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Page 1/10 Maoist strikes take huge toll on infrastructure
New Delhi: Having given up urban warfare a long time ago, Maoist guerrillas have taken to destroying the country’s infrastructure in rural and outlying areas with a vengeance, officials say.
Frequent attacks on mobile telephone towers, small railway stations and power plants as well as electrici [more...]
Posted on:10/15/2009 Indian police go shopping for weapons
new delhi: As India readies for a major offensive against Maoist rebels, security agencies are trawling the international arms market to upgrade the country’s counter-insurgency capabilities.
“We want to acquire what can be moulded into our own security system,” said top police intelligence offic [more...]
Posted on:10/15/2009 Tamil Nadu not represented on dam issue: Jayalalithaa
Chennai: Putting the DMK-led state government on the mat, opposition leader J Jayalalithaa has said the nod to Kerala to carry out a survey for construction of a dam across the Mullaperiyar river was given at a national level meeting where Tamil Nadu was not represented.
In a statement issued her [more...]
Posted on:10/15/2009 Assam party to stick with BJP for by-elections
Guwahati: Assam’s main opposition Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) is still sticking with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for next month’s by-elections, although the alliance boomeranged on the regional party in the last parliamentary polls.
‘As per the seat sharing tie up between the two parties, we ar [more...]
Posted on:10/15/2009 Child labour ban mostly on paper
New Delhi: It’s a familiar sight. A child, wearing clothes too big for his frame, scrubbing pots in a roadside restaurant or serving food. An RTI enquiry has revealed that even three years after a law banning child labour came into effect, the government has carried out no inspection in most states, [more...]
Posted on:10/15/2009 Keep hands off Kashmir, Delhi tells Beijing
New Delhi: India raised the pitch of an increasingly testy row with China over disputed border areas yesterday, warning Beijing about its involvement in Pakistan-administered Kashmir.
“The Chinese side is fully aware of India’s position and our concerns about Chinese activities,” Indian foreign m [more...]
Posted on:10/15/2009 Three people in a car tried to kill me: Mamata
Kolkata: Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee has alleged a conspiracy to kill her, claiming that a car with a press sticker on it tried to hit her vehicle in Kolkata’s satellite township of Salt Lake yesterday.
The Trinamool Congress chief said the car with three people, including two with a camera [more...]
Posted on:10/15/2009 Prices expected to dull gold’s lust this festive season
mumbai: India’s gold market is set for its biggest day of the year today for the Dhanteras festival, but expectations are sales could fall by as much as 75 percent from last year as prices have hit record highs.
Dhanteras, when Hindus buy precious metals in the belief it would invoke prosperity, [more...]
Posted on:10/15/2009 Regulators approve first GM vegetable
new delhi: Indian regulators approved yesterday the introduction of genetically modified aubergines, potentially making them the first transgenic vegetable to be grown on local farms, a top official said.
The much-awaited clearance by the state-run Genetically Engineering Appraisal Committee coul [more...]
Posted on:10/15/2009 Philippines to seek preferential loans
MANILA: President Gloria Arroyo said yesterday the Philippines deserved preferential loans and other financial help to recover from recent deadly storms because it had become a victim of climate change.
Arroyo said the Philippines would need much more money to fund the relief and reconstruction e [more...]
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