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The Army has seized Uri and barred media from entering the town of Baramullah district in Jammu and Kashmir even as the injured were being evacuated hours after the 7-plus magnitude earthquake flattened it .

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A massive earthquake today jolted parts of North India with Jammu and Kashmir bearing the brunt where 157 people, including 15 army personnel, were killed, 600 injured and more than 400 houses flattened.

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The CPI (M) on Saturday said that the Supreme Court's interim judgement on the Bihar Assembly dissolution has raised the issue of the necessity to "check the arbitrariness in the discretionary powers of the Governor."

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Five army personnel were killed in Jammu and Kashmir as a bunker building collapsed due to the massive earthquake that rocked the region today.

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Film star Hema Malini has called off her election campaign for the Bharatiya Janata Party in Bihar for security reasons.On Thursday, BJP's Ravi Shanker Prasad, a former central minister was shot and wounded .

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The Indian Air Force is celebrating its 73rd Raising Day today with thrilling air manoeuvres by Sukhoi fighter aircraft and Sarang advanced light helicopters.

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Call this a dhokla delight. Thanks to the Ambanis, Gujarati-owned business houses top the charts among the BSE-200 companies. An ET analysis of the community-wise break-up of BSE-200 companies reveals.

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The GSM subscriber base exceeded the 50m-mark in September ’05 as nearly 2m subscribers were added during the month, representing a growth of 4%. In keeping with the recent trend, the category C circles .

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John Wright, who has experienced the best and the worst of Indian cricket during his five-year tenure as India's coach, has asked for some time and space for Greg Chappell, his successor, to make a difference to the Indian team.

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The markets posted its third consecutive day of declines on Friday. The Sensex declined by 37 points to close at 8491.5 in a highly volatile market. It has lost about 300 points in the last three trading sessions.

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 Mittal Steel Co., the world's biggest steelmaker, agreed to spend $9 billion to build a plant in India in return for assured raw material supplies from a country that holds the world's sixth-largest iron ore reserves.

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Dissident leader and former chief minister Keshubhai Patel and two other senior members have resigned from the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) election committee with civic elections on October 13.

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At least 25 people were killed and more than 30 injured in two separate bus accidents in Himachal Pradesh Friday.Thirteen people were buried alive when a boulder fell on a bus near Manikaran, in Kullu valley .

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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday said the Centre would wait for the detailed judgement of the Supreme Court on Bihar Assembly dissolution before making any comments.

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A 10-year-old girl working as a domestic helper in Bangalore was burnt by her employers. The girl is now in a shelter with burns on her arms and she says the burns were because her employers set her on fire .

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The rift within the Shiv Sena between cousins Raj and Uddhav Thackeray is back in the limelight once again.Just last month the cousins had come out to say that all differences between them had been resolved.

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Sania Mirza has lost in the semi-final of the US$ 170,000 AIG Japan Open Tennis Tournament today after losing 2-6, 4-6 to France's Tatiana Golovin. On Friday, Sania advanced into the semi final after defeating top .

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Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Y V Reddy today asked companies to voluntarily start making disclosures on their risk exposures to derivatives and foreign exchange.  
 
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The country’s largest bank, State Bank of India (SBI),  expects its loan book to grow by a whopping 40 per cent year on year in 2005-06, after a 28.14 per cent increase in 2004-05.  
 
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In a move aimed at providing more functional autonomy to Indian Airlines, the government today restructured the state-run carrier’s board.The government today appointed Anup K Srivastava.

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Bangkok-based low-cost carrier Nok Air is in talks with Kingfisher Airlines and Air Deccan for a strategic operational alliance to enter India.“We have initiated a dialogue with Kingfisher Airlines and Air Deccan .

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Saregama India Ltd, an RPG Group company, has decided to co-produce an Indo-American film along with the New York-based Rapture Productions Inc.Sanjiv Goenka, Vice-Chairman of the RPG Group.

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Sandeep Sawant’s Shwaas, a low-budget Marathi-language film that came in literally from the cold, represented India at the 77th Academy Awards last year.It may not eventually have made much headway on .

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The state-level Dasara sports meet kicked of on a colourful note on Friday, with international athlete Anju Bobby George declaring the event open by releasing pigeons.

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West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Friday assured the IT and ITES industry that henceforth it would not be affected by strike in the State.

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The Confederation of Indian Industry has urged the Union Government to speed up the enhancement of infrastructure at the Thoothukudi port to make it a hub port.

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The Reserve Bank of India will come out with the revised guidelines for the Corporate Debt Restructuring Mechanism in a couple of weeks, the RBI Governor, Dr Y.V. Reddy, said here today.

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India may be part of a cutting edge nuclear energy project which the European Union plans to begin with six other countries.The project is likely to take years to complete, but its completion promises .

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The move by Kerala Election Commission to dissolve the Palghat municipal council following its failure to elect a chairman on Thursday has evoked strong protests from BJP.

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The Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA) on Friday announced its decision to dissociate itself from the Gujarat Government-sponsored projects citing inability to work with the "present set-up''.

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Work on the much-awaited Mysore Airport project would begin by Nov 1, said district incharge Minister Tanveer Sait here on Friday.He told the media that Chief Minister Dharam Singh would lay the foundation .

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In a virtual clean chit to Uttar Pradesh BJP MLA K N Rai, in the abduction of the Bihar schoolboy Gaurav Kumar nicknamed Golu, Chief Secretary G S Kang, on Friday said the MLA was requested through the police .

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A fighter aircraft of the Indian Air Force (IAF) crashed while landing at an airfield in Madhya Pradesh yesterday. The pilot of the Jaguar jet, squadron leader Vishal Gupta, ejected safely.

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Sending out a strong message to all Congress-ruled state governments to not turn their back on party workers, the Congress chief, Mrs Sonia Gandhi, today asked them to involve party activists in the formulation.

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Describing the Supreme Court verdict on the dissolution of the Bihar Assembly as a “victory for constitutionalism”, the BJP-led NDA today trained its guns on the Centre and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh .

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Indian women lifters opened their account winning a silver medal in the 53 kg class while the men added three silvers and a bronze to their tally on the second day of the Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships .

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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday said his government had fulfilled three-fourth of the commitments undertaken in the National Common Minimum Programme (NCMP).

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India may be part of a cutting edge nuclear energy project which the European Union plans to begin with six other countries.The project is likely to take years to complete, but its completion promises the creation of unlimited nuclear energy, that too without affecting the environment.

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Finally, the cat is out of the bag. Indian captain Sourav Ganguly was ruled out of competitive cricket for ten days because of an elbow injury, making him a doubtful starter for the forthcoming one-day series against Sri Lanka.

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A paramilitary trooper was killed while 11 people, including two schoolgirls, were injured in a grenade explosion and an ensuing firefight between security forces and militants hiding in a building in Jammu .

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The Maharashtra government wants to bring in 5,000 luxury taxis along the model that's used in Singapore.It's a move that's in keeping with the Mumbai to Shanghai vision.

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The Rajasthan government's decision to acquire land for the Chief Minister's pet projects has drawn criticism from two state ministers.The controversy is over Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje's projects.

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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said populist gimmicks no longer work and called for hard work to win the support of the people.Singh's comments came in his address to chief ministers from his Congress Party .

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Strong tremors were felt across North India this morning. The tremors began at 9.25 am (IST) and continued for a few minutes. Initial reports said that they were felt in Delhi, Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir.

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