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UP offers Rs.25 crore aid to Uttarakhand
The Uttar Pradesh government Wednesday announced a Rs.25 crore ($4.2 million) financial aid to the rain ravaged Uttarakhand. Expressing his condolences on the large scale loss of life and property in the cloud burst and incessant rains, which washed away hundreds and damaged more than 500 roads and uprooted bridges, Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav said he was extremely distressed at the natural ...
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With Meri Bhabhi Esha Kansara wants to break past image
TV actress Esha Kansara, who played the strong-headed Devki in "Mukti Bandhan", says she wanted to break the image of her past character with a new show. She now features as the fun-loving Kritika in "Ek Nanad Ki Khushiyon Ki Chaabi...Meri Bhabhi", and says her role is very different. "The very first thing (that made me take up the show) was that the character is different. Devki was a strong ...
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My biggest achievement is not getting typecast Sonam Kapoor
If she played a high-on-fashion girl in "Aisha", she even essayed a simple girl in "Delhi-6" and "Mausam". Actress Sonam Kapoor, who will now be seen in her forthcoming film "Raanjhanaa", says she considers it a big achievement that she has escaped being typecast in the film industry. "I don't compare my life with the success ratio. I am not getting typecast and that's my biggest achievement. I ...
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My moustache will become popular after Issaq Ravi Kishan
Bhojpuri superstar Ravi Kishan, who plays a negative role in forthcoming movie "Issaq", sports a thick and long handlebar moustache in the movie. He says whether his role becomes popular or not, his moustache will have its own fan following post the movie's release. "The credit goes to director Manish Tiwary. He wanted my moustache to touch my ears and there was a lot of debate also on this. ...
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Yamuna in spate crosses danger mark in Delhi
The muddy, swirling waters of the Yamuna river were flowing over the danger mark Wednesday, leading to the closure of the city's 145-year-old railway bridge, and forced the evacuation of 2,000 families living along the river banks. The landmark double-decker rail-cum-road bridge, built in 1868 and connecting sprawling capital city to its eastern part, has been closed for vehicular traffic, an ...
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Karnataka MLAs were frugal in their poll spending
Fighting and winning Karnataka assembly poll on an average costs just about Rs.700,000, less than half of the Election Commission-imposed upper limit of Rs.16 lakh (Rs.1.6 million), says an NGO after analyzing the expense statements of recently elected state law makers. A study of the expense declarations of 213 of the 224 newly- elected members of the legislative assembly (MLA) showed the ...
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BJP to sit in Bihar opposition
Ahead of the trust vote Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has sught in the assembly Wednesday, friend-turned-foe BJP has said it is prepared to sit in the opposition. "After sharing power with the ruling JD-U for over seven-and-half years, BJP will sit in opposition," Bihar BJP president Mangal Pandey said. BJP legislators have elected Nand Kishore Yadav as leader of opposition in the state ...
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India clears Pakistani panels Mumbai visit to probe 2611 attacks
India has given consent to Pakistani authorities probing the Mumbai 26/11 terror attacks to visit the country and cross-examine witnesses. A dossier of related documents has also been sent by the Indian Government to the National Crisis Management Cell (NCMC) of the Ministry of Interior. An eight-member panel from Pakistan had visited Mumbai in April 2012 to cross-examine four key witnesses of ...
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Samantha keen on doing small-budget films
She has her hands full for this year, but southern actress Samantha Ruth Prabhu, who has worked with big stars and banners in the past, is now keen to explore small-budget films with exciting scripts in the next year. She is currently busy shooting for three big Telugu projects - "Manam" with Akkineni Nagarjuna, "Attarintiki Daaredhi" with Pawan Kalyan and "Ramayya Vasthavayya" with Junior ...
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Pleasant day in Delhi
New Delh June 19 (IANS) It was a pleasant morning in the capital Wednesday with the minimum temperature settling at 24.8 degrees Celsius, three notches below the season's average. The Met Office has forecast light rains in some areas of the city. "The skies will be partly cloudy with light rain expected in some areas of the city," an India Meteorological Department (IMD) official said. The ...
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Savoy beckons in summer and in monsoons
I had never been advised to visit a hill station in this fashion. The e-mail from an itinerant friend read: "The Savoy in Mussoorie, which was once better than the Savoy on the Strand in London, is promising to recapture its old form when it re opens. Earlier we visited Mussoorie. Now we must visit the Savoy, because Mussoorie is too crowded. Earlier, Savoy was the most elegant hotel in an ...
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Early monsoon beneficial for kharif crops
The early and heavy monsoon rains in India have raised the hopes of a record plantation and sowing of kharif crops, a farmers' body representative said Tuesday. Sudhir Panwar, president of Kisan Jagriti Manch, a farmers' body, told IANS that the moisture coming from early rains is crucial for the sowing of coarse grains, oil seeds, pulses, cotton and nursery plantation of rice. The early ...
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Sex racket busted in Delhi woman pimp arrested
A sex racket was busted here after two Uzbek women who were held hostage for five months in a house and were repeatedly sexually abused by customers, escaped, police Tuesday said. A woman pimp has been arrested. The two women from Uzbekistan managed to flee from the clutches of the sex racket Sunday and reached Safdarjung Hospital, where they sought help of hospital authorities to approach ...
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Lucky to have this character in Issaq Prateik Babbar
Bollywood actor Prateik Babbar, who will be seen in "Issaq" soon, said that he is lucky to have landed his role in the film as it had everything in it. "I am lucky to play this character. The role has everything in it; drama, violence, heroism. It is a perfect package for any package," he said at the poster and music launch of the film. The actor also added that he did a lot of preparation for ...
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Missing student found dead in Yamuna river
A 21-year-old class 12 student, who had been missing for five days, was found dead in the Yamuna river here, police said Tuesday. Victim's family alleged murder while police contended it was suicide. Vineet, a resident of south Delhi's Sunlight colony area, was found dead near the Kalindi Kunj barrage Tuesday afternoon. "He was missing from Delhi's Sarai Kale Khan area since June 13 evening. ...
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PM conveys dismay over Sri Lanka move on 13th Amendment
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Tuesday told a delegation of Sri Lanka Tamil MPs that he was "dismayed" by reports suggesting that Colombo planned to dilute certain key provisions of the 13th Amendment on devolution of powers to provinces ahead of polls to the Northern Provincial Council. The prime minister noted that the proposed changes "raised doubts about the commitments made by the Sri ...
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Kochi to host World Economic Forum India Meet Chandy
Kerala's business capital, Kochi will host the prestigious the World Economic Forum's India meet Nov 8-9, said Chief Minister Oommen Chandy Tuesday. Chandy told reporters here that this is a rare honour for the state. "India has hosted this event 28 times in the past, of which Mumbai hosted it once, while Delhi played the host on all other occasions," he noted. "More than 250 top notch ...
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163 people rescued from flooded areas in Uttarakhand Himachal
A total of 163 people were rescued Tuesday from flood-affected areas caused by torrential rains in Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh, disaster management officials said. While 71 people were rescued in Uttarakhand, National Disaster Management Authority's (NDMA) teams rescued 86 people in Haryana and five in Uttar Pradesh, an NDMA official said. Twenty-six teams of the National Disaster ...
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Barasat gang-rape Protests rock Kolkata web after Mamatas village visit
People protested on the streets of Kolkata, women government staff took out a march at Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's seat of power, while the web users poured scorn on her Tuesday, a day after she shouted back at demonstrators in a village while on a visit to the house of a gangrape-murder victim. Joining angry women, youths, rights organisations and college and school students, who held ...
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Modi discusses poll strategy with BJP leaders
After being made head of BJP's poll campaign panel, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi discussed with senior leaders the strategy for the five assembly elections scheduled this year-end as well as the 2014 Lok Sabha battle, party sources said Tuesday. In his first meeting with the party general secretaries after being named the head of Bharatiya Janata Party's election campaign committee, ...
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Bengal election panel working half-heartedly BJP
The BJP Tuesday accused the West Bengal State Election Commission of playing its role "half-heartedly" in the upcoming panchayat elections, and demanded that the commission call for an all-party meeting within two days to announce the roadmap for the polls. "We demand that the state election commission call for an all-party meeting to announce its plans of conducting the election," said West ...
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Namaste Jackie Chan gives back love to Indian fans
Indian movie buffs have loved his action avatar for years, but Hollywood actor Jackie Chan, here for the inauguration of the China Film Festival Tuesday, showed his jolly side much to the delight of the star-struck audience. He says he is growing old, but it's the audience's love that keeps him going. "Namaste! Please sit down, sit down," Chan told the over-enthusiastic audience, which stood up ...
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Congress high command to decide on Jharkhand alliances State chief
Jharkhand Congress president Sukhdeo Bhagat Tuesday said the central leaders of the party would decide on issues like formation of a government in the state and whether any alliance has to be forged for the upcoming polls. "The local leaders of the state are against any form of alliance with any party in the upcoming Lok Sabha and assembly polls. Now it is up to the central leaders to decide ...
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Minor raped video uploaded on social media
A 15-year-old girl was allegedly raped in Rajasthan's Alwar town and the video of the crime then uploaded on a social networking website, police said Tuesday. According to police, the victim's father registered a first information report (FIR) Tuesday with a police station at Alwar, some 150 km from Jaipur. "The man says that a youth befriended his daughter on Facebook. He raped her a few ...
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Man kills wife suspecting extra-marital relations
A 37-year-old man was arrested for killing his wife for suspecting she was having an extra-marital relationship, said police Tuesday. Sanjay Kumar, a resident of Bihar, was arrested Sunday from east Delhi's Anand Vihar railway station for the murder of his wife Kanti Devi, 35. Kumar revealed during interrogation that he suspected that his wife was having an extra-marital relationship and told ...
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Tensions raised over translocation plans for Asiatic lions
In the tranquil wilderness of the Gir forest sanctuary one would never think a political storm was raging over a proposal to move some of the endangered lions that inhabit the reserve.
As the sun sets over the lush, sprawling forest in Gujarat where India’s only Asiatic lions live, they wander majestically through the wild, unaware of the conflict they are creating between Gujarat, the central government and other states that want to share in some of their success. Read more
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