Ganesha immersion, Telangana bandh won’t upset ‘Rebel’ release
September 20th, 2012 - 8:06 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, Sep 20 (IANS) Actor Prabhas-starrer Telugu action film "Rebel" will release Sep 28 as scheduled and will not be deferred in view of Ganesha immersion or Telangana shutdown, confirmed ... Read more...
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BRICS nations working to facilitate intra-grouping trade
July 19th, 2012 - 8:50 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 19 (IANS) BRICS countries are currently moving ahead in areas in which the five member-countries can easily cooperate such as trade facilitation, said an Indian government official."We ... Read more...
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Asia’s largest defence exhibition kicks off Thursday
March 28th, 2012 - 8:06 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 28 (IANS) Over 500 global defence firms from 32 countries will be displaying their land and naval warfare systems at Asia's largest military exhibition being hosted by ... Read more...
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NRHM case: Former UP minister, BSP legislator arrested (Lead)
March 3rd, 2012 - 9:41 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 3 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Saturday arrested former Uttar Pradesh minister Babu Singh Kushwaha and his aide and sitting BSP legislator Ram Prasad ... Read more...
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Dead man alive: Apex court asks Jhansi court to probe
December 9th, 2011 - 11:59 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Dec 9 (IANS) Two step brothers had similar names and one of them was allegedly murdered 11 years ago. The three men convicted for the crime have told ... Read more...
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Pawar attacker sent to 14-day judicial custody
November 25th, 2011 - 6:12 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Nov 25 (IANS) Harvinder Singh, who slapped union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar, was Friday sent to 14 days in judicial custody by a Patiala House court while supporters ... Read more...
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‘Killers’ of man, who turns out to be alive, set free
November 4th, 2011 - 11:38 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Nov 4 (IANS) The Supreme Court Friday released, on bail, four members of a family who were sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering a person who later surfaced ... Read more...
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Fear grows as Nepal church escapes bomb attack
August 29th, 2011 - 4:31 pm ICT by IANS
Kathmandu, Aug 29 (IANS) Two years after a bomb attack on a church in Kathmandu valley killed three people during mass and injured nearly a dozen, Nepal's minority Christian community ... Read more...
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‘Mr. Duplicate’ a bad copy of ‘Minnale’ (Kannada Film Review)
August 6th, 2011 - 1:23 pm ICT by IANS
Film: "Mr. Duplicate"; Cast: Prajwal, Devaraj, Diganth, Sheethal, Anand, Ramesh Bhat, Thulasi, Sudha Belawadi and others; Director: Kodlu Ramakrishna; Producer: Kashyap Dakoju; Story and Screenplay: Dwaraki; Music: Mano Murthy; Camera: ... Read more...
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Ram Prasad’s ‘Banna Bannada Loka’ a damp squib (Kannada Movie Review)
July 24th, 2011 - 5:23 pm ICT by IANS
Film: "'Banna Bannada Loka"; Cast: Ramprasad, Harsha, Shravani, Meghana Gowda, Avinash, Rangayana Raghu, Rekha V. Kumar, Poorva and Vasanthkumar; Producer: C. Krishnappa; Storywriter-Screenplaywriter-Director: Ram Prasad; Music Director: D. Thomas; Cinematographer: ... Read more...
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Three held with 45 kg of opium
July 1st, 2011 - 11:37 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 1 (IANS) Three people have been arrested for drug peddling and 45 kg of opium worth more than Rs.27 lakh has been seized from them, police said ... Read more...
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Woman, paramour held for husband’s murder
April 21st, 2011 - 11:25 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 21 (IANS) A woman and her paramour were arrested in north Delhi for killing her ailing husband, police said Thursday.Rajni, resident of Harsh Vihar, murdered her husband ... Read more...
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Four Maoists arrested with arms and explosives in Jharkhand
January 30th, 2011 - 8:05 pm ICT by ANI
Palamu (Jharkhand), Jan 30(ANI): Jharkhand Police on Sunday said that they have arrested four Maoists and seized huge cache of arms and ammunitions from their possession in the state's Palamu district.Anup. T. ... Read more...
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Principal booked for selling text-books as scrap
December 31st, 2010 - 12:09 am ICT by IANS
Mirzapur (Uttar Pradesh), Dec 30 (IANS) A principal of a government school and another official were Thursday booked in this Uttar Pradesh district for selling as scrap textbooks that were meant to ... Read more...
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Ready to go back to Bihar, say migrants
November 24th, 2010 - 8:44 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Nov 24 (IANS) They came to the national capital with hopes of getting a job to earn their daily bread. They got it and are happy. Now, encouraged ... Read more...
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Cop dies, four injured in Kashmir road mishap
November 1st, 2010 - 1:17 pm ICT by ANI
Srinagar, Nov.1 (ANI): A police constable died and four policemen were injured in two different road accidents across the Kashmir Valley on Sunday.Javaid Ahmad Mir, police constable and a resident of Dooru, ... Read more...
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Nepal lawyers rally behind Sobhraj’s lawyer, fiancee
August 5th, 2010 - 8:09 pm ICT by IANS
By Sudeshna Sarkar
Kathmandu, Aug 5 (IANS) In an act of solidarity, Nepal's lawyers Thursday rallied behind former international master criminal Charles Sobhraj's beleaguered lawyer Shakuntala Thapa and her daughter Nihita Biswas, better ... Read more...
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Man held for aiding ISI agent get Indian passport
July 23rd, 2010 - 9:51 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 23 (IANS) A 60-year-old man was arrested here Friday on charges of helping an ISI agent obtain an Indian passport, police said.
Nafees Ahmed was held from near the Patiala ... Read more...
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Sobhraj fate put off till July 30 (Lead)
July 14th, 2010 - 6:29 pm ICT by IANS
By Sudeshna Sarkar
Kathmandu, July 14 (IANS) While the rest of his family and friends celebrated Bastille Day in Paris, Charles Sobhraj had the walls of the Kathmandu prison close in on him ... Read more...
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Verdict on Charles Sobhraj postponed
July 14th, 2010 - 5:19 pm ICT by IANS
By Sudeshna Sarkar
Kathmandu, July 14 (IANS) In a cruel twist to his seven-year battle for freedom in Nepal, the Supreme Court here Wednesday again postponed the final verdict on a murder case ... Read more...
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No evidence against me: Charles Sobhraj
July 14th, 2010 - 1:25 pm ICT by IANS
By Sudeshna Sarkar
Kathmandu, July 14 (IANS) As his sensational seven-year battle against a three-decade-old murder conviction draws closer, Charles Sobhraj, once dubbed various monikers by the press, some flattering, some spine-tingling, remains ... Read more...
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Sobhraj verdict on July 14
June 23rd, 2010 - 8:48 pm ICT by IANS
By Sudeshna Sarkar
Kathmandu, June 23 (IANS) A sensational murder in Nepal in 1975, that police blame on yesteryear's international crime maestro Charles Sobhraj, could be finally laid to rest next month with ... Read more...
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Another Hindu militant group on rise in Nepal?
June 6th, 2010 - 1:10 pm ICT by IANS
By Sudeshna Sarkar
Kathmandu, June 6 (IANS) A year after a militant Hindu group came into prominence by engineering a bomb attack on a church in Kathmandu valley that killed three women, another ... Read more...
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‘Nepal church, mosque bombers funded by Indian groups, armed by ULFA’
December 30th, 2009 - 1:34 pm ICT by IANS
By Sudeshna Sarkar
Kathmandu, Dec 30 (IANS) Three months after being caught for masterminding attacks on churches and mosques in Nepal, the chief of an underground organisation that persecuted Christians and Muslims says ... Read more...
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Two held for shooting at Delhi property dealer
November 20th, 2009 - 10:06 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Nov 20 (IANS) Two people were arrested here Friday for allegedly shooting at a property dealer in south Delhi, injuring him severely, police said.
"The incident took place late Thursday in ... Read more...
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16-year-old forced to drink acid for refusing marriage proposal
October 1st, 2009 - 3:16 pm ICT by IANS
Bhopal, Oct 1 (IANS) Five people, including two women, were booked here for allegedly forcing a 16-year-old girl to drink acid after she refused to marry a boy of their choice, police ... Read more...
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Secular Nepal celebrates first Eid with independent moon-sighting
September 21st, 2009 - 4:31 pm ICT by IANS
Kathmandu, Sep 21 (IANS) Clad in white clothes and white caps, thousands of Muslims thronged to mosques to pray and celebrate as a newly secular Nepal announced the first public holiday for ... Read more...
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‘Chennai graduate’ led armed outfit in Nepal
September 8th, 2009 - 5:29 pm ICT by IANS
Kathmandu, Sep 8 (IANS) A 41-year-old civil engineer, who claims to have received his degree from India's Chennai city, has been arrested in Nepal for allegedly planning a series of explosions ... Read more...
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Sonia Gandhi visits Sadauli village in Rae Bareilly
August 10th, 2009 - 9:52 pm ICT by ANI
Sadauli (Uttar Pradesh), Aug. 10 (ANI): Congress president Sonia Gandhi visited Sadauli, a village in her parliamentary constituency of Rae Bareilly in on Monday.Sonia Gandhi, on a three-day-tour of her ... Read more...
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Man arrested for killing employer, witness
July 18th, 2009 - 9:30 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 18 (IANS) A man from Nepal has been arrested on the charge of killing his employer for not paying his salaries for five months and then killing the prime ... Read more...
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Man murders brother, pregnant sister-in-law over land dispute
June 16th, 2009 - 9:04 pm ICT by IANS
Lucknow, June 16 (IANS) A man in an Uttar Pradesh village Tuesday killed three of his relatives, including his pregnant sister-in-law, over a land dispute, police said.
Ram Awtar barged into his brother's ... Read more...
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Woman arrested for Nepal church blast
June 2nd, 2009 - 7:37 pm ICT by IANS
Kathmandu, June 2 (IANS) Nepal police Tuesday said they had made a breakthrough in investigating the deadly blast that ripped through the prayer hall of one of the oldest Catholic churches in ... Read more...
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Third Indian churchgoer hurt in Nepal blast is dead
June 1st, 2009 - 3:06 pm ICT by IANS
Kathmandu, June 1 (IANS) A 45-year-old homemaker from Kerala became the third Indian churchgoer to die in Kathmandu valley's Patan Hospital after sustaining grievous injuries during the blast in a Catholic church ... Read more...
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Traditional turbans beat the heat in Rajasthan
May 30th, 2009 - 11:25 pm ICT by ANI
By Lokendra SinghJaipur, May 30 (ANI): A large number of Rajasthani people are drawn to tie heavy turbans around their head as shield from the blazing summer heat here.Residents are ... Read more...
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Business booms for vendors outside CPI-M office
May 16th, 2009 - 6:47 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 16 (IANS) As tension mounted within the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) party headquarters here in anticipation of Lok Sabha election results Saturday, street vendors selling food and beverage ... Read more...
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