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Dhampur Sugar Mills Ltd on Monday declared a 10 per cent dividend for 2004-05. The company has approved the expansion plans with an investment of Rs 405 crore including a greenfield sugar project.

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Indian shares ended flat on Monday, retreating from an all-time high, but aluminium makers led by National Aluminium Co. and Hindalco Ltd. gained after they raised metal prices for January.

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The Church in Tamil Nadu is divided over support for chief minister Jayalalithaa's scheme for providing free lunches in churches, inaugurated in a sample of seven places of worship on Christmas Eve with a promise to extend to 100 churches across the state.

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The Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam will approach the Assembly election taking into consideration lessons from the past and the future of the party. "Our steps will be measured," said the MDMK general secretary Vaiko at a press conference here on Sunday.

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'Do not forget the brethren back home'.This is the message the Government of India wants to convey to all Indians across the globe.The Ministry of Overseas Indians Affairs hopes to make the fourth Pravasi Bharatiya Divas 2006  .

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Srinagar experienced season’s first snowfall on Monday morning. The snowfall led to the closure of the Srinagar-Jammu national Highway, the only road linking the Kashmir valley with the rest of the country at Jawahar tunnel.

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Six persons, including a police constable, were killed and several others injured in a clash with tribals at Kalinga Nagar, a developing industrial hub in Orissa's Jajpur district, on Monday, police said.

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Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh’s telephone conversations had been recorded for over two months by a private detective in New Delhi’s South Extension.

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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s worst nightmare came alive on the first day of the New Year. Six members of a poor, Extremely Backward Caste family a pregnant woman and her five children were burnt alive early this morning.

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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today ordered a high-level inquiry into the arson incident at Ram Shyamchand village in Vaishali district last night, in which six members of a family, were burnt alive.

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The long-awaited South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA), paving way for free trade of goods among countries of the region, came into being today but Pakistan was yet to complete the formality of ratifying it.

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Nearly a month after her expulsion from BJP, Uma Bharti was on Monday declared an unattached member in the Madhya Pradesh Assembly.Making the announcement in the Assembly, Speaker Ishwardas Rohani informed .

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Authorities in Orissa have asked people not to visit a village temple for the sacrifice of animals and birds as part of a bizarre annual ritual, an official said on Monday. The district administration has imposed the prohibitory order in Khairguda village in the western district of Bolangir .

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The market ended the year 2005 with a vengeance. Along with BSE Sensex, four other sectoral indices BSE Oil, BSE FMCG, BSE Capital and BSE Mid Cap too ended on a record high.

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India's state-run Bank of Baroda said on Monday it was raising interest rates by 25 basis points on term deposits maturing from 181 days to less than five years. It will offer 5.25 per cent for deposits maturing between 181 days to less than 1 year and 6.00 per cent .

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An amount of Rs 50 lakh that has been sanctioned towards the Journalists Welfare Fund is pending clearance from the Finance Department, Chief Minister N Dharam Singh said on Saturday.

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Several small plywood factories and godowns spread over 20,000 sq ft area near the city's business hub Burra Bazar were reduced to ashes early on Monday in a devastating fire, Fire Brigade sources said.

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Unable to carry out sustained operations against the Naxals, the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) deployed in all states affected by leftist extremism has raised a Special Operations Group within itself.

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A woman and her five children were burnt alive by some persons at Raghopur in Vaishali district in the wee hours today for apparently refusing to withdraw a complaint of theft.

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In a move aimed at decongesting air traffic at the six metro airports, the Airports Authority of India (AAI) has announced a 50 per cent reduction in the night parking charges that airlines will be charged at major non-metro airports.

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You can now call anyone, anytime, anywhere in India for just Re1 a minute. Or less. Reliance Infocomm, one of India’s largest mobile services operators, on Sunday announced a ‘one-nation, one tariff’ scheme.

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At a time when Karan Rastogi was getting his nappy pads changed, Australian Pat Cash won his only Grand Slam tile - Wimbledon in the year 1987. This incidentally was the only statistic Karan knew .

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The Anil Ambani group is considering a major restructuring of the promoter stakes in its three major telecom companies in an attempt to reduce multiple shareholding and unveil a clearer holding structure, top industry sources said.
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The Forward Bloc has come up with a proposal to honour its founder Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose. It wants the government to declare Netaji's birthday January 23 as Patriotism Day or Desh Prem Divas and is asking its party workers to bombard the Prime Minister's office with letters urging him to do so.

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In eastern Tamil Nadu, PR Puram is seen as a model village where alcoholic drinks are banned by its residents. The rare situation in the village in coastal Nagapattinam district is a far cry from conditions a few years ago.

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All ULFA cadres desirous of visiting the state on Bhogali Bihu, the harvest festival of Assam, will get a 14-day safe passage period beginning January 7, announced Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi here today.

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The cold snap, sweeping vast swathes of North India, has claimed four more lives pushing the death count this winter to 100.The latest casualties were from Uttar Pradesh. The state so far has seen more than 80 people die due to the cold.

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Delhi Police’s dismal record on handling crime against women was carried into the new year after a 27-year-old married woman allegedly gangraped by three men in a moving car in Narela yesterday had to wait overnight to get a case registered.

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Almost 200 boys in the Dongri Remand Home in Mumbai have been put under lock after a few teenage inmates went on a rampage on Saturday.The boys, all under the age of 18, ran amok after some staff .

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A police sub-inspector, Vijay Kamble, has been taken into custody for allegedly murdering his wife Alka at Nehru Nagar. Kamble had filed a complaint on Saturday where he stated that his wife had gone missing.

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The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has sealed 15 godowns in north Delhi in connection with the newsprint scam.More than 20,000 metric tonnes of paper has been seized so far.

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A three-member delegation of the Hurriyat Conference led by Mirwaiz Omar Farooq will leave for Pakistan on Monday. The delegation is slated to meet Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz.

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Riot-affected families in Gujarat are demanding that the CBI investigate the disappearance of all those who went missing after the post-Godhra riots.
Residents of the Gulberg society in Ahmedabad where several families .

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 Many Shiv Sena workers have begun to defect to the Raj Thackeray camp after his resignation from the party.The Sena is now beginning to feel the full impact more than a fortnight after Raj Thackeray set off on a separate political course.

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Central security agencies have established links between the mastermind of the attack on Indian Institute of Sciences in Bangalore and Pakistan-based terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba, sources said.

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Rajnath Singh formally took charge as the BJP President on Monday morning. He is the third party president in 15 months after Venkaiah Naidu stepped down as party president midway in October 2004, and LK Advani resigned on December 31.

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