Shutdown hits trains and road traffic in Bihar
September 20th, 2012 - 12:23 pm ICT by IANS
Patna, Sep 20 (IANS) The bandh called by the opposition to protest hike in diesel price, cap on subsidised LPG cylinders and FDI in retail hit the railways and road ... Read more...
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1984 Olympics: India missed medal when it was for taking (Sports Special)
July 18th, 2012 - 7:57 pm ICT by IANS
Reckoned to be one of the best teams ever in the post-Independence era, the Indian squad for the 1984 Olympics glowed with talent and promise to an extent that nothing less ... Read more...
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1980 Olympics: India win gold as top teams stay out
July 17th, 2012 - 5:24 pm ICT by IANS
After a tumultuous period following the hockey debacle at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, India fielded a relatively young but talented side for the Moscow Games where barring skipper Vasudevan Baskaran and ... Read more...
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Court tells Delhi power regulator to notify tariff hike
July 11th, 2012 - 10:24 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 11 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Wednesday directed the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) to notify the recent hike in electricity tariff.A division bench of Acting ... Read more...
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Gurgaon residents protest power cuts
July 3rd, 2012 - 11:02 pm ICT by IANS
Gurgaon, July 3 (IANS) A severe power crisis Tuesday led residents, including municipal councillors, to agitate and block roads in the various parts of Gurgaon, causing extended traffic jams in ... Read more...
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Three more held for shooting Delhi legislator
June 5th, 2012 - 11:00 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, June 5 (IANS) Three more people were arrested for the attack on Delhi legislator Bharat Singh in the capital June 2, police said Tuesday. Four accused were ... Read more...
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Indian peacekeepers treat 15,000 animals in South Sudan
May 31st, 2012 - 11:26 am ICT by IANS
New York, May 31 (IANS) Indian peacekeepers have treated over 15,000 animals in conflict-hit South Sudan since 2011, the head of its veterinary unit said.The veterinary unit of the United ... Read more...
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Court sends activist’s death probe to crime branch (Lead)
May 21st, 2012 - 8:39 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 21 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Monday shifted the probe into the death of a right to information activist in a road accident here last month to ... Read more...
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Court sends activist’s death probe to crime branch
May 21st, 2012 - 7:58 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 21 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Monday shifted the probe into a right to information activist's death in a road accident here last month to the crime ... Read more...
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Delhi man murders brother for touching his car
May 18th, 2012 - 1:01 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 17 (IANS) A 42-year-old man was bludgeoned to death by his younger brother who was infuriated because the former had touched his car, police said Thursday.Ravinder, 36 ... Read more...
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Conmen play cops in Goa, target tourists, women
May 8th, 2012 - 12:09 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, May 8 (IANS) When Ravikumar Prajapati, 48, from Karnataka was suddenly accosted by three authoritative sounding 'plainclothed' policemen in March this year and asked to accompany them to the ... Read more...
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‘Satyamev Jayate’ gutsy, sensible show: Viewers
May 6th, 2012 - 4:34 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, May 6 (IANS) From filmmakers to clinical psychologists to professors - everyone has given the thumbs up to Aamir Khan's television show "Satyamev Jayate", saying it is a ... Read more...
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Delhi land scam: Charges to be framed against 10 accused
May 5th, 2012 - 10:18 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) A CBI special court here has decided to frame charges against 10 accused, including ex-officials of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), for alleged lapses ... Read more...
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Coming up, a pocketbook on Akhilesh - in 10 languages (With Images)
April 21st, 2012 - 1:15 pm ICT by IANS
Lucknow, April 21 (IANS) If you're curious about Uttar Pradesh's new, youngest chief minister, wait till a 200-page multi-language pocketbook on Akhilesh Yadav hits the stands next week.The ... Read more...
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Husband murders wife, daughters, kills self in Gurgaon
April 20th, 2012 - 8:09 pm ICT by IANS
Gurgaon, April 20 (IANS) After a heated argument with his wife over her work, a man murdered her and their two minor daughters before committing suicide earlier this week, police ... Read more...
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Tatra scam: CBI searches two ex army officers’ homes (Second Lead)
April 18th, 2012 - 7:11 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 18 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Wednesday searched the homes of two former army officers in Delhi and Noida and recovered key documents related to ... Read more...
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Gurgaon factory violence: Contractor, 11 workers arrested
March 21st, 2012 - 1:37 am ICT by IANS
Gurgaon, March 21 (IANS) A labour contractor and 10 workers of an export house were arrested Tuesday in connection with Monday's violence by employees, police said, adding a court has ... Read more...
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Workers clash with police, vehicles torched
March 19th, 2012 - 10:14 pm ICT by IANS
Gurgaon, March 19 (IANS) Workers of an export unit here clashed with police, setting fire to more than a dozen police and fire brigade vehicles in violence that left many ... Read more...
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Six drowned in Goa as school bus falls into river (Second Lead)
February 18th, 2012 - 9:56 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, Feb 18 (IANS) At least six people, including four school children and two women escorting them, were drowned Saturday after their bus fell into a river in Goa, police ... Read more...
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Man murdered over Rs.50
February 12th, 2012 - 12:05 am ICT by IANS
Ghaziabab, Feb 11 (IANS) A fight over Rs.50 proved fatal for a technician who was stabbed to death by a milk dairy owner in the Sahibabad area of Ghaziabad Saturday, ... Read more...
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Goa Police seek counselling for contract killer
January 28th, 2012 - 8:52 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, Jan 28 (IANS) Goa Police are in the process of roping in a counsellor for an alleged supari killer who in 2010 had confessed to have been offered a ... Read more...
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Probe Shanti Bhushan CD case properly, court tells police (Second Lead)
January 25th, 2012 - 10:55 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Jan 25 (IANS) A Delhi court Wednesday asked the police to properly probe a case related to a CD purportedly containing a conversation between lawyer and Team Anna ... Read more...
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Gaurav Gill takes commanding lead at Odisha Rally
December 10th, 2011 - 7:15 pm ICT by IANS
Bhubaneswar, Dec 10 (IANS) Gaurav Gill (co-driver Musa Sherif) of Team MRF took a 38-second lead over team-mate Amittrajit Ghosh (Ashwin Naik) at the end of the first day in ... Read more...
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Congress finds no ward to field sitting Chandigarh mayor
November 28th, 2011 - 11:35 am ICT by IANS
Chandigarh, Nov 28 (IANS) Ironic as it may sound, the sitting mayor of Chandigarh has not been able to find favour with the ruling Congress party to get himself ... Read more...
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Three held for duping 500 people of Rs.50 lakh
November 16th, 2011 - 11:02 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Nov 16 (IANS) Three people, including a woman, were arrested in north Delhi for duping over 500 people from across the country of around Rs.50 lakh by promising ... Read more...
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Congress, NC war of words hots up in Kashmir
November 1st, 2011 - 8:17 pm ICT by IANS
Jammu, Nov 1 (IANS) The war of words between Jammu and Kashmir's ruling alliance partners exacerbated Tuesday with the Congress hitting out at a National Conference leader's claim that infighting ... Read more...
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Two held for duping 1,000 people over jobs
October 13th, 2011 - 1:42 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Oct 13 (IANS) A retired Indian Army personnel and a woman from Assam were arrested here for duping thousand of people across the country on the pretext of ... Read more...
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Jammu hopes for fair deal in interlocutors’ report
October 12th, 2011 - 11:13 pm ICT by IANS
Jammu, Oct 12 (IANS) People across Jammu Wednesday said they hoped for a "fair deal" in the report submitted by the three interlocutors appointed by the central government to ... Read more...
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Property dealer held for constable’s murder
October 5th, 2011 - 9:35 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Oct 5 (IANS) A property dealer, allegedly involved in the killing of a police constable last week, was arrested from north Delhi, police said Wednesday.Ravinder Solanki, 27, was ... Read more...
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Delhi policeman shot dead by property dealers
September 29th, 2011 - 8:46 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Sep 29 (IANS) A Delhi Police constable was killed when two property dealers he prevented from grabbing land broke into his house and shot him five times, police ... Read more...
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Two get life term for murder of Meerut university professor
September 23rd, 2011 - 7:59 pm ICT by IANS
Ghaziabad, Sep 23 (IANS) A special CBI court here awarded life imprisonment to two people and a three-year jail to a third person held guilty in the 2006 murder of ... Read more...
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Three convicted for professor’s murder
September 22nd, 2011 - 5:24 pm ICT by IANS
Ghaziabad, Sep 22 (IANS) A CBI court here Thursday convicted three people for the 2006 murder of university professor Kavita Chaudhary in Uttar Pradesh.
A notice was also issued to key ... Read more...
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Five youths held for rioting in Himachal
August 31st, 2011 - 12:18 am ICT by IANS
Shimla, Aug 30 (IANS) Five youths belonging to high-profile families of Punjab have been arrested for assaulting people under the influence of liquor in Himachal Pradesh's Solan district, police said ... Read more...
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Old woman robbed, murdered
July 30th, 2011 - 12:40 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 29 (IANS) A 64-year-old woman was robbed and then murdered at her residence in west Delhi, said senior police official Friday.The police officials investigating the case claimed ... Read more...
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Two arrested for killing businessman
July 8th, 2011 - 9:16 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 8 (IANS) Two brothers-in-law who shot dead a businessman because he resisted a robbery attempt have been arrested here, police said Friday. A third man is on ... Read more...
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