With Naxalite activities continuing to spread in Orissa, the state has decided to prepare a comprehensive strategy to control violence by Maoist activists and restore law and order in trouble-torn areas.
Indicating a Harkat-ul-Jihadi Islami hand behind the serial blasts in Assam, the Border Security Force on Thursday said they had prior information on a possible intrusion by militants from Bangladesh for carrying out the deed.
At least 345 Border Security Force personnel across the country suffer from HIV/AIDS, BSF inspector general Assam, Meghalaya and Nagaland, P K Mishra said.
The nun, missing since the incident and had reportedly taken shelter at a church in Delhi, was not found when Additional Resident Commissioner M Satyanarayan went there last night, Home Secretary T K Mishra told PTI.
"Prime facie it seems that Tiwari was murdered due to his controversial statement made in 2015. There is a possibility," the DGP said as he ruled out any terror angle.
Around half a dozen Tata Steel employees and contract workers were injured following an explosion in the LD gasholder inside its factory in Jamshedpur.
A suspected intruder was shot dead early Thursday by the Border Security Force along the Indo-Pak border in Pathankot where the force is on high alert following the January 2 terror attack on air force base.
'In India, A3i is found mostly in southern India, and a few in Delhi. You don't see this strain much in, say, Gujarat or Maharashtra.'
The extent of the government's concern about inflation was evident at the meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Prices, which started at 8 pm on Monday and went on past 12 midnight. Commerce Minister Kamal Nath challenged Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar to explain why wheat import this season had been delayed.
A large number of Maoists have been killed and four policemen were missing in the continuing gunbattle between security forces and the militants, who killed 15 people on Friday, in the Ganjam-Kandhamal border area of Orissa, official sources said.
Parag Sawant, who slipped into coma after sustaining severe head injuries in the 2006 serial train blasts, is showing remarkable improvement and is able to recognise his family members.
The ISRO team is expected to commence the mapping operations in February, Mishra told rediff.com.
Four persons, including three of a family, were killed and five others injured in a clash between two groups in Krushnaprasad area, about 120 km from Puri, the police said.
Mohanti, who was suspended on August 24 after a Rajasthan court issued a non-bailable warrant against him, has remained untraceable for the last three months. The former director general (Fire services) and commandant (Home Guards) was accused of helping his rape convict son Bitihotra jump parole from a jail in Rajasthan, sources said.
The cause of the mishap was under investigation.
According to the first advance estimates of crop production for 2007-08 report that was released on Wednesday, India can expect record production in maize, oybean, cotton and sugarcane crops.
Stating the disparities due to 'wrong spelling of state's name', Home Secretary T K Mishra said though it was being written as Udisa in Hindi and Orissa in English, the real name was Odisha. Similarly, the name of the state's language is written as Udiya in Hindi and Oriya in English when it should be Odia.
A team of archaeologists of the Archaelogical Survey of India have discovered the main entrance of the ancient Nalanda university in Bihar.
The Bar alleged there had been misrepresentation of facts by the media and there has been a motive behind it.
The decision has been taken following complaints about large-scale violations of various provisions of the model code of conduct by many political parties and candidates, EC sources said.
Madhya Pradesh Backward Class Commission member and BJP leader Gulab Singh Kirar has been suspended by the party.
The HC said that it is a fit case where benefit of doubt can be given to the appellants.
Another TMC MP Tapas Pal has been sent to judicial custody after six days in CBI custody.
The top court did some tough-talking and had warned that the administration at large will be made accountable even if there is a single incident of stubble burning henceforth.
In a statement, Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain said the air pollution had reached the severe level and asked people to follow the dos and don'ts as mentioned in the advisory.
The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing offers full-time modular programmes on Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP).
The Madras High Court on Thursday quashed the Tamil Nadu government's 2002 notification declaring the entire state as a disturbed area under the Prevention of Terrorism Act and consequently, the case against R R Gopal, editor of Nakkeeran.
Malti Sharma's murder is suspected to be the result of political rivalry.
MDMK sources said Vaiko tentatively plans to leave for the US on June 3 and return on June 20
P Harikrishna and R B Ramesh share the lead in the Parsvnath international chess tournament.
: They joined three others in the lead in the Parsvnath International chess tournament.
Sitting Bharatiya Janata Party Member of Parliament Yashwant Sinha's son, Jayant, and Congress MLA Sourabh Narayan Singh filed nomination papers from Hazaribagh Lok Sabha seat.
Bhuveneshwari Pardhi, a schoolteacher in Balaghat district, who was gang-raped at a 'people's court' convened by a panchayat.
In a bid to break the monopoly of public sector coal companies, the government is planning to permit private coal mining companies to sell the commodity, thus overcoming the need for legislative changes.
India has dismissed a petition by a trade organisation to impose a 'safeguard duty' on edible oil imports, a government notification said.
While asserting that the growth of coronavirus cases in the country has been more or less linear and not exponential, it also said testing has been ramped up consistently.
GM Pavel Kotsur of Kazakhstan and Saidali Iuldachev of Uzbekistan maintained their joint lead after the eighth round of the Parsvanath International Chess tournament.
A public interest litigation seeking cancellation of the license of the Star group owned FM radio channel Radio City has been filed in the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court.
Datawind, maker of low-cost Aakash tablet PC has announced it will offer one-year free unlimited Internet on its Ubislate tablets sold through south Indian retail chain UniverCell.
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