G P Birla Dead
March 06, 2010 8:07 ISTNoted industrialist G P Birla died at his residence in Kolkata on Friday night. He was 86. Birla had been ill for some time with various ailments and took his last breadth late last night,
Noted industrialist G P Birla died at his residence in Kolkata on Friday night. He was 86. Birla had been ill for some time with various ailments and took his last breadth late last night,
Travelling from one village to another, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday met the families of victims of yesterday's stampede that left 63 woman and children dead, comforting them and assuring them of swift help.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday admitted to government's failure on the sugar front which led to steep rise in prices of the commodity and said ways and means need to be explored to see
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday asked BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi to remove all "misconceptions" that the US was pressuring India to make Indian agriculture sector an "appendage". "I wish to reassure him that
Sant Kripalu Maharaj, whose ashram witnessed a stampede killing 65 people, fled from the complex two hours after the tragedy and is untraceable, a district official said in Pratapgarh on Friday. Circle officer Ikpal Singh
Contending that dialogue was the only way forward with Pakistan, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday said the decision to hold foreign-secretary level talks was a "calculated" one but there can be no meaningful discussion
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Describing the recent discovery of thick ice deposits on the Moon as path-breaking, former ISRO chairman G Madhavan Nair said it opens up a vast avenue for human exploration. "This is the first time NASA
Maharashtra Governor K Sankaranarayanan said on Thursday that there was no other city in the world on par with Mumbai and anybody can live there. "Anybody can live in Mumbai. Only Mumbai can compete with itself.
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63 people--all of them women and children-- were killed on Thursday in a stampede at an ashram of a popular godman near Pratapgarh when a gate collapsed triggering panic among the 10,000-strong crowd that had
A day after locking horns with Manmohan Singh during the Presidential Address debate, senior BJP leader L K Advani said on Thursday that the Prime Minister had breached Parliamentary propriety by making "false" claims that
Senior BSF commandant R K Birdi, suspended in connection with the killing of a teenager here last month, was today handed over to the Jammu and Kashmir Police. Birdi was handed over to Superintendent of
Congress president Sonia Gandhi told party MPs on Thursday that she would accord the "highest priority" to the women's reservation bill that would be introduced in the Lok Sabha on March 8, International Women's Day,
About a year ago, Lt Commander Rahul Nair paid a glowing tribute to a close friend who died in a plane crash but he would never have thought that he would meet the same fate
Indian missions in Afghanistan are under fresh threat from terror outfits as intelligence inputs suggest that such groups are planning new attacks. The fresh inputs received from Indian as well as international intelligence agencies said
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A court in New Delhi on Wednesday asked Delhi Police to provide a copy of their application seeking to quiz self-styled Godman in custody in a case of alleged running of a multi-crore sex racket
Nearly three months after being hospitalised with brain haemorrhage, Pravin Mahajan, convicted for murdering his brother and senior BPJ leader Pramod Mahajan, on Wednesday died in neighbouring Thane. The end for Pravin (50), who had
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