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Thu, 08 May 2008 21:20:43 GMT
•  Venugopal returns, wounds reopen 
New Delhi, May 8: One part of AIIMS stiffened in apprehension and the other celebrated today as a court decision threatened to reopen wounds that had never completely healed at the country's premier medical institution.
 
•  Sensex battle with BSE 
Mumbai, May 8: A stock analyst from Pune has decided to take the Dalal Street Bronze Bull by its horns in a legal battle over the term "sensex", the biggest brand identity of Asia's oldest bourse.
 
•  Injured youth held for Britain student murder 
London, May 8: The murder of Samrajyo Jyothirmai Vempala, the 23yearold Wolverhampton University postgraduate student, at her lodgings in the Birmingham suburb of Handsworth on Tuesday afternoon a man has now been charged with her killing appears to have been the result of a "domestic situation" rather than a breakin, The Telegraph can reveal.
 
•  Muslim support, with a warning 
Bangalore, May 8: At a meeting with Muslim scholars and opinion-makers here on Tuesday, Congress leaders were asked a pointed question or two.
 
•  Azhagiri gets clean chit 
Chittoor, May 8: M.K. Azhagiri, the elder son of Tamil Nadu chief minister M. Karunanidhi, was today acquitted in the Kiruttinan murder case, five years after the senior DMK leader was stabbed to death.
 
•  Paswan takes Dalit debate to New York 
New Delhi, May 8: Union minister Ram Vilas Paswan plans to take Dalit issues to a New York forum at a time when Mayavati, another champion of the community's cause, is trying to reach out to voters down south.
 
•  Sabeel returns home 
Bangalore, May 8: Sabeel Ahmed, the Indian doctor convicted in the Glasgow terror attack case, was deported to hometown Bangalore early today.
 
•  Teacher to sue 'bullies' 
Washington, May 8: An Indian-American professor at an Ivy League institution is suing her students on the ground that they were "anti-intellectual" in her class, causing her trauma and distress.
 
•  SC nudge on number plates 
New Delhi, May 8: States and Union territories must tell the Supreme Court within six months how they plan to implement a system of high-security number plates for all vehicles.
 
•  Azhagiri acquitted 
Chittoor, May 8: M.K. Azhagiri, the elder son of Tamil Nadu chief minister M. Karunanidhi, was today acquitted in the Kiruttinan murder case, five years after the senior DMK leader was stabbed to death.
 
•  Dolphin fleeing Ganga filth killed 
Lucknow, May 8: A dolphin couple fleeing the Ganga's filthy waters got stuck in a shallow, muddy canal where the male was stoned to death by villagers this morning.
 
•  Home for aged in each district 
New Delhi, May 8: Elderly citizens, often spurned by their own kin, may soon find accommodation, health care and the company of others within their own district.
 
•  Maneka can't save leopard 
Lucknow, May 8: Maneka Gandhi's appeal to Uttar Pradesh forest officers not to declare a leopard a "man-eater" failed to save its life, reports our special correspondent.
 
•  Bus in gorge, sheep on road 
Srinagar, May 8: A bus driver's attempt to avoid hurting a flock of sheep on a narrow mountain road killed at least 32 people in Jammu this morning.
 
•  SC strikes down sack law 
New Delhi, May 8: The Supreme Court today effectively reinstated Dr P. Venugopal as AIIMS director, striking a blow to health minister Anbumani Ramadoss who had got a bill enacted to oust the cardiologist from the post.
 
•  HC relief to Husain 
New Delhi, May 8 (PTI): M.F. Husain today got a relief when Delhi High Court quashed criminal proceedings against the artist for allegedly hurting public sentiments through some of his nude paintings.
 
•  Surrender after puja, feast 
Patna, May 8: A four-hour puja, a gala feast and slogans ' Bhagar Yadav, the dreaded gangster and don of Champaran, gave himself up before police in a flamboyant ceremony today.
 
•  Summer spell of maths, Oriya 
Bhubaneswar, May 8: Though tackling mathematics is not every child's dream, especially while summer holidays are on, children of 51,000 villages across Orissa would be doing just that from May 15.
 
•  Raja interrogated 
Bhubaneswar, May 8: Raja Acharya, the prime accused in the murder of Biranchi Das, was subjected to intense interrogation for more than four hours today.
 
•  Death data alarm for Bihar 
Patna, May 8: The government has issued fresh instructions to jail administration and police to take better care of prisoners, especially those displaying signs of depression.
 
•  Site to promote state beauties 
Bhubaneswar, May 8: Keeping in mind the rising number of tourists heading this way ' an aggressive "sell Orissa" campaign is on cards to woo more international and domestic travellers to the state.
 
•  Traders cry over ceiling, licence raj 
Cuttack, May 8: Traders are strongly opposing the re-introduction of what they call the "licence raj" in the state for essential commodities and fixing a ceiling for stock.
 
•  Naveen's field day as rural farmer 
Bhubaneswar, May 8: Chief minister Naveen Patnaik for a few minutes today played the part of a farmer on the occasion of Akshay Tritiya.
 




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