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13 BJP-RSS men found guilty in Kerala bomb attack
All the 13 accused in a bomb attack on a house in 2000, in which three members of a family including a six-year old girl were injured, were found guilty by a local court in Kannur on Friday.The activists had assumed that some Congressmen were hiding in the house, a fall-out of the dispute between the rival Bharatiya Janata Party and Congress over electoral malpractices.the incident occurred during panchayat polls on September 27, 2000....
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A red Rajasthan -- that is what CPM eyes now
Its efforts to establish itself in politically important North India has not yielded much results till date. But now, in a calculated bid to expand beyond Kerala, West Bengal and Tripura, the CPI(M) has picked up Rajasthan as its target area. The party will field as many as 34 candidates in the forthcoming Assembly elections there. The 200-seat strong state Assembly is currently ruled by the BJP....
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The wisdom of Nehru"s middle path
India now has a great demographic advantage in having half the population in the 25+ age bracket. The so-called brain drain of the 1960s and 1970s is now reversing. The economic fundamentals that were laid out in the first four decades which many dub as the period of Hindu rate of growth paid off ultimately and the country is now well poised to being an economic power in its own right....
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"Purohit is being tortured"
Lt Col Srikant Prasad Purohit, arrested for his alleged involvement in Malegaon blast, is being tortured in police custody, his father-in-law alleged today....
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India to activate airfield near China border
We are working on the Nyama ALG and hopefully it would be open for fixed wing aircraft operations soon. Work has already commenced there and we will be using it in the near future, Western Air Command (WAC) chief Air Marshal Pranab Kumar Barbora told PTI in ENw Delhi on Thursday....
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Migrant issue flows from Congress"s original sin
Why are people continuing to flee from Bihar -- Uttar Pradesh too -- in such large numbers, only to become easy targets in Maharashtra, Assam, Punjab, or J & K?...
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Any US proposal on Kashmir is okay: Pak
Apparently buoyed by US President-elect Barack Obamas offer to play a role in finding a solution to the Kashmir problem, Pakistan today said it was ready to consider any constructive proposal from Washington to address the vexed issue with India....
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Patil Scheming to Ban Bajrang Dal?
In a letter to the state governments, the ministry has sought details of the action taken by them to check their activities, a Home Ministry official said....
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Were Indian Navy men in ill-fated Russian N-sub?
The Indian Navy, which was to get the submarine some time next year, was monitoring its completion at the shipyard in Komsomolsk-on-Amur and trials of its various systems at all stages, and their presence on board during trials was quite possible, a Russian expert said on condition of anonymity....
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J&K is not an Indo-Pak issue: Salahuddin
Reacting to External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjees recent statement that the Kashmir issue is a bilateral matter to be resolved in line with accords between the two countries, the chief of United Jihad Council, a conglomerate of various terrorist groups, claimed bilateral pacts have no relevance for Kashmiris....
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Assam blasts: ULFA points finger at RSS
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Ram Sena: We are training youth to fight terror
Look at the Hubli case where so many terrorists were arrested. These arrests helped in cracking a nation-wide nexus of the Students Islamic Movement of India. It was our boys who gave information about these terrorists and on the basis of our information the police nabbed these anti-national elements, says Shri Rama Sena chief and founder Pramod Muthalik...
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Why Goa rape victim withdrew her complaint
Since the day I have filed the complaint on October 14, life has become hell for both me and my daughter. There are allegations and counter allegations in the media and we have now realised that we have been trapped in a situation (that...
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Rahul Gandhi takes on BJP in Chhattisgarh
All India Congress Committee General Secretary Rahul Gandhi on Monday said that the development of Chhattisgarh was hampered due to corruption in the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party government. Addressing a public meeting at Lalbaug maidan in Jagdalpur, Gandhi said the state could not develop due to the failures of the government, despite getting adequate funds from the Centre.It happened because of the high level of corruption and Naxalism in the state, Gandhi said....
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Dhoni takes inspiration from Mahabharat
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