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Punjab Cricket Association curator Daljit Singh wants the Board of Control for Cricket in India to invest their mega bucks in research work for pitches.

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Both the Houses were adjourned on Wednesday for the day after the Opposition members, led by the BJP, disrupted proceedings, blaming the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government for the bomb blasts in Varanasi.

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An Indian film is to be directed by a Pakistani for the first time ever, deepening cultural links between the neighbours while their diplomats struggle to push forward a slow-moving peace process.

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Indian cricket captain Rahul Dravid and his Pakistani counterpart Inzamam-ul-Haq have been selected to become spokesmen for 'Sport for Development and Peace' at the United Nations.

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You can run but not hide. High net worth individuals who have been splurging, but evading taxes, are in for trouble. Annual information returns by banks, credit card companies and mutual funds have yielded data on transactions by 15 lakh HNIs in ’04-05, totalling Rs 11 lakh crore — a third of India’s GDP.

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Global IT major IBM Inc Wednesday announced the setting up a global business solution centre here to provide a range of services to its clients worldwide.

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Lakshmi Mittal, chairman and chief executive officer of the Mittal Steel Company, has been named the recipient of the 2007 Dwight D. Eisenhower Global Leadership Award by the New York-based Business Council for International Understanding.

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The markets continue to trade choppy in noon deals with the benchmark index trading at 10,519 levels.

It slipped to a low of 10,376 levels in intra-day trade.

In the broader markets, the Nifty, is trading flat at 3113 levels.

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A hitherto unknown militant outfit, Lashkar-e-Qahab, on Thursday claimed responsibility for Tuesday’s twin blasts in Varanasi in which 20 people were killed and over 50 injured.

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Former Shiv Sena leader Raj Thackeray on Thursday launched a new political party “Maharashtra Navnirman Sena.”

Thackeray, who quit Shiv Sena in late 2005 , announced formation of the new political outfit au a press conference in Mumbai.

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A.R. Rahman says the music for the lavish stage production of ''The Lord of the Rings'' opening in Canada this month has a unique flavor due to his collaboration with Finnish folk group Varttina.

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Bollywood leading man Shah Rukh Khan tells a film magazine that song-and-dance numbers are unique to Indian cinema and should not be dropped to appeal to international audiences. Critics often complain that songs, which pop up as dream sequences in most Indian movies, need to be curtailed since audiences overseas find them irrelevant to the plot.

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A video cassette of a marriage ceremony, which was on at the Sankatmochan temple last evening when the first bomb exploded, has images of a man with a “strange beard” trying to pass himself off as a sadhu.

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Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba militant outfit, whose member was shot dead in an encounter with police near Lucknow on Wednesday, appeared prima facie behind the blasts in Varanasi, a senior Uttar Pradesh government official said in Varanasi on Wednesday.

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After a steady start, England lost its first wicket, that of Andrew Strauss, as the batsman chased a very wide Irfan Pathan delivery outside off stump and the snick was caught low by a diving Dhoni. 

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The government is contemplating issuing a notice to a foreign magazine, Maxim, for allegedly creating morphed pictures of CPM leader Brinda Karat. "The Minister of Information and Broadcasting shall not sit with his eyes shut if the honour of the Indian woman is compromised.

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Currency options could not have been put to a better use than now. With interest rate on rupee funds shooting up sharply in the last two months, hedging instrument like currency swaps have registered a volume of $1.25

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 The Election Commission recommendation to disqualify actor Jaya Bachchan as a Rajya Sabha MP on the grounds she holds an office of profit was being studied, President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam said on Wednesday.

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Former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief L.K. Advani on Wednesday said he would undertake a "yatra" (journey) to protest what he termed as the "minoritism" of the central government that had "dangerous consequences for the country".

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 Industrial Development Bank of India (IDBI) today signed a memorandum of understanding with Brussels-based banking and insurance firm, Fortis, for setting up a life insurance joint venture.

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Meningococcemia, the highly infectious brain fever, has hit Delhi again with 313 people suspected of contracting the disease.The bacterial infection causes high fever in just a few hours and can prove fatal if not treated quickly.

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Birlas want Tatas to reduce stake in Idea Cellular.India’s two top business houses appear headed for a showdown over their joint holding in Idea Cellular, with the AV Birla group urging the government to direct the Tatas.

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State-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited on Wednesday slashed international long distance call rates to Rs 6 a minute, with 10 seconds pulse, for users opting One India tariff plan.

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The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) has said it will launch a nationwide campaign for social reforms among the Muslims.Speaking after a working committee meeting today, AIMPLB Joint Secretary .

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he Delhi police are all set to go public with a list of police officials who tampered with evidence in the Jessica Lal murder case.The list will be part of the appeal against the recent acquittal of all nine accused in the case.

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The controversy over the fate of 37 breakaway MLAs of the BSP further thickened today following the ruling of UP Assembly Speaker Mata Prasad Pandey that status quo would be maintained in the House.

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In the wake of the 600 acres of land being available in the Central Mumbai for real estate activity after the SC ruling, Union Urban Development Minister Jaipal Reddy today said development of this mill land will not be restricted to construction of shopping malls and cineplexes alone.

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It's not known whether Nagesh Kukunoor had actually heard of Munaf Patel before making Iqbal, the much acclaimed movie that inspires you to chase your dreams, as if they do come true.

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 A day after hurling a Rs 82-crore question at the Sharad Pawar-led BCCI dispensation over TV rights issue, Jagmohan Dalmiya today took the legal route to the BCCI show-cause and immediately tasted success.

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The finance ministry on Wednesday clarified that service tax would not be leviable on holders of credit cards, debit cards, charge cards and other payment cards who use the automated teller machine (ATM) for cash withdrawal.

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Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance Co has proposed to focus more on the rural market in an effort to shore up its business volumes.The company, which believes that the rural economy will provide it with considerable growth opportunities in the days ahead.

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The government is considering an amendment to the real estate policy to allow multinational companies to purchase, own and transfer “existing” immovable properties in the country.

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 Honda Motorcycles and Scooters India Ltd (HMSI) Wednesday announced it will invest Rs.4 billion in India in the next three years to hike production capacity of two-wheelers to two million by 2010.

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Reliance Petroleum, a unit of Reliance Industries that plans to sell 1.8 billion shares in an IPO to raise up to $1.3 billion, has been valued for upto $8.5 billion or Rs 83 per share by global banking major HSBC.

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On Board President's special aircraft: India will have abundant nuclear fuel in the next 6-7 years for its thorium-based fast breeder nuclear reactors, President APJ Abdul Kalam said on Wednesday. Interacting .

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The outlawed ULFA hit out at the BJP today, holding it to be as responsible as the Asom Gana Parishad for the ‘‘secret killings’’ that took place during the Prafulla Kumar Mahanta regime.

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 A militant and a special police officer (SPO) were killed in separate incidents in Srinagar and Pulwama districts of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday.

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The state government on Wednesday formally issued the notification asking all DMs and SPs to start erasing all poll graffiti on walls across the State. Work has already started in districts like East Midnapore and Malda.

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As the holy city bravely put Tuesday’s terror behind it and went about its business normally, Special Task Force investigators gathered leads that indicated that the blasts may have been carried out by an LeT module.

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