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Force India launches a reality show
1:35 Mumbai, February 11 (ANI): Force India launched a reality show in collaboration with an entertainment channel in Mumbai on Tuesday.Liquor baron Vijay Mallya along with Bollywood star Deepika Padukone and video jockey Rannvijay,flagged off the hunt. Twenty girls will be short listed through auditions to take part in the show at the end of which four will be selected to become the speed divas for the Force India team. Added: 15845 days ago Views: 1274
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Motorcycle bomb injures seven in Peshawar
0:49 Peshawar, February 11 (ANI): Seven people including a member of the North West Frontier province assembly were injured in a bomb blast on Wednesday in Peshawar.The blast targeted the vehicle of Awami National Party legislator Alam Zeb Khan,who was seriously injured in the attack.No group claimed responsibility for the attack. Police said the exact nature of the blast was yet to be determined.They have arrested five persons who they said might have been involved in the blast. Added: 15845 days ago Views: 1058
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India likely to be engaged in the US security initiative
2:43 Washington,February 11 (ANI): Daniel Markey,a South Asia specialist at the Council on Foreign Relation in Washington has said that India,being a major power in the Pakistan-Afghanistan region, would have to be engaged in constructive ways by US special envoy Richard Holbrooke while tackling issues in the region.Markey said that notwithstanding the Kashmir issue,Holbrooke would have to eventually talk to Indians, as they cannot be left out of the solutions he is looking for. Added: 15845 days ago Views: 1109
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Ruckus in Andhra Pradesh state assembly
2:3 Hyderabad,February 11 (ANI):Legislators from opposition and ruling benches clashed in the state assembly in Andhra Pradesh on Wednesday,a day after similar scenes were seen in Uttar Pradesh.Many legislatures were reportedly injured during the clash.It was complete commotion in the assembly over chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy's alleged links with fraud-hit Satyam Computers' former Chairman B. Ramalinga Raju. Added: 15845 days ago Views: 1127
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Indian cricket team comes back home
0:58 New Delhi, February 12 (ANI): Members of Indian cricket team arrived in national capital New Delhi after their victorious tour of Sri Lanka on Wednesday. India defeated Sri Lanka 4-1 in the five-match One-Day series before wrapping the tour with a three-wicket win against the islander in a Twenty20 international on Tuesday. Family and kin of Indian cricket's Pathan brothers celebrated the team's victory against Sri Lanka in a Twenty20 international in Vadodra city of Gujarat state. Added: 15845 days ago Views: 1135
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Parliament Session to open with eye on general elections
0:58 New Delhi, February 12 (ANI): The last session of the current Lok Sabha begins today in New Delhi. The session is expected to be stormy with political parties likely to extract the maximum mileage ahead of the general elections. The session spread over ten sittings is essentially for taking a vote on account on Railway and General Budgets but being the first one during the year, it will begin with the President's address on the opening day. Added: 15845 days ago Views: 941
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First verdict in the Nithari killings to be pronounced
1:16 New Delhi, February 12 (ANI): A special court is likely to pronounce its first verdict in the Nithari killings case on Thursday. The judgment would come more than two years after body parts of 19 children and young women, who had been sexually abused and mutilated, were found from a drain in Noida. A special CBI court in Ghaziabad wound up proceedings last month in the murders of the victims who lived in Nithari village near the bungalow of businessman Moninder Singh Pandher. Added: 15845 days ago Views: 1138
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Samajwadi Party, NCP to hold seat sharing talks
1:9 New Delhi, February 12 (ANI): Regional parties Samajwadi Party and Nationalist Congress Party are going to hold seat-sharing talks on Thursday. So the talks are now rife of the possibility of a new alliance between the Samajwadi Party and Sharad Pawar's Nationalist Congress Party. With SP’s alliance with the Congress virtually at breaking point, Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh will have seat-sharing talks with NCP chief Sharad Pawar. Added: 15845 days ago Views: 1076
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Satyam says client confidence improving
1:10 Mumbai, February 12 (ANI): The Board of the Fraud-hit Satyam Computer Services Limited is meeting in Mumbai on Thursday. Earlier on Wednesday its new chairman said that the company is reassuring wary clients about its long-term prospects. He told reporters Satyam was in a position to pay employee salaries for February mainly from receivables, and said arranged bank funding would be coming in a few days. Added: 15845 days ago Views: 890
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Unmanned air vehicle debuts at Asia's largest air show
1:13 Bengaluru, February 12 (ANI): Mantis, an autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle or UAV developed by BAE Systems, Europe's biggest defense company made its international debut at the ongoing Aero India 2009 in Bengaluru on Wednesday. The Mantis UAV advanced concept technology demonstrator programme brings together technologies, capabilities and systems demonstrating the potential of a large unmanned autonomous aircraft. Added: 15845 days ago Views: 1361
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Mumbai attacks planned to retard progress: Prez
1:52 New Delhi,February 12 (ANI):Indian President Pratibha Devisingh Patil termed the Mumbai attacks as an attempt to retard country's economic progress.Addressing the last session of the parliament prior to general elections in New Delhi on Thursday, Patil said the various terror attacks across the Indian cities were an assault on all the values of the country.Patil further added that the nation faced multiple internal security challenges. Added: 15845 days ago Views: 1357
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India needs to stimulate trade,investment: FM
1:55 New Delhi,February 12 (ANI):India needs to stimulate trade and investment flows,and boost a slowing domestic economy hit by deepening recessions overseas,the acting finance minister Pranab Mukherjee told the captains of Indian industry in New Delhi on Thursday ahead of next week's interim budget. The global financial crisis roiled India's share market, and the subsequent slowdown has slashed exports and domestic factory output,and is expected to slow its galloping growth of 9 percent in 2007/08 fiscal. Added: 15845 days ago Views: 1105
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No change in sector FDI caps Trade Minister
1:48 New Delhi, February 12 (ANI):On the sidelines of the 14th India Carpet Expo in New Delhi,Indian Commerce and Trade Minister,Kamal Nath said on Thursday that the 49 percent cap for foreign direct investment in single-brand retail remained and there is no change in sectoral limits,a day after authorities eased investment limits for local firms.He further said that the government has rationalized the calculation of foreign investment norms keeping in mind the compression and depression in the global markets. Added: 15845 days ago Views: 1156
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Shahrukh Khan to market his latest flick in his own style
2:18 Mumbai, February 12 (ANI):Bollywood actor Shahrukh Khan said that he would promote his upcoming film Billu in his own style and not to imitate anybody else's marketing strategy.Khan is extensively promoting his latest flick Billu that was earlier titled Billu Barber.Satirical about use of means like cutting of hair to promote film marketing,Khan said that he would have his own way of film promotion. Added: 15845 days ago Views: 1244
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Mumbai attack planned on Pakistan's soil
1:38 New Delhi,February 12 (ANI):Pakistan on Thursday finally gave its much-awaited official reply to the Mumbai attacks dossier given by India.Pakistan has finally admitted that the 26/11 Mumbai attack was planned on its soil.Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Thursday told reporters that his government has acted on information given by the Indian government.Although,Malik also said that a major part of the conspiracy was also planned in India. Added: 15845 days ago Views: 999
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Court convicts Pandher and Koli for rape, murder
1:0 New Delhi,February 12 (ANI):Two years after the grisly killing of children and women in Nithari came to light,the special Central Bureau of Investigation court on Thursday convicted Moninder Singh Pandher and his servant Surendra Koli of rape and murder in the first of the 19 cases filed against them.The quantum of sentence would be pronounced on February 13 by special court judge. Added: 15845 days ago Views: 1070
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India to study Pak's response to dossier
1:13 New Delhi,February 12 (ANI):Reacting to Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik's statement,India on Thursday said that New Delhi would react to Pakistan's response to its dossier on Mumbai terror attacks after receiving it formally and studying it. Earlier in the day Malik in a news conference said that Pakistan was holding in custody the ringleader and five other suspects in the conspiracy behind the Mumbai attacks that killed 195 people. Added: 15845 days ago Views: 1002
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Lalu all set to present interim railway budget
1:25 New Delhi, February 13 (ANI): India's Minister of Railways Lalu Prasad Yadav is all set to present the interim Railway Budget in the Parliament on Friday. Addressing a press conference in New Delhi on Thursday, he said that the spheres in which the Indian Railways lacked would be rectified. He also said that the budget has not been prepared with an eye on elections but keeping in view the interests of all citizens since Indian Railways is the lifeline of the country. Added: 15845 days ago Views: 944
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Sentencing in Nithari killings case today
0:59 New Delhi, February 13 (ANI): Two years after the grisly killing of children and women in Nithari came to light, the city court will announce the quantum of sentence on Friday. Nithari has been modern India's first case of serial killings involving Paedophilia and cannibalism. The court on Thursday convicted Moninder Singh Pandher and his servant Surendra Koli of rape and murder in the first of the 19 cases filed against them. Added: 15845 days ago Views: 1075
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CBI set to nail Mulayam in corruption case
0:57 New Delhi, February 13 (ANI): The Central Bureau of Investigation is ready to nail Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav. As per the report, the CBI wants to file a corruption case against Mulayam charging him with commission of criminal conspiracy. The CBI report has been under wraps for 15 months and the government now wants to clear report on the Samajwadi Party leader. The Supreme Court has to now decide if it or the government should get the CBI report. Added: 15845 days ago Views: 985
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