2014

Tokyo: Japan's parliament re-elected Shinzo Abe today to serve another term as prime minister after his party won a snap election earlier this month. Abe won 328 votes out of the 470 cast by lawmakers in a special session of the lower…
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New Delhi: National carrier Air India has cancelled 763 flights and delayed 6,513 flights in the last six months. In reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday, Minister of State for Civil Aviation Mahesh Sharma said, Air India…
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Guwahati: The death toll today climbed to 53 in the series of attacks by suspected Bodo militants belonging to NDFB-S faction in Sonitpur and Kokrajhar districts of Assam while the Centre was rushing additional forces to the state. 30…
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Shillong: Meghalaya's 100-year-old towering coniferous pine tree that withstood the 1897 Assam earthquake, is all lit up to usher in the Yuletide spirit. The 80-feet-tall pine tree in the fore lawn of the All Saints Cathedral, the…
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New Delhi:  Faced with the growing number of acid attacks on women, government is planning to categorise such cases as heinous crimes and fix a time-frame for investigation and trial for speedy justice. All such cases where maximum…
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New Delhi:  Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold discussions with bankers on January 3 at Pune to draw an "action plan" for reforms in the public sector banks (PSBs). Modi will be interacting with bankers on the second day of the…
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modiNew Delhi: To mark the 'Good Governance Day' tomorrow, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be in his Lok Sabha constituency Varanasi where he will attend a number of programmes on the occasion of the birthday of former Prime Minister Atal…
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Itanagar:Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Nabam Tuki today expanded his Council of Ministers by inducting three ministers while dropping Health and Family Welfare Minister Kalikho Pul. The newly inducted ministers ? Rajesh Tacho, Wanglin…
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New Delhi, Dec 24 (PTI) From Rohit Sharma's record breaking double ton in ODIs, the team's never-ending overseas woes, to the controversy surrounding BCCI president-in-exile N Srinivasan over IPL 6 spot-fixing scandal, Indian cricket had…
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New Delhi: Government may adopt the ordinance route to push reforms in insurance and coal sectors as relevant bills could not be taken up in the Rajya Sabha, whose functioning was paralysed in the just-concluded winter session. An…
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