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Gurgaon's Rapid Metro constructs tallest pillar
Gurgaon's Rapid Metrorail has constructed the tallest metro pillar in the country. The piers, two in number having a height of 24 metres from its base and a diameter of two metres, were built in 100 days.
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Birds make wooden boxes their homes at Okhla sanctuary
Wildlife authorities in the region are now increasingly relying on installing wooden boxes on the remaining trees for artificial nesting and breeding of resident bird species.
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Indian accused of rape in Australia to be sent back
A court here has asked the Central Government to extradite an Indian national to Australia to stand trial for allegedly raping a girl two years back in Victoria.
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Tribal student makes it to IIT
Jaiprakash Singh from Chhattisgarh has secured the 750th rank in the reserved category
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Without any women in decision making process, Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind talks about “women’s right”
The biggest group of Imams in the country, the Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind (JUH), passed a resolution on the rights of women on the last day of its two-day public convention at Ramlila Maidan here on Satu...
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More Delhi News
May 20, 2012
Footprints in the sand
Browsing through the travel literature lying in the hotel room, a sudden realisation struck that Kozhikode or Calicut in the Malabar region of Kerala has a historical reference in travelogues of th...
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May 20, 2012
Desks on demand
There is a strong possibility that the students of Delhi Government schools would soon use desks approved by the Bureau of Indian Standards. Delhi Directorate of Education (DDE) director Amit Sing...
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May 20, 2012
Faith, brick by brick
Delhi's Christian link dates back to the times of the Moghuls. The earliest churches were built by the Armenians who had come to the court of Akbar in the 16th Century. There were two churches, on...
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May 20, 2012
Time for today
Karachi-based Abdul Rahman Siddiqui has been through the 1965 and 1971 wars, acting as the principal military spokesman in the latter. He might have shifted to Pakistan following the Partition but...
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May 20, 2012
Tough times for Punjab
There is a general impression about Punjab that it is the land of high productivity agriculture and well-built healthy people. However, a silent health and environmental crisis sweeping across the...
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NEW DELHI,
May 20, 2012
Power cuts add to summer woes
Even as Delhi sizzled at 41 degrees Celsius on Saturday, power cuts on account of an 800-MW shortfall added to the discomfort of its citizens. With various power plants on the blink and the...
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NEW DELHI,
May 19, 2012
Doctor cleared of rape charge following suicide by victim
A doctor accused of raping a widow employed at a Delhi Government Ayurveda hospital has been discharged by a court here as the victim had committed suicide two months after the alleged incident, d...
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NEW DELHI,
May 19, 2012
Two more arrested for attack on judges
Two more young men allegedly involved in attacking three judges in Ambedkar Nagar here on Thursday have been arrested.The accused have been identified as Sunil Raj, brother of Anil who was a...
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May 18, 2012
A tussle for job cards
When Radhika Devi of Ghazipur district in eastern Uttar Pradesh, along with other women of her village, went to the gram pradhan to collect job cards under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment...
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NEW DELHI,
May 18, 2012
Delhi Govt. accused of delaying regularisation of illegal colonies
Accusing the Congress Government in Delhi of deliberately shifting the goalposts for prolonging the issue of regularisation of unauthorised colonies, senior BJP leader Vijay Goel on Thursday said...
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Judge injured in road rage
Towards transparency
Stock-taking for gender fairness
A salute to the artist and an appeal to the fan
Reclaim and rejoice
Javed Akhtar at IWPC
Driven by technology
Spic and spa
May 20, 2012
School daze
The centuries-old institution called school is a place everybody remembers who ever had an opportunity to attend it. The moment you hear the word ‘school' it comes along with a bagful of memories o...
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May 20, 2012
Say cheese
When I was a kid — and that, I must admit, was quite a while ago — cheeses of different kinds were hard to come by. Much before Amul cheese became a household name, there were these two quaint shop...
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May 20, 2012
Minority, are you?
It is a feature the 350-year-old Anglo Arabic Senior Secondary School — nestled on the edge of Old Delhi – thought it always had — its minority character. Looks like not for long, if the Muslim ins...
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May 20, 2012
How the two Delhis have come closer
There was a time, not too long ago, when most of those who lived in Delhi but outside the walled city of Shahjahan had a strangely ambivalent attitude towards what many of them rather derisively ca...
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May 20, 2012
Payment at fingertips
With India's mobile subscription base crossing a whopping 90-crore mark, mobile payment industry is all set to explode. India's young generation and growing city population is going to help in fast...
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NEW DELHI,
May 19, 2012
Policeman killed while chasing criminals
A gang of criminals escaping in a mini-truck knocked down a Delhi Police constable and seriously injured a home guard at Bharat Nagar here in the early hours of Friday. The incident took pla...
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NEW DELHI,
May 19, 2012
Increase in violence against SCs and STs, reveals report
Decades after enacting a legislation to prevent atrocities against the Schedule Castes and Schedule Tribes through the SCs/STs (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, and the SCs/STs (Prevention of A...
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May 18, 2012
Of neglect and nurturing
The global economic crisis has severely impacted parents' caring and coping abilities. Inadequate living conditions and the struggle for economic survival create stress and despair, often furtheri...
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NEW DELHI,
May 18, 2012
Evicted jhuggi-jhopri dwellers protest
Jhuggi-jhopri dwellers evicted from Banuwal Nagar, Pragati Market, Sawan Park, Paschim Vihar and Yamuna Pushta in 2006 held a protest meeting outside the Delhi Development Authority headquarters at...
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NEW DELHI,
May 18, 2012
Three of a family from Myanmar detained
An asylum-seeker from Myanmar, his wife and sister-in-law were allegedly detained by the police in North-East Delhi in the early hours of Thursday. The three were released in the late evening only...
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Delhi Police officer's son killed in accident
Police find an e-solution
Two arrested on cheating charge
Barcelona to open football school in Delhi
Table for Two - True to her salt
A rebel, a lover
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Over a dozen persons killed as a bus rammed into a truck in Uttar Pradesh’s Bahraich, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik visits a fruit exhibition at Bhubaneshwar and SUCI(C) activists protest against the upcoming NATO summit at New Delhi. A collection of images.
