Maoists’ mediators reach Raipur
April 26th, 2012 - 5:00 pm ICT by IANS
Raipur, April 26 (IANS) Efforts for release of Alex Paul Menon, the Sukma collector whom Maoists kidnapped on April 21, picked pace Thursday after two mediators named by the rebels ... Read more...
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‘Abducted collector Menon is safe’
April 26th, 2012 - 12:56 pm ICT by IANS
Raipur, April 26 (IANS) Alex Paul Menon was "fine and safe", Left leader Manish Kunjam said Thursday after delivering asthma medicines for Chhattisgarh's Sukma collector who has been in Maoist ... Read more...
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Collector’s abduction: tension as Maoist deadline nears
April 25th, 2012 - 11:56 am ICT by IANS
Raipur, April 25 (IANS) Tension spread in Chhattisgarh as the deadline set by the abductors of Sukma district collector Alex Paul Menon lapses at 5 p.m. Tuesday. Reports coming ... Read more...
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Navy helicopter evacuates crew from Iranian vessel (With images)
December 28th, 2011 - 4:18 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, Dec 28 (IANS) A Sea King helicopter from naval air station INS Shikra here was launched by the Indian Navy Tuesday for casualty evacuation of a crew member onboard ... Read more...
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Most wanted South African criminal arrested
May 14th, 2011 - 7:34 pm ICT by IANS
Pretoria, May 14 (IANS) A notorious criminal, linked to about 35 bank robberies in South Africa and who escaped to neighbouring Zimbabwe, has been arrested after he re-entered the country, ... Read more...
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IAF helps to evacuate injured policeman after J-K terrorist encounter
May 9th, 2010 - 5:47 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, May 9 (ANI): The Indian Air Foce (IAF) on Saturday successfully evacuated an injured senior head constable from Khor village in the Riasi Valley of Jammu and Kashmir region after ... Read more...
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CRPF trooper killed as Maoists trigger IED blast
March 18th, 2010 - 2:06 pm ICT by IANS
Raipur, March 18 (IANS) A Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) trooper was killed and two others were injured in a blast triggered by Maoists Thursday in a thickly forested area in Chhattisgarh.
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Maoists kill civilian, injure senior cop, SPO
January 6th, 2010 - 8:40 pm ICT by IANS
Raipur, Jan 6 (IANS) Maoist militants killed a tribal civilian on suspicion of acting as a police informer while in another incident an additional superintendent of police and a special police officer ... Read more...
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Two CRPF troopers wounded in Maoist bomb blast
September 9th, 2009 - 10:22 pm ICT by IANS
Raipur, Sep 9 (IANS) Two troopers of the paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) were critically injured Wednesday when they walked over a pressure bomb planted by Maoists in a thickly forested ... Read more...
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South Africa’s swine flu toll rises to six
August 17th, 2009 - 12:56 am ICT by IANS
Pretoria, Aug 16 (IANS) Three more people have died of swine flu in South Africa over the weekend, raising the number of fatalities from the viral disease to six in the country, ... Read more...
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Delhi’s I.I.T has three swine flue affected
August 10th, 2009 - 1:59 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, Aug.10 (ANI): Even as a high-level meeting of the Ministry of Health officials is being held here this morning, the number of Indian Institute of Technology (I.I.T) staff infected with ... Read more...
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Eleven killed in Chhattisgarh landmine blast (Lead)
May 6th, 2009 - 7:36 pm ICT by IANS
Raipur, May 6 (IANS) As many as 11 people were killed and two others injured Wednesday in a powerful landmine blast planted by Maoists in Chhattisgarh's restive southern Bastar region, police ... Read more...
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Eleven killed in Chhattisgarh landmine blast
May 6th, 2009 - 6:24 pm ICT by IANS
Raipur, May 6 (IANS) As many as 11 people were killed and two others injured Wednesday in a powerful landmine blast planted by Maoists in Chhattisgarh's restive southern Bastsr region, police said.
The ... Read more...
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Plight of trapped Sri Lankan civilians worsens (Lead)
April 24th, 2009 - 6:13 pm ICT by IANS
Colombo, April 24 (DPA) The plight of civilians trapped in a narrow coastal land strip in northern Sri Lanka worsened Friday amid shortages of food and medicine and ongoing fighting between troops ... Read more...
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3 Aussies hospitalised after taking Chinese erection drug
January 15th, 2009 - 5:34 pm ICT by ANI
Melbourne, Jan 14 (ANI): A Chinese erection pill, touted to be the sure shot therapy to enhance sexual function, has landed three people in hospital, as it turned out potentially harmful ... Read more...
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Gary Glitter fears illness will kill him in 6 months
August 25th, 2008 - 4:11 pm ICT by ANI
London, Aug 25 (ANI): Pop paedophile Gary Glitter, 64, fears that his ill health will not make him last for more than six months.Glitter has been in hiding ever since he ... Read more...
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Doctors’ strike claims boy’s life at Raipur hospital
June 24th, 2008 - 5:51 pm ICT by IANS
Raipur, June 24 (IANS) An eight-year-old boy, admitted to the Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar Government Hospital here for acute stomach pain, died as there was no one to attend to him due to ... Read more...
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Strike cripples Chhattisgarh’s largest public hospital
June 22nd, 2008 - 10:33 pm ICT by IANS
Raipur, June 22 (IANS) Patient care services at the Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar Government Hospital, Chhattisgarh's biggest hospital, remained crippled here Sunday as a strike by about 300 junior doctors entered the second ... Read more...
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