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  • Jairam Thakur is BJP candidate for Mandi seat

    The BJP Saturday announced that former Himachal Pradesh minister Jairam Thakur would be its candidate for the June 23 bypoll to the Mandi parliamentary seat. BJP president Rajnath Singh had approved Thakur's name for the byelection, a party statement said. Thakur was a minister in the Prem Kumar Dhumal government that was voted out of power in last December's assembly polls. The Mandi seat ...

  • Three Delhi restaurants among Asias best

    Three of the capital's tony eateries are among a list of 101 Best Restaurants in Asia 2013. Varq at The Taj Mahal Hotel that serves Indian cuisine was ranked at number six and ITC Maurya's Bukhara, frequented for its delectable north Indian cuisine, was at number 24. The Taj Palace Hotel's Orient Express, which specialises in French cuisine, was ranked at 55. The other Indian restaurants ...

  • Himachal to reduce fertilizer use

    To reduce the use of fertilizers, Himachal Pradesh is going to check samples of soil under the Soil Health Programme, an official said here Saturday. The government has asked the farmers to get soil from their fields tested free of cost, agriculture director J.C. Rana said. He said that the department has set a target of checking 63,750 samples of soil during the current kharif season. The ...

  • Need for centre of excellence in every varsity Mukherjee

    Expressing concern over the declining standards of higher education, President Pranab Mukherjee Saturday called for identifying at least one department in each university that could be made a centre of excellence. "It's possible to revive the lost glory of our higher education system and take at least a few of our universities into the global top league," Mukherjee said while inaugurating the ...

  • India Cements not to be impacted financially if CSK booted out of IPL

    India Cements may not be majorly impacted if its Indian Premier League (IPL) team, Chennai Super Kings' licence is revoked in the wake of the spot fixing scandal, industry analysts say. "The revocation of CSK's IPL franchisee licence will not have any major financial impact on India Cements. Perhaps the company's branding/marketing expenses would go up," V. Srinivasan, research analyst at Angel ...

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The Expendables 2

The Expendables 2 delivers precisely what you might expect from a sequel to Sylvester Stallones red-meat roundup of over-the-hill action stars from two years ago. There is plenty of the samefiery explosions, massive weapons, heavy artillery, deep voicesand what the film now ... ...

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  • Rahul Gandhi to visit Maharashtra May 27

    Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi will Monday visit Maharashtra for a day to interact with farmers, a party statement said Saturday. Rahul Gandhi will be visiting villages in Osmanabad and Jalna districts of the state, it said. "He will visit cattle camps and pipe water schemes in both the district. He will also be interacting with farmers," it ...

  • VM Nine Agra teenagers to collectively pen book

    Nine teenagers - seven girls and two boys - are to collectively produce a volume of short stories before the Taj Literature Festival in December. The lucky nine - Kuhu Goyal, Yusura, Priyanshi, Aniruddha, Yashi, Amrita, Subundhu, Bhavya and Kuhoo Srivastav - were selected after a fortnight-long grooming camp attended by 60 teenagers. They were then put through a three-day workshop conducted by ...

  • Bangladesh allows transit for foodgrains for northeast India

    In a major policy change, Bangladesh will allow India ferry foodgrains for the mountainous northeastern states via its territory, a Tripura minister said here. "Initially, the Bangladesh government has agreed to transport 10,000 tonnes of foodgrains for Tripura through its territory," Tripura Food and Civil Supplies Minister Bhanulal Saha told IANS. "The Bangladesh government issued necessary ...

  • Lapataganj director happy with shows comeback

    Director Dharam Verma, who directed popular show "Lapataganj", is happy that the show is coming back with its second season. He says the new season promises a lot. "Lapataganj" is the story of the people residing in an imaginary town of the same name. They lead a happy life against all odds. The show was famous among audiences for bringing to them several colourful flavours of rural India. The ...

  • Indian team departs for Champions Trophy May 29

    The Indian cricket team will depart for England and Wales from here May 29 to participate in the ICC Champions Trophy to be held June 6-23. This will be the seventh and final Champions Trophy as it is due to be replaced by the ICC World Test Championship in 2017. India are placed in Group B along with South Africa, West Indies and arch-rivals Pakistan. India open the tournament when they take ...

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