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Thursday,
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2011, Chandigarh, India CBI arrests top CWG officials revisiting a carnage
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Vastanvi stays on as Darul Uloom V-C Maulana Ghulam Vastanvi after attending the meeting of the Governing Council of the Deoband seminary on Wednesday. Tribune photo: Vinod Pundir Ships
to bring back Indians from Libya JE freed; Collector’s fate uncertain |
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New Zealand quake
toll 75 Govt authorities say the toll could
rise to several hundred State of emergency declared, a first in
the country's history Christchurch, February 23The toll in the New Zealand earthquake today climbed to 75, with the government declaring a state of emergency as authorities said the toll could rise to several hundred. Rescue workers use thermal imaging cameras to search for signs of life, in Christchurch. — Reuters
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The CBI seems to be tightening the noose around neck of the sacked chairman of the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee, Suresh
Kalmadi. It today picked up his two close aides, including his second-in-command and former secretary-general of the committee Lalit
Bhanot.
Chhillar
(Rewari), February 23
Maulana Ghulam Mohammad Vastanvi, the newly elected ‘Mohattim’ (Vice-Chancellor) of Darul Uloom whose praise for Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s “good governance” had kicked up a row, has got a breather.
Abducted Junior Engineer (JE) Pabitra Majhi was freed today by the Maoists in Orissa after a seven-day ordeal. However, the release of Malkangiri District Collector RV Krishna remained clouded in uncertainty with the rebels setting a new condition.
The hostage crisis got complicated after the Maoists made a fresh demand tonight for the immediate release of five Naxals in return for the freedom of Krishna.
Anxious parents of at least four boys from Punjab were frantically looking for an authentic information about the welfare of their wards, who are said to be trapped inside a quake-hit building in Christchurch since yesterday.
“I spoke to my son Wardeep Singh for a while at around 4 pm today, but then his cell phone batteries conked out.