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Rs.55 lakh jewellery stolen from Delhi metro station
An unidentified man stole a Haryana-based jeweller's bag containing jewellery worth Rs.55 lakh from a baggage-scanning machine at a metro station here, police said Wednesday. The man walked off with Ravinder Soni's bag while he was being frisked at Chandni Chowk metro station. Soni, 35, had placed the bag in the scanning machine. "Soni said he had bought the jewellery from Delhi's Katra Nawab ...
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Mamata has CPI-M phobia Biman Bose
West Bengal Chief Minister is suffering from a CPI-M phobia, the Left Front said Wednesday, accusing her of violating the model code of conduct for the panchayat elections. "When she visited Kamduni (village), she had said there were CPI-M (Communist Party of India-Marxist) people there. But actually there was no one (from CPI-M). It seems she is having CPI-M phobia," Left Front chairman Biman ...
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Eurocopter Ramco Systems ink deal for chopper maintenance software
City-based enterprise solution provider Ramco Systems Ltd Wednesday announced the signing of a deal with the Franco-German-Spanish Eurocopter Group to provide maintenance software for helicopter operators. In a statement issued here, Ramco Systems said both the companies will join forces to offer helicopter maintenance software for operators and maintenance centres. This agreement enables ...
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Woman arrested for posing as Delhi CMs kin
A 33-year-old woman was arrested for attempting to cheat a diamond merchant by posing as the daughter-in-law of Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, police said Wednesday. Shikha Bhatia called the office of Jindal Diamond in south Delhi's Lajpat Nagar posing as Mona Dikshit, Sheila Dikshit's daughter-in-law, and asked for some diamond bangles to be delivered at Khanpur Chowk as she was going to ...
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Unwell Advani does not meet RSS chief
A scheduled meeting Wednesday between Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat and L.K. Advani was deferred after the BJP patriarch conveyed that he was "unwell". Advani was to meet Bhagwat, who played a key role in resolving the crisis in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) after the party veteran resigned from key party posts a day after Narendra Modi was elevated as BJP campaign ...
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Kedarnath One of Indias most revered shrines
The Kedarnath shrine in Uttarakhand, scene of terrible devastation caused by heavy rains and floods, is one of the most revered shrines in the country, visited annually by millions. The temple is one of the four sacred sites on the Char Dham pilgrimage and is said to have been built over 1,000 years ago by Adi Shankara. Believed to be a seat of Lord Shiva, it is located on the bank of ...
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Monsoon catches Delhi unawares this year too
Submerged roads, crippled traffic, people wading in knee-deep water mixed with sewage -- these are common scenes in the national capital every year, as civic authorities consistently fail the monsoon test. The intermittent-to-heavy monsoon rains Saturday and Sunday exposed the shoddiness of de-silting work undertaken by the Public Works Department (PWD) and the three municipal corporations -- ...
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Rhino horn seized in Assam
In continuing operations against illegal trade of rhino horn, police in Assam's Jorhat district Wednesday recovered a rhino horn worth lakhs of rupees. Jorhat Superintendent of Police Sanjyukta Parashar told IANS that the recovery followed a raid on the house of a man, Ajay Patra, in Lahdoigarh area. Patra is on the run, she said. "The horn weighed a little over one kg," she said. Police feel ...
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Dont create controversy over every act of Mamata Governor
Two days after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's visit to Kamduni village where she shouted at anti-rape protestors, Governor M.K. Narayanan Wednesday urged media not to create controversy over every act of the Trinamool Congress supremo. "Don't dissect whatever she does. Don't create unnecessary controversy," Narayanan told media persons on the sidelines of a programme here to ...
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Seven schoolkids killed in Tamil Nadu accident
Seven school students, hitching a ride in a milk van, and the van's driver died when their vehicle hit a bus in Tamil Nadu's Pudukottai district Wednesday, said police. Three other students were injured and have been admitted to hospital. According to police, the students of the Government Higher Secondary School in Vallathirakottai village had taken a lift in the milk van to reach their school ...
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Superstition grips Shaitaan
"Shaitaan - A criminal mind" has shown some real life instances of female criminals and spot fixing. The show is now coming up with a special episode on the vicious circle of superstitions. The episode will portray the story of a superstitious man, who blindly follows a Swamiji. Advised by him, the man forces a girl to marry him, who is almost of his daughter's age. Nikhil Alva, CEO Miditech, ...
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Sultry day in Delhi Thursday to be cloudy
The temperature in the national capital Wednesday shot up a little at 35.5 degrees Celsius - two notches below average. A bright sun made for sultry day and the Met department forecast a cloudy sky Thursday. While the minimum temperature settled three notches below average at 24.8 degrees Celsius, the humidity wavered between a high and low of 92 and 49 percent. Thursday's maximum and ...
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Stranded pilgrims slam Uttarakhand government demand Bahuguna quit
A number of trapped pilgrims and tourists from flood-affected areas in Uttarakhand have accused the local government of doing nothing to help them and demanded that Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna resign. According to Char Dham Yatri Sangathan (CDYS) convenor, Varinder Arora, there are around 25,000 pilgrims and tourists, including him and his family, trapped since Sunday in Damta, 70 km from ...
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Study together dream together Jackie Chan tells children
Jackie Chan, martial art expert and one of Asian cinema's most prominent faces, Wednesday encouraged the children at the Smile Foundation saying that if they work together, they can achieve their dreams one day "like I did". He visited Mission Education programme centres of Smile Foundation and interacted with children and gave martial art tips to young girls. Talking to the children, the ...
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Santosh Chowdhary takes over as minister of state for health
Newly-appointed union Minister of State for Health Santosh Chowdhary Wednesday said she would try to implement all the schemes of the United Progressive Alliance government relating to the health sector. "I shall try to implement all schemes of the UPA government relating to the health sector for the benefit of the people as the minister of state for health and family welfare," Chowdhary told ...
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Maharashtra allocates Rs.10 crore for state residents stranded in Uttarakhand
Moved by the plight of the people from Maharashtra stranded in flood-hit Uttarakhand, the state government Wednesday announced allocation of Rs.10 crore for their relief. This amount would be utilized to arrange for helicopters, food, medicines and clothes and to bring them back to their home state, Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan said here. According to information available, at least 1,353 ...
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Sonia Gandhi to lay foundation of Rs.2938 crore water project in Rajasthan
United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Chairperson Sonia Gandhi will lay the foundation of a Rs.2,938 crore water supply project at Jayal in Nagaur district of Rajasthan Thursday. Over 23 lakh people from six towns and 890 villages will benefit from the project, Jitendra Singh, Rajasthan's minister for energy, non-conventional energy and information and public relations, said in a statement here ...
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JD-U has joined Congresss conspiracy BJP
As the Nitish Kumar-led JD-U government in Bihar sailed smoothly through a trust vote Wednesday, the BJP accused its just-parted ex-ally of becoming part of a Congress conspiracy. "JD-U has shown its colours by participating in Congress's conspiracy. They are now bound to Congress with the glue of corruption," BJP spokesperson Meenakshi Lekhi said here, clarifying that she is referring to ...
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Letting other system doctors give allopathic drugs dangerous IMA
The Indian Medical Association (IMA) Wednesday opposed a health ministry directive allowing practitioners of homeopathy, ayurveda and siddha to dispense allopathic medicines for common health problems, saying it could prove to be dangerous. At a press conference here, the IMA said the notification is an apparent attempt by the ministry to play with the lives of the innocent citizens in the garb ...
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PM sanctions Rs.1000 crore for Uttarakhand disaster relief
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Wednesday granted Rs.1,000 crore for disaster relief in Uttarakhand and said the death toll in the state due to heavy rains and floods could be higher than the current estimate of 102. The prime minister, who made an aerial survey of the rain and flood-hit areas of Uttarakhand with United Progressive Alliance (UPA) chairperson Sonia Gandhi, said here they were ...
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Rajinikanth to watch Raanjhanaa on release day Dhanush
Superstar Rajinikanth, who is yet to watch his son-in-law Dhanush's Hindi debut "Raanjhanaa", is likely to see the film when it hits the cinemas on Friday, the actor says. "He hasn't watched the film yet. I think he is most likely to watch it on June 21 with my family. I'm waiting to hear his comments," Dhanush told IANS. Directed by Anand L. Rai, "Raanjhanaa" is the love story between a ...
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Nitish wins trust vote says BJP cant win in 2014
Three days after he dumped the BJP, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Wednesday proved his majority in the legislature and said his former ally won't win the next Lok Sabha battle. Accusing the Bharatiya Janata Party of trying to promote divisive politics, he said the policies of consultation which it believed in under Atal Bihari Vajpayee's leadership had ended. In a speech in the assembly ...
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Congress again misusing CBI in Ishrat Jahan case BJP
Stressing that the Ishrat Jahan shootout was not "fake", the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Wednesday said the Congress-led government at the centre was manipulating the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to frame BJP leaders. Party spokesperson Meenakshi Lekhi told reporters here that the shootout that killed Israt Jahan was conducted on the basis of information received from the Intelligence ...
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Jaypee assures 2014 Indian Grand Prix is on
Jaypee Sports International, promoters of Indian Grand Prix, Wednesday rubbished European media reports that the race might be dropped by the Formula One organisers in 2014 and assured that the event is on. Askari Zaidi, JPSI spokesperson, said: "Some international news organisations are trying to spread rumours that JPSI may not host 2014 Indian GP. This is totally baseless and ...
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TRS YSR Congress members suspended from Andhra assembly
Legislators of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) and the YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) were Wednesday suspended from the Andhra Pradesh legislative assembly for one day for stalling proceedings. Speaker N. Manohar suspended 13 members of the TRS and 12 belonging to the YSRCP Wednesday evening after the entire morning session was lost due to repeated adjournments over the Telangana issue. As ...
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