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[1 May 2009 | No Comment | 248]

New Delhi, May 1 (ANI): The New Pension Scheme (NPS) has been launched on ‘Labour Day’ on Friday for all the citizens.
This followed the confirmation by the National Interim Pension Regulator of the scheduled launch of the Mega Pension Plan from Friday.
According to the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA), the necessary infrastructure for the roll out of the NPS is now ready and it will be available to all the citizens.
Under this scheme, the Central Government employees who joined on or after January 1, 2004 are also covered …

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[1 May 2009 | No Comment | 312]

Miami, May 1 (ANI): A restaurant in the small town of Calexico on the California-Mexico border has attracted a lot of diners after the image of the Virgin Mary was reported to have appeared on the food griddle.
After the restaurant’s cook reported the sighting of Our Lady of Guadalupe, restaurant manager Brenda Martinez revealed that there have been more than 100 people who have visited the place to have a look at the image.
Among the awe-struck was a group of masked Mexican wrestlers who arrived on April 30 for an …

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[6 Apr 2009 | No Comment | 240]

he Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested three top executives of Satyam Computer Services Ltd in connection with the Rs.78 billion accounting fraud.
G. Ramakrishna, vice-president, finance, D. Venkatpati Raju, general manager, finance, and another executive in the finance department, Srisailam, were Monday produced before a city court, which sent them to judicial custody for 15 days.
The accused were taken into custody by CBI officials late Sunday. They allegedly had connived with the main accused B. Ramalinga Raju, the founder and former chairman of Satyam.
The CBI officials also seized computers, …

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[6 Apr 2009 | No Comment | 306]

6.3-magnitude tremor centres on local capital L’Aquila
Prime minister Berlusconi declares state of emergency
Scores of people were killed and tens of thousands left homeless in central Italy today after a powerful earthquake shook a mountain region, severely damaging a historic city and surrounding villages.
At least 92 people were known to have died, the Italian news agency Ansa reported, quoting local rescue workers. More than 1,500 people had been injured, the Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, told a press conference in L’Aquila, the badly damaged capital of the Abruzzo region, close to …

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[6 Apr 2009 | No Comment | 185]

Guwahati : Serial Blast in Assam 6 Dead Reports, 38 injured reports; Assam has been rocked by serial explosions on Monday on the eve of Ulfa’s rising day. While one explosion took place in the busy Maligaon area of Guwahati, another explosion took place in a market place in Dekhiajuli in Tezpur. The Guwahati explosion damaged the Assam State Electricity Board (ASEB) office and BSNL office. In three explosions, 6 people were killed and over 34 injured.
Karbi Longri National Liberation Front (KLNLF) militants also triggered an explosion in Jengpha in …