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Several organisations of Manipur have called a general strike on January 7 next year to protest against violations of human rights by the Army during operation Tornado at Jiribam. The All Manipur Students' Union (AMSU) .

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Extradited gangster Abu Salem gave a wealth of information on underworld activities and even revealed details of incidents that happened 15 years ago, during a narco-analysis test in Bangalore on Friday, sources in Forensic Science Laboratory and Anti-Terrorist Squad, Mumbai, said.

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Though the figures are as old as June 2002, these are the latest by the National Sample Survey Organisation. And they say that rural households accounted for 63 per cent of the country’s overall aggregate outstanding debt of Rs 1,77,000 crore.

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Delhi police on Friday registered a case of forgery, cheating and criminal conspiracy against unknown persons in connection with the allegations levelled by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav .

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An unsigned statement received by local newspapers, warning of more blasts, even human bombs, in the city on Saturday has sent the police into a tizzy. The statement was faxed to four-five local newspapers late .

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The Congress today rejected Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav's charge that Sonia Gandhi had ordered tapping of telephones of Samajwadi Party leaders. "It is a baseless and unwarranted allegation.

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A 22-year-old preparing for the Indian Engineering Services exam jumped to his death from a building in South Delhi this afternoon leaving behind a note that said he was committing suicide because he was not able to “study properly’’.

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Bajaj Auto plans to introduce two-three variants of some of its existing models of two-wheelers next year.The Regional Manager of Bajaj Auto, Soumyo Dutta Gupta, told a news conference on Thursday .

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Union Bank of India plans to raise Rs 500 crore through a follow-on public issue of equity shares before the the end of February 2006. The equity issue is part of the Rs 2,000 crore total capital requirement the bank has envisaged over the next three years, said K Cherian Varghese, chairman, Union Bank, today.

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In the wake of mass resignation of pilots from its low-cost airline Air-India Express, national carrier Air-India has decided to revise the salary structure of pilots of Air-India Express, making it at par with other airlines in the industry, including legacy carriers.

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The controversy over LK Advani’s resignation due to dilution of the party’s ideology and relations with the Sangh parivar is not new. This was there even during the BJP’s first plenary in 1980 in Mumbai.

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All good news have flip sides. The discount drive may have hit an all-time high in December but interest rates on auto loans are also hardening alongside. According to sources in the auto financing circuit.

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To be sure, it looked a mismatch from the start: headstrong captain + headstrong coach = spontaneous combustion. It took a few weeks before the world of cricket was rocked by allegations and counter-charges.

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Security forces on Friday averted a major tragedy by recovering a landmine near Indo-Pak border in Ramgarh forward belt, 40 km from Jammu, official sources said.

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The Indian Railways are ringing in the New Year with a path-breaking policy reform: The long-awaited privatisation of rail-based container transportation.

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The Union Government today ruled out divesting its stake in state-owned Rashtriya Chemicals and Fertilizers Ltd (RCF) and National Fertilizers Ltd.There is no proposal before the ministry to divest stake in RCF .

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Amidst some differences over the gas pricing issue, India and Iran had ‘fruitful’ interactions over the $7 billion plus Iran-Pakistan-India natural gas pipeline project. 

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Sebi board set to consider proposal today.  The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) is likely to revive the Mapin system which was abandoned earlier this year, albeit in a different avatar.  
 
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UTI AMC, the largest and the oldest mutual fund in the country, today saw the chairpersons of its four sponsors meet together at the Mumbai headquarters for the first time.

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India's stock market regulator on Thursday proposed permitting institutional investors to sell shares short to provide a level playing field to all classes of investors.An advisory committee of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) said short selling .

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The Cabinet today approved the agreement for South Asian Free Trade Area (Safta), which will come into force from 1 January 2006. “This is a comprehensive agreement,” the finance minister, Mr P Chidambaram.

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Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Black, starring Amitabh Bachchan and Rani Mukherjee, has been selected as one of the world’s 10 best movies of 2005 by Time magazine. An unofficial remake of the 1962 US film .

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The Union Cabinet today cleared a package comprising enhanced ex gratia and relief and rehabilitation assistance to the victims of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, amounting to around Rs 715 crore.

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The Delhi Congress today formed a four-member committee for better political coordination between the party and the government, and suggest a solution to the ongoing demolition drive on unauthorised constructions.

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K Dhanasekharan, a DMK councillor who was recently arrested in connection with the December 18 stampede in the city which claimed 43 lives, was tonight booked under the Goondas Act.

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Kolkata city might see automobiles operating on compressed natural gas (CNG). "A private entrepreneur has approached us, claiming that they are in a position to bring in CNG into Kolkata.

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Apparently perturbed by the increasing clout of the Left parties in the government, several constituents of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) are toying with the idea of forming a separate bloc within the coalition. 

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India's stock market regulator on Thursday proposed permitting institutional investors to sell shares short to provide a level playing field to all classes of investors.

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Unprecedented snowfall and subsequent avalanches killed hundreds of people in the Waltengo area of south Kashmir earlier this year. Even as victims of other natural disasters received aid, residents of this area were largely neglected.

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Navy divers have sighted two metallic boxes eight-10 nautical miles off Mumbai port which could be the consignments of over 100 tonnes of explosives that went missing from a merchant ship last week, Union Home Secretary VK Duggal said on Thursday.

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The BMC has decided to get rid of all the roadside bins in which housing societies in Mumbai dump their garbage in an attempt to keep the city clean.So far, the BMC has removed 25 per cent of the bins across the city.

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In a rare revelation, Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Thursday said her late husband Rajiv always wanted her to contest elections and become an MP.In an interview to NDTV's Barkha Dutt, the Congress chief.

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 The chairman of the Bihar Public Service Commission and eight others have been arrested in connection with a recruitment scam.The charges against them include massive irregularities found in a departmental exam carried out in 2003.

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Former PM A.B. Vajpayee's Thursday announcement, bidding goodbye to electoral politics, will not throw the BJP into a tizzy as it had done (twice) when the NDA was in power.

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A four-member committee has been formed to explore possibilities of bringing an ordinance in the capital to regularize buildings and stop the demolition drive.

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Non-Left allies of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) are getting together to form a pressure group within the ruling coalition. Parties like the RJD, TRS, JMM and the NCP have decided to informally meet in the first week of January to form the special pressure group.

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The dance bar issue is back in the limelight with the recent arrest of 11 girls from a Mumbai dance bar. The police have also arrested the bar owner, bar employees and a few customers.

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December 13, 2001, Parliament House, Delhi, and Dec. 28, 2005, IISc, Bangalore. All the evidence found on Thursday indicates that the same hand could have executed both attacks.

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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will inaugurate the Delhi Metro's Line three today.The line three of the metro starts at Barakhamba Road and ends at Dwaraka.

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