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  • saudi arabia to recruit 500 nurses from kerala

    Saudi Arabia to recruit 500 nurses from Kerala

    March 02, 2013 19:21 IST

    Thiruvananthapuram, Mar 2: The Saudi Arabian administration is set to recruit 500 Muslim women nurses from Kerala to work in hospitals in and around Mecca and Madina.Kerala Labour Minister Shibu Baby John, in a statement

  • diesel price for bulk consumers hiked non subsidised lpg cut

    Diesel price for bulk consumers hiked; non-subsidised LPG cut

    March 02, 2013 22:55 IST

    New Delhi, Mar 2: Diesel price for bulk consumers like Railways has been hiked by almost a rupee per litre, while the price of cooking gas (LPG) is cut by Rs 37.50 a cylinder that

  • three bodies found after boat tragedy in damodar river

    Three bodies found after boat tragedy in Damodar River

    March 02, 2013 18:17 IST

    Purulia (West Bengal), Mar 2: Bodies of three members of the same family were fished out on Saturday and search is on for the fourth person who went missing after a boat tragedy in Damodar

  • syria reaches out to india

    Syria reaches out to India

    March 02, 2013 18:09 IST

    New Delhi, Mar 2: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is sending his top aide Buthaina Shabaan to India to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and brief him about the ongoing conflict in the country.Ms. Buthaina, who

  • centre closely monitoring situation in sri lanka

    Centre "closely monitoring"situation in Sri Lanka: Narayanasamy

    March 02, 2013 16:31 IST

    Chennai, Mar 2: The Centre was “closely monitoring” the situation in Sri Lanka and was taking all steps for the safety of Tamils living there, Union Minister V. Narayanasamy said on Saturday.“India was closely monitoring

  • tihar officials refuse rti query on afzal guru

    Tihar officials refuse RTI query on Afzal Guru

    March 02, 2013 16:02 IST

    Lucknow, Mar 2: Can disclosure of certain details on parliament attack convict Afzal Guru, hanged at New Delhi's Tihar Jail "affect relations with a foreign state"? The prison department certainly thinks so.It would "pre-judicially affect

  • two policemen killed in kashmir hit and run attack

    Two policemen killed in Kashmir hit-and-run attack

    March 02, 2013 13:24 IST

    Srinagar, Mar 2: Two local policemen were killed by separatist guerrillas in a hit-and-run attack in Kupwara district of north Kashmir Saturday.A senior police officer told IANS that militants fired from close range at two

  • amritsar coldest at 7 c

    Amritsar coldest at 7 C

    March 02, 2013 12:20 IST

    Chandigarh, Mar 2: Cold conditions continued to persist in many parts of Punjab and Haryana as the minimum temperatures in the region hovered below normal in the two states today.Amritsar was the coldest place in

  • moderate quake jolts india bangladesh border

    Moderate quake jolts India-Bangladesh border

    March 02, 2013 9:01 IST

    Karimganj, Mar 2: An earthquake of moderate intensity, measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale, jolted India-Bangladesh border here today.The quake, which struck at 07:01 AM today, was measured 5.2 on the Richter scale, the India

  • hyderabad blasts mha asks ap govt to hand over probe to nia

    Hyderabad blasts: MHA asks AP govt to hand over probe to NIA

    March 02, 2013 7:04 IST

    Hyderabad, Mar 2: The Union Home Ministry has asked the Andhra Pradesh government to hand over the probe into the Dilsukhnagar twin blasts here to the National Investigation Agency (NIA), a senior officer said yesterday.The

  • firing at indian posts along loc

    Firing at Indian posts along LoC

    March 01, 2013 23:11 IST

    Jammu, Mar 1:  Indian posts along the Line of Control in Mendhar belt of Poonch district came under firing, a BSF official said today. However, there was no report of any causality. There was a

  • petrol price up by rs.1.40 a litre

    Petrol price up by Rs.1.40 a litre

    March 02, 2013 8:20 IST

    New Delhi, Mar 2: Petrol prices will go up by Rs.1.40 a litre, excluding taxes, from midnight Friday due to the depreciating rupee and a sharp increase in crude oil prices in global markets, the

  • over half of cable tv digitization target achieved in 38

    Over half of cable TV digitization target achieved in 38 cities

    March 01, 2013 22:41 IST

    New Delhi, Mar 1: Over half of the digitization target of cable television has been achieved in 38 cities, which are set to turn to digital mode by March 3, a statement said here.The 38

  • india tests multi barrel rocket launcher for second day

    India tests multi-barrel rocket launcher for second day

    March 01, 2013 22:24 IST

    Bhubaneswar, Mar 2: India successfully tested its indigenously-built multi-barrel rocket launcher ‘Pinaka' from a defence base in Odisha for the second consecutive day Friday, an official said.The multi-barrel rocket launching system was tested from the

  • j k govt examining proposal of opening mobile schools

    J-K govt examining proposal of opening mobile schools

    March 01, 2013 20:47 IST

    Jammu, Mar  01: The Jammu and Kashmir government today said that it was examining the proposal of opening up of mobile schools for the nomads of the state.“The government is examining the proposal for opening

  • petrol price hiked again to go up by rs 1.40 per litre from

    Petrol price hiked again, to go up by Rs 1.40 per litre from midnight

    March 01, 2013 19:48 IST

    New Delhi, Mar 1: Petrol price was on Friday hiked by Rs 1.40 per litre, the second big increase in rates in as many weeks.A rise in international oil prices and depreciation in rupee have

  • president should not consider clemency pleas in rape murder

    President should not consider clemency pleas in rape, murder cases: House panel

    March 01, 2013 19:44 IST

    New Delhi, Mar 01: Amid demands of death for rapists, a Parliamentary panel today suggested that the President should not consider clemency pleas in rape and murder cases and said mercy petitions should be disposed

  • dhanushkodi island india s ghost town

    Dhanushkodi Island, India's ghost town

    March 02, 2013 6:46 IST

    New Delhi: Dhanushkodi was a small island at the southern tip of Rameshwaram in Tamil Nadu. Hindu scriptures says that at the request of Vibeeshana, brother of Ravan and ally of Ram, Rama broke the

  • ten rare known facts about india

    Ten Rare Known Facts About India

    March 02, 2013 6:50 IST

    New Delhi: India,  officially called  the Republic of India is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, the world's tenth-largest by nominal GDP and third-largest by purchasing power

  • three more municipal corporations created in uttarakhand

    Three more municipal corporations created in Uttarakhand

    March 01, 2013 17:11 IST

    Dehradun, Mar 1: Three new municipal corporations came into existence in Uttarakhand including Rudrapur, Kashipur and Roorkee taking the total number of municipal corporations in the state to six. Notifications to this effect were issued

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