Key features and implication of the government’s Friday decision of allowing Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in multi-brand retail and aviation sectors. FDI in multi-brand retail –51 percent FDI allowed in multi-brand retail –States given discretionary powers of opting for it or not –Government expects to generate funds, jobs and stimulus for economy –Government also expects [...]
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Mohammad Adeeb is among few leaders who raise Muslim issues in Indian Parliament and other forums. In recent months, he has been making concerted efforts against the illegal arrest of Muslim youth in different parts of India on false charges. He has formed a fact finding committee to look into the issue of illegal detention [...]
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By Amit Agnihotri New Delhi, Will the suspense over Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi’s next step finally end this month? It could well be with the Congress agog with talk that Gandhi, 42, may assume a more proactive role – whether within or as minister – and provide the much-needed boost to the party, rendered [...]
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By Animesh Banerjee The demise of Dr Verghese Kurien marks the end of an era. During this era, an import dependent milk deficit nation – where availability per capita per day was 117 gm – not only became self-sufficient at 220 gm per capita per day but also achieved the laurel of becoming the largest [...]
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By NVONews.Com Correspondent, The whole nation is celebrating the launch of PSLV C 21 and scientists are calling it nothing short of historic as India sends its hundredth rocket into space. Meanwhile after the success of India’s first moon mission Chandrayan, the nation is planning to send second moon mission. But the Indian government and [...]
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By Syed Ubaidur Rahman (NVONews.Com) A week after training his gun on Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar, Shiv Sena supremo, Bal Thackeray, has said something which is likely to have its reverberations within the National Democratic Alliance. The Sena patriarch openly praised Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha, Sushma Swaraj, and said she would be [...]
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By NVONews.Com Correspondent, Alleging that Canada seeks to undermine the success of 16th Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Summit in Tehran (Aug 30-31) Iranian Foreign Ministry and a senior Member of Parliament on Saturday accused it of “hostile behaviour” influenced by Israeli and British after Ottawa cut diplomatic relations. Canada had on Friday announced that it was [...]
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By Mohit Dubey Lucknow, Is India still waking up to the autobahn culture? With three accidents and eight deaths in just a week on the spanking new six-lane Yamuna Expressway between Noida and Agra, that was the question doing the rounds. On Aug 25, a 35-year-old man from Delhi died and a woman and two [...]
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By Soroor Ahmed (NVONews.Com) Though a sizeable section of media often try to project him as a development-minded chief minister, best prime ministerial candidate within the BJP, good administrator and what not Narendra Modi has the knack to shoot his mouth off. This time he has not said something outlandish about any political opponent or [...]
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Hailing the historic verdict in the Naroda Patiya mass murder case delivered by Judge Jyotsnanbehn Yagnik. Special Sessions Judge in Ahmedabad today by which one senior politician and several conspirators and ring leaders have been convicted, Victim Survivors and CJP welcomed the verdict. In all 32 persons have been convicted including former BJP MLA and [...]
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Ahmedabad/New Delhi, Nine defence personnel, including five officers, were killed Thursday when two Indian Air Force (IAF) helicopters collided mid-air near Jamnagar in Gujarat, in one of the worst such accidents in recent years, an official said. The collision at the Sarmat range near Jamnagar, about 275 km from Ahmedabad, took place at 12.05 p.m. [...]
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Washington, Osama bin Laden, the Al Qaeda chief, was unarmed and had already died with a bullet to the brain when the US Navy commandos entered his bedroom during a raid in Pakistan’s Abbottabad city, a US Navy SEAL has revealed in a book. Giving a firsthand account of last May’s raid, the SEAL who [...]
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By NVONews.Com Correspondent, Guwahati: Even as fresh violence flared up in Bodo-dominated area of Assam the All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) is planning to expand its base in a couple of other North-Eastern states. It has dropped enough hints to take part in the coming Assembly election in Meghalaya. But the problem with the [...]
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By Rohit Vaid New Delhi, Air India hopes to induct the first of its new Boeing-787 Dreamliners by this month-end as the aircraft has received regulatory clearances to fly to India. “The first of our 787s have received mandatory flying clearance from the Federal Aviation Administration. A team of pilots, engineers and other crew members [...]
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