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Mumbai, Aug 14: "I feel sad about those Navy personnel who lost their lives for the country," Antony told reporters outside Parliament. In a major setback to the Indian Navy, a submarine caught fire after a massive explosion and sank in the dockyard here early on Wednesday, with the fate of 18 personnel, including three officers, on board remaining uncertain. The explosion resulted in a major fire

Mumbai, Aug 14: An Indian Navy submarine caught fire after an explosion and sank here late last night, with the fate of 18 personnel, including three officers, on board uncertain. An explosion resulting in a major fire took place on board INS Sindhurakshak, a Kilo class submarine of the Indian Navy, shortly after midnight. The fate of 18 persons on board the submarine is being ascertained, a

Mumbai, Aug 14: Navy today ordered a board of inquiry to probe the explosion and subsequent fire onboard its submarine INS Sindurakshak which has sunk. The fate of 18 persons onboard the submarine is being ascertained, a Navy official said. An explosion resulting in a major fire took place on board INS Sindhurakshak, a Kilo class submarine of the Indian Navy, shortly after midnight, a defence

New Delhi, Aug 13: The average wholesale price of onion has more than doubled since the beginning of this month and the vegetable is now selling at up to Rs 80 per kg in the city due to shortages blamed on excess monsoon rains destroying crops. Insiders in the trade say prices are not likely to reverse till around September-end . Prices are likely to stabilize this week but another surge is

New Delhi, Aug 13: Upping the ante on Robert Vadra's controversial land deals in Haryana, BJP today termed it as a "serious case of fraud with a nationalised bank". After a meeting of BJP's Parliamentary Party, Deputy Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Ravishankar Prasad rejected Congress contention that the matter was state related. "It is not a state subject. This is an issue of a serious bank

New Delhi, Aug 13: The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the chief secretary of Jammu and Kashmir to file a detailed affidavit on the communal clashes in Kishtwar district and subsequent steps taken by the state government to control the situation. The apex court directed the chief secretary to file the affidavit by August 21 on a PIL seeking direction to the government to provide safe passage to

Ahmedabad, Aug 13: Senior Gujarat police officer PP Pande has surrendered, a day after the Supreme Court refused to him any protection from arrest in the 2004 fake encounter killing of college student Ishrat Jahan and three others, saying his conduct did not entitle him to an anticipatory bail. "You were an absconder earlier also. Your conduct makes you dis-entitled to anticipatory bail," the

Mumbai, Aug 13: The Union civil aviation ministry's decision to permit unbundling of services earlier this year has got carriers trying out ever newer ideas. SpiceJet on Monday became the first airline in India to offer passengers the option of paying extra to get a chance to secure empty seats next to theirs. Called Empty Seat Option or ESo, the facility is on offer on SpiceJet's domestic flights

Jammu, Aug 12: Four persons, including two policemen, were injured in fresh clashes which broke out in Kishtwar on Monday as locals defied the curfew to protest against the arrest of a youth for his alleged involvement in Friday's communal violence in the area. Trouble erupted when police tried to stop protesters from marching to the Hidyal area of the town after defying the curfew, which entered

New Delhi, Aug 12: Insisting that the situation in violence-hit Jammu and Kashmir is under control, the Centre today said it will extend all help to the state government in maintaining law and order and asserted that the repeat of forced migration witnessed in 1990 will not be allowed. Finance Minister P Chidambaram, who made a statement in Rajya Sabha on behalf of indisposed Home Minister