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A Hizbul Mujahideen militant was killed, another affiliated with Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (HuM) arrested and a hideout was busted in separate operations by the army in Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir today, a Defence spokesman said.

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Technological advances today slipped into the Indian judiciary today when stamp paper scam kingpin Abdul Karim Telgi, lodged hundreds of miles away in a Pune jail, was produced.

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IFSL has secured a 8 MW power project at Kalyan to supply electricity every year to Kalyan Dombivli Municipal Corporation (KDMC).  The Rs 85 crore power project will supply 4.5 crore units of electricity.

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Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amrinder Singh on Monday ordered an inquiry by Home Secretary A K Dubey into the incident that led to Indian Express correspondent Gautam Dheer's arrest from his residence on Sunday night.

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For the first time after the Jinnah controversy erupted, BJP president L K Advani heaped praises on RSS in an effort to mend ties with the outfit.Advani, who was in Bhopal to release a book on former BJP president Kushabhau Thakre, spoke about the RSS ethos he imbibed as a young member.

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Great Eastern (GE) Shipping informed the Bombay Stock Exchange on Saturday that its board of directors will meet on August 31 to consider proposals of restructuring its business. 
 

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Shilpa Medicare Ltd, a product development company, on Monday said it would amalgamate Shilpa Organics Pvt Ltd with itself. The board of directors have considered and resolved to enter into a scheme of amalgamation with Shilpa Organics by issue of one equity share of the company.

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Former world billiards champion Geet Sethi started his campaign in the BPCL-ONGC 9-ball Pool Nationals with a facile victory in the round robin phase at the Bombay Presidency Golf Club on Sunday.

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A Supreme Court appointed Committee has indicted Zaheera Sheikh, key witness in a Gujarat riot case, as a "self-condemned liar".In a report submitted to the Supreme Court, the Committee said Zaheera was induced to repeatedly change her affidavit.

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Army today ordered a probe into the allegation that four natives of a border hamlet here were killed by its personnel in April in a fake encounter claiming them to be militants to get gallantry awards.

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Taking into account claims by women who conceived despite undergoing sterilisation, the Supreme Court has asked the State Governments to think of devising a welfare fund to "give solace" to the unfortunate cases of failed sterilisation.

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Jain Irrigation Systems has approved a porposal for increasing the FII investment limit. As per a release issued by the company to the BSE, the company has hiked the foreign institutional investors (FII) investment limit from the present level of 24% to 49%.

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DMK president M Karunanidhi has geared up his party machinery to face the next year's Assembly polls, by asking his partymen to tell the people about the "non-fulfilment" of electoral pledges made by the AIADMK during the 2001 elections.

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IT infrastructure player Apara Enterprise Solutions, whose 90 per cent revenues come through products, expects services to fuel growth and has targeted a top-line growth of 70 per cent in the current financial year, a top company executive said on Monday.

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Rajesh Exports Ltd, a Rs 3,000-crore gold jewellery maker, on Monday said it would split equity shares of the company. The shareholders at the AGM held recently have given consent to the splitting of equity shares of the company from the existing face value of Rs 10 per share .

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An airline passenger was sent to police custody on Monday after he made a call claiming that a bomb had been planted on a Jet Airways flight from Delhi to Bangalore, airline sources said.

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Gavin Ewing took a spectacular catch off his own bowling to get rid of half-centurion Mohd Kaif as India continued to lose wickets at regular intervals.

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The Bihar police have sent another team to Delhi to execute a non-bailable warrant against RJD MP Shahabuddin. The RJD leader and his family were issued warrants after they failed to give up unlicensed fire arms in their possession.

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Four persons, two women and two children, were killed and five others injured when a pick-up van plunged into a tank near Sarapada in Orissa's Cuttack district, police said on Monday.

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The Arjuna Awards for outstanding contribution in the field of sports will be given out at the Rashtrapati Bhawan today. There are a total of 15 awards that will be given out.

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The movement against the power hike in the capital has been gathering momentum.More and more people are refusing to come under pressure and pay exorbitant bills, many of which actually exceed their consumption.

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Nationalised banks would not be privatised and banking sector reforms would continue, finance minister P Chadambaram said here today.Public sector banks would continue as such with the Centre being the major shareholder.

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General Electric’s (GE) banking subsidiary in Hungary, Budapest Bank, is planning to approach the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) for a banking licence.Budapest Bank would formally apply for a licence in the next couple of months, sources close to the development said. GE owns 98 per cent stake in Budapest Bank. 

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Pharma heavyweights, Ranbaxy Laboratories and Wockhardt, are in the race to acquire a blockbuster typhoid recombinant vaccine technology developed by the country’s premier medical institute, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi. 
 

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A day after registering a case into an alleged death threat received by industrialist Sunjay Kapur, Delhi police were gropping for clues to pinpoint those who had sent the e-mail demanding Rs 50 crore from him.

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The tripartite memorandum of understanding (MoU) between Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and the Union ministry of water resources, allowing the transfer of the surplus waters of river Ken to river Betwa, undoubtedly marks a significant step in sharing of waters between states.

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 In an effort to resolve the controversy surrounding Darul Qazas (Islamic courts), the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) on Sunday denied allegations that it was running a parallel judiciary.

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This follows new norms to scale up free-float to a minimum 25% within 2 years.A string of multinational companies holding close to 90 per cent stake in their Indian subsidiaries may like to delist their domestic arms from Indian bourses, investment bankers have said. 

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Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is planning to move the Securities and Exchange Board of India seeking an exemption from offering a 25 per cent shareholding to the public, as mandated by the revised initial public offer (IPO) norms. 

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Stockbrokers attempting to lower their service tax liability by netting out tax expenditure passed on to the investors could be booked for evasion of taxes.

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Is Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries eyeing Innovene, the $15-bn wholly-owned subsidiary of British Petroleum? Industry sources and stock market speculation seems to suggest that .

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Declaring that terrorism posed a "serious threat to civilised existence," India on Sunday offered any kind of support to Afghanistan in dealing with the problem and announced a slew of developmental projects and schemes worth $50 million for the war-ravaged country.

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Though it is not yet finally gallows for Mohammed Afzal, the Parliament attack case accused sentenced to death by the Supreme Court on August 4, the Tihar Jail has already selected the hangman and started preparations for the hanging, which could be the first at Tihar in 15 years.

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Indian bowlers had made a great start in the triangular series in Bulawayo getting rid of the Kiwi top order without breaking into a sweat but Team India failed to capitalise.

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The Central Intelligence Agency’s National Intelligence Council (NIC) will now have an Indian brain. Professor Sumit Ganguly, who holds the Rabindranath Tagore chair in history in the University of Indiana, Bloomington, will join the NIC to help shape US policy on South Asia.

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A city-based cultural organisation aims to send across over two lakh e-mails to Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf asking him to set free Sarabjit Singh, who was facing death sentence for his alleged involvement in Lahore bomb blasts.

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Sania Mirza's impressive run in the $75,000 Forest Hills Women's Tennis Classic championship in New York has come to an end.

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Confident after the public support of BJP chief L K Advani, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi spoke out against his dissidents for the first time today.

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Lalu Prasad Yadav will be formally elected as the national president of the Rashtriya Janata Dal today.Since Lalu is the only candidate for the post, his election will be announced in the party 's national council formally.

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More than 35 people have died of falsiparum, a virulent form of malaria in Chhattisgarh's Surguja this year. This region is prone to malarial outbreaks and over 200 people have died in the last two years alone.

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Two employees of Bokaro Steel Plant died this morning and 17 were being treated following a poisonous gas leak in the plant last night. "Two of our employees died early in the morning and 17 others are under treatment. They are likely to be discharged in the evening," BSP's Chief Communication Officer Basant Thakur said.

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India and Pakistan will hold Secretary level talks in New Delhi today. This will be followed by Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran's visit to Pakistan on August 31. One of the key issues on the agenda will be prisoners lodged in each other's jails.

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A three-storeyed building collapsed near Metro cinema in south Mumbai on Sunday night, killing six people.According to reports, nine others who were injured have been admitted to the G T Hospital.

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