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National News
Huge arms recovered from village near Bangladesh border
Agartala, Aug 19 (IANS) Security forces seized a huge cache of weapons, including some Russia-made AK rifles, from a village along the India-Bangladesh border, officials said here... More
Ganapati festival themes this year - 26/11, swine flu
Mumbai, Aug 19 (IANS) As you join the Ganeshotsav celebrations, Maharashtra's biggest public festival which starts Aug 23, you will notice two themes recurring across the marquee... More
Samajwadi Party plans agitation in Uttar Pradesh
Agra, Aug 19 (IANS) Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav Wednesday asked his partymen to start an agitation and fill the jails of Uttar Pradesh to protest against the state g... More
Jinnah, a bugbear for the Bharatiya Janata Party?
New Delhi, Aug 19 (IANS) For the second time in five years, Pakistan founder Mohammed Ali Jinnah has come to haunt the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the party which espouses the c... More
Government looking at regulating food prices: Pawar
New Delhi, Aug 19 (IANS) The government Wednesday said it would not hesitate to regulate prices of food commodities as it expects rice production to fall by 10 million tonnes due ... More
India, Australia sign $20.5 bn gas deal
New Delhi, Aug 19 (IANS) India's Petronet LNG has signed a $20.5-billion gas purchasing agreement with Australia's ExxonMobil, the first long-term gas contract between the two cou... More
Reach out to the poor, Rahul tells IT students
Amethi (Uttar Pradesh), Aug 19 (IANS) Despite the progress the country has made during the last 62 years, '60 percent of rural India still has no connectivity', Congress general s... More
Jaswant's expulsion right, no compromise on ideology: BJP
Shimla, Aug 19 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Wednesday said that the decision to expel senior party leader Jaswant Singh was right and there cannot be any compromise on ... More
China factor weighs down Sensex
Mumbai, Aug 19 (IANS) A fall in Chinese bourses weighed heavily on Indian equities markets with a key index ending trade Wednesday 209 points below its previous close.
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Jaswant Singh's expulsion boon for Gorkhaland: GJM
Siliguri (West Bengal), Aug 19 (IANS) The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) Wednesday termed Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and Darjeeling MP Jaswant Singh's expulsion from the pa... More
Andhra Pradesh floats joint venture to enter oil and gas sector
Hyderabad, Aug 19 (IANS) The Andhra Pradesh government has floated an exploration company to commercially tap the hydrocarbon resources in the Krishna-Godavari (KG) basin off its ... More
Jaswant Singh committed ideological heresy (Comment)
Just as the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) idea of India is that of a Hindu nation and not a multicultural one, Jaswant Singh's interpretation of Mohammed Ali Jinnah's pre-1947 ro... More
India hub of child trafficking in South Asia
New Delhi, Aug 19 (IANS) Nearly 150,000 women and children are trafficked from South Asia every year, 'most of them from, via and to India', says a new report that also underlines... More
Planning big fat Indian wedding? Visit Bridal Asia
New Delhi, Aug 19 (IANS) Weddings can defy recession. From the looks of it, that's what the Bridal Asia exhibition here next month is out to prove, bringing big names in couture a... More
BSNL employees demand wage hike, go on strike
Kolkata, Aug 19 (IANS) Around 270,000 employees of state-run telecom giant Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) went on strike for two days starting Wednesday, demanding a bigger hike ... More |
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