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BANGALORE: Computer maker Dell expects to double the company's headcount in India to 20,000 over the next three years, its Founder and Chairman Michael S Dell said on Monday.

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Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan or Big B is back in action after months of battling illness.

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A woman in Bihar is faced with a difficult choice after her first husband returned from the dead.

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SUNDERGARH: The headmaster of an Orissa residential school has been arrested for sexually exploiting minor girl students.

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KOLKATA: CPM state secretary Anil Biswas is on life support. His condition is critical but stable, say doctors. Biswas had suffered a massive brain haemorrhage on Saturday night.

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A DOCTOR with fever and respiratory problems was under observation as the administration in Jalgaon completed the culling of tens of thousands of birds to contain a second outbreak of avian flu, officials said on Sunday. The latest outbreak in Jalgaon was the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of bird flu, but it has not infected people so far.

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The 300-km long Jammu-Srinagar national highway has been closed for traffic after landslides caused by heavy and incessant overnight rains.

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Raipur, March 20: Two policemen were killed and 16 injured, two of them seriously, in a landmine blast and ambush by Naxalites in Rajnandgaon district of Chhattisgarh, police said today.

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After 34 years at the helm of one of the most successful cooperatives, Verghese Kurien, the architect of the White Revolution, has stepped down as Chairman of the Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation.

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BERHAMPUR: The death toll in the suspected hooch tragedy in Ganjam district has risen to 14 with three deaths being reported from the MKCG medical college hospital, official sources said.

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For the first time, the entry-level salaries for IT-enabled services industry have started showing differentiation with companies paying more for graduates who have majored in specialised areas with distinction.

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The Bombay Stock Exchange's Benchmark 30-share Index (Sensex) on Monday opened with a bang and headed towards the crucial 11,000 mark, driven by sustained fund inflows into equity.

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NEW DELHI: Sugar prices are expected to show a rising trend as consumption is likely to outstrip production in ’05-06 sugar year, an economic think tank has said. “We expect the rising trend in sugar prices to continue,” Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) said in its latest report.

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A fresh case of bird flu in Maharashtra has ruffled up chicken feathers again. More like the lull before a storm, chicken prices which were stabilizing , have again plummeted following incidents of bird-flu in Maharashtra during the last few days.
 

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Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh's petition seeking a judicial probe into the telephone tapping issue comes up for hearing on Monday.

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At least two policemen have been killed and 10 others injured in a landmine explosion in central Indian state of Chhattisgarh, officials say.

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NEW DELHI: Former Union Minister and Delhi BJP strongman Madan Lal Khurana on Monday accused party chief Rajnath Singh of working under the influence of a "coterie" close to senior leader LK Advani.

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The BJP today suspended former Union minister Madan Lal Khurana from the primary membership of the party hours after he said he would attend expelled party leader Uma Bharti's March 21 rally here.

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Bangladeshi Prime Minister Khaleda Zia is due to begin a key visit to India on Monday, her first to her neighbour since taking office in 2001.

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MELBOURNE: India’s gold count at the Commonwealth Games continued as shooters added more medals to the kitty. Tejaswini Sawant and Avneet Kaur Sidhu won the gold and the silver respectively in the women's 10 m air rifle shooting event on Monday.

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A tea plantation worker and his four children were beheaded in Assam by a mob which accused them of practising black magic, police said on Sunday.Sixty-year-old Amir Munda, who was also a traditional healer, his two sons and two daughters were killed by angry villagers .

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In the biggest drive to curb oil adulteration in the country, Union petroleum minister Murli Deora on Sunday announced that public sector oil marketing companies (OMCs) had agreed to stringent, deadline-based five-pronged measures to check oil adulteration in the country.

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Actress Katrina Kaif says Amitabh Bachchan has been the greatest influence on her brief career in Bollywood but the one star she longs to work with is Hrithik Roshan."I get tired and Amitji is still full of energy and still standing on the sets. It's amazing to see that kind of dedication .

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Three suspected Babbar Khalsa terrorists were arrested in north-west Delhi early on Monday morning, police sources said. Paramjit Singh, a close associate of Babbar Khalsa international chief Jagtar Singh Hawara, and his accomplices Jasbir and Bhupender, were arrested from Nanglipura area around 6 am, they said.

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Initial public offers (IPOs) of three unlisted public sector banks are expected to hit the capital markets in the coming fiscal. The government is planning to list Central Bank, United Bank of India and Indian Bank, in which it owns 100% stake.

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Bharti and the Shyam group have emerged as suitors for Telecommunications Consultants India’s (TCIL) 30% stake in Bharti Hexacom, the largest cellular mobile operator in Rajasthan. Bharti Teletec, a Bharti group company, has quoted Rs 125 crore for the TCIL stake, while Shyam  an original promoter has bid Rs 150 crore.

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 Tamil Nadu is considered the hub of technical education in India, with people from all parts of the country seeking a degree from the various institutions in the state. But it seems the brand has grown bigger than the product.

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Karan Razdan's two back-to-back ready-for-release films Souten and Eight Shani almost made it to the green signal, when they ran into censor trouble.“It was the animal welfare activists,” the flustered director explains. “

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India's Mohd. Zakir Asadullah showed no signs of nervousness despite a strong field to give India a silver medal in the 77kg category of the Commonwealth Games weightlifting competition here on Sunday. With this silver, India's tally has gone up to six two gold, three silver and one bronze.

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The Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) will invest Rs. 50,000 crores in the Coastal Special Economic Zone (CSEZ) planned in Mangalore, apart from the investment by other industries. This was stated by ONGC Chairman Subir Raha, who is also chairman of Mangalore Refineries and Petrochemicals Limited and the CSEZ Committee.

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 The Congress is hopeful of reaching an agreement with Karunakaran's Democratic Indira Congress party well before the filing of nominations for the Kerala polls.But with Karunakaran keeping the heat on the Congress, the party may find it difficult to plunge into campaigning just yet.

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Former Shiv Sena leader Raj Thackeray launched his political outfit Maharashtra Navnirman Samiti (MNS) at a massive rally in Mumbai.Raj, who quit Shiv Sena three months ago, said he stood firm on his stand of opposing those from outside states who were "encroaching" on railway jobs meant for Maharashtrians.

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The Supreme Court will decide on the filing of a chargesheet against Bahujan Samajwadi Party chief Mayawati in the Taj Corridor scam. Earlier, the SC directed the Central Vigilance Commission to scrutinise the case.

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Young IAF pilots prefer Mirages over F-16s. But the Mirage assembly lines are now being shut down. Though French defence minister Michele Alliot-Marie told her Indian counterpart Pranab Mukherjee last month that the lines could be kept open if India gave "firm indications", France itself is pushing the Rafale now.

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The unthinkable happened on the second day - Sachin Tendulkar was booed by fans in his home ground and in a Test match that is a landmark in his illustrious career. Anguish writ large on his face, his eyes downcast, the batting legend walked back to the Indian dressing room .

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Continuing his offensive against the Congress-led government for indulging in "politics of minorityism" for "vote-bank politics", leader of opposition L K Advani on Sunday set the stage for his proposed National Integration Yatra by saying .

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