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Delhi Chief Minister. Sheila Dikshit has interacted with the MPs and MLAs on the issues related to unauthorized colonies, section 81 of the Delhi Land Rules, extension of Lal Dora and overlapping jurisdiction of police and other agencies in the presence of UD
Jaipur, May 10 (IANS) A Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) legislator in Rajasthan was arrested Friday on charges of arson and destroying public property during a farmers' agitation nine years ago, police said.
Moscow, April 13 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Russia's naval task force in the Mediterranean will be augmented next week with the Ropucha-II Class landing ship Azov from the Black Sea Fleet, a navy spokesman said.
London, Apr. 8 (ANI): A 19-year-old Tunisian woman who bared her breasts to protest for women's rights, has said that she now fears for her life and wants to take refuge abroad.
Delhi Power Minister Haroon Yusuf has warned the Opposition to avoid politicizing issues of power and water in the Capital city by misleading people. He further asked them not to take law in their hands as it amounts to violation of democratic principle and disrespect to constitution of India. He was replying a short duration discussion by Dr. Harsh Vardhan, Shri R.N. Bansal and Shri Sunil Vaidya.
Los Angeles, March 28 (IANS) Hollywood actors Jason Statham and Tom Hardy are reportedly top contenders to star in the remake of "Escape From New York".
New Delhi, March 19 (IANS) Egypt Tuesday pushed for India to join its ambitious Suez Canal corridor project as Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi met here for talks to forge closer cooperation in economic and other fields.
Vrindavan/Agra, March 14 (IANS) With the official announcement that an additional 250 cusecs of water would be released into the Yamuna through a new canal from Hathinikund in Haryana, the 'save Yamuna' marchers had cause for celebration Thursday.
Washington, Mar. 11 (ANI): The interior minister of Egypt has admitting his police force has been strained by daily protests, clashes, criticism, and groups of officers going on strike.
New Delhi, Mar 5 (ANI): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has opposed the proposed construction of Sethusamudaran canal project for which the Ram Setu will be cut through.
London, Mar. 5 (ANI): Steven Spielberg will soon be giving life to Stanley Kubrick's screenplay about Napoleon Bonaparte - scrapped by the late film director in the 1970s.
Cairo, March 3 (IANS/RIA Novosti) As US Secretary of State John Kerry landed in Cairo Saturday for talks to help overcome the country's economic crisis, Egyptian protesters torched a police station in the Suez Canal city of Port Said.
London, Mar. 2 (ANI): David Beckham has rubbished rumours that he used a bottom double for his H and M underwear ads.
Sydney, Feb 22 (ANI): Australia's fielding coach Steve Rixon, who has been an assistant coach with Indian Premier League team Chennai Super Kings for the past three seasons, has turned out to be team's man on the inside for the first Test against India in Chennai.
Cairo, Jan 30 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Three people were killed in the ongoing riots here in the Egyptian capital, the health ministry said Wednesday.
New Delhi, Dec 26 (IANS) n Hopes are high in India as Shinzo Abe, leader of Japan's pro-business Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), Wednesday returned as prime minister with an agenda to revive the economy and overhaul foreign policy.
Panaji, Nov 7 (IANS) Goa-based Norbert Rebello sails through words with the same ease as he navigates bulk tankers across the oceans. He readies this week for his second novel, also on a theme set at sea, giving hint of how diverse interests show up as more Indian captains and officers take to the global merchant navy fleet.
Mumbai, Oct 10 (IANS) The Shipping Corporation of India Ltd (SCI) Wednesday got the delivery of a Suezmax crude oil tanker with a gross tonnage (carrying capacity) of 81,334 tonne and deadweight of 1,58,334 tonne, an official said.
Pune, Oct 5 (IANS) India will take on Hong Kong in the opening match of the Asian Rugby Sevens Women's Championship at the Balewadi Sports Complex Athletics Stadium here Saturday with captain Surabhi Date expressing confidence about making India's participation count this time around.
London, September 22 (ANI): The Duchess of Cambridge is set to face more humiliation, as French telly stars are plotting to mock her on a controversial show.
London, September 21 (ANI): Controversial French First Lady Valerie Trierweiler has sparked criticism after it was revealed that she may host her own TV show.
Managua, Sep 8 (IANS/EFE) Nicaragua has signed a memorandum of understanding with a Chinese company on financing for a $30 billion inter-oceanic canal, an official said.
Cairo, Aug. 15 (ANI): A court in Egypt has sentenced 14 members of a militant Islamist group to death for carrying out attacks on a police station in North Sinai last year, a court official said.
Cairo, July 16 (IANS) Egypt will not stop transporting Iranian oil through the Suez Canal and internal pipelines despite the EU embargo on Tehran's oil exports, RIA Novosti reported.
New Delhi/Kathmandu, July 15 (ANI): The Indian High Commission on Sunday said that it has sent special teams, including a medical doctor, to the bus accident site in Nepal's Nawalparasi District to assist Nepalese authorities with relief and rescue operations.
Kathmandu, July 15 (ANI): Indian pilgrims are among the 36 killed when an overcrowded bus skidded off the road and plunged into the Gandak Canal in southern Nepal on Sunday.
Lima, July 7 (IANS/EFE) Police rescued 10 children who had been forcibly recruited by a guerrilla group in southern Peru, President Ollanta Humala said Friday.
Beijing, June 9 (IANS) China has launched efforts to protect its 2,500-year-old Grand Canal, the world's longest artificial waterway, the government said.
New Delhi, June 8 (ANI): Facing a dearth of water resources and a decline in its availability, the Rajasthan Government is taking effective steps to control the misuse of water and trying to fill up reservoirs and ponds, besides running mobile water trucks to provide every citizen of the state with water.
Melbourne, June 1 (ANI): A brewer chose a bizarre way to create beer similar to the original India Pale Ale (IPA), which was brewed in England and exported to India in the 19th century.
Beijing, May 29 (IANS) Archaeologists in China have unearthed two shipwrecks under an artificial waterway that remained buried for centuries.
Tehran, May 24 (IANS) Iranian naval forces have rescued an American commercial vessel that was attacked by several pirate boats near the Gulf of Aden, Press TV reported Thursday.
Chandigarh, April 5 (IANS) The Punjab government is likely to amend the Northern India Canal and Drainage Act of 1873 to check the growing malpractice of water theft in the state, a spokesman said here Thursday.
London, April 3 (ANI): Sex workers are being 'cleaned off the streets' in a bid to make London more presentable for the Olympics due to start in August.
Cairo, March 27 (IANS) Three people died and nine others injured when a diesel tank of a tugboat exploded in Egypt's Suez Canal, the official media reported Monday.
Washington, Mar 1 (ANI): The discovery of two new extinct camel species by scientists sheds new light on the history of the tropics, a region containing more than half the world's biodiversity and some of its most important ecosystems.
Washington, Mar 1 (ANI): The discovery of two new extinct camel species by scientists sheds new light on the history of the tropics, a region containing more than half the world's biodiversity and some of its most important ecosystems.
Kingston, Ont. (Canada), Jan 30 (ANI): Three Canadian-Afghan immigrants have been found guilty of murdering four family members and dumping their bodies in the Rideau Canal, as the judge criticized them for what he called "cold-blooded" killings based on their "twisted notion of honour."
Kingston, Ont. (Canada), Jan 30 (ANI): Three Canadian-Afghan immigrants have been found guilty of murdering four family members and dumping their bodies in the Rideau Canal, as the judge criticized them for what he called "cold-blooded" killings based on their "twisted notion of honour."
Bargarh, Jan 25 (ANI): A wanted Maoist and his associate have been arrested in Orissa's Bargarh District.
London, Jan 7 (ANI): Britain is sending its most formidable warship to the Persian Gulf amid threats by Iran to block the Strait of Hormuz, the world's most important oil shipping lane.
London, August 25 (ANI): Want to try a traditional dish with a twist? Then, book a table at the world's only "sail-thru" fish and chip shop in Scotland that offers foodies the most "extraordinary" culinary experiences.
London, August 24 (ANI): Venice is considered as one of the world's most romantic cities, but some measures are now being taken to keep young lovers' actions under control.
London, June 16 (ANI): An Irish software developer has claimed that he has solved James Joyce's notorious near century-old riddle - can you cross Dublin without passing a pub?
Washington, May 27 (ANI): An African-American Democrat has said that President Barack Obama is facing problems because of the 'colour of his skin'.
London, May 9 (ANI): When Pope Benedict XVI went on a gondola ride across Venice's spectacular Grand Canal, it sparked an unholy row among the gondoliers.
London, Apr. 18 (ANI): Cruise passengers are being protected from Somali pirates by razor wire, Gurkhas and sonic weapons.
London/Tripoli, Mar. 3 (ANI): Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has promised "another Vietnam" if foreign powers answer a Libyan dissidents plea for military intervention.
New York, March 2 (ANI): United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, has warned of a possible humanitarian crisis in Libya in the wake of refugees beginning to flee to neighbouring Tunisia and Egypt.
Manama (Bahrain), Feb.24 (ANI): The balance of power appears to be shifting towards Iran as the Arab World continues to remain politically unstable and shaken.
Washington, Feb 12 (ANI): An expert on terrorism, Middle East politics and Homeland Security issues has said Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's exit will usher a new political process in Egypt.
Cairo, Feb 5 (ANI): Wael Abbas, a well-known Egyptian journalist who had posted hundreds of terrifying videos of police abuse on the web, has claimed that he was arrested, but later released by his country's Army.
Cairo, Feb 4 (ANI): Wael Abbas, a well-known Egyptian journalist who had posted hundreds of terrifying videos of police abuse on the web, is reportedly 'playing hide and seek' with President Hosni Mubarak's supporters and security agencies to stay safe and out of their reach.
New Delhi, Jan.31 (ANI): An international conference of the SLOCs (Sea Lines of Communication) Group here today called for a United Nations Laws of the Seas conference to safeguard the massive volume of trade through the seas.
Washington, Nov 19 (ANI): A new research has found that the Limon and Pedro Miguel faults in Central Panama have ruptured both independently and in unison over the past 1400 years, indicating a significant seismic risk for Panama City and the Panama Canal.
London, Nov 03 (ANI): An 1869 vintage wine of Chateau Lafite-Rothschild was recently sold at auction in Hong Kong for a record 147,020 pounds, leading experts to warn that fine wines could soon become unaffordable.
Melbourne, Sept 28 (ANI): Former French justice minister Rachida Dati has said the reason the word inflation came out as fellatio during her talk, was because she was speaking too fast.
Quetta, Sep 26(ANI): Jamhoori Watan Party (JWP) President Talal Akbar Bugti has said that former President Pervez Musharraf, not the Pakistan Army, was involved in the murder of his father Akbar Bugti.
New York, Sept 8 (ANI): Supermodel Naomi Campbell's billionaire boyfriend is reportedly set to buy her the former house of real-life Shakespearean heroine Desdemona.
New York, Aug 16 (ANI): Although a mosque and Islamic community center has been proposed near 'Ground Zero,' a walk down the area would reveal that the neighbourhood, which is supposedly sacred, is actually a hub of bars, porn, liquor stores and salons.
London, Aug 12 (ANI): Florence Nightingale's famous lone walk home under the cover of darkness after the Crimean War may never have happened, a local historian has claimed.
Muzaffargarh, Aug 10(ANI): Thousands of residents are evacuating Muzaffargarh city in Pakistan's Punjab province after local authorities issued an urgent flood warning.
Washington, July 28 (ANI): French First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy has added a new feather to her cap - she has now become an actress.
Kolkata, July 21 (ANI): Bengali-cuisine restaurant called Oh! Calcutta has organized a month-long 'Hilsa Bhoj' or Hilsa food festival beginning on Thursday, which will feature wide variety of delicacies made of Hilsa fish.
Karachi, July 11 (ANI): In an incident which reveals the deplorable plight of females in Pakistan, a woman, who was declared a 'Kari' by her husband, was publicly thrashed and threatened to be killed by her brother and spouse in Larkana, Sindh.
New Delhi, July 13 (ANI): Scores of Jats have gathered under the banner of the Akhil Bharatiya Jat Aarakshana Samiti (ABJASS) - All India Jats Protection Forum gathered in the national capital on Monday to voice their demand for reservation in government jobs.
Cape Town, July 11(ANI): Netherlands plan to mark World Cup final glory with a canal parade through Amsterdam.
New Delhi, June 14 (ANI): The Jat community that had blocked the supply of water to the national capital from the Upper Ganges Canal in Uttar Pradesh over demands for OBC reservations in Central jobs end its protest on Monday and restored the water supply.
London/New Delhi, June 1 (ANI): Indian authorities have announced they will try to recover and retrieve thousands of allegedly looted objects held in Western museums.
Mumbai, Feb.18 (ANI): As Somali pirates released a Panamanian-flagged ship on Tuesday that carried a crew of 26, most of whom Indians, eight of the released seafarers reached Mumbai city and re-united with their families on Thursday (February 18).
London, Feb.18 (ANI): The family of murdered Brit Indian teen Asha Muneer said that "a void" had been created in their lives" by the frenzied killing.
London, Feb 13 (ANI): An explorer claims to have found evidence of an ancient water route between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, which existed hundreds of years before the Panama Canal was conceived.
London, Feb 5 (ANI): Mel Gibson, who has recently gained notoriety for allegedly calling a journalist "a**hole" during a TV interview, has confessed that he has a "short fuse."
London, Jan.21 (ANI): The family of murdered Brit Indian teen Asha Muneer said that a "a void" had been created in their lives" by the frenzied killing.
Washington, January 5 (ANI): A new study by scientists has suggested that in some highly disturbed landscapes, restoration of natural water flows may cause more harm than good, which suggests that reducing the flows can create ecological benefits.
Washington, Nov. 12 (ANI): US President Barack has travelled to more countries in his first year in office than any of his predecessors and now, will undertake a nine-day tour of Asia.
Washington, October 6 (ANI): A long-term study has shown that El Nino, a global climate pattern, drives Sulfur butterfly migrations across the Panama Canal.
London, Sep 11 (ANI): The world's most expensive hat, a Montecristi Panama, is all set to be sold for a whopping sum of 100,000 dollars.
Jerusalem, September 7 (ANI): New data has suggested that the Dead Sea is evaporating faster each year rather than decreasing at a steady rate.
London, Aug 27 (ANI): A 17-year-old Briton has become the youngest person to circumnavigate the world solo with assistance.
Washington, July 15 (ANI): Egyptian archaeologists digging near the Suez Canal have discovered the remains of what is believed to be the largest fortress in the eastern Delta.
New Delhi, July 1 (ANI): Union Minister of Shipping G. K. Vasan officially released the 100 days agenda for the Ministry of Shipping here today.
London, June 10 (ANI): After stacked heels and standing on tiptoe, undersized French President Nicolas Sarkozy has found a new way to make up for his lack of inches - a footstool.
Washington, June 9 (ANI): A paleontologist has unearthed a set of fossil teeth of a browsing horse in Panama Canal earthworks, which roamed the area between 15 and 18 million years ago.
Bhopal, June 9 (ANI): Asia's largest and oldest man-made lake is on the verge of drying up due to insufficient rains in Bhopal.
New Delhi, May 29 (IANS) Underlining its increasing strategic prowess, the Indian Navy has for the first time embarked on a two month-long deployment to the Atlantic Ocean, where it will participate in separate war games with the British and French navies. Since World War I, the Atlantic Ocean has been the stage for strategic warfare for navies the world over.
Bhopal, May 8 (ANI): Senior BJP leader L K Advani on Friday said that he expected his party to emerge as the single largest party after this year's general elections.
Washington, May 5 (ANI): Archaeologists have found a 3,000-year-old carving in the largest mud-brick temple yet found on northeastern Egypt's northern Sinai Peninsula.
Kathmandu, May 3 (ANI): Nepal plunged into a deep political crisis on Sunday evening with Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist Leninist), the second largest coalition partner deciding to pull out of the Maoist-led government, in opposition to the latter's unilateral decision to sack Chief of Army Staff Rookmangud Katawal.
Kathmandu, May 3 (ANI): Nepal's Chief of Army Staff, General Rookmangud Katawal, who was sacked by the Maoist government on Sunday morning, has reportedly refused to accept the cabinet letter on his sacking.
Srinagar, Apr 27 (ANI): Defence Minister A. K. Antony on Monday visited the forward areas of Jammu and Kashmir under the White Knight Corps, and said that the Army's vigilance and proactive stance had ensured incident free elections in the state.
Cairo, April 24 (DPA) When French diplomat Ferdinand de Lesseps reached for his spade in the Egyptian city of Port Said April 25, 1859, London was far from happy.
Vladivostok, April 22 (RIA Novosti) The Russian crew of a tanker in the Gulf of Aden prevented Somali pirates from boarding their vessel by using onboard fire hoses, a sailors' union spokesman in Russia's Far East said Wednesday.
Kathmandu, Apr 22 (ANI): Indian Ambassador to Nepal Rakesh Sood met Prime Minister Prachnada twice in 24 hours over the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) clarification episode.
Washington, April 12 (ANI): A team of scientists, engineers, and yachtsmen are making what they say will be the largest solar boat ever built, with a view to making a trip around the world.
Kathmandu, Apr 3 (ANI): Indian Ambassador to Nepal Rakesh Sood handed over Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) to secretary of the Election Commission (EC) in Nepal.
Lahore, March 30 (IANS) A group of heavily armed terrorists Monday stormed a police training academy near here, killing at least 27 trainees and taking over 800 hostage before the security forces ended the brazen eight-hour stand-off. Eight terrorists were killed and three were captured alive.
Lahore, March 30 (IANS) Pakistani security forces Monday stormed a police training academy on the outskirts of this Pakistani city, ending an eight-hour siege by a group of heavily armed attackers who killed 27 people and took over 800 hostage. Four of the terrorists were killed, while three were captured alive.
Chennai, Mar 22 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Tamil Nadu unit president L. Ganesan on Sunday said that his party would declare the 'Ramasetu' a heritage monument, if his party voted to power at the Centre in the general elections.
Muktsar (Punjab), Feb 26 (ANI): Seepage water in canals in Punjab's Muktsar district has caused water logging in fields.
