South
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Reporter on mafia shot dead
A veteran journalist, Jyotirmoy Dey (57), editor (crime and investigations) at the tabloid Mid-Day, was shot dead near his residence in Powai by four unidentified motorcycle-borne assailants on Saturday afternoon.
Mid Day crime reporter shot dead in Mumbai
A senior journalist with an English daily Mid Day was on Saturday shot dead by four motorcycle-borne unidentified persons in suburban Powai here, the police said.
Will follow Sonia’s decision on Telangana: Andhra Congress
The newly-appointed president of the Congress’s Andhra Pradesh unit Botsa Satyanarayana on Saturday said the party would abide by the decision of party chief Sonia Gandhi on the demand for a separate Telangana state.
Narayana Murthy turns nostalgic at his last Infosys AGM
Indian IT bellwether Infosys’ founding chairman and chief mentor N.R. Narayana Murthy turned nostalgic on Saturday as he presided for the last time over the blue chip company’s 30th annual general meeting (AGM) here.
No backdoor talks with Ramdev: Moily
Union law minister Veerappa Moily on Saturday said the “government is not engaged in any backdoor talks” with yoga guru Baba Ramdev on the eighth day of his anti-corruption fast.
DMK loses urge to leave UPA
The DMK on Friday decided to stay put in the UPA, chickening out after its leaders made blamed the Congress for its 2G spectrum woes and dropped hints that a parting of ways was a distinct possibility. As a face-saving exercise,
CPM won’t be too harsh on Trinamul
Even as it analysed the causes for the party’s embarrassing defeat in the West Bengal polls, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) decided not to be too harsh on the nascent Trinamul Congress government. The three-day politburo-cum-central committee meeting of the CPI(M), which began here on Friday, took stock of the party’s
Narasimha is Andhra deputy CM
Minister for higher education and agriculture C. Damodar Raj Narasimha has been appointed Andhra Pradesh’s new deputy chief minister.
DMK stays, pins blame on CBI
The DMK on Friday decided to stay put in the UPA, chickening out after its leaders made some noises blaming the Congress for the spectrum woes and dropping hints that parting of ways was a distinct possibility.
As a face-saving exercise, the DMK blamed the CBI for the legal woes of Ms Kanimozhi and Kalaignar TV.
Will Chandy government pardon UDF leader?
R. Balakrishna Pillai, chief of the Kerala Congress (B), has almost exhausted 45 days of parole in a corruption case. And now everyone is asking if the Oommen Chandy government will pardon him as his party is a partner in the ruling UDF coalition.
