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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

31 people guilty of setting fire to the Sabarmati Express coach at Godhra nine years ago. 63 people acquitted.

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

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