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Protect, improve traditional knowledge of northeast India: Patil

Posted: 25 Sep 2010 07:12 AM PDT

Agartala, Sep 25 (IANS) President Pratibha Patil here Saturday made a fervent appeal for everyone to properly document, conserve and perfect the traditional knowledge of the northeast region of India. “The northeastern states are known for their reservoirs of traditional knowledge in many areas. Efforts should be made to identify this knowledge, document it, conserve it [...]


CWG Village will be ready in a few days: Diplomats assured

Posted: 25 Sep 2010 07:02 AM PDT

New Delhi, Sep 25 (IANS) Commonwealth diplomats were assured Saturday that accommodation for players will be ready in a couple of days, with some of the smaller countries complaining that the facilities in the Games Village were still not up to the mark. The Organising Committee (OC) for the Games opened the Village to the diplomats [...]


Unified command to meet soon on AFSPA: Omar

Posted: 25 Sep 2010 07:02 AM PDT

Srinagar, Sep 25 (IANS) Welcoming the decisions taken by the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) Saturday, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said the Unified Command will meet next week to decide on the withdrawal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) from some areas of the state. “The state government does not [...]


India says ready to discuss all issues with Pakistan

Posted: 25 Sep 2010 06:53 AM PDT

New York/New Delhi, Sept 25 (IANS) Amid the possibility of a meeting with his Pakistanii counterpart Shah Mahmood Qureshi early next week, Indian External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna Friday stressed there was no alternative to talks with Pakistan and said he was ready to discuss all issues, including Kashmir. “Everything that they want to discuss and [...]


Distribute stored foodgrain to flood-affected, Gadkari urges PM

Posted: 25 Sep 2010 06:28 AM PDT

New Delhi, Sep 25 (IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari Saturday wrote to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh suggesting that foodgrain lying in Food Corporation of India warehouses should be allocated to the flood and drought-affected states for free distribution among the victims. He said 605 lakh tonnes of foodgrain was lying with [...]


Split in ULFA ranks as 19 commanders opt for peace

Posted: 25 Sep 2010 06:24 AM PDT

Guwahati, Sep 25 (IANS) In another blow to the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), 19 top separatist commanders based in Bangladesh have given up arms and opted for peace with Indian authorities – a clear indication that the ULFA is split. The rebel commanders, led by Anu Buragohain, Bhaiti Baruah, Biju Deka, and Pradyut [...]


Curfew relaxed in Kashmir

Posted: 25 Sep 2010 05:49 AM PDT

Srinagar, Sep 25 (IANS) Curfew was relaxed in areas of Srinagar and other towns of the Kashmir Valley in a phased manner Saturday afternoon. “In uptown areas of Srinagar city, curfew has been relaxed from 12 noon onwards and the relaxation will continue if the law and order situation remains peaceful,” a senior police officer said [...]


Kalmadi owns up to CWG mess; Fennell says Indias image dented

Posted: 25 Sep 2010 05:48 AM PDT

New Delhi, Sep 25 (IANS) After being in denial mode for weeks, Commonwealth Games Organising Committee (CGOC) chairman Suresh Kalmadi Saturday owned up to the mess surrounding the Oct 3-14 event, but deflected this somewhat by saying the infrastructure had not been delivered on time by the government agencies. On his part, Commonwealth Games Federation chief [...]


No alternative to talks with Pakistan, says Krishna

Posted: 25 Sep 2010 05:34 AM PDT

New York/New Delhi, Sept 25 (IANS) Amid possibility of a meeting with Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi next week, External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna Friday underlined there was no alternative to talks with Pakistan and said he was ready to discuss all issues, including Kashmir. “Everything that they want to discuss and everything we want [...]


Kashmir stone-pelters to be freed: CCS

Posted: 25 Sep 2010 05:23 AM PDT

New Delhi, Sep 25 (IANS) A group of interlocutors will be appointed to hold a dialogue on the Kashmir issue and youths arrested in the recent stone-pelting incidents will be freed soon, Home Minister P. Chidmabaram announced after a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) here Saturday. The CCS decisions were made on [...]


Volkswagen ex-official, five others charged with fraud

Posted: 25 Sep 2010 05:14 AM PDT

Hyderabad, Sep 25 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Saturday formally filed charges against six people, including former Volkswagen executive Helmuth Schuster, in a case of defrauding the Andhra Pradesh government. The investigating agency, which took up the probe in 2005, filed the 150-page charge sheet in the CBI court here. It examined 59 [...]


Kangna Survives Being Knocked Out On Knock Out Set

Posted: 25 Sep 2010 04:52 AM PDT

September 25, 2010 (Sampurn Wire): The Bollywood actresses are turning bolder these days, not only in the sense of doing intimate scenes but also doing the stunts themselves without taking the help of a body double. But such boldness turns very risky sometimes and such an incident happened to actress Kangna Ranaut recently when she [...]


WB govt raises OBC quota to woo minorities

Posted: 25 Sep 2010 04:43 AM PDT

Kolkata, Sept 25 (IBNS): In a bid to woo minority voters ahead of state Assembly elections early next year, the West Bengal government has announced of increasing the total reservation in government jobs to 45 per cent by raising the quota for Other Backward Classes (OBCs) from existing 7 per cent to 17 per cent. A [...]


GJM makes sure Mamata’s maiden visit a success

Posted: 25 Sep 2010 04:42 AM PDT

Darjeeling (West Bengal), Sept 25 (IBNS) Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee’s proposed maiden visit has evoked much enthusiasm in the Queen of the Hills as roads are being spruced up and welcome arches being erected as the main political party- Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM)- planned to make her stay a memorable one on Sunday. Banerjee will lay [...]


A temp solution for the Bom Sabado orkut virus

Posted: 25 Sep 2010 04:41 AM PDT

So now, many of us are already worried what the Bom Sabado orkut virus really is, which is clear from the fact that the search term “how to delete orkut account” is now one of the top 20 search terms on Google. If you have already got the message in your orkut account, here are [...]


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