| 12
killed in TN, Kerala mishaps |
Kottayam/Tiruchirappalli,
April 13:
Twelve pilgrims were killed and 49 injured, four seriously,
in two different road accidents in Kerala and Tamil Nadu on
Sunday, police said.
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| About
175 terror groups active in India |
Mumbai,
April 13:
Manipur has the highest number of terror outfits, followed by
Assam and Jammu and Kashmir, according to a list prepared by
the Union Home Ministry in consultation with state governments
and intelligence Agencies.
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| Arjun
writes to Karuna |
Chennai,
April 13:
The Union government is going ahead with the implementation
of 27 per cent quota for Other Backward Classes in Central institutions
of higher learning, according to Union Human Resource Development
Minister Arjun Singh.
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| Trying
to get Sarabjit's hanging deferred by 3 months: Burney
|
Chandigarh,
April 13:
Former Pakistani Minister and leading human rights activist
Ansar Burney today said he was trying to get Indian prisoner
Sarabjit Singh's death sentence further deferred by at least
three months.
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| India
to present first report on N-safety at CNS on April 17
|
Mumbai,
April 13:
India's first country report on safety of the civilian nuclear
plants will be presented by Chairman of Atomic Energy Regulatory
Board (AERB) S K Sharma at the two-week-long Convention of Nuclear
Safety (CNS) beginning...
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| `Consider
disbanding `Salwa Judum`' |
New
Delhi, April 13:
Taking serious exception to the arming of Salwa Judum, an anti-Naxalite
movement, by the Chhatisgarh government, CPI has asked the Centre
to consider its immediate disbanding and initiate a high-level
inquiry...
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| US
speculators responsible: FMC |
Mumbai,
April 13:
Commodity markets regulator Forward Markets Commission (FMC)
today said that futures trading in the US market was responsible
for rising commodity prices whereas the reverse is true in India.
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