NEW DELHI : A city court Saturday allowed a drug test in the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) leader Ghandy Kobad. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Kaveri Baweja allowed the exception of the Delhi police to conduct narco test on Ghandy. Guidelines from the Court came after a medical panel submitted its report stating that...
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SRINAGAR : A separatist guerrillas hiding in a house was killed by security forces in a gunbattle that began early Saturday and continues in City Sopore of Jammu and Kashmir , police said. “One of the terrorists has been killed so far and the shooting remains in the residential area of Sopore Chinkipora,”...
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New Delhi , India and the U.S., the world’s largest democracies, need to work together to win the battle against extremists in Afghanistan, former U.S. President George W Bush said on Saturday. Addressing a summit of leaders on Saturday, Bush said: “The U.S.
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New Delhi: Union Law Minister M Veerappa Moily will on Monday introduce in Parliament a bill making it mandatory for high court and Supreme Court judges to disclose their assets to the President every year. Named ‘The Judges (Declaration of Assets and Liabilities) Act, 2009’, the bill would however keep the judges’ disclosures...
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New Delhi: The Lok Sabha was adjourned for half-an-hour Tuesday as opposition MPs demanded a discussion on the rise in prices of essential commodities. They had earlier held a sit-in outside Parliament on the same issue. The lower house was adjourned till 11.30 am soon after it assembled, as members of the Left...
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MELBOURNE: A young Indian journalist was threatened and attacked after she went underground to reveal migration and education scams in Australia that try to defraud international students, including those from India. The woman, working as a reporter with ABC TV, was threatened during the making of the programme ‘Four Corners’ and was attacked...
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NEW DELHI: After over a week of diffidence, the Congress today came out openly backing Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the controversial Indo-Pak joint statement in Egypt that has come under a lot of criticism. “The Congress is confident that when the Prime Minister speaks in Parliament on July 29, he will set...
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Srinagar: The bail applications of Jammu and Kashmir police officers Javed Iqbal Mattoo and Rohit Baskotra, arrested in connection with the sensational Shopian murder case, will come up for hearing on Monday at a court in Shopian. The pleas of the two officers were moved yesterday before the Sessions Court by senior Supreme...
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New Delhi: The next session of Parliament will begin from today. The Economic Survey will be presented in the Lok Sabha today. The Railway Budget will be presented on July 3 and the General Budget on July 6
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New Delhi: Union Minister for Law and Justice M. Veerappa Moily said that the Government would bring a legislation in the coming Budget session of the Parliament to ensure disclosure of assets by judges mandatory. The disclosure of assets by judges has been debated for long time in the country.
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