Thursday, November 25, 2010

Curfew in parts of Srinagar following Mirwaiz assault

Curfew in parts of Srinagar following Mirwaiz assault

Curfew in parts of Srinagar following Mirwaiz assault

Posted: 25 Nov 2010 09:35 PM PST

Curfew was imposed in the Old City areas of Srinagar to prevent protests and violence Friday, a day after Kashmiri separatist leader Mirwaiz Umer Farooq was heckled at a seminar in Chandigarh, officials said.

PM pledges to bring 26/11 perpetrators to justice

Posted: 25 Nov 2010 08:31 PM PST

Union Home Minister P Chidambaram paid tributes to those killed in the attacks by laying a wreath at the martyrs' memorial at Police Gymkhana in south Mumbai.

Rogue elephants plunder villages, resident seek refuge on tree tops

Posted: 25 Nov 2010 07:01 PM PST

Rogue elephants destroyed 20 more houses in Balasore's Nilagiri area on Thursday forcing people to spend nights on tree tops and take shelter in temporary relief camps set up by the district administration.

Kiran promises to make Rahul PM by 2014

Posted: 25 Nov 2010 12:43 PM PST

New Andhra CM N Kiran Kumar Reddy wants to fulfil two last wishes of mentor YSR Reddy - to ensure the Congress wins 41 Lok Sabha seats from the state in 2014 and make Rahul Gandhi prime minister.

Raja aides shunted out of telecom dept

Posted: 25 Nov 2010 12:42 PM PST

The DoT has relieved A K Srivastava, DDG, Access Services Cell from his duties, while its legal advisor, Santokh Singh has been recalled to the law ministry.

Kiran’s No. 1 task: Tackle Jagan

Posted: 25 Nov 2010 12:39 PM PST

''How Kiran handles Jagan and the Telangana agitation will determine how long he lasts as CM,'' said a senior party leader.

Will Bihar poll verdict have ripple effect on UP politics?

Posted: 25 Nov 2010 12:14 PM PST

With Lalu Prasad's caste card and Rahul Gandhi's charisma having failed miserably, could Bihar election results be a pointer of things to come in Uttar Pradesh where Congress is fancying its chances in 2012?

How women got a say and voted to protect it

Posted: 25 Nov 2010 12:07 PM PST

The changes that have swept through Bihar in the last five years have meant several things for Manisha Sharma, a 26-year-old social worker and resident of Jehanabad, a mid-sized town two-and-a-half hours south of Patna.

CAG faults land allotment by Vilasrao to filmmaking institute

Posted: 25 Nov 2010 11:57 AM PST

Former chief minister of Maharashtra and now Union heavy industries minister Vilasrao Deshmukh has yet again been dragged into a controversy over land allotments.

Kasab's 9 aides buried near prison

Posted: 25 Nov 2010 11:49 AM PST

Pakistani gunman Ajmal Kasab's associates were buried near the high-security Taloja prison, well-placed sources said, on the eve of the 26/11 attacks second anniversary.

Transponders on boats, biometric ID cards for fishermen still in the works

Posted: 25 Nov 2010 11:48 AM PST

Exactly two years after terrorists sailed into Mumbai to carry out deadly attacks, several key aspects of the post-26/11 response are nowhere in sight. Worse, ground zero, Maharashtra, seems to be the worst among coastal states in implementing many crucial components of the post-26/11 decisions.

Sex on premises shuts Mizo church

Posted: 25 Nov 2010 11:36 AM PST

Deeming that sex on hallowed portals was ''desecration'', a church in Mizoram was shut down for a week after an unmarried couple was found making love on its porch.

Employment visa is not a foreign national’s right: HC

Posted: 25 Nov 2010 11:34 AM PST

Closing the doors to a Ukraine citizen seeking employment in India, the Bombay High Court on Thursday ruled that it is not a foreign national's fundamental right to get an employment visa in the country.

Only 15% Indian women are overweight: Study

Posted: 25 Nov 2010 11:31 AM PST

Contrary to popular perception, Indian women aren't all that fat. In an interesting study, conducted by researchers from Harvard School of Public Health, which looked at percentage of women who were overweight in 54 low and middle-income countries, India figures in the bottom five worst-affected countries.

CBI lays bare Gujarat’s unholy triad

Posted: 25 Nov 2010 11:28 AM PST

The CBI on Thursday informed the Supreme Court that former Gujarat minister Amit Shah has been chargesheeted in the Sohrabuddin fake encounter case. It has also submitted a supplementary chargesheet before the trial court detailing the nefarious politician-police-gangster nexus in the state.
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