Press Trust Of India Ndtv Correspondent

• Bodies of Andhra Pradesh accident victims given to relatives

  Bodies of the 32 victims of a horrific bus accident in Maharashtra were on Sunday transported to their home districts in Andhra Pradesh.

• Bodies of bus accident victims being brought to Hyderabad

  Bodies of 32 people, who were killed in the bus accident near Naldurg in Maharashtra today, were being brought to Hyderabad even as authorities managed to identify only six of the deceased.

• Prime Minister's advisor TKA Nair denies irregularity in allotment of BEML land

  Prime minister's adviser TKA Nair has denied that there was any irregularity in the allotment of a plot to his niece and a family friend in a Bangalore area that belongs to the Housing Cooperative Society of BEML (Bharat Earth Movers Limited). In a statement to the Press Trust of India, Mr Nair today said there was "no irregularity or illegality to...

• Man arrested for posing as Mamata Banerjee's brother

  A man was arrested at Contai in Purba Medinipur district for posing as the brother of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, police sources said today.

• Yamuna swelling by the hour, Delhi on alert

  The Yamuna continues to rise in Delhi but at least for now there's no need to panic. The Yamuna has been on the rise after 8 lakh cusec of water was released from the Hatnikund barrage upstream in Haryana.It crossed the danger mark on Thursday afternoon and now it's flowing close to 2 metres above the danger mark.But the Delhi government says there...

• Congress twist in 'saffron terror' remark row?

  As the BJP and Shiv Sena disrupted parliament today, demanding a clarification from the Home Minister on his remarks on saffron terror, there seems to be a divide within his own party.While many in the Congress including spokespersons have defended the use of the phrase saffron terror, today Janardhan Dwivedi, who is a General Secretary and Chairma...

• Chidambaram slams BJP for questioning CBI probe

  Centre has berated the BJP for its "angry" reaction to the CBI pursuit against Gujarat Minister Amit Shah, saying it was "belated and simulated". (Watch: Why is Amit Shah still hiding asks Congress)Home Minister P Chidambaram pointed out that the CBI had filed the case against Amit Shah in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case as per the direc...

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  Karzai sworn in as president of Afghanistan

  Hamid Karzai was sworn in as the president of Afghanistan for second term on Thursday.

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  Now, Army chief warns of 26/11-type attacks

  Army chief Deepak Kapoor has warned that 26/11-type Mumbai terror attacks were a possibility and that India has to take all steps to counter such strikes.

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  Strengthen police stations to fight terror: PM

  Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said that to win the fight against terror India has to strengthen its basics.

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  Normal flights to resume in 24 hours: Jet Airways

  After five days of an impasse between the Jet management and the pilots, the crisis is over.

• Delhi Metro derails, junior engineer suspended

  Delhi Metro suspended a junior engineer after a coach derailed in East Delhi on Sunday morning.

• 17 Pune students test positive for swine flu

  Seventeen students of a boarding school at Shirgaon in Pune district have tested positive for swine flu.

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  India confirms increases in Pak nuclear weapons

  Pakistan's atomic weapons stockpile has jumped to an estimated 70-90 warheads from a previous figure of 60.

• Naxals blow up rail track, BSNL tower in Jharkhand

  Just 10 minutes after the train crossed an area in Latehar district, the track was blown up by Maoists.