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  Naval exercises off Chennai called off

  India | November 07, 2014 16:23 IST

  Chennai: Naval exercises planned by the Eastern Command fleet for coming Sunday off Chennai coast have been put off in view of ongoing rescue operations to locate four missing personnel after a vessel sank off

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  Torpedo Vessel mishap: Search on for 4 missing Navy personnel

  India | November 07, 2014 15:59 IST

  New Delhi: A full scale search is underway to trace the four missing Navy personnel after a vessel sank off the Vishakhapatnam coast last night. A Board of Inquiry has also been set up to

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  Delhi University students resort to 'civil disobedience' over high rent

  India | November 06, 2014 20:12 IST

  New Delhi:  Tenants, mostly students, have decided to move a ‘civil disobedience movement' demanding implementation of room rent control law for affordable accommodation in areas near the Delhi University campus as there is shortage of

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  RSS think tank to train professionals to work as PAs to BJP ministers, MLAs

  Politics | November 06, 2014 17:43 IST

  Mumbai: The RSS-affiliated think tank Rambhau Mhalgi Prabodhini has devised a course for young professionals desirous of working as personal assistants to BJP MLAs and ministers in Maharashtra, where the party has come to power. "The

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  Shiv Sena leaders meet to decide strategy ahead of Assembly session

  Politics | November 06, 2014 16:42 IST

  Mumbai: Even as discussions with BJP over Shiv Sena's role in the new Maharashtra government remained inconclusive, Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray on Thursday held a meeting of party leaders in Mumbai.Sena leaders Anil Desai and

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  Will focus on Delhi in next 5-10 years: Arvind Kejriwal

  Politics | November 06, 2014 16:21 IST

  New Delhi: Bracing for the polls, Aam Aadmi Party Chief Arvind Kejriwal today said he will focus on Delhi for the next five to 10 years and any decision on fighting elections in other states

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  Coal production to double to 1 bn tonne by 2019: Piyush Goyal

  Politics | November 06, 2014 16:04 IST

  New Delhi: Government is targeting doubling coal production to a billion tonnes in the next five years to meet rising energy demands in the country, Union Minister Piyush Goyal said here today.Referring to coal as

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  Depression over Bay of Bengal intensifies into deep depression

  India | November 06, 2014 15:50 IST

  Bhubaneswar: With the depression over central Bay of Bengal moving north-northwestwards during the past six hours and intensifying into a deep depression, the weather office here cautioned the fishermen against venturing into the sea and

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  Five to six Union ministers may accompany Prime Minister to Varanasi

  Politics | November 05, 2014 20:03 IST

  Lucknow:  Around five to six Union Ministers may accompany Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his two day visit to his parliamentary constituency Varanasi from November 7.Giving details of security arrangements, IG (law and order) A

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  Put an end to human rights violations in Valley: PDP to PM

  Politics | November 05, 2014 16:58 IST

  Srinagar:  Defending the public outrage over the killing of two innocent youths at Chattergam, Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed today asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to ensure that the

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  MCDs running œGanda Bharat Abhiyan in capital: High Court

  India | November 05, 2014 16:41 IST

  New Delhi: The Delhi High today slammed the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) for unhygienic conditions in the national capital, observing that it was running a “Ganda Bharat Abhiyan”.A bench of justices Badar Durrez Ahmed

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  Meghalaya govt aims to make Shillong a digital city: Mukul Sangma

  Politics | November 05, 2014 16:26 IST

  Shillong:  Meghalaya Chief Minister Mukul Sangma today said his government aims at making Shillong a ‘digital city' besides being on the job to provide accessible Wi-Fi to all schools.“Shillong will soon be privileged of getting

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  Burdwan blasts probe: NIA team to visit Dhaka next week

  India | November 03, 2014 21:36 IST

  New Delhi:  Having made little headway in its probe in Burdwan blast, a team of NIA will visit Bangladesh next week to get inputs about the activities of terror group Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) following the

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  Security beefed up in Delhi ahead of Muharram

  India | November 03, 2014 17:13 IST

  New Delhi:  Amid reports of simmering tensions in some parts of the national capital ahead of Muharram tomorrow, Delhi Police Commissioner B S Bassi today assured that all security measures have been taken, especially in

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  52 killed, 200 hurt in suicide attack at Wagah border in Pak

  World | November 02, 2014 21:31 IST

  Lahore: At least 52 people, including children and security personnel, were killed and about 200 others injured in a powerful suicide blast in Pakistan at Wagah today, minutes after the popular flag-lowering ceremony at the

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  NDA govt will render justice to victims of anti-Sikh riots: Sukhbir Badal

  Politics | November 02, 2014 19:38 IST

  Gurdaspur: Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal today said the Union government has promised that it will extend all legal measures to ensure justice to the victims of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.  Reiterating the

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  J-K polls: Strong wave building for PDP in the state, says Mehbooba Mufti

  Politics | November 02, 2014 19:29 IST

  Srinagar:  Ahead of the Assembly elections this month, opposition PDP president Mehbooba Mufti today said a “strong wave” was building for her party in Jammu and Kashmir given its “pro-people agenda”.  “Jammu and Kashmir is

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  Mathura violence: 12 arrested, FIR against 586

  India | November 02, 2014 19:08 IST

  Mathura:  The police Sunday filed cases against 586 people for Saturday's violence here in which farmers, protesting the delay in payment of compensation for their land, pelted stones at security personnel and set vehicles ablaze.

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  Repeated hounding not appropriate: Congress on Robert Vadra media row

  Politics | November 02, 2014 19:59 IST

  New Delhi:  Backing Robert Vadra, son-in-law of Sonia Gandhi, Congress today said “repeated hounding” of an individual is “not appropriate” and advised the media to avoid “unpleasantness” of shooting questions at private functions, like what

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  JD(U) to contest Bihar polls under Nitish's leadership: Manjhi

  Politics | November 02, 2014 17:11 IST

  Patna:  Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi today said JD(U) would contest the Assembly polls next year under the leadership of his predecessor Nitish Kumar.  “As far as I am concerned, Kumar remains the undisputed