November 23rd, 2008 - 1:08 pm ICT by IANS
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Chennai, Nov 23 (IANS) Roadside tea stalls owned by Nairs from Kerala are ubiquitous in Tamil Nadu. There was once a cartoon in a Tamil magazine depicting a Nair offering tea to ...
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November 16th, 2008 - 7:03 pm ICT by IANS
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New Delhi, Nov 16 (IANS) Though senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader V.K. Malhotra has agreed to fight as its chief ministerial candidate from Delhi, he seems to be already missing his ...
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October 24th, 2008 - 11:52 pm ICT by IANS
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Kolkata, Oct 24 (IANS) A 42-year-old man was shot dead in public by two unidentified men here Friday evening, the police said.The incident took place around 4 p.m. in Behala area in ...
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October 19th, 2008 - 3:40 pm ICT by IANS
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Jammu, Oct 19 (IANS) The mood in Jammu, the winter capital of Jammu and Kashmir, is upbeat Sunday over the Election Commission's announcement of seven-phased polls for the state assembly from Nov ...
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October 9th, 2008 - 4:33 pm ICT by IANS
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Lucknow, Oct 9 (IANS) After a pregnant woman was turned away from a community health centre (CHC) in the Uttar Pradesh capital, she was forced to give birth at a tea stall, ...
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August 25th, 2008 - 11:28 pm ICT by IANS
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New Delhi, Aug 25 (IANS) The east district police have arrested six persons and claimed to have solved a Rs.20-million robbery case.The incident took place Aug 13 when four persons barged into ...
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August 14th, 2008 - 3:49 pm ICT by IANS
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Srinagar, Aug 14 (IANS) With the recent troubles in the Kashmir Valley, tourism has slumped but some domestic and foreign visitors are still holidaying in famed spots like Gulmarg and Pahalgam, say ...
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August 11th, 2008 - 9:02 pm ICT by IANS
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Lucknow, Aug 11 (IANS) A roadside tea vendor set himself on fire in front of a Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) legislator's house in Naka locality here Monday afternoon, the police said. The ...
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August 10th, 2008 - 12:17 am ICT by IANS
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New Delhi, Aug 9 (IANS) An eight-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her neighbour in west Delhi Saturday, police said. “The victim was playing outside her house in Pandav Nagar in the ...
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August 4th, 2008 - 12:14 pm ICT by IANS
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Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 4 (IANS) Kallumooti is a real favourite among auto-rickshaw drivers at the railway station and the adjoining bus stop in the Kerala capital. The dog is good at soliciting passengers ...
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July 17th, 2008 - 9:18 pm ICT by ANI
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By Avtar Singh Gill
Fazilka (Punjab), July 17 (ANI): A group of engineering graduates here has set up a concept called Ecocab call centre to overcome the routine transportation problem.
It has ...
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July 16th, 2008 - 7:39 pm ICT by IANS
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Patna, July 16 (IANS) Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar had promised in the last two monsoon seasons that waterlogging in the state capital would be history. But the continuing spell of heavy ...
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July 11th, 2008 - 11:10 am ICT by IANS
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Chandigarh, July 11 (IANS) First, there was a condom bar to drive home awareness about safe sex. Now, social activists have established condom depots in slum clusters in and around Chandigarh to ...
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July 7th, 2008 - 1:28 am ICT by IANS
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By Muhammad Najeeb
Islamabad, June 6 (IANS) Nineteen people - 18 policemen and one civilian - were killed and more than 40 injured in a suicide blast near a police station about 300 ...
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July 6th, 2008 - 11:18 pm ICT by IANS
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By Muhammad Najeeb
Islamabad, June 6 (IANS) Nineteen people, including nine policemen, were killed and more than 30 injured in a suicide bombing near a police station 300 yards from the Lal Masjid ...
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April 28th, 2008 - 10:38 am ICT by admin
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By Jivraj Burman
Until a few years ago, the Hindi words "bees ka challis, balcony ka saath" used to be regularly heard in the precincts of crowded cinema halls. It was the punchline ...
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April 11th, 2008 - 5:24 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, April 11 (IANS) "All Delhiites have their own favourite chaiwallah, the tea vendor who appears on every street. Some have their own tea stall and others will be carrying a ...
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March 15th, 2008 - 11:30 pm ICT by admin
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Guwahati, March 15 (IANS) Two militants were killed in a shootout with security forces Saturday, while two civilians were injured in a powerful explosion in Assam, officials said. A police spokesman said ...
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March 15th, 2008 - 6:27 pm ICT by admin
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Nandigram, Mar 15 (ANI): Communist Party of India (Marxist) and Trinamool Congress activists clashed in Nandigram on Saturday a day after opposition parties observed the first anniversary of a police firing ...
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March 8th, 2008 - 10:57 pm ICT by admin
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Guwahati, March 8 (IANS) At least one person was killed and 22 injured, four of them critically, in a string of explosions Saturday in Assam, officials said. A police spokesman said militants ...
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February 24th, 2008 - 4:38 pm ICT by admin
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Kolkata, Feb 24 (IANS) A top Maoist leader of West Bengal has been arrested by sleuths of the state's Criminal Investigation Department (CID) from a railway station near here, police said Sunday. ...
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February 16th, 2008 - 1:34 pm ICT by admin
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Gulmarg (Jammu and Kashmir), Feb 16 (IANS) At 9,000 feet above sea-level and over seven feet of snow on the ground, this Jammu and Kashmir town is all set to host the ...
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December 18th, 2007 - 6:44 pm ICT by admin
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Amritsar/Srinagar, Dec 18 (ANI): North India shivered under intense cold wave conditions on Tuesday morning as freezing temperatures grip the region.
A thick veil of mist enveloped Amritsar where early morning temperatures dipped ...
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November 29th, 2007 - 9:15 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi/Mumbai, Nov 29 (ANI): Yesteryear's heartthrob Madhuri Dixit is finally returning back to silver screen with 'Aaja Nachle', and has donned the grease paint once again for a role of a ...
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November 14th, 2007 - 10:36 am ICT by admin
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