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September 11, 2011 9:20 PM

Nine including four women killed in Gujarat road accident

In Gujarat, nine persons including 4 women were killed in a road accident on Dwarka- Porbandar highway this evening. Quoting police sources, our Ahmedabad Correspondent reports the mishap occurred when a jeep collided head on with a truck near Kuranga village in Jamnagar district. The injured have b...

September 11, 2011 9:02 PM

BJP core group meets to discuss organizational issues

The BJP Core Group today met in New Delhi to discuss several organisational issues including senior party leader L K Advani's proposed yatra against corruption. The meeting held at Advani's residence this morning received various suggestions from leaders regarding the states going to polls...

September 11, 2011 9:01 PM

Govt to set up one more satellite launching site

The government has decided to set up one more launching site for satellites. The decision to find a new site was taken at a meeting held by the Prime Minister's Principal Secretary T K A Nair in New Delhi. According to official sources, in a meeting to review performance of the Department of Sp...

September 11, 2011 8:59 PM

Ganesh Festival concludes with immersion of idols

Devotees bid a tearful adieu to Lord Ganesh as the ten-day festival culminated with fanfare and immersion processions of the Ganesh idols across the nation.In Mumbai, thousands of Ganesh Idols are being immersed at 88 key immersion points in the city. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation also has ...

September 11, 2011 6:05 PM

Mining Scam: CBI searches homes of ex-Karnataka minister’s aides

The CBI today conducted searches at the residences of two close aides of former Karnataka Minister G Janardhana Reddy and claimed to have seized several documents.Reddy has been arrested in connection with illegal mining in Bellary. Official sources said an 11-member CBI team headed by Superintenden...

September 11, 2011 4:40 PM

Govt unveils measures to check bureaucratic corruption

In a bid to tackle corruption and to fast track cases of public servants accused of graft, a Group of Ministers (GoM) has decided mere retirement will not be a ground for dropping proceedings against corrupt government servants. The GoM also is of the view that after retirement, corrupt public serva...

September 11, 2011 2:52 PM

Docu film on Tagore to enthrall audience in Paris

A documentary film that depicts the life and times of Nobel Laureate Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore will enthrall audience in United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation UNESCO headquarters in Paris tomorrow at an event to commemorate his 150th birth anniversary. 'Remembering ...

September 11, 2011 1:20 PM

GoM decides to raise penalty in graft cases involving public servants

In a bid to tackle corruption and to fast track cases of public servants accused of graft, a Group of Ministers (GoM) has decided mere retirement will not be a ground for dropping proceedings against corrupt government servants. The GoM also is of the view that after retirement, corrupt public serva...

September 11, 2011 1:20 PM

DRDO to equip around 1000 passenger trains with bio-digesters

Defence Research Development Organization, DRDO will soon equip around one thousand passenger trains with bio-digesters to solve human waste disposal problem. DRDO Chief Controller William Selvamurthy told reporters in New Delhi that the technology developed is being used to decompose biological was...

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