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5 General Insurers To Be Listed, Government Stake To Fall To 75%
In a major decision on divesting stake in state-run general insurance companies, the cabinet on Wednesday approved the public listing of 5 firms by which the government's shareholding in them would be brought down to 75 per cent.....
NIA Visits Bihar To Probe Kanpur Train Derailment
An NIA team reached Bihar's Motihari district on Wednesday to investigate the alleged role of Pakistan's ISI behind the Indore-Patna Express train derailment near Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur that claimed over 100 lives.....
Amarinder, Sidhu File Nominations For Punjab Assembly Polls
Taking the political battle right into the home turf of Punjab Chief Minister and Shiromani Akali Dal patron Parkash Singh Badal, Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh on Wednesday filed his nomination papers for the Lambi assembly constituency in Muktsar district. ....
Money Loot Common Thread Between 'Didibhai-Modibhai': Yechury
Cocking a snook at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, CPI-M General Secretary Sitaram Yechury on Wednesday said "money loot" was a cmmon thread between the "Didibhai-Modibhai (Mamata-Modi) nexus.....
Militant Killed In Kashmir Gunfight
One militant was killed and a soldier was injured on Thursday during a gunfight in north Kashmir's Bandipora district, police said.....
Panneerselvan Meets Modi Amid Protests Against Jallikattu Ban
Amid massive protests in support of Jallikattu, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister O.Panneerselvam on Thursday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi New Delhi and urged him to promulgate an ordinance enabling the conduct of the ancient bull-taming sport.....
Lakhvi's Nephew Killed In Kashmir Gunfight
Security forces in Kashmir on Thursday gunned down Lashkar-e-Taiba commander Abu Musaib, a nephew of Mumbai 2008 attack mastermind Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, police said.....
Minimum temperatures throughout the Jammu and Kashmir remained below freezing point on Friday and a dry weather forecast for the next 24 hours.....
No Reservation Should Continue For Long: RSS Top Brass
Manmohan Vaidya, head of the RSS Communications Department, sparked off a row here saying that no reservation should continue for long and the reason for the poor socio-economic status of the Muslims is that a vast majority of them belong to economically backward states.....
30 Trains Delayed, 5 Cancelled Due To Fog
At least 30 trains were running late and five cancelled due to dense fog in parts of north India on Saturday morning, a railway official said.....
