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Contending that the Supreme Court stay on backward class reservation in elite educational institutions would lead to a confrontation between judiciary and the legislature, the CPI on Sunday urged the Centre to convene an all party meeting immediately on the issue.

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Madhukar Gupta on Sunday took over as the Union Home Secretary. Gupta, an IAS officer of 1971 batch from Uttarakhand cadre, succeeds V K Duggal who retired on Sunday.

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There were celebrations across Kashmir Valley late on Friday as news about the creation of three committees to review the shifting of armed forces from civilian areas, gradual reduction in Army numbers and revision of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act as well as Disturbed Areas Act in the state.

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The Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad (IIM-A) today said if the OBC quota issue is resolved before April 12 then admissions will be given to students under the category.

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If 'Jhankaar Beats' director Sujoy Ghosh had his way, he would have cast Amitabh Bachchan in a realistic train drama called 'Borivali' two years ago.

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Notching a major milestone in its missile technology, India Friday successfully test fired its indigenous Dhanush missile - the nuclear-capable naval version of the Prithvi short-range ballistic missile - from a war ship off the Orissa coast. The mission objectives were met 'satisfactorily', defence sources said.

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Air Chief Marshal Fali Homi Major on Sunday became the first helicopter pilot to don the mantle of Chief of the Air Staff after which he said his thrust would be on shoring up the falling fighter strength of the country and pushing up the pace of modernisation in the force.

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Drinking water scented with coconut or 'kevda' (pine flower) will be sold in packaged form in Rajasthan from June - like mineral water.

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Former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Uma Bharti is confident of wooing many leaders of her former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) into her fold in Rajasthan.

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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday showered praise on late P V Narasimha Rao hailing him as truly a sanyasi in politics and a moderniser who was steeped in tradition and ethos.

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Three men charged with murder escaped from the Madhya Pradesh High Court at Jabalpur during a final hearing of their case, police said on Saturday.

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Police unearthed a major scam involving black marketing of rice meant for mid-day meal scheme by NGOs with the arrest of two persons in New Delhi.

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Bhavna Yadav, a prime witness in the Nitish Katara murder case, on Friday submitted in the court photographs and claimed they showed that her sister Bharti had no special relationship with the deceased.

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Karnataka minister for Small Savings and Lottery, Ramachandra Gowda on Friday said that the decision to ban lottery and arrack had put the government in a fix with even ministers receiving anonymous letters threatening of dire consequences.

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Using public transport in Mumbai, getting in and off the jam-packed local trains is a nightmare that commuters face everyday. But a sigh of relief is BrihanMumbai Corporation’s BEST bus number 524.

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Christians, the most educated community, also top the list of the unemployed in the country, according to a government survey released on Friday.

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Twenty-two-year-old Mumtaz has been confined to her house for the last three months. She has no idea where her parents are, but she knows that they are hiding somewhere after they defaulted on a loan taken from a local private bank.

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IN A move that would enable carriers like Jet Airways and Air Sahara to operate flights to the lucrative Gulf sector, the government is planning to open up this market to private airlines early next year.

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The United States has said it acted in good faith in the negotiations on the proposed 123
agreement with India to operationalise civil nuclear cooperation and assumes that New Delhi did so as well.

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West Bengal's decision to formally scrap the Nandigram project may take the SEZ sting out of CPM's central committee and politburo meetings beginning on Saturday.

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The CBI on Friday registered cases against three Delhi-based exporters and conducted raids at their premises in connection with the Rs 250 crore pulse export scam.

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As government looks for an escape route to contain the fallout of the Supreme Court blow to OBC quotas in Central educational institutions, it is faced with all-around skepticism as the latest judicial setback makes it a hat-trick of reverses on the reservation front.

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CPM general-secretary Prakash Karat on Friday severely criticised the Supreme Court's interim order staying OBC reservation in Central educational institutions.

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Notwithstanding the SC staying OBC reservation in Central government educational institutions, HRD ministry would move ahead with the other Bill for reservation in unaided educational institutions.

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Police in Nagpur, where a betting scandal erupted during the last India-West Indies ODI match, say its officers have a dossier on an Indian bookie, whose name is now surfacing in connection with Bob Woolmer's murder.

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Three Doon School boys, out on a binge after their class XII boards, allegedly killed a man and seriously injured another when their speeding Honda City hit the victims who were riding a bike on Dehra Dun’s main thoroughfare. The boys fled after the accident.

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In a bizarre incident, the private organ of a 55-year-old man was allegedly sliced off by his 26-year-old room partner on Thursday night. The accused, Rajiv Tripathi, is absconding.

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Important issues like a fee hike and the impact of the Supreme Court's stay on the 27 per cent quota for OBCs are likely to be discussed at a meeting of the board of governors of the Indian Institute of Management here to be held today.

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A dawn-to-dusk bandh called in Tamil Nadu today by the state`s ruling coalition to protest the Supreme Court`s stay on the quota for OBCs in higher educational institutions is expected to throw life out of gear and affect public transport across the state.

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