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MDT/PTI 31 July 2012
The scandal, worth about $2.6 billion, revolved around a private group that amassed trillions of rials in loans from half a dozen Iranian banks through what were said to be forged or illegally procured letters of credit Tehran: A Tehran court has sentenced to death four people...

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MDT/PTI 30 July 2012
Narang's bronze medal is only the third in shooting on the World's biggest sporting event after Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore's silver in double trap in Athens 2004 and Bindra's gold in the last Games at Beijing   London: Ace marksman Gagan Narang on Monday opened India's account in the...

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Rajan Alexander 30 July 2012
On one hand NASA calls it ‘unprecedented’ and in the same breath they acknowledged that it happened last in 1889. It seems all what NASA was trying to say it is ‘unprecedented’ from the point of merely satellite data which was available only from 1979—for a period of 32...

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If the building development plans are transparently put on a single point authority, then activists will be able to unearth flouting of norms. Also neither the developer nor the approving authorities will dare to deviate from norms without good explanation When a development proposal is...

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MDT/PTI 30 July 2012
Efforts are on to move these passenger trains by using diesel engines of other running goods trains   New Delhi/Chandigarh: Train movement in north India was disrupted this morning due to the collapse of the Northern Grid with around 200 trains running behind schedule, reports...

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MDT/PTI 30 July 2012
The main casualty of the power failure was the water distribution system as well as Metro services but operations at the airport remained largely unaffected   New Delhi: Almost entire Delhi went without power for about eight hours on Monday due to the collapse of the Northern Grid,...

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MDT/PTI 30 July 2012
Official sources said while the exact reasons for the grid failure are being ascertained, over drawl of power by states could have led to the problem New Delhi: Power supply in Northern states in India was severely affected on Monday with failure of Northern Grid at about 2100 GMT.

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MDT/PTI 30 July 2012
Fire broke in a coach of the Chennai-bound Tamil Nadu Express near Nellore in AP in the wee hours on Monday due to a short circuit killing 30 passengers     Nellore: At least 30 passengers were charred to death and 25 others injured when a fire broke in a coach of the Chennai-bound...

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MDT/PTI 28 July 2012
Government looking at controlling prices of patented drugs   Mumbai: The government is planning to control the prices of costly patented drugs with a view to making them affordable to poor, phrama secretary Dilsher Singh Kalha said, reports PTI.   "A committee has already...

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MDT/PTI 28 July 2012
Of the 2.28 lakh new leprosy cases detected in the world in 2010, the figure for India stood at 1.26 lakh which accounts for an alarming 55.5%   Pune: After declaring the country free of leprosy in 2005, the Union government is now grappling with fresh cases of the stigmatised disease...

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MDT/PTI 27 July 2012
Soon after his arrest last month, Verma had taken names of some influential Congress leaders which included Tytler with whom he claimed to be in regular touch   New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has questioned Jagdish Tytler to verify claims made by arms dealer...

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Lois Beckett (ProPublica) 27 July 2012
Dark money groups are using sophisticated online targeting tactics in the US, but voters may never know they're being targeted Lauren Berns was browsing Talking Points Memo when he saw an ad with President Obama’s face. “Stop the Reckless Spending,” the ad read, and in smaller print,...

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MDT/PTI 27 July 2012
This was second major accident involving Amarnath yatris in Jammu region this month     Jammu: Sixteen pilgrims on route to Amarnath were killed and 16 others injured when a truck carrying them plunged into a deep gorge in Samba district of Jammu and Kashmir late night on Thursday,...

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MDT/PTI 27 July 2012
Google Talk has been partially restored after going offline on Thursday in India and other parts of the world for hours together New Delhi: Popular instant messaging service Google Talk has been partially restored after going offline in India and other parts of the world for hours...

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MDT/PTI 27 July 2012
With 'the power of knowledge' as the central theme, the makers of KBC announced `Sirf Gyaan Hi Aapko Aapka Haq Dila Sakta Hai' as the communication theme for the sixth season.   Mumbai: The makers of the popular game show featuring Amitabh Bachchan, `Kaun Banega Crorepati' (KBC), are...

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MDT/PTI 26 July 2012
BSES officials tried to install an old meter when the customer had paid for a new meter and then denied him the electricity connection saying that he failed to fulfil commercial formalities   New Delhi: City's power distribution company BSES has been ordered by a a consumer forum to...

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MDT/PTI 26 July 2012
As of now, the deficiency in rainfall is 22% and it will fill up in the coming days, as monsoon is likely to improve in the eastern, central and Indo-Gangetic plains says the IMD New Delhi: Monsoon deficiency is expected to narrow down in the coming days with rains likely to improve in...

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MDT/PTI 26 July 2012
Despite 26 years of implementation of programmes to control pollution, water in major rivers is critically polluted as the subject is not restricted to one ministry     New Delhi: Terming water pollution as a 'national crisis', a Parliamentary committee has decided to summon officials...

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MDT/PTI 25 July 2012
Facebook said most of its subscribers from India use mobile phone to access its portal and this has prompted the company to rethink its business model   Hyderabad: Facebook has said its user base in India has grown from 80 lakh (8 million) in 2010 to five crore (50 million) now and...

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The world’s first ever RTI rating analysis conducted to find out how strong are the provisions of RTI law in 90 countries which have implemented the RTI Act, has thrown up surprising results with lesser known countries having stronger laws Consider this: When, The Associated Press, in...

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