Monday, February 7, 2011

Rahul Gandhi meets Banda rape victim

Rahul Gandhi meets Banda rape victim

Rahul Gandhi meets Banda rape victim

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Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi met the teenaged girl, who was allegedly raped by a BSP MLA, in her village in Banda on Monday and assured her of all possible help after the victim claimed that she was getting threats from the legislator's henchmen.


Supreme Court dismisses plea to hear armed forces on homosexuality

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The Supreme Court has dismissed a plea to make armed forces a party to the petitions supporting and opposing the Delhi High Court's ruling which decriminalised homosexual acts between two consenting adults in private.


IIT-B to set up campus in New York City?

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Indian Institute of Technology in Mumbai has been invited by the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) to submit a proposal to set up a new campus for Applied Science courses.


BJP seeks probe into ISRO spectrum deal

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Even as the government continues to feel the heat on the 2G spectrum scam, the BJP today hit out at the Centre on another spectrum allocation issue.


Karunanidhi targeted over free housing quota

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Subramanian Swamy, the Janata Party President, wants the Tamil Nadu governor to permit the prosecution of the chief minister, M Karunanidhi, in an alleged case of corruption.


Indian-origin man guilty of murdering pregnant wife

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A Canadian court has found an Indian-origin man guilty of murdering his pregnant wife in 2006. Mukhtiar Panghali, who was charged a few months after his school teacher wife Manjit Panghali's charred corpse was found near a waterway at Delta, British Columbia in 2006, will be sentenced on March 17.


After Indo-Pak talks, a note of 'cautious optimism'

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The 90-minute meeting that ended late last night in Bhutan led to an air of cautious optimism this morning in Bhutan. The Indian and Pakistani Foreign Secretaries are in Thimphu to attend the SAARC Foreign Secretaries' meeting. They stressed that the talks they shared on Sunday are a healthy step forward in resuscitating bilateral talks. India has proposed starting with less contentious issues - like reviving cross-border trade, people-to-people contact, and Sir Creek - a strip of water disputed between India and Pakistan in the Rann of Kutch marshlands. The creek, which opens up into the Arabian Sea, separates India's Gujarat from Pakistan's Sindh province.


Red Tape holds up defusing bombs

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Tuglakabad in south Delhi is literally sitting on a bomb, maybe many of them. There are unexploded explosives lying at the Tughlakabad container depot since 2004, which came in undetected along with scrap from Iraq.


Maoists blow up railway tracks in Jharkhand during shutdown

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Maoists today blew up railway tracks at two different places in Jharkhand as they began a day-long strike in three states to protest price rise and corruption.


Technology to bring back Siberian crane to India

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India will start a Siberian crane breeding program in the country to increase the number of birds in the wild. While a similar plan did not take off a couple of years ago, the environment ministry is hopeful that this time around 'technology' will be the key mover.


Kerala rape victim dies in hospital

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A woman who was allegedly pushed down from a running train and raped last week in Kerala died in a hospital in Thrissur on Sunday. The 23-year-old woman, who was the lone passenger in the compartment reserved for ladies, was pushed out of the train after she resisted a robbery attempt. The attacker then jumped out of the train and raped her on the railway tracks.


Kasab's death sentence: Decision on Feb 21

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Kasab death sentence: The Bombay High Court will reveal on February 21 whether Ajmal Kasab will be sentenced to death.


Supreme Court to hear on legalisation of gay rights

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The Supreme Court will hear today the issue of decriminalisation of gay sex among consenting adults in private. A bench of justices G S Singhvi and A K Ganguly would be hearing a bunch of petitions filed by gay rights activists and political, social and religious organisations who have opposed the Delhi High Court verdict decriminalising homosexual behaviour.


'Sham' university: US may reinstate duped students' visas

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Indian Consul-General in San Francisco says the US Immigration department has said that it is ready to consider reinstating the immigration status of the Indian students who were duped.


Indo-Pak talks were frank and useful: Ministry of External Affairs

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The Indian side termed the meeting, that lasted for an hour and a half, as useful and frank discussions. Both the sides agreed on the need for a constructive dialogue to resolve all outstanding issues.


Gandhi, Akbar among Time magazine's top 25 political icons

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Indian political geniuses Mahatma Gandhi and Emperor Akbar have been listed among the 'Top 25 Political Icons' of all time by TIME magazine, along with Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama and Mao Zedong, the father of modern China.


US is sensitive to problems of Indian students, says Roemer

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Amid uproar over treatment meted out to Indians duped by a "sham" American university, the US today said it was "very sensitive" to the issue and will be attentive to the problems of the students from the country.


BARC on hit-list of Pak-based terror groups

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The Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) continues to be a source of worry for security agencies as intelligence inputs suggest that the premier nuclear facility and its staff housing area are on the hit-list of Pakistan-based terror groups.


255 border outposts to come up along Bangladesh, Pakistan border

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Aimed at strengthening security along frontiers, government has finalised a blueprint to construct 255 outposts on the country's borders with Pakistan and Bangladesh.


Chiranjeevi's Praja Rajyam to merge with Congress

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In a boost to the Congress in Andhra Pradesh the Chiranjeevi led Praja Rajyam will merge with the Congress.


Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa declares his assets

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Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa is worth an estimated Rs 11 crore, according to the official declaration of assets that the chief minister made today.


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