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New Delhi, Sep 10(ANI): Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar on Thursday urged cooperative sugar factories to play a more pro-active role and shoulder the responsibility of importing more raw sugar, not only for better utilization of their processing capacity, but [...]

London, Aug.19 (ANI): England cricket captain Andrew Strauss has refuted suggestions and allegations of him having a discord with all-rounder Andrew Flintoff because of the latter’s omission from the fourth Ashes Test at Leeds, saying both players understood each other well, and would be going into the fifth [...]

Mussoorie, July 4 (ANI): President Pratibha Patil on Saturday said the UPA Government is keen to create more growth opportunities to ensure inclusive growth and bring positive changes in the lives of people.

Launching the Golden Jubilee Celebrations of the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration here, President Pail said the Centre has chalked out [...]

New Delhi, June 29 (ANI): The Congress party on Monday said the money used for installing statues of Dalit icons by Uttar Pradesh’s Chief Minister Mayawati could have been used for upliftment of the poor and backwards in the [...]

Karachi, May 11 (ANI): Former cricketer and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chairman Imran Khan has dismissed the military operation in the tribal areas as not being the appropriate solution.

Addressing a press conference on Sunday, Khan said that the military operation should have been the last resort and [...]

Islamabad, Apr.22 (ANI): Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Wednesday warned that his government could revisit the Swat accord reached between the NWFP Government and the Tehreek-i-Nifaz-i-Shariat Muhammadi (TNSM) chief Sufi Mohammad if the maintenance of law and order was becoming a problem [...]

Port Blair, Feb.28 (ANI): Ahead of the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, Congress President Sonia Gandhi announced a number of development programmes for Andaman and Nicobar Islands on Saturday including a plan to develop the place into [...]

New Delhi, Feb 18 (ANI): Union Petroleum Minister, Murli Deora has said that the supply of natural gas from KG D-6 field is likely to begin by April 2009.

Speaking at the Parliamentary Consultative Committee Meeting here last evening, Deora said that decision has been taken to supply the first 40 Million Metric Standard Cubic [...]

New Delhi, Feb.5 (ANI): Expressing India’s concern over the loss of lives in embattled Sri Lanka, the Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram on Thursday urged Colombo to suspend its resumed hostilities and also asked the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to lay down arms and come to the negotiating table while.
“We are deeply anguished [...]

New Delhi, Jan.28 (ANI): The Centre has informed the Supreme Court that there was no question of amending the law to introduce a provision allowing a voter to cast a negative vote during elections.

Additional Solicitor General Amarendra Sharan, appearing before a Bench of Justices B. N. Aggrawal and G. S. Singhvi, opposed a plea [...]

Lahore, Jan 27 (ANI): The first cousin of General Zia-ul-Haq, Abdul Waheed, has joined the Pakistan People’s Party.

Former Ambassador Waheed, who defeated Salman Taseer twice in the general elections, announced his decision to join the PPP on Monday at a press conference in presence of PPP Lahore President Asghar Gujjar and Finance Secretary of Punjab [...]

Bhubaneshwar, Jan.13 (ANI):The government would begin withdrawal of its Central Forces from Orissa state’s Kandhamal district in a phased manner from Thursday(January 15).
The Central Forces had to be deployed in Kandhmal following the communal violence between Hindus and Christians that triggered after murder of the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh leader and anti-conversion leader Lakshmananand Saraswathi.
“A communication [...]

Bhubaneshwar, Jan.15 (ANI): At least 12 companies (over 1200 personnel) of the Central Para-Military force, including seven companies from Orissa’s Kandhamal district, have been withdrawn from Orissa on Thursday.
Senior officials have stated that the step, which has come up in compliance with the Government’s decision taken a few days earlier, will not cause any negative [...]

London, Jan 08 (ANI): Fallen football legend Paul Gascoigne a.k.a Gazza’s daughter Bianca was bombarded with supportive messages after the emotional documentary about her family and father called ‘Surviving Gazza’ was aired on television.

Bianca, who was disowned by Gazza, received many appreciative messages by fans and pals on her Facebook page.

“Hiya Bianca I [...]

New York, Jan 8 (ANI): MTV has placed an ad looking for women who are not happy with their twin assets.
The ad featuring in Backstage is seeking “real women” for an upcoming documentary called “True Life: I Don”t Like My Breasts.”
“We are not looking for girls who just want to get boob jobs . . [...]

Washington, Jan 06 (ANI): Paris Hilton has lashed out at the press for fabricating her life’s stories.
The babe insisted that 95 per cent of such articles are “BS”.
Hilton called the stories written by press baseless, and revealed that constantly reading lies about herself has enraged her.
“Ninety-five per cent is BS (bulls**t). I read a story [...]

Washington, Jan 6 (ANI): She’s battled her weight for years, and Oprah Winfrey is taking action against her now-200-pound physique.
According to a transcript posted on her official Web site, the talk show queen has been abusing food.
“It’’s not about the food. It’’s about using food – abusing food. Too much work. Not enough play. [...]

London, Jan 05 (ANI): Hollywood actress Katie Holmes has spent a whopping 10million pounds within 6 months, ever since she moved to New York.

The ‘Mad Money’ actress, who is married to heartthrob Tom Cruise, shifted base to the Big Apple last July to appear in Broadway play All My Sons.

She is said to [...]

New Delhi, Jan 4 (ANI): The campaign for India’’s nominee for the presidency of the
UN International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has so far been an extremely low-key affair.
Phrang Roy, an IAS officer who has won several awards for rural planning, has been declared India’s official nominee to contest for the post of the president [...]