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Newly appointed Haryana Congress working president Ram Prakash today said he would form an Ethics Committee to implement the 18-point Code of Ethics proposed by party president Sonia Gandhi among the state ministers and party leaders.

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Former captain Sourav Ganguly will undergo a fitness test here today to prove whether he is fit to play the Duleep Trophy tie against North Zone beginning on October 20.

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Undaunted by a single digit growth in exports in September, Commerce and Industry Minister Kamal Nath today asked exporters to catch up and not only meet the export target of 92 billion dollar but also reach the 100 billion dollar figure in fiscal 2005-06.

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Sunday’s Maoists attack on an OSAP party at Badarama has once again exposed the chinks in the anti-Naxal strategies of Orissa Police.Though Sambalpur has emerged as the hunting ground for MCC, the State Government, for reasons best known to it, has been in two minds on approaching the Centre to declare the district Naxal-hit.

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Senior Telangana Rashtra Samithi legislator S. Santhosh Reddy, who had raised a banner of revolt against the leadership, has been suspended from the party for indulging in `anti-party activity'.

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After the movement on power, residents across Delhi are coming together to oppose the proposed water privatization by the government.Resident Welfare Associations, which had successfully pressurized the government to revise hike in power tariff, from various parts of the city have taken up the cause.

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The Supreme Court today admitted a PIL challenging the Delhi High Court judgement quashing all charges against the Europe-based Hinduja brothers in Bofors pay-off case. Issuing notices to the CBI and Hindujas.

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Gangster-turned-MLA Arun Gawli appeared before Agripada police today in connection with the alleged murder conspiracy hatched by starlet Preeti Jain.Jain is believed to have teamed up with former Gawli aide Naresh Pardesi to eliminate film director Madhur Bhandarkar.

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Two ministers and one MLA from Madhya Pradesh are on their way to Delhi to meet BJP president L K Advani.They met Uma Bharati this morning before leaving for Delhi and claim to have signatures of more than 100 MLAs asking for a state executive meeting for change of leadership in MP.

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Flaying the assassination of Jammu and Kashmir Education Minister Ghulam Nabi Lone and the attempt on CPI(M) leader Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami, the Left parties today expressed concern at the ''continuous militant attacks'' on party leaders and asked the state government to step .

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Heavy fund buying in index heavyweights and improved market sentiment on softer crude prices led to a 0.9per cent rise in the sensex to a life-time high of 8,606 points on Wednesday.

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What's next for Ganguly's lieutenants Zaheer, Nehra and Laxman? Is it curtains for them? The verdict was loud and clear in the selection committee meeting when the three players were axed; Laxman has been out of the ODI .

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Earmarks Rs 6,500 cr for purchase of VLCCs, Panamax and Capesize bulk carriers.The Shipping Corporation of India (SCI) plans to invest about Rs 6,500 crore over the next few years for acquiring vessels.  
 
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In a landmark judgment, the Bombay High Court today set aside the sale of 600 acres of surplus textile mill land in Mumbai at Rs 5,500 crore by National Textile Corporation (NTC) in prime city locations. NTC has sold five of its defunct mills in Mumbai  Jupiter, Mumbai, Apollo, Elphistone and Kohinoor for Rs 2020.75 crore over the last six months.

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Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS) will set up a new subsidiary company based in Peterborough, which will take over the business of the UK-based Pearl Group.According to a release issued by TCS .

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The renewal of contracts for Indian cricketers will be delayed at least till early next month, a top BCCI source said today. With many of the top players unavailable for the October 19-21 preparatory camp ahead of the one-day home series against Sri Lanka, the committee formed to review last year's contracts has shelved plans to talk to the cricketers' representatives at the camp.

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The BJP today nominated the party's former Kerala unit president C K Padmanabhan as its candidate for the Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha by-poll scheduled for November 18. The seat fell vacant following the death of CPI leader P K Vasudevan Nair a few months ago.

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It is a year since the curtains came down on a nearly 15-year drama that saw the combined might of two states chasing a single ‘wanted’ man, who cocked a snook at the law, poaching, smuggling, kidnapping and killing with impunity, besides bringing several obscure forest villages to the notice of the authorities.

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Beating major foreign and domestic companies, Bharat Heavy Electricals has bagged a turnkey contract worth Rs 68 crore placed by PowerGrid Corporation for setting up a 400 KV switching substation in Uttar Pradesh.

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DESPITE THE public statements from both the central and the state BJP leadership today ruling out any change in leadership as demanded by the MLAs loyal to former chief minister Uma Bharti  the political situation still seemed fluid by the end of the day.

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A constable charged with raping a 15-year-old girl at Mumbai's Sahar Airport last night has been suspended.Chandrakant Pawar has now been sent to police custody till October 25."We have filed a charge of rape against Chandrakant Pawar. The girl has been sent for medical investigations," said Shashikant Shinde, DCP, Mumbai.

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A Qantas Airlines Boeing 747 with 389 passengers on board made an emergency landing at the NSC Bose International Airport in Kolkata today.All the passengers and crew were safely evacuated from the plane, which was traveling from London to Singapore.

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The Income Tax Department will auction valuable property belonging to fake stamp paper scam kingpin Abdul Kareem Telgi.The property will be auctioned to recover part of the whopping Rs 128 crore that Telgi owes in taxes.
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BJP President LK Advani on Tuesday constituted a five-member delegation to visit the Karbi Anglong district in Assam where ongoing violence has claimed several lives.

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Markets bounced back in morning trade on Tuesday, tracking strength in the global markets. The BSE Sensex surged past the 8,300-point mark in the first hour of trading with a gain of more than 100 points over Monday's closing level.

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The ONGC board has gone in for a special insurance cover apprehending litigations from foreign institutional investors (FIIs) who have raised questions about the company’s profitibility given the high subsidy payout.

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The BJP on Monday said it was opposed to the abolition of death penalty but maintained that the President's clemency powers should not be altered.The President's clemency powers should not be altered.BJP does not agree with the advocacy for its abolition", party spokesman Prakash Javadekar told reporters in Delhi.

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Employees always keep an eye on the salary structure as most of the time any change in the tax laws impacts some part of the salary and thus salary restructuring is always likely. The Fringe Benefit Tax (FBT) has already resulted in such a situation.

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It takes Rs.740 to produce one litre of milk and Rs.77 to churn out a single egg at an average dairy and poultry farm under the Jharkhand animal husbandry department (AHD).

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Public transport services in Andhra Pradesh are likely to be severely hit today as employees of the state's Road Transport Corporation go on strike.The state government has made elaborate preparations to minimise the impact of the strike.

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Setting aside the recent multi-crore sale of textile mill lands in Mumbai by the National Textile Corporation (NTC), the Bombay High Court on Monday held that it did not adhere to the scheme under the Board .

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Mr Mukesh Ambani of Reliance Industries is planning to set up a fresh-food chain in Punjab with an initial investment of Rs 5,000 crore. He discussed the proposal today with the Chief Minister, Capt Amarinder Singh, the Finance Minister, Mr Surinder Singla, and others concerned.

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Suspected Maoist ultras attacked a police party killing a policeman and injuring three other policemen in Badarama area of Sambalpur in Orissa late on Sunday night. A villager was also injured in the attack, which took place when a fair was on, attended by around 1,500 people.

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Even as the Rural Development Ministry finalises guidelines for the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, a pilot project for online monitoring of the scheme is under way at Khamman in Andhra Pradesh, where the National Food for Work programme is already running.

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While the Congress and the BJP send their star campaigners to Bihar, the electorate facing a second election in just eight months is not impressed.But the three leaders who have put in the longest hours into the campaign trail and been the most visible were RJD chief Lalu Yadav, Janata Dal-United's Nitish Kumar and LJP chief Ram Vilas Paswan.

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CHIEF Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed has said that he would take up the offer of the European Union to have mutual cooperation in different sectors with Jammu and Kashmir with Prime Minister.

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Fearing attacks, authorities on Monday diverted all trains passing through Mau town in Uttar Pradesh as communal tensions continued to simmer and spread to nearby areas."No train is touching Mau from Sunday night as we were advised by the government to divert them.

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After making it to the cover of Time magazine, Sania Mirza finds herself listed as one of the ten people capable of changing the world by London's intellectual weekly 'New Statesman' published on Monday.

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India on Tuesday rejected Pakistan's request for helicopters without crews for relief operations as Islamabad tries to feed and shelter more than three million people left homeless by the October 8 earthquake.

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Police in India's most lawless state, Bihar, were given shoot-on-sight orders on Tuesday as polling began in state assembly elections, held after a February vote failed to produce a clear winner.

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An indefinite curfew was imposed and shoot-at-sight orders were issued in Assam's Karbi Anglong district Monday after rebels killed 22 Karbi tribal bus passengers, taking the toll in two weeks of ethnic clashes to 58.

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The United States has signed an umbrella agreement with India on science and technology.It was signed by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Science and Technology Minister Kapil Sibal.

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Ahead of the first phase of polls in Bihar, RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav has got into a fresh controversy.Lalu has said that the Election Commission's (EC) order to transfer two top Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) officials was 'wrong'.

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Voting has begun in 57 constituencies of Bihar in the first phase of elections to the state assembly.A total of 541 candidates are in the fray with more than one crore twenty-three lakh voters likely to cast their ballots today.

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Jammu and Kashmir Minister of State for Education Ghulam Nabi Lone was today killed in a militant attack in the high-security Tulsibagh area of Srinagar.One militant and a CRPF personnel were also killed when ultras stormed into the office-cum-residence of CPI(M) MLA Mohammad Yusuf Tarigami.

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