Friends Today News Headlines.......................... In Jharkhand, JMM legislature party leader Hemant Soren has staked claim to form a new government. He met Governor Sayed Ahmed last evening to do so. he Centre yesterday handed over the investigations into the blasts at Bodh Gaya in Bihar to the National Investigation Agency (NIA). In a bid to boost manufacturing and exports, the government has decided to take series of measures. Chinese troops intruded into the Chumar sector in Ladakh, the same area which had sparked off tensions in April. President Pranab Mukherjee is on a 2-day visit to Rajasthan. Today, the President will attend the eighth convocation ceremony at Malviya National Institute of Technology, MNIT, Jaipur and the first convocation of IIT, Jodhpur. In Himachal Pradesh, an earthquake of moderate intensity rocked almost all parts of the state today evening. In Egypt, a leading liberal economist Hazem El-Beblawi has been named as the country’s new Prime Minister. At least 17 people have been killed in a roadside bomb blast in western province of Herat in Afghanistan yesterday. A criminal inquiry has been launched in Canada into the derailment of an oil train that killed at least 15 people in a small Quebec town on Saturday. Former Finance Minister of Madhya Pradesh, Raghavji, who has been booked for sodomising his 29-year-old domestic help, was arrested yesterday and subsequently sent to jail in judicial custody. In Kerala, a 12-hour dawn-to-dusk hartal is being observed by the Opposition Left Democratic Front. In Odisha, the world-famous Rath Yatra of Lord Jagannath is being held at the holy city of Puri today. Seamer Bhuvneshwar Kumar wreaked havoc with a brilliant opening spell as India stormed into the final of the Tri Series cricket tournament, with a commanding 81-run victory over Sri Lanka via Duckworth Lewis method in another rain-affected match. In a creditable achievement, Indian women weightlifters won the team title in the just concluded Asian Junior Championships at Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan ahead of the powerhouses like China and Korea. Indian woman shooter Lajja Goswami has bagged a silver medal in 50 meter riffle three position in I S S F, World Shooting Championship in Spain.
Posted on: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 05:41:34 +0000
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