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Hyderabad, Feb 11: The Kingdom is keen to promote commerce and investment with India, especially in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, said Saudi Arabia's ambassador to India Saud Mohammed Al-Sati. Saudi Arabia is “investing heavily” abroad, he added. After a two-day visit to Hyderabad, Al-Sati told IANS: “Hyderabad is hub of innovation, information technology, biotechnology, engineering and

New Delhi, Feb 11: By signing Parliament attack convict Mohammed Afzal Guru's execution warrant, President PranabMukherjee has ordered death penalty for three convicts in the last six months, a rate faster than any President in the last 15 years. While his predecessor PratibhaPatil rejected the mercy petitions of five death row convicts in three cases, two involving four criminals are pending

Allahabad, Feb 11: The death toll in the stampede at Allahabad railway station reached 36 today, with 14 more people succumbing to their injuries. The incident occurred near the foot overbridge on platform number 6. On Sunday, the railway authorities, had refused to confirm the deaths till the filing of the report. The stampede, which took place at around 8.00pm, also left many persons severely

Mandya, Feb 10: As protests against Cauvery water release to Tamil Nadu continued in the district today, the local administration banned entry of tourists inside the Krishnaraja Sagar Reservoir (KRS) complex till February 13 as a precautionary measure. Prohibitory orders which were in force in and around KRS from February 7 till this morning, had been extended by another three days, police sources

Srinagar, Feb 10: An angry Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today slammed the execution of Afzal Guru and said this would reinforce a sense of alienation and injustice among generations of youth in the Valley. Omar also said it was a "tragedy" that Guru was not allowed to meet his family before he was hanged and not allowed a "final farewell". The 43-year-old Parliament attack

Kolkata, Feb 10: After venting our her anger on her security personnel at a recent book fair, Mamata Banerjee lost her cool yet again. Now, at 'Maati Utsav' (fair )in the city, Banerjee blew a gasket at the photo journalists while they were continously clicking her pictures at the event, according to the reports. Mamata publically blasted one of her security personnel three days back and told him

Wasn’t it? Yesterday I mean. Spring announced itself in Delhi. The sun was out, and the Law took its Course. Just before breakfast, Afzal Guru, prime accused in the 2001 Parliament Attack was secretly hanged, and his body was interred in Tihar Jail. Was he buried next to Maqbool Butt? (The other Kashmiri who was hanged in Tihar in 1984. Kashmiris will mark that anniversary tomorrow.) Afzal’s wife

Srinagar, Feb 10: Curfew continued in Kashmir for the second day on Sunday following the hanging of Parliament attack convict Mohammad Afzal Guru in Delhi’s Tihar jail. The restrictions on the movement of people in the Valley were tightened this morning as there were many violations of the curfew on Saturday, official sources said. At least 36 people, including 23 policemen, were injured in

Srinagar, Feb 9: Jammu and Kashmir was tense but calm Saturday as the news of Afzal Guru's hanging in Delhi's Tihar Jail spread. Authorities clamped a curfew in all major cities and towns of the Kashmir Valley as police and paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) in full battle gear fanned out to pre-empt protests. Local cable operators have been told to suspend their operations

New Delhi, Feb 9: Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi may have never apologized before a domestic audience for his controversial role during the 2002 post-Godhra riots in Gujarat, but he did refer to the communal flare up as unfortunate events during a lunch with western countries’ envoys to India in early January, when the European Union quietly ended its 11-year-long boycott of the Bharatiya