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It's a recruitment drive that could possibly drive the Karnataka police up the wall. To gain a stronger foothold and spread their tentacles, Naxals have started augmenting their women cadres by signing up young SC/ST girls covertly.

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Seeking mandate for all-round development of Bihar, LJP President Ramvilas Paswan on Saturday alleged that nothing other than the 'crime industry' had flourished in the state in the past 15 years.

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Six artistes from Gwalior have entered the Guinness Book of World Records for painting a 9,731 feet indoor mural painting in a short period of seven days.

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An Autumn festival by private sector stake-holders in tourism industry began on Saturday to woo visitors from across the country to scenic Meghalaya with the aim of developing rural tourism.

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Till about 6 pm it was business as usual, if at a frenetic pace, at South Delhi's Sarojini Nagar market. The last weekend before Diwali, the trademark festive look and spirit had taken over the market.

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It has now been confirmed that a white tiger, which died in Mysore zoo last month, was poisoned. This is not the first time that an animal in the zoo has been deliberately killed.

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Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil said today the Centre is formulating a new National Police Act to meet the changing requirements of the society. A committee appointed by the government to prepare a draft police act .

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BJP MLA Shankar Chaudhary from Patan district in Gujarat has been arrested in connection with his alleged role in a post-Godhra communal riots case.Chaudhary, an MLA from Radhanpur town of the district was arrested on murder and rioting charges and is in custody of Patan local crime branch.

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RJD MP from Bihar, Syed Shahabuddin has been arrested from his official residence in New Delhi. He was arrested by a Bihar Police team from 5, Bishambar Dass Marg, police sources said.Shahabuddin is wanted in connection with nearly 30 criminal cases.

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Having clinched the series in convincing fashion with four consecutive wins, India will be looking to improve their world rankings by maintaining a clean slate in the remaining three games of the one-day cricket series against Sri Lanka.

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Five-time champion Viswanathan Anand is one step away from making it six in a row at the Corsica Masters rapid knockout chess tournament in Bastia, France.Anand entered the final with a fluent win in the tie-breaker against Englishman Michael Adams. The tournament has a prize purse of 100,000 Euros.

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India, which now has a tiny share in the global organic market, hopes exports will go up once its produce gets 'equal' footing in the European Union (EU) and Japan.

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Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC) Chairman and Managing Director Subir Raha has said the July 27 fire at the Bombay High resulted in a production loss of 40,000 barrels of oil per day in a chat with presspersons here last night, Raha said though oil output was affected, the production of gas had been restored to normal levels.

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A WOMAN and her four-month-old son were among three charred to death in a fire at their house at Ghorpadi here on Friday afternoon.The victims were identified as Archana Chandrakant Sasane (25), her son Lucky and brother-in-law Suresh Anant Sasane (35).

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Several trains, which were scheduled to originate from or pass through the East Coast Railway (ECoR) zone, have been cancelled due to breaches on tracks under South-Eastern Railway.The breaches had occurred following incessant rains in Andhra Pradesh.

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Heavy rains lashed several parts of Tamil Nadu under the influence of low pressure area over the central parts of South Bay. Chennai and its neighbourhood experienced cloudy skies and intermittant rainfall, heavy at times.

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A Delhi Police sub-inspector, who was caught on camera purportedly accepting bribe to release the body of a man, was dismissed from services on Friday.

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The Isak-Muivah faction of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN-IM) Saturday threatened to call off an eight-year-old ceasefire with New Delhi if its demands were not met by January, leaders of the guerrilla outfit said.

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The All India Christian Council on Friday requested the government not to go ahead with the proposed Foreign Contribution (management and control) Bill, saying it posed a threat to the religious freedom .

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Air Sahara may be trying to draw some NRI investors from the US on board in its attempt to raise funds to drive its domestic and international growth. Several NRI investor groups are eyeing opportunities in Indian aviation and Sahara Group supremo Subroto Roy is said .

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Now graduates with a minimum of five years work experience can arm themselves with an IIM post-graduate diploma in management in just a year.IIM Calcutta (IIMC) is coming up with a full-fledged one-year PGDM, exclusively for executives with a minimum of 5 years job experience.

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President A P J Abdul Kalam has called upon the fashion community to make India a leader of fashion technology in the world."This will enable the Ministry of Textiles to achieve an export target of 70 billion US dollars in fashion design and lifestyle products compared to the present 23 billion US dollars in the next five years".

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Standard & Poor's has upgraded Tata Steel's Foreign Currency Rating by two notches above India's sovereign rating from 'BB+' to 'BBB' with stable outlook. Therefore, Tata Steel is now in the investment grade for any foreign currency debt issuance, a release from Tata Steel said.

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Benetton India Ltd is ready to splurge on mega-stores in the Indian retail market if the government allows 100 per cent foreign direct investment (FDI) in the sector, according to chairman Luciano Benetton.

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Indian companies can now get listed on London Stock Exchange (LSE) by reporting their financial results based on Indian accounting standards. Until now, these companies had to report their financial data in accordance with the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).

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Even as the rival groups in the BCCI gear up for the Annual General Meeting later this month, a former board chief has expressed anguish over the incessant factional politics and called for amending the contentious rules for representation as well as the zonal rotation of the presidency.

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The Indian and Sri Lankan cricket teams arrived in the city today for the fifth One-day International, to be played on 6 November at the Sardar Patel Stadium in Motera, near here.

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Before the Sri Lankan tour started, not many would have given India a realistic chance to win the one-dayer series in such an emphatic fashion. Even if there were some, no one would have contemplated a 4-0 drubbing of the visitors, with three matches still to go.

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Nearly two weeks after a non-bailable warrant was issued, the police on Friday raided the official residence of Union Minister of State for Water Resource Development Jaiprakash Narayan Yadav here but returned empty-handed.

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The drug policy for malaria control is under review and sites are being prepared for vaccine trials in Orissa and Madhya Pradesh, Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss said here on Friday.

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The Bharatiya Janata Party MLC Ramji Singh was arrested on Thursday in connection with the recent communal riots in Mau town, evoking strong protests by the party in the state capital.

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When Jammu and Kashmir’s new Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad reached Teetwal today to be with the quake-hit on Id day, he brought with him some gifts and a truck full of relief material.

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In a blow to RJD chief Mr Lalu Prasad, the Election Commission today rejected allegations of “communal remarks” by EC adviser, Mr KJ Rao, and said the EC had full faith in his “integrity, impartiality and unbiased approach”.

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The Shiv Sena may lose a few more of its MLAs to the Narayan Rane camp. While three of the 10 MLAs who supported Rane’s coup on the Sena joined the Congress yesterday, three more are expected to switch over before the Assembly’s winter session commences.

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In a clear snub to its Left allies, the UPA government on Friday decided to go ahead with the largest-ever joint air combat exercise with the US, at the Kalaikunda airbase in West Bengal, as part of the rapidly expanding defence cooperation between the two countries.

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CPM may be creating a racket against "US imperialism" at the Kolkata international airport. But at the chief minister’s office on Friday, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee made it clear that he wants more FDI for Bengal and as a first step he will send finance minister Asim Dasgupta to the US on November 7.

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Mounting further pressure, BJP has decided NDA leaders would meet President A P J Abdul Kalam next week to urge him to advise Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to drop External Affairs Minister Natwar Singh.

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