Millions set to join job market: are we ready? (Comment)
July 9th, 2012 - 1:09 pm ICT by IANS
The growth slowdown is here with us. Usually, slow growth curtails opportunities for employment. Studies have concluded that employment intensity of economic growth is 0.5 - if the economy expands 10 ... Read more...
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Landslide blocks Konkan Railway, thousands stranded
August 30th, 2011 - 12:49 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, Aug 30 (IANS) A major landslide blocked tracks in a section of the Konkan Railway Tuesday, hitting services between Mumbai and the southern states and leaving thousands of people ... Read more...
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Bodies of slain Chhattisgarh cops ferried in garbage truck
June 28th, 2011 - 11:36 pm ICT by IANS
Dantewada (Chhattisgarh), June 28 (IANS) The coffins of three Chhattisgarh policemen killed in a Maoist landmine blast in Dantewada Sunday night were transported in a municipality garbage collection vehicle for ... Read more...
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No pools, or Astro turf, Jharkhand players go to nationals
January 29th, 2011 - 10:55 am ICT by IANS
By Nityanand Shukla
Ranchi, Jan 29 (IANS) Swimmers mastering their butterfly strokes on dry ground, shooters taking aim without bullets, hockey teams never playing on Astro turf - with just a fortnight to ... Read more...
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Jharkhand swimmers practise on the ground!
January 25th, 2011 - 2:40 pm ICT by IANS
By Nityanand Shukla
Ranchi, Jan 25 (IANS) With less than a month to go before Jharkhand hosts the 34th National Games, the state's swimming team still does not have a swimming pool to ... Read more...
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Government wants to rule Bastar at gunpoint: Mahendra Karma (Interview)
August 24th, 2010 - 11:47 am ICT by IANS
By Sujeet Kumar
Raipur, Aug 24 (IANS) Mahendra Karma, the opposition Congress heavyweight in Chhattisgarh who was widely said to be behind the controversial Salwa Judum movement against Maoists, says the state ... Read more...
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Police rescues 11 child labourers from a hotel in Mumbai
July 20th, 2010 - 7:26 pm ICT by ANI
By Atul PagareMumbai, July 20 (ANI): The local police rescued eleven youngsters under the age of 18 from a hotel after they received a complaint that the owner had employed children.The ... Read more...
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Eye on polls next year, Bihar politicians invoke sun god
October 24th, 2009 - 7:37 pm ICT by IANS
Patna, Oct 24 (IANS) It is Chhath puja time and like millions of people in Bihar, the politicians were also busy Saturday performing the rituals to seek divine blessings, with an ... Read more...
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Sardar Patel had warned Nehru against China, says Modi
October 1st, 2009 - 8:38 pm ICT by ANI
Ahmedabad, Oct 1(ANI): Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said that first Home Minister Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel had warned first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru against China in November 1950.Modi ... Read more...
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Maharashtra boat accident toll rises to 19, eleven missing
July 12th, 2009 - 2:38 pm ICT by IANS
Nagpur, July 12 (IANS) The death toll in Saturday's accident in Maharashtra's eastern Bhandara district where two boats carrying women farm labourers overturned in the Wainganga river has risen to 19, while ... Read more...
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10 women drown, 20 missing in Maharashtra boat capsize
July 12th, 2009 - 12:05 am ICT by IANS
Nagpur, July 11 (IANS) At least 10 women drowned and 20 were missing after two boats in which they were travelling overturned in the Waingangan River in eastern Maharashtra's Bhandara district, a ... Read more...
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The Dalit tag still sticks despite converting to Sikhism
June 9th, 2009 - 1:51 pm ICT by IANS
By Imran Khan
Patna, June 9 (IANS) It is a centuries-old ignominy they wanted to escape by converting to Sikhism in Punjab and found new respect there. But back home in Bihar, the ... Read more...
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Bihar’s Bengali refugees finally get crucial rights
May 29th, 2009 - 12:24 pm ICT by IANS
Patna, May 29 (IANS) It has taken nearly six decades for Bihar to provide basic rights to thousands of impoverished Bengali refugees who settled in the state after fleeing the erstwhile East ... Read more...
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Employment programmes conducted for women in Punjab
March 14th, 2009 - 5:33 pm ICT by ANI
By Avtar Gill
Khiyovali Village (Mukhtasar), Mar 14 (ANI): Women of Punjab are trying their hand at self-employment programmes.
The Government of India with the help of North India Technical Consultancy Organisation (NITCON) ... Read more...
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Refugee kids dream of return to an isle of peace
January 25th, 2009 - 10:50 am ICT by IANS
Chennai, Jan 25 (IANS) "In the evening, the sun goes home... when will we go home?" asks seven-year-old D. Sarika from the Azhiyanilai refugee camp in Tamil Nadu's Pudukottai district in a ... Read more...
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Hit by inflation, labourers turn their backs on capital
November 16th, 2008 - 2:31 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Nov 16 (IANS) As prices soar and insecurity grows, those at the bottom of the social ladder are finding it difficult to make two ends meet. So, leaving behind their ... Read more...
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Salwa Judum camps to have auxiliary polling stations
October 25th, 2008 - 12:04 am ICT by IANS
Raipur, Oct 24 (IANS) The Election Commission said Friday that auxiliary polling stations would be set up at the Salwa Judum relief camps in Chhattisgarh's southern trouble-torn Bastar region for next month's ... Read more...
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Four killed in Uttar Pradesh road accident
October 11th, 2008 - 4:48 pm ICT by IANS
Lucknow, Oct 11 (IANS) Four people were killed and 15 critically injured when a tractor-driven trolley in which they were travelling overturned in Uttar Pradesh's Basti district, the police said."The incident took ... Read more...
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41 labourers killed in Bihar truck accident
August 3rd, 2008 - 5:13 pm ICT by IANS
Patna, Aug 3 (IANS) Forty one labourers were killed and over two dozen injured in Bihar's Lakhisarai district when a rice laden truck overturned and fell into a river due to poor ... Read more...
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Chhattisgarh’s Salwa Judum cadres to ‘challenge’ Maoists
February 28th, 2008 - 11:52 am ICT by admin
Raipur, Jan 11 (IANS) Claiming that the Salwa Judum movement had been successful in pushing back Maoists in Chhattisgarh to where they were a decade ago, cadres plan to take out rallies ... Read more...
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Ludhiana blast spreads fear among city’s migrant labourers
November 14th, 2007 - 2:20 am ICT by admin
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