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December 12, 2009 11:12 AM

Cyclone storm to bring rains in TN, Puducherry: weathermen

A cyclone alert has been sounded for Tamil Nadu and Puducherry as the cyclonic storm 'WARD' lies 500 km east-southeast of Nagapattinam. The met department said the system is likely to move in a northwesterly direction towards the Tamil Nadu coast. Isolated heavy rains have been forecast over coastal...

December 12, 2009 10:58 AM

Cyclone storm to bring rains in TN, Puducherry for: weathermen

A cyclone alert has been sounded for Tamil Nadu and Puducherry as the cyclonic storm 'WARD' lies 500 km east-southeast of Nagapattinam. The met department said the system is likely to move in a northwesterly direction towards the Tamil Nadu coast. Isolated heavy rains have been forecast over coastal...

December 12, 2009 10:55 AM

Flights affected due to fog at Kolkata airport

Operations of 50 flights were affected due to fog at the Kolkata international airport since Friday night. Airport sources said air traffic was stalled from 11.30 p.m. last night to 8.50 a.m. this morning. An Emirates flight was the first to land at the airport at 8.50 this morning. Thirty outgoing ...

December 12, 2009 9:28 AM

Sonia visits Saranee

UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi, who is in Raebareli on a two day tour, visited Saranee Assembly constituency on Friday. Mrs. Gandhi visited various schools in the area covered under mid-day meal scheme. Mrs. Gandhi personally checked and inquired the quality of food being served to children in the sch...

December 12, 2009 9:16 AM

UP Education Commission guidelines ultra vires: High Court

The Allahabad High Court has declared as ultra vires the guidelines framed by the UP Higher Education Commission for appointment of teachers on various posts in aided degree colleges. The decision by a full Bench of the court will adversely affect more than 400 teachers of degree colleges who were s...

December 12, 2009 9:15 AM

Dialogue with all sections on J&K: Home Secy

Union Home Secretary GK Pillai has said that the Centre would continue dialogue with all sections of the people in Jammu and Kashmir and stated that dialogue is the only solution to resolve the issue. At a high level security review meeting at Jammu yesterday, the Union Home Secretary discussed the ...

December 12, 2009 9:01 AM

UP to pass resolution on Bundelkhand, Harit Pradesh: Maya

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati has said that the State Government will pass a resolution in the Assembly to carve out separate states of Bundelkhand and Harit Pradesh once the Centre gives its approval.<br/><br/>Ms Mayawati told media persons in Lucknow that she has writte...

December 12, 2009 8:55 AM

Cyclone storm to bring rains in TN, Puducherry for: weathermen

A deep depression lying 700 km south east of Chennai has intensified into a cyclonic storm and is likely to bring rainfall at many places over Tamil Nadu and Puducherry during the next two days. The weather office said in Chennai that the storm, named "Ward", is expected to move in north w...

December 11, 2009 9:17 PM

WB govt. to participate in proposed tripartite talk on Darjeeling issue

The West Bengal government today formally said that they will reach out the proposed tripartite talk on Darjeeling issue. The State Home Secretary Mr. Ardhendu Sen said in Kolkata this evening that the tripartite talk is scheduled to be held at Darjelling on 21st of this month. He said that ongoing ...

December 11, 2009 9:17 PM

Mrinal Sen Inaugurates 14th Kerala Film Festival

Renowned film director Mrinal Sen has said that myths unrelated to life and tradition should not be allowed to shape our history. Inaugurating the fourteenth International Film Festival of Kerala at Thiruvananthapuram, he urged the film fraternity to be vigilant against commercial interests of the w...

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