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The Army have launched a major operation to flush out Manipur insurgents following an attack on a security camp near this border town in Imphal East district, official sources said on Friday.

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Electing to field, India bowled out Sri Lanka for 122 runs in 35.4 overs in the second of the seven match ODI-series at Mohali on Friday. While Pathan ran through the top order claiming four wickets, Yadav and Bhajji shared two each and Ajit Agarkar took one wicket.

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The Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) has cleared the Rs 4,300 crore 1,015 MW Nagarjuna Power project in the Udupi district of Karnataka.

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After delays and diversion of some flights yesterday due to heavy rains, the situation today at the city airport was 'completely normal' and all flights operated on schedule, the Airports Authority of India General Manager (Operations) S Subramaniam, said today.

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In view of the destruction caused by the October eight earthquake in Jammu and Kashmir, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday appealed that no gifts or sweets should be sent to him this Diwali and people should rather donate money to the Prime minister's national relief fund.

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HT Media Limited, one of India's foremost media companies on Friday announced a 26 per cent increase in revenues to Rs 1,976.5 million during Q2 FY2006, compared to Rs 1563.2 million in the corresponding quarter last year.

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The Supreme Court today upheld the Consititutional validity of the law allowing state governments to relax the ban on use of loudspeakers for two hours after 10 pm for 15 days in a year during the festive and cultural occasions.

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The race for the Trivandrum Lok Sabha seat has hot up with the Communist Party of India (CPI) candidate Panniyan Raveendran and Bhartiya Janata Party nominee C.K. Padmanabhan filing nomination for the November 18 by-election.

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Authorities evacuated more than 18,000 people from India's southeastern coast on Friday as a Bay of Bengal storm pounded the state of Andhra Pradesh with heavy rains and powerful gusts of wind.

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Mizoram police foiled attempts to block NH 54, the state's lifeline and Bairabi-Kolasib road and arrested 11 activists of the Mizo Students Union (MSU) in this connection, Kolasib district SP Lalbiakthanga Khiangte said on Friday.

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Indian Airlines (IA) has introduced a non-stop daily flight on the Delhi-Singapore sector and a connection from Jaipur to Kuala Lumpur in the winter schedule, which comes into effect from this Sunday.

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Orchid Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals Ltd has raised $75 million by way of global depository receipts (GDRs) and $37.5 million through the issue of convertible bonds.

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The finance ministry and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will be able to scrutinise receipt of money by every single individual from abroad after having received a formal undertaking from Western Union, the world’s largest money transfer agency, that it would throw open its electronic records for inspection by Indian authorities.

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In a pitched battle between SUCI supporters and policemen, at least 40 people including 20 policemen were injured near Bidyut Bhavan, the West Bengal State Electricity Board headquarters at Salt Lake.

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Bangalore, dhns: Bharath M R and Gururaj D Patil of V B Durbar High School, Bijapur, emerged winners of the mega finals of the Rural IT quiz-2005 in Bangalore on Thursday.

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Vodafone, world's largest mobile firm, on Friday acquired a 10 per cent stake in Sunil Mittal- promoted Bharti Televentures Ltd for Rs 6,700 crore ($1.5 billion).

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Chief Minister Shiela Dikshit's promise to provide Delhiites continuous water supply is now under the Prime Minister Office's scanner.

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Tier three cities in India like -- Ahmedabad, Chandigarh, Indore, Kolkata and Nagpur are best positioned to emerge as major centres for the offshoring of activities by IT companies over the next five years , according to a recent Jones Lang LaSalle report titled "India - The Next IT Off shoring Locations. Tier III Cities".

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Newspapers were not published in Manipur on Friday following a decision by editors and managements in protest against frequent interferences by militants in the functioning of the media organisations.

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India have won the toss and elected to field first in the second one-day international against Sri Lanka at Mohali.

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For India's astrologers, even at 69.4 million kilometers (43.1 million miles) away, Mars is too close for comfort.The Red Planet, named after the Roman god of war, will be at its closest to Earth since 2003 Saturday and won't come as near for another decade
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Over 125 Indian companies are among 2,000 firms worldwide who made illegal payments to Saddam Hussein's regime for contracts in UN's Oil-for-Food progrmme , an Independent Inquiry into the controversial deal said.

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Reliance Industries today announced a 42 per cent growth in net profit at Rs 2,481 crore for the second quarter of the current financial year. Its net income went up by 28.16 per cent to Rs 20,717 crore from Rs 16,164 crore in the corresponding period of the previous year. 

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Chief Election Commissioner B B Tandon today brushed aside the UPA's allegation against Election Commission Special Adviser K J Rao.

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Oil companies are restoring to the collateralised borrowing and lending obligation (CBLO), a money market instrument, for raising short-term rupee funds.

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The Madhya Pradesh High Court has issued a notice to the state Labour department, State Electricity Board and others on a petition challenging an amendment in the Madhya Pradesh Industrial Relations Act, 1960 whereby eight major industries, including power units, were excluded from the legislation's purview.

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Mastek, an IT solutions company, on Thursday inaugurated a 520-seater facility, its third in Pune. The Rs 25-crore facility will house development for large, mission-critical projects it has recently won in the global marketplace.

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Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd on Thursday announced a partnership initiative with the West Bengal Government and Intel Technologies for a State-wide rollout of Gyandeep, the people's PC programme, and Gyanbridhi, the students' PC programme.

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Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) today said it was eyeing a minority stake in a Chinese telecom company.MTNL Chairman and Managing Director RSP Sinha said the company had already initiated the move but refused to give details. He said the Chinese company had full-fledged telephony operations in four provinces. 

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Another round of selloffs gripped the market, as foreign funds continued to book profits on the Indian bourses. The BSE sensex plunged 175 points or 2.1per cent to end at a near two-month low of 7798.

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Ghulam Nabi Azad will be the next Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir at the head of a Congress- led coalition as Sonia Gandhi, overcoming dilemma, chose to secure power for the party, ending uncertainty over transfer of power agreed with with PDP three years ago.

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Chief Justice of Bombay High Court Justice Dalveer Chand Bhandari was today sworn in as Judge of the Supreme Court.

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Finance Minister P Chidambaram today said the income tax department had gathered sufficient information on large spenders and intended to use it to track those who were not paying taxes or not filing returns.

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After being battered by heavy rains on Thursday, Chennai city had some respite from the rains on Friday, following bright sunshine this morning.

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Despite an outbreak of avian flu in China and a country-wide alert in India to look for any signs of the deadly viral strain among migratory birds, experts feel the disease might not pose a serious threat to the Indian population as environmental conditions here are a dampener for the causative H5N1 virus.

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In a major incentive for consumers, state-run MTNL on Thursday indicated lowering of broadband tariffs by 50per cent to Rs 199 per month from Rs 399, a move that may give private operators a run for their money. “We have crossed the 51,000-mark in Delhi alone, and total user base of over 90,000.

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ISMT Ltd, the merged entity of the Pune-based Indian Seamless Metal Tubes and Indian Seamless Steels & Alloys, is likely to be a Rs 1,000 crore entity in 2005-06.

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The Union Cabinet on Thursday decided to accord the status of classical language to Sanskrit.A decision to this effect was taken at a meeting of the Cabinet chaired by Prime Miniser Manmohan Singh.

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NRI steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal has won this year's 'Asian Achievers' award for entrepreneurship for his outstanding achievement in the global steel industry where his company has taken the top spot.

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The Indian selectors will meet in Mohali today to announce the team for the next three one-day internationals against Sri Lanka.They will also decide whether to bring former skipper Sourav Ganguly back into the squad.

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The government has cleared expansion of Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd's (RINL) steel capacity at an estimated cost of Rs 8,692 crore.The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved the proposal of increasing the liquid steel capacity of RINL to 6.3 million tonnes from the existing three million tonnes.

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India has offered $25 million in aid to Pakistan, to help rehabilitate those who survived the 8 October earthquake.The announcement came at a meeting of international donors, attended by Oscar Fernandes, the Minister of State for Statistics and Planning.

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Results to the elections held to choose councilors to different schools as well the Central Students Union of Jawaharlal Nehru University will be declared today.

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A cyclonic storm is expected to hit between Nellore and Machilipatanam in Andhra Pradesh.Up to 3,000 people have been evacuated from Prakasham district on the southern coast.

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