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  • Irregular postings in RPF under CBI lens

    NEW DELHI: Investigations into the 'jobs for sale' scandal are not restricted to the Rs 10 crore bribery involving Railway minister Pawan Bansal's nephew and Railway Board member Mahesh Kumar with the CBI probing appointments and transfers in Railway Protection Force (RPF) in the past four years.

    NEW DELHI: Investigations into the 'jobs for sale' scandal are not restricted to the Rs 10 crore bribery involving Railway minister Pawan Bansal's nephew and Railway Board member Mahesh Kumar with the CBI probing appointments and transfers in Railway Protection Force (RPF) in the past four years.

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  • Posco mining plan gets SC boost

    BHUBANESWAR: Posco's proposed mega project in Jagatsinghpur got a fillip on Friday when the Supreme Court left the decision to the Centre on giving the South Korean steelmaker preferential access to the Khandadhar iron ore deposits in Sundargarh district.

    BHUBANESWAR: Posco's proposed mega project in Jagatsinghpur got a fillip on Friday when the Supreme Court left the decision to the Centre on giving the South Korean steelmaker preferential access to the Khandadhar iron ore deposits in Sundargarh district.

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  • New Supreme Court plea among Sanjay Dutt camp’s options

    MUMBAI: Actor Sanjay Dutt's legal team as well as a source close to his family have said that they will be exploring the option of filing a curative petition in the Supreme Court to get him a reprieve in the Mumbai serial blasts case. However, his lawyers added that there were slim hopes of any success.

    MUMBAI: Actor Sanjay Dutt's legal team as well as a source close to his family have said that they will be exploring the option of filing a curative petition in the Supreme Court to get him a reprieve in the Mumbai serial blasts case. However, his lawyers added that there were slim hopes of any success.

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  • 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case: SC to consider Sanjay Dutt's review plea today

    NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court will on Friday take up Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt's plea seeking review of its March 21 judgement upholding his conviction under the Arms Act and sentencing him to five years in jail in 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case.

    NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court will on Friday take up Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt's plea seeking review of its March 21 judgement upholding his conviction under the Arms Act and sentencing him to five years in jail in 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case.

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  • Anbumani freed, vows to continue protest

    CHENNAI: Former Union health minister and PMK leader Anbumani Ramadoss was released from Puzhal prison on Thursday after a Tindivanam court granted him conditional bail in a case registered against him for allegedly making inflammatory remarks. He will have to report daily to the T Nagar police station in Chennai.

    CHENNAI: Former Union health minister and PMK leader Anbumani Ramadoss was released from Puzhal prison on Thursday after a Tindivanam court granted him conditional bail in a case registered against him for allegedly making inflammatory remarks. He will have to report daily to the T Nagar police station in Chennai.

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  • Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah Ranjay dies

    CHANDIGARH: Sanaullah Ranjay, a Pakistani convict brutally attacked by an inmate in Jammu jail last Friday, died on Thursday morning at PGIMER here.

    CHANDIGARH: Sanaullah Ranjay, a Pakistani convict brutally attacked by an inmate in Jammu jail last Friday, died on Thursday morning at PGIMER here.

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  • 32 die as bus falls into river Beas near Kullu

    MANALI: Thirty-two people were killed and twenty-five others injured while several people were unaccounted for after an overloaded and speeding private bus fell into the strong currents of river Beas in Jhiri village, around 20kms from the district headquarters of Kullu in Himachal Pradesh, on Wednesday afternoon.

    MANALI: Thirty-two people were killed and twenty-five others injured while several people were unaccounted for after an overloaded and speeding private bus fell into the strong currents of river Beas in Jhiri village, around 20kms from the district headquarters of Kullu in Himachal Pradesh, on Wednesday afternoon.

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  • Results review: KJP — Hype over. It’s a big, fat flop show

    Aleader rightly remarked that former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa is a villain for the BJP, but a hero for himself and the Congress. Though Yeddyurappa's newly-founded Karnataka Janata Party has come a-cropper, the party leader has succeeded in decimating the BJP in the state. Yeddyurappa had two targets in mind when he founded the party last December — to decimate the BJP in Karnataka and emerge as kingmaker, if not the king himself.

    Aleader rightly remarked that former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa is a villain for the BJP, but a hero for himself and the Congress. Though Yeddyurappa's newly-founded Karnataka Janata Party has come a-cropper, the party leader has succeeded in decimating the BJP in the state. Yeddyurappa had two targets in mind when he founded the party last December — to decimate the BJP in Karnataka and emerge as kingmaker, if not the king himself.

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  • NHRC notice to Rajasthan cops in case where hospital sweeper chopped off baby’s finger

    JAISALMER: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has sought a report from the police in the case where a child's finger was chopped off while removing the intra-cath at a government hospital by a sweeper instead of medical personnel in Barmer district of Rajasthan.

    JAISALMER: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has sought a report from the police in the case where a child's finger was chopped off while removing the intra-cath at a government hospital by a sweeper instead of medical personnel in Barmer district of Rajasthan.

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  • CBI chief vows not to spare any one in Railgate case

    NEW DELHI: In the line of fire for politically-sensitive cases, Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) chief Ranjit Sinha on Tuesday said the agency will not spare any one involved in the "Railgate" case, irrespective of position and influence.

    NEW DELHI: In the line of fire for politically-sensitive cases, Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) chief Ranjit Sinha on Tuesday said the agency will not spare any one involved in the "Railgate" case, irrespective of position and influence.

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