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Aiyar slams Orissa over WB loans

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 16:08:39 -0400

By Sonal Kellogg New Delhi Sept. 6: In a veiled criticism, Union minister of panchayati raj Mani Shankar Aiyar indicated that Orissa and a couple of Congress

CBI charges Dera chief for rape

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 16:08:53 -0400

BY ASIT JOLLY CHANDIGARH Sept. 6: A special Central Bureau of Investigation cell in Haryana’s Ambala city has framed charges of "rape" against the controversial spiritual head

Govt works on land-based rehab solution

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 16:09:11 -0400

By Subrata Chattopadhyay Kolkata Sept. 6: In what is clearly the Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee’s victory, the state government is working out what governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi

BJP leaders face Govindacharya ire

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 16:09:35 -0400

BY OUR CORRESPONDENT BHUBANESWAR Sept. 6: The Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday received a thorough bashing from its former ideologue and coordinator of Rashtriya Swabhiman Andolan K.N.

Gangster to contest LS polls from UP

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 16:05:41 -0400

BY AMITA VERMA Lucknow Sept. 6: The Lok Sabha elections, this time, will witness the debut of a unique contestant — dreaded gangster Brijesh Singh, who is

Talks on for new Karna PCC chief

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 16:06:02 -0400

By OUR CORRESPONDENT New Delhi Sept. 6: Senior Congress leaders Dharam Singh and Chandre Gouda met party supremo Sonia Gandhi separately at her 10, Janpath residence on

BSP MLA caught in sex scandal

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 16:06:27 -0400

By OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Lucknow Sept. 6: Yet another BSP MLA has been allegedly caught in a sex scandal and the "victim", this time, is a BSP

Case on Chiru over inter-caste wedding

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 16:06:32 -0400

BY SAI P. HARINI HYDERABAD Sept. 6: The police has booked Praja Rajyam chief and actor Chiranjeevi for kidnapping in connection with the marriage of an upper-caste

India will host WHO health ministers meet

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 16:02:10 -0400

BY OUR CORRESPONDENT NEW DELHI Sept. 6: India is hosting this year’s edition of meeting of health ministers of the World Health Organisation’s South East Asia Region

Stir over, pilgrims back at Vaishno Devi

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 16:02:26 -0400

BY SHUCHISMITA JAMMU Sept. 6: After a sharp dip of over six lakhs in the number of pilgrims in the last two months, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi