Archive for the Category ‘News’
Andhra Pradesh High Court granted to CBI the custody of G V Vijay Raghav, a top executive of Emaar and Sunil Reddy, an alleged close associate of Kadapa MP Y S Jaganmohan Reddy, both arrested in connection with a controversial
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The CBI special court on Saturday dismissed a petition by Janata Party President Subramanian Swamy seeking to make Home MInister P Chidambaram a co-accused in the 2G spectrum case.
“Your prayer to summon Chidambaram as an accused is dismissed,” Special Judge
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“It is the duty of all parties in the country to solve problems according to the people’s wishes by participating in this Parliamentary Select Committee rather than relying on imported solutions and utilising foreign influences,” Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa
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Washington: To make America more attractive to highly-skilled foreign students and workers, the United States has announced a series of reforms, including changes in the F-1 and H-1B visa rules, that may benefit professionals from India.
The interim measures are aimed
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Moscow: Russia’s foreign minister has warned Washington that any attempt to put a draft resolution on Syria to vote at the United Nations would lead to “scandal”.
Sergey Lavrov said in an interview broadcast on Saturday on Russian state television Rossiya
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Srinagar: A moderate intensity earthquake rocked the Kashmir Valley on Saturday morning, disaster management officials said. No damage to life or property has been reported so far.
“The magnitude of the earthquake was 4.7 on the Richter Scale. It occured at
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Repolling at 34 polling stations in Manipur’s hill districts began this morning amid tight security deployment in view of threats from insurgent organisations.
Extra security measures were taken as the government had received reports that militants particularly belonging to National Socialist
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Ghaziabad: The trial in the Aarushi Talwar murder case, that was set to begin today at the Special CBI Court in Ghaziabad, now stands delayed. The court has adjourned hearing in the case till February 29 after the counsel for
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New Delhi: The role of Union Home Minister P Chidambaram in the 2G spectrum allocation scam will not be investigated and he cannot be made a co-accused in the case, a Delhi court ruled on Saturday while dismissing Janata Party
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New York: Few billionaires are willing to reveal much about their taxes. But the Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg has indirectly done so in the documents for his company’s public stock offering later this year.
Mr. Zuckerberg, 27, one of the world’s
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Hyderabad: The Andhra Pradesh police have arrested a techie for allegedly opening a fake Facebook account of his former woman colleague and publishing obscene pictures.
T Satish, an engineer working with an MNC in Bangalore, was arrested on Thursday and officials
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Hyderabad Metro Rail project will be built in contentious sections across the three corridors only after a majority of affected property owners or businessmen are suitably rehabilitated, asserted Minister for Municipal Administration and Urban Development M. Maheedhar Reddy on Friday.
“There
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Thursday’s freak mishap at the City Center Mall in Banjara Hills has brought to the fore the safety of visitors using escalators in malls and multiplexes and the measures taken by managements to avoid such incidents.
A four-month-old infant died instantly
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Las Vegas: A Las Vegas couple who married in 1933 recently celebrated their 78th wedding anniversary with an unexpected present. The Worldwide Marriage Encounter says Wilbur and Theresa Faiss have been married longer than any other couple in the world.
Theresa
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San Juan: A Pentagon legal official refused on Friday to extend an important deadline for defence lawyers for the five Guantanamo Bay prisoners charged in the September 11 attack, a decision that means their highly anticipated arraignment may now occur
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Beirut: In a barrage of mortar shells, Syrian forces killed 200 people and wounded hundreds in Homs in an offensive that appears to be the bloodiest episode in the nearly 11-month-old uprising, activists said Saturday.
The assault in Homs, which
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New Delhi: Less than a week after a similar move by micro-blogging site Twitter, Internet major Google has unveiled plans to make content on its blogger platform selectively available, depending on the local rules of each country. Here are the
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NEW DELHI: UPA establishment rallied behind Union minister Praful Patel, who is at the centre of a bribery scandal with a Canadian newspaper linking him to a $200-million offer for a civil aviation contract in 2007.
Stephanie Nolan, the journalist who
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