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PTI | 36 min ago | A UAE-based vessel carrying 16 members on board including five Indians were hijacked by Somali pirates off an Island which forms part of Yemen.IANS | 43 min ago | "First the flight abruptly turned right and then began to plummet. We thought it would crash. There was chaos and people were screaming inside," said a passenger. PTI | 54 min ago | The team was prevented by Indian immigration officials from boarding their flight at the IGI airport for possessing stapled visas issued by the Chinese embassy.
PTI | 54 min ago | Taking forward its probe in the cash-for-vote scam, Delhi police is all set to grill Rajya Sabha member Amar Singh on Friday for his alleged role in the sensational case. PTI | 1 hr ago | Army Chief Gen V K Singh will have to retire in May next year, with the government on Thursday deciding to treat May 10,1950 as his date of birth, ending a controversy that has been plaguing the force for several months. IANS | 1 hr ago | With liquor sales in Kerala in 2010-11 fiscal touching dizzy heights, the wary Oommen Chandy government is all set to uncork a new policy that puts curbs on drinking and raises the legal age for buying alcohol. PTI | 2 hrs ago | The TRS MLA beat up the official after authorities refused to allow inside the bhawan the body of a youth who committed suicide over the Telangana issue. PTI | 3 hrs ago | In the wake of Karnataka Lokayukta's indictment of chief minister B S Yeddyurappa on the illegal mining issue, Congress on Thursday gunned for his removal, but a defensive BJP said the report had "lost sanctity" as it has been leaked. PTI | 3 hrs ago | The petitioners alleged that film had indecent, immoral, abusive language and the same trend is being permitted to continue. Suresh Sharma | 3 hrs ago | Two persons were killed, 22 injured while at least a dozen went missing after heavy downpour triggered by cloudburst at MSP-7 near South portal.
PTI | 4 hrs ago | The Congress on Thursday mounted pressure on Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa demanding his resignation. PTI | 4 hrs ago | The Anna Hazare team on Thursday initiated a "referendum" on the law in Chandni Chowk Lok Sabha constituency represented by HRD minister Kapil Sibal. PTI | 4 hrs ago | The Cabinet on Thursday approved the proposal for enhancing reservation for women in Panchayats from the present 33 per cent to 50 per cent with the provision being applicable to all seats filled through direct election, office of chairpersons and of offices reserved for SC/ST.
PTI | 5 hrs ago | Govt approved a proposal to bring a new legislation for stricter control over benami transactions amid the UPA regime facing heat over the black money issue. Suresh Sharma | 5 hrs ago | Two persons were killed and 22 injured and at least a dozen went missing after a heavy downpour triggered by a cloudburst at near South portal of Rohtang Tunnel on the intervening night of Wednesday and Thursday. PTI | 6 hrs ago | More than two years after 26/11 terror strike in Mumbai, the daughter of slain cop Vijay Salaskar has been given a government job after the intervention of Union home minister P Chidambaram. Reuters | 6 hrs ago | Monsoon rains were 7 per cent above normal in the week to July 20, improving from about a fifth below average rains in the previous week, the weather office said on Thursday. IANS | 6 hrs ago | The opposition demanding chief minister Nitish Kumar's resignation and a CBI probe into the alleged scam involving land allotments to family members of ruling alliance leaders. PTI | 6 hrs ago | The central vigilance commission will give some more fresh cases to CBI to probe alleged criminal conspiracy and graft by certain government employees in carrying out Commonwealth Games-related projects. PTI | 7 hrs ago | A Delhi court has allowed sacked Commonwealth Games OC chairman Suresh Kalmadi and others arrested for alleged irregularities in awarding a contract to a Swiss firm to be transported to the court in a separate van PTI | 8 hrs ago | US secretary of state Hillary Clinton left for Indonesia from here on Thursday concluding a three-day visit to India. PTI | 8 hrs ago | The BJP asked the Congress to first take action against those named in the Shunglu Committee and Delhi Lokayukta report. Dhananjay Mahapatra | 8 hrs ago | Supreme Court appointed a five-member panel to suggest preservation & security of treasure unearthed at Kerala's Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple. PTI | 8 hrs ago | Terming the illegal mining scam as huge, Karnataka Lokayukta Santosh N Hegde said, "In the time period of 14 months, it is more than Rs 1800 crore." Agencies | 1 hr ago | Karnataka Lokayukta Justice Santosh N Hegde, probing the illegal mining in the state, has claimed his phone has been tapped. PTI | 10 hrs ago | India on Thursday successfully conducted the first test-fire of its indigenously developed short-range, quick reaction, tactical missile 'Prahar' from the Integrated Test Range off Orissa coast. TNN | 10 hrs ago | Karnataka Lokayukta Santosh Hegde has confirmed that chief minister BS Yeddyurappa has been indicted in his report on the illegal mining scam in the state. TNN | 13 hrs ago | Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday announced the government's decision to process the release of 52 political prisoners, including two Maoist leaders. TNN | 13 hrs ago | Foreign minister S M Krishna on Tuesday congratulated Hina Rabbani Khar on her appointment as Pakistan’s foreign minister. Dipak Kumar Dash | 13 hrs ago | The government is stepping on the gas on highway construction with the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) told to start the process of awarding contracts for building another 15,000 km.
