New Delhi : Sachin Tendulkar conferred honorary rank of group captain by the IAF For his glorious contribution to the gentleman's game, cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar was conferred the honorary rank of group captain by Chief of the Air Staff Air Chief Marshal P. V. Naik at a function here on Friday. “It has indeed been a dream come true to get honoured by the IAF [Indian Air Force] and be a part of the great air warrior family. From the most crucial challenge of defending the nation from any ...
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Patna : The Bihar police on Thursday scotched all rumours of Naxals having executed a sub-inspector, one of the four personnel kidnapped by the rebels, even as the hostage crisis in Lakhisarai district entered the fourth day. Earlier in the day, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said, “There is no definite information [of the ultras having taken the extreme step]…I only hope this news [by local media] is wrong,” adding he was “ready for talks” with the Naxals. After Sunday's encounter, in ...
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Amethi : Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi was on Friday flooded with complaints and applications related to health problems, jobs, water and power crisis as he met around 2000 people on the last day of his three-day tour to his parliamentary constituency Amethi. Mr. Gandhi interacted with party workers and people at Munshiganj guest house, party activists said. Majority of the complaints and applications were related to problems in the parliamentary constituency, they said. “Rahulji ...
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Patna : The bullet-riddled body of kidnapped Bihar Military Police havildar Lucas Tete was today recovered from Lakhisarai as the Maoist deadline for killing three remaining hostages expired with security forces intensifying operations to rescue them. Superintendent of Police, Lakhisarai, Ranjit Kumar Mishra said a body found in the Simra Tari Sringirishi dam under Kajra police station in the district had been identified that of one of the kidnapped policemen — Lucas Tete. Mr. Mishra said ...
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Orissa : Making a visit here against the backdrop of the Centre rejecting environment clearance for the bauxite mining project of Vedanta, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Thursday hailed the decision as a victory for tribals of the area and vowed to fight for their cause. “True development takes place by respecting interests of the poor and tribals and not by muffling their voice,” he said refuting charges that Centre’s action in negating bauxite mining in Niyamgiri was ...
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Kolkata : ‘Mother Express’, an exhibition train to commemorate the birth centenary of Mother Teresa, was today inaugurated at the Sealdah station here by Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee. The train that focuses on the life, work and message of Mother Teresa, would travel all over the country in the next six months, Eastern railway sources said. The train comprises three air-conditioned coaches, in which photographs, write-ups on the life and message of Mother Teresa have been kept for ...
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Srinagar : With one more teenager succumbing to his injuries, the death toll in Kashmir violence since June 11 has reached 64. Authorities clamped curfew in most parts of Srinagar even as protests broke out in some areas on Wednesday. The death of Umar Bhat (17) of Soura in the S.K. Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) led to fresh protests. Medical Superintendent Syed Amin Tabish told t2tn that Umar had developed a respiratory distress syndrome and a lung problem. Umar's uncle Mohammad Ayub ...
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GUWAHATI : Former Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister and senior Congress leader Gegong Apang was on Tuesday arrested by sleuths of a Special Investigation Cell (SIC) probing the Rs. 1000-crore scam in Public Distribution System (PDS) in Arunachal Pradesh. Mr. Apang was arrested outside the SIC office and later produced before a court of Special Judge at Lakhimpur in Assam. The court remanded him to seven days in police custody. Mr. Apang has been booked under Sections 120b (criminal ...
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Bangalore : Police interrogation of People's Democratic Party leader Abdul Nasir Maudany has revealed his role in the April 17, 2010 twin explosions near the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in the city ahead of an IPL cricket match, Karnataka Home Minister V.S. Acharya said on Tuesday. He was replying to a query at a press conference here. Dr. Acharya said Mr. Maudany's links with the other main accused in the 2008 Bangalore serial bomb blasts case were also established during interrogation. Seventeen ...
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New Delhi : It was another rainy day for Delhiites today with rains lashing the capital for the fifth consecutive day, even as the water level in Yamuna river remained above the danger mark. The rains once again brought with it traffic snarls, water-logging and vehicle breakdowns. Vehicular movement was slow on Ring Road, Munirka, Laxmi Nagar, Ashram, Mehrauli and Mathura Road. Traffic was also moving slowly on NH 8 which connects Delhi and Gurgaon and DND flyover which connects the capital ...
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New Delhi : With no fresh contact on the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill between the government and the Bharatiya Janata Party — or for that matter any other Opposition party — it seems the issue may be resolved, if at all, during the discussion on the bill when it is taken up for consideration and passing in the Lok Sabha. The bill is now the property of the House. While the BJP said “it appears there is a deviation from the text that was agreed,” the Left made it clear that ...
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Chennai : Medical expenses of Ashok Kumar, a student of Dr. Ambedkar Government Law College, Chennai, would be borne out of Chief Minister’s Public Relief Fund, according to an official release issued on Saturday. The student, who was originally admitted to Chengalpattu Government Medical College Hospital, was later shifted to Apollo Hospital, Chennai. [Students of the Law College had alleged that Mr Ashok Kumar was illegally taken into custody by the police and he was beaten with ...
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Srinagar : Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said in Leh on Tuesday that both the Central and Jammu and Kashmir governments would take all steps to help the families of those affected by flash floods triggered by a cloudburst. The restoration and rehabilitation works would be carried out under the supervision of a committee headed by Chief Secretary S.S. Kapur, he told victims of the flash floods at a relief camp. The 434-km Srinagar-Leh road damaged by the flash floods and landslips has been ...
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HYDERABAD : President Pratibha Patil has underlined the need for promoting the study of mathematics among the younger generation as it inculcates the habit of rational thought in it and promotes, what the first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, called “scientific temper.” She said mathematics is a science, but stands apart from other sciences a bit. Yet it was mathematical intervention that would decisively confer the label, ‘science,' on any discipline. “Mathematics permeates all ...
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Mumbai L Apart from the oil contamination, the larger concern after the MSC Chitra oil spill is the mixing of other toxic substances such as pesticides with sea water. The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), which carried out the bioremediation process by using the ‘oilzapper' technology at the Awas beach at Alibaug, will now monitor its site there to understand the impact of the toxic chemicals mixed with oil. “We will see how these toxic substances impact the oilzapper microbes and ...
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New Delhi : India and Japan will hold the fourth round of strategic dialogue here on Saturday to firm up defence and economic ties against the backdrop of the second round of talks on a civil nuclear pact planned for next month. During the talks between External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna and his Japanese counterpart Katsuya Okada, the two sides will also review plans for reviving the bid by G-4 (India, Japan, Brazil and Germany) along with African countries for permanent seats in the ...
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New Delhi : The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the Special Investigation Team (SIT) not to make public Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s statement in connection with post-Godhra riots and disapproved the conduct of activist Teesta Setalvad in contacting a prosecutor in one of the cases. “We direct the SIT not to divulge any information collected during the course of investigation to anyone except the trial court and public prosecutor concerned,” a special bench headed by Justice D. ...
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New Delhi : Asking Maoists to abandon the path of violence, President Pratibha Patil today said they must come to the negotiating table for working out a solution. Addressing the nation on the eve of 64th Independence Day, she also said terrorism poses the biggest threat to global peace and to defeat it all nations should come together and ensure that terrorists do not get sanctuaries and financial assistance. “The proponents of extreme ideologies and the followers of Left Wing Extremism ...
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New Delhi : A comprehensive headcount at biometric stage Ending months of fractious debates across the political spectrum, a Group of Ministers (GoM), headed by Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, gave its seal of approval to the enumeration of caste in Census 2011 on Wednesday evening. The GoM, sources said, has recommended that the caste headcount should be done at the biometric stage. Most significantly, it will not be just an OBC headcount, but a comprehensive caste headcount, with ...
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New Delhi : Congress member Arjun Singh told the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday that he briefed the then Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi, on the Bhopal gas tragedy on December 3, 1984, moments after the leak occurred. Participating in a short duration discussion on recent developments relating to the Bhopal tragedy, Mr. Singh said that after detaining Warren Anderson, former chairman of United Carbide India Limited, in a guest house, he drove to Harda, where Rajiv Gandhi was campaigning for the ...
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