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RALEGAN SIDDHI: Under all-round attack over allegations of financial misconduct and demands for its disbanding, Team Anna Sunday decided to formulate a Constitution for its anti-corruption movement and revamp the Core Committee after that.

NEW DELHI: In a surprise announcement, controversial corporate lobbyist, Ms Niira Radia, the owner of the PR firm which has Tata group and Mukesh Ambani-led RIL as its top clients, has decided to exit from communication consultancy business.

NEW DELHI: "Bandits and criminals" have been taking advantage of militancy in Jammu and Kashmir and are raping, murdering, extorting money and using mafia practices and later blaming security forces for the crimes, says a Europe-based thinktank.

DHARAMSALA: The Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) based in this Himachal Pradesh town Sunday appealed to the followers of Tibetan Buddhism to go vegetarian and stop animal slaughtering for a ceremony to be held in Bihar.

CHENNAI: Women supporters of assassins of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi staged a mass demonstration here on Saturday demanding the immediate release of the three convicts- Santhan, Murugan and Perarivalan.

MUMBAI: A World War-II shell, packed with 45 kg of explosives found at the Mumbai Harbour during dredging operations recently, was shifted to Naval station in Karanja in Raigad district to defuse, police said today.

PATNA: The four day Chhath festival, one of the most popular and biggest in Bihar, began early on Sunday as hundreds of thousands of devotees, mainly married women, thronged the river banks to take bath before preparing traditional food.

NEW DELHI: Tasked to train paramilitary and state police forces for fighting Left-wing extremists, the Army is planning to set up a dedicated counter insurgency warfare school at Kondaigaon town in Naxal-hit Bastar district of Chhattisgarh.

xITANAGAR:  Six people were killed and 25 others went missing after a wirerope suspension bridge over the swift Kameng river collapsed on Saturday evening at Seppa in Arunchal Pradesh’s East Kameng district.

NEW DELHI: Corruption has to be rooted out by adopting a multi-pronged strategy including prompt delivery systems, transparent processes and public accountability, President Ms Pratibha Patil said Saturday.