PVR sets foot in eastern India, opens multiplex in Howrah
February 9th, 2012 - 10:26 pm ICT by IANS
Howrah, Feb 9 (IANS) Priya Village Roadshow (PVR) Cinemas, which is now eyeing eastern India, Thursday launched its first multiplex here and Sanjeev Bijli said that the company planned to ... Read more...
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Odisha, Jharkhand to check iron ore smuggling
February 9th, 2012 - 2:24 pm ICT by IANS
Bhubaneswar, Feb 9 (IANS) Mineral rich Odisha and Jharkhand have decided to take joint measures to prevent cross-border transport of iron ore mined illegally, an official said Thursday.Senior officials of ... Read more...
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Thriller captures Bihar’s wild, feudal days (IANS Books)
February 3rd, 2012 - 1:17 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Feb 3 (IANS) Bihar is a goldmine of drama. A ruthless 'thakur', a landowner with vendetta in his blood and an unarmed man with a fortune to his ... Read more...
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Concast plans to set up Rs. 8 bn cement plant in Arunachal
February 2nd, 2012 - 1:30 am ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Feb 1 (IANS) Concast Group Wednesday said it is planning to set up a 1.2 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) cement plant at Arunachal Pradesh, pumping in an estimated ... Read more...
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Five Maoists surrender in Jharkhand
January 28th, 2012 - 6:36 pm ICT by IANS
Ranchi, Jan 28 (IANS) Five Maoists surrendered with arms in Jharkhand's Khuti district Saturday, police said."Five Maoist guerrillas surrendered with four rifles, one country-made pistol, one revolver and five landmines ... Read more...
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Ex Jharkhand minister has assets 579 percent of income!
January 27th, 2012 - 11:12 pm ICT by IANS
Ranchi, Jan 27 (IANS) Former Jharkhand minister Enos Ekka, in jail for more than 29 months in a corruption case, had amassed assets of 579 percent beyond his known source ... Read more...
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Sri Sri Ravi Shankar aks Maoists to shun violence
January 23rd, 2012 - 12:02 am ICT by IANS
Patna, Jan 22 (IANS) Art of Living founder and spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Sunday appealed to the Maoists to shun violence and join in the country's development."I appeal ... Read more...
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Maoists shot policemen in head, burnt two
January 22nd, 2012 - 4:48 pm ICT by IANS
Ranchi, Jan 22 (IANS) Maoist guerrillas killed the 13 policemen in Jharkhand by shooting most of the wounded men in their head and also threw two of them into a ... Read more...
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Maoists massacre 13 Jharkhand policemen (Second Lead)
January 22nd, 2012 - 3:10 am ICT by IANS
Ranchi, Jan 21 (IANS) Thirteen policemen escorting a government official were killed Saturday when Maoists blasted their vehicle in a forested part of Jharkhand and opened fire, authorities said.At least ... Read more...
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13 Jharkhand policemen killed in Maoist ambush
January 21st, 2012 - 4:51 pm ICT by IANS
Ranchi, Jan 21 (IANS) Thirteen policemen were killed in a landmine blast and subsequent indiscriminate firing by Maoist rebels in Jharkhand's Garwah district Saturday, police said."Thirteen policemen were killed and ... Read more...
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Five women, pimp arrested for sex racket
January 20th, 2012 - 12:02 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Jan 19 (IANS) A call girl racket was busted with the arrest of six accused, including five women, from east Delhi, police said Thursday."Four call girls and two ... Read more...
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Digvijay Singh faces complaint for Ramdev remark
January 19th, 2012 - 7:43 pm ICT by IANS
Ranchi, Jan 19 (IANS) A complaint was filed Thursday against Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh in a court in Jharkhand's Dhanbad city for allegedly describing yoga guru Baba Ramdev as ... Read more...
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Curious and furious over Goa all-women poll team!
January 19th, 2012 - 11:58 am ICT by IANS
Panaji, Jan 19 (IANS) The much-talked-about move of the Election Commission to dispatch an all-women team of poll observers to Goa has met with accusations of sexism by young women, ... Read more...
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Bengal reports more crib deaths, seven dead in 24 hours
January 18th, 2012 - 6:20 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Jan 18 (IANS) The horror of crib deaths in West Bengal returned Wednesday with seven infants, aged between three hours to three months, dying in a 24-hour period in ... Read more...
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Western slowdown squeezes funds for Indian NGOs
January 18th, 2012 - 6:05 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Jan 18 (IANS) The debt crisis in Europe and slowdown in the US have created ripples in the remotest of Indian towns and villages, with NGOs feeling the pinch ... Read more...
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Maoist dies hours after arrest in Jharkhand
January 15th, 2012 - 9:55 pm ICT by IANS
Jamshedpur, Jan 15 (IANS) Gulat Munda, described as a Maoist commander, died in a Jamshedpur hospital a few hours after his arrest, police sources said Sunday.According to police, Gulat Munda ... Read more...
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Photographer Homai Vyarawalla dead (Lead)
January 15th, 2012 - 8:51 pm ICT by IANS
Vadodara (Gujarat), Jan 15 (IANS) Homai Vyarawalla, one of India's first professional women photographers, died here Sunday, days after being hospitalised due to a fall from her bed, close friends ... Read more...
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Two coaches of Ajmer-bound train derail in Dhanbad
January 14th, 2012 - 10:45 pm ICT by IANS
Ranchi, Jan 14 (IANS) Two coaches of an Ajmer-bound express train derailed Saturday evening in Jharkhand's Dhanbad district, said a railway official."Two general coaches of the Kolkata-Ajmer Express derailed near ... Read more...
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NRIs unhappy with Chouhan’s absence from diaspora event
January 12th, 2012 - 8:21 pm ICT by IANS
Bhopal, Jan 12 (IANS) Non-resident Indians of Madhya Pradesh origin who want to invest in the state Thursday said they were disappointed with the absence of Chief Minister ... Read more...
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Goa not in iron deposit intensive areas list
January 12th, 2012 - 6:02 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, Jan 12 (IANS) Goa does not feature in the list of iron deposit intensive areas which have been marked out for future exploration, according to a visionary document prepared ... Read more...
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Policy matters, iron ore sourcing delaying steel plant: JSW Steel
January 10th, 2012 - 12:44 am ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Jan 9 (IANS) JSW Steel Monday said implementation of its proposed 10 million tonnes plant at Salboni in West Midnapore district of West Bengal is being delayed due ... Read more...
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Man arrested for killing lover
January 9th, 2012 - 12:46 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Jan 8 (IANS) A 35-year-old man, on the run for almost six months after murdering his girlfriend and dumping her body in a forest in Jharkhand, has been ... Read more...
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Chhattisgarh conducting intelligence operations against Maoists
January 5th, 2012 - 1:44 pm ICT by IANS
Raipur, Jan 5 (IANS) Chhattisgarh is now focusing on intelligence-based operations against Maoists in their forested strongholds, state Director General of Police (DGP) Anil Navaney said Thursday."Chhattisgarh is very cautious ... Read more...
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Finally, a cricket reality show on Indian TV
December 31st, 2011 - 8:40 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Dec 31 (IANS) In a cricket-crazy nation, how could a reality show on the popular sport be far behind? UTV Bindass is set to launch "Cricket Champs", a ... Read more...
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Night ban on trains in Maoist areas lifted
December 23rd, 2011 - 4:47 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Dec 23 (IANS) Following assurances of tighter security for trains passing through Maoist affected areas in states like Jharkhand, Odisha and West Bengal, Indian Railways Friday lifted the ... Read more...
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45 of Jharkhand’s 82 legislators declare assets
December 23rd, 2011 - 3:20 pm ICT by IANS
Ranchi, Dec 23 (IANS) Of the 82 legislators in the Jharkhand assembly, only 45, including Chief Minister Arjun Munda, have declared their assets as asked for by Speaker C.P. Singh.In ... Read more...
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Maharashtra knocked out, Punjab thrash Bihar in junior hockey nationals
December 19th, 2011 - 9:32 pm ICT by IANS
Pune, Dec 19 (IANS) Jharkhand knocked out Maharashtra from the men's junior national hockey tournament beating them 2-1 in the quarterfinals at the Balewadi Sports Complex astro-turf here Monday.Maharashtra took ... Read more...
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Two held for duping a woman of Rs.1 crore
December 18th, 2011 - 12:14 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Dec 17 (IANS) Two people, including an employee of a finance company, were arrested in Jharkhand for duping a woman of more than Rs.1 crore in a ... Read more...
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MLS player conducts football camp
December 11th, 2011 - 10:13 pm ICT by IANS
Ranchi, Dec 11 (IANS) A group of children from a village in the outskirts of the capital city here have spent some quality time with Major League Soccer (MLS) player ... Read more...
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Bengal’s no defers resumption of night train services
December 11th, 2011 - 7:17 pm ICT by IANS
Ranchi, Dec 11 (IANS) Night train services of the East Coast Railways, halted since May last year, were to resume Sunday but have been further deferred after the West Bengal ... Read more...
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Maoists blast school, attack police station in Jharkhand
December 6th, 2011 - 2:53 pm ICT by IANS
Ranchi, Dec 6 (IANS) Maoist guerrillas blew up a school, torched mobile towers and attacked a police station in two separate incidents in Jharkhand, police said Tuesday.According to police, the ... Read more...
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Counting beads - a new family planning way for women!
December 5th, 2011 - 2:54 pm ICT by IANS
Thiruvananthapuram, Dec 5 (IANS) It's simple, inexpensive and non-clinical. The country's largest condom manufacturer, HLL Lifecare Ltd (HLL), has now come out with a family planning method for women that ... Read more...
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Maoists again blow up rail track in Jharkhand
December 5th, 2011 - 2:26 pm ICT by IANS
Ranchi, Dec 5 (IANS) For the second time in less than 24 hours, Maoists blew up railway tracks in Jharkand while enforcing a two-day shutdown to protest the killing of ... Read more...
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Bihar Muslims divided over share in OBC quota
December 2nd, 2011 - 3:15 pm ICT by IANS
Patna, Dec 2 (IANS) Muslims in Bihar are divided over the central government's proposal to consider reservations for them within the 27 percent quota for Other Backward Classes (OBCs). While ... Read more...
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Shutdown against FDI gets good response in Jharkhand
December 1st, 2011 - 8:15 pm ICT by IANS
Ranchi, Dec 1 (IANS) BJP workers staged a protest against the decision allowing 51 percent FDI in retail when union Coal Minister Shriprakash Jaiswal's convoy was leaving the Central Coalfields ... Read more...
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