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The involvement of human traffickers in the case involving 35 Afghan Sikh stowaways, found inside an airtight shipping container on a dockyard in British port, has been confirmed with the arrest of a third person, a media report said on Sunday.The police arrested a third man in connection with...
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The Indian Air Force today airlifted 180 jawans who were posted at various border area posts along flood-affected Indo-Pak border in Jammu sector.A total of over 180 BSF and Army jawans were evacuated from various border area posts along Indo-Pak border in Jammu sector today, Air Officer...
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Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah opposed any delay in holding the Assembly polls in the state on the plea of floods and said there would be no difficulty in holding the elections on time.It (delay in polls on the plea of flood situation) should not happened. If you want to delay it,...
17:53
Hitting out at West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over the Saradha Ponzi scam, BJP president Amit Shah today alleged associates of Banerjee are involved in the scam and steps will be taken to put them behind bars.You (Mamata) are not protesting against duping of 17 lakh investors in the...
17:21
Daya Reddy, an Indian-origin South African mathematician has been elected as the new president of the International Council for Science. Reddy has been voted by representatives of ICSU's 120 national members and scientific unions attending the organisation's general assembly in Auckland, New...
16:50
The Home ministry has asked all state governments to speed up cases against MPs and MLAs facing charges which attract disqualification, directing them to seek day-to-day trial in courts, appoint special public prosecutors and ensure regular monitoring.The direction came in the wake of...
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The 300-km long Jammu-Srinagar national highway remained closed for the fourth consecutive day today due to landslides and sinking of road at various places, even as authorities have launched a massive operation to repair and make it motorable.The highway is closed for the fourth consecutive day...
16:06
Don't leave an inch of space to the Trinamool Congress government of West Bengal, Bharatiya Janata Party national president Amit Shah told BJP workers in Kolkata on Sunday.Want a huge victory at 2016 assembly elections, he told the gathering at Bowbazar.Singur affected Rs 100,000, Saradha...
16:04
Sri Lanka, which has vowed not to cooperate with an international probe into its alleged rights abuses during the final phase of its military campaign against LTTE, will counter the charges at a UNHRC session beginning tomorrow in Geneva.The external affairs ministry sources said that Sri Lankan...
13:05
A one-man inquiry commission probing the Muzaffarnagar riots has recorded 61 more statements including those of social and political activists.The inquiry commission of Justice (retd) Vishnu Sahai, in its seven-day hearing here, recorded 61 statements and returned to Lucknow last evening,...
13:03
Cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan has threatened to drag embattled Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to the Supreme Court to seek his disqualification for allegedly lying about protesters and the army in parliament, as the political logjam showed no sign of easing.Khan, the chairman of Pakistan...
12:51
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today reviewed the flood situation in Jammu region at a high-level meeting attended by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and top officials. Modi, who arrived in Jammu this morning, held the meeting at Jammu's Technical Airport and was briefed by Abdullah on the devastation...
11:53
Arrested chairman of scam-hit Saradha group Sudipta Sen was planning to apply for a bank licence with a capital of over Rs 1,000 crore funds allegedly cobbled from the money of numerous duped investors, an investigation has revealed.The business venture, which could have been named 'Saradha...
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Government has decided to go ahead with the appointments to various statutory bodies like CVC, NHRC and Lokpal without the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha as a member of the selection committee choosing them.The move comes following a recent reference from the Lok Sabha secretariat in this...
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As Jammu and Kashmir faced the worst flood in nearly six decades, army has launched a major rescue operation and evacuated 11,000 people to safety by deploying 100 columns of troops in flood-hit areas of the state. A total of 11,000 civilians have been rescued, out of these...
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Flash floods in Pakistan have killed 110 people and left nearly 150 others injured in recent days, authorities said yesterday.The flooding, caused by monsoon rains, has also destroyed 650 homes, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's office said in a statement.
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NDTV reports: Two schoolgirls who were found hanging from the ends of the same rope on a tree in Assam's Karimganj district committed suicide, the postmortem report said, adding the two were not raped.The girls, both Std 10 dropouts, had been missing since Wednesday evening....
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