Japan launches new, cheaper rocket

TOKYO: Japan successfully launched a new rocket on Saturday that it hopes will be a cheaper and more efficient way of sending satellites into space.The three-stage Epsilon lifted off from a space center on Japan's southern main island of Kyushu, following...

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180 children fall sick after having meal at school in China

BEIJING: At least 180 students fell ill after having milk and cookies at an elementary school in central China's Hunan Province.Students from a school in Xinhua County were hospitalised after they reported having headaches, stomachache and vomiting in...

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PM hopes Chandigarh becomes India's first slum-free city

CHANDIGARH: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday hoped Chandigarh would soon become India's first slum-free city, as he handed over keys to newly-built flats to slum dwellers.The Prime Minister arrived in the city on Saturday to hand over documents...

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PM Manmohan Singh to visit Muzaffarnagar on Monday

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will visit Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh on Monday for an on-the-spot assessment in the district that witnessed deadly communal riots about a week ago.The Prime Minister will take stock of the situation during...

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Angela Merkel: No alliance with new anti-euro party

BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel is making clear her conservatives won't consider an alliance with a new anti-euro party if it enters parliament in next week's election.The upstart Alternative for Germany party advocates an "orderly breakup" of...

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Buildings, roads, bridges washed away in cloud burst in Arunachal Pradesh

ITANAGAR: Some government and private buildings and roads and bridges were washed away by flood water after cloud burst in Sebe circle of West Siang district, according to deputy speaker of the Arunachal Pradesh assembly Jomde Kena.Kena on Thursday informed...

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Hearing on PIL seeking CBI probe into UP violence deferred

ALLAHABAD: The Allahabad high court on Thursday deferred its hearing till November 18 on a PIL seeking CBI probe into the communal violence in Muzaffarnagar district of Uttar Pradesh which has claimed 44 lives so far.A division bench comprising chief...

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Pre-paid auto stand at Chennai Central reopens after parleys

CHENNAI: The pre-paid auto stand at the Central Railway Station, which had remained closed for nearly 60 days, reopened on Thursday after hectic parleys among the railways, traffic police and railway police on Thursday.The ongoing Metro Rail work prevented...

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BSF seizes narcotics, arms and ammunition from India-Pakistan border

AMRITSAR: Border Security Force (BSF) foiled an attempt of armed Pakistani smugglers to smuggle heroin, arms and ammunition in India from international border with Pakistan in Ferozpur sector on Thursday morning. When challenged by BSF, the Pakistani...

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Banks open this Saturday, Sunday to collect quarterly advance tax

The author has posted comments on this articlePTI | Sep 12, 2013, 08.19PM IST NEW DELHI: Banks authorized to collect advance tax payments will function full day this coming Saturday besides being open on Sunday. "All designated branches of...

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India needs remittance of ideas too from the diaspora: Jitin Prasada

NEW DELHI: India needs remittance of ideas too from the diaspora and not just the cash flow to combat the tough times and surge ahead, stressed Union minister of state for HRD, Jitin Prasada, while speaking at a NRI conference on girl education. Prasada...

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India gets WHO praise on polio front, no case in 30 months

NEW DELHI: WHO on Tuesday lauded India's efforts in eradicating polio and said the country has not reported a single case of polio in the last 30 months."You did it. For 30 months you have not got a single case of polio," WHO Director General Margaret...

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Kerala-based charity to launch two major projects in Uttarakhand

NEW DELHI: Two big charitable projects - a Rs 50-crore relief-and-rehabilitation project in flood-ravaged Uttarakhand and a programme to adopt 101 villages throughout India - were announced by Mata Amritanandamayi Math on Tuesday."In Uttarakhand, the...

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Konkan Railway to run special trains for Onam, Ganpati festivals

MANGALORE: Konkan Railway will run unreserved special trains between Ratnagiri and Roha during Ganpati Festival and between New Delhi and Kochuveli during Onam festival to clear extra rush of passengers.Trains 05009/05010 Ratnagiri - Roha unreserved...

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India-Bangladesh border to have Wagah-like retreat ceremony on Gandhi Jayanti

NEW DELHI: This Gandhi Jayanti on October 2, the India-Bangladesh border will for the first time witness a Wagah border-like retreat ceremony where drills by border forces from both the countries will accompany cultural programmes.Home ministers of both...

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J&K high court puts blanket ban on construction at Vaishno devi base camp

JAMMU: Jammu and Kashmir high court today put a blanket ban on constructions in and around the holy town of Katra, the base camp for the pilgrimage to the cave shrine of Shri Mata Vaishno devi, after noting that illegal constructions in the area was...

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Sri Lanka to release 107 rehabilitated LTTE cadres

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka will release a total of 107 rehabilitated LTTE cadres tomorrow, leaving only 232 former Tamil rebels to be reintegrated into the society.The country's rehabilitation officials said today the 107 former Tamil Tigers would to be released...

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Sena slams top cop for asking pandals to ensure women's safety

MUMBAI: Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray has criticised Mumbai police commissioner Satyapal Singh's statement that Ganesh mandals should protect women devotees who come to seek blessings."If Ganesh mandals have to protect the women devotees, then...

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Trinamool will contest next Lok Sabha polls alone: Derek O'Brien

KOLKATA: Even as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said he was not ruling out a future alliance with former partner Trinamool Congress, party MP Derek O'Brien on Sunday said they would prefer to go it alone in the next Lok Sabha polls as the people of the...

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Modi as PM will be dangerous for nation's secular ethos: Farooq Abdullah

SRINAGAR: Union minister for new and renewable energy Farooq Abdullah on Sunday said, having Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi as Prime Minister of will be "dangerous and damaging" for the nation's secular ethos."National Conference (NC) has nothing...

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