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Junior industry minister Ashwani Kumar said on Friday that cement makers had been asked to cut prices and talks were still taking place. "They have been told to moderate prices," Kumar said. India raised excise duties on some cement in last week's budget for 2007/08, prompting firms to increase prices by 10-12 rupees per 50 kg bag in some states.

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Two days after senior Trinamul Congress MLA Sadhan Pandey spoke out in favour of Tata Motor's small car factory in Singur, he was suspended from the party for an indefinite period. Soon after his suspension, Pandey stepped on the gas, and took on Trinamul chairperson Mamata Banerjee, holding her responsible for the "absence of democracy" in the party.

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The countdown has begun for the launch of the telecommunications satellite Insat-4B, primarily meant for direct to home (DTH) television services, on Sunday from Kourou in French Guyana.

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India will soon join hands with others nations to construct the Trans Asian Railway connecting vast parts of Europe and Asia. A meeting of the Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday night, approved the signing and ratification of an inter-governmental agreement on Trans Asian Railway.

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They swing the ball, hit the deck, rattle the timber from time to time, but Indian pacers are not going to win Team India the World Cup. The sultan of swing Waqar Younis believes that in fact it will be the spinners who will turn it on for India in the Caribbean Islands.

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The uncertainty over the Punjab Tractors (PTL) stake sale is finally over. Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M), the country’s largest tractor company, has agreed to pay Rs 360 per share for a 43.5% stake, valuing its rival company at around Rs 2,200 crore, according to sources close to the deal.

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The CBI's quest for Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi, the accused in the Bofors case, is getting tougher by the day. The team made a trip to Misiones where Quattrocchi was arrested, only to find out that the extradition papers have still not reached the judge.

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India-born novelist Kiran Desai's bestseller novel "The Inheritance of Loss" has bagged yet another literary honour - the National Book Critics Circle fiction award.

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The Supreme Court on Friday said that its direction for sealing the premises which were used for commercial activities in the residential areas on the un-notified roads in the Capital will remain operational.

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Steel magnate Lakshmi Niwas Mittal and Reliance`s Ambani brothers are among the 36 Indian corporate honchos featuring in the Forbes magazine`s 2007 billionaires list unveiled today.

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Retaining employees in emerging markets is even harder for major Western companies than attracting them, particularly in the fast-growing Chinese and Indian economies, according to a study by consulting firm Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu.

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The only techonological evolution adopted by the International Cricket Council in this World Cup is to connect the officiating umpires to the stumps microphone from the Super Group of Eight stage onwards.

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Their compositions remind you of the famous song 'Desert Rose' by Sting, they prefer to call themselves 'Darb Al Harir' or 'Silky Path' and they perform far away from the deserts.

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White horses, elephants and priests blowing conch horns will star in the Hindu nuptials of actress Elizabeth Hurley, who wraps up a week of lavish wedding celebrations in India on Friday.

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The Congress has scotched reports of forming an alliance with like-minded parties for the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections. "No such alliance has been formed but the possibilities are always there," AICC General Secretary Ashok Gehlot said.

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The Delhi High Court on Friday directed the Centre and Foreign Investment Promotion Board to complete within two months, an inquiry into Hong Kong-based Hutchison Telecom allegedly holding more than the permissible 74 per cent stake in Hutch-Essar.

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Vikram Ray tucks into a chocolate pastry dripping with ice cream and says he is all set to scream himself hoarse cheering for India, where millions are caught up in 'cricket fever' days before the World Cup. The problem is he is spoilt for choice of venues as hotels, bars, shopping malls, movie halls and public parks across the cricket-crazy nation become viewing galleries for fans to watch the tournament that begins in the West Indies next week.

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India batsman Sourav Ganguly is likely to miss Friday's World Cup warm-up game against the West Indies due to an ankle injury.

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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 Thursday.

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One person was killed and 18 wounded in a powerful bomb blast at a marketplace in Assam, officials said on Friday.

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Indian doctors have won a significant legal battle in the High Court of Justice as the British government agreed to withdraw a "discriminatory clause".

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Property redeveloper Rajendra Chaturvedi, who constructed India's tallest residential building - the 45-storeyed Shreepati Arcade at Nana Chowk - finds himself in the thick of controversy after police arrested four hitmen who were paid Rs 50 lakh to eliminate another builder, Rashmikant Shah.

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