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Over 20,000 pilgrims evacuated in U’khand
Jun 19, 2013In Uttarakhand, with the improvement in weather relief and rescue work has been expideted. More than 20 thousand pilgrims and tourists who are bound for char dham yatra have so far been evacuated while 50 thousand people are still stranded. As per latest report 102 people have died whereas numbers of people are still missing.
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PM to conduct aerial survey of flood-hit U’khand; toll rises to over 100
Jun 19, 2013Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh will conduct an aerial survey of flood and landslide affected areas of Uttarakhand this afternoon. Relief and rescue operations continue in flood and landslide affected areas of Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh. Additional teams of National Disaster Response Force reached Kedarnath in Uttarakhnad yesterday and started relief and rescue operations. In [...]
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Centre to discuss ULFA charter of demands in talks this month in Delhi
Jun 19, 2013The next round of Centre, ULFA-peace talks will be held on the 25th of this month in New Delhi. State Home Secretary Gyanendra Dev Tripathi said that in a bid to bring lasting peace, the Centre will hold discussions on ULFA’s charter of demands. These include, updating of the National Register of Citizens, S T [...]
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Bihar CM Nitish Kumar to face Floor test today
Jun 19, 2013Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar will seek a confidence vote on Wednesday to prove his majority after JD(U) parted ways with ally BJP. Going by numbers, there is no threat to the Nitish Kumar government as it has the required strength. For the required 122 majority mark JDU already has 118 members, while 4 independents [...]
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U’khand flood: PM assures Bahuguna of all assistance
Jun 19, 2013With flood situation in Uttarakhand remaining grim, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday assured Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna of all assistance in rescue and relief operations in the flood-hit state. Dr. Singh, who spoke to the Chief Minister on Tuesday evening, also inquired about the flood situation in the state. Congress president Sonia Gandhi spoke [...]
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Gujarat needs to do more on social sector: Montek; Modi retorts
Jun 18, 2013After securing an approval for a plan size of Rs 59,000 cr for this fiscal, Gujarat CM Narendra Modi sparred with the Centre over social sector development in the state as he countered Planning Commission’s assessment that lot more needs to be done. On his first trip to the national capital after being made BJP’s [...]
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Need to ban future production of fissile material for nukes: Mathai
Jun 18, 2013India on Tuesday stressed on the need to have a non-discriminatory and internationally verifiable treaty banning the future production of fissile material for nuclear weapons and other nuclear explosive devices. It also said the international legal framework on space security needs to be strengthened to enhance the security of space assets for all space users [...]
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Monsoon fury: Death toll rises to 81, rescue efforts hit
Jun 18, 2013Monsoon rains wreaked fresh havoc in northern India leading to flash floods, cloudbursts and landslips as the death toll climbed to 81 on Tuesday and hundreds of pilgrims bound for Himalayan shrines remained stranded. Landslides left scores of tourists and pilgrims stranded in the hill states of Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh while thousands have been [...]
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No let-up in operations against Naxals: CRPF chief
Jun 18, 2013Operations against Naxals will continue and there will be no let-up on this front, CRPF chief Pranay Sahay told his troops in Greater Noida on Tuesday, CRPF has deployed almost 85 battalions (85,000 personnel) in Left Wing Extremism-hit areas at present. The Director General was speaking to a batch of 716 young recruits who were [...]
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Home Min rejects Bengal’s demand for forces for polls
Jun 18, 2013Union Home Ministry has rejected West Bengal govt’s demand for paramilitary forces to hold panchayat elections in the state, saying the Centre does not provide security personnel to conduct local bodies’ polls. A top Home Ministry official on Tuesday said the Central government does not provide paramilitary personnel to any state to hold panchayat elections [...]
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