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No harsh treatment to Indian Ambassador: China
China has dismissed reports of being harsh on Indian Ambassador who was summoned past midnight in Beijing on the Tibet issue and said the envoy has been treated "very respectfully".
Film school remains in limbo for second seccessive day
All hopes of normalcy returning at Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute (SRFTI) in Kolkata were dashed on Wednesday with the CITU backed labour trouble showing no sign of abating. Slipping further into uncertainty the institute went under lock and key for an idenfinite period on the day. Resumption of classes have become more than uncertain....
Mayawati seeks resignations of Jaiswal, Buta Singh
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati today sought the resignation of Union Minister of State for Home Affairs, Shriprakash Jaiswal and National Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Commission chairman, Buta Singh for virtually siding with farmer leader Mahendra Singh Tikait, who was arrested after a two-day stand-off over his allegedly abusive remarks against the Chief Minister...
Three more SIMI activists arrested in Madhya Pradesh
Madhya Pradesh Police today arrested three more activists of the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) taking the total of arrested activist to 24....
UN group to help control bird flu in West Bengal
The United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has announced the launch of an operation to control the spread of bird flu in West Bengal. The announcement to this effect was made on Tuesday. The representatives will also undertake the operation at a large scale to ward off the deadly H5N1 virus in Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan and Myanmar....
He(Dalai Lama) should not indulge in any political activity:Pranab Mukherjee
India has urged Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, not to indulge in political activities that could hurt Sino-Indian relations....
According to BJP the current surge in the prices is not natural
Taking a potshot on the measures announced by the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government after Cabinet Committee on Price Rise deliberated on Monday, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today said that the current surge in the prices was not natural rather it was manufactured by the government....
1 year mprisonment to ketan and hiten for defrauding Canara Bank
The Bombay High Court on Tuesday sentenced high-profile stockbrokers Ketan Parekh and Hiten Dalal and five others to one year's rigorous imprisonment for defrauding Canara Bank to the tune of Rs 470 million....
'India's agreement for tripartite talks can ensure peace'
Hizbul Mujahideen's chief, Syed Salahuddin, has said that his terrorist organisation might think of reviewing its armed struggle in the Kashmir valley on the condition that India changes its stance and agrees to meaningful tripartite talks for the solution of the Kashmir issue. ...India in danger of losing 2010 World Cup: FIH
In a strongly-worded message, the International Hockey Federation(FIH) today warned India that it may lose the right to host the 2010 World Cup for men if satisfactory progress is not made in FIH-backed developmental project and preparations for the mega event....
Rahul coins new slogan for Congress
Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Monday spelt out a new slogan for the party - "Congress ke dono haath, garibon ke saath" (Both Congress hands for the poor), drawing loud applause from the hundreds gathered to hear him in the city....
Price rise a global phenomenon: Congress
With rising prices turning into a political hot potato, Congress on Monday said that the current inflation is a global phenomenon and cited China's example, where it is at a 12-year high....
Karat compares Tibet to separatist demands in India
Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) general secretary Prakash Karat on Monday warned that supporting an independent Tibet would be a 'great disservice' to India, which has faced many separatist movements....
Stringent action to be taken in Kerala woman case,assures Centre
Taking serious view of a 29-year old Kerala woman landing in a prostitution racket in Oman after being lured with a housemaid job, India has asked its mission in Muscat to take up the case with the Omanese Government and seek action against her sponsors...
Govt considering elimination of import duties: Kamal Nath
Government today said that it is considering elimination of import duties on a host of items, mainly food products, to improve their supply and rein in rising inflation. Interacting with media in the national capital ahead of the crucial meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Prices, Commerce and Industry Minister Kamal Nath on Monday said, “With international prices going to be steep, we are looking at cutting duties on many products, on food front, on edible oil and a whole range of products; in fact, bringing them to zero, if necessary.”...India should boycott Chinese goods: Fernandes
Criticising the Centre's policy on China, former Defence Minister, George Fernandes, has urged the nation and other countries to pressurise the communist nation to change its stand on Tibet by boycotting Chinese goods....
CPM favours long term political alternative to Congress, BJP
The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) today said it was not in favour of cobbling a "cut and paste" third front for elections, but wanted to establish a long term political alternative to the Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)...
Exchange of prisoners' list to be done on monday
India and Pakistan would exchange the lists of prisoners languishing in each other's jails on Monday. According to the Indian Government, currently 372 Indian fishermen and around 199 other Indians are in Pakistani jails....
China potential threat number one: Fernandes
Describing as an "error" the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government's decision to recognise Tibet as a part of China, former defence minister George Fernandes has said the Communist nation was "potential threat number one" to India and flayed the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) dispensation for allowing it to be "bullied"....
Kashmir is central issue: Pak PM
The newly sworn in Pakistan Prime Minister Makhdoom Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that the success of the confidence building measures introduced jointly by his country and India since 2004 would depend on the resolution of the Kashmir dispute....
IIM-A to hike fee by over 100 per cent for PGP programme
Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM-A) has decided on Saturday more than 100 per cent hike in the fees for its post graduate programme from next academic year....Dalai Lama says China deserves to host Olympic games
According to the Tibetan spiritual leader and head of the Tibetan Government-in-exile, Dalai Lama; despite the killing of innocent Tibetans, China deserves to host the Olympic games....
Culling begins in Jalpaiguri after bird flu outbreak
Culling of affected birds began at Jalpaiguri on Friday after bird flu was confirmed in the district. A day before Holi the blood samples of dead chicken from Mondolghat, close to Jalpaiguri was sent to Bhopal for examination. The reports, which came back on Thursday afternoon, confirmed a blood flu outbreak in the district. ...
CPI-M wants to undo India-US military alliance
The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) is committed to opposing the India-US military alliance and the civil nuclear deal, party general secretary Prakash Karat said today while criticising the central government that his party supports from outside. The CPI-M chief's inaugural address at the party's 19th congress was marked by a strong reminder of the Left's role in Indian politics, as he asked around 700 delegates assembled at Anil Biswas Nagar in the city to "disentangle India from the strategic embrace of the US"....
Big B reacts to verbal attack
Close on the heels of repeated verbal assaults by Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief, Raj Thackeray, Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan today said that it is his fundamental right to live anywhere in the country....
Government announces the locations of 4 IITs and 6 IIMs
Government today announced the location of four new Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), six new Indian Institute of Management (IIM) and 14 Central Universities. The new IITs will come up in Orissa, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Punjab, while the IIMs will be set up in Jammu and Kashmir, Tamil Nadu, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Uttarakhand and Haryana....
Viru follows Bradman and Lara, creates history
Flamboyant opener Virender Sehwag created history and blazed the quickest triple hundred in the 126-year-old Test cricket history in Chennai on Friday. Sehwag becomes only the third batsman and joins the elite club of Sir Donald Bradman and Brian Lara, to pass 300 twice in Test cricket. Matthew Hayden took 362 balls against Zimbabwe in 2003 and Walter Hammond an estimated 355 in New Zealand in 1933....
Lashkar-e-Toiba takes over D-Company: report
The notorious 'D-Company' is now officially part of the Lashkar-e-Toiba's terror network, with Pakistan's notorious Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) getting Dawood Ibrahim to merge his gang with the fundamentalist terror organisation as part of a gameplan to crank up its anti-India campaign, according to a report published prominently in a national daily in India on Friday....
Mithun Chakraborty unveils Royal Bengal Tigers
Actor Mithun Chakraborty on Thursday promised to take his Indian Cricket League (ICL) team, Royal Bengal Tigers, to various districts of West Bengal for charity matches and convert the side into a "winning machine". Speaking at a grand re-launch of Kolkata Tigers as Royal Bengal Tigers, which the Bollywood megastar of the 1980s has bought for a fortune, he said: “I have several plans with the side. But that would be seen in June.”...
Cabinet approves Farmers' Debt Relief Fund
The central government today has decided to set up a Farmers' Debt Relief Fund with an initial corpus of Rs 10,000 crore to implement the farm loan waiver scheme announced in the general budget to help about four crore peasants....- Chatwal plans mega hotel projects in Punjab
- WBJEE 2008 - West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination 2008
- 500 TCS staffers resign
- One killed, three injured in Howrah fire
- Three of family found dead
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