Teachers continue to boycott midday meal duty in Bihar

PATNA: As over 10 lakh students continued to be deprived of midday meals due to primary school teachers boycotting food cooking duties for the third consecutive day on Saturday in Bihar, the government held "positive" talks with the agitators to end...

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Obama urges US politicians to help strengthen middle class

WASHINGTON, District of Columbia: President Barack Obama on Saturday urged politicians in Washington to remain focused on strengthening the embattled US middle class.The president's weekly radio and online address is part of a broader effort to reframe...

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Infected injections, unsafe blood transfusions see Hepatitis rising in India

NEW DELHI: India's Hepatitis burden is rising due to the use of infected injections and unsterilised medical equipment as well as unsafe blood transfusions.In India, nearly two-thirds of the injections being used are unsafe, posing health hazards for...

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Delhi gang rape: 'Video clip' to show that two accused were not in bus

NEW DELHI: A minor, who was made a witness by the accused to prove their innocence in December 16 gang-rape case, on Saturday produced before a court in Delhi a video clipping which showed that two of the four youths facing trial were present at the...

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Bombing targeting Afghan local police kills seven

KABUL, Afghanistan: A suicide bomber targeting a village police commander blew himself up in a bazaar in a lawless part of eastern Afghanistan, killing seven people, an official said on Saturday. Clashes and bombings around Afghanistan in the past two...

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Sushilkumar Shinde skips Delhi Police function at last moment

NEW DELHI: Delhi Police commissioner Neeraj Kumar on Friday performed bhoomi-pujan at the site of the proposed New Delhi Police headquarters at Parliament Street, even as Union home minister Sushilkumar Shinde, who was supposed to be the chief guest,...

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Telangana issue: Andhra Pradesh Congress leaders meet central leadership

NEW DELHI: Congress appears to be gearing up to taking a call on the contentious Telangana statehood issue with party leader in charge of Andhra Pradesh saying that the consultation process is over and the time for a decision has come."The process of...

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Will work for defeat of Congress in next Lok Sabha elections, Prakash Karat says

NEW DELHI: Fed up with the nine years of UPA "misrule", Left parties will work for the defeat of Congress in the next LokSabha elections, CPM general secretary Prakash Karat said here on Friday. He also said there was no question of supporting BJP or...

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Missing Modi photos on BJP posters not an issue, Sushma Swaraj says

VIDISHA: Leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha, Sushma Swaraj said today that there is no point in raising the issue of Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi's missing photographs from BJP posters all along Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh...

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German president says whistleblowers like Snowden merit respect

BERLIN: Germany's president, who helped expose the workings of East Germany's dreaded Stasi secret police, said whistleblowers like US fugitive Edward Snowden deserved respect for defending freedom.Weighing in on a debate that could influence September's...

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Hyderabad seeing sharp rise in corporal punishment

HYDERABAD: Several parents complain about the physical torture and harassment faced by their children in Hyderabad's private schools, which according to authorities, is a clear indicator that despite the ban, corporal punishment is on a rise in the state.Activists...

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Nawaz Sharif's party nominates India-born Mamnoon Hussain for presidential polls

ISLAMABAD: The ruling PML-N today nominated India-born Mamnoon Hussain, a close aide of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, as its candidate for the presidential elections to be held on July 30.Hussain, a leading businessman from the port city of Karachi, is...

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Mars mission is a publicity stunt: Isro ex-chief Madhavan Nair

BANGALORE: India's 'Moon Man' has contested Isro's contention that the upcoming 'desi' Mars orbiter mission would undertake meaningful research, and dubbed the Rs 450 crore venture as a "publicity stunt"."Isro is embarking on an extravagant mission which...

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Girl burned alive for resisting rape in Pakistan's Punjab province

LAHORE: A man allegedly burnt a teenage girl to death after failing to rape her in Pakistan's Punjab province, police officials said on Wednesday.According to the FIR registered by police, the girl from Rahim Yar Khan district, 400 km from Lahore, had...

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Former Puducherry minister Kalyanasundaram acquitted in SSLC exam fraud case

TINDIVANAM: A Tindivanam court on Wednesday set aside a lower court's order convicting former Puducherry education minister P M L Kalyanasundaram and two Tamil Nadu education department officials to two years in jail on charges of criminal conspiracy,...

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Fresh incidents of landslides as heavy rains lash Uttarakhand

DEHRADUN: Moderate to heavy rains in most places in Uttarakhand today triggered fresh incidents of landslides, cloudbursts and house collapses across the state.A road that led to a school building was damaged due to a cloudburst in Gadoli village at...

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Pakistan media watchdog bans 'immoral' condom commercial

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's media regulator on Tuesday barred television channels from airing a racy condom commercial featuring actress Mathira, saying such "immoral" content should not be beamed during the holy month of Ramzan.The Pakistan Electronic Media...

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Bodh Gaya blasts: Bombs may have been sourced from Assam, NIA says

NEW DELHI: The 'Lotus' brand of clocks used in bombs planted at Bodh Gaya may have been sourced from Assam, the NIA has concluded after learning from its manufacturers in Rajkot, Gujarat, that the clocks are distributed for sale in Assam.The trail of...

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CBI chief orders probe into leakage of information in Mulayam case

NEW DELHI: A red faced CBI on Tuesday ordered a probe into the leakage of its internal documents on the disproportionate assets case against Mulayam Singh Yadav even as it refuted reports that the case is being closed, saying no decision has been taken...

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Palghar Facebook row: HC asks Maharashtra if it plans penal action against cops

MUMBAI: The Maharashtra government on Tuesday faced the ire of the Bombay high court which sought to know if the state plans to initiate criminal action against police officers responsible for the illegal arrest of two girls opposing the bandh enforced...

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Allahabad HC reserves order on controversial reservation policy in UP

ALLAHABAD: The Allahabad high court on Monday reserved its order on the controversial reservation policy introduced recently in Uttar Pradesh whereby caste-based quotas were brought in at the preliminary stage itself that had led to violent protests...

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Sudan resident moves HC against India's surrogacy guidelines

CHANDIGARH: In a case of its own kind, Shihabeldin, a resident of Sudan moved the Punjab and Haryana high court on Monday challenging the guidelines of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) restricting surrogacy to married men and women with a marriage...

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Monthly per capita expenditure: Haryana tops urban spending; Keral no.1 in rural spending

A report says Haryana recorded a monthly per capita expenditure of Rs 3,346.32 in cities. The author has posted comments on this articlePTI | Jul 22, 2013, 06.22PM IST NEW DELHI: Haryana topped the list among large states recording...

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Rajnath’s anti-English remark: What language will he speak in US, asks Congress

LUDHIANA: In a dig at BJP president Rajnath Singh, the Congress today asked what language he would speak during his current visit to the US."The BJP President should make it clear whether in America he would talk in Hindi or Awadhi or English. He made...

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Sushma Swaraj's aircraft makes emergency landing in Jaipur

INDORE: Leader of opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj had close save on Monday afternoon and her aircraft in which she was coming to Indore had to make emergency landing in Jaipur.Sushma Swaraj took off from New Delhi for Indore from where she was...

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Egypt begins work on charter as Islamists press demos

CAIRO, Qahirah: Experts begin work on Sunday to amend a divisive constitution rammed through by ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi, while his supporters called for intensified rallies in Cairo demanding his reinstatement.Egypt's caretaker cabinet...

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Three dead, including two Britons, in Russia helicopter crash: Reports

MOSCOW: At least three people, including two British citizens, were killed in Russia's Far North on Sunday when a helicopter crashed into them while they were standing on the ground, officials said.A distress signal had already been received from the...

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IndiGo flight makes emergency landing as infant falls sick

MUMBAI: A Chennai-bound IndiGo flight with 150 passengers onboard returned to city airport here on Sunday after it was airborne for over an hour as there was a medical emergency on board involving a seven-month-old infant.The infant, suffering from cardiac...

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Family abandons search for missing Canadian-Indian student

MELBOURNE: More than two months after a 25-year-old Indian-origin student went missing in a national park in Australia, his family members abondened the search for him, Australian media reported on Sunday.Prabhdeep Srawn, a Canadian-Indian, went missing...

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3 killed, including two Britons, in Russia helicopter crash

MOSCOW: Three people, including two British tourists, were killed in Russia's Far North on Monday when they were crushed by their helicopter after it made an emergency landing, officials said.The two Britons, who had travelled to the remote Murmansk...

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