GoM on Bhopal gas tragedy to meet on Friday

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New Delhi, Jun 15: The reconstituted Group of Ministers (GoM) on the Bhopal gas tragedy is likely to consider giving some fresh compensation for the victims on the lines of payment made to 1984 Sikh riots affected under a budgetary provision. Citing the example of Sikh riot victims, who got More

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1 killed in communal clash

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Noida, June 15: One person was killed and around a dozen injured in a clash of two communities at Kalunda village of Uttar Pradesh on Monday night as communal tension in the area continued today. A dispute between two members of the communities had flared up into a communal clash on last More

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Bill prepared to check forgery of certificates

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New Delhi, June 15: With an aim of eliminating scope of fake certification, government has prepared a bill which envisages creation of a database of academic degrees and provides for Rs 10 crore penalty or 10-year jail term in case of wrong endorsement by officials of the databank. According More

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Toll in UP boat tragedy 62

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Ballia (UP), June 15: The death toll in the tragic boat mishap in UP's Dubahar area rose to 62 today with the recovery of 17 more bodies.The boat carrying villagers, mainly from four families in Ujveria, was proceeding from Ojhawalia ghat to attend a family function on the other side of the river More

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American held in Pakistan

‘MISSION TO KILL OSAMA’

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Peshawar, June 15: An American national, who claimed to be on a mission to hunt down the world’s most wanted man Osama bin Laden was arrested from Chitral near the Afghan border, armed with a pistol and a 40-inch sword. The 50-year-old Gray Faulkner, a Californian was picked up by the police More

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Landslides kill 40 in B'adesh

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Dhaka, June 15: Heavy rains triggered massive landslides in Bangladesh’s coastal region of Chittagong hill tracks killing atleast 40 people and flattening a number of shanties and make-shift structures.Four separate landslides struck in Cox’s Bazar and Bandarban areas burying people alive and leaving More

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116 Indians evacuated from Kyrgyz cities

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New Delhi, June 15: All the 116 Indians, stranded in violence-hit Southern Kyrgyz towns of Osh and Jalal-Abad, have been evacuated to capital Bishkek and will return in next two-three days as the death toll in five days of ethnic clashes climbed to 124.“All the Indian nationals stranded in the More

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