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The new age e-passports are expected to be rolled out in the country by 2016, a top official said here today. "We are going ahead and are in the process of tendering. By 2015-16 we should be able to achieve e-passport," Muktesh K…
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A BSF trooper was Monday killed in mortar shelling by Pakistan on the international border in Samba district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said. The Border Security Force (BSF) constable - identified as Devinder Singh of the 9th battalion -…
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Union Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan Monday launched the sale of subsidised five-kg cooking gas cylinders under Free Trade LPG Scheme, benefiting Below Poverty Line (BPL) families and others. He also launched a new scheme…
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Expressing concern over the growing reach of RSS, senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad today called on party cadres to take on the ideological challenge from rivals while acknowledging that the party is going through a difficult…
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New Delhi Amid a stalemate over government formation in Jammu and Kashmir, BJP’s core group leaders from the state on Monday met party president Amit Shah at his residence here and discussed the issue of taking further the talks with the…
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If your "common cold" has been hanging around for more than a week, it may not be a cold at all. It might actually be an allergy disguised as a cold. Dr. Stanley Goldstein, director of Allergy and Asthma Care of Long Island, in New York,…
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If you're in a relationship, make sure you do these things. - Let's admit it. Everyone enjoys hearing nice things about themselves. And if you know how to really compliment a woman, don't let anything stop you! You don't have to go…
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Chandigarh: With ally BJP raking up the drug menace issue in a big way rankling Akali Dal, Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal today sought to turn the tables saying BJP-ruled states were not ready to stop cultivation of narcotics…
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New Delhi: NITI Aayog has a unique innovative framework to facilitate states to participate in policy making which would help India to become a formidable economic power, said former IIM Director Bakul Dholakia. Government has replaced the…
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Patna: A shoe was hurled at Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi during his weekly 'Janata Durbar' (public meeting) in Patna Monday but missed its target, police said, adding that the man who threw it has been arrested. 'Janata Durbar' is…
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