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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has announced a compensation of Rs 1 lakh to the families of those killed in the Nalanda massacre on Thursday.

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Assam's 18-member council of ministers was sworn in on Friday, with Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi stating his "topmost priority" would be to resolve the insurgency and speed up development.

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A nondescript village near Ludhiana has been the scene of a mock battle by the Indian Army, which is staging one of its largest ever drills in Punjab to test the readiness of its troops in case of a war.
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A woman allegedly committed 'sati' by jumping on to the funeral pyre of her husband in Rari village of this district.

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Declaring that it was absolutely safe to eat chickens and eggs in the country, the government on Friday told the Rajya Sabha that there was no incident of human cases of bird flu since the outbreak of the disease a few months ago.

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With stories of entrance examination papers for IIMs, IITs and the UPSC being leaked and dozens of instances of cheating, can the country's National Open School be far behind?

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The Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (ADAG)-controlled Reliance Energy has finally bagged the much-talked-about metro rail project in Mumbai.

A consortium led by Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group company Reliance Energy and Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) on Thursday bagged the contract for Phase-I of the Rs 2,356-crore Mumbai Metro Rail project.

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Maharashtra Additional Chief Secretary Ashok Khot was arrested on Thursday.He was taken to the Malabar Hill Police Station and then to Sion Hospital for a medical check up, after which he spent the night at the Thane Prison.

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Things took an ugly turn in Patna even as the anti-quota protest by doctors and medical students entered its seventh day.The police resorted to lathicharge when the pro-reservation protestors turned violent.

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The Union Ministry for Health and Family Welfare on Thursday issued "termination notices" to senior residents in all medical colleges in Delhi. They have been given 24 hours to return to work after which the termination will come into effect.

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Rajasthan''s anti-conversion bill has run into problems as Governor Pratibha Patil refused to approve it after its passage in the budget session of the state assembly.

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The government of Mauritius has honoured the city-based cardiovascular surgeon Dr Devendra Saxena with the country`s highest national award.

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As nationwide protests against quota issue gained momentum, Empowered Group of Ministers today decided to increase the number of seats for OBCs while leaving the general category seats untouched. A decision was taken to implement the scheme in a phased manner.

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Mumbai has begun the journey to catch up with Calcutta in one of the few cool experiences it still can’t offer: that of fast, cheap commuting in comfort.

The Maharashtra government today cleared the decks for construction to start for the city’s first metro rail link — a stretch of 11.4 km — between the western suburbs of Versova-Andheri and Ghatkopar in the east.

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RAILWAY MINISTER Lalu Prasad Yadav will inaugurate the gauge conversion work on the rail track from Kanpur to Anwarganj and Farrukhabad in Kanpur on Friday.

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Striking doctors and medical students tonight held a meeting with Minister of State without Portfolio Oscar Fernandes and conveyed their decision to continue with the anti-OBC reservation agitation as they were not satisfied with the government''s suggestions on the contentious issue.

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Infosys Technologies, Reliance Industries, Hindustan Lever, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) and ICICI Bank are responsible for the record 826.38-point crash in the Sensex on Thursday.

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Agitated members of Lok Sabha, on Friday, flayed the Delhi High Court ruling on the demolition drive in the capital as "contempt" of Parliament as Government asserted it will do everything possible legally and constitutionally to retrieve the situation.

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After a firm opening on Friday, the benchmark index slipped into the red. It touched a low of 11,003 levels.Buying at lower levels helped it recover losses. It is hovering at 11,331 levels in noon deals.

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Tata Motors Ltd., India's third-largest car maker, said on Thursday it aims to launch a cheap, small car in 2008, which it will make at a plant in West Bengal.

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Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) today announced an alliance with UTI Bank to provide annuity debit cards to its customers for disbursement of annuity and pension payments. 
 
LIC, which has 75 per cent market share in the insurance segment, will offer annuity cards to its 1.75 lakh pension customers in Mumbai on a pilot basis.

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ONGC will invest Rs 950 crore to extract coal bed methane (CBM) in Jharkhand and West Bengal. The board of the oil & gas giant has approved the investment plan for exploration and development of CBM in six blocks in these two states.

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Expressing solidarity with medical students and doctors, Delhi University students have joined in the anti-reservation protests.DU students will hold a protest march in North Campus, which will be addressed by motivational guru Shiv Khera.

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Mumbai train commuters are in for some hard days as nearly 475 local trains will be off tracks over the next four days.

Railway authorities are working on building two additional lines to improve the situation.

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High level representatives of India and its six partners in the International Thermonuclear Energy Reactor (ITER) will meet here on May 24 to finalise an agreement to establish the ITER fusion energy project.

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Mittal Steel officially launched its euro21bn ($27bn) offer for rival Arcelor, seeking a tie-up that would join the world’s two largest steelmakers into a global titan.

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The anti quota protest by doctors and medical students has entered its seventh day.

The AIIMS faculty has decided to observe a one-day hunger strike in support of the doctors and students who are already striking.

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Chasing 252 to win, India have defeated West Indies by five wickets in the first one-day international at Sabina Park in Kingston on Thursday.

In what can be called an absolute cliffhanger of sorts, the Men in Blue achieved the target in the penultimate ball of the match.

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Dabhoi town of Vadodara district continued to be tense after bodies of two children were recovered from a car of a local VHP leader on Thursday.

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The Government on Thursday said that telecom public sector unit BSNL had been accorded the 'Mini Ratna' category-I status.

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More than 100 illegal shrines in the city have come under the scanner of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Council, which has begun demolishing these structures after a complaint from an NGO.

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