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October 11, 2011 2:12 PM

Valmiki Jayanti today

Valmiki Jayanti is being celebrated today with great enthusiasm throughout the country. Prayers are being offered to Maharshi Valmiki who is believed to have authored the epic Ramayana. Shobha yatras are being taken out on the occasion and meetings conducted and free food being distributed. Valmiki ...

October 11, 2011 2:09 PM

Indo-Jap co-operation in Infrastructure and Tourism

India and Japan have agreed to cooperate in the field of Tourism and Infrastructure.Tourism Minister Subodh Kant Sahai met Japanese Minister for Tourism and Infrastructure Jin Matsubara in Tokyo and discussed opportunities for investment in tourism infrastructure in India. An official press release ...

October 11, 2011 2:01 PM

Ghazal King Jagjit Singh funeral

Veteran ghazal singer Jagjit Singh was cremated at Chandanwadi crematorium in Mumbai today. Close relatives, friends and many important personalities from the Indian film and music industry attended the funeral.Jagjit Singh passed away yesterday, two weeks after he was admitted to the Lilavati Hospi...

October 11, 2011 1:39 PM

Vietnamese President in Bangalore

Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang arrived in Bangalore today as part of his four-day official visit to India. He is scheduled to visit the IT giant INFOSYS in Bangalore. Our Correpondent adds that Mr. Truong Tan Sang is visiting India at the invitation of President Mrs. Pratibha Devisingh Patil. ...

October 11, 2011 1:03 PM

Valmiki Jayanti today

Valmiki Jayanti is being celebrated today with great enthusiasm throughout the country. Prayers are being offered to Maharshi Valmiki who is believed to have authored the epic Ramayana. Shobha yatras are being taken out on the occasion and meetings conducted and free food being distributed. Valmiki ...

October 11, 2011 12:44 PM

India proposes inclusion of IPR at COP17

India has proposed to include issues on intellectual property rights, equitable access to sustainable development and unilateral trade measures in the provisional agenda of the 17th meeting of the Conference of Parties, COP 17 to be held in South Africa next month. The proposal to include these thre...

October 11, 2011 12:14 PM

Make ‘Paid News’ an electoral malpractice:Press Council

The Press Council of India (PCI) has recommended making incidence of 'paid news' during elections a punishable "electoral malpractice" and suggested amending the relevant laws.A report of PCI's two-member sub-committee on issues relating to this phenomenon proposed that section 123 of...

October 11, 2011 11:50 AM

SC stays Kasab death sentence

The Supreme Court has stayed the death sentence awarded to Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab, the lone surviving gunman from the 2008 Mumbai attacks, saying that the due process of law has to be observed. The court noted that it would like to hear Kasab's plea against the death penalty in the Mum...

October 11, 2011 9:57 AM

No negative marking in MBBS entrance exam

The Board of Governors of the Medical Council of India have decided that negative marking would not be used in next year's proposed MBBS entrance examination to reduce marks. The Council however decided to resort to it only in case of a tie between various candidates having same scores in the p...

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