Rs 769-crore Central aid for Karnataka Karnataka is likely to get a minimum of Rs 769 crore as additional Central assistance for long-term reconstruction of infrastructure affected by natural calamities during 2005.
N-deal: CPI threatens to pull out of govt A day after the CPM set a stiff deadline to the Manmohan Singh government to convene a meeting of the UPA-Left Committee on the Indo-US nuclear deal, the CPI on Friday threatened to withdraw support to the government if it went ahead with the deal...
India is a partner: China China and India are not 'rivals' but partners in development, Chinese Ambassador Zhang Yan has said, insisting that there was enough space for the two Asian giants to co-exist and prosper together.
Singh admits to being a spy Kashmir Singh, the Indian prisoner who came back to his country after 35 years of incarceration in Pakistani jails, has claimed that he was indeed a spy sent by Indian intelligence agencies across the border where he was caught in 1974 and awarded death sentence.
'Priyanka had not married Rizwanur' Ashok Todi, father-in-law of the computer graphics teacher Rizwanur Rehman, who died on September 21 last year, on Friday denied that his daughter Priyanka had married him and claimed that she was "taken" to the Muslim youth's house.
Talk about empowerment... Women labourers carry rocks at a road construction site on the outskirts of Siliguri on the eve of International Women's Day. After eight hours of work they will receive a paltry Rs 70 as remuneration. AFP
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