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Jet Airways flight averts mid-air collision
Guwahati - 21 July 2011: AJet Airways flightwith 134 passengers on board narrowly averted a mid-air collision on Thursday, triggering panic aboard, passengers said.Jet Airways Flight No 9W 2280 fromNew Delhito Guwahati was flying somewhere over Patna when it abruptly lost control, leading to chaos i
Hero Honda eyes 7.5 lakh units a year from proposed 4th plant
New Delhi - 21 July 2011 (PTI): The country's largest two-wheeler maker Hero Honda today said it is looking at a capacity of 7.5 lakh units annually for its proposed fourth plant for which it will invest up to Rs 550 crore. Besides, the company is expanding the capacity of its three existing faci
My phone has been tapped: Karnataka Lokayukta
Bangalore - 21 July 2011 (PTI):Karnataka Lokayukta Justice Santosh N Hegde, probing the illegal mining in the state, has claimed his phone has been tapped.Hegde, a former Supreme Court judge, said that after reports of alleged bugging in the office of Union finance ministerPranab Mukherjee, he had a
Karnataka HC adjourns petition against teaching Gita in schools
Bangalore - 21 July 2011 (PTI): The Karnataka High Court on Thursday adjourned by two weeks hearing on a petition challenging the government's controversial circular on teaching of 'Bhagavad Gita' in primary and higher secondary schools in the state. When the petition filed by Karnataka State Minori
Manglore AI crash victims to get Rs 75 lakh each
Kochi - 20 July 2011 (PTI): The families of victims of theAir India Express crash in Mangalorelast year are entitled to a minimum compensation of Rs 75 lakh each, the Kerala high court held on Wednesday.Justice PR Ramachandran Menon passed the order while allowing a petition filed by Abdul Salam and
Welfare Party to be inaugurated in UP on 21st July
Lucknow - 19 July 2011: Promising value based politics, the newly formed Welfare Party of India (WPI) will launch its state unit in a convention on Thursday at Lucknow. Formed three months ago, the WPI is the political arm of six decade old Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, a socio-religious Muslim organisa
Hillary arrives in New Delhi today for strategic dialogue
New Delhi - 18 July 2011 (PTI):US secretary of state Hillary Clinton arrives on Monday to attend the second round of Indo-US strategic dialogue on Tuesday during which a host of key bilateral, regional and international issues including situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan and security cooperati
VP Hamid Ansari stresses need to regulate media
Bhopal - 17 July 2001: Vice President of India Mr. Mohammed Hamid Ansari has stressed the urgent need to regulate media while expressing deep concern and anguish over "paid news" phenomena which has raised its ugly head. Any discussion on the issue of regulation of media should not avoid "paid ne
Mumbai blasts: Can't rule out hand of Hindu outfits, says Digvijay
New Delhi - 17 July 2011: Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Friday said involvement of Hindu outfits could not be ruled out in Wednesday's blasts in Mumbai. Asked if he suspected the involvement of Hindu outfits in the latest Mumbai blasts, Singh told The Indian Express: "Nothing can be
HC orders CBI probe into Naushad Kashimji murder
BANGALORE: The High Court on Thursday ordered a CBI probe into the murder of Naushad Kasim, a Mangalore based human rights advocate and lawyer of underworld don Chota Shakeel's aide Rashid Malbari.Hearing a petition seeking a CBI probe into the murder and the allged involvement of four police offic
Bangalore: 'Gita' Teaching Sparks Row in Karnataka
Bangalore - 17 July 2011 (IANS): Karnataka's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government has landed in a row over its support to teaching of Hindu holy book 'Bhagvad Gita' in schools.The controversy took a new turn after Primary and Secondary Education Minister Vishwanath Hegde Kageri said July 14 that
Mumbai blasts: Man picked up for questioning dies
Mumbai - 17 July 2011 (PTI): A man questioned in connection with Wednesday's serial blasts died while undergoing treatment in a civic-run hospital in Mumbai, police said.Faiz Usmani, brother of 2008 Ahmedabad blast accusedAfzal Usmani, died at 1:30 AM while he was undergoing treatment for hemiparesi
Mumbai probe: Jamiat warns against harassment of innocent Muslims
New Delhi - 16 July 2011: Maulana Mahmood Madani, Rajya Sabha MP and General Secretary of Jamiat Ulama-I-Hind, while strongly condemning the Mumbai serial blasts and demanding the government to bring the culprits to justice, warned against harassment of innocent Muslims in various parts of the c
Ulemas to stage 13/7 protest march today
Mumbai - 16 July 2011: To protest the cowardly bomb attacks, 72 ulemas will march from Minara Masjid to Opera House on Saturday. The protest of the 72 ulemas will recall the memory of the Muslims' first battle against terrorism in Karbala.A meeting to discuss the issue was conducted on Thursday nigh
Blasts spell nightmare for former members of SIMI
Mumbai - 16 July 2011: Like after every blast, this time too the police are not sparing former members of the banned outfit Simi (Students Islamic Movement of India). Some are ruing the day they decided to join the organization.Take Kamal Khan, for example. The 46-year-old production engineer said:
GSAT-12 communication satellite launched successfully by PSLV
Chennai - 15 July 2011: The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) on Friday successfully launched itsPolar Satellite Launch Vehicle(PSLV- C17) from theSatish Dhawan Space Centreat Sriharikota, 100 km north of Chennai, carrying to space GSAT-12, a communication satellite. This is the 18th success
Tatas to launch Rs 32,000 houses for rural market
Hyderabad - 15 July 2011 (PTI): After it's Rs 1-lakh wonder car 'Nano',Tata Groupis all set to launch a house for nearly Rs 32,000 aimed atrural marketby the end of next year."At present, the housing project is in the pilot stage in 30 locations spread across the country and we are in discussions wi
Muslim Personal Law Board condemns Mumbai blasts
Lucknow: The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) has condemned the serial bomb blast which occurred in Mumbai on Wednesday. The board has termed this dastardly incident as an inhuman cruel act. President, AIMPLB and Rector, Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulema, Maulana Rabey Hasan Nadwi while decr