Salvaging of grounded ship off Mumbai to resume Sunday
June 18th, 2011 - 8:51 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, June 18 (IANS) For the second consecutive day Saturday, salvagers, citing technical problems, suspended efforts to tow away the cargo ship, MV Wisdom, which went adrift and grounded off ... Read more...
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Efforts to tow stranded ship off Mumbai suspended
June 17th, 2011 - 5:20 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, June 17 (IANS) The Indian Navy and salvagers who mounted a massive operation to remove merchant ship MV Wisdom, stranded off a Mumbai beach, suspended the effort Friday ... Read more...
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Sukhois detected an aircraft-like something in Bhutan: IAF
May 2nd, 2011 - 9:20 pm ICT by IANS
Shillong, May 2 (IANS) The Indian Air Force (IAF) Monday said images taken by two Sukhoi aircraft have detected "an aircraft-like something" in an area in Bhutan, giving out ... Read more...
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Chopper with Arunachal chief minister still untraced
May 1st, 2011 - 9:18 pm ICT by IANS
Itanagar, May 1 (IANS) The helicopter carrying Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu remained untraced for the second day Sunday even as search operations on the ground by army ... Read more...
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Government to make official statement on missing chopper
May 1st, 2011 - 6:09 pm ICT by IANS
Itanagar, May 1 (IANS) Union Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs V. Narayanasamy Sunday said a formal statement with authenticated information on the missing helicopter carrying Arunachal Pradesh Chief ... Read more...
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Chopper carrying Arunachal chief minister still missing (Night Lead)
May 1st, 2011 - 3:47 am ICT by IANS
Itanagar, April 30 (IANS) A helicopter carrying Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu and four other people on board, missing since Saturday morning, was still untraced till the ... Read more...
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Massive search operation to locate Arunachal Pradesh CM
April 30th, 2011 - 9:26 pm ICT by ANI
Itanagar, Apr 30(ANI): The Air Force, the Army and the paramilitary will launch a massive search operation to locate missing Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu.A Pawan Hans Helicopter flying from Tawang ... Read more...
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Lilavati Hospital may have evaded huge amount of tax
April 12th, 2011 - 11:05 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, April 12 (IANS) The Income-Tax department's nearly 36-hour search and seizure operation at the prestigious Lilavati Hospital here, which ended Tuesday evening, has yielded evidence of tax evasion worth ... Read more...
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Japan nuke plant could continue releasing radiation for months
April 4th, 2011 - 1:28 pm ICT by ANI
Tokyo, Apr 4 (ANI): The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan could continue to release dangerous radiation into the air for several months, said Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency officials.Chief Cabinet Secretary ... Read more...
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FBI cracks down on mafia, arrests more than 100
January 21st, 2011 - 11:38 am ICT by IANS
New York, Jan 21 (IANS/EFE) The FBI and other US agencies arrested more than 110 people Thursday in a massive operation targeting organised crime in the Northeast and New England, Attorney General ... Read more...
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U.S. arrests 127 suspects in massive operation against mobsters
January 21st, 2011 - 12:17 am ICT by BNO News
NEW YORK (BNO NEWS) -- Federal indictments were unsealed in U.S. District Courts in Providence and in three other federal judicial districts on Thursday, charging 91 members and associates of seven organized ... Read more...
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Pak spy agencies admit having Adiala Jail’s “missing prisoners” in their custody
December 10th, 2010 - 2:48 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad, Dec 10 (ANI): The mystery of eleven missing prisoners of Adiala Jail has finally been solved, as Pakistan's top intelligence agencies have confessed before the Supreme Court that the terror ... Read more...
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Pakistani woman publicly lashed by Taliban wants justice
November 30th, 2010 - 7:37 pm ICT by IANS
By Awais Saleem
Islamabad, Nov 30 (IANS) A Pakistani woman who was publicly lashed by Taliban militants on charges of adultery two years ago Tuesday appeared before the media and demanded justice ... Read more...
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Drugs worth Rs.400 mn seized in Pakistan
November 23rd, 2010 - 9:39 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Nov 23 (IANS) In a massive operation, Pakistan's anti-narcotics officials Tuesday seized drugs and liquor worth Rs.400 million in Islamabad and Rawalpindi and arrested 27 people, including three women.The Anti-Narcotics Force ... Read more...
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Bengal trawler capsize toll rises to 23, 100 missing (Second Lead)
October 31st, 2010 - 10:03 pm ICT by IANS
Kakdwip (West Bengal), Oct 31 (IANS) The deaths in the West Bengal trawler capsize in the Muriganga river rose to 23 after five more bodies were fished out Sunday, even ... Read more...
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Ten Maoists killed in Jharkhand
September 27th, 2010 - 5:11 pm ICT by IANS
Ranchi, Sep 27 (IANS) Ten Maoist guerrillas have been killed and several rebel camps destroyed in a massive operation security forces launched in Jharkhand's West Singhbhum district since Saturday, police said ... Read more...
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Four cops, six Maoists killed in Jharkhand
September 26th, 2010 - 8:44 pm ICT by IANS
Ranchi, Sep 26 (IANS) Four security personnel and six Maoists have been killed in Jharkhand's West Singhbhum district since Saturday, when the security forces launched a massive operation against the rebels, police ... Read more...
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Bihar Hostage Crisis: Two Maoists taken into custody
September 4th, 2010 - 5:56 pm ICT by ANI
Patna, Sep 4 (ANI): Bihar Police on Saturday arrested two Maoist leaders linked with the encounter and abduction of four policemen in Lakhisarai from the Gurmaha forest area under Barhat police station ... Read more...
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Two suspected Maoists held, search on for abducted cops
September 4th, 2010 - 12:54 pm ICT by IANS
Patna, Sep 4 (IANS) Two suspected Maoists were arrested Saturday in Bihar's Jamui district while a massive combing operation was on to trace three cops abducted by the rebels, a day after ... Read more...
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Italian police raid Mafia clan and arrest 300
July 13th, 2010 - 11:50 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Venice, July 13 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Italian law enforcement authorities have carried out a massive operation against one of the country's most notorious mafia organizations, the "ndrangheta". The police arrested over 300 members ... Read more...
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Maoists kill two villagers in Jharkhand
June 20th, 2010 - 3:14 pm ICT by IANS
Ranchi, June 20 (IANS) Suspecting them to be police informers, Maoists gunned down two men in separate incidents in East Singhbhum district of Jharkhand, police said Sunday.
Members of the banned Communist Party ... Read more...
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Bengal on high alert ahead of Maoist protest
June 17th, 2010 - 4:59 pm ICT by IANS
Lalgarh (West Bengal), June 17 (IANS) Ahead of shutdowns and protests called by Maoists, police stations in all West Bengal districts have been alerted to foil any rebel strikes in view ... Read more...
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Lahore terror siege ends, at least 45 killed
May 28th, 2010 - 8:02 pm ICT by ANI
Lahore, May 28 (ANI): Over 1500 hostages were freed as the terror siege of the two mosques which were raided by a dozen of heavily armed Taliban suicide attackers ended after ... Read more...
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PM enumerated for Census 2011
April 3rd, 2010 - 1:22 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 3 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was Saturday enumerated for Census 2011. He urged the people to take part in the national population counting process as it forms ... Read more...
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NATO troops to launch offensive in Kandahar in June
March 30th, 2010 - 2:58 pm ICT by ANI
London, Mar.30 (ANI): The NATO-led coalition in Afghanistan will launch a long-planned offensive in the southern city of Kandahar in June, military officials have said.The Telegraph quoted a US military ... Read more...
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Postpone national games, say Pakistan’s security agencies
March 13th, 2010 - 7:13 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, March 13 (IANS) Shaken by a rash of suicide bombings across Pakistan, the country's security agencies have asked the federal and provincial governments to postpone the March 25-31 National Games ... Read more...
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Swat, Lahore blasts claim 71 lives (Third Lead)
March 13th, 2010 - 6:06 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, March 13 (IANS) A suicide bomber targeted a security checkpost in a crowded area in Pakistan's Mingora town in the restive Swat Valley Saturday, killing at least 14 people and ... Read more...
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Swat Valley blast toll rises to 14 (Second Lead)
March 13th, 2010 - 5:08 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, March 13 (IANS) At least 14 people were killed and 52 wounded when a suicide bomber targeted a security checkpost in Pakistan's Mingora town in restive Swat Valley, police said ... Read more...
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UN team probing BB’s murder won’t be given access to Pak Army: Malik
January 8th, 2010 - 3:20 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad, Jan. 8 (ANI): Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said that the UN probe team investigating Benazir Bhutto's murder won't be given access to military officials.The News quoted Malik as ... Read more...
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Maoist-backed tribals surrender in Orissa
December 3rd, 2009 - 7:42 pm ICT by ANI
Narayanpatna (Orissa), Dec.3 (ANI): Fed up of the violence, hundreds of tribals associated with the Maoist backed outfit, 'Chasi Muliya Adivasi Sangh' (CMAS) surrendered to the police in Orissa's Narayanpatna region.The tribals ... Read more...
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Government itching to go after Maoists, says top cop
November 24th, 2009 - 8:39 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Nov 24 (IANS) The central government is determined to launch a massive operation against Maoist guerrillas but is waiting for the Jharkhand elections to get over Dec 18, a ... Read more...
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Eight tribal villagers killed in Tripura (Second Lead)
November 10th, 2009 - 8:55 pm ICT by IANS
Agartala, Nov 10 (IANS) In the first major terror attack in Tripura this year, at least eight tribal villagers - among them four women - were killed and another woman was injured ... Read more...
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Eight tribal villagers killed in Tripura (Lead)
November 10th, 2009 - 3:01 pm ICT by IANS
Agartala, Nov 10 (IANS) At least eight tribal villagers including four women were killed and another injured by separatists in Tripura, police said Tuesday.
Police spokesperson Nepal Das said: "Heavily armed National Liberation ... Read more...
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No trace of abducted Jharkhand intelligence official
October 2nd, 2009 - 8:06 pm ICT by IANS
Ranchi, Oct 2 (IANS) There was still no trace Friday of the intelligence official abducted by the Maoist rebels in Jharkhand two days back despite a massive operation launched by the local ... Read more...
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Holbrooke to warn Pak against terror strikes from its soil during Afghan polls
August 16th, 2009 - 12:39 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad, Aug.16 (ANI) : Peace during the forthcoming Afghan elections and situations arising after the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Baitullah Mehsud's death would be on top of US Special Envoy for ... Read more...
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