Assam announces third special to Bangalore on Sep 20
September 7th, 2012 - 9:09 pm ICT by IANS
Guwahati, Sep 7 (IANS) The Assam government is planning to run a third special train to Bangalore Sep 20 to facilitate the return of those who had fled Bangalore and ... Read more...
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One killed, 15 hurt in Quetta bombing (Lead)
August 21st, 2012 - 2:46 pm ICT by IANS
Islambad, Aug 21 (IANS) At least one person was killed and 15 others were injured Tuesday in a massive bomb explosion in Pakistan's southwest city of Quetta, a media report ... Read more...
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Two pushed out of train, die
August 19th, 2012 - 1:52 pm ICT by IANS
Siliguri, Aug 19 (IANS) Two people were killed in West Bengal after being pushed out of a Guwahati-bound train carrying Assamese fleeing Bangalore, officials said Sunday.The incident took place Saturday ... Read more...
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Two die as car falls in river in Bengal
July 17th, 2012 - 12:13 am ICT by IANS
Kolkata, July 16 (IANS) Two people including an executive engineer with the railways were killed and one other injured after the car they were traveling fell into a ... Read more...
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BSF chief to visit Indo-Bangla border in Meghalaya
June 20th, 2012 - 4:24 pm ICT by IANS
Guwahati, June 20 (IANS) BSF Director General (DG) Utthan Kumar Bansal will Thursday embark on a two-day visit to the international border in Meghalaya.BSF sources said this will be the ... Read more...
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Doctor jailed for 30 years for helping US kill Osama
May 23rd, 2012 - 8:59 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, May 23 (IANS) Pakistani doctor Shakil Afridi, charged with treason for helping the US to kill Osama bin Laden, was Wednesday jailed for 30 years.The sentence was announced by ... Read more...
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Home secretary reviews cross-LOC trade at Poonch
May 17th, 2012 - 5:52 pm ICT by IANS
Jammu, May 17 (IANS) Union Home Secretary R.K. Singh Thursday visited Jammu and Kashmir's frontier Poonch district and discussed with local people issues concerning trade across the Line of Control ... Read more...
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Speeding train kills 1, injures 3 in Assam
April 17th, 2012 - 4:35 pm ICT by IANS
Guwahati, April 17 (IANS) One person was killed and three others were critically injured Tuesday after a speeding train hit them near Thakurbari in Chandrapur area on the outskirts of ... Read more...
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HCC to build Rs.1.62 bn railway tunnel
April 5th, 2012 - 7:06 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, April 5 (IANS) Infrastructure major Hindustan Construction Co along with Coastal Projects Ltd has been awarded a Rs.1.62 billion project to construct a railway tunnel in Manipur, an official ... Read more...
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Sidhwani to speak at Harvard India Conference
February 24th, 2012 - 7:10 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Feb 24 (IANS) Ritesh Sidhwani, one of the most successful Bollywood producers who churned out hits "Dil Chahta Hai", "Rock On!!" and "Don: The King Is Back", has ... Read more...
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External force trying to take away Balochistan: Rehman Malik
February 11th, 2012 - 3:48 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Feb 11 (IANS) Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said that some "external powers" were conspiring to detach the Balochistan province from Pakistan by creating a volatile situation there.Malik ... Read more...
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Gogoi seeks new trains for Assam
February 7th, 2012 - 8:31 pm ICT by IANS
Guwahati, Feb 7 (IANS) Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi wants more trains for Assam, particularly to link Chennai and Mumbai.Gogoi made the request to Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi in New Delhi ... Read more...
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BSF trooper dies three days after Bangladeshis’ attack
February 7th, 2012 - 6:12 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Feb 7 (IANS) A Border Security Force (BSF) head constable, injured in an attack by a gang of Bangladeshi cattle smugglers at a border outpost in West Bengal's North ... Read more...
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Two killed in Assam train accident (Lead)
February 3rd, 2012 - 2:02 pm ICT by IANS
Guwahati, Feb 3 (IANS) Two people were killed and 16 seriously injured when a Guwahati-bound train hit a road construction vehicle at an unmanned crossing near here Friday morning, a ... Read more...
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Five Pakistani paramilitary men killed
January 26th, 2012 - 1:20 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Jan 26 (IANS) Suspected gunmen from the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi outfit attacked a checkpost in Pakistan's Balochistan province and gunned down five paramilitary troopers, officials said Thursday.The pre-dawn attack was launched ... Read more...
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14 Pakistani troopers killed in bomb attack
January 12th, 2012 - 5:24 am ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Jan 12 (IANS) At least 14 Pakistani troopers were killed Wednesday night in a bomb attack.The explosion hit their two vehicles while they were patrolling the Balida area of ... Read more...
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15 abducted Pakistani troopers killed
January 5th, 2012 - 2:35 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Jan 5 (IANS) Fifteen Pakistani troopers kidnapped by the Taliban last month have been killed, a media report said Thursday.They were abducted Dec 23 after Taliban militants launched ... Read more...
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606 dead, over 1,000 hurt in 41 suicide attacks in Pakistan
January 1st, 2012 - 11:45 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Jan 1 (IANS) At least 606 people were killed and over 1,000 injured in 41 attacks carried out by 51 suicide bombers in Pakistan in 2011, an official report ... Read more...
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554 killed in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in 2011
December 30th, 2011 - 9:59 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Dec 30 (IANS) A staggering 554 people were killed and 1,158 injured in 188 bomb blasts in Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in 2011, according to official figures.However, attacks ... Read more...
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Suicide blast kills nine Pakistani troopers (Lead)
December 24th, 2011 - 2:53 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Dec 24 (IANS) Nine Pakistani paramilitary troopers were killed Saturday when a suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden car into their office building in northwest Pakistan, police said.Seventeen others were ... Read more...
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EU court allows asylum seekers to stay
December 22nd, 2011 - 7:28 pm ICT by IANS
London, Dec 22 (IANS) A European court has banned Britain from deporting asylum seekers from the country, saying it could infringe their human rights.The European Court of Justice has banned ... Read more...
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US set fire to equipment before leaving Pakistan airbase
December 12th, 2011 - 1:05 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Dec 12 (IANS) US personnel set fire to all their redundant equipment before vacating Pakistan's Shamsi airbase that had been used to launch drone attacks, an official said.The US ... Read more...
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80 Afghans held for illegally entering Pakistan
November 25th, 2011 - 9:48 am ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Nov 25 (IANS) A total of 80 Afghans have been arrested for illegally entering Pakistan through a border town in southwestern Balochistan province, officials said.The Afghans entered through Chaman ... Read more...
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Pakistani soldiers, woman executed for illicit relations
November 2nd, 2011 - 7:29 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Nov 2 (IANS) Two Pakistani soldiers and a woman were publicly executed for allegedly having an illicit relationship, following a decision by the jirga or tribal council in the ... Read more...
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Helicopter crashes in Belarus, killing 5 people
October 21st, 2011 - 7:34 pm ICT by BNO News
MINSK, BELARUS (BNO NEWS) -- Five people were killed on Thursday afternoon when a helicopter crashed in Belarus near the border with Lithuania, officials told local media on Friday.The twin-engine Ecureuil AS355 ... Read more...
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Parts of northeast cut-off as train services suspended
October 10th, 2011 - 3:46 pm ICT by IANS
Agartala/Silchar, Oct 10 (IANS) The northeastern states of Tripura, Mizoram, Manipur and parts of Assam were cut-off from the rest of the country Monday after the railways suspended all train ... Read more...
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Pakistan beefs up security to check terror
September 5th, 2011 - 5:35 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Sep 5 (IANS) A joint security force comprising officers from the Federal Investigative Agency (FIA), Coast Guards and the Frontier Constabulary will check the movement of terrorists in northwest ... Read more...
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Railways grappling with anti-collision device
September 2nd, 2011 - 8:17 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Sep 2 (IANS) More than a decade after it was first developed, railways are still to embrace the Anti-Collision Device (ACE).This is evident from a reply Minister of ... Read more...
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India plans more integrated checkposts along Bangladesh border
August 27th, 2011 - 4:42 pm ICT by IANS
Bangaon, Aug 27 (IANS) India plans to build 13 more integrated border checkposts of the kind whose foundation stone Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram laid Saturday at Petrapole in ... Read more...
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Pakistan, Indian troops exchange fire
August 18th, 2011 - 12:03 pm ICT by IANS
Jammu, Aug 18 (IANS) Another incident of ceasefire violation was reported from the Line of Control (LoC) with Pakistan resorting to unprovoked heavy firing, a defence spokesperson said Thursday, adding ... Read more...
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Pakistan amends 150-year-old political regulation
August 13th, 2011 - 2:55 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Aug 13 (IANS) Pakistan has amended a 150-year-old political regulation that allowed authorities to raze houses of criminals and their relatives in Pushtun-inhabited tribal areas.The amendment gives people of ... Read more...
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This Pakistani’s heart will beat for India
July 14th, 2011 - 11:25 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, July 14 (IANS) A Pakistani national has got a new lease of life after an Indian family donated the heart of their family member, who died in a road ... Read more...
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2,800 killed in Pakistan’s northwest in nine years
July 12th, 2011 - 9:44 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, July 12 (IANS) At least 2,890 people were killed in the past nine years in 2,028 terror attacks in Pakistan's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, said a government report Tuesday.The ... Read more...
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British trainers of Pakistan paramilitary withdrawn
June 27th, 2011 - 6:12 pm ICT by IANS
London, June 27 (IANS) British military trainers working with a Pakistani paramilitary force have been withdrawn at the request of the Pakistan government, BBC reported.The trainers - believed to ... Read more...
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28 militants, eight soldiers killed in Pakistan clashes (Lead)
June 19th, 2011 - 9:09 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, June 19 (IANS) At least 28 Taliban militants and eight soldiers were killed in two major clashes with the Pakistani security forces near the Afghan border, Xinhua reported ... Read more...
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