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Agra, March 17 (IANS) Dead bodies found along railway tracks, at road accident sites and in village wells in this region shall not be cremated without a record. They will now have a permanent abode in cyber space.
An NGO in the Taj city, ‘Help Agra’, Wednesday launched a website, www.unidentifieddeadbodies.in, which will show all available [...]

New Delhi, March 17 (IANS) The literary fraternity here is irked because veteran US-based Hindi author Krishna Baldev Vaid, who was nominated for the prestigious Shalaka Samman award, has been denied the honour because of alleged obscenity in his novels.
His two novels that have created controversy are ‘Nasreen’ and ‘Bimal Urf Jayen to Jayen Kahan’.
The [...]

Mumbai, Mar 11 (ANI): At least six people were injured when a state-run bus fell off a flyover in Mumbai today.
The incident occured around 1.45 am when a Maharashtra State Transport bus heading to Mumbai central railway station from Pune tumbled off the flyover near Dadar area.
Ashok Borse, inspector, Matunga police station, said, “The driver [...]

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New Delhi, Sep.18 (ANI): The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, on Friday, played down the comments made by Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor on the social network site Twitter, saying it was just a joke and should be looked at in a light [...]

New Delhi, Sep.18 (ANI): The Congress party on Friday said it would take appropriate action against Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor for his “cattle class” comments through the medium of Twitter at the appropriate time.

Addressing a party news [...]

Katra, Sept 18 (ANI): Security has been beefed up at the famous Vaishno Devi Temple near Jammu ahead of the nine-day “Navratri” festival.

Paramilitary and police personnel are patrolling and frisking people at important points in Katra, which is thronged by thousands of [...]

Mumbai, Sep.16 (ANI): The Congress party and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) are likely to formally decide on the seat sharing formula for next month’s assembly elections in Maharashtra on Wednesday, but will make the announcement only on Friday, sources here said.

Leaders of the two parties met at Chief Minister Ashok Chavan’s official residence Varsha [...]

Gaya (Bihar), Sep 11(ANI): Tomoko Lee, a Japanese national, offered ‘Pinda Daan’, a Hindu ancestral worship rite in Gaya on Friday.

Lee said that it was dedicated to her grand parents.

“Yes, ‘Pinda Daan’ I have done for my grandfather and grandmother. Grandmother died about two years ago and grandfather died about a half year ago,” [...]

New Delhi, Sep. 9 (ANI): Vishwa Hindu Parishad leader Ashok Singhal on Wednesday accused BJP leader LK Advani of taking out the Rath Yatra for personal political gain.

Advani, he said, should now think about stepping down from the post of Leader of Opposition in [...]

New Delhi, Sep.7 (ANI): The Anil Kapoor produced film ‘Gandhi, My Father’ has won two National Awards while the Shahrukh-starrer ‘Om Shanti Om’ has won in the Best Art Direction category, and Shahid Kapur-starrer ‘Jab We Met’ won the award in [...]

Unnao (UP), Sep 5 (ANI): Drought has hit hard the farmers of Uttar Pradesh’s Unnao district.

The fear of people dying of starvation looms large as farmers have been either unable to sow their crops on time due to inadequate rainfall or the sown crops have dried in the fields.

“The rain has been almost negligible. It [...]

New Delhi, Sep 4 (ANI): In a controversy filled Delhi University Students’ Union (DUSU) elections this year, a total of 37 per cent students on Friday voted for the post of President, Vice-President, Secretary and Joint Secretary.

“The polls were peaceful and recorded a turnout of 37 per [...]

Chandigarh, Sep 4 (ANI): The Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) released its first list of 42 candidates, for the upcoming Haryana Assembly polls here on Friday.

Party president and former Chief Minister Om Parkash Chautala said the list, includes five [...]

Mumbai, Sep 4 (ANI): Twelve people, including children, were killed and 13 others injured in a landslide in Mumbai on Friday morning.

According to police the incident took place in the suburban Andheri area due to the heavy rain and water logging in the lower areas.

Landslide hit the Lal Bahdur Shastri Nagar slum at Sakinaka [...]

New Delhi, Sep 3 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Thursday sealed the fate of five students from National Students’ Union of India (NSUI) and Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (AVBP), who challenged disqualification of their nomination for the Delhi [...]

Jaipur, Sep. 2 (ANI): In a bizarre move, the Rajasthan government has directed all the government employees to properly welcome and see off visiting MPs and MLAs.

Among other things, the directive requires government employees to stand up when a lawmaker comes to [...]

New Delhi, Sep 1(ANI): A plea filed by five disqualified Delhi University Students Union (DUSU) poll candidates from National Students’ Union of India (NSUI) and Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (AVBP) was dismissed by the Delhi High Court on Tuesday.

The students had filed a petition in [...]

Mumbai, Aug 30(ANI): Indian Premier League team Kolkata Knight Riders’ hunt for a new coach continues as former Pakistan captain Wasim Akram met team co-owner Shahrukh Khan at his residence in Mumbai on Sunday.

Akram is one of the leading contenders for the job, while earlier in the day, former India coach Sandip Patil had met [...]

Barmer (Rajasthan), Aug.29 (ANI): The Government of Rajasthan on Saturday demanded a lion’s share of the value added tax (VAT) that would be generated from the extraction of crude oil from the Mangala Processing Terminal ( MPT) here.

According to sources, the issue will be settled later when state government [...]