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Havell's Netherlands BV, a Netherlands incorporated subsidiary of Havell's India, has signed an agreement with SLI Holdings Inc to acquire SLI Sylvania's lighting business for an aggregate price of $300 million.

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The Bahujan Samaj Party has named candidates for all 403 constituencies in Uttar Pradesh where elections for a new legislature begins in April.

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If it's the cricket World Cup, India must be going crazy. After all, a billion Indians, who make up most of the world's cricket-watching population, are supposed to be hooked on the game like no other country.

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She is no small-time beggar. For, she not only boasts of two insurance policies for which she pays Rs 36,000 as premium annually, she also has a bank account with a hefty amount to boot.

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In an effort to cut costs, Australia’s largest bank, National Australia Bank Ltd, may shift as many as 424 domestic jobs to India. The jobs in lending services, direct sales and customer service "deal with a range of highly sensitive personal data including credit and lending details, account details and personal information," National Secretary of Australia's Finance Sector Union, said.

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Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin is expected in India 'within the next couple of days' to formalise the deal with Essar, which gives the UK-based cellular major management control of India's fourth largest mobile firm Hutchison-Esaar (HEL), sources close to the development told ET.

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In Washington, three Indians out of which two are from Chennai have been charged with hacking into online brokerage accounts in the United States to pump up the value of their shares.

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Charges will be framed against Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal in a disproportionate assets case today. He will appear before a local court in Ropar.

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A week back, Indian and Pakistani officials came together to hold their first meeting under the joint terror mechanism. But, predictably, the meet ended with nothing more than a series of allegations and counter allegations with India taking deep offence to Pakistan's charges that it was instigating trouble in Baluchistan.

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A police official in Ahmedabad has been arrested on Monday allegedly for involved in a sex racket. A case of rape has been filed against him after the arrested prostitutes claimed they were forced to entertain him.

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Heavy rains lashed most parts of Punjab and Haryana on Monday disrupting normal life and reviving the cold conditions in the region. In Punjab, Amritsar received 7.8 mm of rain. Ludhiana Patiala, Mukerian, Pathankot, Balachaur, Ropar, Mohali, Phagwara and Jalandhar were among other places in the State to be lashed by rains.

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Team India arrived in Trinidad on early Tuesday morning where they will play all four of their group matches. The Men in Blue begin their World Cup campaign against Bangladesh on March 17.

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Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty has said that she is keen to put the "Celebrity Big Brother" race row behind her, as she met Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Philip at a Commonwealth Day event here.

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All those students preparing to zoom their way into the future with those big pay packets might want to take a look at this. Car makers are doling out freebies-galore to boost sales ahead of the year end.

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The placement season is in full swing at the campuses of the all India Institutes of Management (IIMs). Though these institutes have some of the best companies coming to them for recruitment, some people feel that Indian companies may be wasting their time as a good percentage of IIM grads choose to go abroad in search of high paying jobs with multinational companies.

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Warning that to look at terrorism through blinkers of any particular religion, region or any cause like poverty will be a "dangerous delusion", India has favoured global action to tackle the menace of which it has been the "world's biggest victim".

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Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan says it will be a challenge to play a Shakespearian actor in a new Bollywood movie. ``My character has to contend with going from theatre to cinema,'' Bachchan said in an interview published by The Times of India on Tuesday.

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Pilgrimage to the Vaishnodevi shrine was stopped on Tuesday with weather conditions turning grim after the season's first heavy snowfall in Trikuta hills of Jammu and Kashmir, a senior official of the shrine board said.

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Taking forward the peace process, India and Pakistan will launch the fourth round of composite dialogue on Tuesday when New Delhi is expected to press the neighbour to take effective steps to curb cross-border terrorism.

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At least 18 people were killed and 28 injured when a bus carrying a marriage party fell into a deep pit in Uttarakhand, police said.

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Nomination process for the first phase of the seven-phased Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections began on Tuesday with the issuance of the notification.

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government is planning to enhance the coverage of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) by way of an amendment. The amendment, which could come in the current session of Parliament, would place strict reporting and record-keeping obligations on these entities.

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