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After Sania Mirza's win in the women's singles semi-finals, there was more joy for India from the tennis courts as top-seeds Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi advanced to the final of the men's doubles event at the Doha Asian Games on Tuesday.

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Salman Khan was the best thing about ‘Baabul’ and ‘Jaaneman’ (his last two releases). He is looking like a dream, the humour is not forced any more and the manner in which he has dealt with children in both the films has been very endearing.

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Lakshya, a pilotless target aircraft, was test flown from a range near here at around noon on Tuesday, defence sources said. The aircraft was tested from the integrated test range at Chandipur, 15 km from here.

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West Bengal Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi today asked Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee to end her fast against the acquisition of farm land for industries and to work with the Government to evolve long-term norms for land use.

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On December 13, 2001, in a suicidal attack terrorists stormed Parliament House, the very symbol of Indian democracy. In a bloody, hour-long gunbattle, five policemen, a Parliament security guard and a gardner were killed, 18 others were injured before the attackers were all killed.

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Conceding that to-be-released Hindi film 'Bhagam Bhag' is a remake of Malayalam film `Mannar Mathai Speaking', actor Suniel Shetty and others have reached an out of court settlement for Rs 75 lakhs over the alleged copyright violation dispute.

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Sania Mirza upset top seed Na Li of China to storm into the final of the women's singles tennis event at the Asian Games here today. The fourth seeded Indian thrashed her Chinese opponent 6-2 6-2 in the semifinal at the Khalifa complex.

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The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Tuesday rejected an application moved by Monica Bedi, companion of gangster Abu Salem, for suspension of the judgement of a CBI court giving five years imprisonment in a fake passport case.

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An Indian worker was killed and 20 others were injured when steel girdles fell from a crane at a worksite in Bahrain. The accident happened at the Bahrain City Centre shopping complex project on Monday while workers were taking their lunch break.

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Cooperation in civil nuclear energy and comprehensive economic engagement will be high on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's agenda as he embarks on a four-day trip to Japan from Wednesday.

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The country's industrial output growth trickled to 6.2 per cent in October, the lowest this fiscal, on account of a slowdown in manufacturing production.

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South Africa Chairman of Selectors Haroon Logat has said that he believes that the Proteas will whitewash the Indians in the Test series starting this Friday.

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The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) which sought a ban on the publication of obscene and nude photographs in newspapers of the country.

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Pakistan today said it had never claimed Kashmir as an integral part of its territory and the dispute is about "aspirations" of Kashmiris. "First of all Pakistan does not claim Kashmir. Kashmir dispute is about aspirations of Kashmiris," Pakistan foreign office spokesperson, Tasnim Aslam said.

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The Bombay High Court’s order in case of more than 16502 cess buildings has been basically directed towards putting an end to indiscriminate reconstruction drive by landlords to raze down private, category ‘A’ cess buildings in island city and to construct multi storey towers.

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The main Opposition BJP on Tuesday decided to shift its protest over Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's remarks about plans for minorities outside Parliament, citing other issues that it plans to raise in both houses before the session winds up.

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India's tennis sensation Sania Mirza stormed into the women's singles semifinal while the crack doubles duo of Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi also kept themselves on track for a gold medal in the Asian Games tennis events here yesterday.

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India will not allow external scrutiny of or interference with its strategic programme, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee said in the Lok Sabha today.

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The banned militant outfit of Assam - United Liberation of Assam (ULFA)- has been invited by the State Government "for a fresh round of talks and negotiations" to put an end to the phase of violence in the State.

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Seven persons were killed when the vehicle they were travelling in, skidded off the road and rolled down into a gorge at Panthyal on Jammu-Srinagar National Highway today.

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When the two Houses got adjourned on Monday without transacting any business, the total number of hours lost since this Lok Sabha (14th) was constituted added up to a staggering 192 hours.

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Finance Minister P Chidambaram today said the government is unlikely to divest its stake in any of the profitable public sector units in the near future. "Some months ago, Prime Minister (Manmohan Singh) put disinvestment on hold pending more consultations.

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The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed the desealing of a school in east Delhi which was sealed by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi as it was operating on encroached land.

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Dilapidated structures in Mumbai will now face the bulldozers only if they fit the Bombay High Court's new guidelines on reconstruction.

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Aishwarya Rai is not the only Bollywood star to be put on the Enforcement Directorate's radar for receiving money from a foreign country. There are 20 other Bollywood stars who have been facing ED scrutiny on similar grounds.

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Budget airline SpiceJet Ltd. plans to offer equity up to $80 million to 4-5 investors, a source close to the deal said on Tuesday.

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Forget about fiction bestsellers or celebrity memoirs, the hottest selling book at the Patna book fair is the Quran with more than 500 copies being bought - mostly by non-Muslims.

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In what could be the biggest private equity investment in the textile sector, Blue River Capital along with partners Brandot Investments and Argonaut Private Equity have invested Rs 105 crore in Coimbatore-based KPR Mill. KPR Mill is a Rs 450-crore integrated textile and apparel company, which owns spinning, knitting and garment making facilities in the southern city.

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While opposition BJP and key supporter CPI(M) attacked the Indo-US nuclear deal, Government and the Congress ruled out going back on it. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's statement in the Rajya Sabha last session was cited by the government to allay the fears in different quarters on the issue.

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Thousands of Dalits plan to forcibly enter the famous Chawanda Mata temple in Rajasthan's Bhilwara district on Tuesday where they are banned from worship.

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An alert guard foiled a theft of Rs 17 lakh from a UTI Bank ATM at Bhandup, West Mumbai. Two men were arrested, including an employee of the bank’s maintenance department in the case.

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An Israeli firm, Elbit Medical Imaging, is planning to invest $1bn in India to build a chain of hospitals, hotels, malls, offices and residential complexes.

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A meeting of the Congress Working Committee (CWC) is being held here today in the backdrop of the opposition to the Indo-US nuclear deal by the BJP as also the key supporter CPI(M).

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A journal submitted by a convict in the 1993 Mumbai terror bombings before a special court has brought out instances of alleged police brutality and torture of the accused and their families during the probe of India's worst terror act to date.

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The space shuttle Discovery has docked with the International Space Station (ISS) after two days of orbital pursuit. Mission specialist Sunita Pandya Williams, the second Indian origin woman to touch the stars after astronaut Kalpana Chawla, will stay at the ISS for another six months, along with other six members of the crew. The STS-116 crew entered the station to mark the start of joint operations with the Expedition 14 crew.

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No flight operations have taken place at the Indira Gandhi International Airport due to dense fog since wee hours on Tuesday morning.

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