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F L Smidth Group is planning to recruit more engineers in its division in Chennai. The 120 year old group is also shifting its operations to the space in the IT corridor in Old Mahabalipuram.

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Reliance Infocomm has announced cuts of up to 50 per cent in tariffs on its Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 international World Cards, as part of offers for the festival season.The cuts would be applicable on calls to the US, Canada, the United Kingdom and the Gulf region, said a news release from the company.

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India Cements Ltd on Friday said it had raised $100 million through issue of 2.31 crore Global Depositary Shares (GDS).The GDS, each representing two underlying equity shares, are priced at $4.32 each and will be listed .

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President A P J Abdul Kalam will launch the second phase of `Sight First' campaign here on October 15 as part of the World Sight Day celebrations.
The President would also unveil three innovative projects .

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The temple of Lord Venkateswara netted a record income of Rs.9.06 crores during the nine-day Brahmotsavam which concluded on Wednesday. Briefing mediapersons on Thursday, TTD Executive officer A.P.V. Narayana Sarma said that this income surpassed last year's collection by Rs.2.68 crores.

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United Liberation Front of Asom's 11-member People's Consultative Group is all set to demand an immediate ceasefire in Assam to begin formal peace talks between the top ULFA leaders and the representatives of the United .

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Oil prices fell more than $1/barrel after the Department of Energy reported that crude-oil inventories rose 1 million barrels last week - the first increase since Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast nearly seven weeks ago.

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The Indian team for the first two matches of the one-day cricket series against Sri Lanka has been announced.While Sachin Tendulkar makes a comeback after a long injury layoff, fast bowlers Zaheer Khan and Ashish Nehra have been dropped from the 15-member squad.

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The high intensity earthquake, which rocked parts of Pakistan and Jammu and Kashmir last week, has turned the focus of town planners on highly seismic areas of Himachal Pradesh, including Shimla.

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Cancer has become one of the leading causes of deaths in India. Over seven lakh cancer patients die without treatment every year in the country. Almost an equal number of cancer patients who can afford to pay die because of lack of palliative care, that is the care given to terminally ill cancer patients to reduce their pain.

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RSS on Thursday said the recent comments by BJP chief LK Advani about Sangh's interference in the party's affairs would come up for discussion at its forthcoming national convention at Chitrakut.

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The ET-TNS Consumer Confidence Index continued its upward trend for the fourth successive quarter and recorded its highest ever value. Consumers are bullish about both the present and the future.

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The raids were conducted on the residence and office of a high ranking Western Railway official in Rajkot and his assistant in Mumbai and also the main office of the Ahmedabad Electricity Company (AEC) on Friday .

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In a gruesome incident, policemen threw a 14-year old boy out of a speeding express train near a overbridge here resulting in loss of one leg of the teenager, railway police sources said on Friday.

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Dreaded dacoit Nirbhay Gujjar sustained injuries while two of his gang members were killed in an encounter today in Itawa on the UP-MP border, bordering Bhind district.

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The Gurgaon-based family of a sailor, Gautam Malik who went missing off the coast of Alaska, has decided to appeal to the Ministry of External Affairs.Gautam, an employee of the Hong Kong-based Ebony Ship Management, was on board a ship at a Lithuanian port Klaidepa, when he was reported missing last Sunday.

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Now that it is almost certain that Veselin Topalov will be new champion of the chess world, the focus has shifted to what each of the eight participants will be playing for in the remaining two rounds of the World chess championship at San Luis.

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India Seniors, riding on a brilliant innings by Vidyut Sivaramakrishnan, won the Kingfisher Challenger Series by three wickets but Piyush Chawla lived a hundred dreams when he foxed the crafty Sachin Tendulkar .

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With Communications and Information Technology Minister Dayanidhi Maran rejecting a plea by telecom officers to reconsider their demands, Indian Telecom Service (ITS) cadre officers on Thursday filed a caveat.

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ICICI Bank will hit the local and US markets in December with a twin share issuance, which would be the biggest equity offering by an Indian firm after the ONGC issue. The board of the country’s largest private bank .

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Air India Ltd. won the approval of an Indian government panel to buy 68 aircraft from The Boeing Co., helping the carrier move one step closer to placing $8.1 billion worth of orders from the company.

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British Petroleum plc and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) on Thursday signed a letter of intent to form a 50:50 strategic joint venture to construct a $3-billion refinery at Bhatinda in Punjab to start with, and later cover the entire refining and marketing sectors.

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Chennai-bound businessmen got a Vijayadashmi gift as one more Shatabdi Express from Bangalore to Chennai rolled out of the City Railway Station on its maiden trip at 6 am on Thursday.

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The Shiv Sena, which was longing for a mention in the Guinness World Records for their Dusshera rally is in danger of setting a dubious record.  Sena MLA Ramdas Kadam, who became leader of Opposition in the Maharashtra Assembly may just find a mention for holding the post for the shortest time ever. He has been holding the post since October 1.

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Hyderabad City Police launched full-fledged investigations into last night's blast at the Task Force office at the high-security Begumpet area, in which two persons, including a home guard, were killed. 

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After a four-day-long battle, which saw hundreds of flight delays and wastage of crores of rupees, the ill-fated Sahara Boeing 737-400 was finally towed away from Mumbai airport at 7.30 am yesterday.

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BJP General Secretary Pramod Mahajan’s sudden comments on the state of his party are easily slotted. They can be immediately read as the positioning manoeuvre of a contender for the throne that officially falls vacant in December, but for which the race starts now.

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Bihar Governor Buta Singh, who has been camping in the Capital for the past two days, relented today and appeared before the media, but evaded answering queries.

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It was a four-hour walk to Chatkadien from Dildar on the Tangdhar-Teetwal road. A mile ahead of the fence, even ahead of the last Army post on the Line of Control, Chatkadien didn’t escape the October 8 fury .

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The moderate faction of the Hurriyat Conference has asked the people of Srinagar to offer special prayers for the victims of the earthquake in Jammu and Kashmir and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.

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Cancer has become one of the leading causes of deaths in India. Over seven lakh cancer patients die without treatment every year in the country.

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Five Indians, who went to Pakistan occupied Kashmir's capital Muzzafarabad on October 6, returned home on Thursday. The group from Jammu went to PoK on the 'bus of peace', just two days before the earthquake shattered everything there.

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Lok Janashakti Party President Ram Vilas Paswan very recently underwent a heart surgery and health concerns now seem to be uppermost with him.
And no it is not just the hearts but the bloodgroups he is worried about for people of Bihar.

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