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Seven people were killed and two others injured when a truck rammed into a temporary shelter put up by pilgrims in Kutch district of Gujarat.

Police said the accident took place late on Friday near Naliya town of Abdasa block in Kutch, about 450 km from here in northwest Gujarat.

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Twenty two-year-old Sonis Javed was found dead in a Gurgaon mall this morning after she fell from the third floor of the MGF mall.

Javed worked as a marketing manager for a company that owns two restaurants Iceberg and Sun City.

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The cancellation of the Karnataka leg of the Bharatiya Janata Party's `Bharat Suraksha Yatra' following the death of the Kannada matinee idol Rajkumar and the Meerut fire tragedy has been acknowledged as a right decision by the party's national leader L.K. Advani and the State party leadership.

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A 50-year old man in Orissa ended his marriage after his wife voted against him at a village meeting to decide on awarding a contract for a development project.

The incident took place at Tarito village, about 60 km from Bhubaneshwar.

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Dehri-on-sone: BJP president Rajnath Singh today sought to play down media reports that former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee had threatened to stay away from the party rally at Lucknow as he was upset with Leader of Opposition L K Advani’s remarks on the Kandahar hijack.

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The BJP is soon expected to announce its final candidate who will take on Congress President Sonia Gandhi in Rae Bareli.

With Vinay Katiyar having refused to contest against Gandhi, the party has faced a major turmoil over the issue.

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The striking junior doctors in Andhra Pradesh on Saturday partially called off the 10-day strike. The Post Graduate doctors are to attend emergency services.

Earlier in the day, junior doctors staged a dharna outside the governor's residence.

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Infosys, which has entered the 25th year of its existence on Friday, saw its founder chairman NR Narayana Murthy reminiscences about the very eventful journey and terms the silver jubilee year “as the stage to dream of even more bigger things.”

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Bollywood actor Salman Khan was on Saturday granted permission to travel abroad by the District and Sessions court.

Salman Khan moved an application through counsel H M Saraswat in the two courts where he is facing trial in cases under the Arms Act and Wildlife Protection Act.

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Yuvraj Singh and Suresh Raina continued the good work started by the openers, putting together 115 for the third wicket as India romped home by seven wickets to seal the seven-match one-day series 5-1.

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It’s the summer of flavours for the cola majors in India. The new theme that seems to be weighing on the minds of both Coca-Cola and Pepsi is ‘healthy indulgence’. And that, along with flavours, promises to occupy much of the cola battlefield this season.

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Even though the ban on dance bars has been lifted, bar owners are still waiting for permissions from the municipal authorities.

The police say they will not give out licences till they get a go ahead from the state.

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An alleged woman operative of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim's gang was arrested by Mumbai police in New Delhi, a top police official said on Saturday.

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Holding multinational companies responsible for the devastating fire tragedy here earlier this week, expelled BJP leader Uma Bharati on Saturday demanded that those companies be tried in a court of law.

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Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi will go on a hunger strike from Sunday in protest over the government's decision to suspend the raising of the Sardar Sarovar dam height.

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A couple have been found brutally murdered in Jaipur' posh Vaishali Nagar colony.

The bodies of the victims, Om Prakash and his wife Kalli Devi, were lying in the driveway of their house for most of the morning before the matter was reported to the police.

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Rioting by fans mourning the death of a local film icon will have cost the technology hub of Bangalore around $160 million, with software firms losing $40 million in revenues, the finance chief at Infosys Technologies Ltd. said on Friday.

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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and AIADMK supremo J Jayalalitha on Saturday filed her nomination papers to contest the May 8 Tamil Nadu Assembly polls from Andipatti constituency.

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Police in Jammu and Kashmir have arrested nine people in connection with Friday's multiple blasts in Srinagar.

Officials have claimed that the nine people were the ones who threw the grenades and were caught on close circuit television cameras.

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There were bomb scares at three places in Godhra on Saturday morning leading to panic in the eastern Gujarat town, but all of them turned out to be hoaxes.

According to police, there was a rumour of somebody having planted bombs in three places - Bank of Baroda, State Bank of India and the post office in the town of Godhra, 140 kilometres from here.

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Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy has lashed out at actor Aamir Khan, who appeared in his new avatar of environmental activist in New Delhi yesterday.

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Medical experts are fearing an outbreak of kala azar in Bihar, where over 3400 cases of the disease have been reported during the first three months of the year.

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 A slight intensity earthquake, measuring 4.8 on the richter scale, shook the India-Myanmar border region on Friday night.

The quake, occured at 9:55 pm on Friday, was epicentered at a latitude of 24 degree north and a longitude of 94.9 degree east, the Metrological office said.

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The deadlock between Hero Honda management, contractors and its contractual workers continues as the talks between the three parties do not appear to be heading for a consensus.

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The Jama Masjid, India's largest mosque, returned to its routine on Saturday after a day of panic sparked by twin bomb blasts that injured a dozen people but caused no damage to the mammoth 17th century structure.

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Pakistan-based terrorist outfit Jaish-e-Mohammad is responsible for the seven grenade attacks in the Kashmir valley on Friday and nine persons have been taken into custody in the state in connection with the explosions, Home Secretary V K Duggal said on Saturday.

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