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    4 arrested over Bangladesh building disaster, toll crosses 350

    Four people, including two factory owners, were arrested on Saturday in connection with a building collapse disaster in Bangladesh that killed at least 353, as rescuers raced against time to save people trapped under the mangled pile of metal and concrete. Rana Plaza, the eight-storey commercial building that collapsed on Wednesday, housed five garment units […]

    Legal

    Welfare boards for sex workers across India: AINSW

    In a bid to address social evils such as trafficking and violence against sex workers, the All India Network of Sex Workers (AINSW) plans to set up welfare boards across the country for the protection of their rights. AINSW, an umbrella network of NGOs working for sex workers, has decided to constitute these boards which […]

    Law&Order

    20 yr old college student allegedly gangraped, murdered in Karnataka

    A 20-year old college student was reportedly gang-raped and murdered at Modaga near Sulebavi village in Belgaum Taluk on Friday night. She was returning to her village Modaga from Belgaum where she was studying. She appeared for her exams on Friday but did not return home. The murder was discovered on Saturday after the owner […]

    National

    Pakistan restricts consular access to Sarabjit Singh, family reaches Lahore

    Pakistan has restricted consular access to Indian national Sarabjit Singh who is in a coma in a Lahore hospital, prompting Indian officials to take up the issue with their Pakistani counterparts, on Sunday. Two officials of the Indian High Commission were allowed to visit Sarabjit, who is in an intensive care unit in Lahore’s Jinnah […]

    International

    NATO: 4 service members killed in plane crash

    A plane was crashed in southern Afghanistan on Friday, killing four international service members on the same day the Taliban said they were gearing up to launch their spring offensive with attacks on military and diplomatic targets. Initial reporting indicated there was no enemy activity in the area where the plane went down, the NATO-led […]

    National

    Coast Guard Ship C-425 commissioned at Paradip

    The Indian Coast Guard Ship C-425, the third of the series of Interceptor Boats designed and built by Larsen and Toubro, Katupalli was commissioned in Paradip on Saturday. Odisha Chief Secretary B K Patnaik commissioned the ship in presence of Inspector General K C Pande PTM, TM Commander Coast Guard Region (North-East) and officials from […]

    National

    Salman Khurshid in Russia

    External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid arrived in Moscow on Saturday to review the progress in bilateral relations since the India-Russia summit-level meeting in December last year. Khurshid will co-chair the inter-session meeting of the Indo-Russian Inter-Governmental Commission on Trade, Economic, Scientific, Technological and Cultural Cooperation (IRIGC) on Monday with Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin. […]

    National

    Sarabjit still critical; family to travel to Pakistan

    Four members of Sarabjit Singh’s family have been granted visa by the Pakistan High Commission to meet the Indian prisoner who is in “deep coma” and put on ventilator support after being assaulted by jail inmates in Lahore. Sarabjit’s sister Dalbir Kaur today said that the High Commission in Delhi has issued visa to the […]

    International

    Iran calls upon six world powers to resume negotiations over its nuclear programme

    Iran has called upon the P5+1 group of six major world powers US, UK, France, Russia, China and Germany to resume negotiations over its controversial nuclear program. Iranian news agency FARS quoting the foreign minister Ali Akbar Salehi told that EU foreign policy chief, Catherine Marie Ashton had undertaken to contact Iran but the time […]

    States

    Centre sanctions 338 developmental projects for NE Region

    Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region has sanctioned 338 developmental projects for the region in the last three years. The approved cost of these projects is over 3487 crore rupees under Non-Lapsable Central Pool of Resources. According to Ministry sources, out of the total number of projects, completion is delayed in 129 due to […]

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