TERI to open centre in Himachal
February 9th, 2012 - 8:26 pm ICT by IANS
Shimla, Feb 9 (IANS) The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) will open its centre in Himachal Pradesh to help the state adopt measures on climate change, Chief Minister Prem Kumar ... Read more...
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Decks cleared for Bihar power project
January 28th, 2012 - 8:39 pm ICT by IANS
Patna, Jan 28 (IANS) Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Saturday laid the foundation stone of the much awaited Nabinagar Super Thermal Power Project in Aurangabad district, marking the end of ... Read more...
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Modi, governor lead R-Day celebrations in Gujarat
January 26th, 2012 - 4:47 pm ICT by IANS
Bhavnagar (Gujarat), Jan 26 (IANS) The 63rd Republic Day was celebrated with great enthusiasm across Gujarat Thursday morning.
Gujarat Governor Kamla Beniwal and Chief Minister Narendra Modi led the ... Read more...
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Child tying minister’s shoe laces raises a stink (Second Lead)
January 22nd, 2012 - 3:05 am ICT by IANS
Bhopal, Jan 21 (IANS) Madhya Pradesh Cooperatives Minister Gauri Shankar Bisen came under attack Saturday after he was filmed getting his shoe laces tied by a tribal student at ... Read more...
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Child tying minister’s shoe laces shameful: Kamal Nath
January 21st, 2012 - 6:56 pm ICT by IANS
Bhopal, Jan 21 (IANS) A tribal student tying the shoe laces of Madhya Pradesh Cooperatives Minister Gauri Shankar Bisen was "shameful", said union Minister Kamal Nath, who was present at ... Read more...
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Child asked to tie minister’s shoe laces (Lead)
January 21st, 2012 - 5:55 pm ICT by IANS
Bhopal, Jan 21 (IANS) Madhya Pradesh Cooperatives Minister Gauri Shankar Bisen came under attack Saturday after he was filmed getting his shoe laces tied by a tribal student at ... Read more...
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Anger over child tying shoe laces of Madhya Pradesh minister
January 21st, 2012 - 2:56 pm ICT by IANS
Bhopal, Jan 21 (IANS) Madhya Pradesh Cooperatives Minister Gauri Shankar Bisen was Saturday at the centre of a row after television cameras caught him getting his shoe laces tied by ... Read more...
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Rs.200 bn plan to connect all panchayats: Pilot
January 19th, 2012 - 1:00 am ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Jan 18 (IANS) The government is planning to spend Rs.200 billion on a scheme to connect all the panchayats in the country, Minister of State for Communications and IT ... Read more...
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Bengal eyes 25 percent of India’s IT revenue by 2015
January 6th, 2012 - 4:51 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Jan 6 (IANS) The West Bengal government hopes to grab 25 percent of India's revenue from IT sector by 2015, state Industry Minister Partha Chatterjee said Friday and added ... Read more...
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AMU’s special centre launched in Kerala
December 24th, 2011 - 3:55 pm ICT by IANS
Malappuramm (Kerala), Dec 24 (IANS) The long awaited special centre of the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) was officially launched here Saturday by union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal.Sibal dedicated the ... Read more...
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TCS to set up new campus in Nagpur
December 19th, 2011 - 4:58 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, Dec 19 (IANS) Information technology services giant Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) will set up a new software development campus in Nagpur.Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan laid the foundation stone ... Read more...
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Fake currency linked to terror: Pranab (Lead)
December 17th, 2011 - 11:30 pm ICT by IANS
Hoshangabad (Madhya Pradesh), Dec 17 (IANS) Finance Minister Pranab Mukharjee said here Saturday the challenge of terrorism from across the border was not confined to danger of loss of life ... Read more...
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Fake currency injected from neighbouring countries: Pranab
December 17th, 2011 - 9:14 pm ICT by IANS
Hoshangabad (Madhya Pradesh), Dec 17 (IANS) Fake currency is being injected into India from some of the neighbouring countries to destabilise the economy, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said Saturday."India ... Read more...
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Probe sought into killing near Posco project site
December 15th, 2011 - 11:17 pm ICT by IANS
Bhubaneswar, Dec 15 (IANS) Opposition parties Thursday demanded a probe into the killing of a construction worker the day before in clashes near the site of steel major Posco's ... Read more...
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Clashes over road construction at Posco site, one killed
December 14th, 2011 - 7:24 pm ICT by IANS
Bhubaneswar, Dec 14 (IANS) At least one person was killed and two injured at the site of the proposed Posco steel project in Odisha's Jagatsinghpur district Wednesday when clashes broke ... Read more...
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Jaspal Bhatti sets up factory for foundation stones!
November 29th, 2011 - 12:42 pm ICT by IANS
Chandigarh, Nov 29 (IANS) After being a constant thorn in the flesh of self-serving politicians, greedy builders and oily middlemen, satirist-cum-actor Jaspal Bhatti has now ventured into a new field. ... Read more...
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Pakistan to continue supporting Kashmir cause: Gilani
November 24th, 2011 - 12:38 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Nov 24 (IANS) Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said Pakistan will continue to support the cause of Kashmir at political, diplomatic and moral levels.Gilani told Prime Minister ... Read more...
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Use or return land: Bengal minister to industrialists
November 19th, 2011 - 11:31 am ICT by IANS
Kharagpur (West Bengal) Nov 19 (IANS) West Bengal Industries Minister Partha Chatterjee Friday asked the business community to set up units on the land given by the government or return ... Read more...
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Metro worker killed in accident
November 18th, 2011 - 11:31 pm ICT by IANS
Jaipur, Nov 18 (IANS) A 37-year-old labourer was killed at a construction site of Jaipur Metro when he was run over by a dumper Friday, said police. It was the ... Read more...
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‘TIL factories to create 2,000 jobs in Bengal city’
November 18th, 2011 - 9:15 pm ICT by IANS
Kharagpur, Nov 18 (IANS) West Bengal Industries Minister Partha Chatterjee Friday said TIL Ltd's port and construction equipment factory and the upcoming crane and reach- stacker factory here would generate ... Read more...
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Delhi to increase loan amount for minorities, Dalits
November 16th, 2011 - 12:30 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Nov 15 (IANS) The Delhi government Tuesday decided to raise, from Rs.1 lakh to Rs.5 lakh, the loan amount for self-employment of people belonging to minorities, Scheduled Castes ... Read more...
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Begumpuri mosque to serve as new conservation model: Selja
November 11th, 2011 - 8:11 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Nov 11 (IANS) The National Monument Authority, the apex conservation body, is mapping a 14th century Begumpuri mosque here to develop a new conservation model for preservation ... Read more...
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Sonia hits out at Team Anna, commits Lokpal (Roundup)
November 9th, 2011 - 11:28 pm ICT by IANS
Chamoli (Uttarakhand)/New Delhi, Nov 9 (IANS) Congress president Sonia Gandhi Wednesday hit out at Team Anna and said the party and the UPA government were committed to a strong ... Read more...
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Sonia gets fever, cancels Uttarakhand rally
November 9th, 2011 - 3:09 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Nov 9 (IANS) Congress president Sonia Gandhi's rally in Uttarakhand, her first since she came back from a surgery abroad, was cancelled after she got fever, a ... Read more...
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CPI-M mocks Mamata’s industrial revolution remark
November 1st, 2011 - 8:03 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Nov 1 (IANS) The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) Tuesday mocked West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's promise of ushering in an "industrial revolution" and said projects announced ... Read more...
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Bangalore Metro rolls from Thursday
October 19th, 2011 - 9:56 pm ICT by IANS
Bangalore, Oct 19 (IANS) The Namma Metro service in India's tech hub will chug from Thursday evening, with the decks cleared for commercial operations of the project that has been ... Read more...
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Pakistan launches 4,500 MW dam project
October 19th, 2011 - 4:28 am ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Oct 19 (IANS) Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani Tuesday laid the foundation stone of a 4,500 MW hydro-electric dam project in the country's picturesque Gilgit-Baltistan region.The Diamir-Bhasha ... Read more...
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Small investors entitled for Kannur airport equity
October 17th, 2011 - 3:16 pm ICT by IANS
Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 17 (IANS) Small investors can apply for equity in Kerala's newest international airport at Kannur which will be ready by 2013, a minister said Monday."The board of directors ... Read more...
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Mamata begins tour to Maoist-hit West Midnapore
October 14th, 2011 - 11:19 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Oct 14 (IANS) Over 500 security personnel comprising crack commandos and anti-terrorist personnel were at hand as West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee began a two-day visit to ... Read more...
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First Catholic school in Valley after 1947 coming up
October 4th, 2011 - 9:40 pm ICT by IANS
Srinagar, Oct 4 (IANS) Ambassador of the Vatican to India, Archbishop Salvatore Pennacchio, Tuesday laid the foundation stone of the first Catholic mission school to come up in the Kashmir ... Read more...
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Work on Smart City Kochi to start Saturday
October 4th, 2011 - 3:14 pm ICT by IANS
Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 4 (IANS) Work on the long delayed Kochi Smart City IT project would begin later this week, IT Minister P.K. Kunhalikutty said in the Kerala Assembly Tuesday.The IT ... Read more...
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Work on long-delayed Palakkad coach factory to start Oct 22
September 19th, 2011 - 6:34 pm ICT by IANS
Thiruvananthapuram, Sep 19 (IANS) The long-delayed Palakkad Coach factory, cleared by the rail ministry a few years ago, is finally going to materialise with the foundation stone to be laid ... Read more...
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NSG gets land outside Kolkata for eastern hub
September 17th, 2011 - 11:32 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Sep 17 (IANS) The elite National Security Guard (NSG) has finally got its long-awaited land at Badu in Madhyamgram near Kolkata for setting up its eastern regional hub.Over ... Read more...
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Kerala’s stranded mega projects set to revive
September 11th, 2011 - 5:48 pm ICT by IANS
Thiruvananthapuram, Sep 11 (IANS) Two stranded mega projects -- the Rs. 5,348-crore Vizhinjam Port and the Rs. 1,200-crore Kannur international airport -- appear to be on the roll again ... Read more...
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Zardari returns after China visit
September 3rd, 2011 - 5:37 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Sep 3 (IANS) President Asif Ali Zardari has returned to Pakistan after a three-day visit to Urumqi in Xingiang province of China and Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan.Zardari attended ... Read more...
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