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Bid to discredit war critics: Bhim Singh
NEW DELHI: Jammu and Kashmir Panther's Party leader Bhim Singh on Saturday denied allegations that he was a beneficiary of the controversial oil allocations made by the Iraqi regime of President Saddam Hussein in 2001. Speaking to The ...

Report says more than 100 Indian firms paid kickbacks for Iraq contracts
38 companies paid more than $100,000, the rest less than that amount

Suddenly, there was water in the compartment and it kept rising
Many passengers shuddered to recall the harrowing experience

Individual beneficiaries were influential and espoused pro-Iraq views, says report
CHENNAI: An international investigation into the United Nations-administered Oil-For-Food Programme reveals that several Indian entities, among them Union Minister for External Affairs K. Natwar Singh, were allotted oil quotas by the former ...

Manmohan cancels Kolkata plans, leaves for Delhi
KOLKATA: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who arrived here from Agartala on Saturday evening, cancelled his programmes in the city for Sunday and rushed back to Delhi at around 9 p.m. this evening in view of the serial explosion in the capital. ...

49 years of cooperation
CHENNAI: : The 49th anniversary of The Hindu Office and National Press Employees' Union was celebrated here on Saturday. Participating in the function, Joint Managing Director N. Murali said it was not the 49th anniversary of the union ...

Other Stories

JD(U) seeks Natwar resignation

Natwar should resign: BJP

Congress maintains it is not a beneficiary

How Saddam's political rewards system worked

Pranacharya award for Punjab doctor

Curfew relaxed in Mau areas

Green signal for Jindal memorial

Viruses, tip of the iceberg in IT security threat, says survey

March planned against female foeticide

Left paints JNU red again

Quake may have shifted mines along LoC: NGO

Change of guard a watershed event

Sonia, Manmohan had second thoughts: Mufti

Swamy demands high-level enquiry

40-45% vote in deferred poll in Bihar

Iran: ``India should make amends''

Railway jobs to kin of deceased

BJP leaders float apolitical front; launch is on November 4

Leaders condemn blasts

Red Fort attack: judge defers sentence till tomorrow

Kalam condemns blasts

I'm deeply saddened: Kalam

Probe ordered into train accident

Rains caused disaster: Lalu

H. K. L. Bhagat is dead

Kalam for greater use of renewable energy sources, solar power

CRPF should bring back insurgents to mainstream

"No case of avian influenza in India"

A crorepati, by training and by luck

Countrywide red alert

Patil chairs security meet

Curb illegal border movement, India tells Bangladesh

Azad: restoring normality in J&K a challenge

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