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Infosys Technologies Ltd would be hiring a whopping 25,000 people during the current fiscal year (2006-07) for ramping up its total employees' strength to over 75,000, a top company official said here on Friday.

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Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee would transfer fast attack craft 'INS Tillanchang' to Maldives on April 16 during his two-day visit to that country beginning April 15.

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Greenpeace activists who have been monitoring a turtle camp in Orissa this entire mass-nesting season have counted over 3000 dead Olive Ridley turtles outside the sanctuary area.

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President APJ Abdul Kalam on Friday greeted the people on the occasion of Naba Barsh, Puthandu Pirappu, Rangoli Bihu and Vishu celebrated in different parts of the country as New Year.

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The Andhra Pradesh High Court has come down heavily on the striking junior doctors in the state, telling them they can leave the country if they don't trust the Indian healthcare system.

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Veteran Congress leader and former Union Minister ABA Ghani Khan Chowdhury died at a city nursing home on Friday of multi-organ failure following acute pancreatitis. He was 79.

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Actor Aamir Khan was out in the Capital today expressing his solidarity for various groups that have been camping in Delhi to make their voice heard.
Aamir met the survivors of the Bhopal gas tragedy.

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At least two people have been killed and 17 others injured in four grenade attacks in Srinagar.
In the first attack, a hand grenade was thrown at a BSF vehicle at Exchange Road, near the JKPCC headquarters in the busy Lal Chowk area.

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Bankers expect Reserve Bank of India to hike its short term interest rates by 0.25 per cent next week to contain price rise as economic growth and credit demand continues to be robust.

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Tooth powder, lantern, tyre, mosquito net, instrument box for students, pressure cooker, bicycle pump, pen, pencil, sharpner and blade may become expensive as they are among the 54 items on which excise duty exemptions are proposed to be lifted.

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A Delhi court has framed charges against Sukhdev, alias Pehelwan, the third accused in the Nitish Katara murder case.
Sukhdev has been charged with kidnapping and destruction of evidence."Charges have been framed against Sukhdev and this will lead to his trial in court," said B K Joon, Public Prosecutor.

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Acting on Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's orders, police have instituted an inquiry into an allegation of sexual exploitation against an IPS officer of Bihar cadre.
Ajitabh Kumar Das, a 1994 batch IPS officer, presently posted as commandant of Bihar.
 

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After 109 people became infected with a potentially-blinding fungal eye infections in the US, Bausch & Lomb’s lens solution — ReNu with MoistureLoc — has come under the scanner. Following reports that most of those infected had used the product, the company stopped shipments but not sales of the solution.

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Eight persons, including a police constable, died as mobs ran riot in Bangalore on Thursday while lakhs paid homage to Kannada superstar Rajkumar who was buried with state honours.

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For the first time in West Bengal, the Election Commission has decided to install digital cameras at sensitive booths and where voters do not have photo identity cards for the assembly elections beginning on April 17 to check electoral malpractices.

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The Maharashtra government will approach the Supreme Court against the Bombay High Court's decision of lifting the ban on dance bars in the state.
The state government will challenge the High Court's view that its ban on the dance bars discriminated against dance performances in bars and hotels.

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Director David Dhawan was forced to postpone the Canada schedule of his film 'Partner' because of Salman Khan being jailed for three days in Jodhpur for killing a chinkara deer. But David isn't really bothered about it and says he is only thinking of Salman's welfare.

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The rise in home loan rates is going to affect nine out of 10 borrowers, according to a National Housing Bank (NHB) study. Acceding to the study, which mapped a whopping 6.5 lakh loan accounts of specialised housing finance companies (HFCs), 93.5% of home loans are floating rate loans.

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The textile industry has the potential to create 50 lakh new jobs and is all set to become a $40-50bn industry by ’15 in Tamil Nadu, according to a recent CII study on ‘Mapping of Human Resource Skills in Tamil Nadu ’15’.
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After NDTV ran a series on how thousands of people were affected because the anti-rabies vaccine was not available in government hospitals, the Central government has cleared the way for a cheaper and much safer vaccine.

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As acknowlegdements go, this was as candid as PM Manmohan Singh could get. Over 160 districts periodically slipping out of the State's control to become 'liberated zones' under Naxalites. Thousands of armed cadre who no longer deal in isolated attacks, but are resorting to large strikes and have forged external links.

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The Allahabad High Court on Thursday stayed an order of Chief Judicial Magistrate of Kanpur to issue summons to Ratan Tata of Tata Teleservices in a criminal case of fraud filed by one JP Telecommunications.

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