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Suspended IPS officer Sanjeev Bhatt, who had testified against chief minister Narendra Modi in the 2002 Gujarat riots case, was on Friday detained by the police.
Ahmedabad police commisioner Sudhir Sinha confirmed this to media.
Bhatt was detained for forcing a constable to file false affidavit supporting Bhatt's claim that he was present in the meeting of chief ministers for more details....
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A day after Pranab Mukherjee distanced himself from the blame on P Chidambaram in the 2G note controversy, the Home Minister on Friday evaded questions raised over the issue. The home minister said that the matter is subjudice and does not concern his ministry.
Chidambaram had been sulking for last one week ever since the surfacing of a Finance Ministry note of March 25, 2011 that had said that the 2G scam could have been avoided had the then Finance Minister had insisted on auctioning of spectrum instead for more details....
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Expressing concern over the deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan, India today warned against any"hurry"in withdrawing troops from the country, saying such a move should be done keeping in mind the ground realities and not just to meet any deadline.
"For peace, stability and security in Afghanistan, it is imperative that the ongoing transition must be linked to the ground realities rather than rigid timetables. This, the international community in its hurry to withdraw from a combat role in Afghanistan, will for more details....
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Close on the heels of a sharp increase in petrol prices, Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) rates were hiked by a steep Rs2 per kg on Friday, mainly on account of a fall in the rupee value against the US dollar, pushing up the cost of inputs.
Indraprastha Gas Ltd (IGL), the sole supplier of CNG to automobiles and piped cooking gas to households in the national capital region, said CNG will cost Rs32 per kg in Delhi from midnight tonight, as against Rs30/kg at present.
Similarly, in neighbouring Noida, Greater Noida and Ghaziabad, CNG for more details....
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Shocking but true! About 27 youth from different districts of Punjab and Himachal Pradesh are working as slaves in the war-messed state. Lured by shady travel agents for promising professional job opportunities these young men have been deprived of freedom there.
The young men were promised jobs with the American military in Baghdad, but as some of the men revealed they were instead forced to clear battlefields off bomb-shells and ammunition left behind by the United States army after their attack against the country.
These young men are allegedly, bought from travel agents across Punjab for $ 500.The agents first take out advertisements in local newspapers about for more details....
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The Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group's financial services arm Reliance Capital on Friday said it has received approval from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) for its proposed 26% stake sale in Reliance Life Insurance to Japan's Nippon Life.
The company had signed a definitive agreement to sell a 26% stake in Reliance Life Insurance to Nippon Life Insurance for Rs 3,062 crore earlier this year. The deal was subject to regulatory approvals.
The Insurance Regulatory Development Authority (IRDA) has already granted in-principle approval for the proposed stake sale. Following RBI clearance for the deal, IRDA will for more details....
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Reebok International Ltd. has agreed to resolve charges that the company trickily advertised“toning shoes,” claiming it would provide extra tone and strength to leg and buttock muscles.
The US Federal Trade Commission announced that Reebok will pay $25 million as part of the settlement agreement. The funds will be made available for consumer refunds either directly from the FTC or through a court-approved class action lawsuit.
“The FTC wants national advertisers to understand that they must exercise some responsibility and ensure that their claims for fitness gear are supported by sound science,” said David Vladeck, Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection.
Reebok’s EasyTone walking shoes and RunTone running shoes have retailed for $80 to $100 a pair, while EasyTone flip flops have retailed for more details....
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Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi skipped the national executive committee meeting of BJP, which started today to take stock stock of the political situation in the country and to formulate a strategy to take on the ruling Congress on the issue of corruption.
Barring Modi and former Karantaka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa, all prominent BJP leaders attended the two-day national meet of the party.
Modi's absence from the crucial meeting comes in the backdrop of talks of differences between him and senior party leader L K Advani.
While BJP Central leaders are silent on the growing rift between Modi and Advani, there is a buzz that this is the reason for the chief minister keeping away. Modi for more details....
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The Pakistani government should challenge the terrorist safe havens inside the country, the Pentagon has said, even as Islamabad said that it can't be asked to"do more"in the war against terror.
"We believe that the government of Pakistan should challenge that (terror) sanctuary,"Pentagon spokesperson George Little said at an off camera news conference when asked about the remarks made by Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani in Islamabad.
"I am not going to comment directly on the Prime Minister (Gilani). But there is a broad consensus inside this administration that there is sanctuary in Pakistan for more details....
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President Pratibha Patil today left on a visit to Switzerland and Austria during which she will hold bilateral talks with the leadership there on the issue of blackmoney stashed away by Indians in Swiss banks and other key matters.
Patil would be in Switzerland till October 4 and then will travel to Austria for more details....
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India's nuclear-capable, surface-to-surface Agni-II ballistic missile, with a strike range of 2000 kms, was today test-fired as part of user trial by the army from the Wheeler Island off Orissa coast.
The indigenously developed missile was fired by personnel of the Strategic Forces Command (SFC) of the army for more details....
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The Delhi police is all set to file its second chargesheet in the cash-for-votes scam on Friday. While the first chargesheet had linked former Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh to the Rs 1 crore bribe money given to MPs based on circumstantial evidence, sources said that the police have not been able to find any conclusive evidence against the Rajya Sabha MP yet.
The supplementary chargesheet prepared by Delhi Police Crime Branch is most likely to cover up the money trail.
Sources say that the second chargesheet also does not for more details....
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US wants to continue to work to put its relationship with Pakistan on a stronger footing, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said.
At the same time, she said, the Obama administration would like to have an end to safe heavens in Pakistan.
She, however, appeared to tone down tempers between the two countries which has reached a new peak after Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told a Congressional Committee that the Haqqani network is a veritable arm of Pakistani spy agency ISI.
"I would certainly urge people to look at the entirety of Admiral Mullen's testimony. He did raise serious questions, which our government has raised with the Pakistanis for more details....
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BJP's National Executive starts in the national capital on Friday with Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi's likely absence from it allegedly due to growing differences with senior leader LK Advani overshadowing the two-day event.
With Modi deciding to keep away from the National Executive, BJP central leadership was at pains to downplay the issue and maintained that since the Gujarat chief minister does not travel outside the state during Navratra, he cannot attend the party programme.
"There are some issues due to Navratra. We are working on it for more details....
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Facebook today begins rolling out its biggest ever shake-up, in a move observers say will not only profoundly alter how its 800 million users interact with the site, but will keep them coming back for decades to come.
The new"Timeline,"revealed last week by chief executive Mark Zuckerberg will also likely shock some users, notorious for backlashes in recent years over even small adjustments to the site, let alone a complete re-think of how their lives are presented to the world.
The changes amount to the "heart of your Facebook experience, completely rethought from the ground up,"Zuckerberg told an annual developers conference.
Rick Marini, CEO of the Facebook-focused "career network" BranchOut, which itself boasts millions of users, marveled this week in a conference call with marketers for more details....
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Amid the raging controversy over 2G note, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee and Home Minister P Chidambaram today met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to discuss the issue.
This is the first time the two Ministers came face to face since the controversy broke out a week ago after the surfacing of a Finance Ministry note that suggested that the 2G scam could have been avoided if Chidambaram as the then Finance Minister in 2008 had insisted on auctioning of spectrum.
The meeting of Mukherjee and Chidambaram with the Prime Minister, the first after his return from visit to New York, came on a day of hectic discussions for more details....
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The CBI on Thursday told the Supreme Court that it is probing the alleged involvement of Anil Ambani in the 2G scam. The agency said that it will further investigate to find out the people who are the real beneficiaries of the scam. The CBI also gave a clean chit to Videocon Industries-owned Datacom saying that the company was eligible to get the licence, unlike the Swan and the Unitech.
CBI further said that former Telecom Minister A Raja did not favour Tata Teleservices due to which it suffered loses.
Tata Group lost spectrum allocation because of Raja's conspiracy for more details....
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Kerala government has given approval to a five-tier security system for the Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple which has huge treasures locked up in its vaults.
The hi-tech security system, approved by a high-level meeting of officials and experts called by chief minister Oommen Chandy on Wednesday, took into account all possible dangers to the shrine including theft, sabotage and natural disasters, official sources said.
The committee comprises experts from ISRO, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), the Centre for Earth Sciences Studies and top for more details....
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The Japanese have taken their love for noodles quite far. No wonder that they opened a museum to show this.
Nissin Foods opened the amazing museum in Yokohama, Japan, to celebrate 40 years of this world famous food. On display is the history of the instant noodle, created by Momofuku Ando, who invented chicken ramen noodles way back in 1958 after witnessing people go nuts for noodles in post-war Japan.
The museum is spread upto 10,000square meters containing a “My Cup Noodle Factory”. This factory will allow visitors to have fun while creating their own for more details....
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Many courageous citizens have challenged Goa’s illegal. Cheryl D’Souza’s story is of a woman, who has been carrying a fight against illegal miners, including a minister in the Digambar Kamat government, since 2006 now.
Cheryl is a 43-year-old widow in village Maina in south Goa. Cheryl was 25 when she had bought a huge tract of land (seven lakh sq metres) to live a rural life. Married to Anthony Sanfrancisco (“Tony” to friends), they made their money in a furniture export business. They lived an ideal rural life till the politicians started coveting their iron-ore-rich land.
The tale of harassment began in 2006 after Tony died of an accident.“When Tony died, it just came full in my face. I had never seen people like these. When good for more details....
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Despite efforts to end the 2G note crisis at the earliest, the UPA seems to be falling in a deeper mess with every passing day. Even more than 24 hours after Prime Minister's return from New York, not many positive developments have taken place.
With Prime Minister Manmohan Singh scheduled to visit quake-affected Sikkim on Thursday, the earliest the meeting between the UPA government's big two is likely to take place only after Singh's return on Thursday evening. What remains for more details....
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The Jammu and Kashmir Assembly was today adjourned for 15 minutes after ruling Congress members disrupted the proceedings on the issue of cross-voting by BJP MLAs during legislative council polls earlier this year.
BJP leaders also protested in the House, demanding that the Speaker reveal the names of the people involved in the 2006 sex scandal while opposition Panthers Party demanded the dismissal of the government, saying its coalition partner Congress was protesting against its own government.
Jammu and Kashmir Assembly Speaker Mohammad Akbar Lone had recently said that the seven BJP MLAs, suspended by the party for cross-voting during the Legislative for more details....
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A small aircraft with 18 people on board is feared to have crashed today in Indonesia's Sumatra island, officials said.
The Cassa 212, carrying 15 passengers and three crew, was flying from Medan city in North Sumatra to the nearby province of Aceh when it lost contact with air traffic control, Bambang Ervan said.
"It took off at 7:18 (0018GMT) and was supposed to land at 8:00,"the spokesman told media, adding that a search and rescue team was trying to find the aircraft.
"Most probably it crashed as it sent an emergency signal,"he said, adding it was not known whether there were foreigners on board.
Local search and rescue chief Suhri Sinaga said for more details....
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The Bombay Stock Exchange benchmark Sensex fell by 105 points in opening trade today, extending its losses on sustained selling by funds, tracking a weak trend in the rest of Asia.
The cautious approach adopted by participants, today being the last session before monthly expiry in the derivatives segment, also pulled down the 30-share BSE index in opening trade.
The 30-share Sensex, which lost 78.01 points in the previous session, moved down further by 105.18 points, or 0.64 per cent, to 16,340.84 in opening trade for more details....
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The Telangana, which entered its 16th day on Thursday , refuses to die down. Hyderabad has come to a complete standstill as protesters say that they will not give up their agitation for a separate statehood until the Centre intervenes. Protesting leaders of different parties were detained yesterday as they staged a rasta roko, paralysing traffic for several hours.
TRS legislators K T Rama Rao, Harish Rao besides BJP leaders including former union minister Bandaru Dattatreya, JAC convener M Kodandaram were among those who were taken into preventive custody for staging'rasta roko'agitation and disrupting traffic for more details....
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US authorities have arrested a suspected follower of al Qaeda and charged him with plotting an attack on the Pentagon with an explosive laden remote controlled aircraft.
Rezwan Ferdaus, a 26-year-old US citizen, was also charged with attempting to provide material support and resources toa foreign terrorist organisation, specifically to al Qaeda, in order to carry out attacks on US soldiers stationed overseas, the Justice Department said today.
He was arrested in Framingham, Massachusetts.
The public was never in danger from the explosive for more details....
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Kingfisher Airlines would stop operations of low cost carrier Kingfisher Red, Chairman Vijay Mallya said today.
"We have several initiatives. We are doing away with Kingfisher Red because we don't intend to compete in the low-cost segment,"Mallya told media here after the company's AGM.
"We believe there are more than enough guests who prefer to travel for more details....
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Though the government has lifted a ban on onion exports, the Indian produce is losing out to its rivals from neighbouring China and Pakistan due to high prices and uncertain policies, according to exporters.
"We could export a meagre 4,000-5,000 tonnes of onions during the last week (from September 20, when the ban was lifted, till September 27),"a senior office-bearer of the Mumbai-based Agriculture Export Association said.
Indian onions, which traditionally see great demand from markets in the Gulf, Far East (Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia) and Sri Lanka, are finding it for more details....
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Though the government has lifted a ban on onion exports, the Indian produce is losing out to its rivals from neighbouring China and Pakistan due to high prices and uncertain policies, according to exporters.
"We could export a meagre 4,000-5,000 tonnes of onions during the last week (from September 20, when the ban was lifted, till September 27),"a senior office-bearer of the Mumbai-based Agriculture Export Association said.
Indian onions, which traditionally see great demand from markets in the Gulf, Far East (Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia) and Sri Lanka, are finding it for more details....
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Gone are the days when— aunties in saris, clutching portfolios with haldi-edged horoscopes used to connect people for marriages. These days, liberalisation and personal choice has brought various changes in the institution of marriage, and so has changed the matchmakers. Online matchmakers are the most sought after means these days. Modern matches increasingly require new ways of connecting.
But in reality, finding someone online can be hard and time-consuming, and requires sifting through thousands of profiles to separate the wheat from the chaff. Despite for more details....
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The US has appealed to India to work with it in other parts of the world, just not only in South Asia."We are counting on India's rise not just as an economic partner but as a global power— one that engages everywhere from Latin America to the Middle East to East Asia,"deputy secretary of state William J Burns said in his remarks on'Is there a future for the US-India partnership?', organised jointly by the FICCI and Brookings Institute, a Washington-based eminent American think tank.
India's leadership in promoting a more stable South Asia– its multibillion dollar assistance commitment to Afghanistan, its determination to re-engage and normalise trade with Pakistan, and its joint projects to boost infrastructure and capacity in Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and the for more details....
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Odisha’s 3 lakh crore mining scam has belittled all other mining scams. Odisha is a State which accounts for over 30 percent of India’s iron ore deposits.
A CNN-IBN investigation has exposed a mining scam estimated at Rs 3 lakh crore, which can be possibly the mother of the Bellary mining scam in Karnataka and the Goa mining scam also.
In Odisha’s Keonhjar district is flourishing illegal mining where five companies have been charge-sheeted for illegal mining by the Odisha government’s vigilance department. Illegal mining operations in three companies– Serajuddin Mines, Rungta Mines and Indrani Patnaik Mines– were caught on camera by the CNN-IBN team.
The illegal mining continues inspite of the protest in the for more details....
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Uproarious scenes were witnessed in the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly on Wednesday over a resolution seeking clemency for death row convict Afzal Guru. A resolution seeking clemency for Guru, sentenced to death for his role the December 2001 attack on Parliament, has been submitted by Engineer Rashid, an independent MLA in the 87-member state legislative Assembly.
As soon as the House convened today, Opposition MLAs, primarily from the Jammu region, stormed into the well of the house demanding that the resolution should not be tabled in the House and taken up for discussion. Opposition MLAs hold view that the Assembly has no power for more details....
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The Pakistani government needs to take action against the links between its agencies and extremist organisations such as Haqqani network, the US said.
"I think we've been very clear about our views on this. One, that the Haqqani network was responsible for the attacks on US embassy in Kabul and then ISAF, as well as some others, and that the Pakistani government needs to take action to deal with the links that exist there,"White House Press Secretary for more details....
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Both gold and silver rebounded in the bullion market here on Tuesday on emergence of buying at prevailing lower levels by stockists and jewellery makers, supported by a rebound in global markets. While gold surged by Rs 275 to Rs 27,015 per 10 grams, silver gained Rs 1,500 to Rs 55,000 per kg.
The trading sentiment turned better after gold rallied in Singapore, as the biggest three-day drop since the failure of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. in 2008, encouraged purchases by investors seeking a store of value amid market turmoil. In Singapore, gold gaining for more details....
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What allowed the nurse to render that reassuring diagnosis of was a remarkably simple, brief and inexpensive procedure, one with the potential to do for poor countries what the Pap smear did for rich ones: end cervical cancer’s reign as the No. 1 cancer killer of women.The magic ingredient? Household vinegar.
Every year, more than 250,000 women die of cervical cancer, nearly 85 percent of them in poor and middle-income countries. Decades ago, it killed more American women than any other cancer; now it lags far behind cancers of the lung, breast, colon and skin.
In a path-breaking discovery by nurses at Johns Hopkins medical school, a remarkably simple, brief yet inexpensive procedure has been developed which can for more details....
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You would have thought that only a few things can stop James Bond. But Indian Railways is an exception in this. James Bond is no longer coming to India. Despite a green signal from the Indian railways ministry, plans to shoot a few action sequences for the British super spy film have been shelved. According to Indian Railways the film’s production company failed to reach a timely agreement with it.
Originally,“Bond 23” was meant to include an action sequence filmed on the railway tracks in Sabarmati, in India’s state of Gujarat, according to railway officials. Other rumored Indian locations included parts of Mumbai and Goa. Last month, spokespersons for more details....
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A bus carrying school students went off the road and fell into a ravine in Pakistan's Punjab province, killing at least 37 people and injuring over 70 others.
The bus was carrying students of Millat Public Grammar School of Faisalabad who were returning from an excursion to Kalar Kahar, about 200 km from Lahore. The accident occurred yesterday near Chakwal city.
A spokesman for the traffic police said the driver lost control of the bus when he was negotiating a turn on the motorway between federal capital Islamabad and Lahore. Senior police officer Malik Ehsan said the accident occurred due to brake failure. Local media reports also blamed for more details....
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The recent Slut Walks from New York to New Delhi saw women speaking for their sexuality and right to wear what they wanted in public without the threat of molestation. Saudi Arabian women may be unknown to this, participating in it is a dream. The women who have been living under cruel conservatism and stronghold patriarchy were fighting for something much more fundamental: the right to drive. One of the most conservative areas of the world, Saudi Arabia still stands out as an example of extremely conservative laws which are biased against women. While many agree that the kingdom was lucky in escaping the turmoil of the Arab Spring, the recent protests seeking to allow women to drive were an offshoot of that feeling of protest.
Saudi Arabia’s ruler, King Abdullah, is seen as an alert reformer, and he wasn’t blind to the potential spillover effect of the popular protests in his backyard. The speech for more details....
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Charlie Sheen, Warner Bros and 'Two And A Half Men' co-creator Chuck Lorre have settled their USD 100 million legal dispute.
Sheen has been on an apology spree after recovering from his public meltdown, which led to his firing from the hit show.
"Warner Bros Television, Chuck Lorre and Charlie Sheen have resolved their dispute to the parties'mutual satisfaction. The pending lawsuit and arbitration will be dismissed as to all parties. The parties have agreed to maintain confidentiality over the terms of the settlement,"the studio said in a statement.
According to the Hollywood Reporter Lorre will pay nothing as part of the settlement. And Sheen has agreed to refrain from media bashing of his former boss. USD 25 million has changed hands for more details....
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A man tries to end his life because of poverty, debt or some loss. Can we call such an individual a criminal? Yes, says Section 309 of the Indian Penal Code 1860, condemning “whoever attempts to commit suicide” to “simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine, or with both.”
After a history of appeals and repeals the government is yet again thinking of decriminalising an attempt to suicide. The government intends to remove section 309 of the Indian Penal Code that punishes attempt to suicide with one-year simple imprisonment for more details....
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Irritating calls from telemarketers will be a thing of past from today as telecom operators are going to block pesky calls and messages as per regulator Trai''s recommendations.
"All our operators are ready to implement the recommendations of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) to curb the menace of unsolicited calls and SMSes.
However, we are concerned about the 100 SMSes per SIM a day and we will be in discussion with the regulator to sort this out,"telecom lobby COAI''s Director General Rajan S Mathews said.
On September 5, after much delay, Trai came out with recommendations to stop pesky calls and text messages from September 27. The regulator has ordered that for more details....
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External Affairs Minister S M Krishna today met his Pakistani counterpart Hina Rabbani Khar at a reception hosted by the Pakistan mission to the United Nations.
The meeting at the social event between the two foreign minister was a brief one.
Indian envoy to the UN Hardeep Singh Puri had earlier said that the "possibility" of a meeting between Krishna and Khar in a social for more details....
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Sonia Gandhi stepped in to quell factional fires, with senior ministers Pranab Mukherjee and P Chidambaram meeting her on Monday evening in what seems an effort to put a lid on the damaging controversy over a finance ministry note on 2G spectrum.
With the finance ministry note suggesting home minister P Chidambaram - in his role as finance minister in UPA-1 -- failed to check ex-telecom minister A Raja giving the 2G scam a fresh political twist, the Congress president was forced to act despite still recovering from a surgery.
After Mukherjee's discussions with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New York on Sunday, his meeting Sonia just after Chidambaram called on her is clearly for more details....
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An explosion wrecked two homes, a business and several cars, killing a woman and injuring nine people on the outskirts of Argentina's capital.
Early reports by some witnesses that they had seen a ball of fire fall from the for more details....
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Belly fat, linked with diabetes and heart disease, and could also have a bearing on the development of asthma, research in Norway shows.
Previous studies have found a link between asthma and body mass index (BMI), a height to weight ratio that's an indicator of overall obesity. Researchers followed 23,245 adults without asthma, aged 19-55 years from the second Norwegian Nord-Trondelag Health Study (HUNT), for 11 years, according to a statement of Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
The participants had their BMI measured along with their waist circumference to test overall obesity and central obesity, respectively. They were also asked for more details....
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Real estate developer Parsvnath today said it has received shareholders'approval to raise up to Rs 2,000 crore through the issue of securities to qualified institutional buyers.
In a filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), the company said it has received approvals to raise up to Rs 2,000 crore in long-term funds through the issuance of securities.
The company will raise the amount"by way of Qualified Institutional Placement (QIP) to Qualified Institutional Buyers (QIB),"it added.
The board of the company had earlier sanctioned the implementation for more details....
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Bollywood's ever green star Dev Anand turned 88 today.
The actor-filmmaker celebrated his birthday by cutting a cake before the mediapersons.
"Unfortunately my phone is not working today and my son was getting lots of calls as my fans want to wish me,"he told media here.
"I love my fans and seek their good wishes all the time,"he added.
Dev Anand said he is throwing a party this evening, which would be attended by Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan among others.
"There will be a party in the evening where prominent personalities are coming. The CM for more details....
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Bol Hyderabad is a community radio station launched by the University of Hyderabad. It has been developed with the collaboration and help of people from various areas such as university students, civil servants, educationists, IT professionals, scholars and farmers. This radio offers combines real life issues with entertainment.
Bol Hyderabad aims at covering objective coverage using contributions from all sections of the society, coverage of different vernacular languages and mixing substance with entertainment. The radio has a modest range of about 15 Km around the Gachibowli for more details....
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Amid a diplomatic row over links between ISI and the Haqqani group, Pakistan's military will defy US and not take action against the militant network and foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar will continue with her Washington visit.
Officials in the Prime Minister's House hadinitially told the media that Khar would return immediately.
Foreign Office officials later clarified that Khar would return to Pakistan after delivering her speech at the UN General Assembly.
The premier on Sunday asked Khar to cut short her visit to the US and return to Pakistan to brief a meeting of the top political leadership that he intends to convene this week.
Despite the crisis, Pakistan's military will not take action against the Haqqani network which Washington blames for an attack against its embassy in Kabul, despite for more details....
