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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee shows market data during the press conference regarding the price hike of petrol, in Kolkata on Wednesday. State Finance Minister Amit Mitra, is also seen in the picture.
Mamata to lead rally today against petrol price hike
The protest action by the key UPA allies —Trinamool and DMK — and Samajwadi are expected to lend weight to a united opposition onslaught against the Rs.7.54/litre hike with the BJP-led NDA and the Left already announcing an all India bandh on May 31.
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Modi has terrorised high command, says Keshubhai
The former Gujarat Chief Minister feels that his successor has successfully "terrorised" the entire BJP high command.
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Trial against Talwars to begin on June 4
Dentist couple Rajesh and Nupur Talwar were on Friday charged with murder of their teenaged daughter Aarushi and their domestice help, Hemraj, by a local court which said trial in the four-year-ol...
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One killed in Assam blast
One person was killed in a bomb blast in Tinsukia district on Friday night, police said.
The bomb was planted in a roadside at Selabari area.
The victim has been identified as A....
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Green Tribunal agrees to hear plea against Lavasa’s hill city
The Tribunal directed Lavasa, the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) and Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) to file their replies to the petition of a project-hit Pune native before July 24.
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Bhopal,
May 25, 2012
Tribals, civil society activists condemn externment notice to rights activist
Tribals from Barwani and civil society activists from across Madhya Pradesh have condemned the Barwani district administration's externment notice to a Gandhian tribal rights activist.
Ma...
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Indore,
May 25, 2012
CBI files chargesheet in Shehla Masood murder case
Giving a clean chit to BJP MLA Dhruv Narayan Singh, CBI on Friday filed a charge sheet in RTI activist Shehla Masood’s murder case against five main accused, including interior designer Zahida Per...
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Shillong,
May 25, 2012
Former Meghalaya CM F A Khonglam laid to rest
Former Meghalaya Chief Minister F A Khonglam, known for his unique political manoeuvres that made him the first Independent MLA in the country to occupy the top post, was laid to rest at the buria...
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Mumbai,
May 25, 2012
Couple running clinic ‘fed foetuses to dogs'
The Maharashtra Health department on Thursday sealed a clinic run by a doctor couple in Parli tehsil of Beed district. Authorities cracked down on the facility following a complaint over the death...
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Ghaziabad,
May 24, 2012
Frame murder charge against Talwars: court
Holding that there is prima-facie evidence, a local court here on Thursday ordered framing of charges of murder and destruction of evidence against dentist couple Rajesh and Nupur Talwar, whose da...
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NEW DELHI,
May 24, 2012
Imphal-Mandalay bus service may take off
With Prime Minister Manmohan Singh scheduled to visit Myanmar at the end of this month, the Union Cabinet is likely to clear an MoU that provides for introduction of a bus service between the two...
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KOLKATA,
May 24, 2012
Mamata scraps SEZ policy
The Mamata Banerjee government on Wednesday announced scrapping of the policy on Special Economic Zones (SEZs).
Industry Minister Partha Chatterjee said the decision was taken by the Cabi...
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Allahabad,
May 23, 2012
Two children killed in Allahabad bomb blast
Two children were killed and half a dozen persons injured in a bomb blast which rocked the Kareli area of Allahabad on Wednesday afternoon. It occurred in a garbage dump near a n...
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Chausa (Bihar),
May 23, 2012
Villagers pelt stones at Nitish’s convoy
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar faced protests from angry locals who pelted stones at a couple of vehicles in his convoy during his ‘Seva Yatra’ at Chausa in Buxar district on Wednesday, officia...
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Guwahati,
May 23, 2012
Akhil Gogoi's health fails but he won't end fast
The health of the fasting Team Anna member Akhil Gogoi deteriorated on Tuesday but he refused doctors' advice and decided to continue with his four-day-old protest here on the anti-mega dam issue...
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Kannauj bypoll on June 24
Celebrities plead innocence
Maharashtra Minister held for Jalgaon housing scam
Rave party: 2 IPL players, 89 others let off after medical tests
Kishenji's close aide held in Ranchi
Manipur police on alert as students launch protest
Rival groups clash at Hurriyat function
110g of cocaine seized, say Mumbai police
New Delhi,
May 25, 2012
SC stays quashing of lease of Jal Mahal to private firm
The Supreme Court on Friday stayed the Rajasthan High Court order cancelling the lease of 100-acre land having historical Jal Mahal and Man Sagar Lake in Jaipur to a private firm to develop as a t...
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Mumbai,
May 25, 2012
ATS files charge sheet against four in 13/7 case
The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad filed a charge sheet in the July 13, 2011 triple blasts case at the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) court here on Friday.
The charg...
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May 25, 2012
Lighting up lives
Efforts to promote renewable energy as an alternative to electrify rural India got a fillip with Alstom Foundation announcing a 90,000 euro grant to upgrade 65 existing power plants in the underser...
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LONDON,
May 25, 2012
Naveen in rights row, cancels lecture in U.K.
Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik , currently on a visit to Britain, was on Thursday caught up in a controversy after he was reported to have pulled out of a seminar at the prestigious Institut...
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Mumbai,
May 24, 2012
Sanjay Joshi resigns from BJP National Executive
BJP leader Sanjay Joshi resigned ahead of the party National Executive meeting beginning here, a move seen as an effort by the party president to buy peace with Narendra Modi.
“Joshi, who...
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Ghaziabad,
May 24, 2012
Order on Aarushi case likely today
A local court here is likely to pronounce its order on framing of charges in the Aarushi-Hemraj twin murder case on Thursday after counsel for both sides concluded their submissions on Wednesday.
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Kolkata,
May 23, 2012
Mahasweta Devi resigns from Bangla Academy
Magsaysay-Award-winner Mahasweta Devi, who is known to be a close associate of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, sent in her resignation as chairperson of the Bangla Academy here on Wedn...
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Nashik,
May 23, 2012
Hazare hospitalised
Anna Hazare was on Wednesday admitted to a local hospital for medical checkup after he complained of fatigue and weakness.74-year-old Hazare, who arrived here this morning from Dhule town a...
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Mumbai,
May 23, 2012
Rs. 588-crore drought relief for Maharashtra
The Central government has sanctioned Rs. 588 crore as drought relief for Maharashtra, which is reeling under the crisis, Relief and Rehabilitation Minister Patangrao Kadam announced on Tuesday.»
DEHRA DUN,
May 23, 2012
25 pilgrims die as bus falls into the Ganga
At least 25 pilgrims from Mandsaur district of Madhya Pradesh were killed and 17 injured, when the bus they were travelling in from Badrinath to Rishikesh fell into the Ganga on Tuesday afternoon...
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CBI tells court Talwars killed Aarushi, Hemraj
Akhilesh rids traffic police of BSP tinge
Mamata will not attend UPA dinner
Hizbul Mujahideen militant killed in encounter
Koyna oustees face displacement again, thanks to Balganga project
‘Culture of making a mountain out of a molehill holding sway'
Banga Bibhushan award conferred on Suchitra Sen
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