Agitating tribal people in Orissa's Jajpur district Thursday announced clearing of a road that they had been blocking after 12 people were killed early last year in police firing while protesting a steel company project in the area.
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 | Air Marshal N.A.K. Browne Thursday assumed charge as deputy chief of the Indian Air Force (IAF).
Prior to his appointment, he was Assistant Chief of Air Staff (Intelligence) at Air Headquarters since October 2004.
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 | The capital's civic authorities Thursday told the Delhi High Court that at least 108 wild monkeys had been trapped and released at a new habitat after a health check-up by a medical team.
Appearing before a bench of Justice Swatanter Kumar and... More |
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Swiss authorities have stopped assisting India in ascertaining the source of the kickbacks received by Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi in the Bofors gun purchase deal on the grounds that it is dated and also that the 21-year-old case has... More |
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Five people, including a five-year-old boy, died in Andhra Pradesh Friday after consuming spurious toddy.
The dead include three members of same family. Police said the incident took place in Timmirigudem village of Charla mandal in Khammam... More |
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At least 40 people including nine children fell ill after consuming poisoned dead fish from a pond in Orissa's Kendrapada district, police said Friday.
Residents of Dashipur village, some 45 km from the district headquarters of Kendrapada and 70... More |
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Tibetan refugees in this Himachal resort town have invited around 20 Indian parliamentarians to participate in celebrations marking their uprising day anniversary Saturday.
On March 10 every year, Tibetan refugees celebrate the Lhasaon uprising... More |
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From afar, the pristine white statue of Shakuntala with a deer looks like an artist's creation on marble. Few steps closer and you realise that it is made up of margarine and is actually edible!
Scores of other such delights, pleasing to the... More |
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US Air Force band "Pacific Trends" will entertain Kolkata with special performances in connection with the Platinum Jubilee celebrations of the Indian Air Force (IAF).
An eight-member team, with Major Daniel L. Price as the Band Commander,... More |
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 | Was Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) MP Sunil Mahto killed by Maoist guerrillas, who have denied their role in the incident? Or was he the victim of a plot hatched by the mafia? As investigators try and solve the sensational murder, the view here seems... More |
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