Government should not cancel coal blocks: Godrej
September 5th, 2012 - 7:18 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Sep 5 (IANS) The government should not cancel coal blocks under opposition pressure following the Comptroller and Auditor General's (CAG) report as it would hurt business sentiment, ... Read more...
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CII against wholesale cancellation of coal blocks
September 2nd, 2012 - 2:11 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Sep 2 (IANS) The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has cautioned the government against mass cancellation of coal blocks allocation, saying such a step would hurt business ... Read more...
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Sri Lankan airmen shifted to Bangalore? Send them home, Jayalalitha demands (Fourth Lead, superseding previous story)
July 7th, 2012 - 1:15 am ICT by IANS
Chennai/New Delhi, July 6 (IANS) In an apparently delicate balancing act, a group of Sri Lankan airmen being trained at a base near Chennai have been shifted to Bangalore after ... Read more...
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Disconnect over Sri Lankan airmen’s status; Jayalaithaa demands they be sent home (Third Lead)
July 7th, 2012 - 12:36 am ICT by IANS
Chennai/New Delhi, July 6 (IANS) In a clear instance of disconnect, the Press Information Bureau's Chennai wing said Friday that all the Sri Lankan airmen being trained near Chennai were ... Read more...
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Disconnect over Sri Lankan airmen being sent back (Second Lead)
July 6th, 2012 - 11:10 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai/New Delhi, July 6 (IANS) In a clear instance of disconnect, the Press Information Bureau's Chennai wing said Friday that all the Sri Lankan airmen being trained near the Tamil ... Read more...
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Disconnect over Sri Lankan airmen being sent back (Lead)
July 6th, 2012 - 10:35 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai/New Delhi, July 6 (IANS) In a clear case of disconnect, the Chennai wing of the Press Information Bureau said Friday that all the Sri Lankan airmen being trained near ... Read more...
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Allay people’s fears about Kudankulam first, Jayalalithaa tells PM
December 17th, 2011 - 11:37 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, Dec 17 (IANS) Expressing surprise at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's statement on commissioning the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP), Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa Saturday reminded him ... Read more...
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Advise Kerala to be calm on Mullapriyar, Jaya urges PM
November 29th, 2011 - 11:38 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, Nov 29 (IANS) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa Tuesday urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to advise the Kerala government not to precipitate the Mullaperiyar Dam issue any ... Read more...
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Haryana upset over Punjab minister’s ‘threat’ to official
July 21st, 2011 - 10:10 pm ICT by IANS
Chandigarh, July 21 (IANS) The Haryana government Thursday took strong exception to the alleged threat by Punjab Irrigation Minister Janmeja Singh Sekhon to officers of the Haryana irrigation department at ... Read more...
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Stress and alcohol ‘feed’ off each other
July 17th, 2011 - 4:07 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, July 17 (IANS) Acute stress seems to precipitate alcohol drinking, but the reasons why it does are still not clear.
"Anecdotal reports suggest that alcohol dampens the physiological or ... Read more...
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Jairam seeks peaceful land acquisition for Posco
June 12th, 2011 - 4:46 pm ICT by IANS
Bhubaneswar, June 12 (IANS) Environment and Forests Minister Jairam Ramesh Sunday asked the Orissa government to ensure that land is acquired only through peaceful and law-governed means for South Korean ... Read more...
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DMK backs Kanimozhi, says will fight 2G legally
April 27th, 2011 - 2:50 pm ICT by ANI
Chennai, Apr 27 (ANI): The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) on Wednesday decided to legally fight the accusations of corruption against party MP and Chief Minister M Karunanidhi's daughter Kanimozhi on 2G spectrum ... Read more...
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Striking pilots irresponsible, disregarding passengers: Air India
April 27th, 2011 - 1:32 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 27 (IANS) Air India chairman Arvind Jadhav Wednesday said the striking pilots of the flag carrier were behaving irresponsibly and were totally unconcerned about inconvenience caused to ... Read more...
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Milk in tea could prevent weight loss
March 27th, 2011 - 6:05 pm ICT by IANS
London, Mar 27 (IANS) Beware, especially if you want to lose weight - don't add milk to tea, or you would pile on the pounds.
Scientists have discovered that tea ... Read more...
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Martian weather report reveals ice and fog near surface
March 18th, 2011 - 2:08 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Mar 18 (ANI): A pair of cameras mounted on the back of the Phoenix Mars Lander captured how laser light, emitted by the Lander's light detection and ranging (lidar) system, was ... Read more...
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Bharadwaj’s sanction unconstitutional, Yeddyurappa won’t quit: BJP (Lead)
January 22nd, 2011 - 8:50 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Jan 22 (IANS) Ruling out resignation of Karnataka Chief Minister B.S.Yeddyurappa, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Saturday termed as unconstitutional Governor H.R. Bhardwaj's sanction to prosecute him on ... Read more...
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BJP’s flag-hoisting march: Omar meets Chidambaram (Lead)
January 19th, 2011 - 3:06 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Jan 19 (IANS) Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah met union Home Minister P. Chidambaram here Wednesday ahead of the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) march to ... Read more...
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Karunanidhi blackmailing Congress: Jayalalithaa
December 8th, 2010 - 3:16 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, Dec 8 (IANS) Reiterating her demand for a joint parliamentary committee (JPC) probe into the 2G spectrum allotment, AIADMK chief J. Jayalalithaa Wednesday said DMK leader and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister ... Read more...
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Congress rejects Jayalalithaa’s offer of support (Second Lead)
November 11th, 2010 - 9:12 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi/Chennai, Nov 11 (IANS) The Congress Thursday rejected AIADMK chief J. Jayalalithaa's offer of support to the UPA government in the event of the DMK deciding to withdraw from the ... Read more...
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Raja, 2G spectrum shadows government, stalls parliament again (Roundup)
November 11th, 2010 - 7:15 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi/Chennai, Nov 11 (IANS) Pressure on the government to act against IT minister A. Raja for his alleged involvement in the 2G spectrum scandal mounted Thursday as opposition MPs continued ... Read more...
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Jayalalithaa offers to prop Congress if DMK goes out
November 11th, 2010 - 3:05 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Nov 11 (IANS) AIADMK leader J. Jayalalithaa Thursday offered to back the Congress-led government if its sacking of tainted Communications and IT Minister A. Raja led his party DMK ... Read more...
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Pak Foreign Minister calls for fair treatment of UK-based Pakistanis
November 5th, 2010 - 2:02 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad, Nov 5(ANI): Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has met British High Commissioner Adam Thomson in Islamabad after a report found that Pakistani immigrants are being discriminated by the UK Border ... Read more...
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BJP summons C P Thakur following his resignation
October 9th, 2010 - 5:29 pm ICT by ANI
Patna, Oct 9 (ANI): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) high command has summoned Bihar BJP President C P Thakur to New Delhi after he tendered his resignation from the party on ... Read more...
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Drought affected Jharkhand villagers seek permission to die
August 17th, 2010 - 8:45 pm ICT by ANI
By Girija Shankar OjhaJarda village (Jharkhand), Aug.17 (ANI): Faced with a severe drought following a poor monsoon, many villagers in Jharkhand are finding it hard to arrange for their livelihood and support ... Read more...
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Agitating Hyundai Motor workers arrested
June 8th, 2010 - 9:56 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, June 8 (IANS) Over 280 Hyundai Motors India workers staging a sit-in protest at the car plant were arrested Tuesday, even as talks between the company's management and the employees union ... Read more...
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Buffett defends rating agencies’ role in crisis
June 3rd, 2010 - 1:02 am ICT by IANS
New York, June 2 (IANS) Billionaire investor Warren Buffett Wednesday defended the role of credit rating agencies during the global financial crisis, saying they got it wrong while rating the US mortgage ... Read more...
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Grim weather up in North linked to prostate cancer risk
April 21st, 2010 - 3:25 pm ICT by ANI
London, April 21 (ANI): A new research by scientists at Idaho State University has suggested that grim weather up in North may be making men more prone to prostate cancer.Dr Sophie St-Hilaire, ... Read more...
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Ashes move from Sky TV to BBC will cause ‘collapse of cricket’: ECB
March 21st, 2010 - 4:58 pm ICT by ANI
London, Mar 21(ANI): The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) is opposing proposals to move the Ashes from Sky TV to BBC, saying the move would cost them 137.4 million pounds in ... Read more...
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‘This woman suckered us’, said Nixon of Indira Gandhi: Book
March 2nd, 2010 - 9:56 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 2 (IANS) "She suckered us. Suckered us.....this woman suckered us." So said an enraged US president Richard Nixon of Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi after learning that war had ... Read more...
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Coloured lights can sculpt nanoparticles
February 13th, 2010 - 5:15 pm ICT by ANI
London, Feb 13 (ANI): In a new research, scientists have shown that choosing the color of an LED light bulb can select the shape of nanoparticles growing out of a solution of ... Read more...
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Gout ups risk of heart attacks among women
February 8th, 2010 - 4:56 pm ICT by IANS
Toronto, Feb 8 (IANS) Women with gout are at greater risk of a heart attack than men with the disease, says a new study.
Gout is known to boost the risk of a ... Read more...
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Congress leaders from Telangana to discuss JAC issue
February 1st, 2010 - 12:58 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, Feb 1 (ANI): Abiding by the ultimatum issued by Union Law and Justice Minister M Veerappa Moily that the party would act tough on them if they did not ... Read more...
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Samajwadi Party crisis has eased, says Amar Singh
January 11th, 2010 - 7:42 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Jan 11 (IANS) The crisis in the Samajwadi Party (SP) appeared to have eased Monday with Amar Singh, who resigned from all party posts last week, saying that matters ... Read more...
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Andhra MP arrested at Hyderabad airport, released (Second Lead)
December 14th, 2009 - 5:40 pm ICT by IANS
Hyderabad, Dec 14 (IANS) Congress MP from Vijayawada L. Rajagopal was taken into preventive custody by the police at the airport here soon after he landed Monday to launch an indefinite ... Read more...
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Stress linked to cocaine relapse
October 31st, 2009 - 1:31 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Oct 31 (ANI): A new study has found that exposure to stress can precipitate a low mood leading to relapse in cocaine seeking.The research team from University of Washington (UW) has ... Read more...
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