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Charging that country's frontline weapons programmes including efforts to make missiles, fighter aircraft and tanks were "running heavily behind schedule" and hit by cost overruns, a parliamentary committee has favoured "full scale" organisational and structural changes in DRDO.

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The BJP's top brass today met party leaders from Uttar Pradesh to give final shape to their campaign strategy for the upcoming assembly elections.

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In a revelation that many would find startling, Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss has said that nearly 75,000 people commit suicide in India every year for varied reasons, including mental disorder.

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The Union Budget was passed in the Lok Sabha on Friday with Finance Minister P Chidambaram tabling his reply to budget discussions amid loud protests, slogan shouting and disruptions by the Opposition over the killing of 14 people in police firing in West Bengal's Nandigram.

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The government plans to put in place a system for issuing bio-metric passports or e-passports by the end of this year and citizens can get them by 2008, Minister of State for External Affairs Anand Sharma said on Friday.

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Commerce and Industry Minister Kamal Nath on Friday said the Government will review Foreign Direct Investment regulations with a view to streamlining them.

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The All India Muslim Personal Law Board has issued a decree against exiled Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen, who has been seeking Indian citizenship. Maulana Ashraf Khan, the Board spokesman, has warned of nation-wide protests if citizenship is granted to Nasreen.

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Salman Khan will no longer play an extended cameo in Boney Kapoors film Milenge Milenge .

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Mumbai is once again seems to be on the terror radar. The Intelligence Bureau(IB) has informed Mumbai Police that Lashker-e-Toiba militants may be heading towards Mumbai via Gujarat.

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Upset with delaying tactics of the Congress and the Ajit Singh-led Rashtriya Lok Dal in firming up a 'fourth alternative' in Uttar Pradesh, the Jan Morcha has announced its first list of 193 candidates for the forthcoming Assembly elections.

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There seems to be more politics than science in the Health Ministry's investigation of the presence of pesticides in soft drinks. Last year-end a Health Ministry committee rubbished the CSE report on pesticides in colas. Now, another committee not only confirms pesticides in colas but recommends the strictest-ever norms for beverages.

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Taking a tough stand against the UPA Government's decision to set up a Maritime university in Chennai, the Left MPs on Thursday dashed off a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh expressing displeasure over the Government decision to introduce the Indian Maritime University Bill in Parliament without consulting them.

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High profile builder R Chaturvedi of Shreepati Builders was arrested on Thursday.

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The proscribed ULFA triggered a blast on Friday, injuring six persons as it celebrated its 'army day'

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The Election Commission has ordered the replacement of the Uttar Pradesh chief secretary NC Bajpai with immediate effect.

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West Bengal state came to a grinding halt due to a bandh called by the Trinamool Congress and other Opposition parties to protest police firing that killed 15 people two days ago.

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Two crowded shopping malls in Gurgaon were evacuated and searched by emergency personnel on Friday afternoon after a bomb warning.

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Fresh violence erupted in West Bengal's Singur area as hundreds of protesting villagers set fire to a police watch tower in the region.

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With West Bengal paralysed by a shutdown called by opposition parties to denounce the Nandigram killings, work has been affected at the city's mushrooming IT hub in Salt Lake's Sector V area.

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It is a big mistake, confesses eminent Bengali author Sunil Gangopadhayay, breaking his self-imposed silence as West Bengal is sucked into a political maelstrom over the mayhem at Nandigram.

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Refusing to hear UP CM Mulayam Singh Yadav’s review petition in disproportionate assets case, Supreme Court Justice A R Lakshamanan withdrew from the case on Friday.

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The Supreme Court has adjourned for four weeks hearing on a PIL seeking extradition to India of Bofors payoff accused Ottavio Quattrocchi.

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Santosh George Kulangara will become the first Indian tourist in space and the voyage is expected to cost several crore rupees.

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A slight intensity earthquake was on Friday felt in parts of Rajasthan, the Meteorological Department said.

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In a revelation that many would find startling, Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss has said that nearly 75,000 people commit suicide in India every year for varied reasons, including mental disorder.

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