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New Delhi, March 16 (IANS) ‘When Rahul speaks, Maya’s throne shakes,’ said Congress Tuesday, reacting to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati’s warning to the people to guard against Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi as he would play Dalit card in the state to win their votes.
Addressing the silver jubilee rally of the Bahujan Samaj Party [...]

New Delhi, March 16 (IANS) ‘When Rahul speaks, Maya’s throne shakes,’ said Congress Tuesday, reacting to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati’s warning to the people to guard against Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi as he would play Dalit card in the state to win their votes.
Addressing the silver jubilee rally of the Bahujan Samaj Party [...]

New Delhi, March 16 (IANS) Some 30,000-40,000 armed forces officers who were commissioned or retired between 1986 and 1996 are in for a pay arrears and pension bonanza with the Supreme Court upholding a high court ruling that the amounts had been erroneously calculated.
Upholding the Kerala High Court ruling that ‘rank pay’ should be included [...]

(Reuters) – A British boy kidnapped 12 days ago while on vacation in Pakistan was freed unharmed by his abductors on Tuesday, police said, ending a high-profile ordeal.
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“We are very happy. Thank God he is safe and sound,” said Raja Basharat, the grand-uncle of five-year-old Sahil Saeed.
Pakistan will hand the boy over to the British [...]

London, March 16 (ANI): Reports indicate that India has switched on its first public air purifier in the city of New Delhi as part of an experiment that could help other smog-choked cities in emerging countries.
According to a report in the Telegraph, the unit, which is plugged in on a traffic-clogged street of central Delhi, [...]

Gangtok, Mar 15 (ANI): Sikkim’’s Handicrafts and Handloom Department is imparting training to the unemployed youth in an attempt to promote and preserve ethnic Buddhist arts and crafts.
The institution is a unique combination of training-cum-production spread over 20 centres in Sikkim.
Boys and girls in the age group of 14 to 24 years, learn the skills [...]

Lahore, Mar. 15 (ANI): Former PCB chairman Dr Nasim Ashraf has decided to “immediately come” to Pakistan and clear his name from the National Accountability Bureau inquiry suggesting that he was involved in embezzlement of millions of rupees.
“I am immediately coming to Pakistan to clear this matter and my name and reputation! There is no [...]

Mughalsarai (UP), Mar 13 (ANI): Police recovered fake Indian currency worth 24.8 million rupees from a train in Uttar Pradesh’’s Mughalsarai district on Saturday.
officials also recovered two maps from the bags.
Police recovered these packets from two abandoned bags in a coach of Purushottam Express during their routine checks.
“During checks in the Purushottam Express we found [...]

Former captains Younis Khan and Mohammad Yousuf had their international futures cast aside and then restored just as quickly after the Pakistan Cricket Board backtracked on its decision to ban the two players overnight.
On Wednesday, the PCB said the two “should not be part of the team in any format” following reports of in-fighting during [...]

Islamabad, Mar.10 (ANI): Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has signed the Protection Against Harassment of Women Bill, 2010, which prohibits harassment of women at the workplace.
Addressing a gathering of some distinguished women guests at the Presidency after signing the historic bill, Zardari said people wanting to harm the ideology of Muhammed Ali Jinnah would not [...]

New Delhi, Mar 6 (ANI): Union Urban Development Minister S. Jaipal Reddy has inaugurated the Yamuna Sports Complex, a venue for archery during the upcoming Commonwealth Games in New Delhi.
The stadium has a capacity of around 3,500 seats.
The stadium would host the preliminary rounds of the archery events during the Commonwealth Games, which is scheduled [...]

New Delhi, Mar 5 (ANI): Hundreds of farmers from northern Indian states of Punjab and Haryana converged in the national capital to stage a mass protest rally against the UPA Government’s policies on Friday.
This rally by farmers vented their ire at the steep rises in the prices of fuel and fertilizers and demanded that the [...]

Siliguri, Mar. 5 (ANI): Poverty-stricken children, below the permissible employment age of 14, are being made to work in the tea gardens of Siliguri.
At present there are 300 tea plantations in the Terai Doars region of northern Bengal, and the people of the tribal community called Madeshis are employed as workers in these gardens.
Workers are [...]

London, Mar.5 (ANI): Suggesting the involvement of an ‘insider’ in the case, Pakistan’s High Commissioner in Britain, Wajid Shamsul Hasan, has said that officials are on the right track to recover five-year old Sahil Saeed, who was kidnapped from his grandmother’s house in Punjab’s Jhelum region a few days back.
“We are committed to recovering the [...]

As Andhra Pradesh boils over the Telangana issue, public and private properties worth over Rs 250 crore were destroyed by protesters in all the three regions of the state so far, government sources said.
Adding the loss caused to businesses because of the seemingly unending spate of shutdowns in Telangana, the figure could be a few [...]

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Bharti Airtel launched yet another new billing plan on Friday, slashing mobile roaming rates by nearly 60 percent and signalling a tariff war in the world’s fastest-growing wireless market was far from over.
The announcement accelerated losses in the shares of Bharti, the country’s top mobile operator. The stock fell as much as 3.3 percent but [...]

Guwahati, Sep.18 (ANI): With the growing number of fashion conscious youngsters present in the northeast region of the country, the fashion and beauty industry is gaining popularity here.

This was recently noticed when Miss Fresh Face of North East 2009 [...]

Islamabad, Sep.17 (ANI): Pakistani authorities have issued 86 licenses for prohibited weapons to a security company which has been hired by the US embassy in Islamabad.

Interior Ministry sources revealed that the licenses were issued to Inter Risk following Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani’s [...]

Siliguri, Sept 18 (ANI): The festival of Durga Puja is just round the corner. However, this time around, the festival may not be full of pomp and show as compared with previous years in Siliguri.

The festival is known for massive makeshift [...]