
By SUNIL Sonkar
Pune, March 13 — Month after Pune blast that killed 17 people, the city police commissioner Satyapal Singh charged the staff and customers of the German Bakery on Saturday with “utter negligence”. Singh said the bag having the bomb for blast was lying in the restaurant unnoticed for more than 90 minutes.
Singh was [...]
March 14, 2010 | Posted in
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By STAFF Writer
New Delhi / Shimla, March 02 — An IIT student committed heinous act of killing his girlfriend and declared the brutal murder a fit of rage.
Pragati was IIT Delhi third year student doing textile engineering, went to Shimla with this friend Gaurav Verma, a 3rd year student of IIT Roorkee, to celebrate his [...]
March 2, 2010 | Posted in
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By SUNIL Sonkar
Jaipur, Feb. 28 — Three doctors in the pink city were caught on Sunday doing sex determination of foetus. Officials of state PCPNDT cell trapped the doctors. The cell sent decoy customers to the doctors at their respective clinics.
PCPNDT cell functions under directorate of medical and health services.
Souces say PCPNDT is given the [...]
February 28, 2010 | Posted in
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By SUNIL Sonkar
Chandigarh, Feb. 26 — Chandigarh welcomed on Friday the 38th edition of the three-day Rose Festival. At the Zakir Hussain Rose Garden, considered to be the biggest rose garden in Asia, Shivraj Patil, the administrator of Chandigarh, inaugurated the festival.
Apart from roses in the festival, photography contest, kite flying competition, painting contest, rose [...]

By SUNIL Sonkar
Ahmadabad, Feb. 23 – The 199 seized exotic birds will be sent to Kankaria zoo. It was on Sunday that the Ahmadabad railway police officials held a shipment of birds on Howrah Express. There were 200 birds inside a large cage which enclosed with a cloth.
Various types of birds which included white cockatiels, [...]
February 23, 2010 | Posted in
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By SUNIL Sonkar
Bangalore, Feb. 23 — Nine persons were killed when fire broke out in a eight-storeyed commercial building Carlton Tower in Bangalore Tuesday afternoon. Three of the death happened when trapped people jumped out of the building in panic and other six died due to severe burns and asphyxiation. Manipal Hospital sources confirmed it.
Almost [...]

By SHUBHAJIT Chakraborty
Ranchi, Feb. 23 – Rs. 253 crore water supply project conducted by Hyderabad-based company in Ranchi is under cloud when income tax (IT) and vigilance department raised eyebrows on the project, alleging the contract bagged by dubious mean at the behest of former chief minister Madhu Koda.
The tender committee on February 13 [...]
February 23, 2010 | Posted in
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By SUNIL Sonkar
Bangalore, Feb. 23 — At around 3:30 pm a fire broke at Bangalore’s Carlton Towers, a seven-storey-building near the Old Airport road. The tower houses many offices and commercial establishments.
According to eye witness three people jumped in panic from top floors. Five people have been feared to be dead.
Police confirmed the death of [...]

By SUNIL Sonkar
Hyderabad, Feb. 20 — For ten hours Hyderabad city was laid to siege by police on Saturday to foil the march of pro-Telangana students towards the state Assembly for the separate Telangana state.
Late in the evening violence broke out after a self-immolation was attempted by a 19-year-old youth S Yadagiri inside the campus [...]

By SUNIL Sonkar
Kannur, Feb. 20 — A class 12 student girl and her paramour committed suicide after hanged from a tree after video clippings were flooded on internet of her kissing a classmate.
The girl is only 18-year-old and the plumber, believed to be her boyfriend, was 27-year-old. Police said they were found hanging at the [...]
February 20, 2010 | Posted in
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By SUNIL Sonkar
Ranchi, Feb. 19 — After 5 days of captivity Maoists released on Friday abducted Dalbhumgarh BDO Prashant Kumar Layak.
Layak was found near Orissa-Jharkhand border near Hariyan village. J B Tubid, Jharkhand Home Secretary, confirmed this report was confirmed by Jharkhand Home Secretary J B Tubid.
From the opposition the Jharkhand government was under pressure [...]
February 19, 2010 | Posted in
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By SHUBHAJIT Chakraborty
Lucknow, Feb, 19 – After 36 hours of battle – more of mental than physical, finally Lucknow police had captured a mentally unbalanced youth who locked himself in his house on Wednesday night and fired some 18 rounds at the police. He was captured after being given anesthesia, said police.
Shamim, son of a [...]
February 19, 2010 | Posted in
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By SUNIL Sonkar
New Delhi, Feb. 18 — Andhra Pradesh’s Telangana region Congress MPs alleged on Thursday that police molested some students in the girls hostel of Osmania University in Hyderabad. The MPs have also appealed to Congress president Sonia Gandhi to direct the state government for taking an action against those involved in it.
The Congress [...]

By NIMY Sara Joy
Chennai, Feb. 17 – To high up the punishment for the unlawful wildlife intervention to be stricter, the government is to craft a comprehensive amendment to the Wildlife Protection Act of 1972. Union Forests and Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh talked to the media today.
The amendments would bring a section which will be [...]
February 17, 2010 | Posted in
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By NIMY Sara Joy
Varanasi, Feb. 17 – By consuming illegitimate liquid, around five people were killed and about 16 others affected badly sick in Varanasi Wednesday.
“Those who died or fell ill after consuming illicit liquor are residents of Saidpur village,” District Magistrate Ravindra Kumar informed the media in Varanasi city.
“Preliminary investigations reveal that the residents [...]
February 17, 2010 | Posted in
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By NIMY Sara Joy Mumbai, Feb. 15 – The largest single-day fund-raiser for cancer research in the world, “Terry Fox Run’ organized by the Terry Fox Foundation was participated by children from 45 schools of the Mumbai city Sunday. Terry Fox Run or Marathon of Hope is the non-competitive charitable trusts for started [...]
February 15, 2010 | Posted in
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By NIMY Sara Joy
Chennai, Feb. 15 – South Indian city, Chennai is now in a new page of fashion world by coordinating a Beauty Contest for locomotives and railway coaches.
It will be the first time ever in Southern Railway history. The Beauty Contest is conducted for ‘loco beauty’ and ‘coach beauty’. This event is a [...]
February 15, 2010 | Posted in
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By SUNIL Sonkar
Mumbai, Feb. 13 — Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray continued his tirade against Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan on Saturday asking whether he was the CM or bodyguard of Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan.
In an editorial in Shiv Sena’s mouthpiece ‘Saamna’ he said, “Is Chavan the chief minister of Maharashtra or actor Shah [...]
February 13, 2010 | Posted in
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By NIMY Sara Joy
New Delhi, Feb. 12 – The IGI airport radar console at the air traffic control tower had collapsed put the safety of air passengers in threat for a while. It is the fourth radar console fell down happened within 30 days.
The sources said, “Once again the automation system of one of the [...]
February 12, 2010 | Posted in
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By SUNIL Sonkar
New Delhi, Feb. 11 — An American national was detained late last night at New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International airport after a knife was found during the security check in his hand baggage while he was leaving for Doha.
The detained American national was identified as Winston Marshal Carmichael. He was detained after a [...]
February 11, 2010 | Posted in
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