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Ravi Ramu, chief financial officer of Mphasis, is to join Times Internet as its chief financial officer (CFO)."As Mphasis is currently going through financial restructuring, the two organisations have agreed that Ravi will support Mphasis' needs duirng the transition period," an Mphasis official said today.

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The BCCI on Friday recalled Sourav Ganguly as India's cricket captain for the forthcoming Zimbabwe tour after he served a four-match ban for the team's slow overrate against Pakistan.

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Survey of India has moved the Supreme Court, seeking a stay on the UP Sunni Central Wakf Board’s July 13 order declaring the Taj Mahal as wakf property.

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The rating stars are for the goosebumps one gets for the man who sparked the very first fire of India’s struggle for Independence as also for the director who brings alive a saga that remains confined to a paragraph in school textbooks otherwise Mangal Pandey.The Rising is an epic.

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The Indian Cricket Board (BCCI) has expressed willingness to play Test and one-day international match in Karachi during the Indian team's tour to Pakistan next year.

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Panicky residents of India's financial and entertainment capital continued to throng hospitals in thousands Saturday even as the state government battled with rising numbers of deaths from post-flood diseases.

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Led by a healthy growth in the manufacturing and electricity sectors, industrial growth remained in the double-digit range for the second month in a row.In June 2005, the index of industrial production (IIP) rose 11.7 per cent, the highest monthly growth rate since May 1996.

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Chinese telecom equipment manufacturer Huawei Technologies Inc has decided to invest $100 million (about Rs 430 crore) through its Indian arm Huawei Telecommunications (India) Company Pvt Ltd to set up a manufacturing unit and a research and development (R&D) centre.

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A large cache of psychotropic drugs apparently headed for Dubai was seized by the Narcotics Control Bureau here and two persons, including the owner of a medicine manufacturing unit, detained in this connection.

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Mumbai's Dattatri Chawls played host to Virender Sehwag shooting a promo film for a television channel.For the channel and the film director, Sehwag was the first and obvious choice to portray their message.

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World rapid chess champion Viswanathan Anand stretched his lead to a whopping three points over Russian Grandmaster Alexander Grischuk adding 1.5 points from the third and fourth games of the Grenkeleasing championship, the main event of the Mainz Chess Classic.

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Mangaram, a Hindu tailor, who sells chadars at the Ajmer Sharief, is an example for religious harmony.He says a brief prayer before putting the final stitch on a chader, which will be one of many offered to the Khawaja at Ajmer Sharief.

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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa has mooted the idea of setting up a full fledged aviation university in Madurai. The move comes at a time when the country is facing a shortage of commercial pilots.

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For the first time in 15-year long history of militancy in Jammu and Kashmir, the police today arrested a Kashmiri Pandit doctor on charge of providing medical assistance and shelter to militants.

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The Rs 17,000-crore Sri Guru Gobind Singh refinery and petrochemicals project is set to turn into a political issue with the Congress today firing the first salvo to take credit for the facility saying it was its government

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Investigations into the murder of a Sabarmati Central Jail inmate paced up on Thursday with the police arresting a subedar of the jail for allegedly supplying the knives used to kill Chetan Patel alias Chetan Battery, last Sunday.

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There is mounting speculation about the future financial movement of the Laxmi Mittal Group - world's largest individual steel producer. It is revealed that Laxmi Mittal, who is one of the richest British businessman of Indian origin, is considering reducing his financial stake in the Mittal Group as profits decline.

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Two senior officials of Bajaj Allianz company in Patna went missing and were suspected to have been kidnapped. Superintendent of Police (City) Rakesh Rathi said that the manager of the Exhibition Road branch of the company, Rakesh Shanker, and sales manager, Prem Prakash, were missing since Friday.

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Acting on a tip-off, a team of Porbandar police on Friday evening nabbed erstwhile Porbandar-based gangster Santokben Jadeja aka ‘Godmother’ in a typical Bollywood-style operation.

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Ten people have died in Nirmal Nagar in Khar; nine in Bharat Nagar in Bandra, of water-borne diseases. The number of patients treated in both the areas so far are 3143. The areas themselves are filthy.

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The Supreme Court has ruled that the State can’t impose any kind of reservation policy or create a quota in unaided private colleges, including professional colleges.

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Promising a healing touch for the kin of victims of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, the Centre today said that Nanavati Commission recommendations would be implemented as soon as possible.

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Talks on for sale of 50% share in Bathinda refinery.Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (HPCL) said it would sell to a foreign player 50 per cent stake in Guru Gobind Singh Refinery (GGSRL), which is putting up a greenfield nine-million-tonne per annum refinery near Bathinda in Punjab.

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HT Media IPO priced at Rs 530 a share.The valuation of the media industry has shot through the roof with HT Media setting its initial public offer (IPO) price at Rs 530 for a share of Rs 10.

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The boundaries to scientific and technological innovation are crumbling and the West can no longer rein in the geographical shift. First came the trend of corporates moving R&D centres to low-cost countries, now a more important shift in fundamental research to universities is taking place.

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BSNL, MTNL and Airtel are the biggest beneficiaries of popular quiz show Kaun banega crorepati 2 (KBC2). With more than 1.6 million calls/SMS for the first three episodes, KBC2 is emerging as a big money spinner for BSNL, MTNL and Airtel.

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After being on the run for five months, Santokben Jadeja alias 'Godmother' was arrested from Gujarat's Rajkot district on Friday, in connection with the murder of a BJP councillor in March earlier this year.

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Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh visited the municipal hospitals in the city, along with the Municipal Commissioner, and said the situation is under control.

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Thousands of seats go vacant in Maharashtra's 155 engineering colleges every year.Once sought after, engineering courses are finding few takers these days. For the past three years now, 5,000 engineering seats are going vacant every year.

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One year ago, the women of Nagpur's Kasturba Nagar made headlines when they killed Akku Yadav, a local thug inside a Nagpur court because he used to harass them.

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In an attempt to soften the blow on consumers and at the same time protect the bottom line of oil navratnas, the Petroleum Ministry has drafted a note which tries to carry all the stakeholders together.

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Terrorists shot dead five persons, including two Village Defence Committee (VDC) members, and injured nine others at a village in Udhampur district in Jammu and Kashmir on Friday night, official sources said in Jammu on Saturday.

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Movie moghul JP Dutta's courtesan tale Umrao Jaan is courting a captivating cast while recreating an alluring past. After finalising on Aishwarya Rai for the title role and Shabana Azmi (for the role played by her mother Shaukat Azmi in the original).

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The much-awaited ministerial overhaul, which got postponed last month even after Rashtrapati Bhavan had been informed of its imminence, will take place soon after the current session of Parliament.

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It wouldn't have been easy for the selectors, they have made a tough decision. Sourav Ganguly has been re-appointed captain of Team India. The selection committee must have thought hard and long about it, but they didn't have any other option.

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A three-member team of the Election Commission led by Chief Election Commissioner B B Tandon will visit Patna on August 24 and 25 to review preparations for forthcoming assembly elections.

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Almost a year after being expelled from the Indian Air Force training academy, three female cadets are still awaiting justice.They say their expulsion came after their refusal to give in to the advances of their training officer.

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Mumbai continues to reel under the aftermath of the floods. The death toll in the city due to flood-related diseases has gone up to 58. Many government hospitals in the city are facing shortage of blood, and now the government has set up blood banks in several places on the outskirts of Mumbai.

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Congress President, Sonia Gandhi is visiting flood-hit areas of Maharashtra today. Her trip includes Mumbai to get a first hand stock of the situation and inspect relief works in various camps.

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