Friday, July 30, 2010

Monsoon to be better, deficient in northeast

Monsoon to be better, deficient in northeast


Monsoon to be better, deficient in northeast

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Monsoon rains across the country are expected to be better than earlier forecast for the remaining season but the eastern regions could see deficient falls. "Quantitatively, rainfall for the country as a whole during the period August to September is likely to be 107 per cent of long period average (LPA)," Ajit Tyagi, Director General India Meteorological Department told reporters in New Delhi.


Berlusconi ousts ally, says government stable

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Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi has split with his oldest political ally and co-founder of his party, a spectacular falling-out expected to make it harder for the premier to push disputed legislation through parliament.


Floods ravage Pakistan, kill 430 people

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Boats and helicopters struggled to reach hundreds of thousands of villagers cut off by floods in northwest Pakistan on Friday as the government said 430 people had been killed in the deadliest such disaster to hit the region since 1929.


Police file chargesheet in Tulsiram Prajapati fake encounter case

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The Gujarat police moved to file the chargesheet in the killing of Tulsiram Prajapati in a staged shootout in the court Friday even as the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed the interim report of its probe into the 2005 killing of Sohrabuddin Sheikh before the Supreme Court.


Who is DG Vanzara?

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Known to be close to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, Vanzara's career graph only went up in the early 2000s. The 1987 batch IPS officer was famous as an encounter specialist from his days as the head of Crime Branch and few would have thought that the "encounter" of a small-time Madhya Pradesh criminal would be not only his downfall, but that of men more powerful than him.


Who is Geeta Johri?

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Geetha Johri, of the 1982 batch, was Gujarat's first woman IPS officer. Belonging to the Gujarat cadre, she began her career in Ahmedabad in 1982. She was then posted to Gandhinagar and Vadodara. She was also the principal of police training school at Vadodara.


No need to panic: Sheila Dikshit on Delhi Games

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Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit has said the Commonwealth Games were very much on track and that there was no need to panic. "The work is going on and I will take care of it as Chief Minister. There is no need to panic. I believe these will be the best ever Games. The way we are going, we will be able to save money rather than overspend," she said.


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