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Canara Bank Founder’s Day celebration and grand finale of centenary celebrations will be held at Dr TMA Pai International Convention Centre on Saturday.Reserve Bank of India Deputy Governor V Leeladhar will be the chief guest of the programme.

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 ICICI Bank has filed an offer document with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an American Depository Shares (ADS) issue, which will enable it to raise up to $ 1.4 billion.

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The Uttar Pradesh Inspector General of Police who has gained notoriety for claiming that he is a reincarnation of Radha, the consort of Lord Krishna, and dressing the same way has reportedly offered to resign.

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An estimated 30 per cent of the nearly 1.2 million electorate cast their votes till noon on Friday in the by-election to the prestigious Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha constituency. The voter turnout was low in urban areas, while Assembly segments in the rural belt reported brisk polling in the first few  hours.

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Congress nominee from Malwan seat, Narayan Rane on Thursday asked Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray to refrain from passing any sort of disparaging remarks against Congress leaders.

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Close on the heels of the Jehanabad incident in Bihar, steps have been taken to shift Maoist naxalites lodged in the Rairakhol sub-jail in Sambalpur district of Orissa to other jails.

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The vigilance sleuths today arrested Superintendent, Jail, Capt (Retd) S P Singh, deputy Superintendent, Avinash Chander and two house wardens on charges of embezzlement to the tune of Rs 36 lakhs in distribution of ration to prisoners.

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The decks have been cleared for the implementation of the 85th Amendment in Punjab as the state Council of Ministers, which met here today, gave its approval to the constitutional provision.

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Delhi Metro Managing Director E Sreedharan, who has changed the face of public transport in New Delhi, has been conferred France's highest decoration Knight of the Legion of Honour.

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Giving up plans for any fresh induction into his ministry, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday effected a minor reshuffle of portfolios retaining External Affairs while shifting S Jaipal Reddy from Information .

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The Supreme Court on Friday took exception to the failure of the Centre to appoint judges to the Madras High Court. A Bench headed by Chief Justice Y K Sabharwal directed Attorney General Milon K Banerji to place before it the factual position by Friday next.

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For the first time in the history of the state, a police station in Rajasthan has been awarded an international quality performance certificate ISO 9001:2000 for its "quick, better and responsive" services.

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A local court has issued a production warrant against underworld don Abu Salem's wife Monica Bedi in a fake passport case. "A team led by Deputy Superintendent of Police has left for Hyderabad after a local court on Thursday ordered production of Bedi in the fake passport case.

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A Patiala court is expected to pronounce a final judgement in the ten-year-old Jaswant Singh Khalra case. Jaswant Khalra was a human rights activist who was collecting evidence against the authorities at the height of terrorism in the 1980s, when he was allegedly killed by the police.

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The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has questioned Youth Congress leader Jameel Saidi in connection with the Volcker report controversy.Saidi was summoned after being named by Andaleeb Sehgal of Hamdan Export.

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In a reshuffle of portfolios in the Union Council of Ministers, S Jaipal Reddy has been moved out of Information and Broadcasting Ministry and given the charge of Urban Development.

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India's Narain Karthikeyan, who had a mediocre debut in the Formula One season this year, today said he was negotiating with various teams for the new driving season and hoped that something would emerge soon.

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Ace shooter Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore and cricket star Kapil Dev were on Thursday chosen brand ambassadors of Special Olympics Bharat, which will organise a World Cup cricket for mentally and physically challenged children in Mumbai next year.

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The fringe benefit tax (FBA) law may get simpler and easier on corporates. Revenue secretary KM Chandrashekar on Thursday said the finance ministry would address the concerns of the industry during the budget .

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Foreign lawyers and law firms would soon be setting up their offices in India if the Central government agrees to the request of the Bar Council of England & Wales.

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Investors are being showered with a large amount of wealth as companies dole out liberal bonuses and attractively-priced rights issues to their shareholders. Since January ’05, as many as 80 companies have issued bonus shares, resulting in a windfall gain of about Rs 13,000 crore to shareholders.

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LabVantage Solutions, an affiliate of The Chatterjee Group, expects to expand its operations in India, on the back of the growing demand for Laboratory Information Management Solutions (LIMS).

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India's Petroleum Secretary S C Tripathi Thursday said that the ministry was looking at issuing oil bonds of Rs 11,500 crore (Rs 115 billion) to oil marketing companies - Indian Oil Corporation, Hindustan Petroleum, Bharat Petroleum and IBP Ltd - to cover their under-recoveries.

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Companies going in for domestic offering of shares and a simultaneous or follow-on offering in the ADR/GDR would be exempt from the pricing guidelines for overseas offerings , provided the ADR/GDRs are priced at or above the domestic offer price.

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The adoption of the Japanese TQM (total quality management) has seen two companies of the city-based Rane group record dramatic results in business and operational areas and win the coveted Deming award this year.

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Mahindra & Mahindra on Thursday signed a 51:49 joint venture with International Truck and Engine Corporation, (ITEC), U.S., to make trucks and buses in India. The joint venture has been christened Mahindra International.

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The opening up of the retail sector to foreign direct investment (FDI) is likely to get delayed as the Government is as yet unable to evolve a model that will protect the interests of small shopkeepers and, at the same time, generate additional employment.

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Of the annual MPLADS allocation of Rs 2 crore, 22.5 per cent will now have to be spent on infrastructure development in Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe localities.

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Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad today asserted that no power on earth will be allowed to create hurdles in the ongoing peace process in the state.

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The bridge over the Budhnad rivulet at the entry point to this interior village in north Bihar is still broken. But as we wander around the dirt tracks of Singhwara and talk to the same people that we did during the February polls, there are two striking differences.

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Three days after the CPI (Maoist)'s 'operation jailbreak' which shook Bihar on Sunday night, the Naxal-affected central Bihar town went in a tizzy again on Thursday after a live cane bomb was spotted beside .

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Expressing concern over the mushrooming of commercial activities in residential areas of the capital in violation of Delhi master plan, the Supreme Court on Thursday asked MCD to submit a list of areas where such violation was rampant.

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Voting for the Lok Sabha by-election in Thiruvananthapuram began on a moderate note in 1,055 polling stations spread over the sprawling constituency on Friday morning.

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The Pakistani High Commission has verified the nationalities of the prisoners, who have completed their sentences. They will be given to Pakistani authorities at Wagah border.

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India has urged Saarc countries to issue more business visas to partner countries and reciprocally provide each other transit facilities to third countries. Addressing the Saarc business leaders conclave organised by Ficci and the Saarc Chamber of Commerce & Industry in New Delhi.

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RSS Chief K S Sudarshan expressed his concern over the country's changing demographic profile and said he has been urging Hindus to have not less than three children.

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Malaria kills nearly one million people around the world every year, and chlororquine, the cheapest drug available for fighting malaria is fast becoming ineffective.A national survey indicates that the treatment in 90 per cent cases .

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It was an emotional moment for the 24 Indians who crossed over at the Aman Setu on Thursday after being stranded for more than a month in Pakistan occupied Kashmir after the devastating earthquake.

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Public anger is mounting over the case of a one-year-old child who was given HIV-infected blood during a blood transfusion at the Thiruvananthapuram Medical College and Hospital.

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Left parties are meeting in the capital to discuss strategy in the run up to the winter session of Parliament.The meeting would also deliberate on issues to be raised at the UPA coordination committee likely to be held before the Parliament Session, which begins on 23 November.

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The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has questioned Youth Congress leader Jameel Saidi in connection with the Volcker report controversy.Saidi was summoned after being named by Andaleeb Sehgal of Hamdan Export.

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International migration can generate substantial gains for migrants and their families, as well as their origin and destination countries, if policies to better manage transfer of remittances are pursued, says the World Bank Global Economic Prospects (GEP) report for 2006.

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Eminent artist Tyeb Mehta was on Friday honoured with the 'Dayawati Modi Award for Art Culture and Education' for 2005. The award was presented by Commerce Minister Kamal Nath at a programme here. Mehta recently created a record by fetching highest .

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Apparently preparing ground for his exit from BJP, a sulking Shatrughan Sinha has showered praise on Congress president Sonia Gandhi calling her a "lady of substance" and a "one-man army."

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The head of orthopaedics department at Dr Ram Manohar Lohia hospital was severely beaten up by the 150-odd intern doctors working at the hospital on Thursday after one of their batchmates accused the senior .

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The anonymous email, sketchy in detail, could have easily been ignored. Someone from somewhere sent the mail in May 2002 to Interpol claiming that Indian fugitive-don Abu Salem and his paramour Monica Bedi were possibly in Portugal.

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