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As part of efforts to strengthen Indo-Pak trade ties, Railways is mulling to provide 50 diesel locomotives on hiring basis to Pakistan. As per the plan, railways is likely to give at an approximate rate of Rs 1500 per hour per locomotive of 3000 HP to Pakistan for leasing purpose.

Vigilance officials on Thursday conducted raids at 16 premises belonging to former DMK minister Veerapandi S Arumugam and his relatives in Chennai and Salem in connection with a disproportionate assets case.

The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has slammed the Indian Railways for overshooting the budget year after year. The CAG in its audit of 2010-11 has said that the Indian Railways is the backbone of the socio-economic growth of India but it has giving low priority to the safety-related works.

The last rites of child artist Taruni Sachdev, who died in a plane crash in Nepal, were performed here on Wednesday evening. Her body was brought to Mumbai from Kathmandu through cargo along with her mother's body at 3 PM.

The Madras High Court on Wednesday directed the CBI to file by May 30 its counter affidavit to a bail petition by IGP (Armed Police) Pramod Kumar, arrested for allegedly receiving money from an investment firm.

India and China here on Wednesday discussed ways to exchange best practices being followed by them for better administration and effective governance.

Fourteen pilots and 31 cabin crew members have been found reporting for duty under the influence of alcohol till March this year, Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh said on Wednesday.

A special CBI judge, hearing the Aarushi-Hemraj murder case, on Wednesday took exception to the behaviour of a woman police officer, who repeatedly laughed during the hearing.

Amid reports on some TV news channels that Samajwadi Party MP Jaya Bachchan had complained to Chairman M. Hamid Ansari about cameras excessively focusing on her during the oath-taking ceremony of actress Rekha, the Rajya Sabha secretariat on Wednesday denied the news as factually incorrect.

An Independent MP on Wednesday demanded scrapping of the country's nuclear power programme saying it would have adverse effect on farm production, environment and people.