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Karnataka CM promises cheaper rice for lower middle-class families
The Congress, which wrested power from BJP in Karnataka early this month, is taking forward its pledge of 30kg rice at Re.1 a kg for poor families with a plan to offer rice at less than Rs.9 a kg for the lower middle-income group in the state. "We are thinking of providing rice to APL (above poverty line) card holders also at cheaper price. Now it is sold at Rs.9 a kg while the market price is ...
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Bengal to give Rs.750 stipend to 4000 folk artistes
The West Bengal government would provide monthly stipends of Rs.750 to nearly 4,000 folk artistes across the state, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said here Tuesday. The list of artistes would be finalised by the information and cultural affairs department. The services of these artistes will be used for advertising state government schemes through song, dance or instrumental music. They would ...
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Chinese PMs touching meet with Kotnis family
Keeping alive the traditions of past Chinese leaders, visiting Premier Li Keqiang Tuesday had an emotional audience with Manorama Kotnis, the 92-year- old sister of medico Dwarkanath Kotnis, considered the symbol of India-China friendship. Li warmly and humbly welcomed Manorama, her granddaughters Shalmali Borkar and Sanika Jain, her husband Abhay Jain and a cousin Kishore Khot from the ...
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Bangalore hospital offers day care breast surgery
Leading multi-specialty healthcare chain Narayana Hrudayalaya Tuesday announced it will offer day care breast surgery, keeping in view the emotional, physical and financial stress a patient undergoes. "The day care, one-night, out-patient and ambulatory breast surgery centre manages a patient's expectations through a pre-operative assessment and communication to her family about the surgical ...
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Annapurna to hold film workshop for engineering students
Annapurna International School of Film and Media will conduct a four-week summer workshop on filmmaking for engineering students, beginning May 27, the institution said Tuesday. The workshop involves working in teams to develop stories and to produce films. This process enables students to gain experience in the soft skills that are sought by employers. The workshop covers script writing, ...
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Steep rise in African researchers seeking Indian fellowships
Increasing numbers of African students are keen to study in Indian universities, with a steep rise in African researchers seeking science and technology fellowships in this country, officials said Tuesday. Speaking at the launch of the C.V. Raman International Fellowship for African Researchers 2013, Arabinda Mitra, Head-International Cooperation (Bilateral), Department of Science amp; ...
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Bhutia Chhetri to play in AIFFs new league tournament
Some of the star Indian footballers, including former skipper Bhaichung Bhutia, are likely to feature in All India Football Federation's (AIFF) franchise-based tournament planned by its marketing partner IMG-Reliance in the 2013-14 season. IMG-Reliance have already approached nine players, including Bhutia, and they have shown their interest in playing in the eight-team tournament which will be ...
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Hyderabad jewellery fair to begin June 7
Over 125 jewellers from India and abroad will showcase their exclusive diamond and gold jewellery at the sixth edition of the Hyderabad Jewellery Pearl and Gem Fair (HJF) here June 7 to June 9. UBM India, a part of UBM plc, the leading global media business company, Tuesday announced the event, one of the biggest gems and jewellery B2B exhibition. Jewellery manufacturers, wholesellers, ...
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IPL scam Ex-Ranji player introduced Royals player to bookie
Former Ranji player Baburao Yadav, arrested in the Indian Premier League (IPL) spot fixing scandal, was in constant touch with a bookie for two years and had introduced one of the accused Rajasthan Royals players to him, said police here Tuesday. Yadav, who was arrested Monday, came in contact with bookie Sunil Bhatia in 2007 and was in touch with him till 2008. Picked up from Delhi, Yadav was ...
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Six Sanawar school boys scale Mount Everest
Six boys of Lawrence School, Sanawar, located in the picturesque Kasauli Hills here Tuesday scaled the Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain peak, school officials said. Those who scaled the peak were Guribadat Singh, Prithvi Singh, Ajay Sohal, Shubham, Fateh Singh and Raghav Juneja. They were in the age group of 15 to 17, the officials said. Updates posted on the Facebook page of the ...
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Court rejects former Karnataka ministers plea in graft case
Former Karnataka BJP minister Murugesh Nirani Tuesday suffered a set as the high court rejected his plea to quash a corruption case against him Nirani moved the high court for quashing a charge sheet filed in the Lokayukta (ombudsman) court here that as industries minister in the Bharatiya Janata Party government, he illegally ordered cancellation of an industrial site allotted to an ...
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Indian Coast Guard offshore patrol vessel commissioned
Indian Coast Guard Ship ICGS Vaibhav, the third in the series of 90-meter-class offshore patrol vessels (OPVs) was commissioned Tuesday at Tuticorin by Vice Admiral Anurag G. Thapliyal, the director general of the force. According to an official release, the vessel has been designed and built indigenously and is fitted with the state-of-the-art navigation and communication equipment and ...
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Madhya Pradesh beat Chandigarh junior national hockey
Defending champions Madhya Pradesh girls defeated Chandigarh 2-1 in their opening match of Pool A of the Hockey India Sub-Junior Men's and Women's National Championship (Final) on Day 1 at the Aish Bagh Hockey Stadium here Tuesday. Madhya Pradesh scored their opening goal through Neelu in the third minute. Preeti Dubey scored another goal for Madhya Pradesh in the 19th minute while Saroj scored ...
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Sreesanth bought Rs.1.95 lakh-worth apparel from spot-fixing money
Tainted cricketer S. Sreesanth went on a shopping spree with the money he earned from spot-fixing, buying apparel worth Rs.1.95 lakh for himself and a mobile phone costing over Rs.40,000 for his girlfriend, Delhi Police said Tuesday. He wanted to quickly dispose of the cash which he got after fixing and apart from apparel and gifts spent it in parties, a police official told IANS. "Sreesanth ...
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Two women arrested for molesting six-year-old
Two women employees of a private school here were arrested for sexually molesting a six-year-old Class 3 student for the last few months, police said Tuesday. The women - Daana, 37, and Sajida, 28 - were arrested for playing with private parts of the girl in the washroom. "The girl told her mother about the latest instance. We have arrested the duo on the complaint of victim's father," said ...
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People should oppose FDI in retail Mahasweta Devi
Supporting West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's decision to withdraw from the UPA last September on the issue of FDI in retail, eminent writer Mahasweta Devi Tuesday exhorted people from all walks of life to protest against the measure. "Of course, I support our chief minister's decision to withdraw from the centre on FDI. I think everybody should protest against it. People from all ...
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IPL Chennai opt to bat Mumbai without Tendulkar
Chennai won the toss and opted to bat against Mumbai Indians in Qualifier 1 of the Indian Premier League at the Ferozeshah Kotla here Tuesday. The squads: Chennai Super Kings: Michael Hussey, Murali Vijay, Suresh Raina, Mahendra Singh Dhoni (Captain), Ravindra Jadeja, S. Badrinath, Dwayne Bravo, Albie Morkel, Chris Morris, Ravichandran Ashwin, Mohit Sharma. Mumbai Indians: Aditya Tare, Dwayne ...
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Lok Sabha bypoll from Himachals Mandi June 23
The by-election to the Lok Sabha from Himachal Pradesh's Mandi constituency will be held June 23, election officials said here. The seat fell vacant following the resignation of Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh after he was elected to the state legislative assembly in December 2012. The counting of the votes will be held June 27, an election official told IANS. He said the notification for the ...
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Arunima becomes worlds first woman to scale Mt. Everest with prosthetic legs
In a stellar show of indomitable spirit, Arunima Sinha became the first woman in the world to conquer Mt. Everest with prosthetic legs, when she successfully climbed the world's highest peak Tuesday. The 26-year-old scaled the peak at 10.55 a.m. carrying the tri-colour. The achievement coincides with the 60th anniversary of the first conquest of the Mt Everest by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing ...
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A Mughlai treat to rejuvenate taste buds
An ongoing food festival offering true Mughlai flavours -- spicy aromatic biryanis with vegetables, fish, chicken and mutton accompaniments -- will leave you craving for more. Flavors of Mughals, a Mughlai restaurant located in Central Arcade in Gurgaon, is hosting the feast Mock-e-Biryani till May 25. A simple and not-so-elaborate menu has been prepared especially for the festival, offering ...
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Two Ghaziabad cops arrested for extortion
Two police constables were arrested in Ghaziabad for harassing a newly-married couple and extorting Rs.8,000 from them, police said Tuesday. The incident occurred Monday evening at Shipra Mall near Indirapuram here. The couple came for marketing in the mall. When they were boarding their car, the police constables, Vipin and Satish, posted at Shipra Sun City police post stopped the husband and ...
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Tennis Easy for seeded players
Top-ranked Siddant Jagdish Banthia led the bunch of seeded players into the quarter-finals of the Karle Infra ATF Under-14 Asian ranking junior tennis tournament here Tuesday that saw all fancied players making smooth progress. Joining Banthia in the round of eight were local hopes, second seed Adil Kalyanpur and No.3 Sai Pranav Ponaka both of whom made an untroubled progress. The ...
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Delhi cops to quiz Sreesanth for five more days
A Delhi court Tuesday extended by five days the police custody of cricketer S. Sreesanth, his Rajasthan Royals teammates Ankeet Chavan and Ajit Chandila and eight bookies for alleged spot-fixing in the ongoing IPL. Metropolitan Magistrate Saumya Chauhan granted police custody of the players and the bookies till May 26 when they were presented in a packed courtroom at the end of their earlier ...
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The Hangover Part III revisits Las Vegas
The third installment of "The Hangover" series will take the lead characters of the movie back to Las Vegas, where the plot of the first movie was sketched. Starring Ed Helms, Bradley Cooper, Justin Bartha and Zachary Galifianakis, the film hits theatres in India May 31. Directed by Todd Phillips, the movie will take a two-year leap and the lead characters Stu, Phill, Doug and Alan will be ...
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Pune Warriors pull out of IPL
Pune Warriors India, owned by Sahara India Parivar, Tuesday announced they were pulling out of Indian Premier League (IPL). "It is firm and final decision of Sahara to withdraw from IPL," said a Sahara statement. Sahara failed to pay the full franchise fee for the current year which resulted in the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) encashing the bank guarantee, leading to the ...
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Mumbai as a city must look to a progressive future
Homosexuality was only decriminalised last year in India, so it is natural that some old ways of thinking will linger, but the recent discrimination against a transgender individual in the city is an ugly reminder of the work yet to be done.
Mumbai is a massive city of over 11 million people, it is the capital of the world’s largest democracy, and is home to a cosmopolitan mix of people from all over the country and the world. Yet some in Mumbai remain, in many ways, social backward in many of their views toward traditional taboo issues such as homosexuality, bisexuality, transgender and cross-dressing. Read more
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