NRI appeals for LPG connection in India
August 29th, 2012 - 8:09 pm ICT by IANS
Chandigarh, Aug 29 (IANS) Unable to procure a cooking gas connection for his home in Punjab has forced a British citizen of Indian origin to approach the Punjab Non-Resident Indians ... Read more...
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Government outlines measures to tackle black money
August 10th, 2012 - 9:56 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Aug 10 (IANS) The government Friday released details of its initiatives for unearthing and curbing black money, even as yoga guru Baba Ramdev's fast to demand the government ... Read more...
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Pakistan should admit Jindal’s hand in 26/11: Chidambaram
June 29th, 2012 - 5:47 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, June 29 (IANS) Pakistan should admit that arrested terrorist Zabiuddin Ansari alias Abu Jindal was involved in the 2008 Mumbai terror attack, union Home Minister P. Chidambaram ... Read more...
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German journalist barred from visiting Odisha tribal area
June 28th, 2012 - 5:53 pm ICT by IANS
Bhubaneswar, June 28 (IANS) A German woman journalist has been disallowed to visit Lanjigarh tribal area of Kalahandi district as the Maoists are observing a protest week from Friday against ... Read more...
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Missing engineer’s mother asks PM to help trace son
June 18th, 2012 - 9:10 pm ICT by IANS
Patna, June 18 (IANS) The mother of engineer Fasih Mehmood, who has gone missing after being allegedly arrested in Saudi Arabia and deported to India, Monday sought help from ... Read more...
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Fate of Indian American orphan hangs in balance
May 24th, 2012 - 12:29 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, May 24 (IANS) The fate of an Indian American woman facing the prospect of deportation 30 years after she came to the US as an adopted infant hangs in ... Read more...
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Indophile, writer, collector Lance Dane passes away (With Images)
May 16th, 2012 - 8:38 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 16 (IANS) Aesthete, collector, writer and numismatics scholar Lance Dane, a close collaborator of Mulk Raj Anand, passed away at the Hinduja Hospital in Mumbai Wednesday. He ... Read more...
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Court bars Indian maid from pursuing case in US
March 17th, 2012 - 10:20 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 17 (IANS) The Delhi High Court has restrained an Indian domestic help, awarded nearly $1.5 million relief for alleged "ill-treatment" by an Indian consulate employee in the ... Read more...
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Ayesha Takia, Siddharth Mallya at loggerheads
February 7th, 2012 - 2:33 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Feb 7 (IANS) Actress Ayesha Takia is upset after a ground staff member of Kingfisher Airlines misbehaved with her younger sister Nisha at the airport.The worst airline, ... Read more...
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Sonia turns 66 Friday, plans low-key celebrations
December 8th, 2011 - 10:04 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Dec 8 (IANS) Congress president Sonia Gandhi, who turns 66 Friday, is likely to have a low-key birthday celebration, party sources here said.Gandhi, who underwent a surgery ... Read more...
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Lawyers demand action against Bhushan attackers
October 14th, 2011 - 12:20 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Oct 13 (IANS) The Bar Association of India (BAI) Thursday condemned the attack on lawyer Prashant Bhushan and demanded strict action against the right-wing attackers and the organisations ... Read more...
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Three inmates flee Tripura jail
September 5th, 2011 - 1:22 pm ICT by IANS
Agartala, Sep 5 (IANS) Three prisoners, including two Bangladeshi convicts, scaled the walls of a Tripura jail and escaped, officials said Monday.Abu Taher, 26, Ali Ahed, 30 and Rafikul Islam, ... Read more...
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One day, my fight will also be recognised: Irom Sharmila
August 30th, 2011 - 6:55 pm ICT by IANS
Imphal, Aug 30 (IANS) Irom Sharmila, on a hunger strike for the past 11 years, Tuesday said a day would come when her fight against rights violations by security ... Read more...
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Anna phenomenon grows in Nepal too
August 25th, 2011 - 5:55 pm ICT by IANS
Kathmandu, Aug 25 (IANS) As Anna Hazare's public protest against corruption in the form of a fast in New Delhi's Ramlila Maidan reached its 10th day Thursday, support for the ... Read more...
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Muslims bigger victims of corruption, says cleric
August 22nd, 2011 - 7:28 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, Aug 22 (IANS) Declaring support for Anna Hazare's fast for a stronger Lokpal bill, the All India Ulema Council (AIUC) claimed Monday that religious minorities like Muslims are bigger ... Read more...
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Lokpal - one among many ways to fight corruption: Nilekani
August 19th, 2011 - 4:10 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Aug 19 (IANS) The Lokpal bill which is before parliament is only one of the many ways of tackling the menace of corruption, said Nandan Nilekani, chairperson ... Read more...
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Punjab, Andhra Pradesh revoke ban on ‘Aarakshan’ (Lead)
August 13th, 2011 - 5:46 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Aug 13 (IANS) The Punjab and Andhra Pradesh governments have cleared filmmaker Prakash Jha's "Aarakshan" for screening and revoked the statewide ban they imposed on it. ... Read more...
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Mamata’s nephew to spread her message among youth
July 25th, 2011 - 9:17 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, July 25 (IANS) To spread Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee's ideals among the youth, the party's newly-formed youth wing - led by her nephew Abhishek - has decided ... Read more...
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Jayalalithaa supports anti-corruption protests
June 14th, 2011 - 4:07 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, June 14 (IANS) Every Indian has a right to protest against corruption, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa declared Tuesday.In an oblique criticism of the government's attacks on ... Read more...
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Volunteers for Peace and Harmony programme launched
June 10th, 2011 - 6:42 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, June 10 (IANS) In order to create a network of good samaritans across the country, the National Foundation for Communal Harmony (NFCH) has launched a Volunteers for Peace ... Read more...
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Husain never stopped loving India, says Ambika Soni
June 9th, 2011 - 2:54 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, June 9 (IANS) Mourning the death of M.F. Husain, who died in London early Thursday, Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni Thursday said the celebrated painter never ... Read more...
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New conspiracy theory after 10 years of Nepal palace massacre
June 2nd, 2011 - 2:22 pm ICT by IANS
Kathmandu, June 2 (IANS) As Nepal remembered its slain king Birendra Thursday, on the 10th anniversary of the infamous massacre in the palace that left 10 members of the royal ... Read more...
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Headley wanted assignment in Kashmir
May 26th, 2011 - 11:16 am ICT by IANS
Chicago, May 26 (IANS) David Coleman Headley, a self-confessed key plotter of the Mumbai terror attack, wanted an assignment in Kashmir after completing training in Pakistan-based terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba's (LeT) ... Read more...
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Ramdev plans fast against corruption
May 22nd, 2011 - 12:15 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 21 (IANS) Demanding a strong anti-graft Lokpal Bill and the recovery of black money parked in foreign banks, yoga guru Baba Ramdev will sit on an indefinite ... Read more...
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Ramdev to fast unto death in New Delhi against corruption
May 4th, 2011 - 8:47 pm ICT by ANI
Mumbai, May 4 (ANI): Demanding that the black money deposited in foreign banks be brought back, Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev on Wednesday vowed to fast unto death in New Delhi on June ... Read more...
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Committee set up to look into striking pilots’ grievances, says Kharge
April 28th, 2011 - 8:43 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, Apr 28 (ANI): Union Labour and Employment Minister Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday said the government has set up a committee to committee to look into the strike by pilots of ... Read more...
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HCL Infosystems bags IT project from Punjab and Sind bank
March 9th, 2011 - 5:11 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 9 (IANS) HCL Infosystems Wednesday said it has bagged a project from the Punjab and Sind Bank (PSB) to provide smart card-based solutions in over 1,500 villages ... Read more...
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Octogenarian Achuthanandan ready to contest again
March 3rd, 2011 - 4:53 pm ICT by IANS
Thiruvananthapuram, March 3 (IANS) Kerala's 87-year-old chief minister V.S. Achuthanandan said Thursday that he was ready to contest the assembly polls if asked to by his Communist Party of India-Marxist ... Read more...
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Please don’t club me with Rahat: Adnan
February 27th, 2011 - 12:15 pm ICT by IANS
By Subhash K. Jha
Mumbai, Feb 27 (IANS) Singer-composer Adnan Sami is none too pleased by attempts in the Pakistani media to club his case with that of Pakistani singer Rahat Nusrat ... Read more...
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Overseas Bengalis urged to register names in electoral rolls
February 18th, 2011 - 11:18 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Feb 18 (IANS) West Bengal's Chief Electoral Officer Sunil Gupta Friday issued a notification inviting overseas Bengalis to register their names in the electoral rolls."The notification enabling overseas electors to register ... Read more...
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Make flag-hoisting at Srinagar all-party event: Gadkari
January 22nd, 2011 - 11:37 am ICT by IANS
Beijing, Jan 22 (IANS) BJP president Nitin Gadkari has justified the BJP Yuva Morcha Kashmir Yatra to hoist the national flag in Srinagar and appealed to the Congress party as well as ... Read more...
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Exiles hail Indian citizenship for Tibetan as landmark
January 20th, 2011 - 5:42 pm ICT by IANS
Dharamsala, Jan 20 (IANS) Thousands of Tibetan exiles who live in India are cheering a high court judgment that ruled in favour of a Tibetan woman saying she is an Indian citizen ... Read more...
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Kashmir interlocutors ask BJP to reconsider flag hoisting plan
January 19th, 2011 - 3:34 pm ICT by IANS
Jammu, Jan 19 (IANS) Three interlocutors on Jammu and Kashmir Wednesday made a forceful plea to the Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) to "reconsider" its decision to hoist the national tricolour in Srinagar's ... Read more...
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Disgraced diplomat may face tough time: Lawyers
January 17th, 2011 - 9:25 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Jan 17 (IANS) With the government deciding to recall India's disgraced chief trade diplomat in Britain Anil Verma over allegations of wife-beating, he could face a tough time on his ... Read more...
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Patiala House Posters Changed To Incorporate Anushka Sharma
January 5th, 2011 - 3:31 pm ICT by Sampurn Wire
as a love story between lead actors Akshay Kumar and Anushka Sharma as opposed to the earlier choice of projecting the film as a father-son emotional drama.However, the director of ... Read more...
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