Srinagar/Jammu, (IANS) One person was killed and two others were injured Monday when Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) troopers opened fire at people protesting power shortage at a village in Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla district, officials said. Five CISF personnel have been arrested in the case and a probe ordered. The firing took place in [...]
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New Delhi, (IANS) Expressing concern over the practice of paid news in the Indian media, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Monday said there should be no “external control” over media as it can battle the “evils” like paid news on its own. He also stressed the need for media to promote objectivity and reduce “sensationalism”. “There [...]
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By Amit Agnihotri New Delhi, (IANS) The Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council (NAC) has asked the government to focus on welfare of minorities in the 12th Five Year Plan (2012-13 to 2016-17), a recommendation that comes ahead of the assembly polls in five states in January-February. The move follows the government’s December 2011 move to [...]
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Bhubaneswar, (IANS) Authorities have stepped up security in Odisha ahead of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to the state capital Bhubaneswar Monday. Manmohan Singh is slated to arrive in the evening and spend the night at the Raj Bhavan, the official residence of state governor M.C. Bhandare. The prime minister is scheduled to inaugurate the [...]
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Kolkata, (IANS) Stating that the Congress was playing with fire by ignoring it, the Trinamool Congress Sunday said it will not compromise with the central government over the Lokayukta clause in the Lokpal bill as it hurts the independence of states. “If I am not wrong we have brought 37 amendments and all revolving around [...]
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Lucknow, (IANS) Inclement weather Sunday prevented Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Mulayam Singh Yadav from reaching Uttar Pradesh’s Azamgarh town, where he was to address a rally. While some of his party colleagues reached the town a day earlier, Mulayam Singh could not take off in a chartered aircraft from Lucknow on account of bad weather. [...]
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New Delhi: Both the Congress and BJP are equally confident of sweeping the upcoming elections in five states, but some say a Congress rout could lead to an early Lok Sabha poll. Balloting to pick new assemblies in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Goa and Manipur in January-March will be crucial to all political actors, but [...]
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By NVONews.Com Correspondent, Kishanganj/ Patna: Though there would be no reservation for Muslims in Aligarh Muslim University’s Kishanganj Campus, a sigh of relief and happiness prevails in Muslim community as after long controversy and debate land for the said campus is in the hands of AMU authorities. 30th December 2011 would be remembered for decades [...]
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By S Ahmed (NVONews.Com) True to his name Rajniti Prasad of Munghyr district in Bihar has done it for the Congress led UPA Union government over the passage of Lokpal Bill in the Rajyasabha by tearing the copy of the proposed legislation and threw it in the well of the house. Rajniti is aged 62year [...]
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By Amulya Ganguli A day before what turned out to be Anna Hazare’s flop show in Mumbai, his colleagues were full of hype and hubris during a television debate. It wasn’t only that they claimed overwhelming popular support for their cause – 80 percent of the surveys confirmed this, according to them – they argued [...]
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London, (IANS) Indian-origin scientist Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, a winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize for chemistry, will be honoured with knighthood in 2012. Venkatraman works as a biologist at the Medical Research Council’s Molecular Biology Laboratories in Cambridge, BBC reported. Born in 1952 in Chidambaram in India’s Tamil Nadu state, Venkatraman was awarded the Nobel Prize [...]
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Jammu, (IANS) The Jammu and Kashmir government has said that it has made “great progress in the year 2011″ in various fields like restoring peace, checking corruption, strengthening panchayati raj institutions and overall development, but the opposition Saturday slammed the government for making false claims. The government’s official spokesman said that addressing the last February-March [...]
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Hyderabad, (IANS) A day after he came under attack from some women’s organisations for his comments hinting at a link between women’s dresses and the increase in number of rape cases, Andhra Pradesh Police chief Dinesh Reddy Saturday received support from some other groups. Representatives of various women’s groups called on the director general of [...]
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