Shrinking space for dead in Hyderabad
By Mohammed Shafeeq Hyderabad: “Mar ke bhi chain na paya to kidhar jayenge? (If there is no peace in death, then where will I go?” This Urdu couplet from Ibrahim Zauq aptly sums up the problem of the dead in Hyderabad. In this booming metropolis, where thousands struggle for a place to live in, even [...]
New Delhi, (IANS) Former communications minister A. Raja, who has been in jail since February 2011, was Tuesday granted bail in the 2G spectrum allocation case but with the rider that he could neither visit the department of telecommunications (DoT) nor his home state Tamil Nadu. Raja, the last of the 14 individuals charged in [...]
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London, (IANS) About 15 crew members, including some Indians, are on board a tanker carrying 135,000 tonnes of oil, which has been hijacked by pirates in the Arabian Sea, a media report said. The Liberian-flagged Smyrni was hijacked off the coast of Oman, reported BBC. The ship’s operator said it lost contact with the crew [...]
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By NADIM AL-HAMID (ARAB NEWS) JEDDAH: Saleh Kamel is a leading Saudi businessman and philanthropist who is popular worldwide as a renowned pioneer of Islamic banking and finance. He is the founder of Dallah Albaraka Group, one of the Kingdom’s largest and most diversified conglomerates, spanning across 40 countries. He heads the Jeddah Chamber of [...]
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By NVONews.Com Staff Correspondent, Ranchi: Jharkhand Chief Minister Arjun Munda, who suffered injuries in a helicopter accident at the Birsa Munda Airport here on Wednesday, is not the first VIP to get injured or killed in chopper crash in the last few years. Though a thorough probe would help know the real cause of the [...]
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By Arun Kumar Washington: The United States is sending a team of energy experts to help India reduce its dependence on Iranian oil, while acknowledging that New Delhi has cut back its oil imports from Tehran. “We are working with them to help them in any way that we can offer technical assistance, and next [...]
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New Delhi: The Indian government’s Haj subsidy for pilgrims should be phased out of over the next 10 years, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday, spelling the beginning of the end of the only such facility in the world. Coming out against the government policy of subsidies to pilgrims going for Haj to the holy city [...]
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By NVONews.Com Staff correspondent, Whether it is the result of positive discrimination or the girls are really brighter could be a matter of debate but there seems to be a growing feeling that boys now need a quota. Though the first such attempt has been reportedly shot down in New Delhi but the reverberations of [...]
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By NVONews.com staff Correspondent Patna: Chief Minister of Bihar Nitish Kumar has a strange way of hating Gujrat chief minister Narendra Modi and loving him too. In the meeting of NCTC (National Counter Terrorism Centre) Nitish Kumar and Narendra Modi shook hands and naturally the photograph of this handshake got published across the nation and [...]
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Ahmedabad/New Delhi: In fresh trouble for Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, a Supreme Court-appointed amicus curiae’s report on the Gulberg Society carnage said that Modi’s role in the 2002 carnage needs to be probed. The Congress attacked the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for allowing Modi to continue in office despite his alleged complicity in the [...]
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By Soroor Ahmed (NVONews.Com) When US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited India in July last year she showed interest in meeting a woman chief minister. There was one right in Delhi, Sheila Dikshit. Lucknow was not far away as UP was then ruled by a Dalit woman, Mayawati. In that case she would have [...]
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By Mohammed Shafeeq Hyderabad, (IANS) Indian Muslim Relief and Charities (IMRC), a US-based organization, has built 60 schools in the remote villages of coastal Andhra Pradesh and plans to construct 40 more to provide spiritual education to Muslims. Under its platform, Rural Educational and Economic Development (REED), the organization has not only constructed the buildings [...]
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Rohtak: At least 20 people were injured when eight coaches of the Punjab Mail derailed in Sampla area of Haryana’s Rohtak district early Sunday. The derailment occurred around 4 am., railway officials said. None of the passengers had serious injuries. The injured were admitted to the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences (PGIMS) at Rohtak, 70 [...]
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By Amulya Ganguli For once, the Congress seems to have been able to get its act together on the presidential poll with its two possible candidates, Hamid Ansari and Pranab Mukherjee, running ahead of the rest of the pack. However, the party itself can hardly be credited with this achievement. Instead, it is really a [...]
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