 2008 - 10:39 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, March 3 (IANS) The Supreme Court Monday refused an early hearing of a petition on the waiver of loans to farmers from private banks and moneylenders in line with the budgetary announcement of write-off of their loans from nationalised banks. A bench of Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan and ...
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