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War images can affect children: Experts
Continuous exposure to images of war brought live on the television screen can affect the impressionable minds of children, besides giving sleepless nights to thousands of people even miles away from the scene of war, psychologists say.
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PARLIAMENT
'Raksha Kavach' to prevent Railway mishaps
New Delhi: 'Raksha Kavach', the indigenously developed mechanism to detect collision-like situations for trains, has been found to be technically suitable in giving specified protection from such rail accidents.
NATIONAL
Oil companies slash Petrol, diesel prices
New Delhi: State-owned oil firms on April 15 decreased retail selling price of petrol and diesel by up to Rs 1.08 and Rs 1.18 per litre respectively, in step with the global softening of crude prices.
Pak lawyer's plea sheds light on Qaida-LeT links
New Delhi: Links between al-Qaida and Lashkar-e-Toiba have come to light with a senior Pakistani lawyer alleging in the Lahore High Court that Osama bin Laden's outfit had planned to set up technical and medical institutions in the country, Pak media reports said.
SP workers turn violent, burn effigies of Mayawati
Lucknow: Samajwadi Party workers on April 15 set ablaze vehicles and effigies of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati to protest the filing of cases against party president Mulayam Singh Yadav and other senior leaders. As many as 137 cases were registered against Mulayam Singh Yadav on April 14.
'Vajpayee, Advani behind conspiracy against SP'
New Delhi: Stung by the filing of cases against Samajwadi Party leaders, its general secretary Amar Singh on April 14 accused Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani of being behind the "conspiracy" and lashed out at Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati.
KASHMIR
Woman killed, 2 injured in Pak shelling in Jammu
Jammu: A woman was killed and two villagers were injured, one critically, when Pakistani troops shelled Indian positions in Noushera sector in Jammu region's Rajouri district on April 15.
3 top Pak militants among 5 ultras killed in J&K
Jammu: Three top Pakistani militants belonging to the Harkat-ul-Jehadi-Islami outfit were among five ultras gunned down by security forces in separate encounters in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district, official sources said on April 15.
NORTH
Maya to embrace 'Buddhism' if Hindu evils persist
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on April 14 said she would embrace Buddhism along with her supporters if the protagonists of Hinduism did not help remove "evils prevailing in the religion and its rituals".
Grounds for invasion of Iraq exist in Pak also: Sinha
Jamshedpur (Jharkhand): The External Affairs Minister, Yashwant Sinha, on April 14 said that the grounds on which the US-led coalition forces invaded Iraq also existed in Pakistan that could warrant a similar military action against the country.
SOUTH
Infosys Chief favours selective reservation
Bangalore: Infosys Chairman and Chief Mentor N R Narayana Murthy on April 15 said he favoured reservation of jobs in the private sector based on economic criteria than on the basis of caste.
Bt cotton has proved to be a cropper: NGO
New Delhi: Bt cotton, India's first genetically modified (GM) crop given conditional approval by the government in 2002, has not performed well leading to losses for farmers, an NGO claimed on April 15.
Congress favours single party rule at Centre
Chennai: All India Congress Committee (AICC) chief election commissioner and senior Congress leader Ram Niwas Mirdha on April 15 said his party favoured a single party rule at the Centre after the next Lok Sabha polls.
France appreciates India's stand on Iraq
Bangalore: France on April 15 appreciated India's stand on Iraq and its post-war reconstruction and said Paris held a similar view.
'K'taka expecting Rs 1,000 cr investment in BT'
Bangalore: An estimated Rs 1,000 crore is expected to be invested in bio-technology sector in Karnataka over the next three years, chairperson of Karnataka's Vision Group on Bio-technology, Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, said on April 15.
Central
Sonia foresees 'excellent' prospects for Cong
Jabalpur: Congress President Sonia Gandhi on April 13 said her party has "excellent" prospects in the ensuing Assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, Delhi, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh.
EAST
Maoists blow up police patrol: 8 killed, 3 hurt
Nawada: Eight policemen, including an officer in-charge and a sub-inspector were killed and three others seriously injured when the outlawed Maoist Communist Centre (MCC) blew up a patrol vehicle in Bihar's naxal-hit Nawada district on April 15.
Policeman gunned down by criminals in Bihar
Begusarai: A policeman was killed when members of the notorious Dilip Singh criminal gang fired indiscriminately on a police patrol party in Manjhaul sub-division of Bihar's Begusarai district late April 14 night, police said on April 15.
Fernandes refuses to comment on Samata crisis
Dhanbad: Samata Party president George Fernandes on April 14 refused to comment on the expulsion of his loyalists by the party's Nitish Kumar faction.
WEST
Indigenous stealth warship to be launched soon
Mumbai: The first indigenous Stealth warship, being constructed by Mazgaon Dock for the Indian Navy, will be launched on April 18 at a special function.
Rajasthan bandh peaceful, evokes mixed response
Jaipur: As many as 800 sangh parivar leaders, including a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP and three party MLA’s, were on April 15 taken into custody during the Rajasthan bandh, called by VHP (Vishwa Hindu Parishad) to protest arrest of its leader Praveen Togadia, which evoked mixed response and was marred by stray violence in Ajmer.
Key accused in Mulund blast arrested in Mumbai
Mumbai: In a major breakthrough, crime branch sleuths on April 15 arrested Aatib Nasir Mullah, a key accused in the Mulund bomb blast case.
SENSEX shows signs of recovery at early stages
Mumbai: After a stocks meltdown last week, the SENSEX showed signs of recovery by opening firm on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) on April 15 on emergence of buying.
NORTH EAST & SIKKIM
PM regrets Iraq war, calls for quick reconstruction
Gangtok: Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee on April 14 said that it would have been better if there was no war in Iraq and called for the country's quick
reconstruction.
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