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The driver of a van of the State Bank of India was killed and two police guards were injured in a landmine explosion in Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday.

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The Indian Oil Corporation is looking at importing about 300,0000 metric tonnes of LPG over the next 6-8 weeks.

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A teenaged boy allegedly committed suicide at his house in West Punjabi Bagh because his parents were reportedly not treating him well and did not buy him a mobile phone.

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Satyajit Ray's classic creation- Sonar Kella (Golden Fortress) has come alive in the Capital, as the protagonist of the film Mukul has got a real life persona in five-year-old Manisha who claimed to recall her last birth as Suman.

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The New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) on Thursday denied media reports that it had served a notice on Priyanka Vadra, daughter of Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi, after dengue causing mosquitoes were detected in her house.

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The Delhi High Court Thursday issued notice to the government on a criminal revision petition by Maninder Pal Singh Kohli, main accused in the rape and murder of British teenager Hanna Foster in London.

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Muslims in Andhra Pradesh have hailed the passing of a bill providing five per cent reservation to the community in educational institutions and government jobs as "historic".

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They are adding another meaning to antiquated books. Old Indian dictionaries are being picked up by overseas collectors and universities for tidy sums. The demand for dictionaries has gained momentum, with books in this genre becoming rarer over time.

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In 1998, when World Bank’s John Briscoe visited Rajasthan, he found that 40 of the 240 groundwater blocks in the state were being exploited in an unsustainable manner, the monsoon could not recharge them. By 2005, that number had more than trebled, to 140.

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Five Bangladeshi nationals were arrested by the Kolkata police a day after the serial blasts on August 17 but the Bangladesh High Commission was not told about it.

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The Delhi High Court on Thursday granted bail to former Rajya Sabha MP DP Yadav's nephew, Vishal Yadav, who is facing trial in the Nitish Katara murder case.

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The Bombay High Court on Wednesday directed actor Shah Rukh Khan, Maharashtra government and Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to file affidavits in response to two public interest litigations questioning construction which is being allegedly carried out by Shah Rukh on a plot adjacent to his bungalow in suburban Bandra.

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The Union Ministries of Tourism and Health and Family Welfare have decided to start a website and create a database to promote health tourism in India. Health tourism has enormous potential to create jobs and bring in foreign exchange. The website would be functional by December.

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Jet Airways has finalised an order to purchase 10 large commercial aircraft from Boeing Co at $2.53 billion. The deliveries of the 777-300ER planes are slated to begin by early 2007. 

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India has the fourth happiest population in the world, even ahead of Britain and Canada, a survey indicated on Wednesday. The survey carried out across 30 nations found that only those living in Australia, the US and Egypt are more upbeat.

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An official for the state-owned exploration firm, Oil India Limited (OIL), said a team of fire fighters led by four experts from the Texas-based Boots and Coots International Well Control put out the fire late Wednesday at Dikom, 520 km east of the state capital Guwahati.

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India will relax its visa rules for patients travelling to the country for medical treatment, Tourism Minister Renuka Chowdhary said at a joint meeting with Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss here on Wednesday.

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An NRI corporation in London has paid $2 million (Rs 9 crore) for an M F Husain work, ‘The Last Supper’. This tops the $1.5 million sale of Tyeb Mehta’s ‘Mahishasura’ at Christie’s two weeks ago, although since the former is not a public sale the two cannot strictly be compared.

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A 10–15 per cent hike in airfares could be announced any time over the next two weeks. Reeling from the impact of a Rs 1,700 per kilolitre hike in the price of aviation turbine fuel, all major airlines are examining how to go about the hike.

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