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The Supreme Court Tuesday appointed former chief election commissioner T.S. Krishnamurthy as observer for conducting the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) elections in Kolkata before Nov 30. A three-judge bench comprising Justices B.P. Singh, S.B. Sinha and P.K. Balasubramanyan made the appointment after the consent of all the contending parties.

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India's central bank said Tuesday the Indian economy would likely expand faster this year than predicted, but cautioned that high global oil prices could lead to rising domestic inflation and hamper the economy's long-term prospects.

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 Continuing its debate on whether the IT sector should form part of the essential services, the CPM today made it clear that there should be no dilution of labour laws in this field and the laws must be implemented. The debate within the party, whose two-day politburo meeting began here.

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With a focus on consolidating its retail presence, Timex Watches Ltd on Tuesday said it will introduce international brands FCUK and Opex in the Indian market in first quarter next year and would open 130 showrooms by the end of 2007.

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The Centre has decided to create two new institutions devoted to science education and research to be named 'Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISER),' an official release said on Tuesday.

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The country representatives of the United Nations Organisations working in India called on President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam at Rashtrapati Bhavan on Tuesday on the occasion of the 60th Anniversary of the world body.

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Backed by the latest family of enterprise class x64 Galaxy servers (x86, 64-bit) multi-crore servers in India, powered by AMD Opteron processors, Sun Microsystems is betting big on the Indian market.

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Heavy rains continued to lash the district on Monday. The three major rivers of North Orissa, Subarnarekha, Budhabalanga and Jalaka are in spate.The flood situation in seven blocks of the district worsened with more than four lakh people in the northern part of the district remaining surrounded by water for the last three days.

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The Cyber Society of India, a forum espousing cyber laws, on Tuesday claimed the proposed amendments to the Information Technology (IT) Act, 2000, had failed to address many areas such as data protection, besides diluting powers of enforcing authorities.

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Bihar Congress chief Sadanand Singh is in a tight spot after the Election Commission ordered a probe into alleged electoral malpractices by the legislator in a bid to entice voters.

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Taking note of the threat from bird flu, which is already at "the country's border", government on Monday said it was considering compulsory licensing for medicine to fight the disease so that there was no shortage of the drug in the event of it spreading to India.

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Congress MP Rahul Gandhi is likely to take stock of ongoing development programmes in his parliamentary constituency during his visit on Wednesday.During his three-day visit, Gandhi is also likely to meet local party workers and newly elected panchayat members, party sources said.

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Mastek has set up its third development centre in Pune with an investment of Rs 25 crore.According to a release issued by Mastek to the BSE today, the company is planning to recruit 520 professionals over the next 12 months for the new centre.

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Maharashtra chief secretary Prem Kumar on Monday claimed that the state is still a leader in terms of attracting foreign direct investment.With FDI inflows at $13.5 billion, it surpasses even the combined investment in Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Gujarat.

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Concerned over its dwindling aircraft fleet, Indian Air Force on Tuesday announced plans for massive upgradation of its entire frontline fighter fleet, barring the newly acquired Sukhoi-30MKI.

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Controversial Independent member of Legislative Assembly Mukhtar Ansari surrendered on Tuesday before a local court at Ghazipur, following pressure mounted by the Uttar Pradesh police to arrest him in connection with the Mau communal riots.

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India is prepared to be a knight against the dragons of nuclear proliferation. Signalling that India accepted a need for a more active stance against proliferation, Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran said on Monday .

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Lupin has entered into an agreement with GSK Philippines whereby Lupin will manufacture and supply its anti-TB formulations to GSK for marketing in Philippines. The TB drugs of Lupin are based on WHO dosing guidelines.

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President APJ Abdul Kalam has contributed his one month's salary to the Prime Minister's National Relief Fund to support efforts to provide relief and rehabilitation to the people affected by the recent devastating earthquake in Jammu and Kashmir.

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Three Naxalites were killed in an encounter with police at Guttikonda forest area in Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday, police said.The exchange of fire took place after the police patrol party cornered a group of Maoists, police said.

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India will import onions from China and Pakistan to tide over a shortage caused by a poor crop yield due to heavy rains and floods, officials said on Tuesday."We have contracted the import of 2,000 tonnes of onions from China and 650 tonnes from Pakistan and the overall prices of the commodity will stabilise soon," said Alok Ranjan, a senior official of the National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India (NAFED).

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Despite the cold response to SaharaOne’s shows with Bollywood actors, the channel is again keen to have a big star on board. The channel has now approached Sunjay Dutt for one of their lavish productions; the actor is slated to anchor a game show called Mission One Crore.

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The Catholic church will take up the study of Sanskrit, adapt to monastic life in an ashram and adopt the Hindu ritual of aarti during mass if the movement towards 'Indianisation of the church' gets the nod from 400 priests and five bishops congregating in Pune.

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Heavy rains continued to lash Tamil Nadu leading to more than 600 huts in low-lying Kangampauripattinam area on the banks of river Cauvery in Salem district being washed away, official sources said.

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Reliance Capital Pvt Equity, a division of Reliance Capital, has acquired a 14.81% stake in Kinetic Engineering (KEL) through a combination of equity shares, convertible warrants and preferential shares for a total amount of just over Rs 38 crore.

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World's fifth largest steel maker Pohang Steel Company on Tuesday said it has short-listed seven Indian mining companies to develop the captive iron ore mines to be allocated by Orissa government and would pump in $500 million for the venture.

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The Indian Newspaper Society (INS) has urged the Union Finance Ministry to drop the proposed levy of service tax on the sale of advertising space in newspapers. In a statement issued in New Delhi, INS president Jacob Mathew said.

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The GMR group of industries has announced its plans for a major expansion in the next two to three years involving an investment of Rs. 401 crore. It has decided to set up a new sugar complex with 24 MW .

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A National Disaster Response Force will be set up to tackle situations arising from different types of disasters with the state-of-the-art gadgets, N. Vinod Chandra Menon, member of the recently-constituted National Disaster Management Authority, said on Monday.

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The 226 billion euro BNP Paribas AM, a wholly-owned subsidiary of financial services major BNP Paribas, has picked up 49.90% stake in Chennai-based Sundaram Asset Management Company.

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With no untoward incident reported from any part of Mau on Monday, the district administration relaxed the curfew twice - from 10 am to 12 noon and from 2 pm to 4 pm.

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Buoyed by its unexpected success in the Kalyan-Dombivli civic polls, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) is set to stake claim to the mayoral seat after gaining the most from the Narayan Rane-Bal Thackeray jhagda.

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Decrying the policy pursued by some NPT signatories of "selectively ignoring" clandestine nuclear weapons programmes in its neighbourhood, India today pressed for a "new global consensus" on non-proliferation to meet "new challenges".

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A SHARPLY worded Supreme Court order might achieve what eviction notices, repeated reminders and two rounds of letters to Parliament have failed to: free up 465 houses in Lutyens’ Delhi.

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After exchanging proposals over the weekend for opening up the Line of Control to facilitate divided families and carry out relief work in a coordinated fashion, India and Pakistan today decided to hold official.

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The BJP on Monday said it foresaw a mid-term poll to the Lok Sabha, as the present set-up of the UPA government, with outside support from Left parties, "would not last long".

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At one in the morning, Gopal Das tiptoed out of his room, sprinkled kerosene inside, locked the door, collected a chopper, and threw a match into the room. He stood guard outside with his chopper as the flames engulfed his elderly mother, brother, sister-in-law, three-yearold nephew and one-and-ahalf-year-old niece.

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The state unit of Bhartiya Go-Vansh Rakshk Samvardhan Parishad on Tuesday urged Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje to ensure that sanctity of Pushkar sarovar and the city is maintained.

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Belying the hopes of Karnataka CM N Dharam Singh and his Congress bosses, Infosys chief mentor N R Narayana Murthy has fired a one-line email reiterating his resignation as chairman of the Bangalore International Airport Limited.

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Indian Air Force helicopters will patrol the skies as over 60,000 men and officers of Central Para-Military Forces (CPMF) and state police will stand guard for the second phase of assembly polls in 62 constituencies on Wednesday.

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A report has been submitted to the Human Resource Development Ministry by the B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology on the recent suicide of a first year student after being subjected to ragging. The report was submitted to G L Jambulkar, Deputy Education Advisor, on Monday, Registrar of the Institute K K Dheer said.

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Sachin Tendulkar hammered his 70th half-century in one-day internationals - 12th against Sri Lanka. Irfan Pathan was providing good support at the other end.