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Govt rules out compromise with army chief age row

New Delhi, Feb 7: The Supreme Court on Friday will hear the army chief's case as General chief VK Singh has been fighting the case against government. Ministry of Defence sources said that the government has denied to compromise with that

TN: No relief for Sasikala's relative, bail plea dismissed

Chennai, Feb 7: The Tamil Nadu district court on Monday ordered Ravanan, a close relative of Sasikala, to be kept in police custody for two days. Ravanan has been accused of cheating a contractor.Adinathan, the Principal District Judge dismissed the hearing

Mulayam says no forced acquisition of land

Ghazipur, Feb 7: Samajwadi Party President Mulayam Singh Yadav on Tuesday said that on coming to power his party would not allow forced acquisition of farmers' land. Addressing an election meeting here, Yadav said that relief would also be provided

Closely monitoring events in Maldives: India

New Delhi, Feb 7: India on Tuesday said it was closely monitoring the "sudden turn of events" in Maldives, where the President resigned following series of protests, but termed it as "internal matter" which as of now needs no outside assistance

CBI intensifies its probe in 2G allocation during NDA regime

New Delhi, Feb 7: The CBI has intensified its probe in 2G spectrum allocation during the NDA regime when late Pramod Mahajan was the telecom minister and asked the Department of Telecom (DoT) to provide license agreements with all telecom providers between

Railways extends ticket booking period to 120 days

New Delhi, Feb 7: To cope with the demand for tickets, the Railways has decided to increase the advance reservation period from 90 days to 120 days from March 10. "Now one can book his train ticket 120 days before

Moily defends PM, says he acted swiftly to cancel Devas deal

Chennai, Feb 7: Defending Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the Antrix-Devas deal issue, Union Corporate Affairs Minister Veerappa Moily today said the former never wanted tohide anything and had acted swiftly and scrapped the pact."...Now things are coming out...Two committees wereappointed by

Speak Asia to deposit investors money before Supreme Court

New Delhi, Feb 7: The Supreme Court has directed the Singapore-based firm Speak Asia, accused of duping investors to the tune of Rs 1,300 crore, to deposit before it the amount payable to investors and concerned authorities. A bench of

Jaya starts pre-budget review meetings

Chennai, Feb 7: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Tuesday set in motion a series of pre-budget review meetings, taking up her Home Department portfolio to startwith. Today's discussion centered around the issues to be taken up for the

Yashwant Sinha takes blame for 2G, CWG, Adarsh, AI scam etc.

New Delhi, Feb 7: After the Supreme Court's decision to cancel the 122 illegal 2G spectrum licenses as well as letting Home Minister P Chidamabaram off the hook from the telecom scam, the move has evoked a war of words between

K'taka: BJP's five mantras to make Yeddyruppa happy

Bangalore, Feb 7: BJP on Monday, Feb 6, has planned some strategies to retain former Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa for the election tours and programmes. BJP leaders and RSS gave a statement that Yeddyurappa would not get any position unless he

Petitioner behind case against FB, Google face hackers ire

New Delhi, Feb 7: In what can be easily called a tit-for-tat move by hackers and those who oppose online censorship, the website of the petitioner, who is also an Islamic scholar was defaced. He was the one person who raised

AFSPA is not to protect acts of crime: Omar Abdullah

Jammu, Feb 7: Citing the Supreme Court's recent observation, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, who has been pitching for partial revocation of Armed Force Special Powers Act (AFSPA) in the state, on Tuesday said the statute was not aimed at

Around 1,000 DMDK workers desert Vijaykanth, join AIADMK

Chennai, Feb 7: A week after a fiery exchange of words between Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa and Leader of Opposition Vijayakanth in the Tamil Nadu Assembly, around 1,000 DMDK functionaries and workers, including the actor-politician's close friend Ibrahim Rowther joined the

Has Air India stopped breath analyser checks for pilots?

New Delhi, Feb 7: Cash strapped Air India has almost stopped alcohol breath analyser checks, according to an RTI query.A Right to Information Act shows that Air India has not been following the DGCA's rule, which is being looked upon as

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