Bangalore: India is installing along its long coastline a sophisticated surveillance system capable of tracking movements as distant as 20 kms in the sea with a command and control centre in Delhi from where the entire coast can be monitored, officials said here.

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NEW DELHI: Indian rowers scripted history after settling for two sliver medals for the first time in 12 years in the men’s four and men’s lightweight four events respectively on the sixth day of the 16th Asian Games in Guangzhou, China. India’s Anil Kumar, Saji Thomas, Ranjit Singh and Jenil Krishnan claimed the silver medal in the men’s four event. China won the gold while Uzbekistan took the bronze.

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The Union government has entrusted Syndicate Bank to bring 1,620 villages under financial inclusion by 2012, said Syndicate Bank General Manager K Devananda Upadhyaya.

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After the successful completion of IT job fair, Karnataka Vocational Training and Skill Development Corporation (KVT-SDC) announces free sponsorship for Training and Placement Programme at RiiiT, Mysore.

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NEW DELHI: Acting on a TOI report highlighting how airfares have skyrocketed in the past few days, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation on Wednesday issued notices to all airline CEOs asking them to explain why travellers were being charged excessive fares. The notice came after

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As allegations of favoured land allotments to his relatives surfaced, Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa on Wednesday pledged in god’s name that he would not yield to any pressure in land deals.

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ಉಡುಪಿ: ರಂಗಭೂಮಿ ದಿ.ಡಾ.ಟಿ.ಎಂ.ಎ.ಪೈ, ದಿ.ಎಸ್‌.ಎಲ್‌.ನಾರಾಯಣ ಭಟ್‌, ದಿ.ಮಲ್ಪೆ ಮಧ್ವರಾಜ್‌ ಸ್ಮಾರಕ ಆಯೋಜಿಸಿದ 31ನೆಯ ರಾಜ್ಯ ಮಟ್ಟದ ಕನ್ನಡ ನಾಟಕ ಸ್ಪರ್ಧೆಯನ್ನು ನ.17ರಂದು ಎಂಜಿಎಂ ಕಾಲೇಜಿನ ನೂತನ ರವೀಂದ್ರ ಮಂಟಪದಲ್ಲಿ ಹಿರಿಯ ಪತ್ರಕರ್ತ, ವಿಮರ್ಶಕ ಎ.ಈಶ್ವರಯ್ಯನವರು ಉದ್ಘಾಟಿಸಿ ಶುಭ ಕೋರಿದರು.

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Children look at a poster of Mother Teresa in a special exhibition train at the Bhopal railway station yesterday. The Mother Express train was flagged off by Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee in Kolkata on August 26

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Mulki : Two boys met a watery grave in two separate incidents reported from the Suzlon Rehabilitation Colony in Padubidri and in Mulki on November 13, Saturday. Amrith (12), a seventh standard student of Padubidri Board School and son of Krishna Poojari, a resident of the Suzlon rehabilitation colony who had been to swim

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We have received pictures of the recent horrifying slaughter which took place in Baghdad on October 31st. Two priests were killed as they celebrated holy MASS (ages 27 and 32 yrs old). One other priest was severely injured and is critical undergoing surgeries. The priests begged for their lives to be taken only so that the faithful would be spared but instead all were murdered, even the children who were present.

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MUMBAI: The CBI is likely to question former Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan in connection with his alleged role in the housing society scam here.

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DEOBAND: Talaq uttered thrice by a Muslim man on a mobile phone will be considered valid even if his wife is unable to hear it all the three times due to network and other problems, a fresh fatwa has ruled. The fatwa was given by Darul-Ifta, the fatwa department of leading Sunni Islamic seminary Dar-ul-Uloom Deoband, in reply to a query by a man.

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NEW DELHI: If you are planning to fly from Delhi to Mumbai at short notice, get ready to shell out more than you would for a return ticket to, say, Dubai or Bangkok. Passengers buying tickets on the date of travel or a day or two earlier on this sector in the past few days have seen one-way fares

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Pilot error caused the Air India Express plane crash at Mangalore airport which killed 158 people, an inquiry has found. The final report of the inquiry committee which probed the incident says that the flight commander of the ill-fated Air Indian Express, which crashed on May 22,2010,

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DURBAN, South Africa — South Africa’s Indian community celebrated its 150th anniversary Tuesday with prayer ceremonies on the spot where the first indentured servants from India came ashore in 1860. In one ceremony, about 40 men in white shirts and women in colourful saris set out in a boat from the eastern port city of Durban, throwing coconuts, bananas, oranges, apples

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ROLLS-ROYCE is planning a new-for-old engine swap scheme as pressure mounts for a quick fix to the Airbus A380 engine crisis. The company has asked Airbus to return new engines from the aircraft assembly line in Toulouse, France so they can be forwarded to airlines for temporary swaps, the Associated Press reported, citing an official from an aviation regulator.

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MUMBAI: Even as the Bombay high court on Monday afternoon was coming down heavily on the BMC for the spate of baby-stealing incidents that have been occurring in municipal hospitals, another baby was stolen from a BMC-run primary health centre in Govandi. The two-month-old, Sahil Ansari

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LUCKNOW: Passengers of an Air India flight from Mumbai had a narrow escape after the aircraft’s tyre burst at the time of touchdown at Amausi airport here on Monday. The Varanasi-bound flight IC-195 landed at Amausi at 11.30am with a loud noise. It later turned out that one of the eight tyres on the left side of the plane had burst.

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Indian millionaire Bhanu Choudhrie has teamed up with the Dubai Royal Family in a bid to rescue iconic British holiday company Pontin’s which has gone into administration, a media report said.

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MANGALORE: Mangalore MP Nalin Kumar Kateel has demanded a night train from Bangalore to Udupi. Mr. Kateel told presspersons here on Saturday that Minister of State for Railways E. Ahmed had assured him that Mangalore would get an additional train.

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