PM gets cracking on climate Faced with global pressure to take action on the climate change front, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has asked his council on climate change to prepare a national programme charting the future course.
No new site for Posco project: Orissa govt The project, the biggest foreign direct investment (FDI) in the country, has been facing stiff resistance from the local villagers.
A nightmarish hi-tech terror machine Central intelligence agencies have been on a sanitising exercise for some time with definite information that terror outfits are on a drive to recruit hi-tech personnel for their sleeping cells in the country.
Be on guard against terror, Manmohan tells Karnataka The Prime Minister told me to ensure that the growth of the Bangalore city was not hurt because of these incidents. Mr Kumaraswamy told Deccan Herald after the 15 minute meeting with Dr Singh at the latters Race Course residence.
SC dismisses plea for time frame on mercy petition The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a public interest petition which had sought a direction to the government to fix a time frame for the disposal of the mercy petitions of condemned prisoners awaiting gallows including Parliament attack prime accused Mohd Afzal.
Run for a ride... School boys runs after an over-crowded bus in New Delhi on Friday. Commuters in the Capital are being forced to jostle harder than ever to get onto the city's dangerously overcrowded buses after a spate of deadly accidents spurred a crack down on errant private bus operators.
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