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My charges not answered: Sonia
NEW DELHI, AUG. 23. The debate over the no-confidence motion is over, but the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party are continuing with it outside Parliament. Today, the Congress president, Sonia Gandhi, picked up where she had left off in the ...

Get farmers out of subsistence farming, says Ranil
CHENNAI, AUG. 23. The Sri Lankan Prime Minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, today said the challenge for South Asia lay in making the best use of its scarce land and water resources, to bring the farmers "out of the cycle of subsistence farming". ...

Sri Lankan PM calls for single regional market
CHENNAI, AUG. 23. The Sri Lankan Prime Minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, today called for the development of the South India-Sri Lanka sub-region as a single market that would provide more opportunities for the economic growth of both countries, in ...

New scheme for food processing units
NEW DELHI, AUG. 23. The Union Cabinet today cleared a Rs. 250-crore scheme to develop the infrastructure for food processing industry and a Rs. 120-crore scheme for the growth of colleges offering courses in ayurveda and other indigenous systems ...

'Missing' cricketer safe in London
AMBALA, AUG. 23. Parvesh Rani, one of the five "missing" women cricketers who went on a tour of England, is safe in London. ``Ravi Sharma (owner of the Jalandhar-based travel agency that had allegedly sponsored the cricket tour) informed over ...

Cabinet committee on WTO clears approach paper
NEW DELHI, AUG. 23. The Cabinet Committee on the World Trade Organisation (WTO) today approved India's approach paper for negotiations at the ministerial conference being held in Mexico next month. The committee, presided over by the Prime ...

Tremors trigger alert
GANDHINAGAR, AUG. 23. The Gujarat Government has geared up the relief and rescue machinery and has asked the senior officials in Jamnagar district to maintain a constant vigil following a series of low-intensity tremors in some villages of the ...

Other Stories

Cabinet reshuffle on the cards

CCEA clears ONGC Videsh plan to acquire stake in Sudan block

'India must become an agriculture exporting country'

Professional courses admission: HC lifts stay

Package announced for cane farmers in five States

Despite attack, pilgrims to Vaishno Devi continue to swell

Bullet was fired at my compartment: Chandra Shekhar

Sixty monkeys `poisoned to death'

Political parties urged to support repeal of IMDT Act

Afro-Asian Games in Hyderabad

'Stress can cause strokes'

TN seeks Rs. 140-cr. grant for judicial infrastructure

NCW to conduct family courts through State Commissions

PM requested to send team for beatification

Microsoft falls back on Linux

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