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IITs: Thrust Was Not On Research, But Things Are Changing, Says Sibal
India | May 26, 2011, 04:06 PM ISTAhmedabad, May 26: Union HRD Minister Kapil Sibal said on Wednesday the thrust in IITs so far had not been on research, but things were changing now.His comments came in the backdrop of Environment Minister
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Call Me A Commoner, Says Mamata After Swearing-In
India | May 20, 2011, 05:49 PM ISTKolkata, May 20: Shortly after her swearing-in as West Bengal's first woman chief minister today, Mamata Banerjee said she would prefer to be called a commoner.Asked how she was feeling now that she has become
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DMK Cabinet Resigns
India | May 13, 2011, 03:22 PM ISTChennai, May 13: Facing a rout in the Assembly polls with his bitter political foe AIADMK chief Jayalalithaa storming back to power, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi today submitted the resignation of his ministry.
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2G: Raja Says, CBI Supplied Incomplete Documents
India | Apr 23, 2011, 07:14 PM ISTNew Delhi, Apr 23: Former Telecom Minister A Raja and two corporate honchos, who have been chargesheeted in the 2G Spectrum allocation scam case, today complained to a Delhi court that documents supplied to them
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Gujarat Police Officer Names Narendra Modi In 2002 Riots
India | Apr 22, 2011, 09:27 PM ISTGandhinagar, Apr 22: A senior police officer in an affidavit before the Supreme Court has implicated Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in the post-Godhra communal riots of 2002.Sanjiv Bhatt, who was posted in the Intelligence
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Chidambaram Directs Delhi Police To Probe Bhushan CD
India | Apr 18, 2011, 05:46 PM ISTNew Delhi, Apr 18: Home Minister P Chidambaram today assured a “free, fair and thorough” probe into the alleged fake CD involving eminent lawyer Shanti Bhushan, a member of the joint drafting committee on Lokpal
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Modi Govt Committing Excesses On Tribals, Alleges Medha
India | Apr 18, 2011, 05:31 PM ISTBhopal, Apr 18: Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) leader Medha Patkar today trained her guns on Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and slammed his government for “committing excesses” on tribals, who have lost their lands to
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Former Jaipur Ruler Cremated
India | Apr 18, 2011, 05:33 PM ISTJaipur, Apr 18: The mortal remains of the last titular Maharaja of Jaipur Brigadier Bhawani Singh was consigned to flames here today with full state honours.Padmanabh Singh, the Maharaja's adopted grandson, lit the pyre amid
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Modi Cautions Hazare: You May Be Villified For Praising Me
India | Apr 11, 2011, 06:56 PM ISTAhmedabad, Apr 11: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, who came in for praise by Anna Hazare, today said the social activist may now be subjected to a “vilification” campaign by a certain group “inimical” to
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Joint Panel Will Decide On Videography, Says Minister
India | Apr 11, 2011, 05:30 PM ISTNew Delhi, Apr 11: A decision to videograph the proceedings of the Joint Committee on Lokpal Bill as sought by Gandhian Anna Hazare have to taken by the drafting panel itself, its member Union Minister
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Mubarak Summoned By Egyptian Prosecutors Along With Sons
World | Apr 11, 2011, 05:01 PM ISTCairo, Apr 11: Bowing to demands by protesters that ousted , Hosni Mubarak be put on trial, Egyptian prosecutors today ordered the former head of state and his two sons be questioned on violence against
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Two BSP Ministers Resign In UP
India | Apr 07, 2011, 10:48 PM ISTLucknow, Apr 7: Uttar Pradesh Family Welfare Minister Babu Singh Khushwaha and Health Minister Anant Kumar Mishra today resigned from the Cabinet, owning moral responsibility for the irregularities detected in their departments after murder of
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BJP Not To Offer Freebies, Says Venkiah Naidu
National | Apr 07, 2011, 07:46 AM ISTKrishnagiri (TN), Apr 6 : Senior BJP leader M Venkaiah Naidu today said his party was against offering freebies to voters to win elections.Addressing an election meeting here, he said, “We are against offering freebies
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2G: Centre Opposes Prosecutor's Appointment By CBI
India | Apr 05, 2011, 05:46 PM ISTNew Delhi, Apr 5: Government was at loggerheads with the CBI in the Supreme Court today over the agency's decision to appoint senior advocate U U Lalit as special public prosecutor in the 2G spectrum
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Hazare Begins Fast On Lokpal Bill, Draws Support From BJP, JDU
India | Apr 05, 2011, 09:46 PM ISTNew Delhi, Apr 5: Ignoring Prime Minister's appeal, veteran social activist Anna Hazare today began a fast-unto-death here to press for a comprehensive anti-corruption bill to give wider powers to the Ombudsman, a demand supported
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2G Scam: CBI Custody Of Rajiv Agarwal Extended Till April 6
India | Apr 04, 2011, 09:44 PM ISTNew Delhi, Apr 4: The CBI today secured for two more days custody of Kusegaon executive Rajiv Agarwal, arrested in connection with the 2G spectrum scam, from a Delhi court to probe the alleged flow
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Notify CBI Probe Into Batcha's Death In 3 Days : SC
India | Apr 04, 2011, 05:21 PM ISTNew Delhi, Apr 4: The Supreme Court today directed the government to issue within three days a notification for handing to the CBI the probe into the mysterious death of Sadiq Batcha, a close aide
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Tata Candid, Radia Evasive During PAC Questioning
India | Apr 04, 2011, 09:11 PM ISTNew Delhi, Apr 4: Tata Sons Chairman Ratan Tata and Niira Radia were today quizzed in connection with 2G spectrum scam by Parliament's PAC whose head M M Joshi said the panel found the industrialist
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No Constitutional Bar On Introducing Vidhan Parishad : Pranab
National | Apr 04, 2011, 08:33 AM ISTKolkata, Apr 4 : Union Finance Minister and senior Congress leader Pranab Mukherjee has said there was no constiutional bar on introducing Vidhan Parishad (Upper House) as suggested by Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee in
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Stadium To Be Built In Bhopal To Mark Mohali Win
India | Mar 31, 2011, 05:36 PM ISTBhopal, Mar 31: The Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister, Shivraj Singh Chouhan today said that a cricket stadium of international standards would be built in the city to mark India's victory over Pakistan in the World