Australian police on Thursday arrested two teenagers allegedly involved in a racist attack on Indian student Saurabh Sharma in a Melbourne train,even as two youths from the country remained hospitalised with life-threatening serious injuries received in similar assaults.
A Bihar court on Tuesday issued an arrest warrant against Maharashtra Navnirman chief chief Raj Thackeray for making "hate speeches" against Biharis and asked the Mumbai police commissioner to produce him before it on November 2.
A senior police officer said terrorists carried out a powerful car bomb explosion targetting a police bus, which had dropped detenues inside the central jail.
Third seeds Leander Paes and Lukas Dlouhy moved to the quarter-finals of the ATP Rome Masters after getting a walk-over from Croat Ivan Ljubicic and Michael Llodra of France in the second round.
Replying to supplementaries during Question Hour in Rajya Sabha, minister for micro, small and medium industries Mahavir Prasad said the RBI had in September 8, 2005 issued guidelines relating to debt restructuring mechanism for SMEs, based on the 'policy package for stepping up credit to SMEs' announced by the Centre the same year.
The 80-odd projects completed till now are already valued at Rs 14,000 crore.
After reporting low numbers in new business premium, life insurance companies are resorting to special initiatives to increase business from the rural segment, which they term as emerging markets.
The singer and actress' debut as music composer for her father's Tamil production, Unnai Pol Oruvan is promising.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Tuesday the global economic downturn which had affected Indian economy as well, is now coming to an end with slow return to normalcy.
Deepak Chopra's daughter Mallika talks about Michael Jackson.
Activist Narendra Dabholkar, who was in the forefront of a campaign to persuade Maharashtra government to pass an anti-superstition and black magic bill, was shot dead in Pune on Tuesday morning by unknown assailants.
"Army search teams have so far recovered bodies of two armymen while search for others is still on." The search may be hampered, because the meteorological office in Srinagar has predicted more rains and snow for the next two days in Kashmir.
'In view of the requests repeatedly made by the Dalai side for resuming talks, the relevant department of the central government will have contact and consultation with Dalai's private representative in the coming days,' Xinhua news agency said quoting an unnamed official.
Spain captain Pol Amat on Sunday said they were always in control of their first hockey World Cup match against South Africa despite the half-time score of 2-2 but need to improve their performance in remaining matches if they are to qualify for semifinals.
Spain's squad for the 12th hockey World Cup in New Delhi.
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Recently, several Twitter users began migrating to the social networking platform after a protest that began with Supreme Court lawyer Sanjay Hegde's Twitter account suspension, and moved on to a larger conversation about Twitter's policies being allegedly anti-Dalit and certain castes and religion.
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In a bid to convince US lawmakers to put pressure on Pakistan to take action against perpetrators of Mumbai attacks, a group of Indian Americans have decided to hold 'Washington Lobby Day' on January 27. The objective is to 'show the US Members of Congress that Indian Americans and all Americans are expressing their strong support for the victims of the Mumbai attacks and for continued US-India efforts on the war against terrorist organisations based in Pakistan,' Chairman of
Padmanathan, who allegedly financed the assassination of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, is wanted by the Central Bureau of Investigation.
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The Assam government will have a crack Special Task Force soon to carry out specific operations against insurgents as initiatives for the same has been started after getting approval from the state's finance department. The force is being launched in the style and format of the Greyhound Battalion in Andhra Pradesh and is expected to be made operational within two months.
Argentina's Luciana Aymar and Spain's Pol Amat were crowned as WorldHockey Players of the Year 2008 in Los Angeles, USA on Friday. Both hockey stars received their awards during a special ceremony on the occasion of the FIH Congress Dinner at Universal Studios in the Californian city. Dutch Maartje Paumen and Australian Eddie Ockenden won the WorldHockey Young Player of the Year 2008 awards. All four hockey stars were present in Los Angeles to receive their awards.
Viswanathan Anand had to be content with a joint third place finish following a draw with compatriot Vidit Gujrathi in the 13th and final round of the Tata Steel Masters, in Wijk Aan Zee, The Netherland.
Reigning world champion Magnus Carlsen of Norway steered clear of the field with another dominating victory over Jan Krzysztof Duda Poland.
The bodies of 37-year-old Jayalakshmi, 14-year-old Tejasvi and 12-year-old Siva Kumar were found in a pool of blood with massive head and neck injuries on the first floor of the family's two-story apartment in Wharton, police said.
The state witnessed 87 Naxal-related incidents between July and December, as against 63 during the corresponding period in 2006, according to official figures made available by the state police headquarters in Patna.
Three terrorists planning to attack two religious premises, including that of Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmit Ram Rahim Singh, were arrested in Phagwara on Thursday and huge amount of explosives recovered from them, the police said.
Aam Aadmi Party's Member of Legislative Assembly Madan Lal on Monday claimed that a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party had offered him Rs 20 crore to topple the ruling government in Delhi led by Arvind Kejriwal.
A key figure in coalition politics of Kerala for several decades, John was known in the state political circles as 'Kerala Kissinger' for his astute abilities to manage political crises at time when the state was passing through unsteady political phases.
An International Cricket Council (ICC) task force is touring Zimbabwe to assess how to help the troubled southern African team return to the test fold after nearly three years in the wilderness.
Both Anand and Sethuraman inched themselves up to five points out of a possible seven and shared the joint eighth spot after a rather dull day that witnessed several draws on the top tables.
Terror suspect Rashid Rauf, arrested by Pakistani authorities in connection with a plot to bomb airliners in Britain last year, escaped from police custody shortly after being produced in a court on Saturday.
As per the proposal, the new force would comprise 10 battalions (10,000 personnel) and would be set up on the pattern of 'Greyhounds' of the Andhra Pradesh Police and would be under the command and control of the CRPF, the world's largest paramilitary force.
China's Lu Shanglei and Wei Yi emphatically exhibited their rising chess prowess with convincing victories over Russians Vladimir Fedoseev, the top seed, and Mikhail Antipov, in the 10th round of the World Junior Chess Championships at Hotel Hyatt, in Pune, on Thursday. The victories ensured that the Chinese maintained joint-leader status with eight points each.
The girl, who is now five months pregnant, belongs to a minority community and is a resident of suburban Goregaon.
Maybe we can achieve 8.5 per cent in 2007-08 but for 2008-09, we will probably see a slower growth rate, of around 7.5 per cent or maybe even lower if oil prices remain at this level, says Pardip Shah.
He leads the men's seedings ahead of defending champ Roger Federer, with Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov seeded third.
Himachal Pradesh University offers admission through correspondence course, 2007-2008
The country's volatile tribal areas were turned into virtual killing fields in three different suicide attacks.
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