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Rajasthan plans linking of rivers and water reservoirs in next 5 years
The Rajasthan government plans to link rivers and water reservoirs in the next five years. Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje said that her government had initiated the ambitious project which would help in the state's development.
PM Modi to move to his official residence 7 RCR today: sources
Modi will be the first Prime Minister who will move into the official residence of the Prime Minister of India without his family.
French Open: Mirza-Black advance; Bopanna-Qureshi bumped out
Fifth seeds Sania and Black breezed past their first round opponents while the popular duo of Bopanna and Qureshi were shown the door in the men's doubles.
SIT on black money to hold its first meeting on June 4
The government notified the SIT on May 27 after the Supreme Court had last week had granted it one week to constitute the high-profile team comprising top bosses of country's premier investigation, enforcement and intelligence agencies.
Edward Snowden says he was trained 'as a spy'
Snowden was charged last year in the US with theft of government property and unauthorised communication of national defense information to an unauthorised person.
Australia says missing Malaysia plane not where 'pings' heard
Flight MH370, carrying 239 passengers and crew, disappeared from radar screens on March 8 shortly after taking off from Kuala Lumpur bound for Beijing.
After facing massive defeat in LS polls, Akhilesh gets cracking
Akhilesh Yadav is angry, and how! The Samajwadi Party was routed in the Lok Sabha polls and now the Uttar Pradesh chief minister has dissolved the state executive of the party, disbanded all subsidiary affilate organizations and has turned his ire on the...
Blow for Sahara, request for house arrest of Subrata Roy rejected
The apex court has also directed the Sahara group for valuation of 3 three properties which have been mortgaged with the Bank of China.
Wanted Maoist leader arrested
A Maoist leader, wanted in connection with the killing of a police officer in 2009, was arrested from a riverine area near Ghelpur Chaturpatti village of Bihar's Muzaffarpur district on Thursday.
Sriprakash Jaiswal leads protest march against power cuts
Former coal minister Sriprakash Jaiswal on Wednesday led a protest march against unscheduled power cuts in the city.
Suicide victim obtains 1st division in CBSE results
In a twist of fate, a 17-year-old girl, who leapt to death from a multi-storied residential complex apprehending poor performance in Class XII examination of Central Board of Secondary education in Adityapur, secured first division in the results announce...
Anglican leader says Pakistan's minorities should have equal rights
The Archbishop of Canterbury on Wednesday called for Pakistan to safeguard the rights of its religious minorities and afford them equal treatment under the law.
Bokaro MLA Samresh Singh sent to jail
A local court on Wednesday sent the MLA from Bokaro Samresh Singh to jail in a case of Prevention of Defacement of Property Act 1987, The hearing on Singh's bail petition will be held on Thursday.
TDP demands Bharat Ratna for NT Rama Rao
The TDP on Wednesday urged the NDA government, of which it is a constituent, to confer the Bharat Ratna, the nation's highest civil award, on party founder and former Andhra Pradesh chief minister NT Rama Rao.
MLAs elected as MPs yet to resign from Assembly
The Rajasthan Assembly has far not received resignations from any of the four MLAs who were elected as MPs in the recently-concluded Lok Sabha polls, its Speaker on Wednesday said.
Shivraj lauds Centre's initiative to set up SIT to unearth black money
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has lauded the central government's decision to constitute a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to unearth black money.
