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After making great strides in the IT and ITes space, Karnataka is seeking to position itself as India's organic farming hub. The varied and diversified cropping systems of Karnataka provide ample scope and opportunity for organic farming and trade, felt officials attending a four-day national organic trade fair "India Organic-2005."

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Italian fashion major Benetton Group is planning to outsource clothings from India for its vast 5,000 chain of retail outlets across the globe."We are thinking to distribute Indian products overseas where we are present in 20 countries," Benetton Group Chairman Luciano Benetton said in Kolkata on Friday through an interpretor.

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The Christian Medical College (CMC), Vellore, is organising a national conference on 'Leadership in Healthcare' on November 11 and 12 at CMC, Vellore. This conference aims at providing a thorough insight into 'Effective Leadership in Healthcare' in India.

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The government is planning to bring a Bill in the winter session of Parliament that would declare National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) as an institute of national importance and grant it more autonomy.

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Sidelined BJP leader Madan Lal Khurana on Friday vowed not to fight elections ever again and rejected a suggestion that a new front he was backing had political motives.

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A Delhi family, who had to pay Rs 26,000 to a sub inspector to release the body of their relative, is now demanding stricter action against him.Sub inspector Satya Raj was caught on camera by NDTV accepting bribe to release the body of 34-year-old Himanshu Sharma.

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The campaign of RJD-led UPA in Bihar against Election Commission's pointsman K J Rao was today rejected by the three-member body, which expressed full faith in his "integrity, impartiality and unbiased approach".

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The Shiv Sena in Maharashtra headed for more trouble today with three of its MLAs, who have been supporting former Sena leader Narayan Rane resigning from the state assembly.

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Just two days after Diwali, a triple murder in Jaipur’s busy market area has shocked residents in the city.Three employees of the National Handloom Corporation in the city’s busy Johri Bazaar, who used to sleep over at night in the shop for security reasons, were found brutally stabbed to death.

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The family of slain poetess Madhumita Shukla has filed a petition in the Supreme Court, seeking transfer of the murder case outside Uttar Pradesh contending that the main accused and former state Minister Amarmani Tripathy could influence the trial of the case.

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Noted yoga expert Swami Ramdev on Friday favored a judicial solution to the Ayodhya dispute, saying people should honor the court verdict. Talking to reporters, the Yoga guru said "Lord Ram's high moral character had universal appeal and his name should not be confined to the Hindu community."

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Hannover Technology Fair 2006, the largest and most important technology fair in the world, would host India as the partner country, in recognition of its growing power as a preferred destination for high-end and scale-neutral manufacturing.

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In a rare move, the Royal Nepal Army troops will patrol the international border with India along Bihar in the third phase of assembly poll in the state on November 13, to check any incursion by miscreants, particularly Maoists, official sources said.

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Travellers on a Jet Airways flight from Hyderabad to Mumbai last night, suffered a three-hour delay, after a bomb scare.Some of the travellers were critical of the manner in which the situation was handled, while most of them were too weary on arrival in Mumbai to bother to describe their experience.

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Security was stepped up across the country today as millions of Muslims celebrated Id-ul-Fitr festival nearly a week after serial bombings killed 60 people in the capital ahead of Diwali celebrations.

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Hours before Ghulam Nabi Azad was to be sworn in as the first Congress chief minister of Kashmir in 30 years, a massive car bomb went off at busy Nowgam highway killing six people and injured many.

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The Cabinet today approved the proposal to operationalise the National Investment Fund (NIF) that will provide funds for social sector projects. The NIF will use 75% of its corpus for the social sector, while leaving the remaining 25% to revive sick PSUs.

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Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) today met ahead of an unscheduled cabinet meeting. The CCS meeting on Friday comes within hours of an unscheduled meeting late last night apparently to discuss the situation arising out of Left party's opposition to an India-US air exercise scheduled for November seven at Kalaikunda airbase in West Bengal.

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When the maker of Hera Pheri, Hungama and Hulchul is ready with some Garam Masala, you don’t quite want to miss it especially when it has ‘hot’ macho men like Akshay Kumar and John Abraham playing ‘cool’ dudes and an actor like Paresh Rawal to add to the spice.

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India has dismissed with contempt the denial of any involvement in Saturday’s blasts by Pakistan’s top terrorist groups. The protestations of innocence came just after Indian investigative agencies zeroed in on solid evidence linking Lashkar-e-Taiba to the blasts. "It is LeT," top intelligence sources told TOI.

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Those who have played Tamboola or Housey are aware that when the number 40 is declared, it is accompanied by an appropriate set of words that rhyme wonderfully  ‘men get naughty at four zero forty.’ This is what strikes one when one notices that the media has gone ga-ga over an actor who has crossed this magical boundary.

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Former President KR Narayanan remained critical on Thursday and was on ventilator and dialysis support at Army's Research and Referral Hospital.Eighty five-year-old Narayanan, admitted to hospital after he complained of breathlessness six days ago, was on sedatives but was not unconscious or comatose.

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Commerce and industry minister Kamal Nath is likely to write to all the World Trade Organisation (WTO) members soon reminding them that the on-going Doha round of talks is a development round and development issues should be given priority.

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 Expressing concern over the slow uptake of broadband in the country, telecom regulator, TRAI on Thursday asked the Government to reconsider its recommendations pertaining to local loop unbundling and fiscal incentives for broadband.

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The world's sixth largest airline, Continental Airlines, has started a daily non-stop flight between Delhi and New YorkThe flight cuts travel time between the two cities by over two-and-a-half hours and shortens the travel time between Delhi and most US mainland cities.

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In an interesting combination, former heartthrob of millions of Indian film viewers Rekha, will feature along with fellow Bollywood star Nana Patekar, for the next Hindi film by celebrated director Goutam Ghosh.

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Chasing 262 runs for victory, India beat Sri Lanka by four wickets in the fourth one-day international at Pune.As M S Dhoni bludgeoned two consecutive sixes to reach the target, India sealed the seven-match series, winning their fourth straight match against Lanka.

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President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam on Thursday greeted the countrymen on the occasion of Idu'l-Fitr that falls on Friday. In his message, the President said as "we celebrate Idu'l-Fitr, let us work and contribute in whichever way possible to reach help to those affected in recent mishaps and sufferings''.

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A Delhi police sub-inspector who was caught on a spy camera by a television news channel allegedly accepting bribe from the family of a young man who had committed suicide on October 21 was suspended on Thursday. Dismissal proceedings have been initiated against him.

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Indian tennis ace Leander Paes and his Serbian partner Nenad Zimonjic's preparations for the season ending Masters Cup in Shanghai took a setback when the duo went out in the first round of the final ATP Masters Series event in Paris.

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Prominent NRI industrialist Lakshmi Mittal has pledged $3 million to launch a scholarship programme for students from emerging economic regions to study at the prestigious Kellogg School of Management.

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The prospect of Natwar Singh continuing as the foreign minister seemed increasingly uncertain on Thursday after the government decided to probe the charge that he had benefited from illegal oil sales by the Saddam regime under the oil-for-food programme.

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 While India is celebrating the series win against Sri Lanka, former captain Sourav Ganguly is gearing up for a Duleep Trophy match against Zimbabwe President's XI to stage a comeback.

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Ever since the flow of the Bhagirathi river was drastically reduced due to the shutting down of a tunnel of the Tehri dam, the water level has gone down at Devprayag.

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Burdened with crop failure and huge debts, several farmers in Vidarbha have committed suicide in the last week alone.As if that wasn't enough, these farmers are now being forced to sell their land at throwaway prices to the state government for a multi-crore airport project near Nagpur.

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Paul Volcker, the author of the controversial report into the UN's tainted oil-for-food programme, has finally broken his silence.Volcker has said he was unaware earlier that Natwar Singh was India's Foreign Minister.

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