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Rahul Dravid is eagerly looking forward to the return of Sachin Tendulkar to the Team India ranks.“He (Sachin) is a regular member of side, it will be great to have him back in the side,” said the Team India captain.

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An 80-year old broking and investment banking house Darashaw & Company has acquired 51 per cent stake in Tata Share Registry for an undisclosed amount.Under this new dispensation, Tata Share Registry will soon be called TSR Darashaw Ltd and will be converted into a `Total Solutions Repository.

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An 80-year old broking and investment banking house Darashaw & Company has acquired 51 per cent stake in Tata Share Registry for an undisclosed amount.Under this new dispensation, Tata Share Registry will soon be called TSR Darashaw Ltd and will be converted into a `Total Solutions Repository.

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Indian Railways plans to spend 240 billion rupees (5.5 billion US dollars) over the next five years to upgrade infrastructure and build special freight corridors, Indian Railways Minister R. Velu said Thursday.

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India's top drug maker, Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd. (RANB.BO: Quote, Profile, Research), reported on Friday its quarterly net profit fell a worse-than-expected 91 percent as costs rose and competition heated up in the key U.S.

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Short selling by institutions will be allowed by this calendar year, in line with the practice in all international markets, SEBI Chairman M Damodaran said on Friday.

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The numbers of fatalities keep steadily mounting from the deadly earthquake that recently struck Kashmir, with important consequences for other parts of Pakistan and northern India.

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Uttaranchal government has instituted an inquiry into the reported landing of a helicopter of BJP firebrand leader Uma Bharti inside the Kedarnath Wildlife Sanctuary without prior permission from the forest department.

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A pimp and his accomplice have been arrested from Dwarka with 43 pills of the ‘party drug’ Ecstasy and 10 grams of cocaine, in a raid that senior officers say points to increasing evidence of links between drugs and sex rackets in the city.

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The Supreme Court today said that it will examine whether the national anthem can be commercially exploited in movies.A bench headed by Chief Justice R C Lahoti said it would also examine if actors in a film should stand up when the national anthem is being sung.

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A hospital in Gurgaon has been accused of organ theft by the family of a man who died of a head injury at the hospital.The family has charged that the patient's body was retuned to them without his eyes and kidney.

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Objecting to showing Lord Shiva and Lord Ganesha in their revue "Bonheur", a lawyer from Mumbai has served notice to the world's most celebrated cabaret, Lido, asking them to remove the scene that hurts the religious feelings of Hindus.

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Finance Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram said on Friday the government was committed to maintaining moderate tax rates to boost growth in Asia's third largest economy.

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Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) on Thursday announced that it had acquired Australian Financial Network Services (FNS), a core banking solutions vendor, for approximately $26m. TCS has bought the stakes owned by Macquarie Bank and other promoters in an all-cash deal.

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Breaking away from the Ram Gopal Varma camp has only meant a bountiful of offers coming his way, claims Randeep Hooda - one of them being a film by Tigmanshu Dhulia of Haasil and Charas fame.

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The fifteen-week-long excruciating suspense is finally over. The Fame Gurukul exercise that took the nation by storm, especially the younger generation to dizzy heights, resched its finale well past 10-30 pm on Thursday night. Over 8.7 million votes tilted the balance in favour of the final duo.

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Foreign airlines operating to India will be allowed to mount unrestricted number of additional flights and operate larger aircraft in December-January under the "open sky" policy this year, the Minister of State for Civil Aviation, Praful Patel, said here on Thursday.

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With an eye on increasing its revenues to over Rs 400 crore in 2006 from the expected Rs 310 crore this year, Canon India today launched 43 new products including digital cameras, camcorders, and printers. It also announced a shift in its marketing strategy.

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The coal gassification project being undertaken by the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) on pilot basis may also extend to Singareni coalfields in Andhra Pradesh. Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) has been approached by ONGC with a proposal to jointly take up the coal gassification project in Singareni.

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Riot-ravaged Mau is all set to witness a high-powered drama — a tug of war between two mighty combatants. Facing an obdurate government while holding one end of the rope is governor TV Rajeswar.

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In a frightening display of workplace rage, a security guard at UCO Bank in Nariman Point shot his chief manager before killing himself on Thursday morning. The incident took place minutes after the guard, R S Jadhav's .

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EASY 407 was easily the most important man in Kolkata today. Easy 407 was the wireless code for the police officer in an unmarked car, who was assigned the vital task of escorting Indonesian businessman Benny Santoso through the blockade threatened by Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee.

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This is certainly one bit of celluloid that actor-turned politician Govinda would rather have canned. It’s turned out to be a double whammy for him. The media has dug out a decade-old video of Dawood-hugging footage of a programme, for which the actor hadn’t even been paid.

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A Gowda-Krishna-IT sector controversy has taken its toll with Infosys Technologies’ mentor, Mr NR Narayana Murthy, resigning as the chairman of Bangalore International Airport (BIAL). Mr Murthy sent his letter to the chief minister, Mr Dharam Singh, this afternoon.

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 Polling began in four naxalite-hit constituencies in Bihar's Gaya district on Friday morning amid tight security and IAF helicopters maintaining aerial surveilance, official sources said.

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Scientists at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre said it would take about 10 years to construct the country's first indigenous experimental Accelerator Driven Systems and would be intended for thorium fuel utilization schemes.

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Polling began in four Naxalite-hit constituencies in Bihar's Gaya district this morning amid tight security and IAF helicopters maintaining aerial surveilance, official sources said.

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The Indian Red Cross and other groups have warned that thousands of landmines planted on the Indo-Pak border may have shifted after the October 8 earthquake.NGOs operating in the region are concerned that people living close to the Line of Control (LoC) may be in danger.

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Over 70 people have been killed in ethnic clashes in Upper Assam's Karbi Anglong district.The violence, which began on September 26, has rendered 30,000 others homeless.Shocking footage taken during the burial of 34 Karbi bus passengers who were hacked to death in Kheroni last Monday reveals that many of the bodies were buried with hands and legs tied.

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US Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns is in New Delhi to work out the roadmap for Indo-American civilian nuclear energy cooperation.Burns' visit follows the agreement signed between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and US President George Bush in July.

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The RSS' three-day executive meeting begins in Chitrakoot today. The leaders are meeting in the backdrop of intense infighting within the party.The meeting also assumes significance in the wake of the friction between BJP President L K Advani and the RSS.

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