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PIO wins Australian award

August 14, 2006

Indian-Australian cookery writer Promila Gupta has won the ‘Pride of Australia’ award this year for her work in promoting Indian culture.

August 14, 2006

In Andhra, TDP alleges political bias in relief work

August 14, 2006

The Telugu Desam Party (TDP), alleging that the Andhra Pradesh government was showing ‘‘political discrimination’’ in conducting relief and rehabilitation operations

August 14, 2006

Minister denies speaking to UP don

August 14, 2006

Union Minister of State for Home Manik Rao Gavit on Sunday denied having spoken to an alleged mafia don in Uttar Pradesh to help solve a land dispute for his son-in-law.

August 14, 2006

Charity funds sent to PoK banks for aircraft plot: UK report

August 14, 2006

Certain UK-based Muslim charities had transferred “huge sums” to banks in PoK to pay for the airline bombing plot, and some of the terror suspects visited al-Qaeda camps posing as quake relief workers

August 14, 2006

Don’t accept any change in N-deal, Yechury warns PM

August 14, 2006

Asserting that the US is deviating from the original parameters of the Indo-US nuclear deal...

August 14, 2006

Babesiosis: Birsa cats sent to Vizag centre

August 14, 2006

After babesiosis killed six animals at the Birsa Zoological Park here within a month, five lions and a tigress from the facility were on Sunday sent to the Indira Gandhi Zoological Rescue Centre at Visakhapatanam.

August 14, 2006

Put an end to forward trading: Left

August 14, 2006

The CPI(M) today demanded the abolition of forward trading in essential commodities and said the non-imposition of long-term capital gains tax by the government was ‘‘unjustifiable’’.

August 14, 2006

Four major terror plots in UK foiled since 7/7

August 14, 2006

At least four major terror plots have been thwarted since the July 7 attacks here last year...

August 14, 2006

New Doordarshan channel in Urdu from August 15

August 14, 2006

A new Doordarshan channel in Urdu will be launched by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Independence Day, the government announced today.

August 14, 2006

HC refuses to expunge remarks on ICICI Bank

August 13, 2006

Standing by its earlier view that banks like ICICI cannot employ musclemen to recover loans...

August 13, 2006

No terror camps here: PoK PM

August 13, 2006

New Prime Minister of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, Attique Khan asked India on Sunday not to contemplate a ‘‘policy of hot pursuit,’’...

August 13, 2006

Disqualification plea against SP MLAs: Speaker reserves orders

August 13, 2006

Uttar Pradesh Assembly Speaker Mata Prasad Pandey on Saturday reserved his order on the disqualification petition against four of the five SP MLAs who had voted for BSP candidates in the recent Rajya Sabha biennial polls.

August 13, 2006

Over 200 Tigers killed in Lanka clashes

August 13, 2006

Over 200 Tamil Tiger rebels and 27 Sri Lankan soldiers were killed today in the heaviest fighting since the 2002 truce in the island’s embattled northeast.

August 13, 2006

Now a ‘coolie’ slur lands on Hashim Amla

August 12, 2006

South Africa’s Indian-origin Test batsman Hashim Amla has come in for yet another racist attack after the Dean Jones’ “terrorist” incident.

August 12, 2006

PM announces relief packages

August 12, 2006

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh made an aerial survey of the flood-affected areas of Surat and announced financial aid of Rs 350 crore for the city.

August 12, 2006

Buchanan plans a jungle camp

August 12, 2006

The Australian cricket team’s plans to have a short ‘jungle-camp’ ahead of the Ashes have raised doubts from within with Shane Warne questioning the rationale behind the concept and its timing.

August 12, 2006

Rains follow Indians to the Island

August 12, 2006

Cometh the Indian team, cometh the rain. The South-West monsoon that had held itself back all through three weeks of the Sri Lanka-South Africa Test series

August 12, 2006

I don’t think Pathan had too much workload, says Dravid

August 12, 2006

Rahul Dravid today denied Irfan Pathan was being subjected to “too much workload” and said the hype over his brief loss of form was only because he had raised the expectations of everyone by his performances.

August 12, 2006

‘Middle-overs batting will be key’

August 12, 2006

Win back home no advantage over Sri Lanka, says Team India skipper Rahul Dravid

August 12, 2006

US Muslims upset over ‘Islamic facists’ remark

August 12, 2006

A leading Islamic civil rights group in the United States has expressed ‘‘concern’’ over President George W Bush’s use of the term ‘‘Islamic fascists’’ while commenting on the terrorist plot to bomb several airliners, saying it contributes to ‘‘hostility’’ to Islam.

August 12, 2006

Hitler wanted Bible rewritten, 10 Commandments revised

August 11, 2006

Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler had instructed a group of German theologians to rewrite the Bible and the New Testament to serve the war against the ‘‘eternal Jewish enemy,’’ according to a media report.

August 11, 2006

US refuses to comment on Pak links

August 11, 2006

The Bush administration today remained tightlipped on the role played by US intelligence agencies in busting the suspected al-Qaeda plot to blow up airliners over the Atlantic and its Pakistani links.

August 11, 2006

Lanka: PMK asks Centre to intervene

August 11, 2006

A constituent of the UPA coalition at the Centre, the PMK, on Thursday asked the Centre to intervene to stop the ‘‘genocide’’ of Tamils in Sri Lanka. PMK founder S Ramadoss

August 11, 2006

Sonia, Pranab get a bumpy guided tour in an army truck

August 11, 2006

Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee, after making an aerial survey of flood-hit Gujarat, today took a bumpy ride in an Army truck through Surat, the worst-hit area.

August 11, 2006