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Army officer, Col Anil Sahgal, who has been convicted and penalised, was tried for five charges under the Army Act in the Tehelka expose, Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee informed the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday.

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 Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, J Jayalalithaa, on Wednesday sought a central assistance of Rs13,685 crore, besides 2.58 lakh tonnes of rice and 43,200 kilolitres of kerosene towards providing relief to the flood-affected people in 22 districts of the state.

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Meghalaya Chief Minister DD Lapang has urged the Centre to project the potential of the state to non-resident Indians to attract investments. Lapang told reporters on Tuesday that during his recent trip to Delhi .

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Despite suffering a 1-6 drubbing in the ODI in their split tour, the Attapattu-led Sri Lankan team was confident of putting up a good show in the three Test series, the first of which would begin here on December two.

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Texas Instruments (TI), the global semi-conductor player in analogue and digital signal processing (DSP) technologies, is betting on the Indian market to fuel its growth in the communications and entertainment sectors.

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Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited is looking at 600 to 800 strategic sites across the country for its retail outlets expansion, a top official of the company said.  Today in Sify Finance  
 
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An earthquake of moderate intensity measuring 5.4 on the richter scale occurred in Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday but there were no reports of any damage to life or property.

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The Supreme Court has declined to review its judgement of August 12 abolishing quotas and reservation in un-aided professional Educational Institutions in the Country. A seven-judge Bench headed .

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The Supreme Court has dismissed a petition filed by the Tamil Nadu government seeking review of the judgement quashing reservations in private unaided educational institutions, including engineering and medical colleges.

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India on Wednesday successfully test-fired the land version of the BrahMos cruise missile from a test range in Orissa's Balasore district in east India, Indian defense sources said.

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The government is "carefully" considering all possibilities before deciding on the issue of merging MTNL and BSNL, the Lok Sabha was informed on Wednesday. Considering the complexity of the issues involved in the restructuring exercise.

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Washing its hands off Uma Bharti, RSS on Wednesday virtually endorsed her suspension from BJP saying it has always given highest priority to discipline and does not interfere in issues related to it.

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Tata Steel in collaboration with Government of Jharkhand, Indian Railways and Impact India Foundation(IIF) will be hosting ''Lifeline Express'', the world's first hospital on rails, at Sini Railway Station in Seraikela-Kharswan district of Jharkhand from December 14 to January 12.

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The Oil & Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) has awarded a Rs 1,000 crore turn-key project order to Larsen & Toubro Ltd (L&T) for four well platforms and inter-connecting pipelines for Mumbai High North and Bassein fields.

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Former BCCI chief Rajsingh Durgarpur is likely to take over as the chairman of the National Cricket Academy replacing former captain Sunil Gavaskar.

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Honda Siel Cars India Limited (HSCI) today announced it will launch 'Honda Civic' for Indian customers next year.

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India Wednesday successfully test-fired the land version of the BrahMos cruise missile from a test range in Orissa's Balasore district, defence sources said.

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6-1 thrashing of Sri Lanka and a drawn series against South Africa has lifted India to fourth spot in the latest ICC one-day international rankings.

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The erstwhile NDA government had launched an ambitious project nearly three years ago aimed at uncovering India's glorious cultural past.Called the Saraswati Heritage Project, it was designed to excavate India's mythical holy river Saraswati, which originated in the Himalayas and drained into the Arabian Sea.

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The fifth crossing point for the divided families at the Line of Control (LoC) was opened in Mendhar area of Poonch with a lot of enthusiasm.The relief point will facilitate movement of quake-relief material for the affected families.

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In Vidharbha's cotton fields, a debate is raging over genetically modified cotton or Bt cotton, which claims to be pest resistant.Farmers like Marutrao Admane bought and planted Bt cotton after the cotton department aggressively promoted it, but pests infested their crop.

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The Mumbai satellite township of Ulhasnagar is tense after local residents clashed with the police on Tuesday. The clashes took place when Ulhasnagar corporation officials began demolitions of 850 illegal structures.

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The police on Tuesday arrested Ravindra Bharathi School correspondent and secretary Veeramachaneni Venkateswara Rao, named as the main accused in the sensational picnic tragedy case in which 15 students died.

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Using a chopper to deliver a passport may be the style of jet-setting and globe-trotting chief executives and billionaires, but today the Punjab Government did exactly that. The government behaved like an MNC running on private money and not like a government run on taxpayers’ money.

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Maharashtra strongman Sharad Pawar was today elected President of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in a high-voltage contest which ended Jagmohan Dalmiya’s 21-year-old monopoly over the cash-rich sports body.

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Virender Sehwag climbed up seven places to 18th while India's captain Rahul Dravid slipped by a solitary place to seventh in the latest International Cricket Council (ICC) individual one-day rankings for batsmen.

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Asserting that Bihar deserves special treatment in view of its multi-faceted problems, the state’s new chief minister, Mr Nitish Kumar, said today that apart from providing additional assistance, the Centre should accord special status to the state and extend tax reliefs to it.

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India has stepped up security at its missions in Bangladesh following militant threats to Western embassies and is framing a long-term strategy to insulate itself from a new wave of Al-Qaeda-inspired terror threatening that country.

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The CBI director, Mr US Mishra, today put an end to all speculation about Abu Salem turning an approver. He categorically said that the agency would not consider making the extradited Mumbai don an approver in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case.

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Vijay Mallya-promoted UB Group has chalked out plans to raise around $400m over the next one year, including a $200m initial public offer for its aviation business, Kingfisher Airlines.

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The town of Ghazipur in Uttar Pradesh witnessed angry scenes a day after the killing of BJP MLA Krishnanand Rai on Tuesday.BJP leaders have been protesting on the streets and have jammed the Benares-Ghazipur highway, demanding the ouster of the Mulayam Singh government.

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BJP MLA Krishnanand Rai and six of his supporters were today gunned down in a suspected gang war near a village, around 100 km from Varanasi, while they were on their way to a marriage function in the MLA’s constituency, Mohammadabad.

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Gold has crossed the $500 a troy ounce mark, after almost two decades and for the fourth time in 100 years. The price of the yellow metal has surged in all major currencies. Since the Indian gold price shadows the international price trend, the local rate has surged proportionately, trading at Rs 7,550 per 10 gm, when the global price was above $500.

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Centurion Bank of Punjab posted net profit of Rs 20.9 crore for the quarter ended September 30, 2005, against Rs 5.26 crore in the corresponding quarter last year, due to increase in low cost deposits and other income.

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Targeting a GDP (gross domestic product) growth of 10 per cent in two-three years and terming it as "eminently feasible," Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday pledged to explore the possibilities .

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 cyclonic storm over Tamil Nadu is now stationary and is about 350 km east-southeast of Chennai.According to Met department officials, the storm is expected to cross between Chennai and Machalipattnam in the next 24 hours.

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Hours after he lashed out against his nephew Raj's supporters, Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray promised to broker peace between Uddhav and Raj. "Raj will come when I call him. He is adamant, but he will listen only to me," he told party legislators late last night.

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The police made a lathicharge then fired teargas shells to disperse a section of government school teachers staging a dharna before the state secretariat on Tuesday to demand regularisation of salary.

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Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President L.K. Advani had a narrow escape here on Tuesday evening when their aeroplane developed a snag.

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The BJP has decided to bite the Uma Bharati bullet. Faced with an unrepentant sanyasin who launched a fresh tirade against party president L K Advani on Tuesday, the brass has decided to expel the former Madhya Pradesh chief minister from the party.

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