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Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday asked the railway ministry to send a special relief train to supply food and water to flood-affected people, especially in Surat and areas near the swollen Tapti River.

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Airport Authority of India, in collaboration with the Ministry of Space, is developing a modern navigation system over the Indian Air Space, Rajya Sabha was informed today.

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The Central Industrial Security Force that looks after the security of the Taj Mahal has suggested stricter surveillance to sanitise the 17th century monument against terror strikes.

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Senior RJD MLA and former Bihar minister Ramdas Rai on Tuesday said that he had received a threatening call from a criminal in Saran district and requested the state government to provide security to him and his family.

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Sania Mirza and her South African companion Liezel Huber crashed out of the JP Morgan Chase Open with a straight set defeat at the hands of Serbian-Russian pair of Ana Ivanovic and Maria Kirilenko in the first round here.

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Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee today said he was studying the Justice R S Pathak Authority report that has exonerated the Congress Party from charges of being an illegal beneficiary in an Iraqi oil contract in 2001.

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Despite the fizz created over the controversy of pesticides in Pepsi and Coke, nobody really knows what the deadly substances are doing in their favourite soft drinks.

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Flood fury overtook the diamond city of Surat which reeled under neck-deep water Tuesday as the authorities released water from an overflowing dam upstream.

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After a long wait, water will finally be released from the 140 MGD Sonia Vihar Water Treatment Plant on a trial basis from Tuesday.

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It is after a long gap that a Tamil album by A.R. Rahman has hit the market. And predictably, Rahman fans are going crazy about it even though this new offering may not be his best.

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Over one lakh five thousand people have been evacuated across the state, in 685 flood-affected villages of 19 districts whereas rains have claimed 69 lives so far, Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh said in Mumbai.

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At least four people were killed and several injured Tuesday when a truck carrying pilgrims fell into a canal in Punjab’s Ludhiana district.

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Action appears imminent against former External Affairs Minister Natwar Singh, indicted by the Justice Pathak Authority in the Iraqi Oil-for-food scam, when the Congress Disciplinary Action Committee meets tonight to discuss his moves, utterances and "misuse" of the party's name.

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The Rajya Sabha adjourned Tuesday as opposition members staged a noisy protest to demand the resignation of Finance Minister P. Chidambaram over allegations that he connived with a leading industrialist to artificially jack up prices on the Bombay stock exchange.

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Three people were killed and 33 injured Tuesday when their bus slipped off the national highway just outside this Jammu and Kashmir capital.

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The third round exit at the Acura Classic tournament last week in San Diego did not affect Sania Mirza as the Indian tennis ace remained steady at 44th spot in the latest WTA rankings.

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Former India captain Md. Azharuddin and opener Chetan Chauhan feel that Sourav Ganguly's exclusion from the Indian team was quite humiliating for him.

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Apollo Tyres is on a roll. Aiming to ride the current boom in auto industry, Apollo Tyres has decided to set up a Rs 520 crore facility in Tamil Nadu to produce a range of radial tyres for trucks, buses, light commercial vehicles and passenger cars.

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It's an uneasy stalemate between Railway minister, Lalu Prasad Yadav and finance minister P Chidambaram. Differences over the role of the private sector in the Rs 1,50,000 crore dedicated freight corridor (DFC) project is delaying a final verdict on the issue.

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A wait-and-watch policy by most market players, coupled with lack of retail interest pulled BSE sensex down by 54 points on Monday to close at 10,813.

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It's a mixed bag of news for home loan customers. First the good news: Oriental Bank of Commerce (OBC) has rolled back the 50 basis point (100 basis points = 1%) hike in home loans up to Rs 20 lakh.

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A day before the ban on Students' Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) was to lapse, a special tribunal on Monday upheld the Centre's decision to proscribe the group which has lately been in news for its alleged involvement in the 7/11 Mumbai blasts.

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ONGC’s new petrochemicals complex - which will produce petrochemical building blocks paraxylene and benzene - is the first of its kind in the southern peninsula, removing the freight handicap of southern consumers.

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Thirty to forty per cent of the plush shopping mall-cum-multiplex in an up market locality here has suffered severe damages as a major fire engulfed the building last night prompting the district administration to order an inquiry into the incident.

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The Army swung into action on Tuesday morning in Surat city, where many areas are currently flooded by the overflowing river Tapti. The civic administration has evacuated over one lakh residents since Monday, flood-control room sources said.

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The 300-km-long Jammu-Srinagar National Highway remained closed for vehicular traffic for the second consecutive day on Tuesday after landslides triggered by incessant rains clogged the arterial route leaving over 100 cars stranded.

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India has been judged as the sixth most dangerous country for children in the world, according to a recent poll.

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India and Pakistan are among top ten borrowers of the World Bank as its lending commitments to South Asia reached USD 3.8 billion for the financial year that ended this June.

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Bank of Baroda's board on Monday approved the 0.5 per cent hike in Benchmark Prime Lending Rate (BPLR) announced by the bank on July 31.The Bank had raised its BPLR from 11 per cent to 11.5 per cent as per the decision of the Board of Directors on July 28, 2006.

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With demand for dwelling units slated to grow to 80 million for the lower middle and low income groups, involving an estimated investment of 670 billion dollars, the housing sector will see four million new jobs by 2015, industry body ASSOCHAM today said.

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India may be among one of the countries which could lose preferential trade benefits granted by the United States as the Congress complained that these countries were not adopting a stand that is beneficial for solving the stalemate in WTO talks.

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The Nanded district in Maharashtra has been worst affected by the rains that have lashed across the state.Although its been more than 24 hours since it stopped raining in Nanded, the flood waters have not receded and thousands are still stranded in remote areas waiting for relief.

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Unchecked urban development and the callousness of the public have turned Deepor Beel, Guwahati's last remaining wetland, into a garbage dump.

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Heavy rains in Mumbai have thrown a wet blanket on the upcoming Ganesh Festival.Most of the workshops manufacturing the Ganesh idols are located in low lying areas, which have seen extensive flooding in the last two days.

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The Delhi Jal Board (DJB) is all set to release the first installment of water from the Sonia Vihar water treatment plant to the water parched areas of the capital.

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Congress President Sonia Gandhi will address a rally in Kanpur on Tuesday.It is being widely seen as the beginning of the run up to the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections.

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The NDA will be on a one-day boycott of the Lok Sabha on Tuesday in protest against Speaker Somnath Chatterjee whom it accused of suppressing the Opposition's voice in the House.

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Floods have disrupted life all across the country and the forecast is that things could get worse as there is more heavy rain to come.Surat in Gujarat has been the worst hit. It has received the heaviest rainfall that the city has seen in 15 years.

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