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Mittal Steel Co, the world's largest steel maker, has put in a proposal to build a 12-million-tonne steel plant in eastern India for $11.4 billion. Foreign companies are looking to set up plants in India, drawn by robust demand in Asia's third-largest economy expected to expand 7 per cent this year after averaging 7.7 per cent growth in the past two years.

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The special court on Wednesday permitted gutka king Rasiklal Dhariwal to travel abroad and directed the police to return his passport for the purpose.

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A Pakistani non-governmental organisation (NGO) has appealed to the country's President Pervez Musharraf to grant clemency to Indian national Sarabjit Singh, who has been awarded the death sentence by Pakistan's Supreme Court, to let the ongoing peace process with India proceed further.

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A fierce Christian hill tribe took to the streets in India's remote northeast on Wednesday to raise a new demand for a homeland sliced out of areas dominated by them in India and neighbouring Myanmar.

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The strike by 450 resident doctors in government hospitals in Mumbai continued for the second day today with the medicos demanding immediate security enhancement in hospital wards and premises.

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A flag meeting will be held between the Border Security Force and Bangladesh Rifles on Wednesday at Kamthana, a border village in West Tripura district. The bodies of two Bangladeshis who were gunned down by the BSF for illegally entering India will be handed over, BSF Inspector-General SK Dutta said.

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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has invited Hurriyat Chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and other leaders for talks on September 5.This will be the first interaction between the moderate separatist group and the UPA dispensation as part of the dialogue process.

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In a bizarre incident, a passenger travelling from Mumbai by Jet Airways allegedly hit an air hostess on her temple with his cell phone at Rajkot airport on Monday evening. The victim has lodged a complaint at Gandhigram police station.

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In a bizarre sequence of events in Mumbai, two civic corporators were arrested late last night after they reportedly planted skulls in a Hindu crematorium in a Mumbai suburb.

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Most buses will remain off roads in Tamil Nadu today.Over 1,20,000 employees are demanding a wage revision and close to 20,000 buses will be off the roads in Chennai alone.

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A Mumbai-based petty criminal has been arrested for allegedly sending a threatening e-mail to industrialist Sunjay Kapur.Rajkumar alias Rajubhai demanded Rs 50 crore from the estranged husband of Bollywood actor Karisma Kapoor.

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The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) carried out raids in 77 places in the Capital on Tuesday, probing a housing society scam.According to reports, the builder mafia has taken advantage of the common laws governing the DDA with the group housing society.

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A hangout-heaven in South Delhi might soon bear a deserted look. The Delhi High Court has asked the promoters of Chanakya Cinema hall to vacate the land in three months.The court said the property belongs to New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) and should be handed over to them.

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Despite having strict laws against ragging, it continues unchecked in colleges. A first year student in Madhya Pradesh was thrown off from the first floor in the name of ragging.On Saturday night, Jamshed Alam, a First Year M Tech student of Dr Hraisingh Gaur University in Sagar, was beaten up by his seniors and thrown from his room on the first floor.

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According to official statistics nearly 1,085 infants up to one year of age have died of hunger deaths between April and July in Maharashtra this year.These numbers are only from the five sensitive tribal districts of Amravati, Nasik, Nandurbar, Gadchiroli and Thane.

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A CISF constable, on guard duty at the Rashtrapati Bhavan was found dead in the wee hours of the day, which prima facie appeared to be a case of suicide.

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India's Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran will today begin his three-day visit to Pakistan for talks on the second round of the composite dialogue process.

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In a bizarre sequence of events in Mumbai, two civic corporators were arrested late last night after they reportedly planted skulls in a Hindu crematorium in a Mumbai suburb.

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