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Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL) is preparing itself to make the 20-year old Assam gas cracker project proposal a reality, provided the cabinet approved it.

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DLF today announced plans to develop a Rs 600 crore integrated township spread over 26.3 acres in Hyderabad.

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India and the United States of America have signed an agreement to help each other investigate offenses related to terrorism, narcotics, trafficking, economic and other organized crimes, according to the Indian Home Affairs Ministry Tuesday.

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Uncertainty looms large over a proposed mega steel plant in Orissa - the largest foreign investment plan in India by South Korea's Posco - due to unprecedented opposition from politicians and activists.

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Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) got a shot in the arm when India's Foreign Minister Natwar Singh expressed no reservations regarding India playing a Test match in Karachi early next year.

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Former Bihar Chief Minister Rabri Devi today filed nomination papers from Raghopur Assembly Constituency in Vaishali district.

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Audatex, a division of the US-based ADP group, will invest more than four million dollars in India over the next one year in setting up a data development centre and a training centre besides adding 700 people to its BPO facility in Hyderabad.

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Here’s a bit of good news for salaried professionals in India. A new survey said that employees in India are expected to get the biggest pay hikes in 2006 — outpacing even countries like China, Japan, UK and US — with a 11.3% increase year-on-year.

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A special court on Tuesday rejected the bail plea of bar girl Tarannum Khan and two alleged bookies who were held on charges of indulging in betting.

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Red Hat, world's leading provider of open source solutions, plans to launch Linux operating systems in eight Indian languages including Marathi, Telegu and Malayalam next year, Javed Tapia, Director, Red Hat India, said today.

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Lambasting Union Communications and Information Technology Minister Dayanidhi Maran for his claim that the scheme of providing free bicycles to 11th and 12th standard students.

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Taking a stern view of the fainting of over 40 students during a Gandhi Jayanti programme in Kanpur on October 2 due to excessive heat, Governor T V Rajeswar has sought a report from the Uttar Pradesh government on the entire matter.

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Airport construction has just taken off at both IT cities. And speculation is already rife on which of the two cities will meet the deadlines.

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Oil and Natural Gas Corporation cannot start the exploratory drilling process in the highly prospective Mahanadi basin as the environment ministry has not granted it clearance. 

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It is raining babies. On a day when India's first surrogate in vitro fertilisation (IVF) baby of a single man was born here, a woman delivered quadruplets in a city nursing home.Sushmita Mandal, who had been taking ovulation-inducing fertility drugs, hoped for one bonny baby, but she was blessed with four sons.

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Patna High Court on Wednesday reprimanded the police for not meeting the deadline set by it to rescue the kidnapped DAV student Gaurav Kumar alias Golu and gave them time till October 7 to produce the boy before the court.

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India and Pakistan said they were engaged in finding a ‘framework’ for settling the issues of Siachen and Sir Creek on ‘mutually-acceptable’ basis as External Affairs Minister K. Natwar Singh met President Musharraf.

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Notwithstanding the growing demand for Sonia Gandhi to campaign in the Bihar Assembly polls, the Congress president is likely to mark just two days to boost the prospects of party candidates as well as those of the RJD-led alliance in the state.

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World XI team to play Australia in the first of three one-day matches at the Docklands Stadium on Wednesday.

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Sensex breached yet another milestone on Tuesday after surging past the 8,800-point mark for the first time in history. A number of index heavyweights and pivotal stocks extended their gains in afternoon trade.

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The release of a biography on veteran parliamentarian Tirath Ram Amla provided former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee with a platform to trace the roots of militancy in Jammu and Kashmir, which he squarely blamed on Congress governments.

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The Centre has banned satellite channel 'free X-TV' for beaming “indecent programmes” in the country.The contents of programmes beamed by the satellite channel were "against good taste or decency" and would have adversely affected public morality, the Information and Broadcasting ministry, in a statement said

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Thousands of wives of skilled professionals from India and other countries who come for temporary work, extending over several years, are increasingly frustrated because the visa regimes in the US does not allow spouses and dependents to work, however qualified they are....

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Orchid Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals Ltd has announced that the company has entered into an exclusive distribution alliance with Mayne Pharma, the injectable specialty pharmaceuticals division of the Mayne Group Ltd (Mayne) for marketing Company's select life-saving injectable antibiotic formulations in identified regulated markets.

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Indian External Affairs Minister K Natwar Singh said he would take up the issue of death row convict Sarabjit Singh with President Pervez Musharraf and extend a mercy plea on behalf of the Indian government.

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More than 3,000 schoolchildren staged a protest march here Tuesday, fed up with the failure of Bihar Police to trace a schoolboy abducted a fortnight ago.

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Although the Congress party sees Rahul Gandhi as their trump card, it's not quite ready to let the junior Gandhi campaign in Bihar.

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After slashing fares to London, airlines are now likely to drop fares to destinations in the US by 15 per cent during the coming winter months. This is due to a capacity build-up in the sector and slack lean-season demand.

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Bahrain has evinced interest in strengthening its information technology ties with India, saying it is an "ideal partner" for promoting its e-government initiatives.

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The India-Pakistan Joint Commsision got a fresh lease of life with the Foreign Ministers of the two countries, assisted by senior officials, exchanging several proposals aimed at taking forward the peace process on Wednesday.

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 Congress president Sonia Gandhi intervening to pose questions about the South Korean company's $ 12 billion project to set up a steel plant with an annual production capacity of 12 million tonnes at Paradip in Orissa.

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Besides endorsing colas, biscuits and cars on TV, you will now see Shah Rukh Khan in a new avtar—this time, selling good health. Starting tomorrow, the Bollywood superstar will deliver three public service messages on child immunisation.

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Nagarjuna Construction Company Ltd on Tuesday said that it would raise $120 million from overseas markets through issue of global depository receipts and foreign currency convertible bonds.

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In a strong defence of Atal Bihari Vajpayee, BJP leader Uma Bharti today said it was the Congress and not the BJP, which owed an explanation to the country on funding in Indian polity by the KGB.

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The cricket board has virtually put captain Sourav Ganguly on notice, saying the selection committee may have to take a decision on his future if he failed to come out of the prolonged form slump.

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Zee Telefilms (ZTL) is to see major restructuring with the cable service division, SitiCable, being spun off as a separate company. However, ZTL’s direct-to-home (DTH) arm Dish TV will remain a ZTL division under vice-chairman Jawahar Goel.

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India said it will release 44 people held under the anti-terrorist Public Safety Act in the northern state of Jammu and Kashmir as part of a pledge made by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to separatist groups.

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Salaries in India are projected to rise more than anywhere in the world next year —7.3 percentage points above inflation—according to a survey by Mercer Human Resource Consulting, an employee benefits consultancy and services provider.

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India Inc’s overseas fund-raising through bonds, convertibles and equities jumped 60 per cent during January-September 2005 to Rs 58,071 crore from Rs 36,294 crore in the first nine months of 2004.

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Sympathy for Iran and anger at the Indian vote against Iran at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have cut across the Shia-Sunni divide in Jammu and Kashmir.

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The deadline given by the High Court to the Bihar police to find Golu, a young boy kidnapped almost two weeks ago, ends today.The case has seen a great deal of public outrage and protests - some vocal and some very silent.

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Corporate performance during the quarter ended September is likely to be mixed with sales turnover growing at a higher pace than net profit. The new profit growth is likely to slow down marginally compared with that of the quarter ended June this financial year.

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Seven merchant bankers are set to join hands for the Bank of Baroda (BoB) issue which is to hit the market shortly. 

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Domestic airlines may be flying into more turbulent weather as the October prices of aviation turbine fuel (ATF) have gone up 4.5per cent.

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Tribal militants hacked to death at least five people of another tribe in Assam, fuelling fears of an ethnic backlash in the state, officials said on Tuesday.

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In view of the Navaratra festival starting today, security has been beefed up at Vaishnodevi cave shrine and the adjacent areas of Katra town in Jammu and Kashmir.

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The BJP launches its election campaign for Bihar today with just a fortnight to go before the first phase of polls, Union Railway Minister Lalu Yadav attended a minority conference in Patna yesterday.

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ICICI Bank today raised interest rates on deposits by non-resident Indians by 13 to 52 basis points (bps). The increase in interest rates on FCNR deposits by 14 to 21 bps comes in the backdrop of the banking industry having used up all the dollar deposits for lending. 

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A shortage of LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) availability from the Gulf states, combined with a shutdown in the 30-mt Reliance refinery, has led to a severe LPG shortage in the country.

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 State Bank of Travancore (SBT) on Monday announced an upward revision in the interest rate on NRE savings bank deposits with effect from October 1. The new rate is 4.2 per cent, up from 3.7 per cent.

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India, China and the United States are among very few countries in the world which can easily attain energy independence by substituting synthetic fuel obtained from petroleum with coal.

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The Centre is likely to refer cases against Congress leaders indicted by the Nanavati Commission in the 1984 riots to the CBI. That’s a recommendation by the Home Ministry. A final decision will be taken at a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday.

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India and Pakistan on Monday held a meeting at Nathiagali hill resort, near Murree, after a gap of 45 years. The last such meeting was held between Pakistan's former military ruler Field Marshal Ayub Khan and then Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in 1960.

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Morning flights from Delhi will be affected for three days from today following closure of the airspace for two hours due to exercises by the Indian Air Force on account of their raising day on October 8.

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