ID-card may reveal mystery of crashed AN-12 aircraft
August 1st, 2012 - 1:55 pm ICT by IANS
Manali (Himachal Pradesh), Aug 1 (IANS) A frayed identity card bearing the name Arjun Singh of Pune may reveal the 45-year-old mystery crash of an AN-12 aircraft of the Indian ... Read more...
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Maharashtra to evict encroachers from mill (Lead)
December 22nd, 2011 - 11:41 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, Dec 22 (IANS) Facing the ire of the Bombay High Court, the Maharashtra government Thursday assured that it would attempt to amicably remove Dalit activists who have encroached a ... Read more...
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Maharashtra to remove encroachers from mill land
December 22nd, 2011 - 10:52 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, Dec 22 (IANS) Facing the ire of the Bombay High Court, the Maharashtra government Thursday assured that it would attempt to amicably remove Dalit activists who have encroached a ... Read more...
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At 85, cartoonist Mario Miranda exits life’s canvas
December 11th, 2011 - 7:50 pm ICT by IANS
Loutolim (Goa), Dec 11 (IANS) The bronzed, sinewy toddy tapper will never slither down a coconut palm with ease. Nor will the buxom, cleavage showing, big hipped fisherwoman hunch over ... Read more...
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Land ‘captured’ for Ambedkar memorial in Mumbai
December 6th, 2011 - 3:34 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, Dec 6 (IANS) Nearly 1,000 activists of the Republican Sena, a Dalit party, Tuesday broke police barricades and "captured" a mill compound in Dadar in central Mumbai, demanding ... Read more...
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Sarangi maestro Sultan Khan passes away (Lead)
November 27th, 2011 - 10:15 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, Nov 27 (IANS) Noted Sarangi exponent and singer Ustad Sultan Khan passed away Sunday after prolonged kidney-related ailments, an associate said. He was 71."He passed away while on the ... Read more...
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CPI leader Subramaniam dead
September 18th, 2011 - 6:42 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, Sep 18 (IANS) C. Subramaniam, one of the founding fathers of the Communist Party of India (CPI) in Tamil Nadu and a veteran freedom fighter, died of old age ... Read more...
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Goa keen to promote tourism with Spain
July 7th, 2011 - 5:11 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, July 7 (IANS) More than 400 years after saint Francis Xavier spread Christianity in Goa after sailing from present day Spain, the Goa Tourism is keen to promote tourism ... Read more...
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Bhajan Lal laid to rest with state honours (Lead)
June 4th, 2011 - 10:47 pm ICT by IANS
Adampur (Haryana), June 4 (IANS) Former Haryana chief minister Bhajan Lal, who died Friday, was buried in this town Saturday evening with full state honours.Bhajan Lal was buried as ... Read more...
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Thousands bid tearful adieu to Bhimsen Joshi
January 24th, 2011 - 7:42 pm ICT by IANS
Pune, Jan 24 (IANS) A sad nation and music lovers from all walks of life bade a tearful farewell to Bharat Ratna Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, whose mortal remains were consigned to the ... Read more...
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Maharashtra’s Aurangabad renamed Sambhajinagar
January 4th, 2011 - 10:40 pm ICT by IANS
Aurangabad, Jan 4 (IANS) A resolution to rename this historic city Sambhajinagar, after the son of Maratha chieftain Chhatrapati Shivaji, was approved Tuesday by the Aurangabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) - but ... Read more...
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Former AIFF secretary Ashok Ghosh dead
August 19th, 2010 - 7:54 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Aug 19 (IANS) Former All India Football Federation (AIFF) secretary Ashok Ghosh, who was instrumental in India hosting the glamorous Nehru Gold Cup international tournament, died Thursday following a massive heart ... Read more...
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Archeologists claim they’ve located the remains of St. John the Baptist in Bulgaria
August 5th, 2010 - 3:11 am ICT by BNO News
SVETI IVAN, BULGARIA (BNO NEWS) – Bulgarian archeologists claimed on late Tuesday to have found the mortal remains of Saint John the Baptist while excavating a 5th century monastery on the Sveti ... Read more...
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Gospel Singer Walter Hawkins’ Funeral Witnesses Huge Turnout
July 22nd, 2010 - 7:29 pm ICT by GD
By Gina Gomez
Oakland, July 22, (THAINDIAN NEWS) Thousands of people gathered at the Paramount Theater in Oakland, California to pay their last tribute to legendary gospel singer Walter Hawkins on Wednesday morning. ... Read more...
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Milon Banerjee cremated
July 21st, 2010 - 9:31 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 21 (IANS) India's former attorney general Milon Kumar Banerjee, who died a day earlier, was cremated here Wednesday.
His mortal remains were consigned to flames by his sons Debal and ... Read more...
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Navy admiral killed in accidental firing cremated
July 9th, 2010 - 6:35 pm ICT by IANS
Kochi, July 9 (IANS) The last rites of Rear Admiral S.S. Jamwal, who died in accidental firing Wednesday, were performed here Friday with military honours.
The funeral at the Palluruthy Corporation Crematorium was ... Read more...
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Sportscaster Ernie Harwell Passes Away At 92
May 5th, 2010 - 6:35 pm ICT by GD
By Madhuri Dey
May 5, (THAINDIAN NEWS) Hall of Fame American sportscaster Ernie Harwell passed away on Tuesday at his home in Novi, Michigan. The veteran broadcaster who is known to have been ... Read more...
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Kolkata pays last tribute to theatre doyen Kumar Roy
March 1st, 2010 - 7:22 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, March 1 (IANS) The members of Kolkata's cultural fraternity Monday paid their last tribute to noted theatre personality Kumar Roy, the pioneer of the Bengali theatre movement for decades, who died ... Read more...
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Himachal pays tribute to ITBP constable killed in Kabul blast
March 1st, 2010 - 3:03 pm ICT by ANI
Chamot (Himachal Pradesh), Mar 1 (ANI): Villagers of Chamot village in Chamba district here paid tributes to Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) constable Roshan Lal, who was killed in the blast that ... Read more...
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Doctors mull preserving Basu’s brain
January 19th, 2010 - 10:10 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Jan 19 (IANS) The doctor's of state-run SSKM Hospital are thinking of preserving the brain of late Marxist leader Jyoti Basu, the hospital's anatomy department head said here Tuesday.
"We have ... Read more...
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Tributes offered to Nehru on his 120th birth anniversary
November 14th, 2009 - 2:13 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, Nov 14 (ANI): On the occasion of Children's Day, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi paid tributes to Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru, the first Prime Minister ... Read more...
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Thousands pay last respects to Subhas Chakraborty (Lead)
August 5th, 2009 - 12:06 am ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Aug 4 (IANS) The city virtually came to a standstill as a mass of people Tuesday evening joined the funeral procession of West Bengal minister Subhas Chakraborty, one of the ... Read more...
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Killing of varsity Prof. evokes public outrage against militants
June 8th, 2009 - 11:14 pm ICT by ANI
Imphal, June 8 (ANI): The recent murder of Professor Islamuddin of Manipur University continues to agitate student unions, clubs and other organizations in Manipur.The murder of Prof Islamuddin has been one in ... Read more...
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This day in history
April 11th, 2009 - 10:38 pm ICT by Sampurn Wire
12th April 20091948 – Suraj Sanim Born April 12, bollywood writer/ Cinematographer.1956 - Deepak Anand Born April 12, is a Bollywood film director and film editor.1983 - Richard Attenborough's 'Gandhi' ... Read more...
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Thousands pay homage to Gyan Patnaik in Orissa (Second lead, Changing dateline)
February 18th, 2009 - 10:27 pm ICT by IANS
Bhubaneswar/New Delhi, Feb 18 (IANS) Thousands of people from all walks of life Wednesday paid tribute to Gyan Patnaik, one of India's earliest women pilots and the widow of former Orissa chief ... Read more...
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Abducted Indian worker killed in Afghanistan (Lead)
February 9th, 2009 - 8:22 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai/New Delhi, Feb 9 (IANS) An Indian worker kidnapped by unknown militants in Afghanistan's Herat province last October has died in the captivity of his abductors, officials and his family said Monday.A ... Read more...
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Taliban captors kill abducted Indian in Afghanistan
February 9th, 2009 - 7:43 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, Feb 9 (IANS) Simon Paramanathan alias Srinivasan, 38, an Indian who worked with an Italian company in Afghanistan's Herat zone and was abducted in October last year, has been killed by ... Read more...
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Mortal remains of Surjeet consigned to flames (Update)
August 3rd, 2008 - 9:52 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi , August 3 (ANI): The mortal remains of veteran Marxist leader Harkishan Singh Surjeet were consigned to flames this evening at Nigambodh Ghat in New Delhi .His pyre ... Read more...
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Marxist icon Surjeet cremated, thousands pay last tribute (Lead)
August 3rd, 2008 - 8:53 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Aug 3 (IANS) Mortal remains of veteran communist leader Harkishan Singh Surjeet were consigned to flames here Sunday evening as top leaders from major political parties and hundreds of Marxist ... Read more...
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Military honours for World War II hero
July 16th, 2008 - 5:58 pm ICT by ANI
Trichy (Tamil Nadu), July 16 (ANI): The Army bade farewell to their World War II veteran Subedar S.K. Thangaraj with full military honours here today.Subedar Thangaraj of Eleven Madras Engineers Regiment ... Read more...
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Murdered Andhra student’s body arrives home
May 24th, 2008 - 10:07 pm ICT by admin
Hyderabad, May 24 (IANS) The body of an Andhra Pradesh girl student, who was murdered in Birmingham in Britain earlier this month, Saturday reached her home town Vijayawada. Nearly three weeks after ... Read more...
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Tearful farewell to actor Raghuvaran
March 19th, 2008 - 10:11 pm ICT by admin
(Lead)Chennai, March 19 (IANS) Renowned character actor Raghuvaran died here Wednesday after a week-long battle to survive a cardiac arrest. He was 49. Leading lights of the film industry including Vijay, Surya ... Read more...
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BJP Lok Sabha MP passes away
November 14th, 2007 - 10:36 am ICT by admin
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Dargah Sher Shah Wali, an edifice of communal harmony in Punjab
November 14th, 2007 - 2:20 am ICT by admin
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