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By: Syed Zia ur Rahman, Yahind.com Riyadh (YNN): India’s Ambassador Hamid Ali Rao has called on the NRIs in the Kingdom to take advantage of the online registration system introduced by the Indian Embassy as part of its community outreach program. He was speaking at a function to felicitate him on h

By Siraj Wahab Saudi Crown Prince Sultan died in the United States on Saturday, the Saudi Press Agency announced. He was 83. His debilitating health problems had kept him out of the public eye for quite some time. “May Allah bless his soul and grant him the best reward for his services for his relig

Islamabad, Oct 21 (IANS) A tough-talking US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Friday told Pakistan it could not “keep snakes” in its backyard and said the country must act against terror and “squeeze the Haqqani network”. Addressing a joint press conference with Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabb

New Delhi, Oct 21 (IANS) Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar Friday called for reforms in agricultural marketing to enable farmers to get best prices for their products. The prevailing system of regulated markets under the Agriculture Produce Market Committee Act, 2003, was a constraint on farmers’ ab

New Delhi, Oct 21 (IANS) A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) delegation led by party president Nitin Gadkari met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh here Friday on the continuing economic blockade in Manipur and demanded imposition of president’s rule in the northeastern state. The delegation, which also inclu

New Delhi, Oct 21 (IANS) Two months after its first notice, the Income Tax Department Friday issued another notice to Team Anna’s key member Arvind Kejriwal asking him to pay his dues of more than Rs.9 lakh by Oct 27. “Kejriwal has received the notice from the IT department,” one of his aides told I

Bhubaneswar, Oct 21 (IANS) The state-run National Aluminium Company Ltd (NALCO) Friday placed an order with a government agency to import two lakh tonnes of coal to meet shortfall, an official said. The company’s smelter and captive power plant in Orissa’s Angul town, about 160 km from here, has bee

New Delhi, Oct 21 (IANS) A special court here Friday dismissed the bail application of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani’s former aide Sudheendra Kulkarni, who has been arrested in the 2008 cash-for-vote scandal. Besides Kulkarni, Special Judge Sangita Dhingra Sehgal also rejected the

New Delhi, Oct 21 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Friday said the task of “evolving a mechanism to check corruption was urgent” and the nation should “seize the moment”. “We are on the cusp of far reaching changes in fighting corruption. The agitation for the establishment of a Lokpal has broug

Kolkata, Oct 21 (IANS) The opposition Left Front (LF) Friday demanded that the West Bengal government reverse its move to scrap the renaming of North 24 Parganas district’s Rajarhat New Town after Marxist icon Jyoti Basu and threatened to take the issue to the governor. “The move to revoke the name