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Rescue operation heightened in flood-hit areas of UP
1:48 Purabazaar Block, August 23 (ANI):Authorities in Uttar Pradesh have increased the flood rehabilitation process in flood-affected areas of Mudna village in Faizabad district of Uttar Pradesh.They are distributing relief materials to those people who have taken shelter in Bachulal Inter College located in the area. Added: 15851 days ago Views: 775
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Harvest festival Onam begins in Kerala
1:34 Kochi,September 02 (ANI):A week full of fun and frolic has begun as Onam festival celebrations got off to a colourful start on Wednesday.The celebrations begin with traditional prayers in preparation for welcoming the mythical King Mahabali. Devotees throng the beautifully decorated Thrikkakara temple in Kochi,the only temple to have the idol of Vamana,one of the reincarnations of Hindu Lord Vishnu. Added: 15851 days ago Views: 817
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DelhiGurgaon Expressway now open to public
1:28 New Delhi, Jan 24 (ANI): More than three weeks after its formal date of completion, the Rs 1,000 crore 27 km-long Delhi-Gurgaon expressway was opened to public on January 23rd. The expressway was inaugurated by the Union Minister for road transport and highways TR Baalu along with Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and Delhi’s Chief Minister Shiela Dixit. This expressway is expected to cut short the travelling time between Gurgaon and Dhaula Kuan by at least an hour. Added: 15851 days ago Views: 1244
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Abhinav Bindra threatens to quit the game
1:37 Chandigarh, January 17(ANI): Frustrated with the unresponsive attitude of Indian sports authorities, Olympic gold medallist Abhinav Bindra on Saturday threatened to quit the game. Bindra, India's only individual Olympic gold medallist has been training in Europe for the Commonwealth Games 2010, International Shooting Sport Federation World Cup 2010 and Asian Games. Added: 15851 days ago Views: 802
Ash plays another woman of substance character
1:49 New Delhi, Jan 17(ANI): It is a well-publicized fact by now that Aishwarya Bachchan is playing the role of Indian Queen Jodhaabai in Director Ashutosh Gowariker’s Bollywood epic film ‘Jodhaa Akbar’. And the actress seems smitten by the character she is essaying.'Jodhaa Akbar' is about the romance between Mughal emperor Akbar and his Hindu wife Jodhaa, in which Aishwarya Bachchan plays the role of Jodhaa along with Hrithik Roshan. Added: 15851 days ago Views: 1282
Flood wreak havoc in Maharashtra's Sindhudurg district
0:54 Sindhudurg,October 03 (ANI): Incessant rains that have hit Sindhudurg district of Maharashtra has left hundreds of people stranded and acres of agricultural lands washed away as floods.The Pichdhaval River in the district is flooded and is wreaking havoc in the area.The rains, triggered by a low pressure area over the Bay of Bengal,have been continuing since yesterday night and as per the weather department,heavy rainfall at isolated places is likely to occur in Sindhudurg,Ratnagiri and several other districts of Maharashtra during the next 24-hours. Added: 15851 days ago Views: 1213
India to take action against striking oil officials
2:34 New Delhi, January 9 (ANI): Indian government talked tough on Friday to deal with the striking oil company officials. Efforts to break the impasse between the government and the striking officials over their demands have not succeeded so far. Meanwhile, the oil minister has appealed the workers to end their strike, which ran into its third day on Friday, as the country could not afford a strike. Added: 15851 days ago Views: 1044
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Students in Patna go on rampage
1:23 Patna, June 26(ANI): Students in Patna went on rampage on Thursday.they allege that the recently conducted medical entrance examinations were fraudulent. The students were anguished over recently declared Bihar Combined Entrance Competitive Examination result and called for statewide shutdown. The students crying foul claimed that around 190 students of one college, sitting in the same hall, have got selected in the exam. Now, they are demanding cancellation of the exam and holding a fresh one. Added: 15851 days ago Views: 1117
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India, Argentina ink pact for cooperation in agriculture
1:58 New Delhi, August 03 (ANI): Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar and his Argentinean counterpart Julian Andres Dominguez signed a joint declaration for cooperation in the areas of research in New Delhi on Monday. Pawar also said that Argentina would provide material, which will increase and improve the productivity of pulses. Pawar added that Argentina has offered help in bridging the gap, between total storage capacity and total food grains procured, by making available a technology, which would preserve food grains and is also inexpensive. Added: 15851 days ago Views: 725
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Railway Minister flags off a train to Shirdi
1:8 Shirdi, March 1 (ANI): India's Railway Minister Lalu Prasad on Saturday flagged off a train to holy pilgrimage site Shirdi located in Maharashtra. There was no rail link to Shirdi and the pilgrims used to reach the shrine by road. The new broad gauge line will provide connectivity to this revered shrine from all parts of the country. Thousands of devotees visit Shridi every year to pay homage at the temple of the Indian saint Sai Baba. Added: 15851 days ago Views: 1241
Drought-hit villagers in Bundelkhand migrate for work
2:3 Jhansi,August 15 (ANI):A drought-like situation in the Bundelkhand region overlapping two states -Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh - has forced hundreds of villagers to migrate to other parts of the country in search of alternative means of employment.Scanty rainfall and poor irrigation facilities have severely affected people,especially the marginal farmers and landless labourers. Added: 15851 days ago Views: 946
Seven Maoists arrested in Jharkhand
1:12 Jharkhand, August 29 (ANI): Seven members of a pro-Maoist group were nabbed from a forest hideout in Latehar district of Jharkhand, officials said on Saturday. Acting on a tip-off, a team of local police raided a hiding place in the nearby woodland and apprehended seven activists of the Swatantra Indian Prastuti Committee. Weapons and ultra-left wing pamphlets were seized from the spot. Added: 15851 days ago Views: 567
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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: 15851 days ago Views: 890
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Tibetan PM in exile welcomes China's offer of talks
1:54 Dharamsala, March 13 (ANI): Prime Minister of the Tibetan government in exile, Samdhong Rinpoche, has welcomed Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's offer of holding more talks with envoys for the Dalai Lama. Earlier Wen Jiabao accused Western countries of exploiting the Dalai Lama, who is described as a political exile rather than a religious figure. Samdhong Rinpoche said the comments were not true. Added: 15851 days ago Views: 1009
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Bharti Walmart, Bharti Retail launch money transfer service
2:8 New Delhi, May 25 (ANI): Corporate giants Bharti Walmart and Bharti Retail in association with Thomas Cook India launched MoneyGram International's global money transfer service in their stores across India. Top functionaries of these companies disclosed this at a news conference in New Delhi on Tuesday. Responding to a question that a money transfer service is a sway away from Bharti Walmart's core business, Managing Director and Chief Executive of the company, Raj Jain said that the company hopes to serve its customers through the new initiative. Added: 15851 days ago Views: 415
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Post-Mumbai attack, Indian fishermen bear the brunt
2:17 Gujarat,December 03(ANI):Ever since their boats were confiscated by Pakistan authorities, fishermen of Veraval and other minor ports in Gujarat are in trouble.The names and registration numbers of their boats,presently detained in Pakistan,stand cancelled by the state and federal governments and they are not allowed to build or own new boats and trawlers with the same reference.The government mooted this policy in the wake of the Kuber boat incident of 2008. Added: 15851 days ago Views: 700
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Women celebrate as Women's Bill finally passes in RS
1:50 New Delhi/Lucknow/Allahabad, March 10 (ANI): Women across India were an elated lot when the much awaited women's reservation bill finally passed the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday. The Bill once enacted as a law will provide 33 percent reservation for women in parliament and various state legislative assemblies. The joy could be judged from the fact that even women party workers of the main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party in the national capital danced and distributed sweets to hail this historic event. Added: 15851 days ago Views: 886
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Yeddyurappa asserts that he won't quit
1:37 Karnataka, November 20 (ANI): Within hours of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) deferring a decision on his future, Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa, hit by allegations of favouring kin with prime land, asserted on Saturday he will not quit. Yeddyurappa insisted that he has done no wrong in land allotment to his kin. He made a blistering attack on the Janata Dal-Secular and its president H.D. Deve Gowda, saying his aim was to root out the BJP from Karnataka. Added: 15851 days ago Views: 552
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China warns of burst dams as quake death toll rises
1:36 China, May 15 (ANI): The death toll from China’s deadliest earthquake in decade’s climbed to nearly 15,000 on May 14 night. The officials warned of potential calamities from broken rivers and dams. Around 2,000 soldiers had been sent to repair serious cracks in the Zipingpu Dam upriver from the earthquake-hit city of Dujiangyan. Authorities said that they were concerned about other rivers and dams strained to bursting point. Around 7,000 residents remain stranded near the two hydropower stations in Maoxian County which are seriously damaged. Added: 15851 days ago Views: 1338
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Onion prices will come down soon: Sheila Dikshit
1:25 New Delhi, December 23 (ANI): Amidst skyrocketing onion prices, Delhi chief minister Sheila Dixit today claimed that the onion prices would soon come down after a series of measures which are initiated by central and state governments. Evidently to nab the hoarders and black marketers, Azadpur wholesale market in New Delhi was raided on Wednesday, but no evidence of any hoarding has been found, officials said. But at another event in the day, she accused media of giving false information on the rising prices of onions. Added: 15851 days ago Views: 482
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