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Antulay ‘submits resignation’
Sack him immediately, says Opposition

“No need for embarrassment”
NEW DELHI: Union Minister for Minority Affairs A. R. Antulay remained unfazed. In a brief interaction with journalists in Parliament, Mr. Antulay held his ground, saying the Congress had no reason to be embarrassed by what he said. ...

Ajmal’s village sealed: Sharif
“Pakistan at this time is presenting a picture of a failed state”

Bird flu under control: Centre
NEW DELHI: The High Security Animal Disease Laboratory in Bhopal has not reported any poultry sample testing positive for bird flu in any part of the country, including Assam and West Bengal. There is no further report of unusual mortality of ...

U.S. gives lifeline to auto industry
WASHINGTON: U.S. President George Bush on Friday announced $13.4 billion in emergency loans to prevent the collapse of General Motors and Chrysler, and another $4 billion available for the hobbled automakers in February with the entire bailout ...

Swraj Paul presides over House of Lords
London: NRI industrialist Lord Swraj Paul scripted history by becoming the first Asian to preside over the House of Lords which, coincidentally, witnessed an absorbing debate on the Mumbai terror attacks and Sachin Tendulkar’s ...

Alfred Brendel’s last night
The great pianist may love living in London but it was to Vienna’s Musikverein that he returned at the end — to mark the journey that had begun 60 years previously, 90 miles away in Graz. On Thursday evening, while still at something like the peak of his powers, he sat down to play — for the last time in public — Mozart’s revolutionary K. 271 in E flat.

UPA allies seek further cut in fuel prices
NEW DELHI: The government will look into the situation arising out of the falling crude oil price in the international market and take appropriate decision, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee told the Lok Sabha on Friday. Mr. ...

Lashkar plays dead as global pressure mounts
Terror group untouched by crackdown, say intelligence officials

We must find our own ways to deal with crises: Manmohan
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday advised developing countries to devise their own ways of tackling crises such as the global financial meltdown, climate change or even terrorism. For, “the response of the developed ...

Terror attacks: Panel for citizens’ initiative set up
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Friday constituted an interim committee, in response to six public interest litigation petitions against State agencies in the wake of the Mumbai terror attacks. A Division Bench consisting of Chief ...

Ansals’ jail term reduced
NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Friday commuted the two-year rigorous imprisonment awarded to Gopal Ansal and Sushil Ansal by the trial court to one year in the case of the June 13, 1997 Uphaar cinema fire. It gave precedence to the ...

Antulay undaunted
NEW DELHI: Union Minister for Minority Affairs A. R. Antulay remained unfazed on Friday – two days after he stirred a controversy with his remarks on the circumstances leading to the death of three senior officers of Maharashtra’s ...

CRICKET
Enterprising Gambhir cracks century
Dravid returns to form; England struggles against the left-right combination

HOCKEY
2010 World Cup will be held in India, says Leandro Negre
Chennai: Leandro Negre, who took charge as President of the International Hockey Federation last month, is confident of India staging the next World Cup in New Delhi. He, however, states with a touch caution that the administration will ...

CHESS
Viswanathan Anand airs his views on various topics
NEW DELHI: Since landing in Chennai last month, Viswanathan Anand, currently on his routine winter vacation in India, and wife Aruna quietly escaped to a forest resort in Madhya Pradesh. Back in the Capital on a day’s visit, the ...

CRICKET
Job not yet over, says Gambhir
Good players do not become bad overnight, says Moores about Dravid

Police personnel stage dharna in Puducherry
They were protesting against denial of bail to Sub Inspector

A Home Guard who did his family proud
His life was cut short by the terror attack at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus

Centre to clear metro rail project soon
CHENNAI: The Union Cabinet will clear the Chennai Metro Rail project and the Nemmeli water desalination plant within the next two weeks, said Union Minister for Urban Development S.Jaipal Reddy here on Friday. Addressing the ...

Realty stocks forge ahead, beat Sensex
MUMBAI: After oscillating between positive and negative terrains throughout the day, the Bombay Stock Exchange benchmark Sensex closed steady on Friday but realty stocks beat the bellwether index by surging an impressive 0.57 per cent. ...

SEBI studying corporate governance issue in Satyam
Looking at easing restrictions in currency futures trade: Bhave

Nod for science research board Bill
NEW DELHI: Parliament on Friday approved the Science and Engineering Research Board Bill 2008, paving the way for the setting up of an autonomous board to promote basic research in science and engineering. The Lok Sabha has already passed the ...

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