No witch hunt, take bold decisions: PM to bureaucrats
New Delhi, Apr 21: Asking civil servants to take bold decisions, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Saturday said the government would not indulge in "witch hunting" against them in the name of fighting corruption and was committed to protecting the honest. He also said they should not be affected More
Maoists abduct Chhattisgarh collector, kill 2 guards
Raipur, Apr 21: Maoist rebels Saturday abducted the Sukma district collector in Chhattisgarh and shot dead his two guards who tried to resist them, police said. Alex Paul Menon, 32, an Indian Administrative Service officer of the 2006 batch, was abducted by nearly a dozen guerrillas from More
West Bengal govt to have own newspaper, TV channel

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Kolkata, Apr 21: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today announced her government would have its own newspaper and a television channel to "properly highlight" its work. The newspaper, to be named 'Dainik Paschimbanga', would use the press of defunct Bengali daily Basumati, once More
Social media a reality: Khurshid

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Kolkata, Apr 21: A central minister today said that social media like Facebook and Twitter were now a reality and had become a fact of life and not an 'embarrassment'. "The issue is not of embarrassment. The issue is that social media has become a reality and has become a fact of life", union More
  • Kashmir

Bijbehara car blast mastermind arrested: Police

KHALID GUL

Pulwama, Apr 21: Police on Saturday claimed to have achieved a major break through by arresting the Divisional Commander of Hizbul-Mujahideen, a master mind in the Bijbehara car blast. Addressing More


  • Srinagar City

Apollo Clinic comes to City

71st facility inaugurated at Karan Nagar

MANZOOR UL HASSAN

Srinagar, Apr 21: The Apollo Hospitals Group, a trusted name in healthcare in south Asia, through its wholly owned subsidiary, Apollo Health and Lifestyle Limited (AHLL), Saturday inaugurated country’s More



  • Jammu

Congress committed to empower Panchayats: Soz

GK NEWS NETWORK

Kotranka (Rajouri), Apr 21: President of Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) Professor Saifuddin Soz on Saturday said that his party would continue to fight for implementation of 73rd More


  • South Asia

Pak to probe plane crash that killed 127

Islamabad, Apr 21: Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani Saturday announced a judicial probe into the air-crash near here that killed 127 people. Several staff of the airline have been barred from More


  • World

'Eggless' chick laid by hen

Colombo, Apr 21: A Sri Lanka hen has given birth to a chick without an egg, in a new twist on the age-old question of whether the chicken or the egg came first. Instead of passing out of the hen's More


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