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After outsourcing its network management and IT operations, the Sunil Mittal-promoted Bharti Tele-ventures has given contracts of its call centre opertions for mobile services to four firms in a deal valued cumulatively at Rs 1,000 crore in 4-5 years.

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Tension prevailed in front of the Coca Cola plant at Plachimada for a while as anti-Coke activists converged before the unit amidst reports that the closed plant was likely to resume operations on Monday.

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Uttar Pradesh Central Sunni Wakf Board's claim on Taj Mahal will be challenged in the Supreme Court by the Archaeological Survey of India, Rajya Sabha was informed today.

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In Assam, ULFA militants have stepped up violence ahead of Independence Day.On Sunday, four people were killed and three others seriously injured in a blast in Boko near Guwahati. The militants exploded a bomb hidden inside a bag on a bicycle in the busy Boko bus station.

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Investigations have begun in earnest into the involvement of suspended Ranchi IG, PS Natrajan, and former Palamau DIG, Parwez Hyat, in the reported sexual exploitation of a tribal woman in Jharkhand.Even the state police association is calling for strong action to be taken against their colleagues.

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Congress president Sonia Gandhi's daughter Priyanka may be fighting shy of active politics but her name has launched a magazine that calls itself a movement against communal forces.

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Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee said here on Sunday that there was a need for maintaining the balance of power between the different pillars of democracy. The judiciary should not interfere in the activities of the executive and Parliament, he added.

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Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative Ltd (Iffco) on Monday said it has signed long term fuel supply agreements with GAIL and Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation Ltd (GSPCL).

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Public sector Indian Bank on Monday joined hands with the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) to co-finance projects under the SME (small and medium enterprises), services and the infrastructure sectors.

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A readjustment in focus, streamlining of distribution, and reduction in the wage bill has helped Dabur India turn Balsara Home Products around. Balsara became Dabur’s subsidiary with effect from April 1 this year.

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Finance minister P Chidambaram today dismissed "alarming predictions" that a bubble was building up in the stock market in view of the soaring Sensex, and said the government and market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) were keeping a close watch on the developments.

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Tata Motors today reported a 15% drop in passenger vehicle sales in July to 12,993 units.Overall sales, including commercial vehicles, increased 3.7% to 31,170 units as against 30,057 units sold in July 2004.

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Thirteen men have been trapped inside a tunnel at a hydroelectric power project site in Arunachal Pradesh which got blocked by heavy mudslides triggered by torrential rains.Officials said on Monday that hundreds of rescue workers were trying to save the 13 engineers and workers of Larsen & Toubro (L&T) who have been in the tunnel since 11.30 pm on Sunday.

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Vice-chancellors of universities in Uttar Pradesh have been brought under the scanner by the state government that has sacked two such top senior educationists for alleged financial bungling.

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The Nanavati Commission on 1984 anti-Sikh riots has said there is "credible evidence" against now Union Minister Jagdish Tytler that he "very probably" had a hand in organising attacks on Sikhs and recommended the government to take further action as may be found necessary.

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In spite of winning the crunch match against West Indies, India are not favourites to put it past the Lankans in the final on Tuesday. Greg Chappell's best combination out of the available 16 kept him on the edge, until Ashish Nehra finished the last over successfully, to keep a spirited Denesh Ramdin at bay on Sunday.

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Not that he sounds bitter - he never can, not when he's regarded as one of the most influential Asian musicians since Zubin Mehta -but A.R. Rahman is uncertain about his future in Hindi films.

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Four Indians have been arrested along with a Bahraini citizen for running an illegal brewery and distillery on a farm in Sanad in Bahrain.A local criminal court has sentenced all four Indians to one month in jail following which they will be deported, a media report said on Monday.

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Skipper Rahul Dravid praised Yuvraj Singh and Mohammad Kaif for their excellent performance, but said the top order batsmen needed to contribute more runs in the final of the Indian Oil Cup tri-series.

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India and Pakistan began another round of confidence building talks in the capital today.The focus of the talks is on improving contact and communication between the militaries of the two countries.

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Train passengers in the state can now dial a toll-free number for getting round-the-clock assistance from the police in the event of any emergency.The ‘Rail alert,’ being introduced for the first time in the country, would help in tackling crime on moving trains. It would also facilitate speedy intervention in cases reported by commuters.

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The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) has suggested measures for strengthening the National Rural Employment Guarantee (NREG) programme, including tightening of the delivery system and provisions for transparency and accountability.

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Despite the extensive damage caused by unprecedented floods in the nine districts, particularly the four north Karnataka districts Belgaum, Bagalkot, Bijapur and Gulbarga, the Union government has not yet released any assistance towards relief and reconstruction.

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 Assam went on maximum security alert on Monday after rebels triggered a string of blasts that killed four people and wrecked oil and gas pipeline, power lines and rail tracks, police said. There were about a dozen attacks in the state at the weekend, a government spokesman said.

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It's official - Indian tennis sensation Sania Mirza has broken into the top 50 in the latest rankings of the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) released Monday. The 18-year-old, who is now ranked 48th in the world with 706.5 points, up 11 places from her ranking of 59 a week earlier, has thus fulfilled a vow that she took earlier this year.

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Balsara range has yielded a profit of Rs 1.1 cr for the first quarter.A readjustment in focus, streamlining of distribution, and reduction in the wage bill has helped Dabur India turn Balsara Home Products around. Balsara became Dabur’s subsidiary with effect from April 1 this year.

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The board of directors of Hindustan Zinc has approved a proposal to set up an additional 1,70,000 tonne per day smelter at Chanderiya.According to a release issued by the company to the BSE today, the new smelter would be identical to the one recently commissioned at the site.

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Central bank says cannot make exception to the rule.General Electric’s (GE) plan to acquire a bank in India may come a cropper as the Reserve Bank of India is not in favour of the move.This is because GE is not a banking entity and, therefore, does not conform to the Indian banking regulator’s parameters of a “fit and proper” acquirer. 

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Reliance Industries Ltd, India's largest private firm, has made a huge gas find in a coal block in Madhya Pradesh. The company discovered 3.75 trillion cubic feet of in-place gas reserves under coal seams in Sohagpur Coal Bed Methane (CBM) blocks in Shahdol district of Madhya Pradesh, senior officials said.

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Dabur India Ltd has allotted 1.36 lakh fully paid equity shares to its employees. The board of directors have approved allotment of 1,36,989 equity shares of Re 1 each,to the employees under the company's stock option scheme, Dabur informed the National Stock Exchange.

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Telecom major VSNL on Monday said all issues with Reliance Infocomm over Flag Telecom including the access to cable landing station had been resolved last year and no dispute exists anymore.

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Hindalco Industries Ltd on Monday said it will split the equity shares of the company in 1:10 ratio. The shareholders at the EGM, have decided to split the equity shares of the company in 1:10 ratio, that is from one share of Rs 10 each into 10 equity shares of Re 1 each, the company informed the Bombay Stock Exchange.

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India plans to boost trade and economic ties with Canada and double exports to over two billion dollars by the end of the decade, an Indian diplomat said.

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The BJP in Karnataka today appeared to have staved off a serious crisis after mollifying senior leader B S Yediyurappa.Yediyurappa's moves to form an alternative government with the JD(S) had threatened to split the party.

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Last year, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa fulfilled her electoral promise by setting up a government medical college hospital in her constituency in Theni district.

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Plotting their next plan of action, women organisations in Shillong have met and decided to continue protests against the government this week.On Friday the police used tear gas and water cannons on a thousand-strong crowd of women protestors demonstrating outside the state secretariat.

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Investigations have begun in earnest into the involvement of suspended Ranchi IG, PS Natrajan, and former Palamau DIG, Parwez Hyat, in the reported sexual exploitation of a tribal woman in Jharkhand.

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It's been 21 long years of waiting for justice. That's the story of Laxmi Kaur, whose husband was killed in 1984 as she stared helplessly, unable to help him.

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Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh now wants the Centre to pitch in with Rs 2000 crores to help Mumbai sort out its drainage problems.
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The UPA government will table the Nanavati Commission report on the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in Parliament today. The commission, set up in May 2000 by the former NDA government, cross-examined close to 200 witnesses and over 10,000 affidavits in the past four years.

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Few may be aware of it but this industrial city, best known for its Kota stone and Kota saris, has another claim to fame: its coaching institutes send hundreds of students to the IITs every year.

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For four days they lay sick, mother and child, on one of the city’s busiest footpaths as lakhs just passed by. Neither office-goers, nor evening revellers noticed that the two were sinking, that it was only a matter of time.

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Yuvraj Singh and Mohammad Kaif finally justified their star billing as India beat West Indies by seven runs in a closely contested match at Colombo on Sunday and booked a set for the final against Sri Lanka to be played on Tuesday.

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