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Spread Gandhian principles: Sonia
AHMEDABAD, MARCH 12. Seventy-eight youths from different States, joined by hundreds of cheering people, today walked briskly in a re-enactment of the historic Dandi March that Mahatma Gandhi undertook changing the course of India's freedom ...

Mizoram people donate bamboos to tsunami victims in Tamil Nadu
GUWAHATI, MARCH 12. The people of Mizoram have donated a unique relief material — bamboo — to build shelters for the tsunami-victims in Tamil Nadu. The first consignment of 12,7043 numbers of bamboos from Mizoram was formally sent ...

Perfect harmony among UPA constituents: Raja
MANGALORE, MARCH 12. The Communist Party of India (CPI) on Saturday clarified that it is in perfect harmony with the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and other secular parties in the United Progressive Alliance (UPA). But it wanted ...

Navy places orders for BrahMos
CHENNAI, MARCH 12. Production of BrahMos, the supersonic cruise missile developed by India and Russia, has begun in the country and the Indian Navy has placed orders for it, according to A. Sivathanu Pillai, Chief Executive Officer and Managing ...

`Strategic policy decisions needed to stimulate pro-poor agricultural growth'
CHENNAI, MARCH 12. "India will need to make some strategic policy decisions to stimulate pro-poor agricultural growth and rural development. We have proposed action in five major areas that can help the government to accelerate agricultural ...

Bandh called off
SILIGURI, MARCH 12.The Gorkha National Liberation Front has withdrawn its call for a 72-hour bandh in Darjeeling from March 16 after the West Bengal Government accepted its demand that Subhas Ghising continue as caretaker of the Darjeeling Gorkha ...

11 Sainiks held
MUMBAI, MARCH 12. Eleven Shiv Sainiks were today arrested for ransacking the office of news magazine in south Mumbai on Friday. They were released late in the evening. A group 30 people stormed into the weekly's office in Jolly Makers II ...

Other Stories

Another panel set up on MiG crashes

TDP hails installation of Munda Government

Independents or captive ministers, asks Soren

Mockery of democracy: Naidu

JD(U) to launch campaign

Police protest arrest of officers in custodial death case

Notice to Centre on release of Pakistani detenus

Road reopening will foster understanding: Mufti

Advani criticises `Congress monopoly'

27 bus passengers feared drowned

We will safeguard minorities: Manmohan

`Budgetary allocation for child welfare inadequate'

`Not a solution to Kashmir tangle'

Air Chief to lead exercise in Andamans

Centre approves Dal Lake conservation project

Musharraf can deliver: Advani

`Stop extraditions of Nepali nationals'

EGS funds for watershed development programmes

Need for separate law for women workers: CPI

RSS concern over "declining Hindu population"

Foreign tourists arrive at Port Blair

Tourism on the upswing: study

Ghising calls off Darjeeling bandh

Recall Jharkhand Governor: Joshi

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