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Around 60-70 activists of Aam Aadmi Party today held a protest before the residence of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi demanding hanging of the alleged rapists of a 23-year-old girl in the capital. The protesters marched to 10, Janpath -- Gandhi's residence in New Delhi-- from Jantar Mantar after a...
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INS Ranvijay today completed 25 years of its service in the Indian Navy, an official release said here.It is the fifth and the latest ship of the Rajput class Guided Missile Destroyers and was commissioned into the Indian Navy on December 21, 1987 at Poti, in the erstwhile USSR, it said.Equipped...
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A British antiques dealer has been jailed for 10 months for forging the signatures of Winston Churchill and other famous figures in books he sold as collector items. Prosecutors say Allan Formhals bought books at recycling centers and junk sales and made thousands of pounds selling them on eBay...
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Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today thanked the voters of Maninagar for electing him for the third consecutive time. The people of Maninagar were never voting to elect an MLA from Maninagar. They knew they were voting to secure their future, Modi said addressing a rally organised in his...
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Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit today termed the horrific assault on the 23-year-old girl as most painful incident for her since she assumed the top post in the capital and said she personally favoured death penalty for rapists.She said she hated Delhi being called rape capital of India...
21:57
US President Barack Obama will nominate veteran Senator John Kerry, known for his relationship-building skills, as the next Secretary of State, a senior administration official said today.Sixty-nine-year-old Kerry, currently the chairman of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has...
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President Barack Obama says his administration has received an outpouring of support for stricter gun laws following last week's school shooting in Connecticut, telling respondents to an online petition, We hear you. The president said in a video released today that he is encouraged that many gun...
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The government today ordered closure of all pubs and discotheques in the capital by 1 am as part of security measures in the backdrop of rape of a young student in a moving bus last Sunday. This was announced by Union Home Secretary R K Singh. The move came as part of steps taken by the...
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President Barack Obama joined a nationwide moment of silence today to mark the passing of one week since the Newtown school massacre. Obama took part in the unofficial national day of mourning at the White House and his wife, Michelle Obama, sent an open letter of support for the...
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Diehard doomsayers hunkered down to await the apocalypse today, but most took a lighthearted view of the Mayan prophecy of the world's destruction, laying on stunts and parties to while away the end. If you're in an underground bunker with a lifetime's supply of baked beans how stupid do you feel...
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The police said that sixth accused person, who was on the run, was on Friday arrested in Bihar. They had earlier in the day arrested one of the accused who were on the run. He is a minor. Four of the six men accused of raping the woman - the bus driver Ram Singh, his brother, Mukesh, Vinay, a...
19:46
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit describes Sunday night's gang-rape as unforgivable and unforgettable in an interview to NDTV.Hate Delhi being called 'rape capital', but it's become one, she said. Read the interview here
19:04
Sixty-one per cent of the Mumbai's 46,000-strong police force has been assigned the job of protecting VIPs and VVIPs in the metropolis that has a population of over 1.25 crore, a whopping 1,184 per cent jump in deployment since 2007. In 2010, nearly 13,010 cops were assigned for VIPs and VVIPs...
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Malala Yousafzai @Yousafzai MalalaGovernment must reverse their decision to name college after me as it would make students a target for militants.The 15-year-old Pakistani girl who was shot by the Taliban for promoting girls' education has urged Pakistan to reverse a decision to rename a college...
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A Manipuri actress has alleged that she was molested by a cadre of the rebel Nationalist Socialist Council of Nagaland (Isak-Muivah), sparking outrage in the state. Locals took to the streets in Imphal on Friday, demanding immediate arrest and strict punishment for Livingstone Anal, who is...
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The national capital has registered a whopping 17 per cent rise in rape cases this year with 661 such incidents being reported till December 15 compared to 564 during same period last year. The figures indicate that more and more women were reporting incidents of crime against them with the...
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Update on the protests over the Delhi gang-rape. The streets of Delhi today witnessed an outpouring of anger over the December 16 night gang-rape of a para-medic student in a moving bus. With slogans like we want justice, we want justice',' hundreds of angry women activists and students...
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Home secretary RK Singh says every driver must be verified, every bus checked and any misbehaviour must be reported and immediate action will be taken. Illegal buses will be impounded, fresh driving test for drivers with outstation licences. There will be GPS in all buses, all autos. All vehicles...
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Delhi police commissioner Neeraj Kumar who is at the joint presser says all the forensic evidence had been collected. It may be recollected that the accused had tried to wash away all evidence from the bus when the rape was reported across TV channels on Tuesday. The fifth accused who was...
17:11
Union Home Secretary RK Singh gives an update on the Delhi gang-rape case. One person is still absconding, while the five others are arrested. We will seek life sentence for all the accused, says Singh and gives a pat on the back for the Delhi police saying it arrested the accused with minimum...
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Just in: Doctors at Safdarjung hospital treating the gang-rape victim say she's better, off the ventilator and the infection has been contained. Her pulse rate is normal, but the condition of her liver is not good. We also request that there are no protests outside the hospital.
16:48
Just in: The Delhi High Court will hear the gang-rape case on January 9. The Delhi police have submitted a report to the court on the case, but the court says it is not satisfied with the details.The high court on Wednesday cleared the state government's proposal to set up five fast-track trial...
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On slender historical foundations we are trying to create a modern republic, one reason why the task seems so difficult, at times almost insuperable. Our memories are of warrior-kings: Mahmud, Aibak, Babar, Akbar and, a bit later, Abdali, not of law-givers or philosopher-kings. Read
16:38
The Russian parliament overwhelmingly approved on Friday a ban on Americans adopting Russian children in retaliation for a US law that will punish Russians accused of human rights violations. Read
16:35
Barkha Dutt: Sheila Dixit on the Delhi Rape unforgettable, unforgivable, shaken us all up. Breaks down in intw on why she couldn't meet the young young. Kiran Bedi: CM being interviewed by Barkha/NDTV. Appearing very helpless,rather ignorant of what can be done! No wonder situation has not...
16:32
By winning a third consecutive term as Gujarat's chief minister, the controversial Narendra Modi has boosted his chances to become the BJP's candidate for prime minister. Here's why you needn't worry. Read
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A Parliamentary panel has issued summons to Union Home Secretary R K Singh and Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar in connection with the recent gang-rape and brutal assault of a paramedic student in the national capital. The Parliament's Standing Committee on Home Affairs has sent notices to...
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Only six per cent of the Delhi police force is female. The all-India figure is lower, between three and four per cent. Read
15:50
The 23-year-old paramedical student, who was gang-raped and tortured in a moving bus on Sunday night, has undergone a fifth surgery and continues to be critical but stable, doctors attending on her said. Doctors at the Safdarjung hospital where she is undergoing treatment performed an elective...
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State BJP presdient, Vijender Gupta who has apparently met the Delhi gang-rape victim's family says they have asked him to beg the media to leave them alone. They feel hounded by the media's attempts to look for them in their village, asking their relatives for information, especially a time when...
15:35
The observation of an elusive sub-atomic particle, known as the Higgs boson, has been hailed as the most important scientific discovery of 2012 by the journal Science. This particle, which was first hypothesized more than 40 years ago, holds the key to explaining how other elementary...
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Chief Minister Narendra Modi, who silenced his critics to register a third successive win in the recently held two-phased state assembly polls, met Gujarat Governor Dr Kamla Beniwal here on Friday. Modi, who will be sworn-in as the chief minister of Gujarat for the third time on December 25,...
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Update on the Delhi gang-rape: The Health Ministry today assured all possible help to the 23-year-old victim for her advanced treatment, including organ transplant. The girl is surviving as all her vital organs are functioning normally. A team of doctors has been formed to take care of her...
14:48
Just in: Smiriti Irani will file a defamation case against Sanjay Nirupam, says the BJP. The Congress spokesperson said, Aap to paise ke liye thumke lagati thi, aaj chunavi visleshak ban gayi! (You used to charge money to perform dance shows on TV, and now you have become a psephologist) on a...
14:44
CBI has filed charge sheet in a Delhi court on the allocation of additional spectrum during the NDA regime. The CBI names ex-DoT Secretary Shyamal Ghosh and three telecom firms as accused in the charge sheet. Bharti Airtel Ltd, Vodafone India Ltd and Hutchison Max & Sterling Cellular named as...
14:40
The psychologist David Lisak, an expert on violent crime, including murder and rape, talks about the Delhi gang-rape. Read
14:30
And a read on Salman Khan, whose film Dabbang 2 has just released. The WSJ writes: In India, he is a cultural force, with many trying -- and failing -- to emulate his style. There are always people swarming around his Mumbai home, with the hope of catching a glimpse of the Bollywood star. Read
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The Congress has maintained a studied silence on the Nirupam's comments to Smriti Irani -- and so has the BJP. Moving on... Priyanka Chopra tells Anupama Chopra about her tough year, her achievements, and how she handles the glare of unwelcome publicity. Read
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And this is what ABP News tweets on the subject: @abpnewstv: ABP News stopped the show and expresses regret that Sanjay Nirupam made such comments on the show.
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Bollywood actor Payal Rohatgi criticised Nirupam on Twitter saying: aap bhi to Paise ke liye bigg boss season 2 mein aaye & were kicked out because of your pathetic approach in 1st week :-). A Sangh Parivar tweet said: Sanjay Nirupam's sick/pervert comments are just another example of what...
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Congress party national spokesperson Sanjay Nirumpam has created a new controversy by using foul words on TV-actor-turned politician Smriti Irani. During a TV debate on ABP News, Sanjay Nirupam said, Aap to paise ke liye thumke lagati thi, aaj chunavi visleshak ban gayi!!! (You used to charge...
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Rahul Pandita @smritiirani. You should've told Sanjay Nirupam that it is he who gyrated from one political party to another for personal gains.Pritish Nandy: Sanjay Nirupam is serious bad news... till I guess something worse comes along.Netra Parikh: I feel Sanjay Nirupam shd apologise...
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This is the YouTube video when Sanjay Nirupam reveals his inner self. WatchAnd outrage on Twitter:Pawan Durani: So .... most of the elders & youth in Congress are maintaining silence on Sanjay Nirupam 's degrading comments , for obvious reasons ...Manoj Dhadwal: Sanjay Nirupam has a sick mind....
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Twitter is abuzz with Congress MP Sanjay Nirupam's remarks to BJP MP Smriti Irani doing a talk show yesterday on ABP News, where he said, Aap toh paise ke liye thumke lagati thi. Read the open letter to Nirupam.
13:34
Andhra Pradesh governor ESL Narasimhan reached New Delhi today, his second visit this fortnight -- to meet central leaders. The governor is expected to stay in Delhi for two days to attend a Intelligence Bureau lecture by Biocon chief Kiran Mazumdar Shaw tomorrow. The governor is also expected...
13:26
'Unless he engages with the darkness within, unless there is remorse for what happened within his rule, I don't think he is going to be my leader,' says filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt in his forthright style. Read
13:20
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi will head to Delhi to meet Atal Behari Vajpayee, LK Advani and other senior BJP leaders on December 27. He will then head to 11 Ashok Road, the BJP national headquarters. Modi is expected to speak at the National Development Council, which will approve the...
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In a rare campaign to dispel rumours fuelled by the Internet and a new Hollywood movie titled 2012-, NASA officials has said that the world is not coming to an end on December 21, 2012. The latest big screen offering from Sony Pictures, 2012, shows the end of the world, supposedly based on...
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Former Army chief Gen V K Singh has joined the chorus of voices against the Delhi gang-rape. Calling the gang-rape of the young student in a moving bus indicative of the complete collapse of governance, the former Army chief today accused the police of becoming nothing more than security...
12:52
Delhi gang rape case: 'she deserved it' is not a good argument. Read
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In 2011-12, our 'safe' city has seen a rise of 15% and 14% in cases of rape and molestation respectively, as compared to the previous year; 430 women registered cases saying their modesty was outraged. Read
12:45
A half-built bridge symbolises the urgency and the frustrations of improving India's infrastructure. Read the report on the Economist.
12:44
Delhi gang-rape case: Farhan Akhtar's hard-hitting poem. Read
12:43
Our daughters, our sisters, our mothers are not safe in the society and as I said we should hang our heads in shame and specially in a country like India, where we have always said that women should be worshipped, mothers should be worshipped, womanhood should be respected. This is the kind of...
12:41
West Bengal Governor MK Narayanan's car was gheroed near Rashtrapati Bhawan in New Delhi this morning by women protestors seeking justice for the gang-rape victim. A breach of security was reported when a young student called Swati entered the President's home raising slogans that she would not...
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Kiran Bedi tweets: Urge all commuters to photo vehicles with tinted glasses and curtains and tweet d pics to police Commissioner for immed action@delhipolice2
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Meanwhile, in the capital, protestors attempt to enter Rashtrapati Bhavan following outrage over the gang-rape of the 23-year-old student in Delhi on Sunday night. On Wednesday, the Delhi police had to use water canons to disband protestors who tried to barge in to Delhi chief minister Sheila...
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Holding that death penalty to rapists was not the final solution, former Chief Justice of Bombay High Court Chandrashekhar Dharmadhikari today said sensitising people about sexual abuse and violence was essential to curb such heinous crimes rather than making strong demands.Normally this (demand...
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Now that the numbers are out and it is nowhere near as spectacular as expected/feared by some or hyped by many -- it is Narendra Modi's lowest in three elections -- it is a sobering thought. Is this the best he can do, wonders Saisuresh Sivaswamy. Read the column on rediff.com.
12:08
What's with Hindutva leaders and their poetry? Why is it such rubbish? It is a two-pipe problem for Sherlock Holmes, but let's examine it because Narendra Modi fancies himself as a poet. His website refers to this as one of his talents. Read Aakar Patel's blog
12:05
Has the BJP finally managed to break into the Muslim votebank? Or doesn't the 9% Muslim population of Gujarat carry any weight any more? The 2012 assembly polls, which have given a third term to chief minister Narendra Modi, saw a slight blurring of communal lines, with the BJP winning chunks of...
12:03
Narendra Modi winning a third term in Gujarat does not come as a surprise. The more significant topic engaging Modi-watchers has been the role of Modi beyond Gujarat-2012. The question is whether and under what conditions Modi will be able to go beyond being the supreme leader of Gujarati Hindus...
11:59
In politics, you sometimes owe your success to your opponent. The Congress returned to power in Himachal Pradesh on a strong negative vote against the Bharatiya Janata Party government of Prem Kumar Dhuma. Read
11:57
Every paper worth it's circulation has several opinion pieces on Narendra Modi's hat-trick win at the Gujarat polls yesterday. This is a piece from the Hindu. There was never an iota of doubt about Narendra Modi being able to pull off a third straight Assembly election victory in Gujarat. In a...
11:54
If you haven't made out your will, don't bother. The world as we know it will end today. Or is supposed to according to the Mayans. Yet, there were no signs of panic, prophesying or much else out of the ordinary on Thursday on the streets of New York's most densely Mayan neighborhood, Bath Beach...
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Strange theories are floated to explain the depravity of Indian men ' from greater access to pornography (that would have made Holland very unsafe for women) to a growing inclination towards noodles (think Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong) ' but the truth is that at the root of it all lies a culture...
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A Delhi Court on Friday granted bail to Congress leader Digvijaya Singh in connection with the defamation case filed by BJP President Nitin Gadkari. Singh appeared before Metropolitan Magistrate Sudesh Kumar in pursuance to the summons issued against him by the court on November 17 and the...
11:40
If what the six rapists did to the woman was the very worst kind of sadism and savagery, the good folks who are outraged by the incident have been scarcely less vicious. From public disembowellment and hanging to castration ' chemical or surgical ' and flogging, urban India has been displaying an...
11:38
The 23-year-old victim's male friend, an engineer in a software company, identified Mukesh during TIP, a senior police official said. Out of the four accused, only Mukesh had agreed to TIP when he was produced before a court here yesterday. Other accused -- Ram Singh, Pawan and Vinay -- had...
11:33
So, Gujarat decided yesterday that it wants Narendra Modi as chief minister. Point is, whether Modi wants to stay in the state or head north to Delhi. While the media searches for clues in yesterday's victory speech, what will probably change is that the hat-trick in the assembly polls could be a...
11:22
The gang-rape victim's sheer will to live has left doctors amazed. Although the victim of Sunday's brutal gang-rape continues to be critical, doctors said she has responded well to the second surgery on Wednesday in which her entire intestine was removed as it had turned gangrenous. Despite the...
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Just in: The fifth accused, Raju, in the Delhi gang-rape case has been arrested. He had been detained on Wednesday in Badaun, Uttar Pradesh. Of the six men who raped the 23-year-old paramedical student, four men, were arrested earlier. Yesterday, the male friend of the victim, who was also beaten...
11:13
If we were to go only by numbers, Australia and Sweden would seem to be the rape capitals of the world, with women being most unsafe in these countries. Of course, the definition of rape differs from country to country and that, coupled with how well the crime is reported and recorded,...
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Just in: A Delhi court has ordered the framing of charges against against former Commonwealth Games Organising Committee (OC) chairman Suresh Kalmadi and 10 others in a games-related graft case. Special CBI judge Talwant Singh had on November 21 slated for Decenber 21 the...
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Ten months after Saif Ali Khan allegedly assaulted a South-Africa based businessman Iqbal Mir Sharma and his father-in-law at a luxury hotel in Colaba, the Mumbai Police has filed a charge sheet against the Bollywood actor and his two associates in the case. Colaba police station filed the charge...
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Senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh was on Friday granted bail by a Delhi court in connection with a criminal defamation case filed against him by BJP President Nitin Gadkari.Singh appeared before Metropolitan Magistrate Sudesh Kumar in pursuance to the summons issued against him by the court...
10:16
The rupee lost 35 paise to trade at nearly one-month low of 55.20 against the US dollar in early trade on Friday at the Interbank Foreign Exchange market on continued demand for the American currency from importers.Forex dealers said besides dollar's gain against the euro in the overseas markets,...
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The BSE benchmark Sensex on Friday fell over 115 points in early trade on selling by funds amid a weak trend in the Asian region. The 30-share index fell 115.50 points, or 0.59 per cent, to 19,338.42.Similarly, the wide-based National Stock Exchange Nifty moved down by 38.80 points, or 0.66 per...
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The four men arrested here for allegedly having tortured and gang-raped a 23-year-old physiotherapist who now battles for life, have shown no remorse. Investigators said Thursday that they behaved like hardened criminals.None of the accused have shown even an iota of remorse or any kind of regret...
08:50
Here's some bizarre news.As the young paramedical student battles for life bravely four days after her brutal gang-rape, the inmates of Tihar jail, where the rape accused have been lodged, are also giving the main accused a hard time.India Today cited a source that revealed that the main accused...
08:38
The gang rape of a 23-year-old woman and the beating of her male friend on a moving bus in New Delhi Sunday night has produced debates about womens rights in India and about whether the death penalty -- or castration -- are suitable remedies for the situation. It has not prompted any...
08:30
The Delhi bus gang-rape knocked India's entrenched blame-the-victim mentality off its footing. How to demonise a girl who dared watch a film with a male friend before boarding a private bus in a relatively affluent neighborhood around 9 pm, before most Indians even sit down for dinner? What did...
03:03
AFP reports: A newly released video of a knife attack at a Chinese primary school shows a man slashing at a little girl and causing her to fall to the ground, horrifying web users in the country.A total of 22 children were stabbed in the attack last week in the central province of Henan.The...
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AP reports: Mayan doomsday jitters and fears of violence after a horrific school shooting in Connecticut prompted officials in Michigan to send thousands of students home early for the Christmas break.All five school districts in Lapeer County decided to cancel classes today and tomorrow after...
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AP reports: Under police guard, thousands of health workers pressed on with a polio immunization program today after nine were killed elsewhere in Pakistan by suspected militants who oppose the vaccination campaign.Immunisations were halted in some parts of Pakistan and the UN suspended its field...
01:53
The ashes of noted sitar player Pandit Ravi Shankar, the who passed away last week, will be taken to Varanasi for the final rites, Lakshmi Shankar, the musician's sister-in-law, told rediff.com at a memorial service held at the Self Realisation Fellowship Ashram Center in Encinitas, Southern...
01:29
Nearly 50 people die due to cancer every month in Jalandhar district of Punjab's Doaba region, according to an ongoing survey of the state health department.We have completed 80 per cent of the survey. As per the latest data available, 2,955 people have lost their lives to cancer in past five...
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A habeas corpus petition was today filed in the Madhya Pradesh high court in Indore by the mother of an accused in 2007 Samjhauta Express blast case, questioning the illegal detention of her son by the National Investigation Agency.In her petition, Buli Bai, 66 has claimed her son Dhan Singh was...
01:03
Italian President Giorgio Napolitano today spoke to two marines from his country facing criminal trial here on charges of killing two Indian fishermen, who were permitted by the Kerala high court to go home to celebrate Christmas, subject to clearance from the Centre. The Italian President spoke...
01:02
BBC reports: The Queen has recorded her Christmas Day broadcast to the UK and Commonwealth in 3D for the first time, Buckingham Palace has said.Her use of the technology comes 80 years after George V first broadcast a Christmas speech on the radio and started the December 25 tradition.A spokesman...
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I will surely go to Delhi: Modi tells GujaratBJP thanks people, accuses Cong of communalising Guj pollsNarendra Modi at the doorsteps of New DelhiIn PHOTOS: The big winners and losers in GujaratPhotos: As BJP leads in Gujarat, celebrations begin at HQ
