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Kochi, September 13: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said media should avoid the desire to be sensational and exercise restraint so that nothing that divides society and country is written, broadcast or telecast. The media has a very important role to play in promoting greater communal harmony and inter-group and inter-community dialogue and its reporting and opinions should be "fair, objective

Jammu, September 13: Top militant commander Mehraj-ud-din Dand, wanted for his involvement in the 1999 hijacking of flight IC-814 to Kandahar and other terror attacks, has been arrested from an undisclosed location on the Jammu-Srinagar highway, a senior police official said Thursday. In what is described as a major catch, Mehraj-ud-din, suspected to be involved in many militancy related incidents

New Delhi, September 13: Canada wants to sell nuclear reactors to India. Putting behind a troubled nuclear history with India, Canadian foreign minister John Baird said, "We have turned the page with India. India is a very different country today." With Canada emerging as an energy superpower, buoyed by a thriving economy, the minister said, "We value and welcome Indian investment in natural

Panaji, September 12: The Union ministry of environment and forest (MoEF) on Wednesday suspended the environment clearances (EC) of all the 93 mining leases in Goa asking the mine owners to submit the relevant documents. The mine owners will have to submit their documents which are required for getting the environment clearances, minister of environment and forest Jayanti Natarajan told reporters

New Delhi, September 12: A delegation of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders met President Pranab Mukherjee Wednesday and asked him to intervene and check the government's repeated attacks on the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG). "We met the president and said it is important for you to intervene and advise government that it is not proper to attack the CAG," BJP leader L.K. Advani told

Mumbai, September 12: Aseem Trivedi, the cartoonist jailed on charges of sedition, has left a Mumbai jail. He emerged waving his fist in the air, wearing a button-down black shirt just like when he was taken into custody on Saturday. He was granted bail last evening by the Bombay High Court. Mr Trivedi headed first to a shrine for BR Ambedkar, down the road from the Arthur Road jail. "Even Gandhi

Kudankulam, September 12: The situation in Kudankulam continues be tense. The villagers have now alleged that the police were carrying out searches at their homes. The villagers allege that the police have destroyed their property while searching their homes. Anti-nuclear movement leader SP Udayakumar may be be arrested on Wednesday even as more support comes in from India against corruption. IAC

New Delhi, September 12: Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama today said it was a contradiction that Indians were indulging in "unethical" practises like corruption despite being religious-minded. Indians are "highly religious-minded" and it is very sad that corruption is prevalent in this country, he said while denouncing the menace. "I recently went to Ladakh and someone told me for example

New Delhi, September 12: The Justice M B Shah Commission's indictment of the Union environment ministry for disregarding norms and Supreme Court orders to give clearances that facilitated rampant iron ore mining in Goa covers the period when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh held charge of the environment and forests portfolio. The commission's censure of authorities for letting the mines function for

New Delhi, September 11: A meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs (CCPA), which could have decided on raising diesel and cooking fuel prices, was today postponed even as Oil Minister S Jaipal Reddy said the price increase was "unavoidable". CCPA, which is headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and includes ministers from allies of the UPA alliance, was scheduled to meet this