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Thursday 20 Jun 2013
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RUPEE HITS NEW ALL-TIME LOW OF 60 VS DOLLAR, SENSEX DIPS BELOW 19K    |   U'KHAND FLOODS: RESCUE, RELIEF OPS ON, AT LEAST 150 PEOPLE FEARED DEAD; SEVERAL STATES ANNOUNCE AID    |    HP RAIN: CM CALLS MEETING TODAY TO REVIEW KINNAUR SITUATION    |   PM ANNOUNCES RS 1000 CRORE FOR FLOOD HIT UTRAKHANDPM    |    AFGHAN SECURITY FORMALLY TAKES FROM NATO-LED FORCES    |    UP FLASHFLOODS CREATE GRIM SITUATION IN MANY SUB-HIMALAYAN DISTRICTS    |   JDU QUITS NDA. OUR PRINCIPLES HAVE BEEN OFFENDED, WE HAVE NO OPTION BUT TO LEAVE DUE TO AUTHORITARIAN CULT IN BJP: JDU   |   AAP KI AWAAZ INDIAN AWAAZ NA BANI TO KYA BANI!   |   
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    PM announces Rs 1000 crore for flood hit Utrakhand

    AMN

    Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh today announced one thousand crore rupees for disaster relief for the flood affected people of Uttarakhand. Out of this, 145 crore rupees will be given immediately to flood-hit state. Ex-gratia assistance of 2 lakh rupees each will be given to the families of those who lost their lives and 50 thousand each to the injured from the Prime Minister's National Relief Fund.

    Congress rescues Nitish Kumar in Bihar

    CM wins vote of confidence in Assembly

    Nigar Akhter / TIA

    PATNA: With help of congress party and other groups chief minister Nitish Kumar today comfortably won the Vote of Confidence in a special session of the State Assembly. Congress support for the government comes two days after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh described Kumar as secular and indicated that his party could do business with RJD.

    Cong core group meets as 70,000 still stranded in floods

    3 battalions of ITBP dispatched for rescue operations  

    AMN
    NEW DELHI:  The Congress Core Group today met at the Prime Minister's residence and discussed the flood situation in Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh. Talking to media persons after the meeting, Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said all efforts were being made to rescue people in the affected areas of Uttarakhand.

    60 thousand stranded due to flood, landslides in Utrakhand
    Coalgate: CBI quizzes two former PMO officials
    ECONOMY / BUSINESS
    Govt clears 16 FDI proposals

    The Government has cleared 16 proposals of Foreign Direct Investment, FDI, amounting to around 1,647 crore rupees. The Finacne Ministry in its statement said that these proposals were approved as per recommendation of the Foreign Investment Promotion Board.

    RBI disappoints banks; Keep key rates unchanged
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    Fifteen children and six adults rescued from village near Yamunanagar on June 16, 2013. Indian Air Force launched a massive relief operation ‘Rahat’ at AF Stn Sarsawa.
    EXCLUSIVE AWAAZ
    Climate change to hit Indian economy

    Aditya Raj Das
    An expected Two degree centigrade rise in the world’s average temperatures in the next decades will make India’s summer Monsoon highly unpredictable posing a threat to its growing economy, warns World Bank.

    Shifting rain patterns will leave some areas under water and others without enough water for power generation, irrigation or, in some cases even drinking, says a scientific report commissioned by the World Bank.

    MARKET AWAAZ

    Should social networks be more responsible?

    India has asked social network companies including Facebook, Twitter and others to filter matters according to the sensitivity of its people.  Minister of Information Technology Kapil Sibal appealed to the executives of these networks to be more responsible in understanding the sensitivity of Indians.

    OTHER TOP STORIES
    Congress: Supports JD(U) govt in Bihar to keep communal forces out
    SC to hear PIL on US surveillance of cyber world
    Kailash Mansarovar yatra cancelled due to rain & flood
    NCR DELHI
    DMRC issues new guidelines to tackle emergencies
    CM inaugurates job fair in Delhi University
  • QAUMI AWAAZ
    Community leaders condemn Israeli Prez remark on Indian Muslims

    AMN

    NEW DELHI: Indian Muslims leaders have condemned the reported remark of Israeli President’s suggestion to the Indian government to disregard the Muslim community for developing and strengthening ties with the Zionist state.

    Nitish’s dubious claims of secularism

    AMN

    NEW DELHI : The Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his party JDU is trying to project its split with BJP as a reassertion of its secular credentials. It is difficult to understand how a party that has cohabited with BJP for so many years can become secular overnight, according to a noted Muslim scholar and political analyst Dr Mohammad Manzoor Alam.

    HC orders CBI to file chargesheet in Ishrat case by July 4

    TIA Correspondent 

    The Gujarat High Court has directed CBI to streamline its investigation in the 2004 Ishrat Jahan fake encounter killing case and file a charge sheet by July 4. On the instruction of the High Court earlier CBI had taken over the probe of the alleged fake encounter in which 19-year-old Ishrat, Javed Sheikh alias Pranesh Pillai, Amjad Ali Rana and Zeeshan Johar were killed on the outskirts of the city on 15th June 2004 allegedly by a state Crime Branch team led by DIG D G Vanzara.

    Late Ishrat Jehan mother rejects terror allegations against daughter,
    Ishrat fake encounter: CBI grills IB Spl Director
    NRI AWAAZ
    After Saudi, Indian workers in trouble in Kuwait

    ASHOK B SHARMA / TIA

    NEW DELHI: It is not the case in Saudi Arabia alone. Indian workers are now facing the same problem in Kuwait. Both these Gulf countries have planned to reduce the number of expatriates. There are about 700,000 Indians in Kuwait and 2.8 million Indians in Saudi Arabia working in different sectors.  

    'Nitaqat not to have serious impact on Indians in Saudi Arabia'
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KING OF CHESS  

Ashok B Sharma

With the chess icon Vishwanathan Anand wining the world championship for the fifth time, the debate over who should be given Bharat Ratna in sports category has wormed up once again.

 
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NEWS SCAN : JUNE 20  

The rain and flood fury in Uttarakhand dominates the front pages of all the papers with many carrying pictures of the Kedarnath Temple surrounded by destruction caused by floodwaters. Highlighting the enormity of the devastation the Times of India writes in its banner headline,

 
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The Story of Khadija  

M J Akhter
NEW DELHI: The Story of Khadija, by Saniyasnain Khan has attracted wide acclamation and author won Sharjah Children’s Book Award for his book, The Story of Khadija. The award carries a cash prize of AED 15,000 (Rs 2,00,000).

 
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  Sher - o - Adab
  “AAG KA KYA HAI PAL DO PAL MAIN LAGTI HAI BUJHTE BUJHTE EK ZAMANA LAGATA HAI ” آگ کا کیا ہے پل دو پل میں لگتی ہے بجھتے بجھتے ایک زمانہ لگتا ہے  
 
? AYE BARISH ZARA THAM KE BARAS, JAB MERA YAAR AA JAYE TO JAM KE BARAS, PEHLE NA BARAS KI WOH AA NA SAKE, PHIR ITNA BARAS KI WOH JA NA SAKE.
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