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The Lok Sabha on Thursday approved a bill making it mandatory for private broadcasters to share live feed of national sports events with Doordarshan and All India Radio on free to air basis.

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A major fire broke out on Thursday afternoon in the Ansal Bhawan building in Connaught Place, the commercial and business hub of the Capital. No casualties were reported, police said.

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Nagma, famous actress of Bhojpuri and South Indian cinema, has lodged an FIR at Bandra Police Station, alleging that she had been receiving threats from some unidentified persons through SMSs for the past few days.

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CBI on Thursday filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court on steps to extradite Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi, an accused in the Bofors pay off case, who was detained and now on bail in Argentina.

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Naxalites set on fire two vehicles deployed for the zilla parishad elections in Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra, police said on Thursday.

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Waqar Younis was Pakistan's captain at the last World Cup in South Africa in 2003. Having served as bowling coach of Pakistan till recently and seen a fair bit of India, Waqar believes teams from the sub-continent will be tough to beat in this World Cup. Waqar was in Barbados recently where he spoke to CNN-IBN correspondent Roma Khanna.

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Two Indian construction workers were among four killed when an under-construction wall collapsed in Doha. The victims, employees of an international construction company, were engaged in excavation work when the wall, being built by another company, collapsed after being hit by a bulldozer.

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The Women's Day has brought a bad piece of news for Indian women who are in or aspiring to be in the defence services as the three defence chiefs have advised against induction of women in combat roles.

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Cutting across party lines, members of Parliament from Karnataka staged a dharna outside Parliament House building on Wednesday morning to protest against the final award of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal. Among those who sat on dharna were former Prime Minister H. D. Deve Gowda and Bharatiya Janata Party leader Ananth Kumar.

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Your tax liability may see a steep rise in the coming years with the finance ministry reviewing the definition of income to consider bringing in new heads like dividends under its scope.

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A five-foot two-and-a-half- inch frame coupled with a smiling face belies a driving force and passion that have created a revolution in our perceptions of democracy. BIDISHA GHOSAL spoke to the man who started it all.

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“The only way to rid the country of corruption is to hang a few of you from the lamppost. The law does not permit us to do it but otherwise we would prefer to hang people like you from the lamppost,” a bench of justices S.B. Sinha and Markandeya Katju said on Wednesday while hearing the bail petition of an accused in the Rs 1,000-crore fodder scam.

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India's wholesale price inflation rate is forecast at 6.03 per cent for the 12 months to February 24, marginally down from 6.05 per cent a week earlier, a media poll of 10 analysts showed.

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Tata Steel Ltd said on Thursday its subsidiary NatSteel had agreed to buy controlling stake in two rolling mills in Vietnam for an enterprise value of around $41 million. Tata Steel, India's top private-sector steel maker, said in a a statement that NatSteel would acquire 100 per cent of SSE Steel Ltd and 70 per cent of Vinausteel Ltd.

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Bofors accused Ottavio Quattrocchi may have been successful in lying low but he was finally tracked down to a five star hotel in the Argentine capital on Wednesday.

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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday favoured listing of more public sector companies on the stock exchanges as a means to professionalise their boards and said the government was working towards limiting its role in their everyday functioning.

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Film buffs here will be treated to a week-long celebration of cinema, with the ninth Mumbai Academy of Moving Images (MAMI) film festival getting underway in the city today.

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B C Khanduri of BJP was on Thursday sworn-in as the new Chief Minister of Uttarakhand. Governor Sudarshan Agarwal administered the oath of office and secrecy to Khanduri.

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A star-studded black tie event hosted by Parmeshwar Godrej in honour of newly weds Liz Hurley and Arun Nayar saw the who's who of the city's party circuit attending the bash held at her seaside bungalow here.

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For non-compliance of its earlier order to sanction pension to an octogenarian freedom fighter, the Delhi High Court has directed the government to pay litigation cost of Rs 30,000 to the senior citizen.

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"Legislators have seen a 100 per cent rise in salaries, the price of CNG (compressed natural gas) has risen 71 per cent. The fares of autos have risen 0 per cent. From where should we bring honesty from? " questions a poster taped on the back of an autorickshaw plying on the roads of the National Capital.

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Polling began on a peaceful note on Thursday for by-elections in Gwalior and Sidhi Lok Sabha and Udaipura assembly constituencies. Elaborate security arrangements were put in place, especially in the Chambal region, to ensure free and fair polls, officials said.

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Adding confusion to the mysterious disappearance of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, the External Affairs Ministry has informed the Delhi-based 'Mission Netaji' that the ashes and remains of the fiery leader were still at Renkoji temple in Tokyo.

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Four separatist Lashker-e-Taiba guerrillas were gunned down by army troops in a jungle in north Kashmir's border district of Kupwara, officials said on Thursday.

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Stressing on the importance of the Indo-US civilian nuclear deal, a senior US official has assured lawmakers in his country that the agreement would not in any way fuel an arms race in South Asia.

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