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Cellular major Motorola Monday announced a strategic tie-up to boost sales in India, but grudgingly admitted it had its hands full in breaking through the Indian "mindset" for Nokia phones.

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Infosys chairman, Narayana Murthy, is in his own Kurukshetra, facing attack from former Prime Minister Deve Gowda, on the Bangalore infrastructure issue. Should he keep silent or fight back ?

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IFFI 2005, the prestigious annual international film festival will be staged in Goa from Nov 24 to December 4, 2005. In a press briefing on Monday, Mr. Sanjit Rodrigues, Chief Executive Officer of the Entertainment Society .

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In a move to promote the food processing sector, the Centre is planning to extend financial help to states for setting up mega food parks, Union Minister of State for Food Processing Subodh Kant Sahai said today.

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Life insurance major LIC expects sales of its products through banks to cross Rs 800 crore by March 2006, its Managing Director K Sridhar said on Monday. In the current fiscal, LIC has already sold products worth Rs 100 crore, he told reporters here.

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About four million visitors are expected to throng the Silver Jubilee edition of the India International Trade Fair 2005 (IITF'05) which was inaugurated by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh here on Monday amid tight security arrangements.

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Reliance Infocomm today launched its full money back offer under which a subscriber will get the handset free of cost with a new connection.Under the scheme, the customer will get an LG 2340 handset priced at Rs 2,500 with talk-time of an equivalent amount, the company said in a release today.

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Tata Motors today rolled out the Novus range of heavy commercial vehicles (HCVs) from its manufacturing facility here in collaboration with South Korea-based Tata Daewoo Commercial Vehicles Company.

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Hundreds of scholars from India and abroad are working on a multi-billion rupee project to make the epic Mahabharata available to a global audience. The 18-volume bilingual encyclopaedia of the epic, in English and Sanskrit, is expected to be completed in five years.

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The urn containing the ashes of former president K R Narayanan will reach here from Delhi on Monday.The urn will be placed at the Secretariat Durbar Hall for the public to pay their homage.

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The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) on Sunday said it had right to stake claim in choosing the prime minister of the country as well as for making policy decisions.

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Terming globalisation an irreversible phenomenon, Prime Minister Manmohan Monday exhorted the domestic industry to integrate better with the world economy and make India a major trading nation once again.

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Underworld don Abu Salem is still being interrogated by CBI for various cases including the 1993 serial bomb blasts.Earlier today, Salem was taken for a brief medial checkup at Mumbai's St Georges Hospital.

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My heart went out to Narain Karthikeyan last week, as he stumbled, stuttered, licked his dry mouth and almost burst into tears, out of sheer nervousness.

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Thousands of devotees have arrived at Orissa's temple town of Puri ahead of a pre-dawn sacred bath in the sea on Tuesday on the eve of Kartika Purnima.

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 Aiming to attract foreign tourists to Mathura, the Union Tourism Ministry has given its nod to a Rs 100 crore plan for improving the basic civic amenities and renovating heritage structures of this temple town.

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Train services on the Patna-Gaya section of East-Central railway suspended since last night in the wake of Naxalite attack in Jehanabad have resumed.

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Major Gopendra Rathore who served as an Aide de Camp or ADC to former President KR Narayanan, died in a security operation in Kashmir. Before his death Friday morning Gopi was getting ready for an operation against a militant hideout that is when he knew of the death of Narayanan.

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Former Uttar Pradesh Minister Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiya and his father today surrendered before a designated POTA court in Kanpur.The next hearing of the case is on November 26.

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Several journalists have been injured after they were beaten by police apparently frustrated with the media coverage of the jailbreak in south Bihar. Their anger appeared focused at news reports, which said the state administration failed to prevent the attacks.

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East Zone captain Sourav Ganguly was dismissed without scoring again in the second innings of the Duleep Trophy final at the Motera on Sunday. West Zone took a seven-run lead finishing their first innings.

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South Africa’s coach Mickey Arthur on Sunday said his team was not worried about big-hitting Indian batsman Mahendra Dhoni ahead of their five-match one-day series.

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With a majority of infrastructure projects in the country facing time and cost overrun, the Finance Minister, P. Chidambaram, said India needed to look at the Chinese model for executing mega projects.

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THE SECURITIES Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has issued a stern warning to the board of directors of Delhi Stock Exchange (DSE), prohibiting them from divesting 51 per cent stake to strategic investors.

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Sify Ltd has said Infinity Capital, a company controlled by Silicon Valley entrepreneur Raju Vegesna, has bought 40 per cent of its stake in two separate transactions, including buying the entire 31.61 per cent stake held by Satyam Computer Services.

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After witnessing good times in the recent past, the Indian steel industry is facing pressure from an increase in the raw material cost which went up by an average of 8.56% year-on-year in the second quarter of this fiscal, an Assocham Eco Pulse (AEP) study said on Sunday.

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Over 130 people, including two BSP candidates and an LJP nominee, were arrested as the penultimate phase of elections in 57 Assembly constituencies in Bihar passed off peacefully with an estimated 46 per cent voters turnout.

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Exit polls at the end of third phase of polling in Bihar continued to project a fractured verdict, with an edge for NDA.The RJD-led alliance clearly fell short of the magic figure of 122 despite improving its performance in the 57 seats that went to polls today.

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Amendment of the Cantonment Board Act is on the anvil. Defence minister, Mr Pranab Mukherjee, said today that a Bill would be placed in Parliament soon to amend the Cantonment Board Act to provide reservation for women.

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Indian equities offer one of the highest inflation-adjusted real EPS growths in Asia and emerging markets. But, Adrian Mowat, Asian Strategist, for Hong Kong-based J P Morgan Securities (Asia Pacific) Ltd.

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Standing outside the medical intensive care unit (MICU) at the Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General Hospital, Sion, Soma Waghela (35) does not know whose cry to answer to.

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Even the stiffest challenge of defeating Shiv Sena-turned-Congress leader Narayan Rane in the Malwan bypolls hasn’t brought together Uddhav and Raj, the cold-warring Thackerays.

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Don Abu Salem’s arrival in Mumbai and the confessions that are bound to follow, may strike fear in Bollywood, but for director Shishir Mishra, the deportation is the best news he has had in a long time.

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The ashes of former President K R Narayanan were today taken to his native state Kerala for enabling public to pay homage to the departed leader.

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The crisis in Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) blew over today with expelled legislator S Santhosh Reddy joining back into the party fold following hectic mediation efforts initiated by party supremo and Union Labour Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao.

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The Abu Salem issue is likely to figure in the ongoing campaign for the Mumbai north-west parliamentary constituency by-poll, with the opposition BJP slated to play-up the alleged proximity of the gangster with actor Sanjay Dutt, brother of Congress nominee Priya Dutt.

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The Srinagar-Muzaffarabad road, which remained closed after being hit by the October 8 quake, was reopened on Monday, re-establishing the link between the two parts of divided Kashmir.

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RSS and BJP leaders might hold parleys next week to chose the next BJP chief as LK Advani has announced that he would exit in December. RSS chief KC Sudarshan, his deputy Mohan Bhagwat and RSS-BJP .

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The tough don is singing. And merrily. He has reportedly confessed to his role in the 1993 Mumbai blasts and, here’s the best part according to his interrogators, detailed the extent of Pakistani involvement.

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Private sports broadcasters are concerned about the negative impact that the recently notified norms on mandatory sharing of telecast rights with Prasar Bharati would have on their revenues.

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Indian Oil Corporation Ltd has asked the Petroleum Ministry for payment of interest on oil pool account arrears.The company, which got a major chunk of the `seven per cent Oil Companies Special Bonds 2012' .

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A year after 13 villagers of Bhanwarpura were killed by the Rambabu Gadaria gang, there is still no trace of the elusive bandit. This despite the Madhya Pradesh government forming a Special Task Force and increasing the reward money on the gang to Rs 14.5 lakh.

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Delhi's much-awaited annual event, the India International Trade Fair (IITF) begins today amid concerns over traffic and security.The theme this year is Power and Communication and the displays are featured in five main pavilions.

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India and Pakistan are set to open the fourth joint relief point along the LoC today to exchange material for victims of the 8 October quake. Nearly 58 years after partition, the LoC point between the Mendhar belt .

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The Aman Setu or the bridge that connects Jammu and Kashmir to PoK will be reopened for the first time since the earthquake today.With its reopening, Indians stranded on the other side can come back home. This was the bridge used by passengers of the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus, and had collapsed in the quake.

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The toll in Sunday night's Naxalite attack and subsequent police retaliation in Jehanabad rose to three on Monday with the recovery of the body of a suspected extremist.

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