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April 24, 2010 9:41 AM

Kerela’s temple festival ‘ Thrissur Pooram ‘ today

The most colorful and spectacular of temple festivals in Kerala, the Thrissur Pooram festival will be held at the Thekkinkadu maidan in Thrissur today. <br/><br/>The festivities will begin this morning with the customary visit of deities of smaller temples in and around Thrissur ...

April 24, 2010 9:39 AM

People welcomes snowfall in Leh

In Jammu and Kashmir, people in Leh are welcomed by snow fall this morning. Light to moderate snowfall has been experienced on the higher reaches, surrounding areas and in the Leh city in the cold desert of Ladakh. <br/><br/>Snowfall started around 1 o'clock and up to 5 am. ...

April 24, 2010 9:27 AM

Census of Asiatic lions begins

In Gujarat, the census of Asiatic lions has begun at the Gir forest , the only habitat of the Asiatic lions in the world. <br/><br/>Quoting the chief conservator of forest, AIR bhuj correspondent reports that more then 16oo forest officials and environmental activists are partici...

April 23, 2010 9:33 PM

Court permits CBI to quiz Ketan Desai in bribery case

A Delhi Court today allowed CBI to quiz Ketan Desai, President of Medical Council of India, for five days in its custody in a bribery case.<br/><br/>Earlier CBI arrested Ketan Desai and two others for allegedly accepting a bribe of two crore rupees to grant recognition to a medic...

April 23, 2010 9:18 PM

Court permits CBI to further investigation in Vijayan case

A special court in Kochi today permitted CBI to conduct further investigation in a graft case in which CPI(M) Kerala secretary Pinarayi Vijayan is an accused.<br/><br/>The case relates to award of contracts to renovate three hydel projects to Canadian firm SNC-Lavalin in 1998 whe...

April 23, 2010 8:11 PM

24th north east games ’10 concludes

In Meghalaya, the 24th north east games 2010 came to close today. The four days long event included Judo, Karate, Basket-ball, football, shooting and other general sports. As many as 1800 sports talents including officials participaed. Manipur finished at the top in the medal tally. <br/>&...

April 23, 2010 8:11 PM

Punjab Govt constitutes Minority Commission with immediate effect

Punjab Government has constituted a Minority Commission in the state with immediate effect. Mr.Munver Masih of Ludhiana has been appointed its Chairman.<br/><br/>Disclosing this at Chandigarh today a spokesman of Punjab Government said the term of the commission will be one year....

April 23, 2010 6:58 PM

Delhi police always alert to face any terror attacks: Dadwal

The Delhi police today said that it is fully geared with all anti-terrorist measure in place to meet any eventuality. <br/><br/>The comments by Delhi police commissioner Y.S. Dadwal come in the wake of the US advisory alerting its citizens against possible terror attacks in conge...

April 23, 2010 6:55 PM

Empower youth in scientific, technology education: Shivraj

Describing the technology as a key to sustainable development of the country, the Governor, Punjab, Mr. Shivraj Patil has said that in the modern times we need to build our minds to understand the importance of technologies that are appearing at the horizon.<br/><br/>Addressing t...

April 23, 2010 6:55 PM

Political parties providing useful inputs: Srikrishna

Justice Srikrishna today said the political parties are providing useful inputs to the committee despite having their own perceived solutions about Telangana issue. <br/><br/> After holding two day consultations with the political parties over the statehood issue in Hyderabad, Ju...

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