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Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed today urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to help restore telephone links between Jammu and Kashmir and PoK.The move would help address the anxiety of families divided by the October 8 earthquake in the region.

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As the rains let up and the sky cleared, the army and IAF choppers resumed air-dropping essential relief items including eatables to the quake-ravaged areas in Uri and Tangdhar in North Kashmir this afternoon after a gap of nearly 24 hours.

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At least 27 people, including a small child have drowned in Madhya Pradesh's Morena District and Bihar's Purnea District after their overloaded boats capsized in the Chambal and Kosi Rivers over the weekend.

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Giving a boost to mutual ties, India and Myanmar on Monday agreed to hold joint interrogation of persons arrested on charges of drug and arms smuggling and for insurgency-related activities.

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Mutual funds, which are riding high in the market with stock market boom, are very keen to grab a pie from the promising insurance and pension sectors. The management of investment functions should be given to mutual funds.

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The Bharatiya Janata Party president, Mr L K Advani today went on the defensive on the issue of people with criminal backgrounds contesting the Bihar assembly polls on Janata Dal-United tickets saying it would be ensured that such people were not made ministers if the National Democratic Alliance came to power.

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India today sent the third consignment of relief supplies for October 8 earthquake victims in Pakistan by train.The relief material cosist of 26 tonnes of blankets, 250 tents, 9.5 tonnes of plastic sheet, ten tonnes of medicines and 100 tonnes of energy biscuits.

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In a major breakthrough, Haryana Police on Monday arrested a man "closely linked" with the Babbar Khalsa International. Police said they arrested the man, Gurdeep Singh, a resident of Alampur in Fatehgarh Sahab district of Punjab from Surja village in Kurukshetra on Monday morning. A Chinese pistol and 14 live cartridges were seized from him.

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RJD supremo and Railway minister Lalu Prasad on Monday escaped with minor injuries when a portion of the dais at an election rally crumbled due to overcrowding at Sajangi ground in Bhagalpur.

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Budget carrier Air Deccan on Monday said volatile crude oil prices has affected the airline's operational cost by 20 per cent, forcing it to increase its high-end bucket fares by 12-15 per cent.

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THE DEMAND for Uma Bharti's return to Madhya Pradesh took a more concrete form today with more than 100 party MLAs writing to party president L K Advani on the issue.

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 A local court here adjourned the hearing of the case against VHP leader Praveen Togadia till January 16, 2006, after the prosecution sought time to probe into the case further.Police had accused Togadia and three others of conspiracy to overthrow government and violate communal harmony at a 'trishul'.

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The court has said that land should be equally distributed between the city and mill owners. Hearing a Public Interest Litigation filed by environmentalists, the court has said that land should be equally distributed between the city and mill owners.

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Suspected Maoists shot dead a Special Armed Police (SAP) jawan and injured four others, including a civilian, at Badrama, near Sambalpur in Orissa in the wee hours on Monday, official sources said.

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At least three trains were cancelled and 13 diverted from an Uttar Pradesh town as communal tensions of the last three days continued to simmer Monday and also spread to nearby areas.

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Sonata Software Ltd on Monday said it has entered into an agreement with enterprise software provider, Cramer, for setting up an offshore development centre. As per the agreement, Sonata would provide development, testing, product.

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TVS Logistics on Monday announced its entry into the German market with its UK subsidiary TVS Automotive Europe signing a cooperation agreement with Wincanton for offering supply chain management.

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With just six months to go for the state elections, the government in Tamil Nadu is making sure that civic amenities are in place in capital Chennai.Authorities are making sure that Chennai doesn't go the Mumbai way during the monsoon.

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The Siddhi tribe with just 15,000 members finds itself neglected and isolated by the Gujarati community. The Siddhis, who trace their origins to Africa, were brought to Gujarat almost 200 years ago as slaves. Today, not only do they have little links left with Africa, they also remain cut off within the Gujarati society.

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An NGO has recorded almost 40 cases of acid attacks on women in Karnataka last year.Not only are all the cases not registered, the slow legal process makes matters worse for the victims.

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Two residents of East Delhi's Nand Nagri area have been hospitalised with injuries after their bike went out of control and fell on the road divider.Policemen at a picket tried to stop the two youngsters, Rizwan and Sarfaraz, as they were not wearing helmets.

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A group of CPI (Maoist) ultras attacked police personnel deployed at a musical programme at Badrama near Sambalpur in Orissa, killing a policeman and injuring four others.

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year the hypnotic Hema Malini is not here to spend her birthday with loved ones. But the versatile actress, who turned 57 Sunday, doesn't feel older. "I don't feel older," she confesses on the eve of her birthday.

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India is ready to play an "active" role in promoting Asian economic integration and is keen to cooperate with China in achieving the goal, Finance Minister P Chidambaram said here today.

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India's IT major Infosys Technologies Ltd has said that 25 per cent of its total workforce is from Karnataka."Of the 40,000 IT jobs Infosys has created on a global basis, including those in 11 cities across India.

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The decision of the West Bengal State committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), authorising the party's State secretariat to intervene in the event of an elected representative of the party publicly criticising .

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What was till recently an alarm on the fringes is fast developing into a mainstream worry. One day after President A P J Abdul Kalam placed on record the country’s growing concern about the threat posed by free satellite images, the science and technology ministry said that the government has started taking steps in this regard.

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Over a dozen women have joined the army of the elite National Security Guards, commonly known as the black cats, responsible for fighting terrorism and providing security to VIPs.Usha Bose, one of the trainees, is convinced that she has what it takes to protect VIPs in the highest Z+ category.

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The Army says the quake has destroyed the control stations of Lashkar-e-Toiba and Hizbul Mujahideen in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK), killing 700 militants, including a few top commanders.

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Kothari Products Ltd, manufacturers of Pan Parag, will invest Rs. 200 crores in the education sector in the next few years to set up international schools and colleges. "We are aiming to set up 10 schools and colleges across India in the next few years," Kothari Products Ltd Managing Director Deepak Kothari said at a press conference here.

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Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil on Sunday said the decision to allow Pakistan helicopters in the "peace time, no-fly zone" must be seen as a humanitarian gesture.

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Indian driver Narain Karthikeyan ended his debut Formula 1 season in dramatic fashion with a heavy crash on the 29th lap of the Chinese Grand Prix at Shanghai on Sunday.The 28-year-old escaped unhurt except for a sore neck after his Jordan spun across the track dumping wreckage and fuel and narrowly missing Jacques Villeneuve's Sauber at the end of turn 13.

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Tube rail services in the city were disrupted for over 90 minutes on Monday after a man jumped to his death before the electrified third rail at Central station, police said.Police said Metro rail employees removed the body of the 45-year-old male, yet to be identified, and sent it for autopsy with the help of police personnel.

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Anil Kumble's relaxed exterior off the arena contrasts with his burning intensity donning the India cap. The ace leg-spinner does not carry with him on-field scars and this, perhaps, is a factor behind his cricketing longevity.

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The Board of Control for Cricket in India's Marketing Committee disagreed on core technical points of the Invitation to Tender (ITT) for its four-year (2005-2009) television rights for domestic and international matches and failed to determine the eligible bidders on technical count.

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Well-known singer and composer Bhupen Hazarika Saturday said there can be no immediate solution to the festering insurgency in Assam even as he stressed that the rebels should "shun violence".

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Eight-year-old Gaurav Kumar alias Golu returned home today, a day before the deadline for his rescue set by Patna High Court expired.Deputy inspector-general (central range) Ram Pravesh Singh said .

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Representing the face of a Brave New India, 25-year-old Varun Gandhi defended BJP and veteran  Vajpayee-Advani leadership in his first full-length TV interview on BBC’s HARDtalk.

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Accusing Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of "misleading" the nation over Bihar assembly dissolution, NDA on Thursday urged President A P J Abdul Kalam to advise the PM to resign and to recall governor Buta Singh.

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Controversial MP Mohammed Shahabuddin has had senior police officials in a tizzy following his revelation that he had been living on the outskirts Delhi for a month while policemen were looking for him across the country.

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There is something else altogether about watching a people, a city on the move. It happened to Delhi on Sunday. The sight, the very experience of this mass movement can be soul-stirring, hair-raising even.
Unified. Running as one.

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A gust of wind and slight error of judgment could have wiped out the top brass of India’s armed forces as well as Russia’s defence minister on Sunday. Russian defence minister Ivanov Borisovish, Russia’s ambassador Trubnikov Ivonovich, Army chief Gen J J Singh.

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BJP leader Uma Bharti has cancelled her trip to Bihar tomorrow. The BJP leader was expected to be in the state on the day of polling.But now, she will instead deliver a religious discourse in Bhopal to display her popular support.

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West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadev Bhattacharya will ask the CPM Politburo to review strikes as a means of protest, especially where it affects the IT sector.The September 29 nationwide strike had turned into a full-fledged bandh in Bengal and hit Kolkata's nascent IT sector.

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Seven people have died and over 700 have been injured in violent clashes in Mau in Uttar Pradesh. On Sunday there was fresh violence despite a curfew and shoot-at-sight orders and there is a red alert in eastern districts of Uttar Pradesh to prevent any further violence.

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