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Patna, Sep 3 (ANI): Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar will preside over an all-party meeting here on Saturday to discuss the kidnapping of policemen by Maoists.
Kumar is also trying to personally contact opposition leaders to take them into confidence on the kidnapping issue.
Meanwhile, a self-proclaimed spokesman of the Maoists, Avinash, telephoned media offices in Bihar [...]

New Delhi, Sep.3 (ANI): Nine members of Canada’s Standing Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade will be visiting Delhi, Mumbai and Hyderabad from September 4 to 9.
According to a Canada High Commission release, the delegation will meet Indian ministers, government officials, business leaders and academics to understand the potential that India holds as [...]

Patna, Aug 18 (IANS) A legislator from Bihar’s ruling Janata Dal-United (JD-U), sentenced to life imprisonment for killing a minister, enjoys the status of minister as head of the assembly housing committee, officials said.
Vijay Kumar Shukla alias Munna Shukla, currently in jail, is chairman of the Bihar Vidhansabha Awas Samiti, a post accorded the [...]

Karachi, Aug 9(ANI): The transmission of Karachi-based Geo News was blocked overnight in various parts of Pakistan after the channel aired reports regarding hurling of shoes at President Asif Ali Zardari during his party address in Birmingham.
According to reports, some Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leaders and government officials had issued threats and warnings to cable [...]

Patna, Aug 5 (ANI): A private chopper carrying JD (U) President Sharad Yadav and three others made an emergency landing at Jakkanpur on the outskirts of Patna city on Thursday following a technical snag.
According to a report, Yadav along with Bihar Minister for Road Construction Prem Kumar, Secretary to the Chief Minister, S Siddharth, and [...]

Ahmedabad, July 30 (ANI): The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday submitted its status report on the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case to the Supreme Court.
According to television reports, CBI in its status report has asked for the case to be shifted out of Gujarat as it feels that investigation cannot be carried out [...]

New Delhi, July 30 (ANI): The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will submit its interim report on the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case before the Supreme Court today.
According to television reports, the investigating agency will seek 3-4 months extension from the court before the final report is completed.
The apex Court had set July 31 as [...]

Hyderabad, July 30 (IANS) Riding on the Telangana sentiment, Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) swept the assembly by-elections in the region, winning five seats and leading in six other constituencies Friday. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is ahead in the remaining one seat.
Proving that the Telangana sentiment is still strong, TRS retained Siddipet, Sirpur, Dharmapuri and Chennur [...]

Islamabad, July 30 (IANS) At least 230 people have died while hundreds of others have gone missing in floods triggered by heavy rains in the past three days in Pakistan’s northwestern region bordering Afghanistan.
Thousands of people have been rendered homeless in Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa province, while many houses, bridges and roads have been completely washed away by [...]

Hyderabad, July 30 (IANS) Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) leader T. Harish Rao Friday set a record in Andhra Pradesh’s electoral politics by retaining his Siddipet assembly seat in the by-elections by a margin of over 95,000 votes.
He was elected with a margin of 95,858 votes, breaking the record of late former chief minister Y.S. Rajasekhara [...]

Ranchi, July 28 (IANS) The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) will ask the Orissa government to ban a Class 12 textbook that brackets the party with Maoists, BODO militants and others who create ‘disturbance’ in the country.
‘The book should be banned immediately. We will take up the issue with the Orissa government,’ JMM central committee [...]

Shimla, July 28 (IANS) Police and rescue workers Wednesday morning again began to search for four people who were missing a day after their bus skidded off the road into a rivulet in Himachal Pradesh’s Shimla district, officials said.
A state-run bus with more than 30 passengers on board fell into the rivulet Tuesday due [...]

New Delhi, July 27 (ANI): The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Meghalaya Government on Tuesday detailing the implementation of the UID Project in the State.
The MoU was signed between UIDAI DDG Davinder Kumar and Pankaj Jain, Resident Commissioner, Government of Meghalaya in the presence of UIDAI [...]

Kullu, July 27 (ANI): A group of ex-Army men have launched an operation to re-green the hills and are converting a large area of barren land along the Sutlej River in Kullu district into a dense forest.
The project will be executed in close coordination with and under the technical guidance of the state Forest Department [...]

New Delhi, July 27 (ANI): Urban Development Minister S Jaipal Reddy formally handed over the renovated R K Khanna Tennis Stadium to Suresh Kalmadi, Chairman of Commonwealth Games Organising Committee here on Monday.
Accepting the key, Kalmadi said criticising the Delhi government for hosting the Commonwealth Games was illogical, as all the developments meant better infrastructure [...]

Islamabad, July 24(ANI): Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has said that the talks between the Foreign Ministers of Pakistan and India failed due to India’s internal problems.
Zardari said this while talking to a delegation of journalists from Sukkur and Larkana press clubs at the Sindh Chief Minister’s House on Friday, The Nation reports.
The India-Pakistan talks, [...]

New Delhi/Gandhinagar, July 24 (ANI): Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said Home Minister Amit Shah charged with murder in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case has tendered his resignation.
Addressing the media persons in the national capital, Modi said : “Today, when I landed at the Delhi airport in the morning, I got a [...]

Lucknow, July 24 (IANS) Uttar Pradesh Minister Nand Gopal Gupta alias Nandi, who was critically injured in a bomb blast in Allahabad, has been removed from life support system as his condition is better, an official said here Saturday.
Minister for Finance (Stamps and Registrations) Gupta is being treated at the Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute [...]

New Delhi, July 24 (IANS) Gujarat Minister Amit Shah, allegedly involved in the 2005 staged shootout of Sohrabuddin Sheikh, has resigned, Chief Minister Narendra Modi announced here Saturday while accusing the Congress-led UPA government of ‘misusing’ the CBI and ‘fabricating’ the charges against Shah.
‘Amit Shah has sent his resignation to my bungalow. I will [...]

New Delhi, July 24 (IANS) Hitting out at the Congress-led central government, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi Saturday accused it of ‘misusing’ the CBI to ‘fabricate allegations’ against state minister Amit Shah and also ‘conspiring’ to hamper the development of Gujarat.
Before announcing the resignation of Shah, who is alleged to be involved in the [...]