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government is committed to enacting the National Food Security Bill, which legally entitles poor families to five kilograms of subsidised grain per person per month, an official document said today.UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi Wednesday appealed to the opposition to help pass the bill in public interest.According to a handbook on the achievements of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) in the pas...
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International Cricket Council (ICC) Thursday launched the official event website for the Champions Trophy, which will be held in England and Wales June 6-23.The site will have short-form highlights from all tournament matches as well as exclusive behind-the-scene content.The official match centre will be informative and interactive, allowing fans to follow live ball-by-ball coverage, including an ...
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hinted at retiring from the Indian Premier League (IPL) after this season.After beating the Sunrisers Hyderabad in the IPL Eliminator here at the Ferozeshah Kotla Wednesday, Dravid told reporters that he is aware that they "need to start looking ahead and for younger players". With the win, the Jaipur-based team also qualified for the Champions League to be held in India from Sep 17 to Oct 6.Asked...
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"Ohhhhh myyyy God!!!! I just see a man with his head chopped off right in front of my eyes!," rapper Boya Dee live tweeted in horror as he saw the London terror attack unfold.Boya Dee tweeted furiously as two machete-wielding men brutally attacked and killed a soldier in southeast London Wednesday afternoon.The two attackers were later shot and injured by police. Prime Minister David Cameron said ...
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is need for reorienting the country's strategic thinking and reappraising its higher defence organisations, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Thursday, noting that India was well positioned to become a net provider of security in its immediate region and beyond.The prime minister, who laid the foundation stone of Indian National Defence University (INDU) at Binola village in Gurgaon district, sai...
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American short story writer Lydia Davis was declared the winner of the fifth 60,000 pounds Man Booker International Prize at aceremony held at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.Her inventive, carefully-crafted and hard to categorise works saw off the challenge from nine other contenders from around the world, a press release Wednesday evening said.India's U.R. Ananthamurthy was also one of ...
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as the new Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG), the government's official auditor.Sharma, 61, a former defence secretary, was sworn-in by President Pranab Mukherjee at a ceremony held in Rashtrapati Bhavan.Sharma succeeds Vinod Rai, who demitted office Wednesday on retirement. The new CAG will serve till Sep 24, 2017.The swearing-in ceremony was attended by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Bharati...
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Twelve people were killed in Pakistan's Quetta city Thursday when a car packed with 100 kg explosives blew up just as a vehicle carrying security personnel was passing by.The deafening explosion took place in Bhosa Mandi area of Quetta Thursday morning, DawnNews reported.Fayyaz Sumbal, a senior police official, said militants targeted the police's Rapid Response Force (RRF) vehicle through a remot...
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spot-fixing: Mumbai Police in Chennai to quiz BCCI chief's son-in-law Guru MeiyappanMumbai Police reached Chennai Thursday with the objective of questioning Chennai Super Kings 'principal' Gurunath Meiyappan, the son-in-law of team owner and Board of Control for Cricket in India president N Srinivasan, in connection with the Indian Premier League (IPL) spot-fixing scandal.Meiyappan's name is figur...
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Eighty year-old Japanese Yuichiro Miura Thursday became the world's oldest person to reach the summit of Mount Everest."He climbed the world's highest mountain at 9.15 a.m. this morning securing a new title," said Gyanendra Shrestha, an official at mountaineering department of Nepal's ministry of tourism and civil aviation.The Japanese octogenarian claimed the title previously held by Nepali Min B...
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once confident Amar Singh was a pale shadow of his old self when the UPA celebrated nine years in power at the residence of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.In contrast to the good old times when his image as a shadow of Mulayam Singh Yadav made him a much sought after politician, Amar Singh looked lost at the crowded event Wednesday evening. At times he stood all alone amid the guests. Occasionally,...
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will take "cautious and incremental steps" in the peace process with Pakistan because of past experiences, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said today."We have had some bitter experiences in the past, and so it is necessary to be cautious while dealing with Pakistan," Khurshid told a group of Urdu editors here.At the same time, he said that India would welcome a visit by Nawaz Sharif, who...
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