News 1st Look: Mamata not to contest Bengal Assembly polls

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Mamata not to contest Bengal Assembly polls

Mamata not to contest Bengal Assembly polls
J&K: Encounter in Pulwama, one jawan injured
Now Dandi March in US against corruption in India
US court summons Congress party for '84 riots case
Indian-American doctor gets life term for bombing
DMK stopped from handing out free colour TVs
Indian stole computer code from US bank
Aruna Shanbaug case: Supreme Court to decide on plea for her death
CWG scam: CBI searches Kalmadi's bank lockers; FIR likely
Revisiting Godhra after 9 years
Ex-Goldman Director Rajat Gupta charged in insider probe
2G scam: Why did CBI officer join Pawar's Cricket Council?
Private airlines to operate one flight each to Libya
2G Scam: BJP loses ground over its JPC members
CBI to question Kanimozhi in 2G scam, relief for Baijal: Sources
Election dates announced for West Bengal, Tamil Nadu

Mamata not to contest Bengal Assembly polls

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Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee today said she would not contest the Assembly elections in West Bengal and campaign for her party.

J&K: Encounter in Pulwama, one jawan injured

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In Jammu and Kashmir, militants and security forces are engaged in an encounter in the Awantipora area of Pulwama district.

Now Dandi March in US against corruption in India

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A group of NRIs, inspired by the historic Dandi March led by Mahatma Gandhi in India's fight for freedom from foreign rule, have organised a 240-mile walk in the US against corruption in India.

US court summons Congress party for '84 riots case

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A US court has issued summons to India's Congress party to answer charges of "conspiring, aiding, abetting and carrying out organised attacks on Sikh population of India in November 1984."

Indian-American doctor gets life term for bombing

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An Indian-American doctor has been sentenced to life imprisonment for a 2009 bombing that critically injured the chairman of the Arkansas Medical Board against whom he held a grudge.

DMK stopped from handing out free colour TVs

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The Election Commission (EC) has pulled the plug on one of the DMK's favourite please-all schemes: free colour TVs for residents of the state.

Indian stole computer code from US bank

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A 27-year-old Indian, who worked as a trader at Societe Generale (SocGen), has been sentenced to three years in prison for stealing trade secrets at the French investment bank.

Aruna Shanbaug case: Supreme Court to decide on plea for her death

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Should Aruna Shanbaug be allowed to die? The Supreme Court will today decide on the fate of the nurse who has been lying in a vegetative state for the last 37 years at a government hospital after being sexually assaulted by a sweeper there.

CWG scam: CBI searches Kalmadi's bank lockers; FIR likely

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CWG scam: CBI searches Kalmadi's bank lockers, FIR likely - The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday searched three bank lockers of the sacked Chairman of the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee, Suresh Kalmadi, in Pune. Sources say an FIR is likely to be registered against him soon.

Revisiting Godhra after 9 years

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As the special court pronounced the sentence in Ahmedabad, two-and-a-half hours away in Ground Zero Godhra, communally-sensitive areas witnessed a predictable shutdown.

Ex-Goldman Director Rajat Gupta charged in insider probe

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Federal regulators have charged a former Goldman Sachs board member with insider trading, saying he provided confidential information to the central figure in a major hedge fund probe.

2G scam: Why did CBI officer join Pawar's Cricket Council?

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It cost A Raja his job as Telecom Minister and escorted him to jail; its trail of illicit money has the CBI gearing up to question Kanimozhi, whose father M Karunanidhi heads the DMK; and now, the investigation into the 2G spectrum scam is circling another political heavyweight - Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar.

Private airlines to operate one flight each to Libya

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India's continuing with its evacuation of the nearly 18,000 Indians based in Libya.

2G Scam: BJP loses ground over its JPC members

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The political magnitude of its agenda is so considerable that the government fought for months to avoid constituting a parliamentary commission to study the 2G spectrum scam.

CBI to question Kanimozhi in 2G scam, relief for Baijal: Sources

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NDTV has learnt that, as part of its investigation into the 2G spectrum scam, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will be questioning Kanimozhi, Rajya Sabha MP and daughter of DMK Supremo M Karunanidhi.