New UK visa rules for students will hit Indians hard

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• New UK visa rules for students will hit Indians hard
• After petrol price hike, Mamata warns her party may quit, will talk to PM
• 2G scam: Kanimozhi to appeal for bail in High Court today
• India set for last lap in $10.4-billion combat plane tender
• High Court adjourns Yeddyurappa bail hearing to November 8
• Jayalalithaa must travel to Bangalore court again, says Supreme Court
• Without BJP support, Anna would have faced Ramdev-like action: Gadkari
• Marathon Boy: Documentary on Budhia Singh
• Follow Uttarakhand example, says Anna after ending maun vrat
• Mining scam: Jagan Reddy appears before CBI; party workers protest
• Anna Hazare ends his vow of silence at Rajghat
• Will Yeddyurappa walk out of jail today?
• Anna in Delhi, may end his vow of silence
• Digvijaya Singh faces wrath of BJP workers
• Petrol prices hiked by Rs 1.82 per litre from midnight
• Metallica concert fiasco: Judicial custody for four
• Sharad Pawar, Praful Patel meet Sonia Gandhi
• Telecom regulator issues notice to 900 individuals over pesky calls
• Uttarakhand Governor gives assent to Lokayukta Bill
• We had a good, positive meet, says Team Anna after meeting parliamentary panel
• Kanimozhi denied bail, breaks down in court
• Govt says 44 deemed universities must be de-recognised

New UK visa rules for students will hit Indians hard Posted: 04 Nov 2011 08:34 AM PDT Delighted that new stringent student visa rules were "beginning to bite", the UK Home Office on Wednesday said a further tightening of the system was on the cards from April even as British universities said the rules were damaging reputation abroad.

After petrol price hike, Mamata warns her party may quit, will talk to PM Posted: 04 Nov 2011 08:26 AM PDT Mamata Banerjee has warned the Congress that if it doesn't withdraw the petrol price hike introduced last night, she may have to opt out of the government. After meeting with senior MPs from her party in Kolkata this afternoon, Ms Banerjee said her party had not been consulted about the hike, and that her MPs are willing to quit the UPA if they are excluded from decisions like this one which affect the common man. "There is no way our MPs can defend this to our people," she said.

2G scam: Kanimozhi to appeal for bail in High Court today Posted: 04 Nov 2011 07:59 AM PDT DMK MP Kanimozhi will appeal in the High Court today for bail in the 2G scam case. Yesterday, a CBI court in Delhi dismissed her bail plea along with that of seven other accused.

India set for last lap in $10.4-billion combat plane tender Posted: 04 Nov 2011 07:49 AM PDT India is all set to dash through the last lap in its quest to buy 126 medium multi-role combat aircraft, estimated to be worth $10.4 billion, when the Defence Ministry on Friday opens the commercial bids of Eurofighter Typhoon and Rafale to take a final call on the lowest bidder.

High Court adjourns Yeddyurappa bail hearing to November 8 Posted: 04 Nov 2011 07:40 AM PDT Former Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa will continue to remain in jail as the state High Court today adjourned to November 8 further hearing on his second bail application in a graft case.

Jayalalithaa must travel to Bangalore court again, says Supreme Court Posted: 04 Nov 2011 07:23 AM PDT Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa will have to show up again in a Bangalore court which is handling a case of alleged corruption against her.

Without BJP support, Anna would have faced Ramdev-like action: Gadkari Posted: 04 Nov 2011 07:18 AM PDT Anna Hazare may have tried to distance himself from the BJP, but party president Nitin Gadkari has said that if the party had not supported Anna Hazare, the Gandhian and his movement may have run into the sort of disaster confronted by yoga icon Baba Ramdev and his supporters. "We don't go anywhere uninvited," said Mr Gadkari, "but we will continue to support Anna because he is a good man and he has a good cause." Mr Gadkari also said that he is not upset with Anna's comments against his party, and its parent organization, the RSS.

Marathon Boy: Documentary on Budhia Singh Posted: 04 Nov 2011 06:57 AM PDT Gemma Atwal's documentary Marathon Boy, a film-festival favorite that will be shown on HBO on Thursday night, is a wrenching experience largely because it uses the moods and methods of true crime and pulp fiction to tell a story that is nominally about poverty, politics and the toxic mingling of celebrity culture and national pride in modern India.

Follow Uttarakhand example, says Anna after ending maun vrat Posted: 04 Nov 2011 06:20 AM PDT Anna Hazare, who ended his vow of silence today, has given an A to the anti-corruption bill passed in Uttarakhand this week. That's likely to pay rich dividend for the BJP which is in power in the state, scheduled to vote soon for its next government.

Mining scam: Jagan Reddy appears before CBI; party workers protest Posted: 04 Nov 2011 04:24 AM PDT Jagan Mohan Reddy is being questioned by the CBI today on his links with Karnataka mining baron Gali Janardhana Reddy. The YSR Congress leader was summoned by the investigating agency yesterday. Some of his party workers have gathered outside the CBI office and are raising slogans in protest.

Anna Hazare ends his vow of silence at Rajghat Posted: 04 Nov 2011 02:57 AM PDT Gandhian activist Anna Hazare ended his vow of silence early this morning at Rajghat in the Capital today. Mr Hazare reached Delhi on Thursday night from his village Ralegan Siddhi. He is expected to participate in the parliamentary panel meeting which is holding public hearings on the Lokpal Bill.

Will Yeddyurappa walk out of jail today? Posted: 04 Nov 2011 01:33 AM PDT Former Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa will get to know today if he can walk out of jail. Yesterday, a court in Bangalore granted him conditional bail in one of the two cases that have landed him in jail. But he cannot leave prison till he gets bail in both cases. The order on the second case will be out today.

Anna in Delhi, may end his vow of silence Posted: 03 Nov 2011 07:07 PM PDT Anna Hazare, who has not spoken a word in about three weeks, is expected to end his vow of silence on Friday. Mr Hazare reached Delhi on Thursday night from his village Ralegan Siddhi. He is expected to participate in the parliamentary panel meeting which is holding public hearings on the Lokpal Bill.

Digvijaya Singh faces wrath of BJP workers Posted: 03 Nov 2011 07:05 PM PDT Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Thursday faced the wrath of BJP workers protesting against price hike while he was waiting to board a Delhi-bound train at Mugalsarai railway station.

Petrol prices hiked by Rs 1.82 per litre from midnight Posted: 03 Nov 2011 06:39 PM PDT Petrol price hike: Oil companies have decided to increase petrol prices by Rs 1.82 per litre with effect from midnight tonight. This is the fourth hike in prices this year.

Metallica concert fiasco: Judicial custody for four Posted: 03 Nov 2011 06:07 PM PDT Four officials of an event management company organising last week's cancelled Metallica concert were on Thursday sent to judicial custody for 14 days by a local court, police said.

Sharad Pawar, Praful Patel meet Sonia Gandhi Posted: 03 Nov 2011 04:25 PM PDT Agriculture Minister and NCP supremo Sharad Pawar today met Congress President Sonia Gandhi in the backdrop of his recent controversial comments on the Food Security Act, a legislation being pushed hard by National Advisory Council headed by her.

Telecom regulator issues notice to 900 individuals over pesky calls Posted: 03 Nov 2011 04:07 PM PDT The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India or TRAI has said it has penalised 15 telemarketers till date and notices have been issued to 900 individuals and phones of 90 people has been disconnected for violating norms put in place to curb pesky calls and SMSes.

Uttarakhand Governor gives assent to Lokayukta Bill Posted: 03 Nov 2011 03:02 PM PDT Just two days after it was passed in the state Assembly, Governor Margaret Alva today gave her assent to the Uttarakhand Lokayukta Bill, 2011.

We had a good, positive meet, says Team Anna after meeting parliamentary panel Posted: 03 Nov 2011 12:20 PM PDT Key members of Team Anna - Arvind Kejriwal, Shanti Bhushan, Kiran Bedi and Prashant Bhushan - on Thursday, met the parliamentary panel examining the proposed Lokpal Bill.

Kanimozhi denied bail, breaks down in court Posted: 03 Nov 2011 12:11 PM PDT Before Kanimozhi entered court this morning, she seemed relaxed and cheerful, as she sat with her mother, husband and young son. The odds were in favour of her getting bail after more than five months in prison for her alleged role in the telecom scam. The CBI, which had contested three earlier bail applications for her, had said a few weeks ago that this time around, it has no objections to her leaving prison. The Supreme Court, which had refused her bail in June, had advised her to try again after charges were framed against her - which happened on October 22. And a section of the Indian law (437 of the Criminal Procedure Code) suggests bail be considered for women, under-16s, and sick people - a clause that her lawyers had invoked.

Govt says 44 deemed universities must be de-recognised Posted: 03 Nov 2011 11:40 AM PDT Two lakh students are likely to need reassurance that their interests will be looked after even though their universities are on the verge of being de-recognised.

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