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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Thursday ordered the appointment of 200 doctors on contract to man the 51 emergency obstetric and new-born care service centres in the state.

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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Kalyan Singh has demanded that the party should return to its "core issues". Accusing the party of going soft on issues related to Hindutva.

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The University Grants Commission (UGC) on Thursday released an amount of Rs. 50 million as additional grant to the Himachal Pradesh University for infrastructure development.

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Union Bank of India is planning to come up with a follow-on public offer of 4.5 crore shares to raise Rs 500 crore."The bank has already received approvals from the NSE and BSE for the issue," Cherian Varghese, chairman and managing director of Union Bank of India, said.

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The contentious selection of Sourav Ganguly in the touring squad for the Tests in Pakistan - many former Pakistan players believe will go in favour of Pakistan. A random survey conducted .

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Attempting to allay fears of price escalation of drugs in the post-product patent regime, the government has proposed mandatory price negotiations for patented drugs launched in India after January 2005 in the Draft National Pharmaceutical Policy.

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The Patna police on Wednesday raided the autopsy and morgue sections of the Patna Medical College Hospital (PMCH) and recovered a trunk full of human skulls and bones and arrested one employee, Manoj.

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Internet browsing centres in the city, which used to be crowded with college students and elders, are now wearing a deserted look a fallout of the recent e-mail bomb threat to Parliament and the US consulate in Chennai, earlier this month.

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Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has sounded a red alert across its institutions in different parts of the country.The move came after the suspected terror attack at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) campus in Bangalore.

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Karnataka, which has a 14.53 per cent share in the country's total exports, plans to achieve Rs 1.5 lakh crore exports in the next five years, according to B.R. Umakanth, Managing Director of Visvesvaraya Industrial Trade Centre (VITC).

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Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL), which has chalked out a plan to produce 20 million tonne of saleable steel by 2011-12, on Wednesday, said that it was ready to fund Coal India Ltd (CIL), if required, for developing a coking coal mine to augment indigenous coal supply to the company.

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Despite the acute pressure on liquidity, gilts continued its northward movement on Wednesday. Debt investors drew comfort from softening of the oil prices and expectation that the US economic growth figures would slow down next year.

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Sibling rivalry remained the flavour of the Indian corporate story in 2005, with conflicts in at least three families spilling out in the public, but the most engaging of them all was the fight between the Ambanis -- Mukesh and Anil .

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Former world number one Anjali Bhagwat will not be a part of the rifle event at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne.Bhagwat will be replaced by Avneet Kaur Siddhu, who will be joined by Tejaswini Sawant on the team.

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Fifteen-year-old badminton player Saina Nehwal has been signed up by the Mittal Champions Trust, the sports trust started by steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal.

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Indian Davis Cupper Prakash Amritraj has been given a wild card for the singles main draw of the ATP Chennai Open 2006 to be played here from January 2 to 8.

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The Ghulam Nabi Azad government today introduced a bill in the Legislative Assembly for amending the J-K Constitution to further tighten the anti-defection law and limit the ministry’s size to 20 per cent of the total strength of both Houses.

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The ruling Congress party has won 22 seats to retain power in the 34-member Zilla Panchayat. Janata Dal (S) with 10 seats has emerged as a strong opposition contrary to its meek presence in the dissolved body.

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Indian Oil Corp, the nation’s biggest refiner, revised the number of shares it will offer to shareholders of IBP Co, its fuel retailing unit, which it wants to absorb.

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After all-night celebrations, even the demolition hammers at Ulhasnagar seemed somewhat muted yesterday. And if that is any indication, the three buildings, where demolitions had begun, may even be spared, like the other 852 structures.

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The markets opened strong on the penultimate trading day of 2005 with the benchmark index gaining 61 points in early deals.In the broader markets, the Nifty, firmed up 0.6 per cent or 16 points. It is hovering at 2810 levels.

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Iranian Deputy Oil Minister Mohammad Hadi Nejad-Hosseinian and the accompanying delegation expressed satisfaction over their talks with the Indian side about Iran-India gas pipeline.

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A consignment of over 100 tonnes of explosives meant for use by the Border Road Organisation (BRO) for road construction in Afghanistan has gone missing from a merchant ship off the coast of Mumbai, sending alarm bells in security establishments.

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The police resorted to lathi-charge and used teargas to disperse agitating vegetable merchants protesting against the demolition of a structure at the Old Sabzi Mandi here today. The structure was demolished .

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The Anil Dhirubhai Ambani group on Wednesday moved to consider the merger of two companies in its fold, Reliance Energy Ventures and Reliance Capital Ventures, with their respective operating companies.

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Prakash Jha’s film on Bihar’s thriving kidnapping industry Apharan and Aamir Khan starrer Mangal Pandey will be screened with eight other films in three Israeli cities as the West Asian nation is gearing up for an Indian Film Festival in January.

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At stumps, the score stands at Rs 300 crore not out. The Board for Control of Cricket in India (BCCI) will remain unbeaten in its business game for a long time to come, but the burgeoning extras are a real cause of worry.

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Cabinet Secretary B.K. Chaturvedi has sought Delhi Metro chief E. Sreedharan’s assistance to the high-level panel set up to evaluate the process of Delhi and Mumbai airports modernisation.

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President A P J Abdul Kalam has refused to accept the honorary Degree of Science (DSc) which the Patna University had decided to confer on him at its convocation on Friday.

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BJP President LK Advani on Wednesday advocated strict population control norms for persons contesting in Parliamentary and Assembly elections saying that the BJP-ruled states should take an initiative in the matter.

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It could have been a pure coincidence but even as the Karnataka panchayat election results poured in, IT czar N R Narayana Murthy tore into the political system, calling it inept in handling the vast changes .

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An NDTV viewer has come forward to help a young migrant worker who lost both his legs after being pushed off a train.Twenty-three-year old Kalpa Nial, a migrant worker from Bolangir in Orissa, was returning home .

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Underworld don Abu Salem was taken from Mumbai to Bangalore on Wednesday to undergo a series of tests to be conducted by scientists of the Forensic Science Laboratory.

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A judicial inquiry set up to probe the police brutality against striking employees of a Honda factory in Gurgaon is yet to begin investigations.In July this year, hundreds of unarmed workers of the factory.

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A moderate earthquake measuring 5.2 on Richter Scale shook India-Pakistan border region in Kashmir early on Thursday, the Meteorological Department said. The temblor, occured at 3:35 am, was epicentred at 33.8 .

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Unidentified gunmen opened fire at the prestigious Indian Institute of Sciences in Bangalore killing a professor and injuring three others. As news of the death of retired IIT Delhi Professor MC Puri came in, his family and friends sunk into a state of deep shock.

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