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Chennai: Jayalalithaa-led AIADMK on Wednesday retained the Sankarankoil (SC) Assembly constituency, with party nominee S Muthuselvi defeating DMK candidate Jawahar Suryakumar by a massive margin of 68,744 votes. Ms. Muthuslevi polled 94,964 votes against Mr. Suryakumar’s 26,220. Vaiko-led MDMK’s Sadan Thirumalai Kumar polled just 20,675 votes while DMDK’s Muthukumar was...
BHUBANESWAR: The Maoists today offered to release one of the two Italians held captive by them if two of their demands, including release of some rebels, were met, as the Odisha government asked its mediators to contact their counterparts chosen by the captors. “One of the Italians taken hostage...
CHENNAI: The ruling AIADMK in Tamil Nadu is all set to retain Sankarankoil (SC) assembly seat with its candidate S Muthuselvi setting up an unassailable lead of 46,189 votes at the end of 18th round of counting. The byelection held on March 18 witnessed a high voter turnout of...
Bangalore: In a major setback for the BJP and Karnataka Chief Minister DV Sadananda Gowda on Wednesday, K Jayaprakash Hegde of Congress beat V Sunil Kumar of BJP by huge margin of over 40,000 votes in the bypoll of Udupi-Chikmagalur Lok Sabha seat. Hegde secured 3,98,723 votes as against...
Hyderabad: The ruling Congress on Wednesday drew a blank in Andhra Pradesh bypolls as TRS candidates won four seats, while TRS backed independent, YSR Congress and the BJP won one seats each in the bypoll to seven assembly constituencies in the state. The by-elections to seven assembly seats –...
New Delhi: After Karnataka the porngate has hit Gujarat. Two BJP MLAs allegedly watched porn inside the Gujarat Assembly. They were watching porn on a tablet computer while the assembly proceeding was on. Sources said that the two MLAs facing the allegations are Shankarbhai Lagadhirbhai Chaudhary and Jethabhai Ghelabhai...
By Rashmi Saksena In the dark of the night, two teenage sisters in a village in the Kalahandi region of Odisha, spoke to each other in whispers. Then they left their huts and started a trek in search of privacy. It was a bad time of the month for...
NEW DELHI: As a commentary on conducive government support and post-1990 reforms in policies, five Indian companies are among 32 global corporate conglomerates, which recently have successfully contested into the final rounds of the global competition of Team Quality Excellence in management, instituted by American Society for Quality (ASQ),...
The Indian Navy is planning to further strengthen it’s capabilities along the western seaboard by establishing a new naval air base in Karwar in Karnataka for operating both fighter and surveillance aircraft. “We have plans of establishing a Naval Air Station at Karwar for basing and operation of fixed...
KOLKATA: Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) plans to invest Rs 15,000 crore towards modernisation of its factories in the next five years. Ordnance Factories Board , which has a total of 41 factories including two newly-set units in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, expects a turnover of Rs 12,000 crore this...
MUMBAI/NAGPUR: The Ordnance Factory Ambajhari near here is all set to enhance its manufacturing capacity of Pinaka rockets from the present 1,000 rockets to 5,000 every year. “Pinaka rocket is one of the major projects (of the OFAJ). The multiple rocket launcher has successfully been indigenised and production of...
CHENNAI/HYDERABAD: Hyderabad-based public sector undertaking Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL) is ready with proposals worth Rs 34,000 crore during the 12th Five-Year Plan and 13th Five-Year Plan. These will result in the development of the areas as well as provide employment to the people, according to Union minister of state...
Bangladesh today sought enhanced defence cooperation with India, including boosting training facilities for its air wing as Indian Air Force Chief Air Marshal NAK Browne called on the country’s top political leadership and military brass here. The IAF Chief arrived here yesterday on a four-day official visit to Bangladesh...
Porirua based Radiola Aerospace Limited has landed a four year contract to undertake flight inspections of new navigation aids at 30 military airfields throughout India. The contract, awarded by the TATA Power Company of India through its Strategic Electronics Division (TATA Power SED), is a real coup says Radiola...
Kolkata: An upgraded version of the 155mm Bofors gun, the Indian Army’s most potent artillery weapon, will be ready for field trials in January 2013, a top official of the Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) said on Tuesday. “We are working on this upgraded version. This has been tried out...
BANGALORE:India’s longest-ever near-Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) Agni-V is scheduled to be test-fired from the Wheeler Island (Orissa) in the second week of April. The final stages and payload of the missile are set to move out of the Missile Complex in Hyderabad any time now. Sources tell Express that...
NEW DELHI: The army’s integrated headquarters has upstaged an initiative cleared by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to let major and captain-ranked officers appear for a special examination and join the Indian Police Service (IPS). An internal communication accessed by HT revealed that the Army has debarred most officers...
NEW DELHI: India is finally plunging into the oil politics of the Gulf and West Asia. It sent a team of senior officials from the commerce ministry to Iran around a fortnight earlier, to clinch an oil-for-food deal. And, is beginning to woo the Sunni oil kingdoms in the...