Warm welcome for Omar Abdullah in Srinagar
December 31st, 2008 - 4:16 pm ICT by IANS
Srinagar, Dec 31 (IANS) Jammu and Kashmir chief minister-designate Omar Abdullah was received warmly by a huge crowd of enthusiastic supporters at the Srinagar airport Wednesday after his arrival from New Delhi.Waving ... Read more...
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Treasure hunter discovers 7th century pure gold cross, worth 25,000 pounds
August 7th, 2008 - 5:38 pm ICT by ANI
London, August 7 (ANI): A treasure hunter, using a metal detector, has discovered a pure gold cross dating from the 7th century, which is worth at least 25,000 pounds.The anonymous finder ... Read more...
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Orissa tribals come to UK to protest mining in their sacred hills
August 3rd, 2008 - 10:20 am ICT by IANS
By Venkata Vemuri
London, Aug 3 (IANS) A delegation of Orissa tribals has come all the way to London to confront the owner of a company planning to mine bauxite from a hill ... Read more...
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Dhanbads Maoist is today a peasant
June 20th, 2008 - 8:35 pm ICT by ANI
By Suman Negi
Dhanbad, June 20 (ANI): While many youngsters find it hard to come out of the web of Naxalism, there are several persons who after having served their terms in ... Read more...
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New dresses, decorated foreheads mark Orissa festival
June 14th, 2008 - 3:52 pm ICT by IANS
Bhubaneswar, June 14 (IANS) Young girls wore new dresses, decorated their foreheads with artistic motifs in sandalwood paste and swung from ropes hung from trees Saturday to mark the beginning of a ... Read more...
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Coimbatore traditional bullock cart race attracts hordes of enthusiasts
June 9th, 2008 - 8:48 pm ICT by ANI
Coimbatore, June 9 (ANI): This years traditional bullock cart race in Coimbatore attracted hordes of enthusiasts today.The bullock cart race, which is popularly known as 'rekla' race, is organised to ... Read more...
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Two Punjab farm officers suspended
June 6th, 2008 - 11:19 pm ICT by IANS
Chandigarh, June 6 (IANS) Two agriculture officers of Punjab were Friday suspended by the state agriculture minister because they not only failed to run the plough through the sown paddy area and ... Read more...
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Punjab allows paddy sowing from June 10
June 6th, 2008 - 7:23 pm ICT by IANS
Chandigarh, June 6 (IANS) The Punjab government Friday allowed farmers to start sowing paddy from June 10 onwards. State Agriculture Minister Sucha Singh Langah said the sowing had been advanced in view ... Read more...
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Australia needs to be wary of IPL success: Tom Moody
May 23rd, 2008 - 3:49 pm ICT by admin
Melbourne, May 23 (ANI): Tom Moody, the coach of the Punjab Kings XI, has cautioned Cricket Australia not be in a rush in encouraging private ownership of domestic teams.
The former Test ... Read more...
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Eye-care network to use global award for poor patients
May 23rd, 2008 - 12:49 pm ICT by admin
Madurai, May 23 (IANS) A leading eye-care network in Tamil Nadu that has won the $1 million Gates Award for global health wants to plough the money back into healthcare for poor ... Read more...
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A success story from Maharashtra’s farm suicide land
May 19th, 2008 - 9:54 am ICT by admin
By Shyam Pandharipande
Pandharkawda (Maharashtra), May 19 (IANS) Incredible as it may sound, Purushottam Karanna Myanewar, a farmer in Maharashtra's Yavatmal district, says he has never taken a loan to till his small ... Read more...
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Charity brings light into lives of 700,000 poor Indian children
March 21st, 2008 - 11:46 am ICT by admin
By Madhusree Chatterjee
New Delhi, March 21 (IANS) They are no Bill and Melinda Gates, Microsoft's first couple known for their philanthropy; neither are they fresh-faced non-resident Indians just back to their roots, ... Read more...
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Bollywood backs Amitabh’s school in Uttar Pradesh
February 20th, 2008 - 9:32 am ICT by admin
By Subhash K. Jha
Mumbai, Feb 20 (IANS) Though Bollywood icon Amitabh Bachchan has been under fire from Raj Thackeray's Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) for building a girls' school in Uttar Pradesh's Barabanki ... Read more...
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Scanty snowfall in Uttarakhand
February 1st, 2008 - 7:06 pm ICT by admin
Buraskhanda, Uttarakhand, Feb 1 (ANI): Farmers of Buraskhanda village in Uttarakhand are distressed this year, as the natural cycle seems to have been upset with no rain and insufficient snowfall. Besides the ... Read more...
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