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The driver of a van of the State Bank of India was killed and two police guards were injured in a landmine explosion in Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday.

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 India has improved its global competitive ranking, reveals the World Economic Forum's The Global Competitiveness Report 2005-2006, while China seems to have slipped.

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Air Sahara on Thursday announced a 10 per cent fare hike to offset a steep rise in international prices of aviation turbine fuel.Indian Airlines and Jet Airways are also expected to announce a similar hike, aviation industry sources said.

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Thiruvananthapuram-based IBS software services has entered into a multi-year agreement with Canadian airline, Westjet, for aiRES, the new generation Passenger Services System (PSS).

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Home Minister Shivraj Patil said urgent economic development of the affected areas is needed to wipe off the menace of Naxalites.

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The Indian Oil Corporation is looking at importing about 300,0000 metric tonnes of LPG over the next 6-8 weeks.

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India and France will sign an agreement today for six Scorpene submarines. The deal is worth $3.5 billion.The French submarines will be manufactured at India's Mazagaon docks. Under the pact, France will transfer the technology to India.

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A teenaged boy allegedly committed suicide at his house in West Punjabi Bagh because his parents were reportedly not treating him well and did not buy him a mobile phone.

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BJP leader and former Union Minister Ravishanker Prasad was on Thursday shot at and injured in the arm at an election meeting near here with the angry crowd overpowering and lynching the lone assailant.

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Investigations into reports of appearance of RJD MP Mohammad Shahabuddin in an examination centre have revealed that the elusive MP did not take the LLB test and Police is looking for four persons, one of whom is believed to be the 'ghost writer'.

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Satyajit Ray's classic creation- Sonar Kella (Golden Fortress) has come alive in the Capital, as the protagonist of the film Mukul has got a real life persona in five-year-old Manisha who claimed to recall her last birth as Suman.

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The New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) on Thursday denied media reports that it had served a notice on Priyanka Vadra, daughter of Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi, after dengue causing mosquitoes were detected in her house.

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Tamil Nadu may be the lone state to remain outside the value added tax (VAT) system on January 1, ’06. Five BJP-ruled states are expected implement VAT in the new year. Uttar Pradesh too had indicated that is it set to migrate to VAT from local sales tax regime.

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The Delhi High Court Thursday issued notice to the government on a criminal revision petition by Maninder Pal Singh Kohli, main accused in the rape and murder of British teenager Hanna Foster in London.

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Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Wednesday formally launched the Farmers’ Social Security Scheme by distributing welfare assistance to 120 beneficiaries drawn from throughout the State.

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LJP president Ramvilas Paswan today slammed the door on any future alliance with the RJD or NDA, dubbing the two key contenders for power in Bihar as "two faces of the same coin."

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In a major move to increase its market share in the domestic market Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Ltd (Glenmark) today announced the launch of a new division, Milieus, in Tamil Nadu.

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Muslims in Andhra Pradesh have hailed the passing of a bill providing five per cent reservation to the community in educational institutions and government jobs as "historic".

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Reliance Industries Ltd. has shut its main gasoline-making unit for 45 days of maintenance and is expected to shut its crude distillation unit by the middle of next week, a company source said on Thursday.

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They are adding another meaning to antiquated books. Old Indian dictionaries are being picked up by overseas collectors and universities for tidy sums. The demand for dictionaries has gained momentum, with books in this genre becoming rarer over time.

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Around 210 candidates filed their nomination papers on the final day of filing of nominations for the 69 assembly constituencies going to poll in the second phase in Bihar on October 26.

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Crude futures slipped to two-month lows amid signs that US demand for gasoline may be waning because of high prices at fuel pumps.

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Tendulkar, who is making a comeback to competitive cricket with the N K P Salve day-night one-day Challenger Trophy to be played at Mohali from October 10 to 13, after recuperating from an elbow surgery, then joined his Mumbai teammates for a rigorous three-hour practice session.

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In 1998, when World Bank’s John Briscoe visited Rajasthan, he found that 40 of the 240 groundwater blocks in the state were being exploited in an unsustainable manner, the monsoon could not recharge them. By 2005, that number had more than trebled, to 140.

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Five Bangladeshi nationals were arrested by the Kolkata police a day after the serial blasts on August 17 but the Bangladesh High Commission was not told about it.

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A negative list to be prepared; minor unorganised services may be kept out.The government may increase service tax to 15 per cent from April 2006 from 10 per cent at present. 

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The Delhi High Court on Thursday granted bail to former Rajya Sabha MP DP Yadav's nephew, Vishal Yadav, who is facing trial in the Nitish Katara murder case.

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In a serious blow to the plans of the government to generate additional electricity by June 2006, the commissioning of the ambitious 450 MW Baglihar Hydro Electric Project on river Chenab at Chanderkote in Doda district has been officially delayed by a year.

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The empowered committee of state finance ministers on value-added tax has agreed to cut central sales tax to 2 per cent from 4 per cent from April 1, 2006, as the first step towards the abolition of CST.

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With the Allahabad High Court quashing reservation for Muslims in Aligarh Muslim University, a fresh bout of political bickering began on Wednesday between the BJP and the Congress over quotas in educational institutions.

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The Bombay High Court on Wednesday directed actor Shah Rukh Khan, Maharashtra government and Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to file affidavits in response to two public interest litigations questioning construction which is being allegedly carried out by Shah Rukh on a plot adjacent to his bungalow in suburban Bandra.

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India's rising star Sania Mirza kept herself in fine form to beat Japan's Aiko Nakamura on Thursday to set up a quarter-final match against top seed Vera Zvonareva at the Japan Open tennis tournament.

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The Union Ministries of Tourism and Health and Family Welfare have decided to start a website and create a database to promote health tourism in India. Health tourism has enormous potential to create jobs and bring in foreign exchange. The website would be functional by December.

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First ever acquisition of an American CRO by an Indian company.Shyam and Hari Bhartia-controlled Jubilant Organosys Ltd has acquired 100 per cent equity in Target Research Associates, a US-based clinical research organisation, for $33.5 million (around Rs 145 crore) in an all-cash deal. 

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Jet Airways has finalised an order to purchase 10 large commercial aircraft from Boeing Co at $2.53 billion. The deliveries of the 777-300ER planes are slated to begin by early 2007. 

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India has the fourth happiest population in the world, even ahead of Britain and Canada, a survey indicated on Wednesday. The survey carried out across 30 nations found that only those living in Australia, the US and Egypt are more upbeat.

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An official for the state-owned exploration firm, Oil India Limited (OIL), said a team of fire fighters led by four experts from the Texas-based Boots and Coots International Well Control put out the fire late Wednesday at Dikom, 520 km east of the state capital Guwahati.

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India will relax its visa rules for patients travelling to the country for medical treatment, Tourism Minister Renuka Chowdhary said at a joint meeting with Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss here on Wednesday.

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Aspire Systems, which develops technology products for its clients, today inaugurated its global innovation centre on the outskirts of Chennai.

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An NRI corporation in London has paid $2 million (Rs 9 crore) for an M F Husain work, ‘The Last Supper’. This tops the $1.5 million sale of Tyeb Mehta’s ‘Mahishasura’ at Christie’s two weeks ago, although since the former is not a public sale the two cannot strictly be compared.

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India, China and Russia will suffer losses of billions of dollars in national income over the next decade unless investments are made to prevent rising levels of chronic diseases, a WHO report warned on Wednesday.

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Petroleum Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar will hold an emergency meeting in the capital today to discuss the LPG shortage in the country.

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Tata Power plans to set up a 3,000 Mw mega-power project in Jharkhand with an investment of around Rs 12,000 crore. The company, which signed an agreement with the Jharkhand government today, will also look at captive coal mining facilities in the state.

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A red carpet welcome awaits President A P J Abdul Kalam when he arrives here tomorrow to inaugurate the platinum jubilee celebration of the National Academy of Science, India (NASI) At the Moti Lal Nehru institute of technology.

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A 10–15 per cent hike in airfares could be announced any time over the next two weeks. Reeling from the impact of a Rs 1,700 per kilolitre hike in the price of aviation turbine fuel, all major airlines are examining how to go about the hike.

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