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School children from the valley joined hands with the Nigeen Lake Conservation Organisation in a clean-up operation.

The toll in the Assam blasts rose to 10 with two of the 61 injured succumbing to their injuries.

Sri Rama Sene leader Pramod Muthalik was taken into preventive custody in Mysore on Monday,police said.

Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry Govind Singh Gurjar died at a private hospital here on Monday following a brief illness.

Four security guards of a private company were shot dead and another critically injured in an attack by suspected extremists in Jharkhand's Latehar district.

Prime Minister was scheduled to hold a poll rally in the district,which was cancelled on Sunday due to some unspecified reasons.

Arjun Singh's daughter Veena Singh filed her nomination papers as an Independent candidate from Sidhi Parliamentary seat in eastern MP.

Aniruddh Prasad alias Sadhu Yadav,the rebellious brother-in-law of Railway Minister Lalu Prasad,filed his nomination for the West Champaran seat.

Police have directed the residents living near sensitive polling booths in Kanpur to submit their licensed weapons to nearest police stations.

SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav found himself in a tight spot when asked about his recent friendship with former BJP leader Kalyan Singh.

District Magistrate said that Maneka Gandhi had sought permission to meet Varun but he had told her that she can only meet him after April 8.

BJP has chalked out a detailed poll campaign plan for L K Advani who is fighting Lok Sabha election from the Gandhinagar seat.

Mahatma Gandhi is revered all over the country,but people at a sleepy little village remember him in a very special way - by worshipping his idol.

SC issued notices to UP Govt and DM of Pilibhit for slapping NSA against Varun Gandhi in connection with his alleged hate speeches.

The infiltrators had sneaked in last week and the Army continues its search in the forests of Gurez. So far,one infiltrator has been killed in the operation that entered into its second week

If only silt from its surroundings keeps on depositing in Dal Lake,it will take another 346 years to disappear. And siltation of the lake bed is only one small reason for the death of the Dal.

JD(U) termed the coming together of RJD supremo Lalu Prasad,LJP Chief Ram Vilas Paswan and SP President Mulayam Singh Yadav as 'an opportunistic one'.

Relief operations were stepped up in tornado-ravaged areas of Orissa where the devastating calamity claimed at least 10 lives and left over 150 injured.

Parents demand that schools need to come out transparent with their expenditure and there needs to be an audit conducted for the same.

SC dismissed the contempt petition filed against Tamil Nadu CM M Karunanidhi and Union Transport Minister T R Baalu in connection with October,2007 state bandh.

Is stone-pelting as a form of resistance Islamic? This is a question whose answer deeply preoccupies Kashmir these days.

In three years,a pro-active pursuit of the case by the HC has turned Dal restoration into J-K’s most popular issue outside its treacherous politics.

Nigeen Lake’s conservation organization NLCO,an NGO,has set up an example by taking an initiative to save a lake,however small it may be.