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It started with a dream. Sania Mirza’s parents, Imran and Naseema, wanted their elder daughter to become a player in the mould of German legend Steffi Graf.

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Consumer Electronics major, Royal Philips Electronics sees India as an engine of growth for the company, the CEO of the company, Gerard Kleisterlee, said here.

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The 19th international conference on very large scale integration (VLSI) design and the fifth international conference on embedded systems will be held in Hyderabad from 3 January to 7 January 2006.

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British Airw-ays, which launched its first direct flights to India’s high-tech hub of Bangalore last month, said on Monday it would boost the number of direct flights to India to 42 from 35 by mid-2006.

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Outlining a new economic line of "walking on two legs", Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said the Government was committed to removing shackles on businesses.

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Congress President Sonia Gandhi said on Tuesday that United Progressive Alliance (UPA) will not be affected even if the Congress and its allies lose the assembly elections in Bihar.

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While many parts of Chennai remain waterlogged due to incessant rains, snakes have begun invading homes as their burrows continue to be inundated.

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Police foiled a Naxalite bid to blow up a BSNL mobile tower in Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra. Ultras have called a bandh here today to protest the recently announced surrender policy of the state government.

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stock markets to enable its evaluation in an era of stiff competition, consolidation and convergence being the drivers of the banking sector, Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram said today.

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Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh last night said that he planned to expand his council of ministers before the winter session of the state legislature scheduled from December 5.

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The West Bengal government on Tuesday opened the bids for the sale of the state-owned Great Eastern Hotel, but remained tightlipped about the identity of the highest bidder.

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The dedicated Lok Sabha satellite channel is going to be round-the-clock very soon, Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee announced. Inaugurating the 70th conference of Presiding Officers of Legislative bodies in the country at Chhattisgarh Assembly, he said the round-the-clock satellite channel will be run by the Lok Sabha secretariat.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US has decided to open a Kolkata chapter to facilitate joint research and academic exchanges with the institutions of learning in West Bengal, according to State Finance Minister Asim Dasgupta.

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The US Defense Department on Monday told Congress it approved the sale to India of logistics support worth $133 million for two Lockheed Martin Corp. P-3C reconnaissance aircraft it plans to lease.

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Ranvir Sena, the private army of upper caste-land owners at loggerheads with the Naxalites, has threatened to take revenge against the Naxalites, who on Sunday night stormed the Jehanabad district prison and abducted many members of the Sena.

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Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram on Monday urged the people of Kerala to adopt an investment-led growth model with massive outlays for industrial infrastructure.

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The Congress on Monday blamed its coalition partner in the State, the Janata Dal (Secular), for the delay in obtaining clearance from the Union Government for the proposed Bangalore metro rail project.

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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh may have expressed delight at his "return'' to a university campus on Monday morning, but with a small section of Jawaharlal Nehru University students' community greeting him with black flags and slogan-shouting, Dr. Singh's stress on the need for a liberal thought process went well beyond the speech.

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India will exceed the government's $93 billion export target in the fiscal year to March 31, 2006, Trade Minister Kamal Nath said in New Delhi.

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Close on the heels of US lifiting ban on supply of nuclear fuel and equipment to India, a number of American, Russian and French companies have approached power equipment giant BHEL for developing and deploying technology for nuclear power projects in India.

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Owner’s envy, neighbour’s pride. Infosys chairman and chief mentor N R Narayana Murthy is being wooed by the Maharashtra government even as the government in his home state is all set to accept his resignation as chief of Bangalore International Airport Ltd.

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India has pledged more than USD 8.6 million for various United Nations agencies, mainly for development and humanitarian purposes, for the next year.

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Monica Bedi and Abu Salem were on the brink of an amicable separation when the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) caught up with them in Lisbon. Over two days of intense questioning in Hyderabad .

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Action will be taken against former external affairs minister K. Natwar Singh if allegations of corruption levelled against him in Iraq's oil-for-food programme are proved correct, United Progressive Alliance (UPA) chairman Sonia Gandhi said Tuesday.

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For Sanjay Dutt, it's getting harder and harder to focus on his sister's campaign for the North-West Mumbai seat.Everyday he's been fighting media speculation that Abu Salem's return means trouble for Sanjay because of charges that Salem gave him weapons in 1993.

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The Jehanabad attack comes in the middle of the Bihar elections.Although the voting in three phases has been remarkably smooth, political parties have responded to the attacks with alarm, accusing the Centre of a security lapse.

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Security forces rescued three civilians from a hotel on Monday morning before resuming operation to flush out militants holed up in one of the buildings in Lal Chowk area in Srinagar, which witnessed a fierce gun battle on Monday that left four persons dead and 13 injured.

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TATA Group expects revenues from international business to contribute 35 per cent of its total turnover by 2010. Currently, overseas business, which is growing by 37 per cent annually, accounts for 25 per cent of the group's revenues of $18.2 billion.

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COMPETITION in long distance telephony market is hotting up with the state-owned GAIL (India) Ltd today saying that it plans to acquire a licence for offering STD services across the country.

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A car bomb exploded outside an outlet of a US fast food chain in Karachi on Tuesday, killing at least six people and wounding several others, police and rescue workers said.

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The finance ministry will follow a gradual approach to move towards aligning the goods and services tax into a single rate. Highly-placed sources said the process can begin in the near future .

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Special early-morning processions by devotees singing hymns wound across the streets as Sikhs marked the birth anniversary of their faith's founder, Guru Nanak, on Tuesday.

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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday warned that South Asia could "miss the bus" of becoming one of the major global economies in the 21st century" if it failed to show the resolve and maturity to grasp the opportunity at hand.

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The second largest mobile operator in the country, Reliance Infocomm, is offering an LG 2340 handset priced at Rs 2,500, with an equivalent talk-time value at no additional cost. "Effectively, the new handset comes free of cost for the subscriber," the company said in an announcement.

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In a first of its kind venture between a private enterprise and a public sector bank, IT major Tata Consultancy Services and the country’s largest bank State Bank of India have floated a joint venture.

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Aneil Mathrani, India's ambassador to Croatia, has denied involvement in Iraq's oil-for-food scam. He says he has no connections with Hamdan Exports, accused by the UN-appointed Paul Volcker committee of paying kickbacks for Iraqi oil.

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The executive should not interfere with the judiciary, said the new Chief Justice of the Madras High Court, Justice Ajit Prakash Shah, adding, "the executive should have no influence over the judiciary."

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India sent the highest number of students to the US for the fourth year in a row. At 80,466 students in 2004-05, it was a 1% increase over the previous year’s enrolment.

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Even as India and Pakistan opened the second-last window on the LoC on Monday at Mendhar (Poonch), no civilian movement was permitted. But there were chance encounters as officials from either side turned out to be separated cousins who met and hugged each other and wept for a while, too.

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Even if I have to spend the rest of my life behind bars, I have no regrets,” Monica Bedi told her Mumbai-based lawyer Ashok Sarogi, when he met her in Hyderabad on Saturday.

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No by-election for the Maharashtra state assembly has raised as much curiosity as in the sleepy coastal constituency of Malwan in Sindhudurg district.

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In wake of the Naxalite attack n Two Indian Air Force helicopters and several additional companies of central paramilitary forces have been sent to Jehanabad.

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Sales representative and alleged terror mastermind Tariq Ahmed Dar is now, as a senior police officer said on Monday, singing like a canary. According to top sources, Dar, just three days into his 14-day .

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A 40-year-old teacher died when a policeman's rifle went off in a freak accident during a Children's Day function in Madhya Pradesh, reports reaching here said on Tuesday.

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At least four persons were killed and 14 others, including a Japanese photo-journalist, injured when terrorists struck at the busy Lal Chowk area here on Monday.

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