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Continuing its banking sector reforms, government today decided to permit FDI upto 49 per cent in Asset Reconstruction Companies which buy out non-performing assets of banks now at over Rs 60,000 crore.

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Social organisations in Nagaland have appealed to the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Isak-Muivah) not to back out of the peace talks with the Centre and disturb the ceasefire.

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Eight persons, including a newly wed couple, were burnt alive when a van in which they were travelling collided with a truck and caught fire in the early hours of Tuesday near Kokanur village, about 18 km from here, on Bangalore-Pune National Highway.

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Finance Minister Vakkom Purushothaman said here on Tuesday that Rs.100 crores would be allocated for Vision 2010 projects this year. Replying to questions at a press conference here.

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City Union Bank (CUB) has come under the National Financial Switch under which the bank's ATM cards can be used across 5,170 ATMs of 15 other banks in different parts of the country. S. Balasubramanian, Chairman, CUB, inaugurated the facility.

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The Madras High Court today stayed all further proceedings against Tamil film actress Kushboo on complaints lodged against her in magistrate courts in Tiruvannamalai and Ariyalur districts of Tamil Nadu for her statements on pre-marital sex.

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At least three people have died and 14 more have been injured when a passenger train collided with a goods train in Latehar district of Jharkhand today.According to initial reports, four bogies of the Gohmuh-Chopan passenger train derailed and eight carriages of the goods train jumped the tracks.

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India have defeated Sri Lanka by seven wickets in the sixth one-day international at Rajkot.Chasing 197 for victory, India achieved their target with 15.1 overs to spare, Yuvraj Singh leading India with a quickfire 79.

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Film-maker Deepa Mehta on Tuesday submitted before the Delhi High Court that she would prefer out-of-court settlement with author Sunil Gangopadhyay, whose story was allegedly lifted for her film `Water,' which was ready for commercial release.

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London based steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal, the third richest man in the world after Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, announced the institution of a Rs. 40 crore `Mittal Champions Trust' here on Tuesday.

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The government is looking at disinvesting small portion of equity in profit making public sector enterprises other than the `navratnas', Finance Minister P Chidambaram said today.

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India has become a major medical tourism destination for people worldwide with the country offering reasonably cheap but sophisticated healthcare services, Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss said Wednesday.

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A major flood threat in Chennai was averted as authorities were able to close a breach in Arapat lake, on the city's north-western outskirts that houses hundreds of small-scale manufacturing units.

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The Karnataka government on Tuesday persisted with its offer of peace by announcing a ‘‘district-level surrender package’’ for Naxalites willing to discard arms and return to the mainstream.

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Manipur today came close to experiencing the horrors of the pre-Diwali blasts in Delhi’s crowded marketplaces when a powerful explosion shook Imphal’s main shopping complex during the rush hour, injuring 14 people.

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Former President K R Narayanan, who is critically ill in the Army Research and Referral Hospital here, is alive and on a life-support system. Senior official sources, referring to reports in a section of electronic media of his death, said these were just rumours and the former President is still on a life support system.

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Bengal have to do without Baichung Bhutia is the Santosh Trophy, though his international registration transfer certificate finally arrived today. Baichung, who was declared captain of the Bengal squad, is not eligible to play as rules of Santosh Trophy states .

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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has sought to clear the air on India's position on Iran's nuclear programme at the forthcoming meeting in Vienna.He said that intense consultations were underway with various countries to arrive at a consensus.

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In the sugarcane fields of Kolhapur, you are more likely to run into a Mercedes than a tractor. This town, in the heart of the sugar belt, was famous for its Kolhapuri chappals. But now it is the Mercedes.

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Almost four days after Satya Raj, a sub-inspector in the Delhi police, was caught by NDTV, the policeman has gone underground.He was caught demanding and accepting a bribe to release the body of Himanshu Sharma.

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After five years of controversy and court cases, the Akshardham Temple has finally opened to the public and it is religious tourism at its best.The complex is fitted with an imax screen, showing religious documentaries.

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For over three months, Anjalamma and Narsappa had been living with the anguish of not knowing what happened to their 11-year-old daughter. They had sent Krishnaveni to work as a live-in domestic help.

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Sixty-six-year old Shakuntala Devi had decided to move in with her brother after an elderly couple was brutally murdered in Greater Kailash.She says she will feel safer with her family member, and she is not the only one to feel that way.

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At least 30,000 victims of the recent clash between the Karbi militant outfit, UPDS, and the Dimasa group, DHD, in Assam's Karbi Anglong district continue to live in the 50 government-run relief camps.

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Bollywood actors Salman Khan and Satish Shah, accused in the 1998 black buck poaching case, will appear before a local court in Jodhpur today.Today's hearing will start the final arguments in this case, which has been dragging on for many years.

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Several parts of Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry continued to reel under heavy rains for the fourth day on Tuesday as Chief Minister Jayalalithaa deputed four of her Cabinet colleagues to the worst hit Nagapattinam .

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Authorities are ready for the historic opening of the Line of Control (LoC) on Wednesday so that thousands of families whose lives have been shattered by the October 8 temblor are provided relief materials and also an opportunity to meet their relatives across the divide.

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Underlining the need for public private partnership in the field of infrastructure, finance minister P Chidambaram said that India requires huge investment in the field, which the budgetary resources of the government may not be able to meet on its own.

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Textiles Minister Shankarsinh Vaghela on Tuesday announced new initiatives to improve the handloom sector. Speaking during the second All-India Handloom Board meeting here, he spelt out the 'Integrated Handloom Cluster Development Scheme.

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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) intervened on Tuesday through state-run banks, who were seen selling dollars post the rupee crossing the 46 level mark, helped the currency to recover.

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In a strategic move, Dr Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd (DRL) has decided to acquire Roche’s Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API) business including the state-of-the-art manufacturing unit in Cuernavaca, Mexico.

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Tata Consultancy Services today disclosed acquisition of Comicrom of Chile for a consideration of $23 million. TCS has been in joint venture with Comicrom in an IT business where the Chilean company held 49 per cent .

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The hostility between Priya Dutt, Congress candidate in Mumbai north-west parliamentary constituency and party spokesperson Sanjay Nirupam far surpasses that between her and Shiv Sena nominee Madhukar Sarpotdar.

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The coastal districts of Cuddalore and Nagapattinam were battered by incessant and torrential rain, even as another low pressure area formed over the Southwest Bay of Bengal, promising two more days of heavy rain.

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Scattered in the undergrowth was a revolver, it once belonged to a policeman, some cartridges, a bottle of massage oil, medicines and a mobile phone.A little distance ahead lay a bag of food.

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Tourism and culture minister Renuka Chowdhury has had a close call. The lady almost lost her ministry on Monday but for former foreign minister Natwar Singh’s considered view that tourism and culture wasn’t an important enough portfolio for him.

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The Orissa High Court on Wednesday stayed the shifting of the proposed National Institute of Science (NIS) from Bhubaneswar to any other place of the eastern region.

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Gangster-turned-politician Arun Gawli is on the run after Mumbai police booked him on charges of extortion.Police raided his den saying Gawli, an MLA from Chinchpokli, forced a businessman to pay a huge amount of money to settle a dispute with his brother.

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After making history at Chakhan Da Bagh on Monday, India and Pakistan are all set to open the Line of Control (LoC) at Kaman Post in Uri today.
The post will be opened to facilitate movement of relief supplies to quake-ravaged Pakistan occupied Kashmir.

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India's Ambassador to the United Nations Nirupam Sen met Paul Volcker, Chairman of the Independent Inquiry Committee into the UN oil-for-food programme. After the meeting, Sen said that he got the impression that Volcker was not sure whether former foreign minister Natwar Singh was informed personally about the findings of his report.   more »