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October 6th, 2009 SRINAGAR - Mirwaiz Umer Farooq, chairman of the separatist Hurriyat Conference, Tuesday said the group will soon send a team to New Delhi and Islamabad to defuse tensions between the two countries so that the Jammu and Kashmir dispute is resolved through dialogue. "We would be sending a peace mission to Delhi and Islamabad so that tensions between the two countries are eased and the dialogue process is restarted in order to resolve the Kashmir problem," Mirwaiz Umer said at a press conference here.

September 12th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik Saturday said Islamabad will send its response to the sixth Indian dossier on the 26/11 Mumbai attacks next week. Malik, who held a meeting to review the new Indian dossier, said its examination would be completed by next week and Pakistan would then send its response, Geo TV reported.

July 10th, 2009 NEW DELHI J - Minister of State for Environment and Forest, Jairam Ramesh said here today that India would be a rabies free country within next ten years. Speaking after releasing a book on animal birth control, Ramesh said, government has taken up the issue of rabies control as a challenge, and allotted 200 crore rupees for the project.

May 19th, 2009 NEW DELHI - With Sri Lanka's military offensive against the Tamil Tigers coming to an end, India said Tuesday it would send send special envoys to Colombo and is also preparing a Rs.500 crore (Rs.5 billion) package to help in the rehabilitation of Tamil civilians displaced in the fighting. External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee, reacting to the news of the end of the military operation in Sri Lanka, told reporters that while 'the rehabilitation of the Internally Displaced Persons' (Tamil civilians) was urgently required, India was also looking at the Sri Lankan government to ensure a 'political solution to fulfil the legitimate aspirations of the ethnic minorities including the Tamils'.

May 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India's new hockey coach Jose Manuel Brasa thinks that acting coach Harendra Singh has done a good job of managing the Indian team in the last couple of months and he should see it through the Asia Cup at Kuantan in Malaysia. The Spaniard, who is leaving for the Malaysian city Tuesday to join the Indian squad after taking over as national coach, said he would only be observing the players at the tournament.

April 27th, 2009 NEW DELHI/COLOMBO - Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has said Colombo would extradite Tamil Tigers chief Velupillai Prabhakaran, if caught alive, to India - but after first putting him through trial in his country. In an interview to CNN IBN channel, Rajapaksa said it was 'almost over' for the LTTE chief and he could be caught very soon.

April 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) has said that Australia's pullout from Davis Cup in India next month will not impact the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games, and asked the International Tennis Federation (ITF) to take stringent action against Tennis Australia (TA) for defying the apex body. TA Saturday refused to send its team for the May 8-10 tie in Chennai after the ITF board turned down its appeal to shift it out of India.

April 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - With the killings of Tamil civilians continuing in Sri Lanka, India Thursday underlined the need for 'an immediate cessation of all hostilities' and announced that it will send two special emissaries to Colombo. 'We are very unhappy at the continued killing in Sri Lanka.

March 27th, 2009 NEW DELHI - All India Tennis Association (AITA) secretary-general Anil Khanna Friday took a tough stance on Tennis Australia (TA) demand for moving the Asia-Oceania Group I third round Davis Cup tie out of India. He said the 28 times champions should either play the tie here or forfeit it.

March 26th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and the Boston Consulting Group Thursday launched a report to highlight what Indians want the country to be by 2022 - fully educated, with proper infrastructure, sustainable development, innovation and a corruption-free system. The 'India@75: The People's Agenda' programme was commissioned to involve people across the country in visioning how India could be after 75 years of independence, said management guru C.K.

March 14th, 2009 MUMBAI - Slum kid actors of Oscar winning film 'Slumdog Millionaire' Rubina Ali and Azharuddin Ismail, were awarded scholarships for free education. The initiative by a self-help group called 'We Love India' in association with D.Y.

February 27th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India Thursday said it would send a full-fledged emergency medical unit to help civilians wounded in the conflict in Sri Lanka and work with Colombo to spur reconstruction process in that country. 'India and Sri Lanka have agreed to work together to address the urgent medical needs of these civilians,' external affairs ministry spokesperson Vishnu Prakash said in a statement here.

January 21st, 2009 BANGALORE - Mobile service provider Virgin Mobile Thursday announced the India launch of 'New Thumb Rule', its latest SMS proposition that allows subscribers to send 100 national and 100 local SMSes free-of-cost daily after paying for the first three messages of each type. The subscribers do not have to avail of any special package to access the latest offer and they can send free SMSes to any network, Virgin Mobile chief executive M.A.

January 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Qatar will this year increase its supply of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to India, the nation's Oil Minister Abdullah bin Hamad al-Attiyah said here Tuesday. Qatar will sell 'extra LNG cargoes this year', the minister told reporters on the sidelines of the Petrotech 2009 conference.

January 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - India's leading private carrier Jet Airways, which cut domestic fares by up to 40 percent last week, said it has no plans to slash fares on international routes. 'We don't have any proposal right now to cut fares on our international routes,' Jet Airways spokesman A.K.