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July 8, 2010 6:31 PM

Mukhopadhaya takes over as new Indian ambassador to Afghanistan

Mr. Gautam Mukhopadhaya has taken over as the new ambassador to Afghanistan today. He belongs to the 1980 batch of Indian Foreign Services (IFS) and was the Indian ambassador to Syria earlier. <br/><br/>Mr. Mukhopadhaya had a short stint in Afghanistan earlier in 2001-02 when Ind...

July 8, 2010 6:27 PM

IMF raises India's growth forecast to 9.5%

The International Monetary Fund, IMF has raised India's growth forecast to 9.5 per cent for 2010. The IMF had projected 8.8 per cent growth for India in April for the same period. It said, growth in India is expected to accelerate as robust corporate profits and favourable financing conditions ...

July 8, 2010 5:30 PM

Rich tributes paid to Savarkar

Rich tributes were paid to freedom fighter Vinayak Damodar Savarkar to mark the centenary of his escape from British captivity today. <br/><br/>The patriot had escaped from a boat, 'SS Morea' , while being transported to India from Europe in 1910. Savarkar hailed from N...

July 8, 2010 5:25 PM

BJP demands All-party meeting to discuss Kashmir situation

BJP today demanded for an All-party meeting to discuss the latest situation in Kashmir. Briefing media persons in New Delhi, party spokesman, Prakash Javadekar blamed Pakistan for financing stone-pelting youths in the valley. <br/><br/>He alleged that the state government is prov...

July 8, 2010 5:24 PM

Centre plans tough law to deal with illegal mining

Centre plans to bring a tough law to effectively deal with illegal mining. Talking to AIR, the Secretary, Ministry of Mines, Santha Sheela Nair said a clause has been proposed in the new legislation to give power to Cenre to intervene in case state governments fail to address the issue of illegal mi...

July 8, 2010 5:23 PM

Iran proposes investment protection treaty with India

Iran has offered to sign an investment protection treaty with India and suggested doubling the bilateral trade to 30 billion us dollars by 2015. Iranian Economic Affairs and Finance Minister Seyed Shamsodin Hosseini said in New Delhi today that two-way trade had increased from 9.3 billion dollars to...

July 8, 2010 1:47 PM

Haven't sought more ministerial berths: Pawar?

Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar has said he has not demanded additional ministerial berths for his party leaders or his MP daughter Supriya Sule, in the Union ministry. He made this statement during an informal interaction with media in Mumbai last night after being felicitated on being elec...

July 8, 2010 1:38 PM

Indian Air Force to hold recruitment rally at Avadi in Chennai

Indian Air Force will hold a recruitment rally at its Avadi station in Chennai from 24-29 of this month for Auto Technician and IAF police- trades and Group X Technical trades.<br/><br/> A PIB Defence Wing release in Chennai said that Unmarried male candidates born between 01 Jul...

July 8, 2010 1:22 PM

Amarnath yatra going on smoothly

Two month long annual Amarnath Yatra is going on smoothly from both Baltal and Pahelgam track. So far, more than 85,000 yatris have visited holy cave and most of them have returned to their states. Weather is absolutely fair on both the tracks. <br/>

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