French military jet opens fire in Libya A French plane has fired the first shots in Libya as enforcement of the UN-mandated no-fly zone begins. The target was a military vehicle, the French defence ministry said. It came hours after Western and Arab leaders met in Paris to agree a cours…

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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today appeared to raise doubts over the veracity of diplomatic correspondence cited by the Wikileaks and insisted that he had “not authorised anybody” to purchase votes nor was he involved in any such “transactions”. “I think, p…

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Engineers at Japan’s stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant have successfully connected a power line to reactor 2, the UN’s nuclear watchdog reports. Restoring power should enable engineers to restart the pumps which send coolant over the reactor. Workers at Fukushima have b…

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New Delhi: The WikiLeaks India cables have produced some more explosive details. The latest one is on the controversial voting on the 2008 Indo-US civil nuclear deal. WikiLeaks says five days before the first United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government of Manmohan Singh faced a crucial …

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The markets continued to trade on a soft note ahead of the mid-term policy review amid weak global cues. After opening in the red the markets continued to trade in the negative territory the Sensex slipped 70 points to 18,287 and the Nifty had shed 20 points to 5491. In other Asian mark…

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Japan’s nuclear crisis appeared to be spinning out of control after workers withdrew briefly from a stricken power plant because of surging radiation levels and a helicopter failed to drop water on the most troubled reactor. In a sign of desperation, police will try to cool spent n…

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Boosted by incentives announced by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), car maker Mahindra Reva Electric Vehicle (MREV) has recorded a three-fold rise in average monthly sales in the last three months. “Following the 20 per cent subsidy announced by MNRE, average monthly sa…

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Japan’s nuclear crisis escalated today as two more blasts and a fire rocked a quake-stricken atomic power plant, sending radiation up to dangerous levels. Radiation around the Fukushima No.1 plant on the eastern coast had “risen considerably”, Prime Minister Naoto Kan s…

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Radio activity confirmed in Japan. Radio activity is 40x than Normal level. Great threat to world all over. Humans are facing a prob which is not yet faced in the past. French Update : Radioactive wind can reach Tokyo in next 10 Hours. Japan stock market falls by almost 13%. All traders …

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Japan’s Prime Minister said the danger of further radiation leaks from a crippled nuclear power station is rising after three explosions and a fire at the site 135 miles north of Tokyo. Naoto Kan appealed for calm in a televised address, saying his government was doing its utmost to co…

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