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UAE holds talks with Canada, Japan
Top officials of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) held separate talks Tuesday with Canadian and Japanese diplomats, authorities said. Abdullah Al Subosi, director of the UAE foreign ministry’s department for American and Pacific Affairs,
Read More »PM urges Ramdev not to fast, promises action against corruption
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Tuesday said he has urged yoga guru Baba Ramdev not to go ahead with his hunger strike from June 4 and assured him that the government was tackling the problem
Read More »NDA ready to support bill for Telangana state: Sushma Swaraj
Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj Tuesday urged the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government to bring a bill for formation of separate Telangana state in the next parliament session, assuring support
Read More »Government for public-private tie-up on organ transplants
To meet the increasing demand of organ transplantation, public-private partnership between hospitals in the country is the way forward, Director General of Health Services R.K. Srivastava said here Tuesday. “There is tremendous planning and
Read More »PM to think of government reshuffle soon
Amid talk of a reshuffle of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government doing the rounds, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Tuesday indicated that he would soon apply his mind to the task. “I will apply
Read More »Youth, girl found dead in Ghaziabad
A 20-year-old youth and an 18-year-old girl were found dead Tuesday in a field in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghaziabad, police said, adding that it could be a suicide. According to police, the bodies of Mohit,
Read More »Brazil confers medal on UAE Ambassador
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has conferred the National Order of Merit on the UAE ambassador to the country, officials said. Yusuf Ali Abdul Rahman Al Osaimi was conferred Brazil’s second highest distinction by Paulo
Read More »Maharashtra minister, officials review coastal security
Maharashtra’s coastal areas are safe and secured from any kind of external attack, top officials who conducted a review of coastal security said here Tuesday.Home Minister R.R. Patil, opposition leader in the assembly Eknath
Read More »Plea to make Gujarat cops accused in riots case rejected
A Gujarat court hearing the 2002 Gulberg Society killings Tuesday rejected a plea filed by survivors of the violence seeking arraignment of four police officers, two now retired, as accused for negligence in stopping
Read More »Orphaned by Leh floods, sisters adopted by army get back life
Two teenaged girls orphaned during the devastating cloudburst and floods in the Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir last August have got a new lease of life with the army adopting them and providing
Read More »Bitta condemns Akali Dal, Congress over Bhullar
All India Anti-Terrorist Front chairman M.S. Bitta Tuesday condemned Punjab’s ruling Akali Dal and the Congress state unit for demanding clemency for Devender Pal Singh Bhullar, a Khalistani militant facing the gallows. Bhullar, whose
Read More »Hockey India reviews Azlan Shah performance
Hockey India (HI) Tuesday reviewed the team’s poor performance in the Azlan Shah Cup and discussed the remedial action required ahead of important tournaments like the Champions Trophy and the Olympic qualifiers at home.
Read More »Missing Pakistani journalist dead, says Pakistan news agency Dawn
Pakistani journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad, who went missing Sunday amid speculation that he had been abducted by intelligence agencies, is dead, a media report said Tuesday.Shahzad’s body was found in Sarai Alamgir, nearly 200
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