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Turning nostalgic about the venue, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today paid tributes to former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, who delivered a public speech at the municipal grounds here before being assassinated 15 years ago on May 21.

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The Ashok Kumar Foundation, a trust formed in the memory of the late Ashok Kumar by his family, is organizing a charity concert, ‘Geeton Bhari Shaam – Dadamoni Ke Naam’, on June 3 at N.C.P.A., Mumbai. At the event, Dadamoni’s songs will be performed on stage by Usha Uthup. The concert will take a peep into the era of Ashok Kumar.

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The Government of India has invited the Lahore-based Pakistan Film Producers’ Association [P.F.P.A.] to India on June 25. Confirming the development, P.F.P.A. Vice-President Jamshed Zafar said, “We are all enthusiastic about visiting India and holding the screenings. It will be a pleasure to catch up with Indian culture and film folks in Mumbai and Delhi.”

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Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor, the Minister of Tourism, Malaysia officially launched the Global Indian Film Awards [G.I.F.A.] Kuala Lumpur 2006 in Sri Satria, Putrajaya on May 9.

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There is no smoke without fire. The finance minister may have played down the instruction proposed to be issued by the Central Board of Direct Taxes to assist revenue authorities to determine if profit from stock trading constitutes business income.

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CBDT's draft circular, described by many as at the root of the current market crash, is likely to affect domestic investors and traders more than foreign institutional investors.

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Bad news for investors can be good news for consumers. The sharp decline in the non-ferrous metals prices triggered the fall in share prices in the stock market.

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We have heard of the mountain coming to Mohammed. But ever heard of a film being flown down to an actor - in this case Aishwarya Rai - because she is too busy to attend the screening? That's precisely what J. Murli Manohar, the enterprising producer of Provoked, did.

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India's ace shooter Gagan Narang, who is a Quadruple Commonwealth Games gold-winner, is all set to bring out a coffee table book comprising pictures of his memorable Melbourne Games.

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Sony Pictures has rejected the censor board's notification that a disclaimer has to be put at the start and end of the film The Da Vinci Code to clarify that it is a work of fiction.

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The government on Saturday said inadequate infrastructure was retarding the country's economic growth by 1.5-2.0 per cent every year and that constraint of funds would not be allowed to come in the way of developing infrastructure.

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Lightning strikes and falling trees have killed 20 people in pre-monsoon storms which lashed Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal, officials said on Saturday.

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The government may reserve less than 27 percent seats in institutions of higher education for other backward classes, while excluding the affluent among this section, Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh has said.

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Five top Orissa bureaucrats were stripped of their powers and have been declared "officials without duty" after they were found guilty of corruption, a senior state administrative official said on Saturday.

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The reservation debate may be raging throughout the country, but in Andhra Pradesh, it's not about dalits against those from the general category.It is a complex issue of differences within the dalits, which is why the demand is for sub-classification of scheduled castes and sub-reservation.

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The five-day wait has not deterred Jagan Nath and the five other villagers, who were in Doda for the village defence committee, or VDC.

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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.

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Two students from Delhi are among five Indians who won awards at the Intel Science Fair in the United States last week.

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The Centre has notified the Delhi Sealing Bill seeking to put and end to sealings and demolitions in the capital for a one-year period.

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Amid the mahyem in the stock markets, the CPI (M) today demanded reintroduction of capital gains tax to check the volatility in the stock markets.

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Perturbed over references to senior IFS office Madhup Mohta in a case of human trafficking being investigated by CBI, the External Affairs Ministry has said the allegations against him have not been "substantiated".

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The three-member Group of Ministers, which went into the quota issue in the wake of the agitation by medical students, will submit its report to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today.

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A virtual war has broken out between the blue land and the red land on both sides of the River Sutlej and the Indian Army's battle readiness is being put to the test.

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After scoring a thrilling five-wicket victory over hosts West Indies in the series opener, India take on Brian Lara's side in the second one-dayer at Kingston, Jamaica on Saturday.

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AIIMS doctors, who are on a hunger strike, have been at the centre of the anti-reservation protests. More than 20 doctors have been on hunger strike for a week now, giving relentless support to the doctors' movement.

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Students are said to protest plans to make boys and girls sit separately in classrooms at Bangalore University to prevent sexual misbehaviour.

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The Centre may be ready to extend funding support for an increase in seats in the elite IIMs and IITs, but the Indian Institutes of Management are not happy.

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Of course Netaji didn’t die in that plane crash in Taipei in 1945! We didn’t need a six-year long investigation by the Mukherjee Commission to tell us that.

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For Indian skipper Rahul Dravid, the first ODI against West Indies provided more than one reason to be delighted.

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Alternate trains being cancelled on the Churchgate- Borivli line for engineering, signal and track work on the Borivli-Virar stretch resulted in crowds swelling up on the Western Railway platforms today morning.

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An Indian American doctor and his American colleague have invented a device that will help detect gentleness in the course of a surgical procedure.
 
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The anti-quota agitation by the medicos further intensified on Saturday with students, parents and medical faculty taking out a massive protest march in the national capital.

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