115 killed in Syria: Report
September 6th, 2012 - 7:56 am ICT by IANS
Damascus, Sep 6 (IANS/AKI) An anti-government organisation has claimed the Syrian military Wednesday killed at least 115 people in a massacre in Aleppo province.The Syrian Local Coordination Committees, an umbrella ... Read more...
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Bank strike hits customer services in Karnataka
August 23rd, 2012 - 6:20 pm ICT by IANS
Bangalore, Aug 23 (IANS) Customer services in both state-run and private banks across Karnataka were severely affected for the second consecutive day Thursday as thousands of their employees and ... Read more...
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Banking services in Bengal paralysed for second day
August 23rd, 2012 - 1:03 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Aug 23 (IANS) Banking services in West Bengal remained paralysed for the second consecutive day Thursday, the last day of the two-day nationwide stir called by employees of ... Read more...
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Strike cripples banking operations in Karnataka
August 22nd, 2012 - 5:27 pm ICT by IANS
Bangalore, Aug 22 (IANS) Thousands of employees and officers of state-run and old generation private banks went on a two-day strike Wednesday, crippling banking operations across Karnataka in support ... Read more...
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Banking activity in Bengal comes to standstill
August 22nd, 2012 - 2:00 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Aug 22 (IANS) Banking activities in West Bengal came to a standstill as most union members joined the two-day nationwide strike from Wednesday to protest against the proposed Banking ... Read more...
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Banking activities in Bengal likely to be crippled for two days
August 22nd, 2012 - 1:04 am ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Aug 21 (IANS) Banking activities in West Bengal are likely to be crippled on Wednesday and Thursday as most union members will join the two-day nationwide strike to protest ... Read more...
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NESO asks prime minister to ensure safety of northeast people
August 16th, 2012 - 11:24 pm ICT by IANS
Shillong, Aug 16 (IANS) The North East Students Organisation (NESO) Thursday demanded intervention of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde to ensure security to the people ... Read more...
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South Asians seek rejection of tough US immigration law
April 26th, 2012 - 12:53 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, April 26 (IANS) As the US Supreme Court began a hearing on Arizona State's tough immigration law, a South Asian umbrella organisation asked the apex court to reject the ... Read more...
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Citizens for change: These Mumbaikars take political plunge
February 10th, 2012 - 9:56 am ICT by IANS
Mumbai, Feb 10 (IANS) Tired of a self-serving political class repeatedly letting down their beloved city and not content with just griping about it, a group of Mumbaikars is contesting ... Read more...
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NGOs, opposition join chorus against Goa poll officials’ silence
January 20th, 2012 - 11:44 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, Jan 20 (IANS) Civil society groups in Goa as well as the main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party Friday joined the chorus protesting the chief electoral office's silence ... Read more...
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Over one lakh netizens pledge to court arrest to back Anna
December 26th, 2011 - 9:52 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Dec 26 (IANS) The online campaign of Anna Hazare's 'Jail Bharo Andolan' has received over a lakh registrations within three days of the launch, an India Against ... Read more...
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Tight security planned for Hazare’s fast Sunday
December 10th, 2011 - 9:59 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Dec 10 (IANS) A day before Anna Hazare's day-long fast, Delhi Police said they planned to beef up security at Jantar Mantar in central Delhi Sunday.Hazare and ... Read more...
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Hundreds join car rally for Lokpal
December 4th, 2011 - 6:43 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Dec 4 (IANS) Hundreds of Anna Hazare supporters, many of them carrying national flags and sporting T-shirts with his name, participated in a car and bike rally ... Read more...
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No permission yet to Team Anna : MCD
November 29th, 2011 - 12:15 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Nov 28 (IANS) The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) Monday said Anna Hazare and his team members would have to first produce a No Objection Certificate (NOC) ... Read more...
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Anna gets MCD nod for another hunger strike
November 27th, 2011 - 11:23 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Nov 27 (IANS) The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has given the go ahead to social activists led by Anna Hazare for a hunger strike in the ... Read more...
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Whither Team Anna? (News Analysis)
October 30th, 2011 - 4:50 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Oct 30 (IANS) Anna Hazare is already planning his next move, with Team Anna having put up a united front in the face of controversies surrounding some ... Read more...
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Dress code divides Nepal
August 26th, 2011 - 2:46 pm ICT by IANS
Kathmandu, Aug 26 (IANS) Three years ago, when Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda, the leader of Nepal's 10-year communist revolution, re-appeared in parliament as the nation's first Maoist prime minister, he ... Read more...
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Bank staff plans strike against privatisation, law changes
June 28th, 2011 - 10:26 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, June 28 (IANS) Over 500 bank employees Tuesday demonstrated outside the Reserve Bank of India to protest the government's policy to privatise public sector banks and to amend ... Read more...
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Bank employees to strike work July 7
June 21st, 2011 - 9:24 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, June 21 (IANS) Nearly one million employees from public, private and foreign banks will join a nationwide strike July 7 to oppose proposed amendments to banking-related laws, a representative ... Read more...
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Anganwadi schools in poor state, shows survey
May 6th, 2011 - 11:19 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 6 (IANS) A survey conducted with the help of around 20,000 children from 16 states has presented a dismal picture of the Anganwadi centres and schools in ... Read more...
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65-70 percent polling recorded in Assam
April 4th, 2011 - 8:00 pm ICT by ANI
Guwahati, Apr 4 (ANI): An estimated 65 per cent of the electorate cast its votes in the first phase of assembly elections in 62 constituencies of Assam on Monday.Around 60 to ... Read more...
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Assam CM Gogoi cast his vote, confident of victory
April 4th, 2011 - 3:12 pm ICT by ANI
Guwahati, Apr 4 (ANI): Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Monday cast his vote during the first phase of the state assembly polls in Jorhat town and expressed confidence the Congress ... Read more...
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National meet to discuss tribal welfare issues
March 27th, 2011 - 4:17 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 27 (IANS) Around 5,000 delegates from different tribal groups across the country will attend a three-day All India Adivasi Mahasabha at the Talkatora Stadium here from Monday.
... Read more...
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Home ministry’s plan for umbrella intelligence body finds no favour
February 23rd, 2011 - 11:52 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Feb 23 (IANS) The Indian home ministry's plan to have an over-arching body for intelligence sifting has found no favour with two security think-tanks that worked separately to promote ... Read more...
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UN officials visit Kolkata’s red light area
January 27th, 2011 - 10:53 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Jan 27 (IANS) A high profile UN team Thursday visited Asia's largest red-light area here and urged an umbrella organisation of sex workers to prepare a scheme for their economic ... Read more...
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Successive shutdowns disrupt life in northeast
January 22nd, 2011 - 7:38 pm ICT by IANS
Silchar (Assam)/Agartala, Jan 22 (IANS) Continuous shutdowns in southern Assam have affected rail and road traffic as well as supply of essential goods between the northeastern states and the rest of India, ... Read more...
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It’s back to school for children in the plains (Roundup)
January 17th, 2011 - 5:50 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Jan 17 (IANS) With the sun breaking through and the days getting warmer, it was back to school for children in the national capital and neighbouring states Monday, leaving the ... Read more...
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Delhi schools reopen as cold wave offers respite
January 17th, 2011 - 3:48 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Jan 17 (IANS) Schools in Delhi reopened Monday after the biting cold of earlier weeks abated somewhat, putting an end to the extended winter vacation.The schools run ... Read more...
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Extended vacation may eat into Delhi students’ weekends
January 11th, 2011 - 7:20 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Jan 11 (IANS) An extended winter vacation may have spelt good news for Delhi's school kids, but not for long. Running short on time to finish their syllabi, schools are ... Read more...
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Strike hits AIR, Doordarshan operations in Orissa
November 23rd, 2010 - 5:32 pm ICT by IANS
Bhubaneswar, Nov 23 (IANS) All India Radio (AIR) and Doordarshan halted services in Orissa Tuesday in response to a two-day nationwide strike called by the association of the public sector broadcaster's ... Read more...
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Street vendors’ meet in Delhi next month
October 28th, 2010 - 7:11 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Oct 28 (IANS) The head of StreetNet International, a global alliance of street vendors' associations, will come down to Delhi Nov 1 to hold talks with street vendors to understand ... Read more...
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Italian mosques denied share in income tax revenue
August 28th, 2010 - 9:37 pm ICT by IANS
Rome, Aug 28 (IANS/AKI) Mosques in Italy will not get a share of income tax revenue as per the annual allocation by the government, which has proposed a bill seeking funds for ... Read more...
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IIT alumni keen to push Punjab growth
August 21st, 2010 - 10:58 pm ICT by IANS
Chandigarh, Aug 21 (IANS) A group of former students of Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) has planned a conference of the alumni to contribute in the social and economic development of ... Read more...
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Taliban urges Pakistan to refuse international aid
August 11th, 2010 - 8:11 pm ICT by IANS
Peshawar, Aug 11 (DPA) Taliban militants asked the government of Pakistan Wednesday to boycott the international relief assistance for flood victims.
The call came as the UN announced a formal appeal for ... Read more...
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Anti-GJM parties hold public meeting in Darjeeling
July 13th, 2010 - 12:09 am ICT by IANS
Darjeeling, July 12 (IANS) The Democratic Front (DF) - an umbrella organisation of anti-Gorkha Janamukti Morcha (GJM) parties - Monday held a public meeting in Darjeeling town to pay tribute to slain ... Read more...
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