Monday, June 27, 2011

Anushka Sharma questioned at Mumbai airport

Anushka Sharma questioned at Mumbai airport

Anushka Sharma questioned at Mumbai airport

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Actor Anushka Sharma is being questioned at the Mumbai airport for not declaring goods in her luggage that may have qualified for duty.


Singur: Calcutta High Court rejects Tatas’ petition

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Singur: The Calcutta High Court has rejected Tata prayer for stay on return of Singur land to unwilling farmers as Tata had not stated in petition that state was going to return lands any day.


Wanted to help students: Man behind fake caste certificates

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Fake certificates racket kingpin says he started out on the trade after a close associate was denied admission due to the quota system.


Rahul Gandhi visits hospital, meets young girl attacked

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Rahul Gandhi today met a 14-year-old girl from Uttar Pradesh, undergoing treatment at AIIMS after being stabbed in the eye by two young men who tried to rape her. Mr Gandhi went to the Rajendra Prasad Eye Centre at the AIIMS at 10.45 am and spoke to the girl and her parents for, sources said.


Parents beg to raise funds for abducted sailors

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Parents of the six Indian sailors held captive on board the MV Iceberg are knocking on the doors of corporate honchos and movie stars to raise the money required to pay the ransom for the release.


Yeddyurappa visits temple, skips 'Truth Test'

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BS Yeddyurappa kept his promise to visit the Lord Manjunatha temple in Dharmasthala this morning. He offered prasad, but did not make references to the controversial face-off he had set up with his political rival.


Fresh trouble as police reach POSCO protest site

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The tension over POSCO land acquisition is once again simmering. The police force has marched into Govindpur, the area where protests against the land acquisition for setting up of the steel plant have been going on, asking the agitators to leave.


Two militants killed in encounter in Jammu and Kashmir

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Two militants were killed on Monday in an encounter with security forces in Pulwama district of south Kashmir, officials said. A gunbattle broke out between militants and security forces at Shikargah in Tral area of Pulwama, 40 km from Srinagar, last night, the officials said.


MP's niece dead, dowry suspected

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In Secunderabad, the niece of an MP has been found dead. The niece of MP Anjan Kumar Yadav was found with serious burn injuries in her house.


Stalin to meet Kanimozhi in jail this evening

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MK Stalin has arrived in Delhi. The DMK leader is expected to meet his stepsister, Kanimozhi, at 4 pm in Tihar Jail, where she is imprisoned on charges of accepting a bribe in the 2G telecom scam,


The ‘Mitticool’ revolution: Fridge for the poor

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Mansukhbhai does not hug trees, protests or debates. He is a simple potter, with a big green innovation to his name: Mitticool, a refrigerator that runs without electricity. He retails Mitticool all over India for Rs 2,500 apiece.


Rescued Pak sailors released from Mumbai jail

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Indian sailors of MV Suez, released with Pakistani help, were sent home within hours of their arrival in Karachi. But five Pakistani sailors, rescued by Indian Navy, have waited three long months to be able to finally go back home.


Mayawati's cops attack journalists

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Rattled by the law and order situation in Uttar Pradesh, the police took out its anger on the journalists in the city reporting on the issue.


Anna Hazare's condition for Baba Ramdev

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Yoga icon Baba Ramdev was seen at Jantar Mantar during social activist Anna Hazare's hunger strike against corruption in April. But now, aspirations to climb on to Mr Hazare's Lokpal Bill campaign have hit a bit of a roadblock after the recent drama involving Baba Ramdev in Delhi.


Chhota Rajan gang had journalist Dey killed: Police

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The Mumbai Police claim to have cracked the murder case of senior journalist Jyotirmoy Dey. Mr Dey, a senior crime journalist with Mid Day, was shot dead outside a shopping mall in Powai on June 11.


Uttar Pradesh: 14 rapes in two weeks

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Mayawati, who came to power with the promise to improve law and order in Uttar Pradesh, is being cornered on the rising number of rape cases in her state.


Congress defies Mayawati to stage march against crime

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Despite being warned against it, the Congress has decided that it will stage its nyaya (justice) march in Lucknow. There's considerable tension in the city. A group of Congress workers were lathi-charged this afternoon and the party's president in UP, Rita Bahuguna Joshi, has been detained by the police.


Rahman on his music, his life

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In an exclusive interview to NDTV's Prannoy Roy, Academy Award winner and India's music maestro AR Rahman takes a trip down memory lane. The legend talks about his life, music, family and making it big globally.


Twin Naxal attacks in Chhattisgarh, 5 securitymen killed, 6 injured

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Maoists today blew up a police vehicle in a landmine blast and ambushed BSF personnel killing five securitymen and injuring six others in two separate attacks in Dantewada and Kanker districts of Chhattisgarh.


Narrow escape for Omar's wife, children after raft overturns

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Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's wife and two sons had a narrow escape today when their raft overturned on the Beas river in the tourist town of Kullu in Himachal Pradesh.


Release Pranab’s letter to PM, says BJP

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The Opposition is stepping up the pressure on the government over Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee's suspicion that his office was bugged. After Home Minister P Chidambaram told NDTV exclusively that he did not know about the bugging of Mr Mukherjee's office because it was a 'non-event', the BJP, today, demanded that Pranab Mukherjee's complaint letter to the Prime Minister be released.


India gives in to China at the border

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China has done it, but India can't. One can see Chinese construction next to the Indo-China border, but after a confrontation with China last year - over an Indian shed being made - New Delhi has banned all construction on the Indo-China border in Ladakh.


Sai Baba Trust money: Puttaparthi wants clarity

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In Sathya Sai Baba's Puttaparthi, things are changing. Following the spiritual leader's death there are serious doubts about financial irregularities in the way the enormously rich Trust is functioning - with police even questioning two Trust members - something unheard of in the past.


Baba Ramdev back in Delhi, hits out at government

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Returning to Delhi three weeks after he was bundled out from here, yoga guru Ramdev today attacked the government claiming that it has no will to fight corruption or create a Lokpal to check the menace.


Dr Sachan's death: Murder case lodged

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The Lucknow police have finally registered a murder case in connection with the death of Deputy Chief Medical Officer Dr YS Sachan. An FIR against unknown persons has been registered based on a complaint by Dr Sachan's widow.


Allies angry, Congress lowers fuel tax

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The latest round of hike in the prices of diesel, kerosene and LPG has put the government on the back foot, with the allies at the Centre criticising the government. After Trinamool which expressed its unhappiness over the matter yesterday, it was the turn of BSP, NCP and the DMK today to term the government's policies as anti-poor.


Singur: Notice inviting land applications from unwilling owners issued

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The West Bengal government today set the process of formal handover of land to unwilling farmers in Singur in motion by issuing a notice inviting applications for alternative plots of land.


Civil society not to be used again in drafting of law: Sibal

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After a not-so-pleasant experience of engaging with Anna Hazare's team in drafting of the Lokpal Bill, the government says that there will be no such experiment in the future.


BJP hits out at 'non-event' remarks

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BJP Spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad hit out at the Home Minister P Chidambaram for terming the 'bugging' of the Finance Minister's office as a 'non-event'.


Pranab Mukherjee to address joint US-India economic summit in Washington

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Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will address senior officials of the US government and top Indian and American business executives on Monday at an economic summit in Washington, jointly organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and US-based policy think tank Brookings Institution.


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