Pak safe havens requires more than military solution: Obama

WASHINGTON: Concerned over the extremist safe haven in Pakistan, US President Barack Obama has said that the issue requires more than simply military actions."With respect to Pakistan and safe havens there, Afghanistan and the United States and Pakistan...

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Four stamps released on Vivekananda's 150th birth anniversary

JAMMU: (PTI) The Department of Posts (DoP) here today released four special postage stamps and the First Day Cover on Swami Vivekananda on his 150th birth anniversary.Chief postmaster general Jammu and Kashmir John Samuel today released the stamps and...

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Congress slams Uttarakhand CM for saying women shouldn't venture out after 6pm

NEW DELHI/ DEHRADUN: Vijay Bahuguna-led Uttarakhand government's bizarre decision to prohibit women from going out after 6pm in order to order to stop crimes has invited criticism both from the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).Reacting to...

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Fresh elections only way out in Jharkhand, state BJP chief says

JAMSHEDPUR: BJP's state president Dineshanand Goswami feels fresh elections are the best and only option to prevent formation of a government based on horse-trading in Jharkhand.Reacting to the meetings of the JMM, Congress and RJD with Jharkhand governor...

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India denies visa to British journalist Yvonne Ridley

HYDERABAD: India has denied award-winning British journalist Yvonne Ridley a visa. She was scheduled to address the Spring of Islam conference being held here by the Jamaat-e-Islami Hind.The London-based journalist, who was captured by the Taliban on...

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Black flag shown to Canadian minister in Amritsar

AMRITSAR: Canadian Backloggers Pre-2008 Association showed black flags to the Jason Kenny,Canada's minister of citizenship Immigration and multiculturalism during his visit to Amritsar on Friday.About 150 protesters including women were stopped by police...

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Crack in windscreen cockpit hits Boeing 787 Dreamliner in Japan

TOKYO/WASHINGTON: Boeing Co's 787 Dreamliner jet suffered a cracked cockpit window and an oil leak on separate flights in Japan on Friday - the latest in a series of incidents testing confidence in the sophisticated new aircraft.All Nippon Airways Co...

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Prospect of Iran nuke probe uncertain: IAEA chief Yukiya Amano

TOKYO: The UN nuclear agency chief said on Friday he was not optimistic about talks with Iran next week on getting access to a military base Western powers suspect has been used for atom bomb-related work.The comments by Yukiya Amano, director general...

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Crack in windscreen cockpit hits Boeing 787 Dreamliner in Japan

TOKYO/WASHINGTON: Boeing Co's 787 Dreamliner jet suffered a cracked cockpit window and an oil leak on separate flights in Japan on Friday - the latest in a series of incidents testing confidence in the sophisticated new aircraft.All Nippon Airways Co...

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A dozen Iraqi inmates seize weapons, escape from prison

BAGHDAD: A dozen prisoners including al-Qaida-linked death row inmates escaped from a prison near Baghdad on Friday, the latest sign that Iraq still struggles with basic law and order more than a year after American troops withdrew, officials said.The...

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Rape of grown-up girls may be understandable but assault on children unimaginable: BJP MP

RAIPUR: A BJP MP on Thursday said the rape of grown-up girls and women might be understandable but if someone does this to an infant, he should be hanged.He said rape of minor is a heinous crime and those who commits such crime should be hanged."The...

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India wastes 21 million tonnes of wheat every year: Report

LONDON: India stands out for its glaring lack of infrastructure and food storage facilities, in a new study that says 21 million tonnes of wheat -- equivalent to the entire production of Australia -- goes waste in the country.The report by the Institution...

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Increase in ceasefire violations by Pakistan in 2012: India

NEW DELHI: Ceasefire violations by Pakistan increased during the past year, national security advisor Shivshankar Menon said here on Thursday, a day after India lodged a strong protest with Pakistan over the killing of two of its soldiers by Pakistani...

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Asaram's camp vandalised, visit to Kumbh Mela opposed

ALLAHABAD: A camp set up at Kumbh Mela ground for Asaram Bapu's discourse was vandalised while several outfits have opposed the proposed visit of the self-styled godman, who has drawn flak for his remarks on the Delhi gang-rape victim, at the religious...

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Rare snowstorm paralyses Jerusalem area, North Israel

JERUSALEM: The worst snowstorm in 20 years shut government offices, public transport and schools in Jerusalem and along the northern Israeli region bordering on Lebanon on Thursday.Many Palestinians in the hilly occupied West Bank were also snowed in...

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India test-fires manoeuvrable version of BrahMos missile

NEW DELHI: India on Wednesday successfully test-fired a highly manoeuvrable version of the 290-km range supersonic cruise missile BrahMos from a naval warship off the coast of Vishakhapatnam in Bay of Bengal."At 9.30 am, the missile blasted off in a...

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Govt will ensure common man benefits from banking: Chidambaram

The author has posted comments on this articlePTI | Jan 9, 2013, 06.08PM IST CHHINDWARA (MP): Finance minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday said the government is making all-out efforts to ensure that benefits of banking facilities are made available...

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Assam: Three children killed, many injured in explosion in Digboi

GUWAHATI: Three children were killed and several others injured in an explosion near a primary school in upper Assam's Tinsukia district on Wednesday.The cause of the explosion, which took place at Kharjan pool area of Digboi town in the evening, is...

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Snags force 2 flights to return to Chennai airport

CHENNAI: Two flights -- one bound for Kuwait and another for Mumbai -- returned to the airport here on Wednesday soon after take-off due to technical faults, airport sources said.A Go Air flight to Mumbai with 102 passengers on board was flown back here...

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Samajwadi Party can offer alternative at Centre, Mulayam says

LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav on Wednesday described the ongoing phase in the country's politics as a "transition period" and said his party can offer an "alternative" at the Centre. Yadav was addressing party workers after a...

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ED attaches Rs 143 crore assets in Jagan money laundering case

HYDERABAD/NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate has attached assets worth Rs 143.74 crore in connection with its probe in the money laundering case against YSR Congress party chief Jagan Mohan Reddy.The attachment order, under criminal provisions of...

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Pravasi Bharatiya Divas: Govt determined to turn setbacks into opportunity, PM says

KOCHI: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday said the government was determined to turn any setback into an opportunity to improve legal and regulatory frameworks in the context of a "surge of expectation" from an increasingly empowered and articulate...

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India does not need Walmart's expertise in bribery: Stiglitz

The author has posted comments on this articleSujit John, TNN | Jan 8, 2013, 04.41PM IST Joseph Stiglitz will turn 70 next month, but age does not appear in any way to have diminished the mind that won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2001. The...

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Saudi Arabian authorities behead Syrian citizen for drug trafficking

RIYADH: Saudi Arabian authorities on Tuesday beheaded a Syrian citizen convicted of trafficking a large amount of narcotic pills, the interior ministry said, in the first execution in the kingdom this year.Mohammed Darwish was arrested "as he was trafficking...

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5 Americans among 7 dead in Peru chopper crash

LIMA: Five US citizens are among seven people killed in the crash of a U.S.-owned cargo helicopter in the Peruvian jungle. Peruvian authorities say the heavy-lift chopper crashed Monday after taking off from the provincial capital of Pucallpa. It was...

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Delhi gang-rape case: Ansari seeks corrective measures in laws

NEW DELHI: Describing the gruesome Delhi gang rape as an incident that "let our heads hang in shame", Vice President Hamid Ansari today sought immediate steps for comprehensive corrective measures in laws and social behaviour.He said one must remember...

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HC orders daily hearing of paternity case against N D Tiwari

NEW DELHI: A youth's paternity suit to declare N D Tiwari as his biological father was ordered to be heard on a day-to-day basis by the Delhi high court on Monday after the veteran Congress leader refused to settle the issue through mediation. "The...

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Bhagwat's remarks about women 'shallow': Sharad Yadav

NEW DELHI: JD(U) leader Sharad Yadav on Monday described as "shallow" remarks of RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat about women, saying they only showed the thinking of the people making them. But, at the same time, he made it clear that he was yet to go through...

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China does not want to see rise of India in Asia, Mohan Bhagwat says

INDORE: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat said China does not want to see rise of India in Asia and take leading position. In order to contain India's increasing influence it is encircling out country from all sides. In a direct reference to assertive policies...

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Britain's oldest man Reg Dean, a former Army chaplain and teacher, dead

LONDON: Britain's oldest man, who survived two world wars and witnessed 24 British prime ministers come and go, has died at the age of 110.Reg Dean, a former Army chaplain and teacher, died on Saturday aged 110 years and 63 days, his friends said today.He...

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Pak's response on India's 'wishlist' on 26/11 'critical' for 'substantive movement': Salman Khurshid

NEW DELHI: Pakistan's response to India's 'wishlist' with regard to those behind 2008 Mumbai terror attacks is 'critical' to 'substantive movement' in the bilateral dialogue, external affairs minister Salman Khurshid said on Sunday.What Islamabad has...

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Keylong in Himachal Pradesh freezes at minus 10.4 degrees celsius

SHIMLA: Bone-chilling cold conditions swept across Himachal Pradesh on Sunday with Keylong freezing at a minus 10.4 degrees celsius, a meteorological official said.While state capital Shimla shivered at 0.9 degree celsius, the minimum temperature at...

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Mauritius president visits ancestral village in Bihar

PATNA: Mauritius President Rajkeswur Purayag and his wife Aneetah arrived in Bihar on Sunday to visit his ancestral village.Chief minister Nitish Kumar received the couple at the airport."After spending an hour at the Raj Bhawan, they will proceed to...

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Bus crash in Zimbawe kills 8, police say

HARARE, ZIMBABWE: Zimbabwean police say eight people died in a bus crash that has brought the traffic accident death toll during the holiday period to the highest on record in the southern African nation.Police officials in the second city of Bulawayo...

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South Africa: Former President Nelson Mandela's recovery is good

JOHANNESBURG: South Africa's president says that Nelson Mandela has recovered from his recent lung infection and surgical procedure to remove gallstones.South African President Jacob Zuma issued a statement Sunday announcing that doctors say that Mandela,...

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