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Nakta village (Jharkhand), Aug 25 (ANI): Farmers in drought-hit Nakta village of Jharkhand are forced to migrate to cities in search of jobs as they are left with damaged crops due to prolonged drought.

“Our paddy and corn crop have been damaged due to drought. Some of us could not sow paddy in time. Our children [...]

Kullu, Aug 19 (ANI): Floriculture is the buzzword for farmers at Kullu in Himachal Pradesh. More and more farmers are growing flowers as the new lucrative commercial crop.

Chrysanthemum, roses, carnation, marigold and gladiolus are some of the flowers, which are being preferred by the farmers over their traditional khareef (summer-sown) crop, apples, plums and apricots.

“Floriculture [...]

Niyamatpur (Bihar), July 16 (ANI): Maoists set ablaze a JCB excavator, an earthmoving machine at Niyamatpur in Bihar’s Gaya District.

In the midnight hours of the intervening period of Tuesday and Wednesday, a group of Maoists raided a place near Niyamatpur and set ablaze a [...]

New Delhi, July 15 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday cautioned the Centre to be careful over the issue of Maoist threat and address the problem with all the seriousness it deserved.

The party blamed the Congress-led UPA government for having [...]

New Delhi, July 15 (NAI): Alarmed by spread of the Maoist tentacles, Home Minister P. Chidambaram on Wednesday admitted to government’s failure in curbing the menace.

Speaking in Rajya Sabha, Chidambaram said, the government had underestimated the Maoist challenge as result of [...]

Ranchi, July 15 (ANI): Ranchi police have recovered a consignment of communication equipment meant for Maoists.

The consignment was sent as cargo from New Delhi on a state-run domestic flight.

The recovered equipment included walkie-talkies, a number of radio sets, micro tape recorders and signal receivers, among others.

Police have detained three people and are interrogating them. [...]

London, July 14 (ANI): Internet road mapping service Google Street View is now starting to cover areas like Stonehenge, which are far away from driving routes.

Rickshaw-style tricycles, carrying 3-D cameras, will be used to film several popular off-road spots, including Loch Ness and the Angel of the North, reports the Telegraph.

Street View allows [...]

New Delhi, July 3 (ANI): The Indian Railways plans to improve the Passenger Reservation System (PRS) in a big way.

In the Railway Budget 2009-10 presented to the Lok Sabha today, Union Railway Minister, Mamata Banerjee said that the initiative would cover 200 new towns [...]

Washington, May 11 (ANI): Hollywood actor Jim Carrey’s forthcoming flick Christmas Carol’s promotional train, consisting of all the flick memorabilia, will tour 36 American States before its release in November.

Jim Carrey portrays Ebenezer Scrooge in the Disney flick, alongside Gary Oldman and Colin Firth, reports Contactmusic.

The ‘Christmas Carol’ Train will be decorated for the festive [...]

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London, Apr 27 (ANI): When it comes to travelling their own country, an average Brit would see just 28 of the UK’s towns and cities in their lifetime-which equates to only 2 percent of the country, revealed a survey./pp
However, the survey for carmakers Vauxhall found that the [...]

Chandigarh, Apr 20 (ANI): Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) President and Punjab deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal on Monday released his party’s manifesto for general elections.

The party in its manifesto reiterated its commitment to continue its peaceful and democratic struggle for inclusion of Chandigarh and other Punjabi-speaking areas left out of the state back into [...]

Kolkata, April 6 (ANI): In a novel mode of campaigning for election, 70,000 pieces of a CD are slated to be distributed across West Bengal for playing in villages, towns and cities to sensitize the masses.

The idea is to play the music [...]

Hamburg – Three men suspected of smuggling illegal immigrants into Germany have appeared in court following their arrest in a series of police raids, justice officials said Wednesday.
The trio was detained in Hamburg on Tuesday during searches carried out in four towns and cities. Documents, computers and 30,000 euros (39,000 dollars) in cash were also [...]

Sultanpur/Pratapgarh (UP), Jan 20 (ANI): In a bizarre incident, around 200 people fell off the roof of a running train on Monday night in Uttar Pradesh. They were swept off by a tree branch.

Around 800 people were sitting atop the Saryu Express, which plies between Allahabad and Faizabad, when they were swept off by near [...]