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Private sector port major Gujarat Pipavav Port Ltd (GPPL) is investing Rs.142 billion ($3 billion) to build new container yards to ramp up capacity, company officials said.

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Former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf had 'got really upset' when he was asked, during the 2001 Agra summit, to handover mobster Dawood Ibrahim to India, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani recalled Saturday of his talks with Musharraf on the occasion.

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A youth was arrested for sending an SMS threatening to blow up Bihar's Vishnupad temple that is visited by thousands of Hindus from India and abroad, police said.

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Act two of British teenager Scarlett Keeling's murder trial will unfold at the Goa bench of the Bombay High Court Monday when the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will argue for cancellation of bail granted to main accused Samson D'Souza.

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They had invested millions in their small units, all meant to serve the Nano. Now with Tata Motors announcing the pullout of its small car project from West Bengal, these vendors in Singur are just beginning to tot up their losses and trying to close their eyes to the writing on the wall.

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Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai can't stop gushing about her husband Abhishek Bachchan and says they share a special bond and she identifies a lot with him.

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As the festival of Dussehra approaches, Sher Khan is preparing to play the part of Hindu god Ram in Rudahi village of Uttar Pradesh. Never mind if he is a Muslim.

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Film: 'Kidnap'; Cast: Sanjay Dutt, Imran Khan, Minissha Lamba, Vidya Malvade; Director: Sanjay Gadhvi; Rating: **

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Former Gujarat minister Mohammad Surti of the Congress party and ten others were found guilty Saturday in the 1993 bombings of two places in Surat.

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Amid mounting suspense over the signing of the 123 India-US civil nuclear cooperation pact, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived here Saturday on a day-long visit.

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The dismay and shock are yet to get over. For the people of Kolkata, the finality of Tata Motors' decision to shift the Nano small car project out of West Bengal is like the end of a dream for a better future for the state.

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Offshore Goa casinos, where punters love to push their luck, will not be spared from the ban on smoking in public places, an official said.

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Film: 'Rainbow'; Cast: Rahul, Sonal Chauhan, Sindhu Menon; Music: Nihal; Cinematography: Santosh Srinivas; Direction: V.N. Aditya; Rating: *

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Amid weak global cues and the news of signing of the $700 billion bailout plan coming only late on Friday night, Indian equities market ended the week with big losses despite a bit of a rally mid-week.

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A box containing Rs.2 million was Saturday found missing from the state treasury in this Uttar Pradesh town adjacent to the national capital, police said.

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India is set to revive another air base on the India-China frontier, nearly four months after landing an aircraft at one of the world's highest airstrips at Daulat Beg Oldie (DBO) in Ladakh, officials said.

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 An elephant attacked houses of people allegedly involved in damaging a temple of Lord Ganesha in Jharkhand and ensured their arrest.

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Riding on the demand of theme amusement parks in the country, the industry is expecting to grow at a robust rate of 25 percent every year, a senior official said.

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Border Security Force (BSF) Director General M.L. Kumawat has accused Pakistani troops of repeatedly opening fire on Indian security forces in recent weeks to help infiltrators cross into India.

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In a bid to lure poor labourers from flood-hit Bihar to work on their fields, rich farmers of Punjab are offering free cell phones and other attractive incentives. But the offer has few takers.

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Shoot at sight orders were issued Saturday in Assam's curfew bound district of Udalguri, where seven people were killed and more than 50 injured in clashes between two communities even as a cluster of villages were set ablaze.

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Three militants of the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) were killed in an encounter by soldiers in Assam Saturday, officials said.

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Indian art is being enriched with a free flow of ideas and concepts between creative people at exchange forums like art camps, which are gradually breaching the divide between the old and new order of artists.

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India's secularism has rarely been under a greater threat. The reasons, however, are mixed and complex.

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As West Bengal gears up to celebrate the mega festival of Durga Puja, health authorities and some NGOs are cautioning youth about the risk of contracting sexually transmitted diseases like HIV/AIDS during the five nights and days of revelry.

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Is your spouse the jealous type? Do your worried parents have deep pockets? Beware, a private eye is watching you this Navratri.

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Book: 'The Immigrant'; Author: Manju Kapur; Publisher: Random House India; Price: Rs.395

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In his first movie 'Josh', he had a fleeting appearance. Eight years later Boman Irani is known as a niche actor with the ability to pull audiences. But he doesn't like to be labelled a star and says he is just an average person who loves it when kids approach him.

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Film: 'Hellboy II: The Golden Army'; Cast: Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Doug Jones, John Hurt, Luke Goss; Director: Guillermo Del Toro; Rating: ****

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'Balika Vadhu', a TV show on child marriage, has become one of the most watched soaps on small screen. Its writer Purnendu Shekhar says it was originally a movie script, written 16 years back.

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GE Healthcare Friday evening announced the launch of a new technique for early diagnosis of urinary bladder cancer.

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The number of highly skilled migrants going to Britain will increase, in contrast to public perception that the new immigration system will limit the numbers, an Indian-origin British parliamentarian said here Saturday.

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A tiger killed a railway employee and mauled two others in Uttar Pradesh Saturday, an official said.

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Indian-origin British MP Keith Vaz Saturday appealed to the Indian government to open more visa centres across Britain for the benefit of the ethnic Indian community.

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The Punjab and Haryana High Court has issued a contempt notice to Olympics gold medalist shooter Abhinav Bindra's father and industrialist A.S. Bindra.

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Cameron White will fill in for injured Bryce McGain in the Australian squad for the four-Test series against India starting in Bangalore next week.

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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi Saturday objected to the central government's economic criteria for reservations in educational institutions.

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Former Australian cricket coach John Buchanan has served a reality check on the world champions, saying their invincible aura is now diminished and that the upcoming series against India would be a litmus test for them.

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Congress president Sonia Gandhi Saturday hit back at criticism of the government's handling of terrorism and also indicated the party's strategy for upcoming polls in various states and the general elections next year.

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Police are still clueless about the murderers of television journalist Saumya Vishwanathan, who was shot dead in south Delhi Tuesday while she was returning home after a night shift.

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MP and film star Raj Babbar is all set to join the Congress party Sunday with a number of his supporters.

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One member of a family which returned here after performing Umrah - a pilgrimage to Makkah performed anytime of the year - was killed and six others were injured when their speeding vehicle crashed into a stationery bus in south Mumbai Saturday afternoon, police said.

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The Maharashtra government Saturday said seven flyovers would be built at a cost of Rs.2.13 billion in Thane as part of a makeover plan for the city adjoining Mumbai.

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Tamil Nadu's ire against the Sri Lankan Navy's alleged attacks on Indian fishermen became more pronounced Saturday as both the ruling DMK and the opposition AIADMK hardened their stand on the issue.

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Setting the stage for the upcoming assembly elections, Congress president Sonia Gandhi Saturday described the party's government in Delhi as successful and responsible.

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An 11-year-old girl was allegedly raped by two men near Dyal Singh College in central Delhi Friday night, police said Saturday.

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The Madhya Pradesh police Saturday ordered a probe into the beating up of a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP during an anti-encroachment drive in the state's Sagar district, even as six railway policemen were charged with attempt to murder.

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India's Aditi Mutatkar Saturday upset local favourite Juliane Schenk while Chetan Anand beat Peter Mikkelsen of Denmark to reach the women's and men's singles finals respectively of the Bitburger Open badminton tournament at  Saarbruecken in Germany.

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India and the US Saturday affirmed that they would sign their nuclear agreement 'shortly' even as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice underlined that there were 'no open issues' and that Washington would abide by its commitments in the 123 pact and the Hyde Act.

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Board President's XI reached a commanding position with an overall lead of 251 runs after Piyush Chawla's five-wicket haul saw Australia being bowled out for 314 in their first inings on the third day of the four-day practice match here Saturday.

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The much-touted signing of the India-US nuclear accord may be still some days away, but that did not prevent External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee from serving a lavish spread of compliments at a lunch he hosted here Saturday for visiting US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

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Six people, including four children, from two families were killed when the car they were travelling in rolled down into the Ravi river in Himachal Pradesh's Chamba district Saturday, police said.

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A court here Saturday extended by 12 days the police custody of five suspected terrorists who were allegedly involved in the Sep 13 serial bomb blasts here that claimed 24 lives and left 124 injured.

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Goa's ruling coalition partners, the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), have rapped a disqualification petition filed by Tourism Minister Francisco 'Mickky' Pacheco of the NCP against his cabinet colleague Churchill Alemao of the Congress.

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Two people were arrested from a village in Uttar Pradesh Saturday and fake currency notes worth Rs.403,000 were recovered from them, police said.

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The withdrawal of the Tatas from Singur is a 'slap' for West Bengal, Biman Bose, chairman of the state's ruling Left Front, said Saturday.

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In a growing convergence of perceptions on terrorism in the region, India and the US Saturday said they have stakes in a "successful civilian government" in Pakistan, even as New Delhi underlined the anti-terror pledge President Asif Zardari had given to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

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Three members of a family were among five people who were injured when a fire broke out inside a house in south Delhi Saturday, a fire brigade official said.

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Brothers Sudanand and Prithveen Rajan of Team WSRF with Leela won the sixth and concluding round of the Enduro Cup at the JK Tyre National Racing championship here Saturday.

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Eden Gardens would be the home venue of the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) for the second edition of cricket's Indian Premier League (IPL) next year.

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Sourav Ganguly could not get the desired knock in the middle, bating for India A against New Zealand A here Saturday. He was run out for 14 after leg-spinner Amit Mishra celebrated his call-up to the Test squad with a six-wicket haul to restrict the visitors to 315 in the first innings.

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India went down 2-5 to South Korea in their first Group B match of the AFC Under-16 Championship at Tashkent Saturday.

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Bangladesh has become the breeding ground for young recruits of various Islamist terror groups, including the Harkat-ul-Jihad-e-Islami (HuJI), which is considered Al Qaeda's operating arm in South Asia, said Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Rajnath Singh here Saturday.

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Six policemen were charged with attempt to murder after Virender Kumar Khatik, MP from the Madhya Pradesh's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), was beaten up during an anti-encroachment drive in the state's Sagar district, a police official said Saturday.

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As many as 29 Congress leaders of Uttar Pradesh's Pratapgarh district Saturday resigned en masse from the party's primary membership accusing senior leaders of ignoring them, party sources said.

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Young filmmakers, whose creative and thought-provoking cinema is usually relegated to the sidelines in the melee of big banners, commerce and established names, now have an opportunity to reach out to the masses - courtesy Network 18.

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Mothers paying proper attention to the rearing of their children, especially the girl child, have been given 'best mother' awards by the Haryana government this year.

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Scoreboard on the second day of the four day cricket match between India A and New Zealand A at the M.A. Chidambaram stadium.

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India and the US Saturday affirmed that they would sign their nuclear agreement 'shortly' even as American officials privately expressed 'unhappiness' that the deal could not be signed despite US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's presence in New Delhi Saturday.

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Madhur Bhandarkar is very happy with Priyanka Chopra's work in 'Fashion', which is due for release Oct 29. She has 'connected with emotions' in the film, he says complimenting her.

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Medha Patkar of the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA), who had joined hands with the Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee in the struggle against land acquisition for Tata Motors' Nano project in West Bengal, has welcomed the company's decision to shift the project.

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A fortnight after two suspected terrorists were killed in a shootout here, a former BBC broadcaster who now teaches at the Jamia Millia Islamia, said transparency in the investigation process was required to win back the trust of Muslims, as, according to him, a sense of unease has engulfed the community.

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The Delhi High Court Saturday rejected the bail plea of Sanjeev Nanda, grandson of former Indian Navy chief Admiral S.M. Nanda, who was sentenced to five years' rigorous imprisonment by a lower court for mowing down six people while driving his BMW in 1999.

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Megastar Shahrukh Khan Saturday congratulated cricketer Sourav Ganguly for being included in the Indian squad for the upcoming Test and one-day series against Australia and hoped he would score a century in the first Test.

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'We have lost everything' was the anguished cry of villagers in this rural pocket of West Bengal's Hooghly district Saturday, a day after the Tatas pulled out the Nano project from the area.

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His daughter, a nun, was attacked by a Hindu mob and allegedly gang-raped more than a month ago during communal clashes in Orissa. Ignace Barwa, 59, has put the tragedy behind and is busy raising funds for Durga Puja.

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