Archive for October 2008
Oct 31st, 2008 |
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MNS Chief Raj Thackeray said in a press conference that MNS won’t stop Chhath (Chhat) Puja. he further said in his conference that nobody raised the issue when Biharis were killed in Assam. But some politicians from Bihar “with vested interest” are targeting him, when Biharis were attacked in Mumbai & Maharashtra.
Raj made it clear [...]
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Oct 31st, 2008 |
Category: Breaking News, Cricket News, India News, National News
Gautam Gambhir has been banned for One Test Match. Match referee Chris Broad (England) favored Kangaroos while hearing the on-field spat between Gautam Gambhir & Shane Watson. Chris Broad imposed a fine of 10% of his match fee on Shane Watson, he went on to ban in-form Gautam Gambhir for one test match, who has [...]
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Oct 30th, 2008 |
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At least 66 people have been killed & more than 200 injured in 18 serial blasts in Assam on Thursday, Timesnow reported. The blasts took place at crowded market areas. Blasts have been reported at Ganeshguri, Fancy Bazaar, Dispur Road & Pan Bazaar area in Guwahati & Barpeta, Kokrajhar & Bongaigaon districts.
One blast went [...]
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Oct 30th, 2008 |
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India’s Viswanathan Anand drew the 11th game of the 12-game World Chess Championship final with white pieces against Vladimir Kramnik to take an unbeatable 6.5-4.5 lead & retain his world title.
In the eight years since he won the FIDE World Championships in New Delhi & Teheran, Viswanathan Anand has dominated the world of chess, winning [...]
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Oct 30th, 2008 |
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Around 2,000 people have been arrested for bursting sound crackers on the occasion of Kali puja and Diwali in West Bengal. The police had seized altogether 325 kg of sound crackers after conducting several raids across the state in past two days.
State Pollution Control Board (PCB) officials said this year they had received at least [...]
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Oct 29th, 2008 |
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Two pilots have been killed when a six-seater Chartered plane of the Punjab government crashed while landing at the Sahnewal airport near Ludhiana.
A senior Police official said that the King Air C-90 aircraft had taken off from Chandigarh at 10.50 a.m. on a trial flight after repairs. It crashed within minutes at Dugiana village near [...]
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Oct 29th, 2008 |
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Dharmadev, a 25 years old migrant laborer from Faizabad, Uttar Prdesh, was beaten to death by a group of around 10 Marathi people in a local train in Mumbai. Dharmadev was travelling with three other laborers in a local train from Khopoli to Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST) station.
According to Dharmadev Rai’s friends, the Marathi speaking [...]
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Oct 29th, 2008 |
Category: Breaking News, World News
Around 100 people have been killed in an Earthquake of 6.4 magnitude that rocked western Pakistan near the border with Afghanistan on Wednesday. The earthquake struck around 45 miles from the city of Quetta at around 4 a.m. Around 500 houses had been destroyed in this quake.
The deaths occurred in the hilly town of Ziarat [...]
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Oct 28th, 2008 |
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Bal Thackeray, Shiv Sena chief, has justified the encounter of Rahul Raj, who was killed on Monday morning by Mumbai Police after being suspected of trying to take passengers of a BEST bus hostage.
In his editorial to Shiv Sena mouthpiece Saamna, Thackeray has described Rahul as a “Bihari Mafia” & praised the police for [...]
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Oct 27th, 2008 |
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Sensex on Monday cracked a new low in three years when it crashed below 8,000 points to 7,985.43, as funds remained aggressive sellers.
The Sensex plunged by 723.12 points at 1245 hrs, with almost all the sectorial indices moving in the negative zone. The key index last saw this level on November 1, 2005.
Similarly, the wide-based [...]
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Oct 27th, 2008 |
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A young man identified as Rahul Raj was killed on Monday by police in a state transport bus after he was suspected of trying to take the passengers hostage in suburban Kurla. Rahul wanted to give a strong message to the MNS chief Raj Thackeray for his ongoing attack against the North Indian community living [...]
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Oct 25th, 2008 |
Category: Cities News, India News, National News, States News, Weather News
Heavy Rain disrupts life in Cheenai on Thursday. Traffic on the arterial Anna Salai in the city was thrown into chaos on Friday due to the pouring rain. Rain lashed the city from 3 p.m., inundating not just the usually vulnerable areas, but even roads & plots usually safe from flooding. As roads went under [...]
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Oct 23rd, 2008 |
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Two people have been died from complications of Dengue Fever in Patiala this week. The number of Dengue patients is the highest in Ludhiana, where 690 confirmed & 213 suspected were reported, followed by Mohali with 112 confirmed cases. Patiala has 17 confirmed & 25 suspected, while Amritsar & Bathinda have eight confirmed. Jalandhar has [...]
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Oct 23rd, 2008 |
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Chennai: V. Gopalsamy alias as Vaiko has been arrested at his Anna Nagar residence in Chennai on Thursday evening by the Tamil Nadu “Q” branch police on the charge of fomenting secessionist violence in support of the banned Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
The Police action followed Mr Vaiko’s fiery speech at a public meeting [...]
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Oct 23rd, 2008 |
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Paritosh Sen, one of India’s best-known artist, passed away in Kolkata following illness. He was 90 years old. The artist was admitted to hospital with respiratory problems last month & had been on a life support system. Sen is survived by his wife.
He studied art in the southern city of Chennai (Madras) & later [...]
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Oct 22nd, 2008 |
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Chandrayaan-1 has been launched successfully from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota on Wednesday. Chandrayaan-1 was put into Transfer Orbit around the earth by the Polar Launch Vehicle PSLV-C11 about 19 minutes after it blasted off.
The 1,380 kg Chandrayaan-1, carrying 11 payloads, was released into a Tansfer Orbit at a perigee (nearest point to earth) [...]
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Oct 21st, 2008 |
Category: India News, National News, Technology News
The Chandrayaan mission is scheduled to launched on Wednesday from a launch pad in Andhra Pradesh. The spacecraft will orbit the moon, survey the surface of the moon with high resolution equipment to produce a complete map of its chemical characteristics & its three dimensional topography.
The goals of the mission will not only be confined [...]
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Oct 21st, 2008 |
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Violence has been erupted in Kalyan in Mumbai, where Raj Thackeray is slated to spend a night in police custody before his case is taken up in a Kalyan court tomorrow. Angry MNS protesters went on a rampage & torched a large number of shops outside Kalyan court. They also resorted to stone pelting when [...]
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Oct 21st, 2008 |
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Imphal: Around 14 people have been killed & 16 others injured in a bomb blast in this Manipur capital on Tuesday evening. The bomb kept on a moped went off around 8 p.m. While 11 people were killed on the spot, three people succumbed to injuries in hospital.
The blast took place close to a Manipur [...]
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Oct 21st, 2008 |
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The Bandra court has on Tuesday denied bail to Raj Thackeray & remanded him to judicial custody till November 4. Raj Thackeray was arrested in Ratnagiri today.
Earlier, Mumbai police issued a gag order under section 144 against Raj Thackeray banning him from addressing a press or public gathering, or carrying out any procession for [...]
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