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Stay with rediff.com for everything that you want to know on the PM's China summit. The big news stories today... Bhopal tragedy: Harsher charges tomorrow Exclusive! PM in China: Defence ties to resume this year Hasan Ali bail hearing tomorrow Anna: No disdain, politicians on wrong path...
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A five-judge constitution bench of the Supreme Court will hear tomorrow the Centre's plea for prosecuting Bhopal gas tragedy case accused, who have escaped with lighter punishment of two years jail term, under the stringent penal provision attracting maximum ten years of imprisonment. The bench...
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Hang in there for a detailed report by NikhilLakshman. Meanwhile, ontoother news. The Supreme Court today said that the government cannot claim to having exclusive right in the appointment of a prosecutor in a criminal case. This comes in the background of the court's appointment of senior...
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Nikhil Lakshman says: Up ahead tomorrow for the PM apart from meeting his counterpart in China and ironing out bilateral relations, will be a meeting with Russian president Dmitry Medvedev. Then, on Thursday, he meets Brazilian president Dilma Rouseff and South African president Jacob Zuma....
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Here are exclusive takes from the PM's visit to Sanya, China. Rediff.com's Editor-in-chief Nikhil Lakshman says in this exclusive take: India and China will resume defence ties this year. The two countries will also have an economic dialogue in two months. China will permit Indian...
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Rediff.com's Editor-in-chief Nikhil Lakshman travelling with PM Manmohan Singh to the BRICS summit in Sanya, China, tells us that the Indian delegation has reached the country. The PM was received at the airport by India's ambassador S Jaishankar, Chinese vice foreign minister and vice governor...
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TheMumbai Sessions court has adjourned till tomorrow the hearing on the bail application of Pune-based stud farm owner Hasan Ali, who is alleged to have stashed away over 8 billion dollars in Swiss banks. The court had earlier on March 30 granted the Enforcement Directorate permission to...
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International health journal Lancet, which had first published an article naming a drug-resistant superbug after New Delhi, had refused to publish India's rebuttal in the matter last year. The rebuttal was sent by the National Centre for Disease Control expressing disagreement over the naming...
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Please see:Cartoonist Matt in the British newspaper Telegraph on the French ban on burqas.
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The Anna-Advani war of words continues. Anna Hazare hits back at BJP senior leader LK Advani.saying what he said was wrong because if politicians were on the right path, there would have been no need for such a movement. Here's what Advani said on his blog: Iam of the view that those who...
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More indicators of a Trinamool win? Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee today criticised the ruling Left Front government for destroying the tea industry in north Bengal and said things would radically improve if the TC-Congress alliance comes to power. The once thriving tea industry in...
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Why Lalgarh will vote for Didi. With West Bengal gearing up for the first phase of assembly polls to be held on April 18, the locals in Maoist-infested Netai village of Lalgarh district hope that a new government would bring about a remarkable change and develop the infrastructure and health...
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Libya's former foreign minister Mussa Kussa, who is in Britain after defecting from Muammar Gaddafi's regime, has said the nation could become a new Somalia if civil war broke out. I ask everyone, all the parties, to avoid taking Libya into a civil war, the former minister said in a statement...
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A 1938 comic featuring Superman's debut that has been recovered in a storage locker in the US appears to be the copy stolen from Nicolas Cage, police say. The 47-year-old actor, who accepted an insurance payout after the 2000 theft, said last week's find, in Los Angeles, was divine providence,...
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Mrityunjoy Kumar Jhatweets on Sushma Swaraj saying: I cannot comment on rahul-amul-baby comment as I was a cabinet minister at age of 25. Like!
15:44
Forcing women to uncover their faces will not create some form of 'moderate Islam' but it does unveil French bigotry, reports Al Jazeera. Read. The ban on the full veil came into effect in France yesterday, with two arrests so far.
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The Lahore High Court has granted a week's time to the Pakistan Interior Ministry to submit its reply on the mysterious disappearance of the legal heirs of the January 27 Raymond Davis shootout victims. The heirs of the two victims -- Faizan Haider and Faheem-- have been missing since they...
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The fascinating story of how a man to make his colleague's smile, put pen on paper and drew a round face with a smile -- the Smiley.Harvey Ball's 1963 creation made 'many people rich - but not its creator. Great read
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News flash: NGO workers rescue two sisters who had locked themselves inside their Noida home for seven months after their father died. CNN IBNimages show the sisters were starved, dehydrated and emaciated (one sister looked almost like an Egyptian mummy). The sisters are believed to be between...
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Amid controversy over leakage of telephonic conversations involving top industrialists, corporate lobbyist Niira Radia and others, the Finance Ministry has asked the DoT to enquire into the conduct of telecom operators and identify individuals involved in it. DoT will have to conduct a further...
14:42
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has won a case against two of his classmates who were trying to get more money from the social networking website chief by claiming he had stolen the idea of the project from them. The judge ruled that the 2008 settlement that gave USD 65 million to Cameron and...
14:35
A Pakistani court has said that it has no audio record in its archives of the trial of former premier Zulfikar Ali Bhutto that resulted in his conviction and hanging in 1979. Following the PPP-led government's decision to ask the Supreme Court to review the conviction of Bhutto, the Law...
14:30
Celebrated writer Sachin Bhowmick who created the superhero Krrish breathed his last today.Working for over 50 years, Bhowmick was associated with films like An Evening In Paris (1967), Caravan (1971), Golmaal (1979), Karan Arjun (1995), Krrish (2006) etc. He has worked with great Bollywood...
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A Pakistani court has admitted a petition to declare his regime as unconstitutional and to remove his name from the list of the country's presidents. The petitioner is no lesser person than former president Rafique Tarar. Tarar's petition, which was admitted by Lahore High Court Chief Justice...
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In a bid to speed up its probe, the CVC has asked Chief Vigilance Officers of government departments to prepare a list of officials who were allegedly involved in corruption while executing Commonwealth Games related projects. It has also asked all civic and construction agencies to put...
13:59
In Libya, where the world seems to have lost interest, the finance minister Abdulhafid Zlitni fears the Muammar Gaddafi regime may run out of funds within months if there is no quick resolution to the political and military crisis. Zlitni said the government would double interest rates in the...
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Read LK Advani's blog on the Anna Hazare issue: Iam of the view that those who revel in spreading a general climate of disdain about politics and politicians are doing a gross disservice to democracy. Despite the short comings of indian democracy we still have conscientious and upright...
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AIADMK MLA and candidate for Madathukulam assembly constituency in Tirupur district C Shanmughavelu was admitted to government hospital after he sustained head injury following clashes with DMK workers over alleged distribution of money to voters.
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Charging the ruling DMK with unleashing violence ahead of tomorrow's Assembly polls in Tamil Nadu, AIADMK chief J Jayalalithaa today urged the Election Commission and the state police to ensure free and fair elections. Recalling incidents of alleged poll-time violence by DMK, she said her party...
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American actor Dennis Quaid has revealed that cocaine was a part of movie budgets when he first arrived in Hollywood. The star also admitted that his greatest mistake was getting addicted to it. The Soul Surfer actor opened up about his struggle, where he admitted that he began using the drug...
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Rezhasan tweets: New sign at visa section at Pakistani embassy in Doha: We support the grand jihad in Kashmir. Kashmir written in dripping-red-blood font.
12:56
Raj Rajaratnam, the key accused in the biggest insider trading case in US history, worked hard to learn how the markets was operating and didn't need illegal tips to make money, a former executive of the hedge fund has testified. Rick Schutte, a former analyst at Galleon Group, told the jury...
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The Bombay High Court will tomorrow take a decision on an application filed by the Election Commission seeking permission to hold elections to a vacant post in the Legislative Council, for which Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan is contesting. Chavan, who took over the reins of...
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News flash: ED to attach properties worth Rs 130 crore allegedly belonging to former Jharkhand CM Madhu Koda and his aides as part of its probe into the multi-crore illegal investment and hawala transactions case against him.
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R RAJAGOPALANtweets: Fragile health of aged polticians concerns for EC.It kept contingency plan ready.EC holds breath till 5pm of Wednesday for peaceful polling.
12:39
The brother of the owner of the fishing vessel Kuber, which was used by terrorists to reach Mumbai for the 26/11 attacks, attempted suicide in Porbander, Gujarat, alleging police harassment. Narsinh Masani consumed poison late last night and was immediately rushed to the nearest government...
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Read this story if you haven't the remotest on Chernobyl. Richard Balmforthfrom Reuters.com reports: Just down the road from Prypyat, a short time after midnight on April 26, 1986, reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear plant exploded, spewing radioactive debris into the air after a safety...
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A British boy, aged two, has become the first and only person in the world to be diagnosed with an extra strand of DNA. Alfie Clamp was born blind and with severe disabilities, and the first time his parents Gemma and Richard Clamp took him home, they found that there was something wrong with...
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We told you earlier that the PM and his entourage were on their way to China. Here's what's happening: Cautioning that the traditional sources of economic growth are under stress coupled with fresh uncertainties around the globe, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said today that it would be to the...
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A month after the earthquake-cum-tsunami in Japan, a fire broke out at the crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant this morning, but was extinguished soon. The Tokyo Electric Power Company said the fire occurred at a sampling building near a water outlet of nuclear power plant's No 4...
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Not everyone can ask the Queen of England what fork to use at a banquet or as one account has it, surreptitiously squeeze her knee to make sure one is indeed a guest at the top table. But then again, not everyone is Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, the most perfect specimen imaginable of Homo...
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Kerala Chief Minister VS Achuthanandan has now taken a jibe at Defence Minister AK Antony by calling him ''Kumbhkaran.'' Achuthanandan said that Antony was caught napping like Kumbhkaran when terrorists attacked Mumbai in 2008. Achuthanandan said, AK Antony is the Convenor of the Anti...
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An update on the Anni Dewani murder: Honeymoon murder suspect Shrien Dewani was yesterday kicked out of The Priory clinic after police arrested him over a disturbance, reports dailymail.co.uk. Dewani, who is on suicide watch, was sent to a secure hospital instead. Police will not say if Dewani,...
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Never mind the rest, but Pakistancertainly has attitude. Pak has demanded that the United States steeply reduce the number ofCIA operatives and Special Operations forces working in Pakistan, and that it halt CIAdronestrikes aimed at militants in northwest Pakistan, reports the newyork times.com....
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Describing Independent candidates as agents of the Communist Party of India-Marxist , Trinamool Congress Chief Mamata Banerjee has said they had tied up with the party to prevent the Trinamool-Congress alliance from forming the next government in West Bengal. Addressing a rally here, Banerjee...
11:23
The campaign trail of probably the most interesting assembly elections, apart from West Bengal, ends today. Tamil Nadu goes to the polls tomorrow. After the acrimonious 14-day election campaign, arch rivals ruling DMK and opposition AIADMK have held their breaths as the over 4.6 crore-strong...
11:10
The pilots association has decided to give Goa airport a complete miss till the runway lights and glide path are in place. Both are essential navigational aids used for landing and the association feels without them flight safety would be compromised. The directive was issued by the association...
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While Pakistan's limited-overs captain Shahid Afridi is still trying to amend his anti-India rant, he made it clear that he has no plans of retirement at the moment, and would keep playing for his country for as long as people can bear' with him. When we lost the semi-final World Cup my dad...
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Beginning on a light note -- Model Poonam Pandey, who promised to bare all if India won the Cricket World Cup, says it was not a publicity stunt and that she is still ready to fulfil her commitment. I am still on with my commitment. If BCCI gives me the permission good... I will do it. I am...
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Good morning. While you are in office (unlike the lucky many who are on holiday as India celebrates Ram Navami), our PM is in China. Will keep you updated on what happens through the day. For now, here are headlines from today's papers. India, China work on resuming defence exchanges (Indian...
