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Modi presided over ’02 riots: Zadaphia tells SIT

admin — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 03:41:41 +0000

Gordhan Zadaphia, former junior home minister, has accused Gujarat CM Narendra Modi of playing an active role in 2002 riots. Zadaphia was questioned for seven hours on Friday by the SC-appointed SIT in connection with the 2002 communal riots.

Jamia to go ahead with Dalai honour

admin — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 03:34:41 +0000

Jamia Milia Islamia is likely to be allowed to give honorary doctorate to Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama. Jamia is going ahead with its preparations to confer the doctorate on November 23, highly placed sources said.

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Pure Ganga in 10 years, Centre promises SC

admin — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 02:15:13 +0000

The Ganga will be pure and free of pollutants by 2020, the Centre promised before the Supreme Court on Friday. The work has been entrusted to a consortium of seven IITs — Kanpur, Delhi, Madras, Bombay, Kharagpur, Guwahati and Roorkee.

Man held for posting wife’s online profile as call girl

admin — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 04:30:49 +0000

Sleuths of the cyber crime wing attached to the city police on Thursday arrested a 34-year-old man who works in the HR department of a software company in the city for posting on the internet his wife’s profile as that of a call girl. Police have also arrested a 27-year-old woman working in his office in connection with the same case.

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‘The worst thing to be is an Afghan woman’

admin — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:09:34 +0000

When Shabnam was barely more than a child; her father gave her away to pay off a debt. She was about 13 years old, her husband was in his 50s, and from almost the moment she entered his house he beat her mercilessly, she said.

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6 ways to save the planet

admin — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 03:27:28 +0000

It’s a journey that began on World Earth Day (April 22) and concludes today, on World Environment Day. The ‘Take Care, Take Charge’ campaign, presented by The Times of India in association with Garnier, invited readers from six cities – Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Chennai, Bangalore, and Kolkata to share ideas on how to save the environment.

‘Pawar, Sule can’t escape by blaming MD’

admin — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 03:04:55 +0000

Agriculture minister Sharad Pawar and his daughter Supriya Sule’s defence that City Corporation’s participation in the bid for the Pune franchise of IPL in March was in the personal capacity of its MD will not stand scrutiny of law, legal experts said.

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Couldn’t have molested Ruchika in cramped room, says Rathore

admin — Tue, 18 May 2010 04:36:25 +0000

Tainted former Haryana top cop SPS Rathore, convicted in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case, has claimed that the incident couldn’t have happened as the room in which he molested the 14-year-old was ‘too cramped’.

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Pak minister Rehman Malik faces imprisonment

admin — Tue, 18 May 2010 00:52:38 +0000

A Pakistan dismissed an appeal by interior minister Rehman Malik against his conviction in two corruption references by an accountability court and restored a three-year imprisonment awarded to him.

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Maoists blow up bus in India, 35 dead | www.bullfax.com

admin — Mon, 17 May 2010 22:27:19 +0000

We have eight people dead and 22 injured,” a spokesman for Maharashtra state police told AFP.He said an investigation was ongoing to establish the cause but the Press Trust of India news agency quoted unnamed official sources as saying …

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