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Showing posts with label Top Stories. Show all posts

Mumbai photojournalist's gang-rape: Manhunt took 80 cops, 72 hrs

MUMBAI: It was not exactly a whodunit. All the same, the manhuntfor the five rapists of the Mumbai photojournalist took around 72 hours. Eighty police personnel — 20 teams — had to question as many people. And the field of the search extended from Mumbai to Delhi.

Kenya looks east, signs USD 5-bn China deals

  • Nairobi: Snubbed by the United States and charged by the International Criminal Court, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has headed east and scored USD 5 billion (3.7 billion euros) of infrastructure deals with China.
  • *Source PTI

Nine killed in Mexico ammonia leak

  • Mexico: At least nine people died and 40 others were hurt when road workers accidentally punctured an ammonia pipeline in southern Mexico, officials have said.
  • *Source PTI

PM may intervene in discussion on missing coal ministry files

  • New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh may intervene in the discussion on several files pertaining to coal block allocations going missing, Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Rajeev Shukla said today.
  • *Source PTI

Ex-Pakistan ruler Pervez Musharraf charged in Bhutto murder case

Former Pakistani military ruler Pervez Musharraf was on Tuesday indicted by an anti-terrorism court in the 2007 assassination of ex-premier Benazir Bhutto.

Par disrupted over missing files on coalgate

  • New Delhi: The issue of missing files relating to coalgate paralysed proceedings in Parliament today with BJP demanding an immediate response from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, even as the government said it will leave no stone unturned in tracing the documents. Leader of Oppn in LS Sushma Swaraj raised the issue.
  • *Source PTI

Speeding train kills 35 people, mob beats up driver

Soon after the incident, angry pilgrims and locals set ablaze six bogies, including one AC coach, of the train and attacked railway officials.

Selection is not only about scorebooks: Tendulkar

Selection is not only about scorebooks: Tendulkar
  • Bangalore: Senior Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar feels selectors should focus on the players' ability to handle pressure instead of only considering their statistics while picking the national team.
  • *Source PTI

Army foils an infiltration bid along Line of Control in Kupwara

Army foils an infiltration bid along Line of Control in Kupwara
  • Srinagar: Army today foiled an infiltration bid by militants near the Line of Control in Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir but there was no report of any casualty.
  • *Source PTI

Pak violates ceasefire, India retaliates strongly in Poonch

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  • Poonch (J&K): In yet another ceasefire violation, Pakistani troops fired on Indian positions along Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch sector, forcing Indian troops to retaliate strongly, a defence spokesman said today. Pakistani troops fired on Indian forward posts along LoC in Krishna Ghati, Balakote and Hamirpur belts of Poonch district.
*Source PTI