BJP to carry out ‘PM resign’ agitation
September 14th, 2012 - 12:24 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Sep 13 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Thursday announced "prime minister resign" agitation from Sep 17 to press its demand for resignation of Prime Minister Manmohan ... Read more...
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Media should avoid sensationalism, says PM (Lead)
September 13th, 2012 - 10:37 pm ICT by IANS
Kochi/New Delhi, Sep 13 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Thursday urged the media to avoid sensationalism and rather focus on fair, objective and balanced reporting to ensure the unity ... Read more...
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BJP criticises PM over advice to media
September 13th, 2012 - 8:38 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Sep 13 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Thursday criticized Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for his remarks that media should avoid sensationalism in its reporting and said ... Read more...
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Sonia attacks BJP, says debate issues in parliament
August 30th, 2012 - 4:35 pm ICT by IANS
Barmer (Rajasthan), Aug 30 (IANS) UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi Thursday took head-on BJP's threat of taking the coal blocks allocation issue to the streets.She lashed out at the party ... Read more...
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BJP stalls parliament again over ‘quit PM’ demand (Second Lead)
August 30th, 2012 - 2:28 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Aug 30 (IANS) Both houses of parliament were disrupted again Thursday as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) persisted with its demand for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's resignation ... Read more...
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Logjam continues, parliament adjourned (Lead)
August 30th, 2012 - 1:19 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Aug 30 (IANS) Both houses of parliament were disrupted for the eighth day Thursday as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) persisted with its demand for Prime Minister ... Read more...
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Mahapanchayat demands CBI probe into Maruti violence
July 23rd, 2012 - 8:26 pm ICT by IANS
Gurgaon, July 23 (IANS) A 'mahapanchayat' of more than 70 villages Monday demanded a CBI probe into the violence at the Maruti-Suzuki factory in Manesar and said it supported the ... Read more...
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Maruti violence may be planned: cops
July 21st, 2012 - 9:58 pm ICT by IANS
Gurgaon, July 21 (IANS) Violence in Maruti's plant at Manesar in Haryana Wednesday, in which a top company executive was killed, may be the result of a planned action by ... Read more...
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Lawyers group wants probe into Maharashtra terror network
June 28th, 2012 - 9:42 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, June 28 (IANS) A lawyers collective Thursday sought a re-investigation into the involvement of locals in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks in the wake of the arrest of ... Read more...
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IPS officers reshuffled in Uttar Pradesh
June 20th, 2012 - 8:49 pm ICT by IANS
Lucknow, June 20 (IANS) The Uttar Pradesh government Wednesday transferred six Indian Police Service (IPS) officials, including the deputy inspector generals (DIG) of Agra and Faizabad and the Special Investigative ... Read more...
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Police deny torturing China’s former soccer chief
April 26th, 2012 - 2:01 pm ICT by IANS
Shengyang (Liaoning Province), April 26 (IANS) Chinese police have denied a claim by the country's former soccer head Xie Yalong that he was tortured into confessing to bribe-taking.The 56-year-old ... Read more...
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Chinese police crack down on fake training centres
April 19th, 2012 - 5:18 pm ICT by IANS
Beijing, April 19 (IANS) Beijing police have held about 500 suspects in a crackdown on illegal professional training institutes being run in the Chinese capital.According to the police, victims of ... Read more...
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Gunman in Afghan killing acted alone: Pentagon
March 13th, 2012 - 4:17 am ICT by IANS
Washington, March 13 (IANS) A lone American soldier was involved in the shooting deaths of 16 civilians in Afghanistan's Kandahar province over the weekend, the Pentagon said.The soldier, who left ... Read more...
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Supreme Court cancels 2G telecom licences during Raja tenure (Lead)
February 2nd, 2012 - 1:16 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Feb 2 (IANS) The Supreme Court Thursday cancelled all 122 licences granted to telecom firms during the tenure of former communications minister A. Raja and left it ... Read more...
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Pakistan rejects NATO attack report as biased
December 29th, 2011 - 12:04 am ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Dec 28 (IANS) Pakistan Wednesday rejected as biased the US report on the NATO air strikes on two army border checkposts that caused the death of 24 Pakistani soldiers, ... Read more...
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Kazakh restive town normal, UN experts invited
December 23rd, 2011 - 9:42 pm ICT by IANS
Astana, Dec 23 (IANS) Normalcy is returning to the restive western Kazakh town of Zhanaozen as authorities invited UN experts to participate in the probe into riots that left more ... Read more...
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Dogs at Queen’s estate in Sandringham struck by rare disease
September 19th, 2011 - 8:34 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
London, Sept 19 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Scientists in the United Kingdom and around the world are scratching their heads for answers regarding a rare disease that affect dogs. The first time the disease ... Read more...
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Casey Anthony trial continues
June 3rd, 2011 - 1:47 am ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Orlando, June 2 (THAINDIAN NEWS) The trial of Casey Anthony continued on Thursday. Casey is accused of killing her daughter Caylee Anthony in 2008. Prosecutors played the interrogation tape to the court ... Read more...
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NHRC team to visit violence-hit Greater Noida village
May 12th, 2011 - 6:40 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 12 (IANS) The National Human Rights Commission, which has received complaints of human rights violations in the Bhatta Parsaul village in Greater Noida, will send an investigative ... Read more...
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Kandahar jail governor arrested for mass escape
April 28th, 2011 - 2:17 pm ICT by ANI
Kabul, Apr 28 (ANI): General Ghulam Dastgir, the head of the main prison in Kandahar, Afghanistan, has been arrested after about 500 inmates, many of them Taliban, escaped on Monday.Dastgir, the ... Read more...
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I stand by my statement: Sanjiv Bhatt
April 22nd, 2011 - 5:31 pm ICT by IANS
Ahmedabad, April 22 (IANS) A senior police officer, who has filed an affidavit before the Supreme Court implicating Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in the 2002 riots in the ... Read more...
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Murder of lawyer’s mother: Construction workers quizzed
March 10th, 2011 - 12:00 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 9 (IANS) Delhi Police Wednesday interrogated around 30 people, including plumbers and supervisors who had carried out repairs in the house of Anna Mammen, the 80-year-old mother ... Read more...
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Canadian Police kept in dark over Parmar’s phone tapping in Air India case: Bass
March 9th, 2011 - 5:48 pm ICT by ANI
Vancouver, Mar.9 (ANI): Royal Canadian Mounted Police Deputy commissioner Gary Bass has said RCMP investigators in the Air India case were not told that Canadian Security Intelligence Service had been wiretapping the ... Read more...
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BJP pulls up Congress, demands SIT probe in Bofors case
January 3rd, 2011 - 9:17 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, Jan 3 (ANI): Following an Income Tax Tribunal claims that kickbacks of Rs 41 crore were paid to late Win Chaddha and Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi in the Howitzer ... Read more...
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Being to clean could make you prone to more allergies
November 29th, 2010 - 5:59 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Nov 29 (ANI): A new study has indicated that young people may suffer more allergies if they are overexposed to antibacterial soaps containing triclosan.Researchers from the University of Michigan School ... Read more...
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Shunglu Committee only a cover-up, allege social activists
October 29th, 2010 - 8:50 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Oct 29 (IANS) A group of social activists Friday accused the prime minister of "misleading the nation" by setting up the Shunglu Committee to probe corruption charges in the ... Read more...
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Gujarat High Court gets free hand in Ishrat Jahan case (Lead)
September 6th, 2010 - 11:31 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Sep 6 (IANS) The Supreme Court Monday said the Gujarat High Court is free to appoint any agency to investigate the 2004 Ishrat Jahan shootout killing in Ahmedabad.
The apex ... Read more...
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Court free to probe Ishrat Jahan case, rules apex court
September 6th, 2010 - 2:14 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Sep 6 (IANS) The Supreme Court Monday said that the Gujarat High Court is free to appoint any agency to investigate Ishrat Jahan shootout case.
The apex court passed this order ... Read more...
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UN body seeks Israeli cooperation in flotilla probe
August 4th, 2010 - 9:11 pm ICT by IANS
Geneva/Tel Aviv, Aug 4 (DPA) The president of the UN Human Rights Council Wednesday called for Israel to collaborate with the team he has appointed to investigate the deadly Israeli raid on ... Read more...
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Govt. aware when and where Benazir’s assassination plot was hatched: Malik
June 24th, 2010 - 12:34 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad, June 24 (ANI): Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik has sensationally revealed that the government has come to know where and when the conspiracy to assassinate former Prime Benazir Bhutto was ... Read more...
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Pressurized teachers caught tampering with test scores
June 14th, 2010 - 7:33 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Houston, Jun 14 (THAINDIAN NEWS) In a shocking development, it was found that the teachers are often under undue pressure and they tamper with the test scores of their students for ... Read more...
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New Alzheimer’s Gene Recognized
April 15th, 2010 - 7:58 pm ICT by Pen Men At Work
April 15, 2010 (Pen Men at Work): Investigators have identified a gene variant that almost doubles the danger of building late-onset Alzheimer's disease. This data is in line with a new study.An ... Read more...
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Military says probe into NATO airstrike will take ’several weeks’
September 8th, 2009 - 6:24 pm ICT by IANS
Kabul, Sep 8 (DPA) The NATO military command said Tuesday its probe into a deadly airstrike in the northern Afghan province of Kunduz would take "several weeks" and an initial assessment ... Read more...
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Gujarat to challenge probe by apex court panel against Modi
July 30th, 2009 - 8:25 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 30 (IANS) The Gujarat government Thursday told the Supreme Court that it was set to challenge the court's April 27 order for a probe into the role of ... Read more...
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MJ’s death probe shifts focus to source of drugs
July 22nd, 2009 - 1:24 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, July 22 (ANI): Police probing Michael Jackson's death have extended their investigation to the source of drugs, overdose of which apparently led to the King of Pop's demise, it has ... Read more...
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