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Kolkata/Chennai, April 11: The Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS) has issued Tsunami warnings for Indira Point, Great and Little Nicobar, Komatra and Katchal and Car Nicobar in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. An alert has been issued for Little Andaman, North Sentinel Island, Flat Island and Port Blair and several places in Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. Following the

New Delhi, April 11: India today said there was no likelihood of tsunami tidal waves being formed anywhere in the Indian Ocean region after an earthquake of 8.9 magnitude hit waters off western coast of northern Sumatra in Indonesia. Intially, the Earth Sciences Ministry and the National Disaster Management Authority issued a tsuanmi warning for Andaman and Nicobar Island and an alert to coastal

Delhi, April 11: A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) worker has been stabbed to death in Delhi's Model Town area allegedly by a party councilor. The incident happened last night reportedly after Jai Prakash had a heated argument with Madhav Prasad, who is a sitting BJP councilor and a contestant from ward number 71, Sangam Park in north-west Delhi. Madhav Prasad has been detained and is being

New Delhi, April 11: The Congress on Tuesday demanded the resignation of Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh, citing the contents of a Comptroller and Auditor General's report that has indicted the State government for flouting norms in the award of a coal block to a firm owned by recently elected Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Ajay Sancheti who, the party said, is “close to BJP president

New Delhi, April 11: In a move to empower women, a government panel wants that a mother should be listed as the first guardian for all official purposes instead of a father, arguing that she primarily looks after the children. "Since normally it is the mother who primarily looks after the children, she should be listed as the first guardian," the Planning Commission's Working Group said in its

New Delhi, April 10: The Supreme Court Tuesday expressed its anguish at mentally challenged and deaf-mute foreign nationals, mostly Pakistanis, who continued to languish in Indian jails long after completing their sentence and asked why the issue could "not be taken up at the highest level". An apex court bench headed by Justice R.M. Lodha said that "such cases pains us" and wanted to know "what

Ahmedabad, April 10: The Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team has found no evidence against Chief Minister Narendra Modi and 57 others in the complaint filed against them by Zakia Jafri in the 2002 Gujarat riots, a Magisterial court said on Tuesday. The court also ordered that Zakia, widow of former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, who was among those killed in the Gulburg society carnage

New Delhi, April 10: Army Chief General V K Singh today sent his complaint to the CBI regarding Rs 14 crore alleged bribery offer made to him by a retired officer to clear the supply of a tranche of 600 vehicles. CBI sources said the complaint has been recieved by them and it is being examined. Singh, who had made the allegation in a media interview that forced Defence Minister A K Antony to order

New Delhi, April 10: Dismissing as "rumours" reports about shortage of certain tank ammunition, Defence Minister A K Antony today said there will always be "shortcomings" but the country was in a much stronger position as compared to the past. "These are all rumours. I can assure you that the country is fully prepared. India is in much more strong position as compared to the past. "There will

Hyderabad, April 10: An eerie calm prevails in the Old City. Curfew continued on Tuesday for the thirth day with reports of clashes from different areas on Monday. Despite curfew in some areas, minor communal incidents, including a bid to burn down a garage at Umda Bazaar in Kamatipura, have been reported from different areas of the walled city on Monday. Elsewhere, miscreants dumped body parts of