At least 10 killed in Pakistan train accident: Officials

LAHORE: At least 10 people including two children were killed on Saturday after a train collided with a packed motorcycle rickshaw in Pakistan's eastern Punjab province, officials said.A high-speed train traveling from country's largest city Karachi...

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Thousands of Tibetans celebrate as Dalai Lama turns 78

BYLAKUPPE (India): Thousands of Tibetans have waved banners and danced at a Tibetan university in southern India in celebration of the Dalai Lama's 78th birthday.Speaking after an interfaith meeting on Saturday, the Tibetans' spiritual leader called...

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Rain-triggered mudslides block 1,500 people in Tibet

BEIJING: Over 1,500 people and 300 vehicles were stranded after rain-triggered mudslides halted traffic in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region.Two rain-triggered mudslides, which occurred successively after 9:30pm (local time) on Friday, stopped...

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1984 anti-Sikh riots: Sajjan Kumar's acquittal challenged

NEW DELHI: Congress leader Sajjan Kumar's acquittal in a 1984 anti-Sikh riot case was today challenged in the Delhi high court by members of the victims' family who contended that the trial court failed to appreciate the large number of legally admissible...

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Siddaramaiah urges police to deal firmly the incidents of moral policing in Karnataka

MYSORE: Chief minister Siddaramaiah on Saturday said police officers in the state should have zero tolerance for the activities of moral policing and his government is the last one to support such anti-social elements.Addressing a batch of Dy SPs who...

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Air India plane skids off runway while taxiing at Bagdogra airport

SILIGURI (WB): An Air India plane with 140 people on board on Friday skidded off the runway shortly after landing at Bagdogra airport in Darjeeling district, airport sources said. All passengers and crew members on board are safe and there is no significant...

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Introduce human rights education among security forces: SHRC

SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has asked the state government to introduce human rights education among the security forces for upholding human rights.Citing observations of the Supreme Court and considering the material...

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Bad weather hampers cremation of bodies in Kedarnath

DEHRADUN: Inclement weather badly hampered cremation of bodies and removal of debris at Kedarnath on Friday besides affecting distribution of relief in over 200 segregated villages where people have lost their homes and are faced with acute foodgrain...

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Narendra Modi to be videoconferencing in Nitish's turf Bihar tomorrow

PATNA: BJP campaign committee chief Narendra Modi will be giving election tips to party workers in Bihar through video conferencing on Saturday. Through the first of its kind high-tech exercise, Modi will be addressing 1,500 BJP workers from the state...

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Step up security for Ramzan and Sawan, UP govt directs DMs, SSPs

LUCKNOW: The Uttar Pradesh government has directed district magistrates and police chiefs to take the steps necessary for maintaining peace and order during the coming holy months of ' Ramzan' and 'Sawan'. District authorities have been asked to maintain...

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HC extends Om Prakash Chautala's interim bail on medical grounds

NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court on Thursday extended till July 22 the interim bail of former Haryana chief minister Om Prakash Chautala in the JBT teachers' recruitment scam on medical grounds.Justice Siddharth Mridul perused the status report filed...

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Bus service from Kargil to Jammu started by J&K govt

SRINAGAR: The first ever bus service from Kargil to Jammu has been started by the Jammu and Kashmir government fulfilling the long pending demand of the people of the region.The Kargil-Jammu bus service was flagged off by Qamar Ali Akhoon, advisor to...

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Antony leaves for China on his first official visit

NEW DELHI: Defence minister AK Antony on Thursday left for China on a four-day official visit during which he is slated to have talks on Sino-Indian border and discuss regional and global security.During the visit, Antony will have delegation-level talks...

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Setback to Mamata, court says all leading newspapers to be available in libraries

KOLKATA: The Calcutta high court on Thursday directed the West Bengal government to incorporate names of all leading newspapers in the list of publications to be available in state-run and aided libraries. A division bench of Chief Justice Arun Mishra...

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Air India to launch Amritsar-Delhi-Birmingham flight from August 1

The author has posted comments on this articlePTI | Jul 4, 2013, 07.14PM IST NEW DELHI: Expanding its global network with Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft, Air India will be launching its Amritsar-Delhi-Birmingham flight from August 1.The flight,...

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Ecuador says it found a hidden microphone at its London embassy

LONDON: Ecuador has found a hidden microphone inside its London embassy, where WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is living, and will disclose on Wednesday who controls the device, its foreign minister said.Ricardo Patino said the microphone was found...

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Former MP and senior Forward Bloc leader Amar Roy Pradhan dies

The author has posted comments on this articlePTI | Jul 3, 2013, 06.45PM IST JALPAIGURI (WB): Former MP and senior Forward Bloc party leader Amar Roy Pradhan died at a Nursing Home here on Wednesday, party sources said.Roy died of old age related...

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Three policemen arrested for raping mentally disturbed woman in Himachal

MANDI ( HIMACHAL PRADESH): Three policemen posted in Mandi police lines were arrested on Wednesday for allegedly raping a 32-year-old mentally disturbed woman.The gang-rape victim is the daughter of a retired police official and resident of Ladbdhol...

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FIR lodged against UP MLA, 6 others in murder case

LUCKNOW: An FIR was registered against sitting Uttar Pradesh MLA Mukhtar Ansari and six others after a distant cousin of his rival and mafia Brijesh Singh was on Wednesday allegedly shot dead in Varanasi, a senior police official said.Satish Singh (45),...

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Egypt's Princess Fawzia dies at 92 in Alexandria

CAIRO: Princess Fawzia, a member of Egypt's last royal family and the first wife of Iran's later-deposed monarch, has died, Iranian opposition groups said. She was 92.Fawzia died on Tuesday in Egypt's Mediterranean port city of Alexandria, the Paris-based...

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Not in the race for MP chief ministership, Jyotiraditya Scindia says

NEW YORK: Union minister Jyotiraditya Scindia has said that he is not in the race to become the chief minister of Madhya Pradesh and has ruled out contesting the upcoming assembly polls there. "I have no plans to contest the assembly elections from...

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Will sweep floor of party office, if asked to do so: Madhya Pradesh minister

INDORE: Joining the league of political sycophants, industry minister of Madhya Pradesh KailashVijayvargia on Tuesday said he is ready to sweep the floor of party office if party ask him to do so. Claiming to be an obedient worker of BhartiyaJanata Party...

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Afghan talks must not undermine legitimacy of state: India

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN ( Brunei): India on Tuesday supported Afghanistan's reconciliation process with the Taliban, but warned that it must not undermine the legitimacy of the Afghan government and should be within the internationally accepted "red lines"."We...

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Obama, Bush together pay homage at embassy bomb memorial in Tanzania

DAR ES SALAAM: US President Barack Obama and his predecessor George W. Bush stood side-by-side in Tanzania on Tuesday to commemorate the victims of the al Qaida bombing of the US embassy 15 years ago - an attack that foreshadowed the United States' present...

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ISRO sets target of twelve missions in 2013-14

Uncertainty regarding second moon mission due to a lander to be supplied by RussiaCHENNAI: Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has set a target of completing 12 missions this fiscal (from April 2013 to March 2014). It includes projects like Mars...

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JBT scam: OP Chautala moves HC seeking extension of interim bail

NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court on Monday sought CBI's response on former Haryana chief minister Om Prakash Chautala's plea seeking extension of his interim bail on medical grounds.Justice Siddharth Mridul issued notice to CBI and sought its response...

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Court orders framing of charges against BJP leader Vijender Gupta on Sheila Dikshit's plea

NEW DELHI: Spelling trouble for BJP leader Vijender Gupta, a court here on Monday ordered framing of charges against him in a criminal defamation complaint lodged against him by Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit. Metropolitan magistrate Namrita Aggarwal...

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Chidambaram dismisses Jaitley charge on CBI autonomy as 'premature'

NEW DELHI: Finance minister P Chidambaram on Monday dismissed as "completely premature and ill-advised" the charge by BJP leader Arun Jaitley that the Cabinet's decision on greater autonomy for CBI is "farcical" and a remedy "worse" than the problem.Expressing...

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Coalgate: Naveen Jindal group misrepresented facts, says CBI

NEW DELHI: The Naveen Jindal group had allegedly "misrepresented" facts and was shown favour by the Jharkhand government which dropped other firms from its recommendation for allocation of coal blocks in the state in 2007, the CBI has said in its FIR...

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Billionaire Saudi prince grilled in UK court over Gaddafi jet

LONDON: A billionaire Saudi prince told a London court on Monday that "each dollar counts" as he was cross-examined over his sale of an opulent private jet to Libya's former leader Muammar Gaddafi.The appearance by Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, a nephew...

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Tropical Storm Dalila forms in Pacific off southwest Mexico

MIAMI: Tropical Storm Dalila has formed in the Pacific off southwest Mexico and authorities have issued a tropical storm warning for a swath of that country's coastline.The US National Hurricane Center in Miami said the fourth tropical storm of the season...

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Israel sweetens deal for 930 east Jerusalem homes: Report

JERUSALEM: Israel is poised to approve incentives for buyers of nearly 1,000 new homes in annexed east Jerusalem despite a major US push to revive peace talks, reports said on Sunday.The plan, which will offer prospective buyers a huge discount on 930...

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Nawaz Sharif to send Pak power minister to India to tackle energy crisis

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has directed his water and power minister to India to address the severe energy crisis facing the country."We are facing acute electricity shortage and any assistance in the power sector will help us...

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Incessant rains claim four lives in UP, major rivers flow above danger mark

LUCKNOW: Incessant rains lashed various parts of Uttar Pradesh, with four people losing their lives in incidents of building collapse, even as major rivers continued to flow above the danger mark. According to a report by the Central Water Commission,...

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At least 30 killed by fuel tanker explosion in Uganda

KAMPALA: At least 30 people were killed and scores more injured when a fuel tanker exploded on a highway in Uganda, a major transit route for fuel heading from Kenya to land-locked east African states, a police spokesman said on Sunday. The truck exploded...

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