CHANDIGARH – Sports Authority of India (SAI) employees Raj Singh and Des Raj, both watchmen with the SAI Northern Centre, Chandigarh, have been working without a single holiday from July 1.

NEW DELHI – The union government on Monday accepted a proposal to provide nutritional diet and financial aid to empower girls between ages 11 and 18 in 200 districts and the union territories.

COLOMBO – General Sarath Fonseka omn Saturday stripped off his rank, medals and pension after President Mahinda Rajapaksa ratified the verdict of his conviction by a court martial, a sentence which was termed as a “unacceptable and a humorous joke” by the former Sri Lankan Army chief.

NEW DELHI – Acknowledging “large scale” illegal mining in various states, the government today said this could lead to a nexus between criminal and anti-national elements, especially in naxal-affected areas. Making a statement on illegal mining in the Lok Sabha, Minister of State for Mines B K Handique said a Commission of Inquiry has been set up to look into the extent of illegal mining.

WASHINGTON – Shedding its India-centric phobia, Pakistan’s main spy agency ISI has in its new threat assessment determined that Islamist militants, and not India pose the main threat to Pakistan.

LUCKNOW – A special court here today framed charges against 23 accused, including two legislators and the then Faizabad District Magistrate, in the Ayodhya Babri mosque demolition case.

KATHMANDU – With major parties failing to reach any agreement, the fifth round of voting on Wednesday to elect Nepal’s new prime minister is likely to prove a failure again

This kind of corruption will deter donors coming to aid of flood-hit people.
LONDON – More than £300 million of aid for victims of the 2005 Pakistan earthquake has been diverted by President Asif Ali Zardari’s government, raising fears that this will deter donors coming to the aid of flood devastated people in the country.
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