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  • Situation tense in Rohtak village, CM orders probe

    The situation was on Monday tense but under control in Rohtak’s Karontha village where three persons were killed and about 100 others injured in a clash between two groups, even as CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda ordered a magisterial probe into the violence. Around 500 CRPF personnel have been rushed to maintain law and order near […]

    PM for a mechanism to provide risk insurance

    PM Manmohan Singh favoured setting up of a mechanism to provide risk insurance and contingent credit facilities to people affected by disasters, saying such steps of immediate funding would reduce suffering of people after any calamity. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh  said there was need for greater attention about arrangements for providing funds to people so […]

    CLP leader Siddaramaiah to be sworn-in as CM

    Siddaramaiah, who led the Congress party to victory in the Assembly elections in Karnataka is, will take oath on Monday as the 22nd Chief Minister of the State. He will be sworn in by Governor H R Bhardwaj at a ceremony at Sri Kanteerava Stadium in Bangalore. Siddaramaiah was elected as the leader of Congress […]

    Dropping of ministers joint decision of PM, Sonia: Congress

    Dropping of P K Bansal and Ashwani Kumar from the Union Cabinet was the joint decision of PM Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi, Congress said dismissing reports that the action was at the insistence of the party president. “It has appeared in a section of the media that it was at the insistence of Congress […]

    Bangladesh building collapse toll goes past 1,100

    The death toll in Bangladesh’s worst industrial disaster on Sunday rose to 1,125 after 15 more decomposed bodies were recovered from the debris of the ill-fated eight-storey building, 19 days after the tragedy. Rain has caused delays in recovery operations as overnight rainstorms forced rescuers to suspend work for several hours, and more rain today […]

    40 miners die in 2 coal mine blasts in southwest China

    Authorities said 40 miners have died in two separate coal mine explosions in South Western China. Provincial officials said 28 miners were killed in a blast on Saturday afternoon at a coal mine in Sichuan province. They said 108 people were working underground at the time. Less than 24 hours earlier, another coal mine blast […]

    4 cops killed in Naxal attacks

    Four police personnel were killed and another was injured in two separate attacks by suspected Naxalites in Maoist-hit Bastar and Sukma districts of Chhattisgarh on Sunday. The first incident took place at the Doordarshan transmission centre at Marenga village under Parpa police station in the district at around 3 AM, leaving three policemen dead and […]

    PM congratulates Sharif, invites him to India

    Reaching out to the new govt in Pakistan, PM Manmohan Singh congratulated Nawaz Sharif and his party PML(N) for their emphatic victory in elections and conveyed desire to work with him to chart a new course in India-Pakistan relations. Singh also invited Sharif to visit India at a mutually-convenient time. “The Prime Minister has extended […]

    Indian Naval Air Squadron 303 commissioned in Goa

    Indian Naval Air Squadron 303, the first MiG 29K squadron of the Indian Navy is commissioned in Goa, Defence Minister A K Antony said. Navy’s indigenously-built aircraft carrier would be launched on August 12 this year Defence Minister AK Antony today commissioned Indian Naval Air Squadron (INAS) 303, the first MiG 29K squadron of the […]

    Anti-Posco leader Sahu arrested, sent to jail

    Anti-Posco leader Abhay Sahu was arrested on Saturday in connection with several cases, including a bomb blast in which three people had been killed at the proposed steel plant site in Odisha’s Jagatsinghpur district. After being arrested from Bhubaneswar by a police team from Jatatsinghpur, Sahu was taken to Kujanga near here and produced before […]