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Opp fails to show unity (26 February 09:07) |
| AGE CORRESPONDENT
NEW DELHI
Feb. 25: The Opposition parties on Thursday failed to act together in the Lok Sabha after a day-long discussion on the price rise. While the Samjawadi Party, RJ... |
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Centre on price rise Worst is over (26 February 09:06) |
| Age Correspondents
New Delhi
Feb. 25: The government on Thursday said the worst is over and prices of various essential commodities, like pulses, sugar and vegetables, have started to decl... |
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Govt Would want Husain to feel safe (26 February 09:05) |
| AGE CORRESPONDENTS
NEW DELHI
Feb. 25: The Centre on Thursday described self-exiled eminent artist M.F. Husain as the "pride of India" and offered to provide him adequate security... |
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Rajnath Naqvi hurt in UP lathicharge (26 February 09:04) |
| AGE CORRESPONDENT
Lucknow
Feb. 25: Scores of BJP workers, including senior leaders Rajnath Singh and Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, were injured when the party’s demonstration against price rise t... |
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Clashes in Kashmir shops houses burnt (26 February 09:04) |
| AGE CORRESPONDENT
SRINAGAR
Feb. 25: Scores of people were injured, one of them in a critical condition, and nearly 80 residential houses and shops were torched and suffered extensive damag... |
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Gadkari talks inconsequential (26 February 09:03) |
| SHUCHISMITA
JAMMU
Feb. 25: While describing the Indo-Pak foreign secretary level talks as "inconsequential and futile exercise", BJP president Nitin Gadkari accused the Congress-... |
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Gujarat makes special allocation for tourism (26 February 08:58) |
| Deepal Trivedi
Gandhinagar
Feb. 25: The Narendra Modi government will promote religious tourism in a novel manner and special allocations have been made in the state budget for the same.
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IISc will enrol foreign students for first time (26 February 08:58) |
| B.R. Srikanth
Bengaluru
Feb. 25: Indian Institute of Science (IISc) will for the first time enrol foreign students. Students from 23 countries have logged in with applications for various ... |
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Govt gives SC roadmap on deemed varsities (26 February 08:57) |
| S.S. NEGI
New Delhi
Feb. 25: To allay the fear of two lakh students enrolled with 44 deemed universities cancelled by the HRD ministry due to lack of minimum basic facilities, the Centre o... |
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Assam ministers to declare assets (26 February 08:57) |
| MANOJ ANAND
Guwahati
Feb. 25: Bogged down by charges of corruption and all round protest against ministers, Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi on Thursday directed his ministers to immediate... |
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States to get bigger share of Central tax (26 February 08:54) |
| PAWAN BALI
New Delhi
Feb. 25: In a significant announcement, the government on Thursday anno-unced that it has accepted the 13th Finance Commission’s (TFC) recommendation on increasing s... |
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Sharad feels heat of sugar price rise (26 February 08:54) |
| PAWAN BALI
New Delhi
Feb. 25: The Economic Survey 2009-10 on Thursday blamed the ministry under Sharad Pawar for increase in the prices of sugar.
"In the case of sugar, delay in the ... |
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Emissions will go up despite steps Survey (26 February 08:53) |
| AGE CORRESPONDENT
New Delhi
Feb. 25: India’s per capita carbondioxide (CO2) emissions would increase by nearly three-fold to 3.5 tonnes by 2030, which currently is at 1-1.2 tonnes. The e... |
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Thumbs up to poverty plans (26 February 08:53) |
| AGE CORRESPONDENT
New Delhi
Feb. 25: The Economic Survey has lauded the government’s effort in the areas like poverty alleviation and employment generation, which led to somewhat ensurin... |
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Infant mortality below 30 by 12 (26 February 08:50) |
| Age Correspondent
New Delhi
Feb. 25: India would witness the infant mortality falling below 30 to every 1,000 live births by 2012, which currently is at 53 per 1,000. The Economic Survey (... |
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Social service expenses swell (26 February 08:50) |
| Age Correspondent
New Delhi
Feb. 25: The Economic Survey (2009-10) tabled in Parliament on Thursday has stated that the central government’s spending on social services as a percentage o... |
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Postmaster-gen held for bribe (26 February 08:49) |
| Age Correspondent
Mumbai
Feb. 25: The anti-corruption unit of the Central Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday arrested chief postmaster-general (Maharashtra and Goa) Manjit Singh Bali for... |
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Plans under PPP for SCST OBCs (26 February 08:49) |
| Age Correspondent
New Delhi
Feb. 25: The Public Private Partnership (PPP) approach is one of the strategies for attaining the objective of the development of the Scheduled Castes (SC), Sch... |
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Elephant storms VIP wedding (26 February 08:46) |
| Amita Verma
Lucknow
Feb. 25: Irked by incessant celebratory firing and fireworks during a wedding in Meerut district, an elephant went on rampage and trampled over a dozen vehicles, includ... |
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Girl made to strip in classroom (26 February 08:46) |
| AGE CORRESPONDENT
VIJAYAWADA
Feb. 25: A teacher of a private school in Vijayawada forced a girl student of Class 3 to strip in presence of her classmates for not speaking in English. The i... |
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Sopore Militants flee after fierce gunbattle (01 February 08:05) |
| AGE CORRESPONDENT SRINAGAR Jan. 31: In the fourth incident of its kind during the past fortnight, Kashmiri separatists gave the security forces a slip after engaging them in a fierce gun bat... |
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Lalu re-elected RJD chief (01 February 08:04) |
| Age correspondent Patna Jan. 31: After taking charge as the Rashtriya Janata Dal’s national president for the seventh time in a row since 1997, Lalu Prasad Yadav, once unanimously describe... |
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CA to probe Amar Singh case in UP (01 February 08:02) |
| Amita Verma Lucknow Jan. 31: Former Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh’s attempts to build bridges for Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati have obviously failed to cut ice. The... |
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Jaya Prada backs Amar (01 February 08:01) |
| Age Correspondent NEW DELHI Jan. 31: Mulayam Singh Yadav’s Samajwadi Party (SP) continues to be torn asunder by its own partymen busy trading charges against each other. On Sunday, it was ... |
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Furore in Cong over Gadkari remark (01 February 07:57) |
| ANAND S.T. DAS Patna Jan. 31: A day before Rahul Gandhi’s scheduled two-day visit to Bihar, the state Congress was all worked up by BJP national president Nitin Gadkari’s controversial l... |
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Graft in politics BJP still cleaner (01 February 07:56) |
| AGE CORRESPONDENT BHOPAL Jan. 31: BJP patriarch L.K. Advani took a swipe at the growing corruption in the media, and argued that this was evidence that graft in public life had reached unsee... |
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Centre to intensify offensive against Naxals (01 February 07:54) |
| Namrata Biji Ahuja New Delhi Jan. 31: The Centre is intensifying the anti-Naxal offensive on the Chhattisgarh-Orissa and Orissa-Jharkhand border, ruling out any talks, and has issued clear d... |
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Punjab panchayat forces couple to live as siblings (01 February 07:53) |
| Asit Jolly Chandigarh Jan. 31: A council of village elders in Haryana’s Rohtak district has ordered a young man and his wife to separate and henceforth treat each other as “sister” and... |
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Terrorists giving youth lure of arms in Jammu (01 February 07:52) |
| SHUCHISMITA Jammu Jan. 31: The terrorist groups, unable to “sustain their cadre in view of the heavy attrition by the security forces”, are coercing the youth to recruit them in various ... |
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Graft in Army wont be tolerated (01 February 07:52) |
| Age Correspondent NEW DELHI Jan. 31: Union defence minister A.K. Antony has said that not even a single instance of corruption can be tolerated in the Army. His declaration on Sunday came in... |
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Cong will not antagonise SP (31 January 06:38) |
| Venkatesh Kesari
New Delhi
Jan. 30: The Congress is in no mood to antagonise the Samajwadi Party, keeping in mind that it could be useful if the Trinamul Congress, led by Ms Mamata Banerje... |
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BSP to reach out to Muslims in UP (31 January 06:38) |
| Amita Verma
Lucknow
Jan. 30: The Bahujan Samaj Party has started making renewed efforts to win over Muslims in Uttar Pradesh in order to compensate losses, if any, due to the growing anti-... |
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Most UP MLAs lack education (31 January 06:37) |
| Age Correspondent
Lucknow
Jan. 30: Even as the Centre and state government makes a bid to improve literacy levels in the country, the level of education among UP legislators is steadily go... |
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Amar Will resign if kidneys returned (31 January 06:37) |
| Ghazipur, Jan. 30: Under pressure from his critics within the party to give up his Rajya Sabha seat, Amar Singh Saturday asked Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh Yadav to first "re... |
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Gadkari equates Modi with Mahatma Gandhi (31 January 06:36) |
| Deepal Trivedi
Ahmedabad
Jan. 30: BJP president Nitin Gadkari has said that Mahatma Gandhi and Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi have a similarity as both believed politics to be a tool... |
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11 drown in Andhra boat capsize (31 January 06:18) |
| Elluru (Andhra Pradesh), Jan. 30: At least 11 pilgrims were drowned and three others were missing after an overcrowded boat capsized in Godavari river in West Godavari district of Andhra Pra... |
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Andhra Speaker rejects 129 MLAs resignations (31 January 06:05) |
| Age Correspondent
Hyderabad
Jan. 30: Andhra Pradesh Assembly Speaker N. Kirankumar Reddy on Saturday rejected the resignations tendered by 129 MLAs on "technical grounds", termin... |
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Expert group for rural growth bodies (31 January 06:05) |
| Amit Agnihotri
New Delhi
Jan. 30: The government has constituted an expert group to work out a strategy to strengthen the district rural development agencies (DRDAs) in order to expedite i... |
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Court grills doc over quota benefits (31 January 06:04) |
| S.S. NEGI
New Delhi
Jan. 30: In a unique case of desperate attempt to somehow get into a medical college even if it means manipulating admission under the quota benefit on the basis of Sch... |
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Drunk woman kills two in Mumbai (31 January 06:02) |
| Jigna Vora and Gautam S. Mengle
MUMBAI
Jan. 30: A routine anti-drunken driving check at a busy south Mumbai junction turned into tragedy for five traffic policemen and a civilian after a d... |
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Mamata upset over PC-Buddha meeting (31 January 06:01) |
| Sanjay Basak
New Delhi
Jan. 30: Trinamul leader and railway minister Mamata Banerjee is apparently upset with the Centre over home minister P. Chidambaram’s decision to hold a meeting wi... |
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Govt sends emission plan to UNFCC (31 January 06:00) |
| Rashme Sehgal
NEW DELHI
Jan. 30: The government sent a detailed action plan on emission cut targets in order to curb greenhouse gas emissions to meet the January 31 deadline as stipulated ... |
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US issues advisory to its citizens coming to India (31 January 05:57) |
| Washington, Jan. 30: Terror groups may be planning attacks in India, the US state department has warned in its latest advisory and asked its nationals to be alert while visiting the country ... |
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UK suspends student visas (31 January 05:54) |
| AGE CORRESPONDENT
NEW DELHI
Jan. 30: Alarmed by a nearly eight-fold increase in the number of student visa applications from north India, the UK Border Agency would temporarily stop accept... |
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Cong hits back at Modi gibe (30 January 08:08) |
| Age Correspondent
New Delhi
Jan. 29: The Congress hit back at Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi for saying he would write to the government on food prices in Italian stating he has gone... |
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Maya accuses Centre of bias (30 January 08:07) |
| S.S. NEGI
New Delhi
Jan. 29: The political spat between Utter Pradesh chief minister Mayawati and the Cogress-led UPA on Friday reached even the Supreme Court with the BSP supreme accusing... |
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No budget slot for statues now Maya (30 January 08:07) |
| Amita Verma
Lucknow
Jan. 29: UP chief minister Mayawati said here on Friday that her government had made no budgetary provision for monuments, parks and statues in the state budget for 201... |
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Rahuls Bihar mission Feb 1 (30 January 08:06) |
| ANAND S.T. DAS
Patna
Jan. 29: Rahul Gandhi’s long awaited tour of Bihar, starting with his scheduled two-day visit to seven districts in the state beginning February 1, holds great promi... |
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Veteran Cong leader RN Mirdha is dead (30 January 08:06) |
| AGE CORRESPONDENT
New Delhi
Jan. 29: Former Union minister and senior Congress leader Ram Niwas Mirdha died here on Friday following multiple organ failure. The 87-year-old leader was admi... |
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Post-Amar SP cold shoulder to Jayas (30 January 08:05) |
| Pramod Kumar
New Delhi
Jan. 29: The Samajwadi Party leaders are looking at the options to expel Amar Singh from the party. However, along with Mr Singh, his loyalists like Jaya Prada and J... |
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