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Two people were killed and at least 10 passengers were seriously injured Thursday evening in a bus accident in a West Bengal town, the police said.

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Two people were killed and 27 seriously injured Thursday when the tractor-trolley they were riding overturned in this Delhi suburb, a police official said.

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Four girls, aged between 7 and 11 and belonging to a shepherd community, drowned in an open well Thursday in a village near here, an official said.

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A teenager was arrested for threatening to blow up a telecom major's customer care centre in this Delhi suburb, a police official said Thursday.

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Nordic airline Finnair has launched a revamped corporate programme that provides more cost-effective offers to travel through the shortest route to Europe via Helsinki, the company said Thursday.

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An inmate of the central jail in this Gujarat city made his escape Thursday evening but the guards managed to catch another, the police said.

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A day before Tata Group chairman Ratan Tata's crucial meeting with West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee for a last-ditch bid to resolve the Singur impasse, Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi Thursday.

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More than 10,000 people along with political leaders marked the 139th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi Thursday by participating in a peace and solidarity rally against the anti-Christian violence in the country.

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Over 65,000 pilgrims visited the Hindu cave shrine of Mata Vaishno Devi near here on the first two days of Navaratri, an official said Thursday.

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A number of Congress legislators Thursday expressed their dismay at the party leadership for allegedly ignoring their calls for strengthening the organisation in Tamil Nadu.

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Kochi (Kerala) Oct 2 (IANS) The Rs.15 billion ($350 million) Smart City project, being worked jointly by the Kerala government and Dubai Internet City (DIC), aiming to put Kerala on the global IT map, will not come under the new special economic zone.

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Hundreds of Christians on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti formed several kilometres long human chain here and donated blood to protest violence against their community in several parts of Madhya Pradesh and the country.

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Gandhian philosophy has a solution to Maoist violence and rising terrorism activities worldwide, Chief Minister Raman Singh said here Thursday on the occasion of the 139th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.

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Two Muslims, one from Gujarat and the other from Jammu and Kashmir, will be honoured with the Kabir Purskar 2008 for saving lives of Hindus during violence.

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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Thursday sought greater involvement of the judiciary and the legal fraternity in making the rural job guarantee scheme a success.

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Indian shuttlers had a good day at the office Thursday with three of them making it to the men's singles third round of the Bitburger Open at Saarbruecken in Germany.

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Test skipper Anil Kumble Thursday rubbished reports that the Indian cricket board had drawn up a retirement plan for senior players.

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Senior Supreme Court Judge Ajit Pasayat Thursday said that even the semblance of a job guarantee for the rural poor could help in keeping the youth away from crime and terrorism.

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In an initiative to reduce pollution in the crowded streets of Delhi, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit Thursday launched Soleckshaw, the solar-electric rickshaw, here.

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One man was killed and another was in critical condition after two groups clashed in east Delhi over a goat, the police said Thursday.

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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Thursday termed the rural job scheme as a 'path-breaking legislation' and called upon the states and other stakeholders to make it successful.

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Tension between upper-caste Hindus and Dalits and the use of country-made bombs resulted in arrest of 116 people in this village, the police said Thursday.

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The Manmohan Singh government has committed to buy energy worth $70 billion from the 'dying US nuclear industry' under the nuclear deal, Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) general secretary Prakash Karat said here Thursday.

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Former Indian cricket skipper Sourav Ganguly, a local hero, Thursday urged Tata group chief Ratan Tata not to shift the Nano factory out of West Bengal and instead ensure that the small car was produced at Singur.

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The following is the scoreboard of the match between Board President's XI and Australia at the end of the first day of the four-day match here Thursday.

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With the ruling Congress terming the India-US civilian nuclear deal 'historic', the communist opposition slamming it as a surrender to US imperialism and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) vowing to renegotiate the deal if it came to power, reactions to the US Senate clearing the enabling 123 Agreement with a resounding 86-13 majority were predictably diverse.

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With the Senate giving a thumbs-up to the nuclear accord, India and the US will ink the 'historic' 123 Agreement Saturday, the final step in over three years of tortuous negotiations that will restore civil nuclear trade between the two countries.

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Opposition leaders belonging to the Communist Party of India (CPI) and the MDMK Thursday criticise the Tamil Nadu and central governments for ignoring the sufferings of Indian fishermen at the hands of Sri Lankan defence personnel.

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The board of the UK-headquartered consulting firm Axon Group Plc has now pitched for the 441 million pound (650 pence per share) bid of HCL Technologies Ltd, instead of the 407 million pound (600 pence per share) bid made earlier.

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Experts from India's elite National Security Guards (NSG) Thursday began an investigation in Tripura to find out the nature of explosives used in the serial bombings in which about 100 people were injured. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

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This Durga Puja, people of Lucknow will get a chance to visit the Meenakshi temple of Madurai, Tamil Nadu, in the state capital itself.

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School children and BPL card holders in Madhya Pradesh will be given free entry into the national parks across the state during the Wildlife Week which started Wednesday, state Forest Minister Vijay Shah said.

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India, Australia and South Africa will play in a Twenty20 Super Series to be held next year.

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India Thursday joined a growing number of nations in imposing a total ban on smoking in public but there were doubts about how effectively the diktat could be imposed.

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Marxist member K. Gopalakrishnan will head the newly constituted Malabar Devaswom Board, which will administer all temples in north Kerala.

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Criticising the Manmohan Singh government, the main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Thursday said it would renegotiate the India-US nuclear deal if it came to power.

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Millions of Muslims all over India gathered in mosques and homes to celebrate Eid Thursday but the mood was sombre with the fear of violence casting a grim shadow over festivities on a day that was also the birth anniversary of the peace apostle Mahatma Gandhi.

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Two police officers were suspended Thursday for not escorting union Minister Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi's car that eventually fell into a roadside drain in a West Bengal town.

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Six months after the UK introduced a new point-based system for migration from India, a committee of British parliamentarians will arrive here Friday to conduct an inquiry on its implementation.

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Ruling out the two-bullet theory in the murder of television journalist Saumya Vishwanathan, the Delhi Police Thursday said only one bullet was fired in the incident that took her life.

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United Progressive Alliance (UPA) chairperson Sonia Gandhi Thursday launched an ambitious Rs.23 billion (Rs.2,300 crore) Mahatma Gandhi rural housing scheme of the Haryana government in this industrial city.

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Droves of people dressed in new clothes made their way through the clamouring traffic in Jamia Nagar's narrow streets to share presents, meet friends and celebrate Eid.

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In line with the industry trend of moving towards higher capacity wind turbines, the city based Rs.8 billion turnover RRB Energy Ltd. will start rolling out around 2 MW machines next year onwards.

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There was neither festivity nor gaiety on Eid in Azamgarh district's Sanjarpur village, which was home to two suspected terrorists who were shot dead by the police in a shootout for their alleged involvement in the serial bombing.

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The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government has committed to buy $70 billion worth energy from the 'dying US nuclear industry', Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) general secretary Prakash Karat said here Thursday.

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West Bengal Thursday joined the rest of the nation in paying homage to Mahatma Gandhi on the 139th birth anniversary of the Father of the Nation.

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Hundreds of people from various religions, communities and castes worshipped Mahatma Gandhi Thursday in Orissa.

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After 'Dillagi' and 'Apne', real life brothers Sunny and Bobby Deol are back playing reel life siblings in Samir Karnik's episodic flick 'Heroes'.

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In order to pump liquidity into the market, an industry lobby Thursday requested the central Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to reduce cash reserve ratio and repo rate by 1 percent.

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Criticising the Manmohan Singh government, the main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Thursday said the India-US nuclear deal was done at the cost of the country's sovereignty.

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At least three police officers were injured and two police vans were set on fire Thursday by hawkers protesting their eviction from pavements in a West Bengal district.

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Film: 'Drona'; Cast: Abhishek Bachchan, Priyanka Chopra, Kay Kay Menon, Jaya Bachchan; Director: Goldie Behl; Rating: ***

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A day after the US Senate gave a resounding 86-13 approval to the historic India-US nuclear deal, the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) Thursday urged the government to immediately initiate the next steps for building nuclear power generation capacity in a big way.

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Kuldeep Bishnoi, a former parliamentarian suspended from the Congress, Thursday expressed surprise over Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee's statement that Bishnoi's resignation letter had not reached him.

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Fear struck after the string of terror attacks across the country and the continuing violence against minorities, many people made a beeline to Mahatma Gandhi's memorial at Rajghat to seek solace on his 139th birth anniversary.

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The Left parties will observe a 'black day' Saturday to signal their protest against the India-US civil nuclear deal, which was Thursday cleared by the US Senate with a resounding 86-13 majority.

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One of the most popular tourist destinations in India, is also becoming the most expensive destination in the country, say tour operators.

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On a day when Gandhian ideals of non-violence are being remembered, a senior cabinet minister in Punjab Thursday chose to overlook scores of people who took law in their hands outside his residence here while beating up a youth.

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A 30-year-old woman threw her two daughters from the sixth floor of a residential building Thursday in Pune and then committed suicide by jumping down herself, the police said.

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Three employees of the Hindustan Construction Company (HCC) have been arrested from Barabanki town of Uttar Pradesh for the death of at least seven people due to the collapse of an under-construction flyover here, the police said.

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Producer-director-actor Sohail Khan says he supports Bollywood and television technicians, who are on strike, and that their demands are legitimate.

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The government may have chosen Gandhi Jayanti as the most appropriate occasion to bring in its ban on smoking in public places but the day held an unexpected bonus for smokers in the Indian capital with its implementing squads being on holiday.

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A young German woman who alleged that five youth tried to rape her after abducting her from the upscale Taj Hotel Thursday recognised four of the accused after an identification parade, officials here said.

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India, Australia and South Africa will play in a Twenty20 Super Series to be held next year.

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A range of corporate, party and casual wear and an array of accessories were on view as the star cast of the Bollywood movie 'Kidnap' - Imran Khan.

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A range of corporate, party and casual wear and an array of accessories were on view as the star cast of the Bollywood movie 'Kidnap' - Imran Khan,  Lamba, Vidhya Malvade - joined cricketers Chetan Sharma, Craig McMillan.

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Muslims celebrated Eid-ul-Fitr with religious fervour and gaiety across Andhra Pradesh Thursday.

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Notwithstanding the nationwide ban on smoking at public places from Thursday, West Bengal's chainsmoker Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee refused to categorically say whether he would stop puffing in his chamber at the state secretariat here.

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The last minute inclusion of Sourav Ganguly and Rudra Pratap Singh has lent a different perspective to the second four-day match between India A and New Zealand A commencing at the M.A. Chidambaram Stadium here Friday.

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On a day when the India-US nuclear deal was passed by the US Senate, ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) chairperson Sonia Gandhi made only a passing reference to it at a public rally here and instead hit out at those 'who try to make political gains' from terrorism.

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The Punjab police may be on the hot trail of many criminals but it seems deliberately unmindful of the 25 proclaimed offenders in its own ranks.

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In the backdrop of recent terrorist incidents around the country, Eid celebrations were subdued in Mumbai with police keeping a strict vigil all over the city, especially Muslim-dominated pockets.

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With bomb blasts now becoming a distressingly regular feature, the feeling of insecurity is now leading people to buy stand-alone insurance against terrorist attacks.

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The ruling Congress termed it 'historic' while the opposition panned it as a surrender to US imperialism. Reactions to the US Senate Thursday clearing the India-US civil nuclear deal with a resounding 86-13 majority were predictably diverse.

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Fashion diva Ritu Beri has boutiques in France and Germany but it took her 18 long years to open her first outlet in India that promises to be a one-stop-shop for shopaholic women.

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India's largest steel plant, Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP), has reported 8.6 percent production growth in hot metal, 7.8 percent in crude steel and 6 percent in saleable steel in the first half of the current fiscal compared to the corresponding period last fiscal.

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