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November 28th, 2008 - 12:09 pm ICT by ANI
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New Delhi, Nov 28 (ANI):The Central Government has announced a seven-day state mourning from Friday as a mark of respect to the former Prime Minister V.P. Singh.
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November 3rd, 2008 - 6:59 pm ICT by ANI
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London, Nov 3 (ANI): The Queen has ordered steps to be taken to prevent Baroness Thatcher disrupting her schedule on Remembrance Sunday. The order follows a row over protocol at last ...
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October 27th, 2008 - 8:51 pm ICT by IANS
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Nagpur, Oct 27 (IANS) Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister R.R. Patil Monday announced generous compensation to the bereaved families of police personnel killed in gun-fight with the Maoists Sunday.The family of police ...
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September 30th, 2008 - 8:25 am ICT by ANI
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Hyderabad, Sept.30 (ANI): One of India''s prominent Muslim leaders and Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) president Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi died here on Monday night after a prolonged illness. He was 76. Owaisi was ...
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September 8th, 2008 - 12:10 pm ICT by IANS
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New Delhi, Sep 8 (IANS) Marshal of Air Force Arjan Singh has said the government should have forgotten protocol to attend Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw's funeral, an event that saw very low-key ...
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August 28th, 2008 - 4:49 pm ICT by IANS
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Paris, Aug 28 (Xinhua) France would assume its responsibilities in Afghanistan, French President Nicolas Sarkozy has said."A military withdrawal would be followed by the return of Taliban and Al Qaeda, and without ...
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August 18th, 2008 - 6:47 pm ICT by IANS
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Patna, Aug 18 (IANS) Dashrath Manjhi single-handedly carved out a road by cutting through a hill in Bihar for 21 long years. A year after his death, his dream of a metalled ...
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August 6th, 2008 - 7:11 pm ICT by IANS
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RIA Novosti
Moscow, Aug 6 (RIA Novosti) The body of Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn was laid to rest at Moscow's Donskoi monastery Wednesday in a ceremony attended by hundreds of people. Solzhenitsyn, a ...
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August 5th, 2008 - 9:00 pm ICT by IANS
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DPA
Moscow, Aug 5 (DPA) Hundreds of mourners stood hunched in unrelenting rain Tuesday to pay tribute to Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the former dissident Russian author and Nobel laureate, lying in state at the ...
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August 3rd, 2008 - 6:31 pm ICT by ANI
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Melbourne, Aug 3 (ANI): A bizarre law in UK that bans a person from dying in the Houses of Parliament, has been voted as Britain''s most ridiculous law.
This law which topped ...
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July 31st, 2008 - 5:30 pm ICT by IANS
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Ludhiana, July 31 (IANS) Hundreds of Ludhiana residents had turned out with drums, crackers and sweets to celebrate Ishmeet Singh's ascent to stardom last November. The same people came out of their ...
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July 16th, 2008 - 10:28 pm ICT by IANS
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New Delhi, July 16 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Wednesday dismissed a lawyer's plea seeking directions to the centre to ensure that the alleged lapses during the state funeral of former Indian ...
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July 15th, 2008 - 3:36 pm ICT by IANS
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New Delhi, July 15 (IANS) Retired senior officers of the Indian Army Tuesday demanded that the country's highest civilian honour Bharat Ratna be conferred on military icon Field Marshal S.H.F.J. Manekshaw posthumously. ...
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July 14th, 2008 - 4:46 pm ICT by ANI
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London, July 14 (ANI): Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher will be the first Prime Minister since Sir Winston Churchill to be given a state funeral when she passes away.
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July 8th, 2008 - 7:22 pm ICT by ANI
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By Prem Prakash
London: The manner in which the nation gave a send off to its most brilliant soldier son, Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw puts us all in shame. Here was a ...
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July 7th, 2008 - 12:59 pm ICT by IANS
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By Kul Bhushan
Indians living abroad have been quick to express their angst over the response - rather its absence - of the top Indian leadership to the final farewell for Field Marshal ...
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July 2nd, 2008 - 5:15 pm ICT by IANS
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By Vishnu Makhijani
New Delhi, July 2 (IANS) Several serving and retired Indian Army officers are livid over the low key although state funeral accorded to the legendary Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw. And ...
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June 30th, 2008 - 9:25 pm ICT by IANS
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New Delhi, June 30 (IANS) The rank of Field Marshal, the highest-ranked officer of the Indian Army, does not figure in the country's protocol list, leading to the sorry spectacle of no ...
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June 30th, 2008 - 2:43 pm ICT by ANI
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New Delhi, June 30 (ANI): Defence Minister A K Antony and the Chiefs of three wings of the defence forces paid formal tribute to India's first Field Marshal, Sam Hormusji Framji ...
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June 28th, 2008 - 12:01 am ICT by IANS
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Chennai/New Delhi, June 27 (IANS) Former Indian Army chief Field Marshal Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw, the iconic architect of India's 1971 military victory over Pakistan, died at a military hospital early ...
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June 27th, 2008 - 11:32 pm ICT by IANS
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Chennai/New Delhi, June 27 (IANS) Former Indian Army chief Field Marshal Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw, the iconic architect of India's 1971 military victory over Pakistan, died at a military hospital early ...
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June 27th, 2008 - 11:22 pm ICT by ANI
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Wellington (Tamil Nadu), June 27 (ANI): State funeral was accorded to the late Filed Marshal Manekshaw with full military honours at the Military Regiment Centre ground in Wellington on Friday afternoon. ...
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June 27th, 2008 - 10:41 pm ICT by IANS
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New Delhi, June 27 (IANS) The Indian Army is extremely disappointed over the lack of high-level civil and military representation at the state funeral accorded to Field Marshal Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji ...
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June 27th, 2008 - 6:43 pm ICT by ANI
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Ooty, June 27 (ANI): Floral tributes in accordance with the military's customs were paid to India 's first Field Marshal, Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw at Ooty in Tamil Nadu today.
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February 29th, 2008 - 7:33 pm ICT by admin
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Wellington, Feb 29 (DPA) The ashes of Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man atop the Everest and Antarctic explorer who died in January at the age of 88, were scattered on the ...
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January 21st, 2008 - 8:22 pm ICT by admin
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Auckland (New Zealand), Jan.21 (ANI): Hundreds of New Zealanders paid their last respects to Sir Edmund Hillary, the first climber to scale Mount Everest, ahead of his state funeral on Tuesday.
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January 19th, 2008 - 11:34 am ICT by admin
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Edinburgh, Jan 19 (ANI): In what is seen as a snub to New Zealands national hero Sir Edmund Hillary, whose conquest of Mt. Everest brought fame to his country, no member from ...
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January 11th, 2008 - 4:23 pm ICT by admin
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Wellington, Jan 11 (ANI): Sir Edmund Hillary, who was catapulted into the history books when he became the first man to climb Everest, died on January 10 at the age of 88.
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