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Govt to amend sugarcane Ordinance if it affects farm

The government will amend the Ordinance on sugarcane prices if it affects the interest of farmers, Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh said on Thursday. The assurance was given by Prime Minister to Rahul Gandhi who met him on Thursday, AICC Secretary Pervez Hashmi told reporters, adding the “PM has said that we will not do [...]

2 killed as train derails after Maoists blast tracks

Two passengers were killed and over 47 others injured when eight bogies of the Tata-Bilaspur passenger train derailed after Maoists blew up railway tracks on Thursday night in Jharkhand’s West Singhbhum district. Railway minister Mamata Banerjee said the train comprised 10 coaches of which five derailed and three toppled over as also the engine. She [...]

Koda fails to appear before ED in Ranchi

Former Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda, facing money laundering and corruption charges, on Thursday failed to appear before the Enforcement Directorate citing reasons of election campaigning in interior areas of the state. The ED had summoned Koda to appear before its officials in Ranchi at 1530 hours for questioning in the multi-crore hawala and illegal [...]

LS adjourned till 12 noon over sugarcane price issue

The winter session of Lok Sabha began on a stormy note on Thursday with members of Samajwadi Party and RLD creating uproar over the demand for hike in sugarcane prices leading to adjournment of the House till 12 noon. As soon as the obituary references were over, SP Chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and RLD President [...]

Nation pays homage to Indira Gandhi on her 92nd birth anniversary

Nation pays homage to the country’s first and only woman Prime Minister Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi on her 92nd birth anniversary. Born in the politically influential Nehru family, she grew up in an intensely political atmosphere and led the nation for three consecutive terms from 1966 to 1977 and for the fourth term from 1980 until [...]

Charge sheet filed against Raj for assault on North Indians

Police on Wednesday filed a 73-page charge sheet in a local court against Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) Chief Raj Thackeray and 20 others for rioting and assault on North Indians appearing for a Railway Recruitment examination here last year. The assault had taken place when MNS was agitating against what they termed as the Railway’s [...]

Govt revises air quality norms; uniform std for all areas

In a major move to check air pollution, the government on Wednesday revised its norms, putting in place uniform standards for residential and industrial areas. Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh announced the newly notified Revised National Ambient Air Quality Standards-2009 which provides a legal framework for control of air pollution and [...]

ED to question Koda in Ranchi today

The Enforcement Directorate will question former Jharkhand CM Madhu Koda on Thursday in Ranchi in connection with the alleged multi-crore hawala and illegal investments case. A team of ED officials will reach the Jharkhand capital on Thursday to question Koda at 1530 hours along with two of his associates Sanjay Chowdhary and Binod Sinha, who [...]

Winter session of Parliament begins today

Issues ranging from alleged telecom scam to Madhu Koda affair coupled with price rise, give all indications of a stormy session of Parliament beginning on Thursday. Maoist violence on which the Left parties and Trinamool Congress are at loggerheads, problems of cane growers that have brought several opposition parties together are some other prominent issues [...]

Chicago Court gives 58 days extension to file indictment against Rana

A Chicago court has given 58 days extension to federal prosecutors to file case indictment against Tahawwur Hussain Rana, who was arrested by Federal Bureau of Investigation last month on charges of plotting major terrorist attacks in India and Denmark. With this, the FBI has now got time till 14th January to file indictment against [...]

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