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Maintaining that K Natwar Singh was being made a scapegoat by the Congress to 'save its skin' in the Iraqi oil deals, Leader of Opposition L K Advani demanded that the ruling party apply the same yardstick and remove Sonia Gandhias Chairperson of National Advisory Council.

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India made 90-2 before bad light intervened after play finally got underway on the fourth afternoon of the first Test at Chennai on Monday. | Click here for full scores |

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HOW typical it all is of this country’s dismal, distorted and depressing politics! After many a summer the people had got something to cheer and be happy about. Bihar.

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Water levels began receding in many parts of flooded Chennai on a sunny Monday as the authorities began clearing the passage of the overflowing lakes in and around the city, where over 300,000 people had been evacuated.

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Underworld don Abu Salem's girlfriend Monica Bedi was sent to police remand for two days by the Judicial Magistrate in Bhopal.She was expected to appear before a Bhopal court over a passport forgery case, but was not produced due to security reasons.

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The Bihar assembly was adjourned amid chaotic scenes today over alleged "maltreatment" of jailed Lok Sabha MP Mohammed Shahabuddin. Hardly had the House assembled for the day, when leader of the opposition Rabri Devi raised the issue of alleged maltreatment .

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Chief Minister Oommen Chandy has said the Government will recommend dissolution of the Palakkad municipal council, as repeated efforts to break the deadlock in the council over the election of the civic chief have failed.

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The electoral picture has become clear in respect of 14 of the 27 districts where zilla and taluk panchayat elections will be held in the first phase on December 19 with the deadline for withdrawal of candidature ending on Saturday.

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CPI(M) on Monday sought to give a new twist to the Volcker issue by attacking the BJP-led Opposition over its "failure" to demand probe into the "biggest" non-contractual beneficiary, Reliance, in the Iraqi oil payoffs.

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Financial services powerhouse JP Morgan Chase plans to hire 4,500 graduates in India as part of its plan to shift 30 per cent of its back office and support operations offshore over the next two years, the Financial Times reported on its website on Monday.

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At least two people were killed and 10 others injured as a goods train derailed in Orissa on Monday. Thirty bogies of an iron-ore loaded goods train went off the tracks in Bimalagarh in Sundergarh district around 11 a.m. on Monday, officials said.

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Government will soon issue a notification on new norms for packaging and labelling of tobacco products which will necessitate pictorial warnings and mentioning of nicotine and tar content, Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss said on Monday.

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On Board Prime Minister’s Special Aircraft, December 4 .Although there is growing pressure in the Congress that former External Affairs Minister K. Natwar Singh steps down from the Cabinet following fresh revelations in the Volcker case, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh remains evasive on the issue.

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Bayern Munich players and their coaches, upset with the Indian Football Association’s (IFA) decision of awarding Lal Kamal Bhowmick the Man-of-the-Match award, didn’t pose together for photographers after the end of the IFA Shield final. The reason could be guessed.

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Noted film director-producer Yash Chopra's Yash Raj banner has yet again joined hands with Export-Import Bank of India (Exim), this time for distribution of its films abroad.

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When markets are trading at all-time high levels, investors are hesitant to take big positions and are sceptical about the future market movement. This can be seen from the sharp fall witnessed in the delivery-based volumes on the bourses in last five months.

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The Chairman of Intel Corporation, Craig Barrett, met the Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology, Dayanidhi Maran, at the latter's residence in Chennai on Sunday. The meeting lasted about 45 minutes.

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Even as the finance ministry has agreed to increase the gross budgetary support (GBS) for plan support for ‘06-07 from the proposed 15% to 23% in the current fiscal year.

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The state government has ordered banks and bond houses to pay stamp duty on all direct security deals done over the past 10 years. Earlier, the duty was capped at Rs 1,000 a deal. The revised rate is Rs 50 for a Rs 1-crore deal.

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Sudha Gopalakrishnan. The name doesn’t ring a bell? Well, it’s time it did. For she is India’s freshly minted richest woman. Wife of Infosys co-founder and COO Kris Gopalakrishnan, Sudha might not be as high profile as her namesake, Infosys chairman NR Narayana Murthy’s wife Sudha Murthy.

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Even as Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav is scheduled to visit Rae Bareli on December 11 to distribute Kanya Vidya Dhan cheques and to start some development schemes.

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Around 100 students at Mumbai's JJ Hospital allegedly beat up fellow students from other states. What started off as a heated argument over entering a bathroom ended up in a brawl. Four students have been admitted in the hospital with injuries.

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A Navy plane crashed close to the Dabolim Airport in south Goa on Monday. According to reports, one person has been killed in the mishap.
Following the incident, the airport has been shut down till 2:15 pm (IST).

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With the Panchayat poll fever hotting up in the district, it appears this election will be keenly contested against the backdrop of the changed political scenario following the ouster of Siddaramaiah from the Janata Dal(S).

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Nobody wants rains in Tamil Nadu anymore. Till October, the lack of it had tormented the state. However, in November, it was inundated with floods due to heavy rainfall, excessive discharge from Mettur and other dams and water tanks, and the depression in the Bay of Bengal.

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Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Sunday said she was concerned about the state of affairs in Uttar Pradesh and sought people's support for a change.

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Suspended Bharatiya Janata Party leader Uma Bharti announced at a public rally here on Sunday that she would not tender an apology in response to the notice served on her.

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The new NDA government in Bihar appears to be all set to do what the Union HRD minister Arjun Singh called "detoxification of education." And in this, Lalu will be the first one to be hit.

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Beleaguered Union Minister K Natwar Singh was removed from the Congress Steering Committee on late Sunday night, in what appears to be a clear indication from the party that the senior leader in the high of a storm over the Iraqi oil pay-off scam has become a political hot potato.

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