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Amar Desh actg editor faces fresh charge

 
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PM offers jobs, asks Kashmir to give peace a chance

 
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Mumbai oil spill continues, 300 containers tumbled into water so far

 
MUMBAI: A foreign cargo ship, which collided with another vessel about 10 km off Mumbai harbour, tilted further spilling oil for the third day today ...
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Leh flash floods: Death toll reaches 130

 
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Indian soldiers being fed substandard food: CAG

 
NEW DELHI: An Army marches on its stomach, said Napolean Bonaparte. But the 1.13-million strong Indian Army, the third largest in the world, marches largely ...
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Indian soldiers being fed substandard food: CAG

 
NEW DELHI: An Army marches on its stomach, said Napolean Bonaparte. But the 1.13-million strong Indian Army, the third largest in the world, marches largely ...
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Valley burns: 9-yr-old among 7 killed

 
By Mir Ehsan in the Indian Express, Aug 3Srinagar: As Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said violence needs to be ended before any political and administrative ...
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India, US sign nuclear reprocessing pact

 
Washington: Taking another step towards the implementation of the 2008 Indo-US civil nuclear deal, the two countries have signed an agreement on reprocessing spent nuclear ...
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CBI wants Sohrabuddin case shifted out of Gujarat

 
AHMEDABAD: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday submitted its status report on the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case to the Supreme Court. ...
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Judges to probe Kashmir deaths: report in The Arab News

 
SRINAGAR: The state government of India's Jammu and Kashmir has ordered a judicial inquiry into the deaths of more than a dozen killings allegedly by ...
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Modi announces Amit Shah’s resignation

 
New Delhi:  Facing charges of murder, Gujarat Minister of State for Home Amit Shah, a close associate of Chief Minister Narendra Modi, on Saturday resigned ...
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Sohrabuddin fake encounter case: CBI summons Gujarat home minister

 
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Press Round up July 19

 
1. 49 dead, 89 injured as trains collide in West BengalBy Jayanta Gupta in the Times of India, Jul 19SAINTHIA (BIRBHUM): As many as 49 ...
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July 17

 
1 US declines to go public on ISI's role in 26/11: the Times of India, July 17 By Chidanand Rajghatta WASHINGTON: With Secretary ...
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July 16

 
1. Qureshi's attack on Pillai a diversionary tactic New Delhi: India sees the outburst by Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi against Home ...
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Press Round UP July 4-5

 
Terrorists’ trainers based in Punjab: Mian IftikharPESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain has called for a ‘full-fledged operation’ against militants in Punjab because ...
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Oases of peace and harmony

 
Kishannagar is one of the countless shanties that Antop Hill boasts of, but it escaped communal madness gripped Mumbai from January 6 to 12, 1993. ...
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India Test launches Agni -II

 
India on Monday (May 17) successfully test fired nuclear-capable Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile, Agni-II, with a range of 2000 kms. It can carry both conventional ...
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B’desh: War Crimes Trial- JEI Gamble

 
As Sheik Hasina government is getting ready for trial of liberation war crimes, the Jamaat-e-Islami (JEI) has adopted a three pronged strategy to protect its ...
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India-Pak FMs talks in July

 
New Delhi: India-Pakistan talks at the foreign ministers' level will take place in Islamabad on July 15. S M Krishna will visit the Pakistan capital ...
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40 terror camps active in Pakistan along Durand Line says Russian diplomat

 
New Delhi: Forty terror camps are active in Pakistan-Afghanistan border areas, according to a Russian diplomat.The assessment is based on satellite imagery and intelligence reports, ...
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Death Penalty to Kasab for 26/11

 
Mumbai:  Finally, it is gallows to Ajmal Kasab (22), the lone surviving Pakistani gunman in the Mumbai terrorist attack.Justice M L Tahaliyani of the Bombay ...
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US Advisory Alert Not Specific To Delhi

 
The United States, Austrailia and some other Western countries have issued advisories to their counrymen warning them of 'imminent' terrorist attacks in Delhi markets. The ...
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B'desh hands over a top Bodo rebel

 
Bangladesh has arrested Ranjan Daimary alias D R Nabla, leader of the hardline faction of Bodo rebels, who has been hiding in the country since ...
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Indian woman official in Pakistan arrested spying for Pakistan

 
Madhuri Gupta (53), a junior officer at the Indian High Commission in Islamabad, has been arrested for spying for Pakistan. This is the first time ...
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'Possibility of LeT seizing Pakistan's radio active material very high'

 
Even as the world leaders are currently engaged in discussing ways to neutralize nuclear threats in Washington, the possibility of nuclear or radioactive materials being ...
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Krishna in China for 'comprehensive' talks

 
Great importance appears attached by both India and China to the four-day visit of External Affairs Minister S. M. Krishna to Beijing which began on ...
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Menon: Politically feasible framework needed on India-China border row

 
India and China should work out a detailed framework for resolution of the boundary issue in a manner that is "politically feasible for both leaderships", ...
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South China in grip of worst drougt in memory

 
The whole of Southern China is in the grip of the worst drought in living memory, leaving at least 18 million people without access to ...
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Militants damage railway line in Kashmir

 
Militants blew up three metre long railway track in the Kashmir valley on Thursday April 1 night. The explosion took place near Kakapora, a village ...
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India to attend N-security summit

 
India will articulate its concerns over the safety of Pakistan’s nuclear material at the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington. An initiative of the US President, ...
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India rules out scaling down work in Afghanistan

 
Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao has ruled out scaling down India’s operations in Afghanistan, according to All India Radio.  Addressing a Washington based think- tank, Woodrow ...
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2 arrested for planning terror strikes in Mumbai

 
Mumbai police have arrested two men Abdul Lateef, 29, and Riyaz Ali, 23,.suspected of planning to attack three targets in the city, including the ...
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Putin in Delhi, $10 bn deals signed

 
Marking the fifth visit of Prime Minister Valdimir Putin to New Delhi, India and Russia Friday March 12 signed several agreements worth over $10 billion ...
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India, Saudi Arabia sign extradition treaty

 
India and Saudi Arabia on Sunday, Feb 28, signed an extradition treaty and resolved to jointly combat terrorism and money laundering after wide-ranging discussions between ...
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Chinese poet Liao Yiwu blocked from going to German festival

 
Liao Yiwu (52), a poet, has been barred from leaving China for the 13th time as he planned to attend Europe's largest literary festival in ...
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India, Pakistan Break Ice, Chill remains

 
India and Pakistan have resumed dialogue with the two foreign secretaries meeting in New Delhi in what is the first formal and structured meeting since ...
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India tightens visa scrutiny for ‘peace’ activists

 
The security clearance for grant of Conference Visa is required from the ministry of home affairs in respect of participants from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, China, Iran, ...
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India, Pak Foreign Secs meet on Feb 25

 
Pragmatic conversation and not euphoria will mark the first India-Pakistan official level talks in 14 months since the LeT terrorist mayhem in Mumbai...
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India tests 3000km range Agni missile

 
India on Sunday test fired its Agni-III, a nuclear-capable ballistic missile with a range of more than 3,000 km. It is the fourth test for ...
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Unanswered Questions In Headley's Case

 
Even as more details are tumbling out of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on the David Headley case, intriguing questions seem to be mounting with ...
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Tainted Indian Generals face heat

 
In a scam that has shaken the Indian army, show cause notices have been issued to three generals. Army will court martial another. The charge against the four is that they had helped a businessman acquire 70 acres of land close to the Hqrs of 33 Corps near Siliguri in West Bengal to set up a boarding school...
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Indian Prime Minister Speaks To Russian Media

 
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh spoke to Russian media before setting out on his visit to Russia iiin early December. This is his second visit ...
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LeT determined to attack India again: Report

 
Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba, which masterminded the Mumbai terror mayhem on November 26, 2008,  is  'largely intact' and is 'determined to strike India again', the New York ...
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Kashmir Girl kills militant with his own AK-47

 
A teenage girl killed a militant with his own gun after insurgents attacked their home in Jammu and Kashmir..Three militants stormed into Rukhsana Kauser's home ...
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Brave Heart Rukhsana

 
A teenage girl killed a militant with his own gun after insurgents attacked their home in Jammu and Kashmir..Three militants stormed into Rukhsana Kauser's home ...
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Noordin Top killed?

 
South-east Asia’s most wanted terrorist, Noordin Mohammad Top (40) is reportedly killed in raids Indonesia police carried out in Central Java on early Friday (Aug ...
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Explosions rock Jakarta, 9 dead, 50 in jured

 
Two large explosions at two luxury hotels in Jakarta on Friday left nine dead and at least 50 injured.  The explosions took place almost simultaneously ...
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Military aid to Pak not at the expense of India:US

 
Washington’s relations particularly military aid with Pakistan will not be at the expense of India, Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Robert ...
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Obama rules out US mediation on Kashmir

 
US President Barack Obama has firmly ruled out any American mediation on Kashmir issue. Dialogue is the best way to reduce tension between India and ...
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US looking to India to partner security: Gates

 
US is looking at the country to be a ‘partner’ and a ‘provider of security’ in the ‘Indian Ocean and beyond’, Defence Secretary Robert Gates ...
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SM Krishna is new India foreign minister

 
SM Krishna, a former Fulbright scholar, was on Satuday named the new Indian Minister for External Affairs. He succeeds Pranab Mukherjee, who has moved to ...
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