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Former President KR Narayanan has slipped into coma and doctors supervising him have stated his condition to be very critical.

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The central government's tax revenue has increased by 24 percent in the first half of fiscal 2005-06, according to figures released by the Controller General of Accounts (CGA) here today.

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Bajaj Auto Ltd today said its vehicle sales in October increased 37 per cent to 2,41,808 units from 1,76,693 a year earlier.

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With the merger of erstwhile sick Global Trust Bank starting to yield rich dividends, Oriental Bank of Commerce aims to grow its business to Rs 90,000 crore this fiscal and trim non-performing assets to 0.5 per cent.

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The Board of IVRCL Infrastructures & Projects Ltd at its meeting today considered the proposals for raising USD 200 million by way of FCCBs, ADRs, GDRs and after due consideration reconfirmed raising only upto USD 140 million.

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Hero Honda Motors today reported 22.90% increase in sales at 3,01,711 units in October 2005 as against 2,45,475 units sold in the same month last year.

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Seven people were killed and one critically injured when the jeep in which they were travelling collided with a truck near Sarangpur, about 75 km from here on Agra-Mumbai highway on Wednesday, police said.

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The Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport Undertaking (BEST) will operate 172 additional buses in the city on account of Ramazan Id and Basi Id celebrations on November 5 and 6 respectively to ease the extra rush of passengers at various stations.

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The Border Roads Organisation (BRO) has said only light motor vehicles (LMVs) will be allowed to carry relief material to the Kaman Post, one of the five points to be opened on November 7 along the Line of Control (LoC).

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Noted public health expert N G Narayana of Bangalore has been selected for the prestigious Dr P S Shankar Vaidhyashree Prashathi award for 2005.

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The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) is exploring the option of a quasi-merger of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL).

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External Affairs Minister K Natwar Singh has decided to make a suo motu statement in Parliament on allegations that he was a beneficiary in Iraqi oil deals during the Saddam Hussein regime as claimed in a UN report which he has rubbished as baseless and untrue.

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Two migrant workers from Bihar hired by a construction company have died in a labour camp in Thiruvananthapuram.Several others are in hospital.

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National Alumiminum Company (Nalco) has hiked aluminum price by Rs 2,300 per metric tonne (MT) w.e.f today.

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The Ambanis, the Bachchans may be powerful and influential people in their own way, but they will still have to wait for more than 10 years to perform a religious ceremony at the Golden Temple, the holiest Sikh shrine.

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A Paharganj paanwallah who saw and overheard a bomber, a bus passenger who interacted with the second terrorist and a list of around two crore mobile telephone calls. Forty-eight hours later, this is what the Special Cell of Delhi Police and intelligence agencies are banking on to nab the perpetrators of the worst terrorist attack in the Capital. Portraits of two bombers would be out any time now.

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Former President K R Narayanan on Tuesday remained on life support at the Army's Research and Referral Hospital where he is being treated for acute pneumonia.

"The former President is undergoing dialysis and has been put on a ventilator. Although he has shown slight improvement since yesterday, his condition remains critical,"his aide said.

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India has suggested separate joint venture companies for construction and operation of the over 7 billion dollar Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline and may join both of them if its concerns of safe delivery of gas are addressed in the tripartite agreement.

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The Delhi Police today released the sketch of a suspect who is believed to have planted a bomb in a Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) bus in Govind Puri area of South Delhi on Saturday.

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Senior West Bengal CPI-M leader Narayan Biswas, who had resigned from the state cabinet recently,on Wednesday surrendered before a court in South Dinajpur district that had issued an arrest warrant against him for a 17-year old case of arson.

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A flood warning has been issued in 11 districts, downstream from the Stanley reservoir at Mettur, of Tamil Nadu following heavy discharge from reservoirs in Karnataka due to good rains, official sources said.

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Tamil Nadu-based start-up low cost carrier Paramount Airways will double its flights to eight-times a day from four-times a day from November 2. It is also planning to increase the capacity to 30 flights a day in next six months. The commercial launch of this airline was on October 19. 

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The Arjuna awardee golfer, who was suffering from oral cancer for a long time could not afford proper treatment because of his poverty and battled with death in his dingy two-roomed hut in south Kolkata.

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The five accused in the July 5, 2005 terrorist attack on the Ram Janambhoomi complex in Ayodhya were shifted to the Naini Central Jail from the district jail in Faizabad under tight security, official sources said on Wednesday.

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BPOs have suffered a loss of over $100 million in terms of lost business opportunity. This is around 2 per cent of the annual revenues of the industry. Most companies have re-worked their security apparatus and tripled their information security budgets. 

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For long, it has been a poor cousin of the glamourous mobile phone industry, but with the launch of a slew of new, high end models, the battle-lines seem to be drawn in the premium CDMA handset market. 

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An expansion-cum-reshuffle of the Union Council of Ministers is likely any time before the winter session of Parliament beginning around November 20.

Along with changes in the ministry, three could be changes on the organisational front in the Congress as AICC members from most of the states have pleaded with party chief Sonia Gandhi to nominate the entre CWC.

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The existing record on the number of awardees will be broken next year, it was announced. A veiled threat of sorts.

The pace with which Chief Minister N Dharam Singh gave away Rajyotsava awards on Tuesday evening made cricketer M S Dhoni’s recent knock against Sri Lanka look like a crawl.

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One of Mumbai's biggest attractions is its seafront.But not long ago when dead fish started washing up on its beaches it was a warning that the waters are getting more and more unsafe.

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Buoyed by market conditions and the business potential of its subsidiaries, infotech major Wipro has increased its investments in Wipro GE Medical Systems and WeP Peripherals.

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Passengers who opts for an e-ticket can themselves take a printout of the electronic reservation slip (ERS) from the site.

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Justice Yogesh Kumar Sabharwal was sworn in as the Chief Justice of India by President A P J Abdul Kalam on Tuesday. 'Sixty-three year old Justice Sabharwal, who succeeds Justice R C Lahoti as CJI, will have a term of 14 months which ends on January 14, 2007'.

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A massive car bomb blast took place at Nowgam Chowk, near the private residence of outgoing Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed here on Wednesday.Four people have been killed in the incident.

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The Sensex is now down 10 points at 7,934.SBI has dropped 1.8% (Rs 15) to Rs 823. ONGC is down Rs 6 at Rs 928, and Reliance is also down Rs 6 at Rs 760.

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Scientists have detected high levels of lead on thin food-grade silver foil used on Indian sweets and are questioning the age-old tradition of giving sweets a cosmetic coat of silver.

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The slash in ATF prices for domestic airlines ranges from Rs 650 per kl to Rs 745 per kl, said an official of Indian Oil Corp, country's largest oil firm.

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Diwali festivities took a tragic turn in a home in west Delhi when three members of a family died in a fire sparked by a 'diya' in the wee hours on Wednesday.

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Ghulam Nabi Azad will be sworn-in as the tenth Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir today along with a few of his ministers.He replaces Mufti Mohammad Sayeed of the PDP.

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The small retail investors seem to have taken a fancy to equity and equity related products. This could explain the significant growth in the corpus of mutual funds (MFs) and other domestic institutions. MFs have already invested more than $3.2bn (Rs 13,921 crore) in Indian equities in the current calendar year till now (January to October).

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South Korean consumer electronic giant LG is setting up its mobile phone and DVD player manufacturing unit at the Ranjangaon Industrial Estate near Pune at a cost of Rs 500 crore. 

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More than 20 people, mostly kids, were treated at different City hospitals on Tuesday for skin burns and eye injuries sustained during Deepavali revelries. Since Monday, as many as 40 have been injured by fireworks. Interestingly, most of the victims are either casual onlookers, mostly children.

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The Indian team arrived here today for the fourth one-dayer against Sri Lanka on November 3 without six players -- Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Yuvraj Singh, Gautam Gambhir, Ajit Agarkar and Murli Kartik -- who took time off to celebrate Diwali.

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Reliance Life Sciences is planning to set up a manufacturing facility for recombinant proteins and cell therapies in Navi Mumbai, with an estimated investment of Rs 1,500 crore spread over a three-year period.

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All India Congress Committee President Sonia Gandhi is likely to visit Himachal Pradesh soon.State Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh said that Mrs Gandhi has given her nod to the visit, for which the exact dates and the itinerary would soon be finalised.

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In a bid to give priority to the power sector, the Mizoram government has chalked out various measures for generating extra power through hydro-power across the region.

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Airline carriers, which were all set to swoop and grab the booming tourist market between the US and India (520,000 US citizens visited India in 2004, knocking Britain off the top spot in the visitor charts) beginning November 2, may just hit a turbulent patch after last Saturday’s bomb blasts in the Capital.

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A major fire broke out at Shere colony in suburban Chembur, when Mahanagar Gas pipeline burst shortly after midnight, fire brigade sources said.

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Oil and Natural Gas Corp, the State Bank of India Group and Indian Oil lead the Indian charge in the list of Forbes Global 2000 "corporate titans", occupying the 265th, 269th and 279th positions respectively.

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