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Transponder services restoredBANGALORE: Services hit by a transponder failure in Insat-2B have now been restored, according to Indian Spa...

Transponder services restored

BANGALORE: Services hit by a transponder failure in Insat-2B have now been restored, according to Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) here. "They (the services) have been accommodated in other transponders," ISRO sources said. A transponder in Insat-2B, launched on July 1993 by the Ariane launch vehicle, failed on Monday evening, affecting department of telecommunications’ services.

Staines’ probe

NEW DELHI: Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) have began investigating the brutal killing of Australian missionary Graham Stewart Staines and his two sons in Orissa in January last. A team of senior agency officers, led by joint director M L Sharma, have already left for the State to carry on the probe, CBI sources said here on Wednesday.

Naxals attack

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HYDERABAD: Naxalites went on a rampage blasting a rice mill owned by a ruling Telugu Desam Party functionary and torching a State-owned bus in two separate incidents in Andhra Pradesh on Tuesdaynight.

Blast averted

SRINAGAR: A major catastrophe was averted on Wednesday when police detected an auto-rickshaw bomb planted by suspected militants in the busy banking area in the centre of the city, an official spokesman said.