2016

New Delhi: CBI today arrested an alleged hawala operator K V Veerendra in connection with seizure of Rs 5.70 crore of new currency notes of Rs 2000 denomination from his premises in Karanataka. The agency sources said CBI has registered a…
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Perth: A lone survey vessel has left an Australian port for perhaps the final time to search for the Malaysian airliner that mysteriously crashed into the southern Indian Ocean two years ago. Minister for Infrastructure and Transport…
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New York: More journalists have been jailed this year by governments around the world than at any time in nearly three decades, primarily because of the crackdown in Turkey after a failed coup in July, the Committee to Protect Journalists…
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New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today paid tributes to those who died in the terror attack on Parliament on this day in 2001. He placed a wreath at the photos of the deceased in Parliament House complex. "Salutations to the…
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London: Malaria remains a nagging problem in Africa and efforts to curb the killer disease are "off-track," the World Health Organisation said in a new report issued today. Despite the billions of dollars spent on malaria programmes, the…
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Washington: US President-elect Donald Trump has said that he would announce the name of America's next Secretary of State today. The announcement to replace outgoing Secretary of State John Kerry would bring to an end weeks of speculation…
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Washington: Aviation giant Boeing has said it was cutting production of its 777 aircraft to five a month from seven due to slackening demand, in a move that will impact jobs. The announcement followed the manufacturer's clinching of a USD…
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Bengaluru: Unearthing a racket involved in illegal conversion of demonetised notes, the ED has arrested seven alleged middlemen and seized Rs 93 lakh in new currency in Karnataka as part of its money laundering probe. Officials said the…
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Srinagar: Sub-zero temperatures prevailed at night in most parts of Kashmir division with a thick layer of fog engulfing the Valley, even as the Met department here predicted mainly dry weather in the state in the week ahead, expected to…
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G. L KHAJURIA We deserve no right to live over this globe, if we don't bear sympathy in mind for a variety of animal life that surrounds us, and definitely God will be unhappy at our activities of merciless and wanton destruction of this…
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