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Bangalore : Talking over the strategy and game plan for their next match against Royal Challengers Bangalore, Kochi Tuskers Kerala captain Mahela Jayawardene on Saturday said they were trying to execute a good game plan for the coming clash. Jayawardene said that their first goal would be to make it to the final four. The team is set for the next match against Royal Challengers Bangalore in Bangalore today

MOHALI : Statistical highlights of the Indian Premier League match between Kings XI Punjab and Pune Warriors on Sunday.  # Pune Warriors have won three and lost seven in the IPL 4. With six points in 10 games, they are placed eighth in the table.

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Srinagar :  Jammu Kashmir panchayat polls are being conducted in the state after almost a decade. The Valley has seen an overwhelming 80 per cent turnout in last seven phases, clearly indicating that inhabitants here want to bring about the necessary change.  And this was evident from the massive reception that was hosted for the newly-elected sarpanchs in north Kashmir, especially for 30-year-old Irshad Ahmad for whom it has been an incredible journey.

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NOIDA/LUCKNOW: Farmers' frenzy against land acquisition spread on Sunday and singed more places in west Uttar Pradesh with the number of those killed rising to four. While 22 protesters were arrested for rioting and arson, the state government announced a reward of Rs 50,000 for information on absconding farmer leader Manveer Singh Tevetia who triggered the protests.

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 KOLKATA: The red verandah of Udayan Bari at Santiniketan will come to life once again on Tuesday. For years, Rabindranath Tagore spent his leisure hours sitting in this verandah, gazing at the setting sun, painting or writing. Those who admired him would often come to see him here. That all changed with Tagore's demise.

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With days to go for parivartan in Bengal or so as Trinamool Congress hopes, the party has already initiated preparations for changing the state administration and the police. The aim is to bring in smooth governance if Trinamool comes to power.

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One among the twenty five persons questioned so far by Delhi police was a classmate of the slain daughter of Noida doctor couple Rajesh and Nupur Talwar  It's a crossroads where two 'whodunits' meet. In connection with the Shobhit Modi murder case of Vasant Kunj (north) Delhi Police on Sunday interrogated an ex-classmate of slain teenager Aarushi Talwar. "Sahil Khanna (name changed), a former student of Delhi Public School Noida had a tiff with the deceased Shobhit Modi over his friend Sana (name changed) who is studying at DPS, RK Puram. Sahil had studied with Aarushi Talwar when they were in class IX.

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NEW DELHI : The Line of Control could turn red-hot once again. Even as disclosures by Guantanamo Bay detainees show al-Qaida had plans to bomb an Indian airliner and that Pakistan army and ISI have for long been directly involved in training and directing anti-India terrorists, Indian security forces are bracing for a "hot" summer in Kashmir and elsewhere.

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CHENNAI : Five days before counting of votes in the Tamil Nadu assembly elections, the two major alliances appear confident of victory and have gone ahead booking venues for swearing-in of their legislators.  The ruling DMK-led alliance and the opposition AIADMK-led front are already engaged with the government formation process as there will only be three days for parties to give shape to the new government after votes are counted.

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The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is learnt to have gathered evidence of several other “collaborations” between Chief Parliamentary Secretary Raj Khurana and his alleged conduit Devinder Singh, following the questioning of a personal security officer (PSO) provided by the Punjab Police to the latter.

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NEW DELHI : The Supreme Court will hear the Ayodhya title dispute case on Monday. A Bench comprising Justice Aftab Alam and Justice R M Lodha will hear a bunch of petitions filed by Mahant Suresh Das, the Sunni Central Board of Wakfs, Nirmohi Akhara, the Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha, Jamait Ulama-I-Hind and others.

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For twenty years, Rajgopala Reddy, 60, an ex-bank employee, ran a lucrative fake question racket in the state. With an extensive network of agents, Reddy and his gang cheated hundreds of students looking for a shortcut to success; it also made them rich.  But Reddy’s operation ended on Saturday night when the central crime branch (CCB) of the city police arrested him and two others and busted a fake Comed-K question paper racket. The police also rescued 26 students and their parents, who were locked up in four flats.

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HYDERABAD :  In a case of land disputes going out of control, a former legislator opened three rounds of fire into the air at Banjara Hills on Sunday to stop the demolition of a portion of a house which he claims as his.  B Rama Rao, who represented Jaggaiahpeta constituency in Krishna district in late 1970's, however, claimed that his rivals and their associates had attacked him with stones when he went to the disputed site forcing him to open fire from his licenced revolver for self-defence.

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BANGALORE : Even as Opposition parties are taking to streets against the alleged misrule of the State Government, Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa on Sunday said that he would not care for those who criticise him and his government for the sake of criticising.  Speaking at the Basava shree award presentation programme on Sunday, Yeddyurappa said that he was open for constructive criticism but not the one with ill-intentions. "I am ready to rectify my mistakes if suggestions come from right people," he said.

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Actor has no dates so film to go on floors next year  Prateik-starrer Milan Talkies has been put off yet again. The film was to go on floors last year.  Says director Tigmanshu Dhulia, "We plan to go on floors sometime next year." So what caused the inordinate delay?  He reveals, "Prateik has no dates. First he was busy with Dhobi Ghat and later with Dum Maaro Dum. He is now shooting Gautham Menon's untitled next.

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Mangalore : The Coast Guard command headquarters here has now released the details of the fire mishap in MV Orchid on the night of May 7 off the Kannur in Kerala, south of Mangalore.  The oil carrier had called at the New Mangalore port on May 6. Laden with 24,000 metric tonnes of high-speed diesel from MRPL for local distribution in Kochi, it had sailed off on May 7 around noon. 

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Mumbai :   The Bombay Stock Exchange benchmark Sensex wiped off its opening session gains and is trading flat in the morning session today due to selling in auto, bank and IT stocks amid a firming trend in other Asian bourses.  At 9.35 a.m., the Sensex was up 3.53 points or 0.02 per cent at 18,522.34 and the wide-based National Stock Exchange index Nifty down 3.45 points or 0.06 per cent at 5,548.

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NEW DELHI : Students of mass communication in Jamia Millia Islamia alleged manhandling by Delhi Police during the ongoing indefinite hunger strike in protest against the university administration for debarring them from the annual exams on Sunday. The university, on the other hand, lodged a complaint saying that a former Jamia student was among the protesters.

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Sprucing of street verges, pruning of trees, white zebra-crossings of important roads, grooving of street edges for rain water and lighting of paths. Kashmir is all set to welcome the state government’s darbar as it shifts to summer capital of Srinagar for six months, starting Monday. For the past 1 39 years, Kashmir has been witnessing shifting of darbar between Jammu and Srinagar.

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WASHINGTON/NEW DELHI: Billionaire Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries, which has been expanding its presence in the US, has surprisingly cut down its expenses for lobbying among the American lawmakers to a record low level.  RIL spent a total of USD 1,20,000 (about Rs 54 lakh) on lobbying in the US during the first quarter of 2011 -- making it the lowest amount for a quarter ever since RIL began lobbying for its interests in American power corridors in 2009.

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