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The interim report of the UC Banerjee Committee was tabled on Wednesday before the Nanavati Commission probing the Godhra train carnage and the subsequent riots of 2002.

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A huge cache of arms, containing ammunition and explosives have been found in Jammu & Kashmir state, defense sources say. There were 1572 rounds of ammunition and more than two kilograms of RDX explosives.

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Britain has been the biggest tourism market for India in the past several years. In 2003, the number of British tourists visiting India stood at 4,30,917, which is 15.8 per cent of the total 27,26,214 tourists from all other countries put together, Tourism Ministry statistics show.

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Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi today said efforts to persuade Bangladesh to eliminate insurgent camps would be made by external affairs minister K. Natwar Singh.

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Have last week’s floods washed out aamchi Mumbai’s image as India’s business capital? The business prospects for new ventures have suffered hiccups within a week of the city getting submerged and there are indications that the metropolis may find its harder to attract India’s top executives in days to come.
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Malaysia’s Khazanah Nasional Berhad has pulled out of the race to acquire Barings’ 35% stake in MphasiS-BFL amid indications that the sale could either be called off or happen at a price lower than initial expectations.
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Ganguly joined Tendulkar and Inzamam as the only other batsmen in ODI cricket history to score 10,000 runs, before Chandana bowled him for 51.

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After no films to talk about and a mountain of debt to take care of, Jackie Shroff has bounced back and how? The actor has been nominated in the Best Actor category at he 58th Locarno International Film festival, for his performance in Rituparno Ghosh's Antar Mahal.

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 The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa pleaded with the Special Court in Bangalore to stop the trial in the "disproportionate assets case", following the prosecution's failure to update the case.

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Government will table the Nanavati Commission, which probed the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in Delhi, in Parliament during the ongoing monsoon session, Home Minister Shivraj Patil said in Rajya Sabha on Wednesday.

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India was on Wednesday selected to take the lead in implementing a tsunami early warning system for Indian Ocean countries after the devastating December tsunamis that killed more than 200,000 people.

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After three long years in the making, Aamir Khan's Mangal Pandey- The Rising will finally be released on August 12.But before it hits Indian screens, the film will have its world premiere at the Locarno Film Festival.

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Infosys Technologies is planning to invest $10 million to set up a software development campus in Shanghai in association with Zhangjiang hi-tech park.This was announced in a release issued by the company to the BSE today.
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Government is formulating a National Postal Policy and has initiated a major exercise to review the structure, products, processes, resources, accounting, pricing and technology requirements, Lok Sabha was informed on Wednesday.

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India is playing against Sri Lanka today in the fourth ODI of the Indian Oil tri-series at Dambulla.Captain Rahul Dravid has won the toss and elected to bat first.Sourav Ganguly is back for India after serving his four match ban but Dravid will continue as captain.

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Tata Motors is expecting a slowdown in car sales growth, which is likely to drop to single digit during the current fiscal.Rajeev Dubey, senior vice president (passenger car businesss unit) of Tata Motors, said:  "We expect the industry growth to slow down to single digit due to a variety of reasons including high base."

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A positive, range-bound trend is prevailing in the market since mid-morning trades, after the Sensex hit a new all-time intra-day high of 7,844 in early trades. Although tech stocks have attracted strong buying support, Reliance group stocks and other select counters have faltered under selling pressure.

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Heavy rains and floods in India's western state of Maharashtra last week have caused losses of at least 150 billion rupees ($3.5 billion), the Times of India newspaper said on Wednesday, quoting early government estimates.

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Concerned that genuine citizens may be victimised after the repeal of the Illegal Migrants (Determination by Tribunals) Act, the Assam government has set up “protection committees” to prevent a re-run of the mid-Sixties, when citizens were deported to East Pakistan.

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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday said the youth of a country could be an asset only if a nation invests in their capabilities while stating that the time had come for India to embark on a "second wave of institution building." Launching the Knowledge Commission, he said: "Denied this investment.

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Reliance Industries on Wednesday decided to double the production capacity at its Jamnagar Refinery to 60 million tonnes at an investment of Rs 25,000 crore.

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There appears to be an anomaly between the funds allocated by the central government to Mumbai and the city’s contribution to the Centre’s kitty.

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Food processing firm, Himalya International Ltd on Wednesday said it had bagged Rs 5.5 crore order from US FoodService.

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The market capitalisation of India Inc on the Bombay Stock Exchange has zoomed past the Rs 20-trillion mark (Rs 20 lakh crore) to Rs 20,31,031 crore as the 30-share Sensex scaled a new peak to close at 7,756.04 points, gaining 86.59 points, in line with all Asian indices.

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It is consolidation time for the tractor industry.French automobile and engineering major Renault has divested its 20 per cent stake in International Tractors Ltd, an unlisted company that is part of Delhi-based Sonalika Group.  
 
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GR Cables has bagged an order worth Rs 20 crores from BSNL for PIJF cables. According to a release issued by GR Cables to the BSE, the PIJF prices in the current year are ruling 6-7% higher than last year prices.

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The board of Reliance Industries at its meeting held yesterday has proposed to demerge its power, financial services and telecom services interest by transfering the company's holdings into separate corporate entities.
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John Abraham seems to be very much at ease with films on male bonding. His chemistry with male co-stars appears much stronger than with the Bollywood queens.

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Thousands of images have been beamed around the country of the monsoon madness that’s unfolding in Mumbai. From raindrenched policemen to the soaking wet aam aadmi, from drenched film stars to bedraggled slum dwellers, everyone seems to have got caught in the rain.

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Anyone can be pretentious if they set their mind to it. However, there's more to it than sitting around in your dressing gown, listening to classical music and reading 'The Fountainhead' on a Sunday afternoon. Being pretentious is pointless unless people can see you doing it.

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Batting woes will test India again as they take on Sri Lanka on Wednesday. Startlingly, the Indian bowlers are delivering the goods while the power packed batting lineup has looked totally at sea.

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Mumbaikars are always in work mode — even partying for most of them is serious work, schmoozing, building new business relationships and reaffirming old ones—and when that work mode is disrupted, as it was recently, they migrate to the blame mode. Blame the BMC. Blame Reliance Energy. Blame the chief minister.

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Curtains came down on the six-year-old alliance between the Telugu Desam Party and BJP with both the parties deciding to fight the ensuing municipal elections on their own in Andhra Pradesh.

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The trouble within the Janata Dal (Secular) in Karnataka, a coalition partner in the state government, is getting worse. A meeting of MLAs opposing Deputy Chief Minister Siddaramaiah was held on Monday night, in which it was unofficially decided to remove him from his post.

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Orissa's battle against the high rates of infant mortality in the state has yielded positive results.The survey by the Sample Registration System (SRS) for the year 2003, shows a 15 point decline over the past five years.

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Ten-year-old Ramu, whose parents live in Sultanpuri in North West Delhi stays away from home for days on end, begging on the streets.His parents have forced him to carry a paper, which says he is disabled.He was found by an NGO worker at the Old Delhi railway station.

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The Border Roads Organization have said that they can make the Kargil-Askardu road in two months.If opened this 180 kilometer road would be the only all weather road link to Kargil.Haji Abbas was just three years old when he got separated from his father Ghulam Hussein, who was working in Askardu before partition.

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Salil Chaturvedi, owner of Provogue lounge bars and apparel, will be produced in a local court in Mumbai today. Salil was arrested yesterday, almost a month after he was questioned by the Mumbai police.

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With rains finally letting up, the situation in Mumbai is slowly returning to normal.The city is getting back to life as usual with schools and college reopening.Thousands of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) workers are racing against time to clean up the garbage and debris left behind by the torrential rains in Mumbai.

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Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani has stayed away from the media glare ever since the division of the Reliance empire was made official in June.

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Indian tennis sensation Sania Mirza defeated Tathiana Garbin of Italy in the first round of the Acura Classic tournament at San Diego in the United States.

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