Assam refinery to explore potential markets in neighbouring countries
September 8th, 2012 - 12:11 am ICT by IANS
Guwahati, Sept 7 (IANS) Given its proximity to countries like Bangladesh, Bhutan and Myanmar, Assam's Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL) is now planning to explore potential markets for its products in ... Read more...
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‘Gattu’ delicately-threaded morality tale (IANS Movie Review)
July 19th, 2012 - 7:25 pm ICT by IANS
Film: "Gattu"; Cast: Mohammad Samad, Naresh Kumar; Director: Rajan Khosa; Rating: ***Films with children as the main characters are no longer a rarity. Thank god for that! It's imperative that ... Read more...
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Update on new technologies, IAF officers advised
July 9th, 2012 - 6:08 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 9 (IANS) With the Indian Air Force (IAF) all set to add new assets worth several crores of rupees in the coming years, officers and airmen ... Read more...
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Scrap nutrient-based subsidy for fertilisers: Jayalalithaa
June 27th, 2012 - 9:39 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, June 27 (IANS) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa has urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to withdraw the nutrient-based subsidy (NBS) scheme for fertilisers and reintroduce the earlier ... Read more...
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Nick Cannon put on diet
January 19th, 2012 - 9:13 am ICT by IANS
London, Jan 19 (IANS) Singer Nick Cannon has been put on strict diet regime after his recent hospitalisation following kidney problems."I'm feeling good, I'm in the office, I'm grinding, the ... Read more...
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Pakistanis hungry as steep hike in food prices
September 12th, 2011 - 1:03 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Sep 12 (IANS) Food prices have shot up in Pakistan by a whopping 74 percent in past three years, leading to an increase in hunger in the country, the ... Read more...
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Delhi sanctuary to get 1 lakh saplings
August 18th, 2011 - 6:13 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Aug 18 (IANS) Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit Thursday inaugurated a plantation drive under which one lakh saplings will be grown at a sanctuary in south Delhi.The Asola ... Read more...
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Terror attack failure of policy not intelligence: Advani
July 14th, 2011 - 6:27 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, July 14 (IANS) The serial blasts in Mumbai were a failure of policy and not just intelligence, veteran Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani said here Thursday. ... Read more...
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In Singur, farmers line up for land - finally
July 8th, 2011 - 3:02 pm ICT by IANS
Singur (West Bengal), July 8 (IANS) The municipal office in this industrial town in West Bengal throbs with activity as hundreds of farmers gather daily to submit their applications ... Read more...
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Krishna visits 2,600-year-old Yangon pagoda
June 21st, 2011 - 3:24 pm ICT by IANS
Yangon, June 21 (IANS) Indian External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna visited the 2,600-year-old Shwedagon pagoda here Monday and said he was moved by the atmosphere of peace, tranquility and spirituality ... Read more...
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Bihar’s food security situation alarming, says expert
June 16th, 2011 - 9:17 pm ICT by IANS
Patna, June 16 (1ANS) More than half of Bihar's 10.5 crore population is malnourished, while 70 percent of women and children below the poverty line (BPL) are anaemic, a Supreme Court-appointed ... Read more...
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Pipes ‘n drums: Jammu jailbirds play a new tune
March 28th, 2011 - 1:32 pm ICT by IANS
Jammu, March 28 (IANS) Five pipers, five drummers, one on a big drum and a band master, all dressed up in red and black uniforms. Could be a band playing ... Read more...
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Top 5 Single Dedicated Moms In Hollywood
January 5th, 2011 - 11:59 am ICT by Sampurn Wire
Hollywood boasts of some of the most sensational beauties that have rocked the world of cinema and have been ruling the roost not only in terms of their hot looks ... Read more...
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India sets up another security outpost in Arabian Sea
December 24th, 2010 - 11:25 pm ICT by IANS
Lakshadweep, Dec 24 (IANS) India can "neglect" the security of the seas at its own "peril", Defence Minister A.K. Antony said Friday, as he inaugurated the last outpost of the country ... Read more...
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Manipur’s Tingkai village electrified by solar-wind hybrid project
December 22nd, 2010 - 7:42 pm ICT by ANI
Tingkai (Manipur), Dec.22 (ANI): The authorities have electrified Tingkai village in Manipur's Senapati District through a solar-wind hybrid project after five years of its resettlement in 2001.The wind-solar hybrid project has been ... Read more...
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Khushwant Singh plays to the gallery at new book’s release
November 30th, 2010 - 11:49 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Nov 30 (IANS) Writer-columnist Khushwant Singh, 96, Tuesday played to the gallery, gently ribbing Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's wife Gursharan Kaur, who released his new novel, "Sunset Club"."I am ... Read more...
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Orissa handloom weavers demand ban on cotton exports
November 24th, 2010 - 2:48 pm ICT by IANS
Bhubaneswar, Nov 24 (IANS) Expressing concern over the increasing prices of cotton, a leading weavers' cooperative in Orissa Wednesday demanded a ban on cotton's export and other measures to save the handloom ... Read more...
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Diving for diamonds - and life - in Yamuna waters (Feature With Image)
November 19th, 2010 - 12:26 pm ICT by IANS
By Subuhi Parvez
New Delhi, Nov 19 (IANS) Moinuddin and Krishna, though as different as chalk and cheese, have one thing in common. They follow a unique profession that both chanced upon many ... Read more...
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ISI not supporting Taliban, claims Musharraf
October 11th, 2010 - 3:25 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Oct 11 (IANS) Former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf has termed it as a "misunderstanding" that the Pakistani intelligence agency, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), continues to give sustenance and support to the ... Read more...
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Campaign in Goa: buy a cow, save the tiger
October 8th, 2010 - 1:40 pm ICT by IANS
By Mayabhushan Nagvenkar
Panaji, Oct 8 (IANS) Grassroots wildlife activists who have been fighting for notification of Goa's rich, but mining-threatened, forests as a tiger reserve have found a unique way to ... Read more...
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Tony Greene - The Gospel Singer Passes Away
September 29th, 2010 - 8:01 pm ICT by GD
By Meena Kar,
Sep 29 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Tony Greene, the Gospel Singer passed away yesterday afternoon at 4:30 pm, at an young age of 41, survived by his wife, TaRanda Greene, his two ... Read more...
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Fresh tar balls sweep across Goa beaches
September 17th, 2010 - 6:27 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, Sep 17 (IANS) Fresh tar balls have swept across several beaches in South Goa, an official said Friday. According to an eyewitness, tea bags too floated in at one of ... Read more...
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US Gen. warns Obama’s Afghan deadline giving Taliban “sustenance”
August 25th, 2010 - 1:17 pm ICT by ANI
London, Aug 25 (ANI): General James Conway, head of the US Marine Corps has said that President Barack Obama's July 2011 deadline to start withdrawing troops from Afghanistan is giving the ... Read more...
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Tennis teams for CWG, Davis Cup to be selected Friday
August 10th, 2010 - 7:45 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Aug 10 (IANS) The teams for the Davis Cup World Group tie and the Commonwealth Games will be picked Friday by the selection committee and executive committee of All ... Read more...
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Taj city residents oppose widening of Delhi-Agra highway
August 3rd, 2010 - 4:52 pm ICT by IANS
Agra, Aug 3 (IANS) Thousands of Taj city residents Tuesday opposed the central government's decision to widen the Delhi-Agra national highway and presented a memorandum to the divisional commissioner on the issue. ... Read more...
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India reminds world of Taliban reintegration redlines, gets US backing (Second Lead)
July 20th, 2010 - 9:18 pm ICT by IANS
Kabul, July 20 (IANS) Warning of the dangers of a selective approach towards terrorism, India Tuesday joined world leaders in backing the reintegration plan of the Afghan government, but only on ... Read more...
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India reminds world of Taliban reintegration red lines
July 20th, 2010 - 6:16 pm ICT by IANS
Kabul, July 20 (IANS) Warning the world of the dangers of pursuing a selective approach towards terrorism, India Tuesday backed the reintegration plan of the Afghan government but on the condition ... Read more...
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Afghanistan must cut off links with terrorism, give up violence: Krishna
July 20th, 2010 - 5:39 pm ICT by ANI
Kabul, July 20 (ANI): Visiting Indian External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna on Tuesday called on the Afghanistan Government to take steps to cut off links with terrorists and give up violence to ... Read more...
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CPI-M slams Hooda for defending khap panchayats
July 4th, 2010 - 9:47 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 4 (IANS) The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) Sunday criticised Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda for defending the khap panchayats, saying his statement provides "sustenance" to honour killings ... Read more...
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Runaway Bride, Jennifer Wilbanks, Claims To Have Found True Love!
June 23rd, 2010 - 7:39 pm ICT by Pen Men At Work
June 23, 2010 (Pen Men at Work): Jennifer Wilbanks, the infamous ‘runaway bride’ had been in the news back in 2005. She had run away on her wedding day which ... Read more...
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India wants listed firms to have 25 percent minimum public holding
June 4th, 2010 - 7:47 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, June 4 (IANS) India Friday said listed companies must have 25 percent minimum public holding to broadbase the shareholding pattern and bring more transparency in capital markets - a ... Read more...
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Kashmir reaches out to children of slain militants
May 11th, 2010 - 11:58 am ICT by IANS
By Binoo Joshi
Jammu, May 11 (IANS) As a Jammu and Kashmir minister says, children are children, be they of militants or of terror victims. That is why the state is reaching out ... Read more...
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Parliament panel slams ministry for failure to save tigers
April 29th, 2010 - 9:38 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 29 (IANS) The environment ministry has failed to take adequate measures for the preservation of tigers and its figure of the number of the big cats in the ... Read more...
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Ramdev set to take Indian yoga to Myanmar, Pakistan
March 31st, 2010 - 1:39 pm ICT by IANS
By Madhusree Chatterjee
Kathmandu, March 31 (IANS) After conquering Nepal with his traditional brand of fitness pill - the Indian yoga, seer Ramdev is all set to take on Myanmar, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri ... Read more...
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“I’m Really Not Worried About a Career In Mumbai”-Kannada Star Sudeep
March 30th, 2010 - 11:58 am ICT by Sampurn Wire
March 30, 2010 (Sampurn Wire):Tell me about yourself?My father is hotelier in Karnataka. There are no actors in my family. I used to play a lot of cricket at the ... Read more...
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