Encroachers clash with police in Noida (Lead)
September 10th, 2012 - 10:47 pm ICT by IANS
Noida, Sep 10 (IANS) Angry villagers in Haibatpur in Noida extension Monday fought a pitched battle with the police and Greater Noida Development Authority (GNDA) workers when an anti-encroachment squad ... Read more...
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Villagers clash with police in Noida
September 10th, 2012 - 4:26 pm ICT by IANS
Lucknow, Sep 10 (IANS) Angry villagers in Haibatpur in Noida extension Monday fought a pitched battle with the police and Noida Development Authority workers when an anti-encroachment squad tried to ... Read more...
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11 die in Kabul attack after Obama trip (Third Lead)
May 2nd, 2012 - 3:17 pm ICT by IANS
Kabul, May 2 (IANS) Taliban militants carried out an audacious attack in Kabul only hours after US President Barack Obama visited the city, leaving 11 people including all five ... Read more...
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Eight die in Kabul attack after Obama trip (Second Lead)
May 2nd, 2012 - 1:13 pm ICT by IANS
Kabul, May 2 (IANS) Eight people were killed and 17 injured in an audacious Taliban attack in the Afghan capital Wednesday, hours after US President Barack Obama's Kabul visit ... Read more...
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Gunfire in Meerut jail as cops, inmates clash, 11 hurt (Lead)
April 18th, 2012 - 8:14 pm ICT by IANS
Meerut (Uttar Pradesh), April 18 (IANS) Rioting broke out at the district jail here Wednesday with prisoners pelting stones at policemen and jail staff and the security forces resorting to ... Read more...
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CIF shifted following clashes with EFR
March 2nd, 2012 - 9:50 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata (West Bengal), March 2 (IANS) Counter Insurgency Force (CIF) personnel were Friday removed from an Eastern Frontier Rifles (EFR) camp in West Bengal to ease tensions between their warring ... Read more...
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Tripura Congress holds sit-in fast to press demands (Lead, superseding earlier story)
February 9th, 2012 - 11:25 pm ICT by IANS
Agartala, Feb 9 (IANS) Tripura Congress leaders, led by opposition leader Ratan Lal Nath, Thursday began a fast for 30 hours to press for their 15-point demands, including a high ... Read more...
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Congress leaders fast in Tripura
February 9th, 2012 - 3:04 pm ICT by IANS
Agartala, Feb 9 (IANS) Tripura Congress members, led by leader of opposition Ratan Lal Nath, Thursday began a fast for 30 hours in front of the Congress Bhavan here to ... Read more...
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Pakistan looks at gas import from Qatar
February 2nd, 2012 - 12:58 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Feb 2 (IANS) Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said he would discuss the issue of import of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Qatar during his forthcoming ... Read more...
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Electricity from India will ease power crisis: Pakistani PM
February 1st, 2012 - 1:32 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Feb 1 (IANS) A number of initiatives, including importing electricity from India, will help resolve Pakistan's energy crisis, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said.He said the other ... Read more...
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Pakistan faces power shortage
December 26th, 2011 - 1:53 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Dec 26 (IANS) Pakistan is facing an acute electricity shortage this winter, with cities bearing 10 hours of power outages.The electricity shortfall surged Saturday to over 40 percent ... Read more...
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Trinamool MP criticises Bengal government for police firing
December 8th, 2011 - 3:36 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Dec 8 (IANS) Causing more embarrassment to Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee, singer-turned-party MP Kabir Suman has now composed a song criticising the Dec 1 police firing in ... Read more...
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Two dead, 22 injured in police-mob clash in Bengal
December 2nd, 2011 - 12:41 am ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Dec 1 (IANS) Two people were killed and 22 people, including 16 policemen, injured as clashes between a mob and security forces over illegal electric connections in West ... Read more...
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Venezuelan composer doesn’t like vulgarity in music
November 24th, 2011 - 11:37 am ICT by IANS
Miami, Nov 24 (IANS/EFE) Venezuelan composer and music producer Adrian Pieragostino is launching "a pitched battle" from the console of his recording studio against vulgarity and give a beautiful, romantic ... Read more...
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Bengal minister denies Mamata stormed cop station, CPI-M slams her (Lead)
November 9th, 2011 - 11:12 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Nov 9 (IANS) As the opposition slammed Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for allegedly storming a police station to free two arrested Trinamool Congress activists, the West Bengal government ... Read more...
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11 injured in Kolkata violence
November 7th, 2011 - 1:05 am ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Nov 6 (IANS) Ten people and a policeman were injured in a pitched battle between cops and a mob in south Kolkata's Bhowanipore area after disturbances over a ... Read more...
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Pakistan wants to import electricity from India
November 2nd, 2011 - 12:06 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Nov 2 (IANS) Power-starved Pakistan is looking to import electricity from India, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said.Talks are on for import of 500 to 1,000 megawatt ... Read more...
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Tania wins in 38 moves in National Premier chess
November 1st, 2011 - 7:24 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, Nov 1 (IANS) Top seed and International Master Tania Sachdev (Delhi) kept her position among the leaders by defeating Candidate Master Bhakti Kulkarni (Goa) in the fourth round of ... Read more...
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Taliban battle Pakistani security forces for drone debris
September 19th, 2011 - 4:14 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Sep 19 (IANS) Taliban guerrillas fought a pitched battle with security forces as both attempted to seize the wreckage of a US drone that crashed in Pakistan's South ... Read more...
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Power outage kills four Pakistani patients
September 14th, 2011 - 1:06 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Sep 14 (IANS) Four patients on life support died at a hospital in Karachi during a power outage that shut down their ventilators, reports said.The incident took place ... Read more...
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Pakistan panel to check unscheduled power outages
August 22nd, 2011 - 12:39 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Aug 22 (IANS) Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has constituted a high-powered committee to check unscheduled power outages in the country.The decision was taken at a meeting ... Read more...
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Pakistan sets up panel to look into power outages
August 8th, 2011 - 12:17 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Aug 8 (IANS) Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has constituted a high-powered committee to resolve the issue of unscheduled power outages in the country.The committee, to be ... Read more...
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Two die in Pakistan power outage protest
July 5th, 2011 - 2:54 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, July 5 (IANS) Two people were killed and another 30 injured in a pitched battle between the police and locals who were upset over acute electricity shortage in a ... Read more...
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Need judicial inquiry for atrocities on farmers: Digvijay Singh
May 12th, 2011 - 4:12 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 12 (IANS) Congress leader Digvijay Singh Thursday demanded a judicial inquiry into "atrocities" on farmers demanding higher compensation for their land that has been taken for ... Read more...
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NCW team visits violence-hit Greater Noida village
May 12th, 2011 - 2:06 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 12 (IANS) A team of the National Commission for Women (NCW) Thursday visited the Bhatta Parsaul village in Uttar Pradesh following reports that women were assaulted by ... Read more...
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Rahul joins farmers’ stir, says ashamed to be Indian (Roundup)
May 11th, 2011 - 11:44 pm ICT by IANS
Greater Noida/New Delhi/Lucknow, May 11 (IANS) Congress MP Rahul Gandhi early Wednesday sneaked into the highly guarded Bhatta Parsaul village to meet farmers agitating for higher compensation for their ... Read more...
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After BJD and Shiv Sena, Rahul ’surprises’ Mayawati
May 11th, 2011 - 8:41 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 11 (IANS) Congress MP Rahul Gandhi's pre-dawn journey to Bhatta Parsaul village - the epicentre of the five-day-old farmers' agitation in Uttar Pradesh - is the ... Read more...
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Rahul Gandhi visits agitating farmers in Greater Noida (Lead)
May 11th, 2011 - 8:12 pm ICT by IANS
Greater Noida, May 11 (IANS) Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi, who came here early Wednesday on a surprise visit, met the farmers agitating against land acquisition. Meanwhile, the district ... Read more...
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BJP slams Rahul Gandhi’s Greater Noida visit
May 11th, 2011 - 7:11 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 11 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Wednesday slammed the visit by Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi to Bhatta Parsaul village in Uttar Pradesh's Greater Noida, ... Read more...
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Rahul Gandhi visits agitating farmers in Uttar Pradesh
May 11th, 2011 - 1:34 pm ICT by IANS
Greater Noida, May 11 (IANS) Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi early Wednesday visited the Bhatta Parsaul village in Uttar Pradesh's Greater Noida that has seen violence by farmers over ... Read more...
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BJP calls shutdown in Greater Noida, other areas
May 10th, 2011 - 12:46 pm ICT by IANS
Greater Noida, May 10 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Tuesday called for a shutdown in Uttar Pradesh's Gautam Budh Nagar district to protest police action on farmers.BJP's district ... Read more...
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Politics over farmer’s agitation, opposition slams Mayawati (Roundup)
May 9th, 2011 - 9:33 pm ICT by IANS
Greater Noida/Lucknow/New Delhi, May 9 (IANS) Massive security arrangements by the Uttar Pradesh administration saw agitating farmers in Greater Noida lying low Monday after two days of violence that ... Read more...
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Three killed in farmers-police gunbattle, clashes (Second Lead)
May 7th, 2011 - 11:51 pm ICT by IANS
Greater Noida, May 7 (IANS) Two policemen and a farmer were killed and about 15 people were critically injured here Saturday as rioting farmers, who held government employees hostages ... Read more...
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A courier finally led to Osama: New York Times
May 2nd, 2011 - 5:50 pm ICT by IANS
New York, May 2 (IANS) Osama bin Laden was marked for death the day American spies learnt about a trusted courier of the man the US had hunted for years, ... Read more...
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3 killed in protests against power plant in Andhra (Second Lead)
February 28th, 2011 - 10:19 pm ICT by IANS
Hyderabad, Feb 28 (IANS) Three people were killed, scores were injured and several houses were destroyed Monday when police opened fire against villagers protesting an under construction thermal power plant in Andhra ... Read more...
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