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In order to give global dimension to its cinema, India would sign co-production treaty with foreign countries, including the UK, in the near future, Culture and Urban Development Minister S Jaipal Reddy, said here today.

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The Government is considering making it mandatory for power trading companies to source a large portion of electricity through long term contracts with a view to reduce the cost of power supply.

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Oracle Corp.'s offer to buy up to 20 percent of Indian banking software company i-flex Solutions Ltd. from public shareholders has received a poor response because the bid was lower than the market price.

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India's vote against Iran on September 24 at the meeting of the governing body of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna has stirred up a hornet's nest domestically with the Left parties charging.

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Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee has asked Chief of the Army Staff J.J. Singh to conduct an inquiry into charges of corruption levelled by two generals against each other.

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Priya Dutt won the Lok Sabha by-election from the Mumbai North West constituency with a huge margin.And the film industry feels Priya is the worthy successor to her father Sunil Dutt's legacy. Here's what Bollywood has to say about Priya's victory:

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After battering the city and various districts of Tamil Nadu till late Wednesday night, there was some let up in the rains on Thursday.But the current spell caused road and rail breaches and flooding of low-lying areas, affecting normal life in many parts.

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Several families in Poonch were rendered homeless after the devastating earthquake that struck on October 8.But a Delhi-based NGO, SEADS, has come forward to help these families get a roof over their heads. Not only that, the NGO is also employing the affected people to build their own homes.

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Having put the brakes on South Africa's impressive winning streak, a determined India will seek to keep the momentum going with another commanding show in the crucial fourth cricket one-dayer on Friday.

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"Happy, honoured and excited," was all Rahul Dravid could say in reaction to being appointed India's Test captain. Perhaps India's newest captain is saving himself up for the marathon that awaits him, coach Greg Chappell and the National selectors on Wednesday.

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Late Wednesday night after the Team India cricketers had settled into their rooms and the special branch police on duty was taking it easy, pace spearhead Irfan Pathan apparently sent them on a spin.

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Vercom Software India, part of the US-based software services provider, has been chosen as the exclusive implementation-cum-distribution partner for the document management software products of the French firms - - Saitel and APPIC.

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The country's mid-size car segment, growing at 26-28 per cent per annum, is where the action is. Ford says a good number of motorcycle owners are directly graduating to this segment bypassing small cars.

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Accenture has joined hands with XLRI to launch an HR training academy that will groom talent to cater to its internal HR needs. In a first-of-its kind partnership, recent graduates seeking careers in HR can access specialised skills that the IT and ITeS sectors require.

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Tata Steel and BlueScope Steel on Wednesday officially established their 50:50 joint venture, Tata BlueScope Steel Ltd., here. The joint venture will encompass manufacture and supply of flat steel products like zincalume and colorbond coated steels and a range of Butler and Lysaght metal building solutions.

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The Planning Commission has begun framing the 11th five-year plan for the period 2007-2012 by undertaking a comprehensive review of the policy framework, a top government official said on Wednesday.

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The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) will unveil separate guidelines for Unit Linked Insurance Policies (ULIP) in two to three weeks, C. S. Rao, Chairman, said here on Wednesday.

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The development of organised retailing in India would benefit as much as 72 per cent of the population as it would bring increased employment, efficiency in agriculture and increased exports, a study by CII and PricewaterhouseCoopers has said.

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In the seventh in the Varuna series of joint exercises and the second this year, ships from Navy’s Mumbai-based Western Command are currently engaged in a war game with French vessels off the Gulf of Aden.

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A Circle Inspector was seriously injured and two sub-inspectors suffered minor injuries as the students of the Mahatma Gandhi College here owing allegiance to the ABVP attacked the police with country bombs and other lethal weapons outside the college gate at Paruthippara on Wednesday.

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The Defence Ministry has ordered a probe into allegations of irregularities in the purchase of meat for troops in the forward area of Ladakh and Siachen. The issue relates to contracted supply of meat-running .

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Nearly 13 years after the demolition of the Babri Masjid, the Ayodhya temple dispute is set to find its way into school textbooks along with the much talked about Godhra riots in Gujarat.

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The Bangalore Metro Rail Project is in the final stage of being approved under the new policy framework, and the funding is unlikely to be on the model of the Delhi Metro, Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia said here on Wednesday.

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Security has been increased in central prisons of Tamil Nadu following an alert from the Ministry of Home Affairs and the State Intelligence. Besides strengthening external security.

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The Government has announced an increase in bus fares with effect from November 25. In ordinary buses, the minimum bus fare will go up from Rs.2.50 to Rs.3 and the per kilometre charge from 42 paise to 48 paise.

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The tussle between RBI and the government on participatory notes (PNs) and portfolio flows from overseas investors in the Indian capital markets is far from over. The RBI has told the Ashok Lahiri committee on FII investments that it favours a ban on PNs and, even sub-accounts for FIIs, top sources told ET.

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The Kolkata-based Ruia group is believed to have worked out a block deal to acquire the Dubai-based Jumbo Group's controlling interest in the three tyre companies, namely, Dunlop India, Falcon Tyre and the latter's trading arm - India Tyres Ltd (ITL).

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The Tariff Commission, which was tasked to review the gas transmission tariff of GAIL (India) Ltd, is understood to have suggested a 28 per cent reduction in charges.

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A special court in Hyderabad on Wednesday adjourned to November 28 hearing on a bail petition filed on behalf of mobster Abu Salem's girlfriend Monica Bedi.Advocate Babu Rao filed the bail petition on behalf of Bedi, who is in judicial custody in a fake passport case.

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Citizens of India will need transit visas even if they do not leave the airport during their stopover in the Czech Republic, an official said on Wednesday.

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With a belligerent opposition all set to take on the government in the winter session of Parliament which opened here today, united UPA and Left leaders today made it clear that they will not stand in the way .

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Whatever the former Chief Minister, Ms Uma Bharti, may be doing, she will not get her old job back. Well-placed sources told The Tribune, that the present Chief Minister, Mr Babulal Gaur, will soon be removed and, in all likelihood, replaced by Mr Shiv Raj Singh Chauhan, who seems to have got the nod of the RSS.

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After half a century, an urban Sikh, Mr Avtar Singh Makkar, who is considered greenhorn in Sikh politics, became the 38th President of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC), with a voice vote .

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EVEN as the Nikhil Joshi kidnapping gets murkier, the UT Police have arrived at one conclusion at least - that prime accused Aman Verma is a conman. The city police have found out that all of Verma’s documents .

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Two militants and three Central Reserve Police Force personnel were killed when the CRPF foiled the ultras' bid to storm their camp on Wednesday, a CRPF spokesman said. One member of the fidayeen squad was killed.

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The Border Roads Organisation (BRO), stunned by the killing of its project driver M.R Kutty by the Taliban, has sent a strong signal by ordering its 290-strong contingent deployed around Kandahar .

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Nitish Kumar will take over the reins of Bihar today, bringing an end to the 15-year long Lalu-Rabri era.Two villages that aren't celebrating are Phulwaria and Selarkala - the native villages of Bihar's former first couple.

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Former chief minister of Chhattisgarh Ajit Jogi, who suffered a heart attack on Wednesday, is now out of danger.Jogi was admitted to the Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital in New Delhi after he complained of chest pain. He was later shifted to the Escorts Hospital.

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The stage is set for the transfer of power in Bihar.Nitish Kumar will be sworn in as Chief Minister along with several ministers.State BJP chief Sushil Kumar Modi will take over as Deputy Chief Minister of the state.

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Indian government's special envoy Virendra Dayal has wrapped up his fact-finding trip at the UN headquarters.Dayal, who is looking into the allegations made in the Volcker report, said that he had received all the documents required.

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 Main dar raha hoon. Mujhe dar hain ki crime branch ya jo bhi mera taba lega, mujhe torture karega" (I'm scared. I fear I may be tortured by the crime branch or by whoever's custody I'm put in). Abu Salem, the man who has terrorised countless victims, is today on the other side of fear.

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S Manjunath, the 27-year-old IIM-Lucknow alumnus of the 2001 batch murdered in Lakhimpur-Kheri district of UP, may have sealed his fate the day he decided to join a state-owned oil company.

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