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October 23, 2011 1:47 PM

First snowfall in Kashmir valley signals winter’s arrival

Kashmir valley received its first snowfall of the season, signaling the arrival of winter. The State MeT director Sonum Lotus said today, snowfall has been reported overnight in the upper mountainous reaches of Gulmarg tourist resort. Moderate snowfall was also received in mountains of Bandipora and...

October 23, 2011 1:46 PM

Yeddyurappa’s bail plea hearing to come up on Monday

The Karnataka High Court will take up tomorrow the bail plea of former Chief Minister, B S Yeddyurappa. His judicial custody was extended till the 3rd of next month by the Lokayuktha court in Bangalore yesterday. Judge N K Sudhindra Rao also extended the custody of former Minister and MLA, Krishnaia...

October 23, 2011 1:44 PM

Dubai-bound Emirates plane makes emergency landing at Hyderabad airport

A Dubai-bound Emirates Airlines flight from Bangkok, with 481 passengers on board, made an emergency landing at Hyderabad airport in the early hours today due to some technical reasons.According to an airline spokesperson, the A380 Emirates flight landed safely at the Hyderabad International Airport...

October 23, 2011 1:43 PM

Revenue Department takes notice of 9 lakh entities stop filing returns

The Revenue Department has decided to cross check service tax returns in order to locate 9 lakh entities that have stopped filing returns. E -filing has been made mandatory from this year and the exercise of cross checking is likely to start after December 26, the last date for e-filing. According t...

October 23, 2011 11:20 AM

CAT kicks off

The Common Admission Test, CAT for admission into prestigious Indian Institutes of Management and other B-schools kicked off yesterday with 5,690 candidates sitting for the test. Prometric, which has been conducting CAT online for the IIMs since 2009, said in a statement in New Delhi that the Comput...

October 23, 2011 11:19 AM

Yeddyurappa’s bail plea hearing to come up on Monday

The Karnataka High Court will take up tomorrow the bail plea of former Chief Minister, B S Yeddyurappa. His judicial custody was extended till the 3rd of next month by the Lokayuktha court in Bangalore yesterday. Judge N K Sudhindra Rao also extended the custody of former Minister and MLA, Krishnaia...

October 22, 2011 9:17 PM

Centre asks States’ feedback on Food Bill at earliest

The Centre on Saturday asked the states to give their feedback on the draft National Food Security Bill at the earliest for finalising the Bill so that it can be introduced in the forthcoming winter session of Parliament. Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said this at the National Development Counci...

October 22, 2011 8:46 PM

Visit will carry forward India-Nepal relations: Bhattarai

The visiting Prime Minister of Nepal has said that the political transition in the Himalayan state and Indian security concern besides economic cooperation came up for discussion in his talks with the Indian counterpart Dr. Manmohan Singh last evening.Talking to a select group of journalists in New ...

October 22, 2011 8:32 PM

Centre asks States’ feedback on Food Bill at earliest

The Centre today asked the states to give their feedback on the draft National Food Security Bill at the earliest for finalising the Bill so that it can be introduced in the forthcoming winter session of Parliament. Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said this at the National Development Council, NDC...

October 22, 2011 8:22 PM

New Delhi pitches for UNSC membership

New Delhi on Saturday strongly pitched for India's permanent membership of the UN Security Council to play a greater role at the global stage. Addressing a conference on international relations in Delhi, Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai said, there is a desperate need to expand India's dipl...

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