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 Anand victim of racism: Family |
| Alleging that Indian-American Anand Jon, sentenced to 59-year jail for sexually assaulting aspiring models, was a victim of "complete racism and bias" in the US court, his family and their lawyer said on Tuesday that he was not given a fair trial. |
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| PM: No reason to be over-pessimistic |
| Even as the Planning Commission predicted a drop in economic growth over the next six months as compared to the last quarter, Prime Minister Manmohan was upbeat, saying there was no cause to be ‘over-pessimistic’. |
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| CPM demands all-party meet to clear the air on EVMs |
| CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat on Monday urged the Election Commission of India to convene an all-party meeting along with technical experts to ‘clear all doubts’ on the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs). |
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| Now, trial doses to be given to only 600 volunteers |
| The delay by the Union Government in placing orders for the swine flu vaccine has left the health authorities little time to test it on the scale that is normally required. While the standard procedure requires the vaccine to be tested on at least 6,000-7,000 volunteers, the paucity of time now leaves time for testing on a mere 600 people. The Indian Government is preparing to purchase the vaccine from foreign firms by year end. |
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| Despite BJP efforts, Jaswant refuses to quit as PAC chief |
| Despite the efforts of the BJP to persuade expelled BJP leader Jaswant Singh to quit the chairmanship of the Public Accounts Committee, the former Union Minister has refused to oblige. The veteran leader from Rajasthan, who said there was no question of his return to the BJP as the ‘roads are closed’, told reporters that it was the Lok Sabha Speaker and not the BJP who had to decide on his continuance as the PAC chairman. |
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| SC issues notice to Gujarat Govt |
| The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued notice to the Gujarat Government on its ban on a book written by expelled senior BJP leader Jaswant Singh. |
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| PM accepts Nitish invite to visit Bihar |
| In a direct snub to RJD chief and his former ally Lalu Prasad, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday accepted an invitation by Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to visit the State. In the last five years when Lalu was a UPA constituent, he is said to have sabotaged proposals of the Prime Minster’s visit to the State since it would provide publicity to the Nitish regime. Lalu had even ensured that UPA chief Sonia Gandhi did not visit the State barring once during floods, incidentally one of the poorest and lagging behind in almost all parameters of development. |
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| Delhi to get 29 new police stations, 6,478 cops |
| In the wake of the increasing threat perception facing the national Capital ahead of the Commonwealth Games to be held here next year, the Centre has sanctioned 29 new police stations and an additional manpower of 6,478 personnel for the Delhi Police. Union Home Minister P Chidambaram announced the measures on Tuesday while presenting the monthly report card for August here. With this, the total number of police stations in the Capital will increase to 155. |
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| Won’t leave WB just for one Singur, says Tata |
| Tatas will not leave West Bengal because one nightmare does not spoil other dreams. That was how Ratan Tata explained his botched Nano campaign at Singur and his future plans with West Bengal. |
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| HC reserves ruling on Jaswant book ban |
| The Gujarat High Court on Tuesday reserved its ruling on the petition challenging the validity of the State Government’s decision to ban the controversial book — Jinnah-India, Partition, Independece penned by former Union Minister Jaswant Singh. |
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| Jaipur to come up with Cong academy |
| With the aim to hone the talent of party cadre, there is a move to set up a Congress academy in the State capital, which will be the first of its kind in the country. |
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| Students seeking Central varsity in Jammu lathicharged |
| The peaceful agitation of students demanding setting up of central university in Jammu is beginning to take a violent turn with police lathicharge on students inside the campus of city’s oldest degree college in Jammu on Tuesday. |
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| Pakistan’s Army breaches ceasefire pact |
| In another incident of violation, Pakistani Army has breached the ceasefire agreement on Tuesday with India in the holy month of Ramzan after a long gap by resorting to unprovoked firing from across the line of control in Mendhar sector of Poonch. |
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| EVMs can be tampered, PMK technical team to prove before EC |
| PMK founder S Ramadoss said on Tuesday that a technical team set up by his party, which was wiped out in the Lok Sabha election, would meet the Election Commission to prove that the electronic voting machines (EVMs) of the ECI can be tampered with. |
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| Nathpa Jhakri Power Station achieves record generation of 3,284 MUs |
| While the hydropower projects across the country registered fall in electricity generation due to weak monsoon, Country’s largest 1,500 mega watt Nathpa Jhakri Hydro Power Station has earned yet another distinction by achieving record generation of 3,284 million units (MUs) during the past three months. |
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| Mollah clears stand on Vedic Village issue |
| Bengal Land and Land Reform Minister Abdul Rezzak Mollah on Tuesday cleared his name from the Vedic Village land-grab and arms recovery case. But in doing so he tended to leave more questions unanswered than otherwise. |
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| Rahul likely to tour TN next week |
| Sources in the Tamil Nadu Congress claim that AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi is likely to visit Tamil Nadu next week in his effort to revive the Congress in the State and infuse young blood into it. |
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| Minister ridicules Virbhadra claim |
| Himachal Pradesh Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Minister Jai Ram Thakur on Tuesday ridiculed the claim of Union Steel Minister Virbhadra Singh that the mass base of BJP was facing erosion and Chief Minister PK Dhumal had no control over his Cabinet colleagues. Sharply reacting to the reported statement of the Union Minister, Thakur said that it was astonishing that Singh instead of putting his own house in order was trying to divert the attention of the people from the affairs of the State Congress, which was a divided house. |
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| Suburban train services hit in Mumbai as commuters turn violent |
| Violence erupted once again at Nala Sopara railway station -a station located in the busy Borivli-Virar suburban railway corridor of the Western Railway - on Tuesday, as hundreds of angered suburban railway commuters hurled stones at police personnel and damaged railway property following disruption in train services caused by the snapping of an overhead electricity wire. |
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| Two engineers suspended |
| Taking serious cognisance of major disruption in services on the Borivli-Virar suburban corridor, the Western Railway on Tuesday suspended two section engineers (Over Head Equipment) on charges of dereliction in duty. |
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| Mafia gaining control over Malayalam cinema? |
| Mafia control over film industry is not news in Bollywood, but the same culture and economics have perhaps arrived in the Malayalam film industry. Sources in the industry say that quotation gangs are now funding cinema projects and are already controlling a large section of the industry. |
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| Anna University V-C’s suspension rocks TN |
| The suspension of Anna University (Coimbatore) Vice-Chancellor R Radhakrishnan is rocking Tamil Nadu. On Monday he became the first Vice-Chancellor to have been suspended in the State after the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC) raided his office and residence. |
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| Rs 34-crore worth of liquor sold in a day |
| The Kerala State Beverages Corporation (BevCo), the State-owned monopoly liquor supplier, registered yet another record in per-day liquor sales on Sunday (August 30) by collecting Rs 34 crore. |
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| Rajasthan confirms first swine flu death |
| The first swine flu death was confirmed in Rajasthan on Tuesday after test samples of a flu-suspected woman who died here last month reported positive, an official said. |
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| Phone consumers have to avail arbitration: SC |
| If you are fed up over inflated telephone bills and seek to take action against the telecom companies, think twice. A recent judgment by the Supreme Court has held that consumers aggrieved by the action of telecom companies would have to avail arbitration under the Telegraph Act 1885 rather than proceed with action under the Consumer Protection Act 1986. |
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| 67 pc Indians never visited dentist: Study |
| Lack of awareness about oral hygiene is a major reason for not only dental problems but also heart ailments among Indians. A new national consumer usage and attitudes survey (CUAS) conducted by IMRB International shows that 67 per cent of Indians have never visited a dentist and around 87 per cent of the Indian population does not believe in visiting dentists unless there is a problem. |
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| Pokhran-II row: Sethna slams Kalam, Iyenger says test conducted in haste |
| Homi Sethna, the guiding force behind India’s first nuclear test in 1974, on Tuesday waded into the 1998 Pokhran row when he slammed former President APJ Abdul Kalam suggesting he was no qualified authority to rubbish former DRDO scientist K Santhanam’s claim that the explosion was not a full success. |
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| Shantanu takes charge as DoPT Secretary |
| Shantanu Consul is the new Secretary of the Department of Personnel & Training (DoPT), Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievance and Pensions. He took charge on Tuesday after Rahul Sarin’s superannuation on Monday. |
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| 24 killed in bus accident in Mandi district |