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 Continuing its debate on whether the IT sector should form part of the essential services, the CPM today made it clear that there should be no dilution of labour laws in this field and the laws must be implemented. The debate within the party, whose two-day politburo meeting began here.

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The Centre has decided to create two new institutions devoted to science education and research to be named 'Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISER),' an official release said on Tuesday.

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The country representatives of the United Nations Organisations working in India called on President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam at Rashtrapati Bhavan on Tuesday on the occasion of the 60th Anniversary of the world body.

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Heavy rains continued to lash the district on Monday. The three major rivers of North Orissa, Subarnarekha, Budhabalanga and Jalaka are in spate.The flood situation in seven blocks of the district worsened with more than four lakh people in the northern part of the district remaining surrounded by water for the last three days.

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The Cyber Society of India, a forum espousing cyber laws, on Tuesday claimed the proposed amendments to the Information Technology (IT) Act, 2000, had failed to address many areas such as data protection, besides diluting powers of enforcing authorities.

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Bihar Congress chief Sadanand Singh is in a tight spot after the Election Commission ordered a probe into alleged electoral malpractices by the legislator in a bid to entice voters.

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Taking note of the threat from bird flu, which is already at "the country's border", government on Monday said it was considering compulsory licensing for medicine to fight the disease so that there was no shortage of the drug in the event of it spreading to India.

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Maharashtra chief secretary Prem Kumar on Monday claimed that the state is still a leader in terms of attracting foreign direct investment.With FDI inflows at $13.5 billion, it surpasses even the combined investment in Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Gujarat.

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Controversial Independent member of Legislative Assembly Mukhtar Ansari surrendered on Tuesday before a local court at Ghazipur, following pressure mounted by the Uttar Pradesh police to arrest him in connection with the Mau communal riots.

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President APJ Abdul Kalam has contributed his one month's salary to the Prime Minister's National Relief Fund to support efforts to provide relief and rehabilitation to the people affected by the recent devastating earthquake in Jammu and Kashmir.

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Three Naxalites were killed in an encounter with police at Guttikonda forest area in Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday, police said.The exchange of fire took place after the police patrol party cornered a group of Maoists, police said.

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The Catholic church will take up the study of Sanskrit, adapt to monastic life in an ashram and adopt the Hindu ritual of aarti during mass if the movement towards 'Indianisation of the church' gets the nod from 400 priests and five bishops congregating in Pune.

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Heavy rains continued to lash Tamil Nadu leading to more than 600 huts in low-lying Kangampauripattinam area on the banks of river Cauvery in Salem district being washed away, official sources said.

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The Indian Newspaper Society (INS) has urged the Union Finance Ministry to drop the proposed levy of service tax on the sale of advertising space in newspapers. In a statement issued in New Delhi, INS president Jacob Mathew said.

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A National Disaster Response Force will be set up to tackle situations arising from different types of disasters with the state-of-the-art gadgets, N. Vinod Chandra Menon, member of the recently-constituted National Disaster Management Authority, said on Monday.

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With no untoward incident reported from any part of Mau on Monday, the district administration relaxed the curfew twice - from 10 am to 12 noon and from 2 pm to 4 pm.

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Decrying the policy pursued by some NPT signatories of "selectively ignoring" clandestine nuclear weapons programmes in its neighbourhood, India today pressed for a "new global consensus" on non-proliferation to meet "new challenges".

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A SHARPLY worded Supreme Court order might achieve what eviction notices, repeated reminders and two rounds of letters to Parliament have failed to: free up 465 houses in Lutyens’ Delhi.

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After exchanging proposals over the weekend for opening up the Line of Control to facilitate divided families and carry out relief work in a coordinated fashion, India and Pakistan today decided to hold official.

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At one in the morning, Gopal Das tiptoed out of his room, sprinkled kerosene inside, locked the door, collected a chopper, and threw a match into the room. He stood guard outside with his chopper as the flames engulfed his elderly mother, brother, sister-in-law, three-yearold nephew and one-and-ahalf-year-old niece.

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Indian Air Force helicopters will patrol the skies as over 60,000 men and officers of Central Para-Military Forces (CPMF) and state police will stand guard for the second phase of assembly polls in 62 constituencies on Wednesday.

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A report has been submitted to the Human Resource Development Ministry by the B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology on the recent suicide of a first year student after being subjected to ragging. The report was submitted to G L Jambulkar, Deputy Education Advisor, on Monday, Registrar of the Institute K K Dheer said.

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