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Chief Minister Oommen Chandy said here on Wednesday that the Government had no intention to interfere in the functioning of temples.After the weekly Cabinet meeting, Chandy told reporters that the Government would not go in for a confrontation with the Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB) on the issue of ban on fresh appointments by the Board.

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The Opposition in Uttar Pradesh today demanded the dismissal of the Mulayam Singh Yadav government following the Supreme Court ruling quashing the repeal of POTA on state Minister Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiyya and his relatives.

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Two Pakistani nationals have been arrested with sensitive documents pertaining to vital army installations, police said on Thursday.On a tip off from military intelligence, the district police on Wednesday night arrested a Pakistani while he was moving near the military hospital in Jalandhar Cantonment.

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Having seen the benefits of cluster-based approach for financing small and medium enterprises sector, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has advised all public sector banks to treat it as a thrust area. The banks have also been asked to gradually adopt this model for SME finance.

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Avaya GlobalConnect Ltd. (AGCL), India's number one enterprise communication solutions company and Servion Global Solutions Ltd. (Servion), a global provider of Contact Optimization solutions on Thursday announced their strategic partnership in India.

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The criminal revision petition filed by former Union minister Jaiprakash Narain Yadav challenging the non-bailable warrant against him in the case of illegal release of his brother and party candidate Vijay Prakash would be taken up for hearing on November 16.

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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will deliver a lecture on Friday on the strategic challenges facing the country to mark the 40th anniversary of the Institute for Defense Studies and Analyses (IDSA).

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Sheetal Mafatlal has registered a case of theft against two servants in her mother-in-law Madhuri’s employ, accusing them of stealing her antiques worth lakhs of rupees.

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 Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) rebel legislators in the district have made it clear that there would be no change in their stance unless there is a change in their leaders’ attitude.

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Bombay Rayon Fashions Limited is entering the capital market with an initial public offer (IPO) for raising funds for its upcoming manufacturing facility near Bangalore. The total cost of the project is envisaged at Rs 161.72 crore and is slated to be on stream by March 2006.

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ICICI Bank, which holds 29.58 per cent stake in Asset Reconstruction Company of India (Arcil), is expected to sell 10 per cent stake following the government's decision to open up the foreign director investment (FDI) route for Asset Reconstruction Companies (ARCs).

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BJP president L K Advani today dubbed Manmohan Singh as "the weakest Prime Minister" the country has ever had. "Manmohan Singh has proved to be the weakest PM the country has ever had.

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Security personnel across airports in the country have been put on general alert today following a direction from the Centre regarding reports of a "non-specific" threat.

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A worker of the Sambhaji Brigade threw a slipper at the RSS chief K S Sudarshan at a public function in Sholapur yesterday. Sudarshan was attending a ceremony organised by the Shiv Smarak Mandal, where a statue of Shivaji worth Rs 20 lakh was unveiled.

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Controversial Uttar Pradesh MLA Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiya will be tried under POTA for possessing illegal arms and ammunition.The Supreme Court today struck down the Mulayam Singh Yadav .

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Jharkhand will host an international e-governance conference on Saturday to create awareness among officials on using IT tools for better administration.The two-day meet, with the theme "E-governance for good governance", will be attended by experts from the US, Australia and France among others, said state IT secretary RS Sharma.

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The Supreme Court on Thursday quashed the Uttar Pradesh government order withdrawing POTA charges against controversial MLA Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiyya and his relatives.

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 London-based global steel baron Lakshmi Mittal -- whose Mittal Steel Co is the world's largest steel producer -- is the richest billionaire not only in Britain but also in Europe, according to latest research on the super-rich by the Luxury Institute.

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Athletic Federation of India will send prospective medallists in next year's Commonwealth Games and the Doha Asian Games abroad for scientific training besides hosting two more National-level meets as selection trials to spot talent.

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It’s not really about money. According to Narain Karthikeyan’s team, Midland F1 (formerly Jordan Grand Prix), his own “unprofessional behaviour and his unprofessional management’’ have cost him a Formula One seat for 2006.

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West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra qualified for the quarterfinal league from the Thiruvananthapuram leg of the 60th Santosh Trophy championship at the Chandrasekharan Nair Stadium here on Wednesday.

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After the five-match one-day cricket series against South Africa, India will take on Sri Lanka in a three Test series, the first of which will be played in Chennai from December 2 to 6.

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The Asian Textile Conference, ATXCON 2005, will be held in the Capital on December 1-2. Organised by the Confederation of Indian Textile Industry (CITI), the conference will provide Asian countries a platform .

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AIA Engineering, a niche player in the value-added high chrome metallurgy segment catering to cement, mining and thermal power industries, is entering the capital market with its initial public offering of 47 lakh equity shares of Rs. 10 each through the book-building process.

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Metro Group of Germany has decided to set up distribution centres in West Bengal of which the first would come up here by September 2006, Heinrich O. E. Birr, Vice-President, International Affairs, Metro Group, said.

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In a major development for the banking sector, the Government on Wednesday threw open the asset reconstruction companies (ARCs) to foreign direct investment (FDI). It has decided to permit FDI up to a maximum of 49 per cent in the equity capital of ARCs.

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Finance minister P. Chidambaram today said the government is looking at divesting a small portion of equity in profit-making public sector enterprises other than the navratnas.

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India on Wednesday gave an assurance to the United States that it would make all-out efforts to curb money laundering and stamp out financing of terrorist activities while it laid down a roadmap for major reforms in the financial sector.

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In a gruesome incident, a 14-year-old girl was raped and murdered by her employer in Faridabad area, close to the national capital.Though the victim was raped and murdered on Saturday, the family members of the victim .

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In a jolt to BJP in Karnataka, party leader and Rajya Sabha member M Rajasekara Murthy, today resigned both from the party and the Upper House. Murthy, who had six more months left to complete his tenure in the Rajya Sabha, is likely to join the Janata Dal (Secular) headed by former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda, sources said.

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Manisha Koirala will produce a play (untitled) that maps the evolution of a school for the deaf community, after a high priest in France felt the need of passing down special education to them.

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A fatwa that sought to nullify the second marriage of a Muslim woman on the ground that ‘‘a non-Muslim magistrate could not decide on talaq matters’’ and that only the husband had the prerogative to give talaq has landed a Khargone-based Mufti in trouble.

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John Baburao Perimal (55) may have lost 18 Lok Sabha, Vidhan Sabha and BMC elections in the last 20 years, but not hope. He has forfeited his security deposit on these occasions, but it hasn’t killed his spirit either.

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Five people died and 18 others were injured this afternoon when a coal-laden goods train crashed into the fourth last bogey of the Gomoh-Chaupan passenger train when it was changing tracks near Barwadih railway station. The site is about 175 km from Ranchi.

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Congress President Sonia Gandhi's one-day visit to Bihar to campaign for Secular Democratic Forum candidates in the state Assembly elections today has been deferred by a day in view of former President K R Narayanan's funeral.

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The rescue team has recovered five bodies in yesterday's collision between a coal-laden goods train and the Gomoh-Chowpan passenger train at Barwadih station in Jharkhand's Lathehar district.

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Former president K R Narayanan's body will lie in state at Kapurthala House in the capital to allow people to pay their last respects.He will be cremated with full military honours today evening on the banks of Yamuna in New Delhi near the samadhi of Jawaharlal Nehru, his mentor.

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The waters of the Bhagirathi and Bhilangana rivers have gradually risen following the closure of all tunnels of the Tehri dam, submerging one village after another. In response, the affected people .

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Delhi's Apollo Hospital is in the dock after a nine-year-old boy died during surgery.Aditya Pal, a resident of Meerut, was admitted to the hospital on 3 October with papillomas or warts in his respiratory tract.

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The Jammu police have said the man arrested by the Army for his alleged role in Delhi blasts is a petty thief.The man, identified as 22-year-old Ghulam Mohinuddin Lone, was apprehended by the Army on 5 November near Ramban in Doda district, around 200 km north of Jammu.

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