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Selling less gold coins may not reduce consumption SBI chief
State Bank of India (SBI) chairman Pratip Chaudhuri Saturday said the central bank's request to banks not to aggressively sell gold products may not lead to a reduction in consumption and greater steps are required to check the demand for the precious metal. On the back of huge gold imports, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) earlier suggested that banks should be less active on selling gold coins ...
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Disability issues must be addressed on priority Experts
Practical issues related to disability like rehabilitation, empowerment, main-streaming, education and employment need to be addressed on a priority basis, experts said here Saturday. At a seminar, the experts focussed on the importance of implementing accessibility standards and complying with different accessibility laws for differently-abled people. N. Subramanian, senior consultant, ...
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Teachers turn students at a workshop
For three days, about 45 teachers and principals from different schools turned students and learnt how to enhance the quality of teaching methods at a workshop here. The three-day workshop, 'Gurkul for Gurus', sponsored by Malabar Golds and Diamond for school teachers and principals ended Saturday. About 45 teachers and principals from Delhi, Chandigarh, Lucknow and other cities of north India ...
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Law and order has improved in Assam Gogoi
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said here Saturday there was considerable improvement in the law and order situation in the state over the past 12 years. He added that the government has been able to bring almost all insurgent outfits to the negotiating table. Gogoi completed his second year as chief minister for the third consecutive term Saturday. He said that while 412 civilians were ...
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Bengal minister quits
Three months after losing a by-poll, West Bengal minister Humayun Kabir resigned Saturday, two days ahead of the six month period mandated by the constitution within which a minister must get elected to the legislature. Kabir, who won the 2011 elections from Rejinagar in Murshidabad district on a Congress ticket, resigned from the seat and the party and switched over to the Trinamool last ...
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Tamil Nadu Police expect breakthrough in match fixing
The Tamil Nadu Police is expecting a breakthrough soon in the cricket betting case in which six bookies were arrested here Friday, a police officer said. "We expect to achieve a breakthrough in the case soon. We raided three premises here Saturday," a police official of Crime Branch Crime Investigation Department (CB-CID) told IANS on the condition of anonymity. Police said that the Chennai ...
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Gurgaon to have Indias first defence varsity
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will lay the foundation stone of the first Indian National Defence University (INDU) here May 23, an official said Saturday. The INDU will provide for holistic study of defence and strategic security challenges. It will be will be set up at village Binola, 26 km from Gurgaon city in Haryana on National Highway 8. Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda will ...
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Hottest day of the season in New Delhi
Delhi reeled under a scorching 43.2 degrees Celsius on Saturday, this also makes it the hottest day of the season and it is likely to get worse in coming days. The temperature was way above normal while the minimum temperature at 24.8 degrees Celsius remained one degree below normal, a Meteorological Department official said. It was hot in New Delhi since morning and there was no respite from ...
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Protest ahead of Chinese premiers India visit
Ahead of Chinese Premier Li Keqiang's visit to India, about 50 people Saturday held a protest here demanding suspension of talks with China. The protest was organised at Jantar Mantar by the Nationalists Forum of India and support by the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad - the student wing of the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh - and the Swadeshi Jagran Manch. The protestors burnt an effigy of ...
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Would like to finish with a win KKR coach
Already out of contention for a place in play-offs, Kolkatta Knight Riders is keen to finish off this Indian Premier League (IPL) with a win against Sunrisers Hyderabad here Sunday, its coach said. "It is a must-win game for us. We would like to finish with a win. It has not been greatest tournament for us. We didn't play as well as last year. We would like to finish off with a positive," KKR ...
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Heavy rain delays last IPL league tie in Bangalore
Heavy rain late Saturday delayed the start of the Pepsi IPL-6 T20 tournament's last league tie between hosts Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) and Chennai Super Kings (CSK) at the Chinnaswamy stadium here. "The 8 p.m. match is delayed by at least 30-45 minutes as it is still raining and the outfield is wet all over though the pitch has been well covered," an official of the Karnataka State ...
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Ansari heading to Uzbekistan in first vice presidential visit
Vice President Hamid Ansari is heading to Uzbekistan, a key Central Asian country, from May 21-24 for talks with President Islam Karimov that are expected to focus on Afghanistan and counter-terrorism cooperation among other issues. It will be the first visit by an Indian vice president to the land-locked country, with which India shares deep-rooted historical and cultural ties. Ansari will ...
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Li will get chance to explain incursion to Manmohan
The recent incursion by Chinese troops cast a "pretty dark shadow" on India-China relations, but the issue was handled "maturely" by both and probably Chinese Premier Li Keqiang will "get a chance to explain why, what happened" during his talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, sources said Saturday. The shadow of the 20-day boundary stand-off, caused by the April 15 incursion of Chinese ...
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IPL Scoreboard Kings XI vs Mumbai Indians
Scoreboard of the Indian Premier League (IPL) match between Kings XI Punjab and Mumbai Indians at the Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium here Saturday. Kings XI Punjab: Adam Gilchrist b Coulter-Nile 5 Mandeep Singh c Pollard b Dhawan 1 Azhar Mahmood lbw Malinga 80 Shaun Marsh b Harbhajan 63 David Miller c Coulter-Nile b Pollard 6 Manan Vohra not out 20 Gurkeerat Singh lbw ...
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Kings XI beat table toppers Indians by 50 runs
Playing their final league match, Kings XI Punjab finished on a winning note by beating table-toppers Mumbai Indians by 50 runs in their Indian Premier League (IPL) clash here at the Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium Saturday. It was also the last match of their captain, Adam Gilchrist, who has announced his retirement from the format. Put into bat, the home team posted a challenging ...
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IPL scam Sreesanths phones laptops seized arrested quizzed jointly
The probe into the IPL spot-match fixing scam was intensified Saturday with Mumbai police seizing the mobiles, iPhones and laptops of cricketer S.Sreesanth and his relative, bookie Jiju Janardhan while the three arrested players were jointly quizzed. Police are also scanning the diaries of Sreesanth which contain significant information pertaining to the scam, Mumbai Police's Joint Commissioner ...
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Sleepless nights no baths for Sreesanth
For fast bowler S. Sreesanth, it was two days of sleepless nights and no bath as the disgraced cricketer was not "comfortable" with the bathroom. Alone in the small cell of the Delhi Police, he mostly looks glum, depressed and breaks down often during questioning, police sources said Saturday. On the second day of questioning by the interrogators of the Delhi Police Special Cell, which busted ...
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Top Mumbai cop says phones used to contact IPL bookies in India Dubai and Pakistan
Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime), Mumbai, Himanshu Roy revealed on Saturday 30 phones were used during the spot-fixing episode in the sixth edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL). He said these phones were used to connect with bookies in India, Pakistan and Dubai via conference calls. "We raided premises in the Kalbadevi area on 14 May and arrested bookie Ramesh Vyas. 92 mobile phones ...
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Spot fixing Three cricketers questioned together
Three Rajasthan Royal players, S. Sreesanth, Ajit Chandila and Ankit Chavan, arrested for alleged spot fixing in IPL cricket matches, were Saturday questioned in each others presence by Delhi Police, an official said. The suspects confessed their crime but blamed each other for dragging them into spot fixing, police sources said. The accused cricketers, who are in police custody, were brought ...
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Rahul Gandhi praises Chandy slams Kerala CPI-M
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi Saturday praised Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy and asked the CPI-M to introspect and rethink its ideology. Gandhi was addressing the valedictory function of a yatra by state Congress chief Ramesh Chennithala, who travelled across Lerala's 140 assembly constituencies. "The opposition here and their ideology are being systematically used to unleash ...
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15 percent funds earmarked for sanitation projects
The government is earmarking 15 percent of the total outlay of all projects in any district for proper sanitation and clean drinking water, officials said Saturday. More emphasis has been put on Information Education Communication (IEC) by earmarking 15 percent of the total outlay of district projects for IEC activities, they said. The rural development ministry is working out a conjoint ...
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Wansuk becomes first Meghalaya woman to scale Everest
Wansuk Myrthong Saturday became the first woman from Meghalaya to conquer the 8,848 ft Mount Everest. This is the second time that a Meghalayan scaled the highest peak of the world after Gary Jarman Lamare, a photographer with Discovery Channel, became the first from Meghalaya to summit it last year. The 30-year-old Wansuk, a woman armed police constable in the 1st Meghalaya Police battalion, ...
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The Lunchbox at Cannes actress Nimrat Kaur not surprised
Actress Nimrat Kaur, who features in Ritesh Batra's "The Lunchbox", says she is not surprised to see that the film has been selected for the ongoing 66th Cannes International Film Festival. "I am really proud of the film. It is a very personal film for the director. It is an honest film and is not trying to be something which it is not. It is very true to the place it is trying to create. While ...
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Saradha promoter says happy with scam probe
Days after submitting an affidavit in the court opposing a Central Bureau of Investigation probe, Saradha chit fund scam's suspected kingpin Sudipta Sen Saturday said he was happy with the course of the investigation being carried out by the West Bengal Police. "I am happy, happy, happy," Sen - now behind bars - replied to journalists, as he was being taken to the court during the day. With the ...
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When Farhan Akhtar started missing Don
While shooting a TV commercial in Kuala Lumpur, actor-filmmaker Farhan Akhtar constantly feared 'Don' might emerge out of somewhere. He reminisced the days when he shot his 2006 film "Don" in the city. "Just filmed a TV commercial in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. I kept thinking 'Don' is going to suddenly pop out around some corner," tweeted the 39-year-old. Akhtar's remake of the 1970s Amitabh ...
Calcutta Spotlight
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Stephen Court disaster: any lessons learned?
Over 700 buildings in Calcutta are not compliant with safety regulations with regard to the risk of fire, and the Stephen Court disaster was a tangible example of what can happen when a fire breaks out in an unsafe building. Following that disaster, the local government seems to be taking a harder line on fire safety.
At 2.30pm on the 23 March, 2010, a devastating fire, allegedly caused by an electrical short circuit, ripped through the iconic Stephen Court building in Calcutta, destroying a large part of the 150-year-old office and residential block and killing over 30 people. Read more
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