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Film world will get industry status
MUMBAI: Information and Broadcasting Minister Sushma Swaraj on Sunday announced the film industry would be granted the status of an industry. quot;It was long due. It should have been done much earlier,quot; Swaraj said. quot;If you want the cinema to get rid of mafia money and underworld, then you have to give them good finances,quot; she said. The minister said there was no need for parliament to pass a bill for granting industry status to the film industry, adding a government order was enough for the purpose.
Moradabad riots
MORADABAD: Altogether 215 persons have been arrested in connection with Friday8217;s communal clashes so far while police dispersed a mob defying curfew which continued in four police station areas here with the death toll rising to four on Sunday.
China missile
BEIJING: China8217;s air force has successfully tested a new type of air-to-air missile, The Guangzhou daily said on Sunday. The test, conducted over a base in BadanjilinDesert in northwest China recently, involved a new type of jet fighter firing the missile at an unmanned drone.
Armymen drown
JAMMU: Five Armymen of the 5th Sikh regiment were drowned on Sunday when their boat capsized in the Chenab river in Udhampur district.
Nurses8217; strike
NEW DELHI: The Centre on Sunday sacked 13 nurses in a bid to break the six-day old nurses8217; agitation which has crippled Capital8217;s health services.
Bangla mishap
DHAKA: AT least 17 people including three women were killed and 26 injured when a Chittagong-bound passenger train ploughed into standing goods coaches at Naoti in south-eastern Bangladesh on Sunday. The accident occurred at 0452 hours.
