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‘Sadhvi’ Pragnya’s charges to be probed
National Security Adviser’s assurance to Advani
Sonia: protect the poor from impact of global meltdown
NEW DELHI: Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Friday said steps taken in India to counter the effects of the global meltdown must protect the poor. Speaking at the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit, Ms. Gandhi said the ...
U.S. asks China to halt plan for reactors to Pakistan
Washington: The U.S. has asked China to halt its plan to construct two more nuclear reactors in Pakistan and indicated that any new Sino-Pakistan cooperation in the atomic field would require “consensus” approval from the Nuclear ...
We can sustain 8 per cent growth rate: Manmohan
“No effort will be spared to neutralise impact of global meltdown”
Sops for textile exporters shortly
NEW DELHI: Union Commerce Secretary G. K. Pillai on Friday said the textiles sector alone could lose five-lakh jobs in the next five months due to steep decline in exports. Stating that global economic slowdown had impacted the Indian export ...
They all love world-beater Anand!
CHENNAI: Viswanathan Anand’s victorious return to his hometown was almost an exercise in vain for the association that organised his welcome at the airport late on Thursday night. The chess champion, who emerged from the arrival ...
British media flays umpires for Kanpur ‘farce’
Karunanidhi lists reasons for rift with Maran brothers
Kalanithi Maran writes to Karunanidhi
CHENNAI: The Managing Director of the Sun Network Private Ltd Kalanithi Maran on Friday said it was on Chief Minister M Karunanidhi’s suggestion and insistence that the division of Sun TV shares was made between the two ...
Dubai parties despite global gloom
Celebrities and fireworks light up launch of a Gulf resort
It’s all over for Madonna, Ritchie
LONDON: In a rather prosaic end to one of the most talked-about celebrity marriages of recent times, it took a High Court judge just six minutes on Friday to grant divorce to pop star Madonna and film-maker Guy Ritchie, a month after the ...
Hyderabad woman found dead in U.S.
HYDERABAD: Goli Sushma, a Hyderabadi woman, was found dead in mysterious circumstances in the store-room of her house at Northridge city near Los Angeles in the United States. Sushma (24), a resident of Himayathnagar, married Goli ...
Michael Jackson converts to Islam
LONDON: Pop singer Michael Jackson has converted to Islam and changed his name to Mikaeel.
Kuttanad package at brisk pace: Minister
Telephone service for tribals
TIRUCHI: Tribals of Patchamalai, a remote a hilly terrain in the district hitherto inaccessible for communication network, will get telecommunication services by the end of this fiscal. Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited, Tiruchi SSA, will set ...
More farmers’ markets soon
TIRUNELVELI: Fifty more farmers’ markets (uzhavar sandhai) would be established in the State by this year-end, Minister for Agriculture Veerapandi S. Arumugam said. He was addressing a function at Melapalayam on Friday to mark the ...
Pawar challenges High Court order
New Delhi: The former president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India, Sharad Pawar, moved the Supreme Court on Friday challenging a Calcutta High Court directive to initiate criminal proceedings against him and five others for filing ...
Consensus eludes PSC members
1,200 jobs for Backward Communities lying vacant because of the impasse
End of an ordeal
Obama’s cellphone records breached
WASHINGTON: Records from a mobile phone used by U.S. President-elect Barack Obama were improperly accessed, apparently by employees of the cellphone company, his transition team has ...
5 lakh workers may lose jobs
NEW DELHI: Five lakh workers in the textile industry, which is reeling under the impact of a severe slowdown in the export market, may lose their jobs in the next five months, Commerce Secretary G.K. Pillai has said. DETAILED REPORT/PAGE ...
“Attack on Indian diplomat not deliberate”
Kathmandu: The attack on an Indian diplomat on Thursday by a mob here was not “deliberate.” Neither was it intended to target the property and personnel of the mission, an Indian embassy spokesman said on Friday. S.K. Joshi, ...
Sri Lankan troops approach Kilinochchi
COLOMBO: The Sri Lankan security forces on Friday reached the outskirts of Kilinochchi, de facto capital of the Tamil Tigers, after months of heavy fighting, the Defence Ministry said. ...
Flight called back to take passenger
Mumbai: An Air India flight to Nagpur was called back to Mumbai after takeoff to accommodate a passenger who was going to attend to his ailing wife, but had missed the flight. He missed the flight after he inadvertently boarded the bus meant ...
Another suspect remanded, he also faces MCOCA
Chaturvedi is from Abhinav Bharat, close to Purohit: public prosecutor
Rural job scheme yet to gain momentum in many districts
Scheme not launched in 18 districts; only 27 p.c. funds spent

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