CHANDIGARH: The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) is in Punjab these days to crack the 1985 bombing of Air India's Kanishka aircraft, which caused the death of all 329 passengers aboard.A five-member team, which arrived here on Wednesday, called on Punjab DGP NPS Aulakh and CBI officials and ...
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CHENNAI: A clash between two groups of Dr Ambedkar Law College students here last night is assuming casteist overtones, as they belong to two communities hostile to each other and involved in frequent clashes in southern districts of the state. A group of students armed with knives, logs, iron pipes...
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Bhopal: The opposition Congress in Madhya Pradesh on Thursday released a 96-page charge-sheet against the BJP government levelling a total of 139 allegations against it. The charge-sheet was released at a press conference by the State Congress president Suresh Pachouri in the presence of party gener...
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Srinagar : The election of Barack Obama as US President has generated hope among separatists in Kashmir that the decades-long Kashmir issue would be solved soon. Welcoming the election of Obama, chairman of Moderate faction of Hurriyat Conference Mirwaiz Umer Farooq said "We see a role for US in res...
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WASHINGTON : Barack Obama will be the 44th president of the United States, winning an historic election to become the first African American in the White House. He told a vast crowd of supporters at a Chicago park that his election showed the world that the United States real strength was not its mi...
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WASHINGTON: The momentum for Barack Obama is so great now that Democrats are swinging wildly between giddy euphoria and fearful disbelief. "Stick a fork in McCain, he's done!" one Obama supporter chortled on TV. Moments later, he said it ain't over till it's over.Every single poll now sh...
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Mumbai: The Anti-Terrorist Squad of Mumbai Police on Sunday claimed to have closed in on the mastermind of the September 29 Malegaon blast. The ATS further revealed the name of the instigator as Ram Narayan Singh.The ATS disclosed that Singh planted the bombs on the bike and did a survey of the area...
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MUMBAI: MNS chief Raj Thackeray, who was released on bail on Wednesday, would have to prepare himself for a long-drawn legal battle in view of mounting pressure from major partners of the Manmohan Singh-led UPA government in Delhi.A day after MNS workers went on the rampage, the state home departmen...
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NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) prime ministerial candidate L.K. Advani on Saturday said that it is wrong to target and malign one particular religion for the wrongs of a few. "Even if the Quran is quoted in threatening emails by terrorists, we should not malign a religion. It is the p...
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ISLAMABAD: At least 21 people, including 16 foreign militants, were killed and several others injured in a missile strike carried out by a suspected US drone in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal region on late Friday. Official sources were quoted by Dawn News channel as saying that a house in a...
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BAGHDAD: The US military says it has killed a senior al-Qaida leader suspected of masterminding deadly bombings in Baghdad. The military says US troops acting in self-defence also killed his wife in Friday's firefight. Saturday's statement identifies the man killed as Mahir Ahmad Mahmud Judu...
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NEW DELHI: In a strong indictment of the country's rural healthcare infrastructure, the Supreme Court on Wednesday said that primary health centres (PHCs)conceived as the pillar of the system providing medical care in the countryside, had become totally defunct. ''In rural areas, there a...
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he prime minister, Manmohan Singh said that insulating Indian financial market, inflation, terrorism and left wing extremism and effective implementation of flagship programmes are the priority areas of the government.India is not protected from what happens in the rest of the world. Inflation remai...
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SRINAGAR: Lakhs of people today offered special prayers on Eid-ul-fitr at Eidgahs across Jammu and Kashmir where the festival marking the end of the holy month of Ramzan was celebrated with traditional gaiety and fervour a day ahead of rest of the country. The largest gathering was witnessed at Hazr...
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Jodhpur: Tuesday marked an inauspicious start to the festive season when 130 devotees were killed in a stampede at the Chamunda Devi temple in Jodhpur, a popular religious and tourist destination in Rajasthan.Rajasthan on Wednesday observed state mourning as a mark of respect to the devotees who los...
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