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Mittal Steel Co, the world's largest steel maker, has put in a proposal to build a 12-million-tonne steel plant in eastern India for $11.4 billion. Foreign companies are looking to set up plants in India, drawn by robust demand in Asia's third-largest economy expected to expand 7 per cent this year after averaging 7.7 per cent growth in the past two years.

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The special court on Wednesday permitted gutka king Rasiklal Dhariwal to travel abroad and directed the police to return his passport for the purpose.

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Sania Mirza is through to the second round of the US Open, though it wasn't a very convincing three set win over world number 65 Mashona Washington who was ranked 23 places below her.

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A Pakistani non-governmental organisation (NGO) has appealed to the country's President Pervez Musharraf to grant clemency to Indian national Sarabjit Singh, who has been awarded the death sentence by Pakistan's Supreme Court, to let the ongoing peace process with India proceed further.

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A fierce Christian hill tribe took to the streets in India's remote northeast on Wednesday to raise a new demand for a homeland sliced out of areas dominated by them in India and neighbouring Myanmar.

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The strike by 450 resident doctors in government hospitals in Mumbai continued for the second day today with the medicos demanding immediate security enhancement in hospital wards and premises.

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Round-the-clock security has been provided to former cricket captain Mohammed Azharuddin who allegedly received death threats from the Mumbai underworld, police sources said on Wednesday.

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A flag meeting will be held between the Border Security Force and Bangladesh Rifles on Wednesday at Kamthana, a border village in West Tripura district. The bodies of two Bangladeshis who were gunned down by the BSF for illegally entering India will be handed over, BSF Inspector-General SK Dutta said.

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Tata Ryerson Ltd (TRL), promoted by Tata Steel and US-based Ryerson Tull Thursday announced major expansion plans that would entail an investment of Rs 200 crore by 2010.

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 Rajasthan government has joined hands with IT major IBM to initiate a training programme aimed at enhancing local talent pool. Through 'Project Invite' initiative, IBM will reach out to over 300 institutes in India, training over 75,000 students.

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Online trading is gaining momentum with trading volumes growing by 150 per cent per annum. Over the past two years, the value of all trades executed through the Internet on the National Stock Exchange has grown from less than Rs 100 crore in June 2003 to over Rs 700 crore in July 2005.

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Bharat Sheth, managing director of Great Eastern Shipping Company (GE Shipping), denied any family or personal dispute for the demerger of the Rs 2,100 crore company.

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Acting on a Calcutta High Court order for making an inventory of personal belongings of late Priyamvada Birla, special officers appointed for this have recovered a large number of gold coins, several gold artefacts from the Birla Park, the residence of her husband M P Birla.

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Sachin Tendulkar on Wednesday opted out of the forthcoming two-Test series against hosts Zimbabwe as "he does not feel confident and strong enough yet to return to the rigours of Test cricket batting", according to Indian team physiotherapist John Gloster.

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IT peripherals major TVS Electronics (TVS-E) has launched a multi-lingual call centre with state-of-the-art infrastructure in Tumkur, near Bangalore to service its customers in IT and telecom verticals.

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India, Aug 31 (Reuters) - Indian authorities have provided special security to former cricket captain Mohammed Azharuddin after he received death threats from the underworld, police said on Wednesday.

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Nagesh Kukunoor's new film Iqbal  about a deaf and dumb boy trying to make it to the Indian cricket team  has recieved great And when the director chatted with rediff.com readers on August 30, he was flooded with congratulatory messages.

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Facing an all-round attack over the power problems in Delhi, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit's troubles appeared to be getting serious today.
A ruling party MP demanded her resignation and several other leaders lashed out at her over her handling of the situation.

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West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya has found support from his party's top leadership in his initiatives to secure Foreign Direct Investment.The CPI-M Politburo -- the party's highest decision-making body .

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Tata Steel has approached the government with a proposal to acquire some of the mines of the loss-making public sector unit, Bharat Coking Coal Ltd (BCCL).Government sources today said the Tata Steel brass had already initiated talks with the coal ministry on this matter. 

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The board of directors of Dishman Pharmaceuticals and Chemicals today decided to split equity shares in the ratio of 1:5 i.e one share of Rs 10 each will be split into five shares of Rs 2 each.

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Fiat India has set a 12-month target for a major restructuring exercise, which is likely to be followed by new launches."India is a strategic market for Fiat, and we will take all measures to make it profitable for us," Paolo Castagna, managing director of Fiat India, said today.

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South Korean steel company Posco has started an Indian subsidiary, Posco India, which will be based in Bhubaneswar, Orissa.Posco India has been registered under the Companies Act, 1956 with the Registar of Companies, Orissa.

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The Supreme Court today surprised the Election Commission when it suggested that the election process in Bihar be deferred till next week, when it will decide on the dissolution of the state assembly.

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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has invited Hurriyat Chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and other leaders for talks on September 5.This will be the first interaction between the moderate separatist group and the UPA dispensation as part of the dialogue process.

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International banking major HSBC, which manages $ 55 billion worth of pension funds globally, would bid for getting selected as one of the Pension Fund Managers (PFMs), once the Indian pension sector is opened up, a top company official has said

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Export and Import Bank of India Wednesday signed an agreement with Equatorial Guinea for providing a line of credit worth $ 15 million to set up a water bottling plant.

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India's per capita income at current prices has shown steady growth over the last five years. It has crossed a double digit figure of 10.7% in 2004-05 from a mere 6% in 2000-01.

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Mphasis BFL Ltd on Wednesday announced the appointment of Alok Misra, as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Abnash Singh, as Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the company.

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In a bizarre incident, a passenger travelling from Mumbai by Jet Airways allegedly hit an air hostess on her temple with his cell phone at Rajkot airport on Monday evening. The victim has lodged a complaint at Gandhigram police station.

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West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadev Bhattacherjee, basking in the glory of his new found media projection as a votary of reforms among Marxists, has found support from the top leadership of the party in his initiatives to secure FDI.

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In a bizarre sequence of events in Mumbai, two civic corporators were arrested late last night after they reportedly planted skulls in a Hindu crematorium in a Mumbai suburb.

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Most buses will remain off roads in Tamil Nadu today.Over 1,20,000 employees are demanding a wage revision and close to 20,000 buses will be off the roads in Chennai alone.

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A Mumbai-based petty criminal has been arrested for allegedly sending a threatening e-mail to industrialist Sunjay Kapur.Rajkumar alias Rajubhai demanded Rs 50 crore from the estranged husband of Bollywood actor Karisma Kapoor.

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The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) carried out raids in 77 places in the Capital on Tuesday, probing a housing society scam.According to reports, the builder mafia has taken advantage of the common laws governing the DDA with the group housing society.

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A hangout-heaven in South Delhi might soon bear a deserted look. The Delhi High Court has asked the promoters of Chanakya Cinema hall to vacate the land in three months.The court said the property belongs to New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) and should be handed over to them.

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Despite having strict laws against ragging, it continues unchecked in colleges. A first year student in Madhya Pradesh was thrown off from the first floor in the name of ragging.On Saturday night, Jamshed Alam, a First Year M Tech student of Dr Hraisingh Gaur University in Sagar, was beaten up by his seniors and thrown from his room on the first floor.

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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa has said that Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram must resign.She said that the FM's explanation about his wife's role in representing the IT department in a legal case was far from satisfactory.

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According to official statistics nearly 1,085 infants up to one year of age have died of hunger deaths between April and July in Maharashtra this year.These numbers are only from the five sensitive tribal districts of Amravati, Nasik, Nandurbar, Gadchiroli and Thane.

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Bored housewives can add to the family kitty by utilising their free time in a judicious manner.

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The State Bank of India is considering launching an India-dedicated offshore fund as one of the options to retain the India Millennium Deposits (IMDs) which will come up for redemption in December this year. 

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It seems Maharashtra CM Vilasrao Deshmukh put a ban on plastics without thinking of the consequences.

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A CISF constable, on guard duty at the Rashtrapati Bhavan was found dead in the wee hours of the day, which prima facie appeared to be a case of suicide.

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India's Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran will today begin his three-day visit to Pakistan for talks on the second round of the composite dialogue process.

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In a bizarre sequence of events in Mumbai, two civic corporators were arrested late last night after they reportedly planted skulls in a Hindu crematorium in a Mumbai suburb.

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Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi will meet BJP president L K Advani in the Capital today. Yesterday, former Gujarat chief minister and now dissident BJP MLA Keshubhai Patel who has been demanding Modi's resignation met with the BJP president.

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After weeks of protests, the Delhi government has given into pressure and rolled back the entire 10 per cent hike in power tariffs.The decision was taken at a meeting of the Delhi cabinet on Tuesday.

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