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IANS 03 October 2016
The Centre on Monday told the Supreme Court that it has no jurisdiction to direct it to set-up the Cauvery Management Board as it was just a recommendation of the Cauvery Water Dispute Tribunal and not binding on the government.   Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi made the submission...

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Sanjeev Srivastava (IANS) 30 September 2016
India -- under Prime Minister Narendra Modi -- crossed the line of control in more ways than one on September 29, 2016. Posterity will be a better and truer judge, but Thursday's surgical strike by our Special Forces is a game-changer both in terms of how we view ourselves and how the world...

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Jaideep Sarin (IANS) 30 September 2016
There has been no gunfire, no alert sirens and no fighter jets dropping bombs. It is not war time yet but tens of thousands of villagers in Punjab's border belt with Pakistan are already experiencing a war-like situation.   Over 400,000 people in Punjab's border belt, comprising...

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Sheikh Qayoom (IANS) 29 September 2016
 Panic, confusion and disbelief gripped Kashmir residents on Thursday as India said it carried out surgical strikes at terrorist launch pads across the Line of Control (LoC) inflicting heavy casualties on terrorists and their supporters.   Reports from Uri sector in north Kashmir's...

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IANS 29 September 2016
Punjab was on maximum alert on Thursday while villagers close to the border with Pakistan have been told to move to safer locations following Indian "surgical strikes" across the LoC.   "Punjab is in a state of maximum alert," Harcharan Bains, the advisor to Chief Minister Parkash...

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Abheet Singh Sethi (IANS) 29 September 2016
If India and Pakistan fought a war detonating 100 nuclear warheads (around half of their combined arsenal), each equivalent to a 15-kiloton Hiroshima bomb, more than 21 million people will be directly killed, about half the world's protective ozone layer would be destroyed, and a "nuclear...

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IANS 28 September 2016
Following the diplomatic blitzkrieg launched by New Delhi, Pakistan is virtually getting isolated in the region with Bangladesh and Bhutan joining India in boycotting the annual Saarc Summit scheduled to be hosted by Islamabad in November.   "The growing interference in the internal...

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IANS 26 September 2016
Following the September 18 cross-border terror attack on an India Army camp at Uri in Jammu and Kashmir, the government on Monday decided to review the 56-year-old Indus Waters Treaty with Pakistan.   At a meeting of senior officials chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, it was...

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IANS 26 September 2016
Uttar Pradesh and Bihars populations have the lowest median ages -- or youngest populations -- in India while Kerala and Tamil Nadu have the highest median ages, according to Census 2011 data, compiled by Bengaluru-based think tank Takshashila Institution.   The median age is the age...

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IANS 23 September 2016
India on Friday signed a deal with France to buy 36 Rafale fighter jets to meet critical operational requirement for a multi-role combat aircraft for the Indian Air Force (IAF).   Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar and his French counterpart Jean-Yves Le Drian signed the agreement in...

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IANS 23 September 2016
With India saying that there have been differences over the implementation of the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty, a dispute that was referred to an international tribunal under the aegis of the World Bank, the issue has come back into focus because of the current tension with Pakistan following the...

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IANS 22 September 2016
Three academics from the country's top institutions have been named the government nominee members to the Monetary Policy Committee that has been mandated to ensure the country's retail inflation stays within a band of 4 percent, plus or minus two percentage points.   The names,...

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IANS 22 September 2016
With $22.7 billion (Rs 151,477 crore) net worth, Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani is the richest Indian for the ninth consecutive year, American business magazine Forbes India said on Thursday.   Ambani, 59, who retains the top spot in the annual list of 100 richest Indian...

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IANS 22 September 2016
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) legislator Somnath Bharti was arrested on on charges of damaging AIIMS property and misbehaving with its security guards, the police said.   Bharti was arrested from his residence and was taken to the Hauz Khas Police Station.    The Delhi Police had...

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Aroonim Bhuyan (IANS) 22 September 2016
Despite the clamour for retaliatory action to Sunday's daring cross-border terror attack from Pakistan on an army base at Uri in Jammu and Kashmir that claimed the lives of 18 soldiers, experts and analysts are of the view that India has limited military options and should look for other...

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IANS 22 September 2016
The government on Wednesday approved the deal with France for purchase of 36 Rafale fighter jets, sources said.   The deal was approved by the Cabinet Committee on Security.   The government, however, chose to stay mum over the issue with no official words coming from the...

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IANS 22 September 2016
Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu on Wednesday said that the government will ensure functional autonomy of the Railways and its distinct identity even after the merger of railway and general budgets.   "These decisions (railway and freight fares...

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IANS 21 September 2016
The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed Karnataka to release 6,000 cusecs of Cauvery river water to Tamil Nadu every day till September 27, overriding the Cauvery Supervisory Committee's order of 3,000 cusecs.   The bench of Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Uday Umesh Lalit, giving the...

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IANS 20 September 2016
At least eight militants were killed when Indian soldiers fired on a group of infiltrators trying to cross over from Pakistan at the Line of Control (LoC) under the cover of Pakistani firing in Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday, two days after a massive terror strike killed 18 soldiers in the...

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IANS 20 September 2016
A man, who used his knowledge of six foreign languages and a high-profile, to dupe people here on the pretext of exchanging foreign currency has been arrested from Goa, Delhi Police said on Monday.   Snigdha Saurav Dash, 28, a resident of Odisha, was arrested by Delhi Police's Crime...

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