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DELHI High Court today virtually gave a clean chit to electronic meters which many complain run too fast, saying they adhere to ISI specifications. It also ruled that previous consumption could not be used to decide if the meters are running correctly.

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Tata Consultancy Services plans to more than double its US staff next year in an expansion that takes aim at a key market for IBM and Accenture Ltd.

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World champions Germany kept alive their hopes of a bronze medal as they edged out host India 1-0 in the men’s field hockey Champions Trophy tournament here today.

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The beleaguered pontiff of Kanchi mutt Jayendra Saraswathi, who is facing several cases including the Sankararaman murder case, has been dragged into a controversy again, this time on the charge .

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The Madhya Pradesh High Court on Thursday granted bail to former Uttar Pradesh Minister Raja Bhaiya, facing POTA charges in a case.A division bench comprising Justice Deepak Mishra and Justice J K Maheshwari granted a conditional bail on personal surety of Rs 10 lakh.

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Rebel Sena leader Raj Thackeray on Thursday visited party chief Bal Thackeray at his residence in Mumbai's suburban Bandra.Raj met his uncle at Matoshree along with senior Sena leader and former Lok Sabha .

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Leg spinner Anil Kumble's 10-wicket haul in the Delhi Test has helped him jump five places to fifth spot in LG ICC rankings. However, despite his eight wickets in the same match, Sri Lankan off spinner Muttiah .

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Former External Affairs Minister Natwar Singh's son Jagat Singh is being questioned by the Enforcement Directorate.Jagat is alleged to have been involved in paying kickbacks for oil from Iraq.

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Telecoms conglomerate Bharti Tele-Ventures Ltd. said on Tuesday it has paid $40 million for an 8 per cent stake in an undersea cable consortium and hoped it would lead to a fall in domestic bandwidth prices.

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Insurers prefer bulk customers. This ensures large volumes and a substantial saving on transaction costs. For life insurance, the industry average for commissions paid to agents is 25 per cent of the first year's premium.

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The Bombay High Court today stayed till December 20 the execution of the non-bailable warrant (NBW) issued by Jodhpur court for Bollywood actor Salman Khan in the 1998 black bucks and deer hunting case.

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Union civil aviation minister Praful Patel is taking the Pune airport expansion very seriously. “We want to bring the Ahmednagar road straight to the airport. We have got clearances for the land.

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Public sector contraceptive major Hindustan Latex Limited announced on Thursday a major reproductive healthcare initiative by opening a network of hospitals in rural and semi-urban areas across the country.

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Bihar tops the list of voluntary organisations that have been blacklisted by the Union Rural Development Ministry. Of the 355 NGOs blacklisted by the Council for Advancement of People's Action and Rural Technology (CAPART) under the ministry, 113 are from Bihar.

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The Income Tax department conducted simultaneous raids on eight hospitals and residences of 14 doctors in Chennai and Kumbakonam on Wednesday and seized unaccounted money of over Rs 8 crore.

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India's largest private steel producer, Tata Steel Ltd., said on Thursday it would buy Thailand's Millennium Steel PCL for about $175 million, enabling it to strengthen its presence in Asia.

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THE Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance has suggested that the Government should make it clear in unambiguous terms in the income-tax framework that payments made by businesses through the electronic .

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The country’s largest oil retailing firm, Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), has sought an immediate increase in the selling price of LPG by over Rs 200 per cylinder and around Rs 11 per litre in the price of kerosene. In Delhi.

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Stock prices of companies having huge property for real estate development rose during Wednesday's trading following the Supreme Court order. Stock price of several companies.

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Almost 1.5 lakh voters on the state’s electoral rolls are of ‘‘doubtful’’ nature, Chief Election Commissioner B B Tandon today said, adding this was after the ‘D’ category figures have come down in the past few years.

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Deadlock continued in crucial WTO negotiations between developed and developing countries as differences over contentious farm subsidies remained far from being resolved.

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THE Supreme Court today permitted five NTC Mills and developers, who had purchased land belonging to these mills in Mumbai, to submit development plans to the authorities concerned for approval and for seeking environmental clearance.

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Bhartiya Janata Party President Lal Krishna Advani on Tuesday warned the party MPs not to misuse their position and privileges that damages the party’s image in public.

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The Wildlife Protection Society of India has reported that 64 kg of ivory was seized in Orissa, revealing the ongoing trade in animal body parts in the country. The WPSI said on its website that on December 12.

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In the continuing war of words over the allocation of funds for tsunami relief, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa today challenged Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram to take the responsibility for repaying the loan got by the state from international agencies.

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If a recent initiative to generate green power in Uttar Pradesh proceeds as planned, power cuts in Agra will be a thing of the past and the fragile Taj Mahal will be saved from exposure to polluting diesel-based energy.

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After getting the green signal from the party high command to switch over to VAT, the Finance Ministers of the five BJP-ruled states are slated to meet today to discuss the modalities of joining it.

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Born in the Himalayan foothills of Dehradun, Neerja Raman, director of the Imaging Systems Lab at Hewlett-Packard, was brought up in a family that valued education.

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The Bharatiya Janata Party has launched a nyaya yatra in eastern Uttar Pradesh.The rally is being held to protest against party MLA Krishnanad Rai's murder and reiterate the demand for a CBI enquiry into the incident.

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It's been over a month since a series of blasts rocked the capital on October 29. While many have already started forgetting the horrors of that day, for the people who lost their loved ones, it's not that easy.

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While a large number of people around the world support the continued use of existing nuclear reactors and are opposed to new ones, many in India, United States and South Korea favour building of new plants, according to a survey.

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Congress President Sonia Gandhi met former CNN chief Ted Turner in the Capital on Wednesday. The meeting was at an event organised by the UN Foundation where Sonia Gandhi spoke on the role of corporate strategy in social development.

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A staunch Marxist, he hopped through France to India back in the 70s, visiting every Communist country by road just to get a feel, returning to India to become the biggest champion of the free market, and building Infosys into a global icon

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One of the fallouts of displacement is poor literacy rate. With over 60,000 children being displaced in Delhi last year alone, education has been relegated to the backburner.

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In a bid to tackle the problem of cattle menace, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has launched an ambitious project of microchipping cows.Microchipping involves inserting a computer chip in the stomach of the cow.

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If figures released by the US's Centre for Immigration Studies can be relied upon, the last five years have seen the highest influx into the US no matter the cataclysmic 9/11 terror strikes and the stringent curbs and border scrutiny in its wake.

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Sujata Nikhalje, wife of underworld don Chhota Rajan, has been arrested under Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA). According to reports, the police also arrested three others along with Sujata.

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Three years after the Gujarat riots, eleven people have been sentenced to life imprisonment for their role in the carnage and killings that followed the burning of the Sabarmati Express.

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Cold wave conditions continued unabated in Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh on Wednesday with the minimum temperature hovering between two to five degrees below normal in the region.

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Vishwa Hindu Parishad leaders have lashed out at the BJP, expressing extreme dissatisfaction with the manner in which the BJP has been managing its affairs.

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