Hostage crises: Mediators meet top Maoist
Bhubaneswar: Two mediators on Tuesday met a top Maoist leader, who was brought to a jail here to speed up negotiations for the release of a district collector and a junior engineer held hostage by Ma
TN man dies, India readying Libya evacuation
New Delhi: With the protests in Libya cascading, the Indian government is readying a contingency plan to evacuate its nationals residing in the violence-torn country, even as an Indian was killed in a
Gaddafi scotches rumours of fleeing
Tripoli: Muammar Gaddafi said on Tuesday during a brief appearance on state television that he was "in Tripoli and not in Venezuela", scotching swirling rumours that the 68-year-old Libyan leader had
Robbery at gunpoit, three held
New Delhi: Three people who robbed a businessman in his office at gunpoint in November last year have been arrested, police said on Tuesday. One of the them was a messenger in the office.
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Manmohan Singh agrees to JPC on 2G scam
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday announced that a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) would be set up to investigate alleged irregularities in the allocation of 2G spectrum to telec
Tripoli airport functioning
Tripoli/Cairo: The Tripoli International Airport was functioning normally on Tuesday, Libya's state news agency JANA reported, after speculation that it had been shut to air traffic.
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JPC is victory of democracy: BJP
New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday welcomed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's announcement of a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into the 2G spectrum scam as "victory of democracy".
India back on pre-recession growth trend
Washington: The Indian economy seems to be back to the growth trend before the global financial crisis with particularly strong GDP growth over the first half of the 2010-11 fiscal, but the inflation
31 convicted, 63 acquitted in Godhra train carnage case
A special fast track court here on Tuesday convicted 31 people and acquitted 63 in the Godhra train carnage case in which 59 people on board the Sabarmati Express were burnt to death, triggering communal frenzy in Gujarat in 2002.
31 convicted, 63 acquitted in Godhra train carnage case
Ahmedabad: A special fast track court here Tuesday convicted 31 people and acquitted 63 in the Godhra train carnage case in which 59 people on board the Sabarmati Express were burnt to death, triggeri