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Former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa on Sunday challenged his detractors within the party, warning that he would make them repent soon.Inaugurating the Shani temple tower at Muddapura village of Thyagaturu in Gubbi taluk, he revealed that he would release a book he had authored while in jail....
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Vicky Nanjappa reports: Stepping up pressure on Karnataka Chief Minister D Sadananda Gowda, seven ministers loyal to B S Yeddyurappa have quit the Karnataka cabinet.The seven ministers said that they have decided to quit since the chief minister has lost confidence in them. They have also...
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Cricketers such as Sachin Tendulkar should not be honoured with the Bharat Ratna as the demand to give the award to filmstars and cricket players spoke of 'thelow cultural level', Press Council of India Chairman JusticeMarkandey Katju said on Saturday.
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Margaret Alva was on Saturday sworn in as Rajasthan Governor, after her shift from the Raj Bhavan in Uttarakhand in a gubernatorial reshuffle.
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Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda on Saturday arrived in Beijing to attend the fifth trilateral meeting between China, Japan and South Korea aimed at boosting cooperation through joint efforts.
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In a decision which can have implications on the revival of Indo-Pak bilateral cricket ties, the Board of Control for Cricket in India has cleared the decks for the inclusion of a team from Pakistan in the Champions League Twenty20 for the first time since the event's inception.The BCCI Working...
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Taking a tough stand, Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh has asked the striking Air India pilots to apologise to passengers, start the flights and then come to the government for talks. The first priority must be to make sure that the passengers feel they are being listened to. So let the pilots...
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CBI would soon send one of its officers to Dubai police for assistance in its quest to bring absconding Sanjay Choudhary, one of the kingpins in the Madhu Koda scam, a top CBI officer said on Saturday.Sanjay Choudhary is in Dubai now. It appears he was arrested and secured bail there. We will...
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Indian Pilots Guild on Saturday said that it was willing to hold talks without any precondition to resolve the crisis that has dogged national carrier Air India since the last five days.IPG leader Tauseef Muqaddam, said: The ball is in government's court. AI management is not giving a clear...
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As Air India pilots' strike entered the fifth day, Government on Saturday reached out to the opposition parties to discuss ways out of the impasse. Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh has invited his predecessors Sharad Yadav, Rajiv Pratap Rudy and Shahnawaz Hussain for informal talks on the...
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About 15 crew members, including Indians, are on board an oil tanker that has been hijacked by pirates in the Arabian Sea, a media report said. The Liberian-flagged Smyrni was carrying 135,000 tonnes of oil. It was seized off the coast of Oman, reported BBC. The ship's operator said it lost...
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The death toll from hail and rain storms in a mountainous area in northwest China has risen to 37 while 19 people remained missing.The storms had affected 358,000 people in Minxian county in Gansu province, forcing the evacuation of nearly 30,000 local residents.Hail and torrential rain, battered...
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Blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng, whose week-long stay in the US embassy in Beijing stirred up a major standoff between Beijing and Washington, has said there was no progress on government's promise to grant passport to him and his family to visit America.When the dissident left the...
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The Indian Army has ordered a court of inquiry into the incident in which Commanding Officer of 226 Field Regiment Colonel Kadam was attacked by jawans of his regiment.The inquiry order came after the Defence Ministry sought a report from the Army on the incident that took place on Thursday...
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Alleging that Pakistan has for decades leveraged radical terrorist groups to carry out attacks in India and Afghanistan, a US lawmaker has introduced a bill that proposes to deduct $50 million from the US aid to Islamabad everytime an American is killed as a result of actions of ISI.Congressman...
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The United States said today it is partially resuming sales of military supplies to key Gulf Arab ally Bahrain but maintaining a freeze on certain wire-guided missiles and vehicles. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said the items that we are releasing are not used for crowd control,...
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The top-secret US National Security Agency is not required to reveal any deal it may have with Google to help protect against cyber attacks, an appeals court ruled today. The US Court of Appeals in Washington upheld a lower court decision that said the NSA need not confirm or deny any...
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NATO and US forces in Afghanistan admitted today that a number of civilians were killed in two separate airstrikes, days after President Hamid Karzai warned that such deaths threatened relations with the US. A joint statement by NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and US forces...
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A large explosion went off near an office of the ruling Baath party in Syria's second city of Aleppo this evening, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. A big explosion was heard near Al-Jabiri Square. It targeted an office of the Baath party, according to initial reports, the...
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Half-centuries from Chris Gayle and Tillakaratne Dilshan combined with an excellent bowling effort helped Royal Challengers Bangalore crush Pune Warriors by 35 runs and enhance their play-off chances in the Indian Premier League on Friday.While Bangalore are now placed third in the table with...
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A man wearing an Afghan army uniform shot dead a US service member in the east of the country, one of two NATO troops killed today, military officials said. The Taliban took credit for the attack. It was the 15th incident this year in which Afghan soldiers or insurgents disguised in military...
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Russia's newly sworn-in President Vladimir Putin will make what could be his first foreign trip to China next month after deciding to skip the G8 summit in the US, a diplomatic source said today. Putin's June 5-7 visit will include talks with Chinese President Hu Jintao and attendance at the...
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SC orders CBI probe against YeddyurappaClinton praises Mamata for overthrowing LeftControversial Ambedkar cartoon to go off textbooksYeddyurappa welcomes CBI probe, Cong wants BJP govt to goWar room leak case: Two former navy commanders get bailAkhilesh revises eligibility criterion for...
