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Corruption casts a shadow over India's growth: Lord Paul
CHENNAI: “We have made a lot of progress economically in India but there is a great shadow over our progress — and that is corruption,” India-born British industrialist Lord Paul of Marylebone has said. Corruption was ...

Manmohan to take up Telangana issue with party core committee

Congress organ criticises Ministers' visit
New Delhi: Ever since four senior Ministers, led by Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, went to the airport last week to meet Baba Ramdev, there has been a growing murmur of protest within the Congress. Now, the latest issue of the ...

Let CBI probe charges against AMU VC, says HRD Ministry
NEW DELHI: President Pratibha Patil has accepted the Human Resource Development Ministry's recommendation that a two-member fact-finding enquiry committee looking into allegations against P.K. Abdul Azis, Vice-Chancellor of the Aligarh Muslim ...

Brinda slams unethical HPV vaccine trials
HYDERABAD: Communist Party of India (Marxist) Polit Bureau member Brinda Karat on Thursday demanded action against those responsible for allowing clinical trials of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine in Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat without ...

JIPMER results declared
PUDUCHERRY: The Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER) here on Thursday declared the results for the MBBS entrance examinations held on June 5. According to a JIPMER release, Tanvi Jain, Ankita ...

Truck runs over 20 pilgrims
AHMEDABAD: In a gruesome tragedy, 20 people sleeping on the wayside were killed and at least 15 injured when they were run over by a truck on the Dholka-Bagodara Highway in the early hours of Thursday. The police said the driver was ...

Pension age limit lowered to 60
NEW DELHI: The Union government on Thursday lowered the age limit for the Indira Gandhi National Old Age Pension Scheme (IGNOAP) from 65 to 60 years, and increased pension for those above 80 from Rs. 200 to Rs. 500 a month. Both ...

MSP for paddy raised by Rs. 80
NEW DELHI: The Union government on Thursday allowed an increase in the Minimum Support Price (MSP) of Rs. 80 per quintal for paddy during the current kharif season, but it is said to be way below the hike recommended by both the Union Ministry ...

Husain only “slipped up” on depiction of Hindu gods: Bal Thackeray
MUMBAI: The Shiv Sena on Thursday said M.F. Husain pursued his art ardently but his depiction of Hindu gods and goddesses was flawed. The artist had become the target of saffron ire for his depiction of Hindu deities. In 2007, Sena ...

Barnala condoles with Husain's family
CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu Governor Surjit Singh Barnala has expressed condolences to the family members of M.F. Husain, the renowned painter, who died in London Thursday morning. Mr. Husain was popularly known as the ‘Picasso of India'. ...

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