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December 14, 2009 1:06 PM

MP polling peaceful

In Madhya Pradesh, polling for the second and final round of local bodies' election is going on peacefully amidst tight security. Our Bhopal correspondent reports that out of nearly two thousand nine hundred polling booths one thousand eight booths have been declared as sensitive and four hundred ni...

December 14, 2009 1:01 PM

Blast kills two police men in Jharkhand

Two police personnel were killed in a cane bomb blast in Lohardada district of Jharkhand. According to senior officials, policemen were on routine petrol when the Maoists triggered the blast near Kekarang forest areas. Encounter is still on between the Maoists and the security forces.<br/>...

December 14, 2009 11:50 AM

Normal life affects during Darjeeling bandh

In West Bengal, normal life has been affected following 96 hours bandh called by Gorkha Janamukti Morcha in three hill sub-divisions of Darjeeling from Monday morning. The bandh has been called by the GJM to press its demand for creation of separate state of Gorkhaland comprising Darjeeling hill, Te...

December 14, 2009 11:03 AM

Rajagopal in Police custody

Mr L. Rajagopal,Vijayavada MP in Andhra Pradesh is taken into preventive custody at Shamshabad airport in Hyderabad on Monday morning. He was on his way to Hyderabad to launch an indefinite fast in support of unified state. However, the police had already stated on Sunday that Rajagopal was not give...

December 14, 2009 11:02 AM

Quality Apples from Shopian

In Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir, its quality Apples are fast emerging as an attractive destination for South Indian fruit traders. Over 100 trucks loaded with 50 to 70 thousand fruit boxes are being dispatched from Shopian fruit market to different parts of the country every day.<br/&#...

December 14, 2009 11:01 AM

Cyclone warning for Rameswaram

In Tamil Nadu, the deep depression over southwest Bay of Bengal moved westwards and lay centered at about 130 km east-northeast of Trincomalee and 330 km southeast of Nagapattinam and 350 km east of Pamban, Rameswaram on Sunday by 11.30 pm. The system is likely to move in a westerly direction and cr...

December 14, 2009 11:00 AM

Gogoi to meet PM and HM today

The Assam Chief Minister, Mr. Tarun Gogoi will meet Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh and Union Home Minister, Mr. P. Chidambaram in New Delhi on Monday to discuss about the talk with ULFA. According to official sources, Mr. Gogoi will have a detailed discussion with Dr. Singh and Mr. Chidambaram o...

December 14, 2009 11:00 AM

RBI asks NE Banks to monitor accounts of customer

In an attempt to curb cross-border terror funding, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has asked the banks operating in the North East to closely monitor the accounts of the customers. According to the Executive Director of RBI, Mr HR Khan, banks in the North East have been asked to remain vigilant and ...

December 14, 2009 10:59 AM

Construction of six thousand rooms in Haryana

Haryana Hotel owners are constructing six thousand rooms on war footing in view of the Commonwealth Games. This was disclosed by the Union Tourism Minister Kumari Selja on Sunday. She said, drivers will be given behavioural training so that they behave decently with foreign tourists, sports lovers a...

December 14, 2009 10:59 AM

HP Assembly session begins today

The week-long winter session of Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly begins at Dharamsala today. The session is likely to be stormy as opposition planning to raise issues of price rise, corruption and controversy at the allotment of land for establishing a central university at Kangra.<br/&#06...

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