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Exchange RatePatna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Wednesday won the trust vote in the assembly, proving his majority after dumping long-time ally the BJP. A total of 126 legislators voted for the motion moved by the chief minister while 24 voted against. The house has 243 members. Bharatiya Janata Party legislators walked out before the special session [...]
Archive for October 24th, 2011
Sarkozy ‘sick’ of Cameron’s interference
France’s First lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy leaves the maternity clinic with her daughter Giulia in Paris LONDON: French President Nicolas Sarkozy launched a scathing attack on British Prime Minister David Cameron at Sunday’s EU summit, saying he was ‘sick of him telling us what to do,’ Britain’s press reported. During talks in Brussels to resolve the [...]
Gaddafi killed by bullets
Result contrary to PM’s claim of Gaddafi dying in crossfire MISRATA: Former Libyan leader Muammer Gaddafi was ‘killed by bullets’ after his capture Thursday in Sirte, according to the doctor who carried out an autopsy on the dictator and who said late on Sunday his report was “unfinished.” Interim prime minister Mahmud Jibril had declared earlier on [...]
217 confirmed dead in Turkey
ERCIS: Rescuers searched Monday for victims of a powerful earthquake in eastern Turkey that killed at least 217 people, with more feared trapped in the rubble of dozens of collapsed apartment buildings. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan rushed to the Kurdish-populated Van province where the 7.2-magnitude quake struck on Monday. Erdogan said the situation was [...]
Azad urges T leaders to have patience, call off strike
New Delhi: The Congress on Sunday appealed to the leaders of the pro-Telangana agitation in Andhra Pradesh to call off their stir for a separate State in view of the hardships being faced by people during the festive season. Union health minister and Congress in-charge for Andhra Pradesh Ghulam Nabi Azad, urged the government employees [...]
Arab spring front runners rewrite history with elections
First ever democratic elections held in Tunisia TUNIS: Tunisians and the world eagerly awaited the results on Monday of the country’s first-ever democratic elections held nine months after the ouster of a dictator that gave birth to the Arab Spring. As ballots were counted overnight, the Islamist Ennahda party was predicted to win the most votes but [...]
KCR wants Polavaram deal scrapped
The work contract has been awarded to a confidant of the TRS chief and it had raised political heat TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao has written a letter to Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy, seeking cancellation of contracts for the Polavaram irrigation project in the coastal area. The letter, sent on Sunday, also demands [...]
T-man Srinivas gets MLC berth
Dashing hopes of Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy, PCC chief Botsa Satyanarayna and other senior Congress leaders, the All-India Congress Committee (AICC) has cleared the name of D. Srinivas, former PCC President from the Telangana region, for the MLC seat. All the party stalwarts had one or the other nominee for the seat. D. Srinivas will [...]
Hearing next month on Swamy’s plea against Chidambaram
New Delhi: A trial court in Delhi has deferred its decision till November 8 on the petition filed by Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy seeking a probe into Home Minister P Chidambaram’s role in the 2G case. Mr Chidambaram was the Finance Minister when the telecom scam unfolded in 2008. The trial court said it [...]
Strictly for the boys
Bonding is very important for any relationship to stay healthy and survive, and men take it quite seriously. But male bonding is quite different from that of females. We take a look In the recently released Bollywood film Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, three friends go on an all-boys trip to Spain. There, they indulge in [...]
Four AP students charred to death in US accident
HYDERABAD: Four persons belonging to Andhra Pradesh and another one were killed in a ghastly road accident near Michigan on Sunday, reported American newspapers and agencies. Among the four persons, three were software engineers belonging to West Godavari district and one belonged to Vizag. The four were identified as Venkatachalam, Satyendra, Sumanth, and Rajendra Prasad. [...]
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