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It is perhaps no surprise that in a country obsessed with one family, shameless nepotism shall go unreported. While RCA XI managed to defeat England in the warm-up ODI, thanks to a brilliant hundred from Md. Kaif, the Board Secretary Niranjan Shah’s son Jaydev Niranjan Shah opened for RCA XI. It is understandable that Niranjan Shah, who had a FC batting average of 11.70, feels that his son, with a first class average of 30 and List A average of 26, has done more than enough to get into the Indian side.

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Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav today justified allotment of land at a concessional rate to the Anil Ambani group for setting up a power project at Dadri, saying other states were ready to provide even better facilities to the industry house.

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Nalbari (Assam): Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, on an election tour to Assam, assured minorities that they have nothing to fear after the repeal of the IMDT Act.

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A sessions court on Wednesday ordered prime witness in the Best Bakery case Zaheera Sheikh to undergo one year imprisonment in a Mumbai jail as per the Supreme Court order for contempt of the court.

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NEW DELHI: Acting on a Supreme Court order, the MCD on Wednesday began sealing of commercial establishments in residential areas in the capital whose owners have failed to give a requisite undertaking amidst stiff opposition from the trading community.

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The local residents, including a priest, have reacted in a lukewarm manner to the yatra and believe it is politically motivated."It has been decided by priests here that we will not allow the rath yatra to enter Ayodhya.

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The men in olives want to go on a green drive. The Indian army wants to generate biofuel for its vehicles by cultivating Jethropa plant in its military farms. And it has got a leg-up in this unique venture from the Union Agriculture Ministry.

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In the first case of its kind in India, a wild baby deer has been born after artificial insemination of the mother without surgery.
Scientists are hoping they will next be able to do the same with endangered species like wild cats to ensure genetic variability in wild populations.

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Retail borrowers preferred over corporate clients who bargain hard over rates. 
The liquidity crunch has affected corporate term loans. Banks, particularly those in the public sector, are going slow in disbursing term loans and sanctioning fresh loans to companies till liquidity conditions improve. 

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I came back from a great weekend at Mahabaleshwar and was generally in a great mood when I picked up my weekend bunch of newspapers! The headlines blasted in my face…   

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North and northwest India will witness a partial solar eclipse on Wednesday. The eclipse will begin around 4.30 pm (IST) and end after 6 pm.

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MUMBAI: Exaggerated news reports on TV channels suggesting that Amitabh Bachchan has had a relapse and was back in hospital has the superstar smiling in slight exasperation.

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Bollywood star Hrithik Roshan became father of a boy on Tuesday. Both the mother and the child are fine.
Hrithik's wife Suzanne, who is daughter of actor Sanjay Khan, gave birth to a baby boy at a city hospital this afternoon,

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Delhi, that has begun preparing for the next Commonwealth Games it will host in 2010, could see improved street lighting as one of the first city improvement projects with help from Belgium.

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NEW DELHI: An area commander of terrorist outfit Hizbul Mujahideen has been arrested and large quantity of explosives seized from his possession in north Delhi, police said on Wednesday.
 

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NEW DELHI: CBI on Wednesday conducted raids at 37 places in Chennai and Pondicherry after allegations of malpractices by students appearing for the recent All India Post-Graduate examination held by the AIIMS.

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Senior Congress leader and former Haryana CM Bansi Lal died in New Delhi late Tuesday night.Lal, who was at the helm when Haryana was carved out of Punjab, shot into the limelight as a zealous enforcer of the Emergency.

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