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Page 1/11 130 killed in Karnataka, Andhra floods
Bangalore/Hyderabad: At least 130 people have been killed in Karnataka and neighbouring Andhra Pradesh in heavy rains since Wednesday and army boats and air force helicopters Friday began to rescue hundreds of people marooned at several places.
One hundred and four people have died in six north K [more...]
Posted on:10/3/2009 Maoists kill 16 villagers in Bihar over land dispute
PATNA: Suspected Maoist rebels killed 16 villagers in eastern India, tying them up and then shooting them over an apparent land dispute, police and local residents said yesterday.
Deputy Superintendent Ajay Pandey said that more than 50 armed rebels raided the village in Bihar state on Thursday n [more...]
Posted on:10/3/2009 Congress, NCP promise to make Mumbai world financial capital
Mumbai: Making Mumbai an international financial capital in five years, self-sufficiency in power and constructing one million subsidized homes for the poor are some of the promises in the Congress-Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) joint election manifesto released here yesterday evening.
The two [more...]
Posted on:10/3/2009 Kerala Leftists form human chain to protest against ASEAN pact
Thiruvananthapuram: Hundreds of thousands of Left activists stood in a row at 5pm yesterday, on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti, holding their hands aloft in a human chain from Kerala’s northern district of Kasargod to the State capital of Thiruvananthapuram, asking the Central Government to rev [more...]
Posted on:10/3/2009 360 Assam tribal rebels surrender
Haflong, Assam: About 360 tribal separatists Friday surrendered in India’s restive northeastern state of Assam raising hopes of an end to long years of violent insurgency in the region, officials said.
A government spokesperson said 359 militants of the outlawed Jewel Garlosa faction of the Dima [more...]
Posted on:10/3/2009 Uzbek militant ‘killed’ in drone attack
PESHAWAR: An Al Qaeda-linked Uzbek militant leader was killed in Pakistan in a US drone missile strike in August, Pakistani intelligence agency officials said yesterday.
Tahir Yuldashev (pictured), leader of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, was killed in a missile strike in the South Wazirista [more...]
Posted on:10/3/2009 Zardari makes gains in opinion poll at Sharif’s expense
NEW YORK: While President Asif Zardari made some gains in his approval rating over the past six months, former prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s popularity suffered in the same period, according to the findings of an opinion poll.
The survey, conducted by the Washington-based International Republican [more...]
Posted on:10/3/2009 Afghan army grapples with high expectations
KABUL: Gun shots ring sharply across a valley littered with rusting hulks of Soviet tanks as Afghan soldiers crouch down and open fire into the dusty haze.
No one fires back and enemy positions are empty.
Here at the Kabul Military Training Centre, the exercise is part of US efforts to put the [more...]
Posted on:10/3/2009 Punjab to treat crimes against women as terrorism
LAHORE: Showing his concern at the rising incidence of crime against women, especially acid throwing, molestation and rape-cum-murder, the government in Pakistan’s most populous province Punjab has decided to try the accused under anti-terrorism laws.
“All acid throwing, molestation and rape-cum- [more...]
Posted on:10/3/2009 Mahatma Gandhi remembered
New Delhi: Mahatma Gandhi, the global peace icon, was yesterday commemorated on his 140th birth anniversary with India renaming a rural empowerment scheme after him and US President Barack Obama saying Americans owed him enormous gratitude. Search engine Google decorated its home page with a sketch [more...]
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