Dungarpur (Rajasthan), April 30: A total of 88 gram panchayat in the tribal belt of Dungarpur in Rajasthan have chalked out plans to make their areas free of child labour by November this year, an official said. The panchayats in Dungarpur district, over 500 km from the state capital Jaipur, have resolved to attain ‘zero tolerance’ to child labour by Nov 30, said an official at a function held here to observe April 30 as the National Anti-Child Labour Day.
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Kolkata, April 30: The Indian Premier League (IPL), in all its four editions, has turned out to be a marriage of cricket and glamour. On Saturday, Bollywood heartthrob Priyanka Chopra was at the Eden Gardens here to watch the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR)- Kings XI Punjab match.
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Bangalore, April 30: In a significant shift in company’s policy, India’s IT bellwether Infosys decided to have non-founder chairman on its board up to the age of 70 and co-founder chairman up to 65 years, an official said late Saturday. ‘The board has decided to have the retirement age of its non-founder chairman up to 70 years while its co-founder chairman will step down when they reach 65 years,’ company’s new co-chairman S.
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New Delhi, April 30: Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit Saturday said the government will provide Rs.2 lakh each to the families of the 10 shoe factory workers killed in a blaze in west Delhi earlier this week. While expressing grief over the loss of lives in the shoe factory fire in Peeragarhi, Dikshit said: ‘The government will release an amount of Rs.2 lakh as ex-gratia to the family members of the victims.’ Dikshit was speaking at a function organised here on the eve of International Labour Day Sunday.
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Srinagar, April 30: A 25-year old youth was shot dead by militants in Jammu and Kashmir’s Sopore town Saturday evening, police said. ‘Shams-ud-Din Mir, 25, was shot from close range by militants in Chankhan locality of Sopore town this (Saturday) evening.
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Bangalore, April 30: S. Gopalakrishnan, who was Saturday named executive co-chairman of the Infosys, and his successor CEO S.D.
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Banda (Uttar Pradesh), April 30: Attacking Uttar Pradesh’s ruling Bahujan Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), top Congress leaders Saturday blamed the Mayawati regime for the prevailing backwardness and poverty in Bundelkhand and announced they would strive for a special package for the region’s development. A joint rally of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh – his first in the region – and Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi drew massive crowds, who applauded both leaders as they reiterated their committment to allocate a special package of Rs.7,300 crore for various developmental programmes for transformation of the backward region.
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Kolkata, April 30: Kings XI Punjab scored 119/6 against Kolkata Knight Riders in an Indian Premier League match here Saturday. Dinesh Kartik top scored with 42.
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New Delhi/Itanagar, April 30: Pawan Hans Helicopter Limited (PHHL), in whose chopper Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu Saturday took off from tawang before it went missing, has refuted allegations of operating an old fleet of helicopters in the northeastern state. ‘Our Eurocopter Ecureuil AS 350 B3 helicopter was not old.
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