Indonesian police hunt 131 in prison breakout

MEDAN (Indonesia): Indonesian police on Saturday expanded their search for 131 inmates including four militants who escaped from an overcrowded jail during a riot that left five dead, a spokesman said.Inmates began rampaging through the jail in Medan...

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Ishrat Jahan encounter: Singhal had differences with Vanzara over killing Mumbra girl

AHMEDABAD: Was it the difference between then DySP G L Singhal and his boss D G Vanzara at the city crime branch with regard to kill Ishrat Jahan along with three others that led to the ultimate co-operation of crime branch cops in the CBI probe?DySP...

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Post-Godhra riots were 'unfortunate': BJP

JAMMU: Terming the post-Godhra riots in Gujarat as "unfortunate", BJP on Saturday said the Narendra Modi government had taken "strong" steps to deal with the situation due to which such incidents have not recurred in the state."As far as Modi is concerned,...

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Huge quantities of narcotics and liquor seized, 9 held in Assam

RANGIA (ASSAM): Huge quantities of narcotics and liquor have been seized and nine persons arrested in this connection by the police in Kamrup district on Saturday, police said.Acting on a tip-off, the police arrested one Moksed Ali from Gogmalasa area...

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US transport safety board apologizes for gaffe over derogatory Asiana pilot names

SAN FRANCISCO: The National Transportation Safety Board apologized on Friday after an intern mistakenly confirmed to a local television station racially offensive fake names for the pilots of an Asiana flight that crashed in San Francisco. "The National...

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Life imprisonment for 21 in Lakkhan Bhaiya fake encounter case

MUMBAI: All 21 convicts, including 13 policemen were today awarded life imprisonment by a court here in the 2006 fake encounter killing of Ram Narayan Gupta alias Lakkhan Bhaiya, an alleged aide of fugitive gangster Chhota Rajan.Former senior inspector...

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Reports about my resignation threat over Telangana baseless: Andhra CM

HYDERABAD: Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy has termed as "baseless", the reports which claimed that he had threatened to quit if the Congress high command took a decision to bifurcate Andhra Pradesh to create a separate Telangana state....

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Reports about my resignation threat baseless, Andhra Pradesh CM says

HYDERABAD: Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy has termed as "baseless", the reports which claimed that he had threatened to quit if the Congress high command took a decision to bifurcate Andhra Pradesh to create a separate Telangana state."It...

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Railgate: Bansal's nephew Vijay Singla's bail plea rejected

NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Friday dismissed the bail plea of former railway minister PK Bansal's nephew Vijay Singla, suspended railway board member Mahesh Kumar and five others in the Rs 10 crore cash-for-post railway bribery case.Special CBI Judge...

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LJP president Ramvilas Paswan urges Dalai Lama to visit Bodh Gaya

PATNA: Blaming the Nitish Kumar government for the terror attack on BodhGaya temple, LJP president RamvilasPaswan on Friday urged Buddhist spiritual leader the Dalai Lama to visit the world famous shrine.The confidence of Buddhist people are shattered...

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Punjab government to spend Rs 13,000 crore on widening of roads

CHANDIGARH: Funds to the tune of Rs 13,740 crore would be spent over the coming two years for widening highways and inter-city roads running through Punjab, the state government said on Thursday.The above figure was revealed during a review undertaken...

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NIA releases two in Bodh Gaya temple blasts case

GAYA: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has released two local men for want of evidence in the serial bomb blasts at Bodh Gaya temple on Sunday.Binod Mistri and Dashrath Yadav were released last night for want of evidence after recording their...

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Aam Admi Party seeks CBI probe into MBBS student's murder in UP

NEW DELHI: Nearly 500 members of the Aam Admi Party (AAP) on Thursday marched from Jantar Mantar towards the residence of Samajawadi Party (SP) supremo Mulayum Singh Yadav in central Delhi, demanding a CBI inquiry into the murder of an MBBS student in...

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Crucial Congress Core Group meeting on Telangana tomorrow

NEW DELHI: A crucial meeting of the Congress Core Group on Friday will discuss the Telangana issue with "both options open" as a decision "cannot be postponed anymore", senior party leader Digvijaya Singh said on Thursday. Singh, who is the general...

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Hemant Soren may take oath as Jharkhand CM on Saturday

RANCHI: After getting presidential approval on the Union cabinet's recommendation to revoke Central rule, JMM Legislature Party leader Hemant Soren is likely to take oath as the new chief minister of Jharkhand on July 13."Hemant Soren is likely to take...

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Food security: Sonia Gandhi calls meeting of Cong CMs, PCC chiefs

NEW DELHI: With Congress projecting the Food Security Bill as a game changer, Sonia Gandhi has called a meeting of its chief ministers and PCC chiefs on July 13 to discuss the issue. The meeting called days after the government rushed through an ordinance...

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Congress MP Sanjay Nirupam moves high court against summons in defamation case

NEW DELHI: Congress MP Sanjay Nirupam today moved the Delhi high court challenging a trial court order summoning him in a criminal defamation complaint filed by BJP MP Smriti Irani, for allegedly using derogatory and indecent language against her during...

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Asiana Airlines' chief defends 'very experienced' crash pilots

SEOUL: South Korea's Asiana Airlines on Tuesday defended the pilots of the San Francisco crash jet as "very competent" as attention focused on whether human error caused the Boeing 777 to slam into the runway.The pilot at the controls was a novice at...

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Too early to comment on failure to detect bin Laden in country: Pak govt

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan government on Tuesday said that it was too early to say whether someone would be punished for failing to detect Osama bin Laden's decade-long stay in the country, a day after a leaked report blamed authorities for negligence in tracing...

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Maldives, Lanka join India’s maritime outreach drive

NEW DELHI: Maldives and Sri Lanka are now the core of India's maritime outreach into the Indian Ocean, an outcome that has been cemented after two years of hard work and coordination between the three countries. In a meeting in Colombo on Monday, NSA,...

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Would love to see what Sharif will do to improve ties with India: Omar Abdullah

SRINAGAR: "The proof of the pudding is in the eating", Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah said on Monday, emphasizing he would love to see what Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will do to improve ties with India. Describing as "heartening"...

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Myanmar jails two Buddhists for riot murders: Official

YANGON: Myanmar has sentenced two Buddhist men to seven years in prison for murders during religious violence in March that left dozens of people dead, a local official said on Monday.The defendants were convicted after separate trials at the district...

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Malaysia withdraws bill allowing unilateral conversion

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia on Monday withdrew a controversial bill that allows one parent to give consent for the conversion of a child following an outcry over two minor ethnic Indian Hindu children embracing Islam without their mother's permission.The...

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Malaysia withdraws bill allowing unilateral conversion

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia on Monday withdrew a controversial bill that allows one parent to give consent for the conversion of a child following an outcry over two minor ethnic Indian Hindu children embracing Islam without their mother's permission.The...

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25 dead in two days of Iraq violence including six family members

MOSUL: Two days of violence in Iraq killed 25 people, including six family members shot dead while returning from a wedding, police officers and doctors said on Monday.The deadliest attack on Monday hit north Iraq, where a car bomb south of the city...

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Govt red flags hiking FDI cap in defence, space, I&B and other key sectors

NEW DELHI: The home ministry has raised serious concern over hiking FDI cap in defence, space, telecom and a few other areas, contending that flow of funds from countries like China in these sectors may compromise country's security.This was conveyed...

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Dalit youth's death: National Commission for Scheduled Castes members visit Dharmapuri

DHARMAPURI (TN): A team of National Commission for Scheduled Castes arrived on Sunday to take stock of the situation in the wake of the death of Dalit youth Illavarasan, whose body was found on a railway track.The team visited the medical college hospital...

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Dalit youth's death: National Commission for Scheduled Castes members visit Dharmapuri

DHARMAPURI (TN): A team of National Commission for Scheduled Castes arrived on Sunday to take stock of the situation in the wake of the death of Dalit youth Illavarasan, whose body was found on a railway track.The team visited the medical college hospital...

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Two thirds of Syria's Homs rebel area destroyed: NGO

BEIRUT: Intense fighting in the central Syrian city of Homs has left 60 to 70 per cent of a besieged rebel-held district damaged, destroyed or uninhabitable, a monitoring group said on Sunday. The estimate from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights...

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Two thirds of Syria's Homs rebel area destroyed: NGO

BEIRUT: Intense fighting in the central Syrian city of Homs has left 60 to 70 per cent of a besieged rebel-held district damaged, destroyed or uninhabitable, a monitoring group said on Sunday. The estimate from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights...

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