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December 27, 2011 1:08 PM

Statistics ministry releases Year Book 2012

The Minister of state for Statistics Srikant Jena today released Statistical Year Book India, 2012 and Dev Info India Version 3 in New Delhi.Addressing the function, Mr. Jena said both the statistical products released today were huge socio-economic databases and provide time-series data. He said th...

December 27, 2011 1:03 PM

States told to conduct hospitals’ fire safety audit

The Centre has asked the State Governments to conduct fire safety audit of hospitals to avert fire incidents. In a letter to all states, Joint Secretary of Health Ministry Mrs. Shankuntala Gamlin has asked the states to get the fire safety audit done in all private and government hospitals.She also ...

December 27, 2011 12:50 PM

India, Pak review conventional CBMs

India and Pakistan have reviewed conventional confidence-building measures (CBMs) during the first phase of two-day talks being held in Islamabad as part of the bilateral peace process.The first meeting of the Joint Working Group on nuclear and conventional CBMs since October 2007, began at the Fore...

December 27, 2011 12:48 PM

India, Pak review conventional CBMs

In reply to Australia's first innings score of 333, the touring Indian side were 214 for 3 at stumps on the second day of the first test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, MCG. With a trail of 119 runs, Rahul Dravid on 68 and night watchman Ishant Sharma, who is yet to open his account, were at t...

December 27, 2011 12:43 PM

North India gets colder

Cold wave has further intensifies in North India.Delhi continued to reel under intense cold with a minimum temperature of 3.4 degrees Celsius---four notches below normal.Cold wave sweeping Punjab and Haryana claimed two lives, a woman and an elderly man. Amritsar in Punjab shivered as the minimum te...

December 27, 2011 11:58 AM

BHU to have Centre for Malaviya studies

Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh today announced that a centre for Malaviya studies will be set up at the Banaras Hindu University (BHU). Addressing a function in New Delhi to commemorate the 150th birth anniversary of Mahamana Madan Mohan Malaviya, Dr. Singh said a digital collection of Dr. Malavi...

December 27, 2011 8:41 AM

Indian student shot dead in UK

A 23-year-old Indian student enrolled at Lancaster University in the UK was killed after he was shot in an unprovoked attack by two white men. The Police said Anuj Bidve was taken to hospital, but was pronounced dead in Greater Manchester early on Monday. His parents in India have been informed of t...

December 27, 2011 8:41 AM

26/11: Pak panel visit to India on cards?

Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik and Indian High Commissioner Sharat Sabharwal have discussed modalities for a Pakistani judicial commission's visit to India to interview key officials linked to the probe into the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. A statement from Pakistan Interior Mini...

December 27, 2011 8:40 AM

India, Pak review conventional CBMs

India and Pakistan have reviewed conventional confidence-building measures (CBMs) during the first phase of two-day talks being held in Islamabad as part of the bilateral peace process.The first meeting of the Joint Working Group on nuclear and conventional CBMs since October 2007, began at the Fore...

December 27, 2011 8:40 AM

North India gets colder

Cold wave has further intensifies in North India.Delhi continued to reel under intense cold with a minimum temperature of 3.4 degrees Celsius---four notches below normal.Cold wave sweeping Punjab and Haryana claimed two lives, a woman and an elderly man. Amritsar in Punjab shivered as the minimum te...

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