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Just weeks after his plight made national and international headlines, the family of Sarabjit Singh, an Indian national on death row in Pakistan, is fighting over money received for his cause.

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Lashed by unprecedented downpour which has claimed 26 lives over the past four days, Karnataka on Wednesday kept the army as standby to assist it in rescue and relief operations in the flood-hit areas and appealed to the Centre for Rs 500 crore interim financial aid.

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Flight operations from Visakhapatnam airport that was inundated for the past few days would resume from Thursday. "We have inspected the runway and decided to resume regular fights from tomorrow".

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Melody queen and Bharat Ratna Lata Mangeshkar donated Rs 23 lakh from her MP Local Area Development fund to the Rotary club of Madras.The donation was meant for construction of two blocks of VHS Senior Citizens home at Voluntary Health Service Campus in the city.

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 Vice-President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat today deprecated the tendency to compromise with ideology for the sake of fulfilling political aspirations, saying such attitude was improper.

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Satyam Computer Services will be targeting two-three deals of $100 million and above in the next 6-12 months, for which it has formed a strategic deals group to help it close these large deals.

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After announcing that its mini car would be priced at Rs 100,000, Tata Motors today said there was potential to ramp up the much-talked-about car’s production to one million units in the next four-five years.

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Valuables worth thousands of rupees were looted by dacoits in the Amritsar-Darbhanga Jan Nayak Express train between Sugauli and Semra railway stations of east central railway, official sources said.

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CORNERED in the 2002 Assembly elections by the people of Jammu, the BJP now has suddenly something to cheer about. With the Congress remaining indecisive on the changeover issue, the BJP is hoping for a revival if the Congress backtracks from its promise of giving a chief minister from Jammu.

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An Indian Air Force MiG-21 fighter jet crashed on Wednesday on take-off in Bangalore but no deaths or injuries were reported, a military spokesman said. "It's a MiG-21 from the aircraft testing establishment. While on a routine training sortie it experienced problems during take-off from.

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The Vishva Hindu Parishad on Wednesday said that the Supreme Court order transferring trial of the Kanchi Shankaracharyas in the Sankararaman murder case to Pondicherry "proved" that the Tamil Nadu Government was "biased" against them.

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Sri Lanka's media on Wednesday attributed their cricket team's massive 152-run loss in the first limited-overs match against India to "fireworks" from master batsman Sachin Tendulkar and Irfan Pathan, calling .

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 India's biggest tractor and utility vehicle maker, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd, on Wednesday reported a better-than-expected 27 per cent rise in quarterly profit as strong exports and tractor sales outweighed higher costs for materials from steel to rubber.

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Rajasthan Spinning & Weaving Mills Ltd on wednesday reported a 43.5 per cent rise in net profit at Rs 6.14 crore for the second quarter this fiscal.
The revenues for the quarter increased by 16.1 per cent to Rs 2,03.94 crore.

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A booth grabber was shot dead by the BSF in Raghopur from where former chief minister Rabri Devi is contesting the elections, as an estimated 15 to 17 per cent of the over 1.3 crore voters exercised .

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The Supreme Court today upheld the 1994 Gujarat government order banning slaughter of bulls and bullocks over the age of 16 years.A seven-judge constitutional bench headed by Chief Justice R C Lahoti set .

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Directorate of Revenue Intelligence officials today seized a Hummer belonging to actor Suniel Shetty in the capital. The actor could not be reached for his comments.

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Congress party workers in J&K have threatened to shut their offices in various parts of the state if the high command decides to let Mufti Mohamad Sayeed continue as chief minister.

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With Bangalore recording the highest ever annual rainfall in its history leading to a ‘systems crash’ in the country’s IT capital, the state government will seek the “assistance” of the army for disaster management.

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We always hear about the ups and downs of the financial markets. Wide price fluctuations are a daily occurrence in the world's stock markets as investors react to economic, business and political events.

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Election Commission's Special Advisor K J Rao today ordered registration of a fresh FIR against Bihar PCC president Sadanand Singh for alleged violation of the model code of conduct for elections, official sources said.

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India has said the expansion of the Security Council is imperative to "empower" developing countries so as to overcome their marginalisation. It stressed the need for redistribution of economic and political power at the United Nations keeping current realities in view.

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The issue of whether or not to unionise the IT sector dominated discussions on the first day of the CPI(M) politburo meeting on Tuesday.West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee is strenuously resisting the move as he fears that strikes will scare away potential investors.

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The unprecedented flow of water into the Cauvery river has raised fears of the riverbanks being breached across the delta region in Srirangam area in Tamil Nadu.The breach could have caused huge damage to life and property in Trichy, had there been rains for a few more hours.

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Two militants of the outlawed United iberation Front of Asom (ULFA) were killed by police in Assam ahead of landmark peace talks between the central government and representatives of the rebel group Wednesday in New Delhi.

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Mizo Students Union (MSU), the largest student body in the state, has decided to block National Highway 54 from Friday to put pressure on the state government to revoke its decision on raising employees pension age from 58 to 60 years.

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 The Arunachal Pradesh unit of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) advocated for clean and transparent governance in the state.
Addressing a press conference here last night, former Lok Sabha Speaker .

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Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia on Tuesday said that 8% growth in the next 15 years was “realisable” and adequate flow of income and access to essential public services for the poor were the key to poverty reduction.

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Global printing ink manufacturer Huber group has acquired a majority stake in Micro Inks Ltd for a total consideration of upto Rs 991.50 crore. Huber has agreed to acquire a majority stake between 50.5 per cent .

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Wholesale prices dropped further as more onions reached the market on Tuesday. According to the government, the arrival of Chinese onions is also in the pipeline. Nafed will be getting 2,000 tonnes of onion from China two weeks from now, too long a timeframe given the sky-high retail prices of the politically-sensitive crop.

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The Indian commodity futures industry is offering fresh opportunities to the investors. The three national commodity exchanges and more than a score regional exchanges are trying to take the industry to new heights.

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In what it claimed to be the beginning of the reversal of a process where students from abroad will be coming for studies in India, the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, has finalised the One-year Post.

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India’s monetary authority on Tuesday raised a key interest rate amid general evidence of mounting inflationary pressures and an asset bubble in one of the world’s fastest-growing economies.

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Bihar Police chief Mr Ashish Ranjan Sinha today told the Patna High Court that a total of 1,111 persons, including 171 minors and 581 women, kidnapped since 1995, still remained traceless in the state.

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In a significant verdict, a Vadodara fast-track court on Tuesday acquitted all the 108 accused in the sensational Avdhoot nagar riot case of March, 2002, in which two youths were lynched to death and ten others wounded by a mob.

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An alert has been sounded across Bihar to arrest Union Minister Jaiprakash Narain Yadav, his brother and RJD candidate for Jamui, Vijay Prakash, and three others eluding the police dragnet after a district court .

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India's vote in favour of an IAEA resolution critical of Iran has been interpreted in some quarters as kowtowing to the US. But foreign secretary Shyam Saran's forthright arguments favouring a new global .

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India on Tuesday expressed concern over the reported action by Pakistani forces against local people in Gilgit in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and asked Islamabad to observe international human rights standards there.

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Deputy Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Mangat Ram Sharma on Tuesday asked Punjab Government to honour the bilateral water sharing agreement between Jammu and Kashmir and Punjab regarding sharing benefits of Thein dam, Shahpur and Kandi barrages.

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July 26, 2005, was Mumbai’s Terrible Tuesday. Almost three months later, October 25 was Bangalore’s Terrible Tuesday. India’s Silicon Valley relived that pain, anguish and helplessness as a steady downpour .

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The Intelligence Bureau has sounded an alert to the Central and state governments over the virtual takeover of relief and rehabilitation measures in the quake-ravage Pakistan-occupied Kashmir by terrorist groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba.

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 Polling began on Wednesday in 62 north Bihar constituencies in the second of the four-phase assembly elections, the second in eight months, amidst tight security. The polls would decide the fates of 492 candidates.

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Customers of floating rate home loans are in for some bad news. On Tuesday, at the quarterly review of its credit policy, the Reserve Bank of India chose to increase the reverse repurchase agreement rate.

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