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Jumbo-sized budget for A.P.
Significant tilt towards welfare and poverty alleviation programmes

Patnaik orders probe into security lacunae at arms depots
Rs. 10 lakh each to family of policemen killed in naxal attack

BJP gearing up for alliance exercise

Fuel price increase unjustified: UNPA
NEW DELHI: The United National Progressive Alliance has demanded an immediate rollback of the “arbitrary and unjustified” hike in petrol and diesel prices, failing which it will launch a countrywide agitation along with the Left ...

Centre closely monitoring Orissa situation
RAMANATHAPURAM: The Central government is closely monitoring the situation in Orissa, where naxals killed at least 14 persons including 13 policemen and took away a huge quantity of arms and ammunitions, said Union Minister of State for Home ...

Defence Ministry seeks higher allocation
The government’s stand is very clear. There is no question of middlemen in deals: Antony

Naxalism not single biggest threat: Patil
New Delhi: Naxalism is not the single biggest threat to the country, Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil has said. “I don’t think so,” Mr. Patil said, in an interview to Karan Thapar’s “Devil’s ...

‘Affordable treatment, removing stigma must in tackling epilepsy’
CHENNAI: India is in a unique position to show the way forward in optimising quality of life for persons with epilepsy, Steven Schachter, professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, and director of Clinical Research, Beth Israel Deaconess ...

Heralding the occasion

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

‘Desi’ stamp at global mobile ‘mela’
Barcelona (Spain): The biggest annual ‘mela’ of the mobile phone industry — the Mobile World Congress held here last week, saw some of the most compellingly priced handsets, substantially crafted in India — vying for ...

Web search reveals the Indian fixation
Cricket and Bollywood still favourites

mChek, Airtel bag Global Mobile Award 2008
BARCELONA: The Bangalore-based mChek’s instantaneous mobile payments and recharge solution and the Airtel service, which harnessed it for its Indian customers, have been honoured with the Global Mobile Award 2008 of the GSM Association ...

Other Stories

Pratibha on 2-day visit to Bihar

Twin challenge to new PCC chief Soz

Somnath for more women in legislatures

Police asked to probe charges against Manyata

Aamir loses case over brother’s custody

Raj vows to thwart U.P. celebrations

LeT man admits to surveying Mumbai targets: police

New Company Law Bill to be introduced in budget session

Jodhaa Akbar: Rajput group attacks multiplex

Decline in sowing area for rabi crops

CJI: no need for changes in kidney transplant law

IAF-HAL team to visit Russia

Committee to re-draft Right to Education Bill

5,000 cases pending against juveniles

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