New Delhi: 20 May 2013, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Monday said India is an important neighbor and added that the prime purpose of his visit was to lay more emphasis on the ways to increase areas of mutual interest and intensify co-operation. PM raises incursion issue with Li "India is China's important neighbour. (The purpose of) my current visit to India is three-fold - to increase mutual interest, intensify cooperation and to face the future," Li said outside Rastrapathi Bhavan in the ...
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New Delhi:20 May 2013 Indian twin sisters, Tashi and Nugshi, who belonged to the state of Uttarakhand achieved historical feat by becoming first twin sisters to scale Mount Everest. Tashi and Nugshi, were also at the top of the Everest with Pakistan’s Baig and Ali. By hoisting Indian and Pakistani flags side by side, the Asians hoped to spread the message of Pak-India peace and friendship. The twin sisters hail from Kutalwali Johdi village of Uttarakhand. Their father Virendra Singh ...
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Gurgaon: 20 May 2013, Indian National Defence University, a dedicated first-of-its-kind institution for training and research in military studies, will be set up in Gurgaon. The foundation stone of INDU, to be constituted under an Act of Parliament, will be laid by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on May 23, Deputy Commissioner PC Meena said. The proposed institute will be equipped with training and research facilities on all aspects of national security as part of the strategic national ...
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New Delhi, May 19 (PTI) On his first overseas visit after assuming office, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang will arrive here today and will hold talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on all contentious issues, including the boundary dispute. Shortly after his arrival, Li will be holding restricted talks with Singh, who will also host a dinner for the visiting dignitary at his official residence which will be attended among others by members of major political parties, including BJP and ...
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May 19, 2013,New Delhi: With each passing day, the IPL spot-fixing saga keeps getting murkier. Now, reports have emerged that suggest that D Company might have threatened young cricketers to get involved into fixing. According to a leading Indian daily, the gangsters controlling the bookies asked them to intimidate anyone who would not accept money for fixing. The daily quoted a Delhi police source as saying that the names of Dawood Ibrahim and Tiger Memon were enough to induce fear ...
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19 May, 2013:-- Congress is debating holding a general election in November, six months ahead of schedule, senior party leaders said. NEW DELHI: Congress is debating holding a general election in November, six months ahead of schedule, senior party leaders said, reflecting an internal discussion over whether to pull the plug on the shaky ruling coalition or have it serve a full term. Officially, the Congress party says the government - which has been battered by a series ...
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New Delhi, May 17 2013 :-- As repair work to fix the breach in the upper Ganga canal in Uttar Pradesh continues, Delhi Jal Board (DJB) on Thursday warned that water supply in East, South and Southwest Delhi would remain affected for at least a week. Given the increase in demand during summers, the DJB has requested the Centre to expedite the repair. The UP government has already assured that the breach will be mended as soon as possible.The DJB said the breach was discovered in the Ganga ...
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17 May, 2013,NEW DELHI:-- Jharkhand may have a new government soon. Four months after imposition of President's rule, following the collapse of the BJP-JMM government, the Congress high command is exploring the possibility of propping up an alternative government along with 'like-minded' parties. The Congress leadership has asked its 13 MLAs to reach Delhi for consultations even as AICC managers are learnt to have completed a few rounds of talks with leaders of potential allies - JMM (18 ...
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May 17, 2013,Mumbai:-- Six pairs of undergarments, a kurta, a pair of pajamas, two reading glasses, two bars of soap, two toothbrushes, a toothpaste, two bottles of shampoo, a pair of slippers, three tubes of a mosquito repellant gel, a bedsheet, a mattress, a pillow, a copy each of the Hanuman Chalisa, the Bhagwad Gita and the Ramayana, and electronic cigarettes. These are what 1993 blasts case convict Sanjay Dutt requested that he be allowed to take to jail when he surrendered before the ...
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May 17, 2013,Lucknow :-- At a rally during the 2009 Lok Sabha election campaign, BJP leader Varun Gandhi had said that some day he will return to his father’s ‘karmabhoomi’ — Sultanpur. On Thursday, he did precisely that by addressing a rally in Sultanpur from where he is expected to contest the next Lok Sabha election. “Sultanpur is my home and I assure the people here that their dreams and hardships are now mine,” BJP MP Varun Gandhi declared in an obvious attempt to ...
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Delhi:16-05-2013:-- A daughter-in-law should be treated as a family member and not the domestic help, and she cannot be "thrown out of her matrimonial home at any time", the Supreme Court has said, while expressing concern over instances of brides being burnt and tortured in the country. The top court said a bride must be respected in her matrimonial home as it "reflects the sensitivity of a civilised society." "A daughter-in-law is to be treated as a member of the family with warmth ...
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Srinagar, May 16:-- A former policeman hailed as a hero by Kashmiri protesters for throwing a shoe at the chief minister has been arrested for an extortion bid. Abdul Ahad Jan, a head constable who was sacked for a different reason in 2011, was picked up after truck driver Kulvinder Singh complained two days ago that a “police officer” had extorted money from him. Investigations revealed that Jan, who was no longer in service, was impersonating a police officer and had taken Rs ...
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May 16, 2013,Mumbai:-- The iconic race course at Mahalaxmi may soon be replaced by a theme garden. The Shiv Sena-ruled Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided not to renew the 99-year lease to the Royal Western Indian Turf Club, which runs the race course. Of the total 8.54 lakh sq metres of the land occupied by the Royal Western India Turf Club (RWITC), 2.54 lakh square metres is owned by the BMC. Leaders of the civic body, including Mayor Sunil Prabhu, now say they ...
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New Delhi, Thu May 16 2013:-- BJP general secretary Varun Gandhi has found himself at the centre of a sting operation carried out by Tehelka and Headlines Today. The sting claims local administration and a member of the ruling SP in Uttar Pradesh orchestrated witnesses to turn hostile to facilitate Varun's exoneration in two cases of hate speech made during the last Lok Sabha polls. A news report based on the sting aired by Headlines Today Wednesday evening showed several "witnesses" ...
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16 May, 2013,NEW DELHI: There is too much democracy in the party, BJP leaders often joke, using the euphemism to explain how factionalism has kept the main opposition from profiting from the serial scams that have engulfed the Congress at the Centre. Barring Gujarat, the party has not had much to flaunt by way of electoral success over the past year. Even at the peak of its recent campaign in Parliament, where it boycotted much of the second half of the budget session over corruption ...
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May 16, 2013,New Delhi:-- Another shameful incident of rape has been reported from the national capital. A 21-year-old was allegedly raped by the Chief Medical Officer of Jag Pravesh Chandra Hospital in Seelampur. The survivor claimed she was asked to undergo an ultrasound prior to which she was given a drink laced with sedatives. The police said that her medical test confirmed rape and the doctor has been taken into custody. "The doctor had suggested an ultrasound so she went to a ...
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NEW DELHI,15 May 2013:- The GoM, under the chairmanship of Finance Minister P Chidambaram, will draft a law for the independence of the CBI and its functional autonomy. (File/PTI) A week after the Supreme Court questioned the credibility of the CBI, calling it a ‘caged parrot speaking in its master’s voice’, an embarrassed UPA government on Tuesday constituted a Group of Ministers (GoM) to examine and formulate a new law to make the premier investigation agency autonomous and ...
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15 May, 2013,NEW DELHI: India's long range maritime snooping and anti-submarine warfare capabilities will get a huge boost when the first of the eight contracted Poseidon-8 I aircraft touches down at the Arakkonam naval air station in Tamil Nadu on Wednesday. Under the $2.1 billion deal inked with the US aviation major Boeing in January 2009, the second and the third P-8 I aircraft will reach the naval air station INS Rajali in August and November, with the other five scheduled to be ...
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May 15, 2013,New Delhi:-- The 1984 anti-sikh riots case will come up for hearing in the Delhi High court on Wednesday. The Court is likely to give an order on Congress leader Sajjan Kumar's application seeking the quashing of charges in the Sultanpuri case in which 6 people were killed. Sajjan Kumar has been acquitted of all charges in a case relating to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. District and Sessions Judge JR Aryan acquitted Kumar while convicting five others - Balwan Khokkar, an ...
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Guwahati,May 15 2013:-- Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will arrive here on Wednesday on a brief visit to submit his nomination papers for the Rajya Sabha seat whose term expires later in the month. Returning officer and Assam Assembly secretary G P Das said Singh was expected to submit his papers around 11.40 am. Singh, who was first elected to Rajya Sabha from a seat in Assam in 1991, has since been elected four times from his "adopted home state". ...
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