Dharamsala, April 30 – Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama Friday expressed his gratitude to the people and government of Himachal Pradesh for providing asylum to him and thousands of his countrymen in this hill station for the past 50 years. ‘I appreciate the people of Himachal Pradesh for their support, hospitality, love and regard accorded to the Tibetan community residing here during these 50 years. I thank the government for providing all facility, support, assistance, love and affection towards the government-in-exile,’ he said in his address at a function ‘Thank You Himachal’ to mark the occasion.
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New Delhi, Apr 30 : India and Japan have agreed to build eco friendly cities in the Delhi-Mumbai industrial corridor at a cost 90 billion dollars Four memorandum of understanding was signed between the two countries to building future cities of India. Japanese consultants will launch fesibility studies to set up the first set of Smart Communities in Manesar Bawal region in Haryana, Dahej and Changodar in Gujarat and Shendra industrial region in Maharashtra. Union Commerce and Industry minister Anand Sharma said that the largest ever project in the world will be completed within nine years.
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New Delhi, April 30 – Justice Sarosh Homi Kapadia was Friday named the next chief justice of India, while Chief Justice Gayan Sudha Mishra of the Jharkhand High Court was sworn in as a Supreme Court judge, ending a four year wait for a woman in the apex court. Kapadia, who will assume charge May 12, will take over from Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan, the first Dalit to hold the post.
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Raipur, April 30 – Seven people were killed and 15 others injured Friday when a private passenger bus collided head-on with a truck in Chhattisgarh, police said. The accident took place at Tarpongi village on national highway 200, some 40 km from Raipur. The over-crowded mini bus, on its way from Raipur to Mungeli, hit the truck head-on.
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New Delhi, April 30 – India and Japan are expected to conclude their proposed bilateral free trade pact to liberalise economic ties at the earliest, Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma said Friday. ‘The two countries are already engaged in Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) negotiations and we will be able to clear this before the next bilateral summit takes place,’ Sharma said at the third ministerial meeting of the Japan-India Policy Dialogue (JIPD) here. The summit is scheduled later this year in Japan and will be attended by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh besides Sharma.
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Karachi, April 30 – Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi has warned that the only way his team can defend the World Twenty20 title in the Caribbean is by staying united. ‘We are all aware that there is no other way to win a world title other than by staying united,’ Afridi told infoT20.com in an interview Friday ahead of their World Twenty20 opener against Bangladesh in St. Lucia Saturday.
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Karachi, April 30 – Former Pakistan captain Aamir Sohail believes the Twenty20 format is quickly evolving and the Asian teams can’t take things for granted any more as sides like Australia and South Africa have started to take the shortest version of the game seriously. In his column for the newly-launched infot20.com, Aamir wrote Friday that technically-sound cricketers are now likely to shine during the April 30-May 16 World Twenty20 championship in the Caribbean. ‘I think that unlike the last two Twenty20 World Cups, Asian teams – Pakistan, India and Sri Lanka – will find the going tough against teams like Australia and South Africa.
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Gandhinagar, April 30 – The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government of Gujarat will Saturday formally launch the celebrations of the state’s golden jubilee with a grand function at the Sardar Patel Stadium here. A galaxy of BJP leaders, including NDA chairman and former deputy prime minister L.K. Advani and Leaders of Opposition in the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley, respectively, are expected to attend the function, to be inaugurated by Governor Kamla Beniwal with Chief MInister Narendra Modi at hand.
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New Delhi, April 30 – The Supreme Court of India Friday got a new chief justice, Sarosh Homi Kapadia, and its only woman judge, Gyan Sudha Misra. The law and justice ministry said that Justice Kapadia will take over May 12 from Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan, the first Dalit to occupy the post.
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