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Haryana man gets 10 years jail for raping university student
A court in Harayana's Sonipat town Friday sentenced a man to 10 years rigorous imprisonment for the rape of a first-year law student of Haryana's all-women university, Bhagat Phool Singh Women's University. The court order came just over a year after the victim alleged that she was abducted and gang-raped by four youths May 18 last year. However, the court of Additional District and Sessions ...
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NCP talks in two voices on BCCI chiefs resignation
Hours after its spokesperson demanded resignation of Indian cricket board chief N. Srinivasan over his son-in-law's name figuring in the investigations into the IPL spot fixing scandal, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) Friday sought to distance itself from the demand. Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) spokesperson D.P. Tripathi Friday told reporters that Srinivasan should resign as chief of ...
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Deepika finds current IPL theme song most catchy
Actor Deepika Padukone finds 'Dil Jumping Zapak' - the peppy theme song of the sixth season of Indian Premier League - "most catchy" of all the IPL tunes. "Of all the IPL tunes, this is the most catchy," she told a TV channel as she jived to the song with "Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani" co-star Ranbir Kapoor Friday. Deepika, who was seen supporting superstar Shah Rukh Khan's team Kolkata Knight ...
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Kerala party leaders capable of resolving issues Antony
Defence Minister A.K. Antony Friday expressed confidence that leaders of the Congress' Kerala unit would themselves resolve any issue facing them. "You (the media) think that there are issues that cannot be resolved in the state unit of the party. I know my colleagues here for several decades and at the appropriate time all will cooperate. My feeling is that the issues can be resolved here ...
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Top banking honchos to attend leadership meet
Thirty top executive directors and CEOs of leading nationalised banks in the country will attend a classroom training at IIM Kozhikode for three days starting Monday. The workshop will be led by Debashis Chatterjee, director, IIM Kozhikode, and his colleagues. "The workshop assumes immense significance in view of the crisis faced by the banking industry in India and the rest of the world. Our ...
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Asias biggest cruise liner docks in Goa
One of the world's biggest cruise liners, Royal Caribbean International's Mariner of the Seas, Friday arrived at Mormugao port in Goa, which has plans of promoting the state as a destination for lucrative ocean cruise market. En route from Dubai, the vessel was received by Deputy Chief Minister Francisco D'Souza at Goa's only major port. Speaking to the media here, Captain Rajesh Saigal, ...
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Russia opens consulate in Goa
A slew of illegal land deals involving its nationals was one of the reasons why Russia decided to start a consular office in Goa, which hosted 1.5 lakh Russian tourists this season, Ambassador Alexander Kadakin said Friday. The ambassador also expressed distaste at the manner in which the word "mafia" was being liberally used when it came to rare cases involving Russians nationals. "Illegal ...
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IAF chief stresses on operational capability training
Indian Air Force chief, Air Chief Marshal N.A.K. Browne Friday stressed on enhancing operational capability and training for its station commanders. "Commanders need to concentrate on operational capability and training, creation of operational infrastructure, asset protection resources for operation and people management," Browne said at a meeting of the station commanders of the Training ...
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Misquoted on arms sale says Russian envoy
Russian Ambassador Alexander Kadakin Friday said he had been misquoted by a section of media, which Friday said that a miffed Russia may stop arms sales to India, in light of the latter looking to the US for defence technology and equipment purchases. Kadakin said India and Russia shared a "confident, firm and stable cooperation" in the military field and that the relationship between the two ...
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Two students killed in Delhi road accident
Two Bachelor in Computer Application (BCA) students were killed after the car they were travelling in collided against an electric pole here, police said here Friday. The accident was reported from west Delhi's Chhawla area around 4.30 p.m. Thursday. Anup, 24, and Abhhimanyu, 24, were rushed to the Rao Tula Ram Memorial Hospital, where they were declared dead. Initial investigation revealed ...
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Assocham calls for comprehensive port development strategy
Industry body, Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (Assocham), has called for a comprehensive port development strategy and for providing level playing field to private players. In its report on ports development in India, released here Friday, it underlined the need to expand the existing framework to attract participation from the private sector for development of ...
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RIL-BP make huge gas discovery in KG-D6
Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL) Friday announced a large natural gas discovery in the consortium's KG-D6 block offshore in Andhra Pradesh. "Formation evaluation indicates a gross gas and condensate column in the well of about 155 metres in the Mesozoic reservoirs," RIL-BP said in a statement here. "The KGD6-MJ1 well was drilled in a water depth of 1,024 metres - and to a total depth of 4,509 ...
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GJM calls indefinite shutdown in Darjeeling hills
The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) Friday called an indefinite shutdown in north Bengal's Darjeeling hills from Sunday to protest the arrest of an elected member of the hill development body for alleged involvement in arson and violence. The GJM gave the call Friday evening after a local court rejected the bail application of Gorkha Territorial Administration (GTA) member and party leader ...
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Bhajjis Bangnam Style Tendulkars fitness keeps social network abuzz
Move over Psy's 'Gangnam Style'. Mumbai Indians (MI) fans were awestruck with Bhajji's 'Bangnam Style' as the Mumbaikars took on the Rajasthan Royals in the Indian Premier League play-off at the Eden Gardens here Friday. There was speculation over Tendulkar's fitness through the day, till the late evening heartbreak that he would not take the ground. The supporters of 'paltan' or MI rallied to ...
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Spot fixing helped Rajasthan Royals to gel stronger Gavaskar
Praising Rajasthan Royals'(RR) effort at "getting everybody gell together" after the side was rocked by the spot fixing scam, cricketing legend Sunil Gavaskar feels the developments have further boosted the bonding between the squad. "I think it's a question of getting everybody gelling together and that is what has happened. Yes I think they have had a traumatic last 10-15 days and ithat is in ...
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With Knights out Eden low on cheer quotient
The absence of home team Kolkata Knight Riders, wet weather and perhaps the spot fixing scandal played a part as the otherwise boisterous Eden Gardens was low on the "cheer quotient" for the second IPL qualifier between Mumbai Indians and the Rajasthan Royals Friday. Despite a knock out game featuring two of the bigger teams, the iconic venue was half full with a Cricket Association of Bengal ...
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Nothing new in India-China treaty on water sharing NGO
The flood data agreement signed between India and China during the recent visit of Chinese Premier Li Keqiang is just a renewal of the existing treaty between the two countries, an NGO alleged here Friday. "The central government has failed to get any assurance from China on India's concerns regarding China's large scale activities for diversion of Brahmaputra (river) waters. China has ...
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Mumbai police whisk off Gurunath Meiyappan for IPL probe
Mumbai police whisked off Gurunath Meiyappan, son-in-law of Indian cricket board chief N. Srinivasan, to the police headquarters shortly he landed here Friday evening. Police are likely to interrogate Meiyappan in connection with the IPL spot fixing scam after his name was revealed by Bollywood actor Vindu Dara Singh Randhawa, currently in police custody. A team of Crime Branch sleuths had ...
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Rajasthan elect to bat first at Eden
Rajasthan Royals skipper Rahul Dravid won the toss and elected to bat first in the Indian Premier League second qualifier against Mumbai Indians at the Eden Gardens here Friday. While Rajasthan play an unchanged side from the last game, Mumbai's sole change is all-rounder Rishi Dhawan replacing pacer Munaf Patel. The start of the game was delayed by an hour due to a wet outfield following a ...
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Searing heat across plains hills no respite Saturday
Searing summer heat continued to scorch the plains and hills across north India as temperatures remained over 45 degree Celsius Friday. There will be no respite from the intense heat Saturday, the weather office said. Delhi reeled under blistering temperature that shot up to five notches above the season's average at 45 degrees Celsius. "It felt I was getting baked by the hot winds while ...
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Nuclear power the future for India Russian Ambassador
Nuclear power is the future of energy for India, said Russian Ambassador Alexander Kadakin, contending that even if the country buys all the oil in the world, it will not be sufficient for its energy requirements in the near future. Kadakin was speaking to reporters after inaugurating the Russian consul office here Friday. "Nuclear power is the only way out of the situation. It can make India ...
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Punjab Haryana can help Africa ensure food security Patil
India's food grain states Punjab and Haryana can help African countries in ensuring food security through exchange of knowledge and technological knowhow, Punjab Governor Shivraj Patil said here Friday. Addressing the seventh Africa Day lecture at the Centre for Research in Rural and Industrial Development (CRRID) here, Patil said India and Africa were set to explore immense possibilities in ...
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Rahul Gandhi reviews politics in Jharkhand Odisha
Amid speculation that the Congress is exploring government formation in Jharkhand -- which is under President's rule -- party vice president Rahul Gandhi reviewed the political situation with state leaders Friday. A section of the Congress has been in favour of exploring ways to form a government in the state with the support of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM), said party sources ...
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Heat wave claims 84 lives in Andhra Pradesh
The severe heat wave conditions in Andhra Pradesh have so claimed 84 lives from April 1, officials said. The state remained in the grip of heat wave Friday, with many towns recording maximum day temperature of over 43 degree Celsius. Munuguru in coal mines area of Khammam district was the hottest place Friday with the mercury shooting up to 50 degrees, the highest this season. Rentachintala in ...
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Captive breeding helps revive endangered vulture in India
After the population of the vultures dropped alarmingly in India, a local non-government organization (NGO) in Assam is running a successful programme to raise the population of the fast disappearing vultures. The captive breeding process for preservation of vultures has been used to increase the population of these extinct scavengers, in an environment controlled by the humans and in ...
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Mumbai taxis to be better ambassadors of the city
Taxi drivers in Mumbai are going to be educated on the finer points of etiquette, according to Mumbai news reports, and the local government insists this will improve tourism and local transport in the city and wider state.
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