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Briefly South

Tuesday 17 November '09

A local court here on Monday acquitted the Managing Director of the popular Saravana Bhavan group of hotels in a fake passport and documents case.
Rajapaksa delays poll announcement as Fonseka leaves

Tuesday 17 November '09

General Sarath Fonseka on Monday bade farewell to the Army and said he will announce his future plans in a couple of days...
Oz docs operate on conjoined twins from Bangladesh

Tuesday 17 November '09

A team of Australian surgeons have begun a marathon 16-hour risky surgery to separate three-year old Bangladeshi twins Krishna and Trishna who are joined at the head.
IPL 2011 to have ten teams, pink balls

Tuesday 17 November '09

Two new teams, four fielding substitutes instead of the lone 12th man, pink balls in practice matches and abolishing the Icon player...
Langer appointed Aus batting coach

Tuesday 17 November '09

Former Australian opener Justin Langer was on Monday appointed the national team’s batting coach for the upcoming cricket season.
Nuclear installations put on high alert

Monday 16 November '09

Nuke installations across India have been put on high alert as it has been found that David Headley had visited some states having atomic installations.
BSP releases list of Legislative Council candidates

Monday 16 November '09

The ruling Bahujan Samaj Party has declared the names of its candidates for all the 36 seats of the UP Legislative Council from the local body constituencies.
Survey for conservation of clouded leopard

Monday 16 November '09

A survey is underway to ascertain the exact number of the reclusive and endangered clouded leopards at the Buxa Tiger Rerserve in North Bengal to prepare an action plan for their conservation.
DDA to issue allotment letters soon

Monday 16 November '09

The Delhi Development Authority said on Sunday that it will complete issuing allotment letters to successful applicants of the 2008 housing scheme, which was mired in controversy over allegations of rigging.
Rs 5 lakh each to villages that swept Chavan to victory

Monday 16 November '09

Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan has announced Rs 5 lakh each to three villages of Bhokar Assembly constituency...
Jyotiraditya plays teacher, farmer

Monday 16 November '09

Apparently taking a cue from Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi, Union Minister of State for Commerce and Industries...
Govt to formulate policy to check ‘study abroad’ agents

Monday 16 November '09

The Centre is considering formulating a policy to check the growth of educational agents who lure students to study abroad without proper verification of colleges.
Pachauri rubbishes report on glaciers

Monday 16 November '09

Rubbishing the claim by a government-backed study that melting of glaciers was not due to climate change, leading environmentalist R K Pachauri...
From graves to cubicles: Space crunch forces an afterlife journey

Monday 16 November '09

Nature's law of the old yielding place to new seems to have found an echo in the world of the dead too.
Briefly Nation

Monday 16 November '09

India will completely shut down, and subsequently decommission, the 40-MW CIRUS nuclear research reactor at Bhabha Atomic...
Andhra goes ahead with YSR memorial in reserve forest as ecologists protest

Monday 16 November '09

Even as the Centre awaits a report from it on the proposed YSR memorial, the Andhra Pradesh government has gone ahead with the project inviting...
Pranab takes up Tamil refugee issue with Rajapaksa

Monday 16 November '09

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday called on Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa and discussed bilateral relations and...
Defiant Pak brothers get rich with erotic wear

Monday 16 November '09

Two Pakistani brothers who earn millions by selling leather-made erotic wear to the West are still going strong despite threats from hardliners.
Granta editor who rejected Rushdie’s essay sacked, author denies any role

Monday 16 November '09

Sir Salman Rushdie has got into a literary row, after it is claimed that he may have been involved in the sacking of books magazine Granta’s editor...
No nightouts without permission, Indian board tells cricketers

Monday 16 November '09

The BCCI on Sunday made it clear that the Indian cricketers would not be allowed nightouts which may endanger their security during the Test series again Sri Lanka.
Essar picks up majority stake in Warid Telecom in Uganda, Congo

Monday 16 November '09

The Ruias-owned Essar group today announced the acquisition of a majority stake in Dhabi Group’s Warid Telecom operation in Uganda and...
SP to decide on support to UPA ‘at the right time’: Mulayam

Sunday 15 November '09

Amid strained ties with Congress after the Firozabad Lok Sabha by-election, SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav today said his party will take the decision “at the right time” on the issue of support to the UPA.
Fearing ban, federation pulls lifters out of world meet

Sunday 15 November '09

Facing a possible ban from international competition, India has withdrawn its weightlifting team from the world championships in Korea next week, the national federation said on Saturday....
Heroin: 1-yr jail for

Sunday 15 November '09

A woman, who was arrested by Narcotics Control Bureau for carrying over 200 grams of heroin...
Global recovery a razor-edge walk amid asset bubbles: FM

Sunday 15 November '09

Remarks follow IMF warning that surge in capital flows into developing countries may destabilise asset prices....
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