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Dilawar Mohammed, one of the winners of Time magazine's Heroes of the Environment-2008, is a crusader for the almost ignored bird - the common sparrow.

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Eminent lawyer Ram Jethamalani said Monday he would have loved to defend the two Jamia Milia University students arrested on charges of instigating terror attacks but can't because of his failing health.

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A community radio, which will cater to a large number of tribal people and small farmers in Mananthavady in the Wayanad district of Kerala, will start service from here in December.

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The number of victims of a mysterious disease in Uttar Pradesh's Sitapur district has mounted to 12, with five more people succumbing since Monday, officials said Tuesday.

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After roping in big Hollywood stars like Slyvester Stallone and Denise Richards for 'Kambakkth Ishq', producer Sajid Nadiadwala has now also cast Brandon Routh, better known as Superman, in the film.

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India cannot remain immune to meltdown in developed economies, a top economic advisor to the government has warned.

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Three months after the central government cleared the Rs.18.4-billion ($409-million) Kuttanad package, the Kerala government Tuesday decided to set up two committees to oversee the implementation of this.

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Desperate for food and drinking water over a month after the Kosi river swamped hundreds of villages in Bihar, angry flood victims have now taken to blocking highways, attacking officials and even looting relief materials.

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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will be in Jammu and Kashmir Friday to inaugurate the 450 MW Baglihar hydroelectric project.

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Samson D'Souza, the main accused in the murder of British national Scarlett Eden Keeling, got a major reprieve as the Central Bureau Of Investigation (CBI) Tuesday unexpectedly withdrew its plea challenging a court decision to grant him bail.

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Stressing that civic officials who do not exhibit professional competence should be 'shown the door', Lieutenant Governor of Delhi Tejender Khanna said Tuesday there was a need to oust corrupt officials and also make third--party audit of quality standards mandatory in the delivery of civil services.

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Into a decade of starting its sewage treatment division, city-based Transdot is all set to 'clean up' Kerala using its latest membrane bio-reactor (MBR) process, considered to be the most advanced waste water treatment technology.

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Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has expressed grief over the lives lost in the strong quake that rocked Tibet Monday, an official statement of the Tibetan government-in-exile said here Tuesday.

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Calling for Home Minister Shivraj Patil's resignation in the 'name of morality', Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh said Tuesday that there must be a judicial probe into the shootout in Delhi's Jamia Nagar in which two alleged terrorists and a police officer were killed.

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It was a spectacular show in the sky early Tuesday morning, when a small asteroid entered the earth's atmosphere releasing a huge amount of light and energy before exploding.

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Nothing is done the way it should be in the Central Animal Facility in AIIMS, says a researcher who spent days there with the aim of learning animal care at the premier institute. Officials at the facility, however, deny the charge.

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Tata Motors could announce the rollout of its Nano car from Gujarat Tuesday, the day Chief Minister Narendra Modi celebrates his seventh year in office, according to a government official here.

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Three-year-old Bishan donated blood to save Jyoti, who was suffering from high fever and acute anaemia. Both are members of Bihar's police dog squad.

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As part of the ongoing heritage festival in the city beautiful, a walk was organised here Tuesday morning.

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At least six people died after a speeding car fell in a canal in West Bengal's Burdwan district, police said Tuesday.

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The global financial crisis will affect India indirectly and require industry and the regulators to remain ever so vigilant to weather the storm, Finance Minister P. Chidambaram has said.

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After duping even senior officials of the bureaucracy into believing he was Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh's chief secretary for two years, the game is finally up for Rajiv Kumar Sarthi.

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An all-women Durga Puja celebration has entered the 15th year in Jharkhand's Dhanbad city.

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Thousands of devotees thronged puja pandals (marquees) Tuesday to make offerings on Mahashtami - the third of the five-day Durga Puja festival - and participate in the worship of pre-pubescent girls.

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Even as the national capital is changing its face for the 2010 Commonwealth Games, planners and experts here have expressed concern about flawed planning and delay in implementing an interconnected transport system.

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Life bounced back to normal in the Kashmir valley Tuesday after two days as authorities lifted the curfew restrictions imposed Sunday to thwart a proposed rally by separatists.

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Indian equities slipped into the red in early hours of trading Tuesday after opening on a strong note following interventions by the markets watchdog and a cut in minimum cash balance for banks against deposits announced by the central bank a day earlier.

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Designer Rana Gill, known for her mastery over print and colour display, is all set to showcase her 'Nirvana' collection that targets youngsters at the upcoming Wills Lifestyle India Fashion week (WIFW) here Oct 15-19.

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The Bajrang Dal is a terrorist outfit and the central government will not hesitate to ban it like it outlawed the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), says Union Minister of State for Home Shakeel Ahmad.

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A Maoist commander was gunned down early Tuesday by a joint team of the Chhattisgarh police and the paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) in a forest in the state's restive southern region.

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Many people in Jammu have stopped rallying around the Shri Amarnath Sangharsh Samiti, saying protests organised by it have already cost them too much economically and now it is meddling in their social affairs as well.

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India's river cleansing holy man Balbir Singh Seechewal says he still has a long way to go after being profiled in a recent edition of the US based Time magazine as a 'Hero of the Environment'.

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A top officer of the Airports Authority of India (AAI) is being charged with fraud and can be dismissed from service for reportedly having faked his caste certificate to secure the job, a senior official said.

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With Durga Puja festivities peaking Wednesday, many eminent Bengalis feel its essence is being lost in the rush for commercialization and media publicity but nevertheless associate with it 'goodness' and 'magic' that make it a 'larger-than-life' celebration.

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They have churned out giant idols of Goddess Durga and her children for decades, but the artisans of Kumartuli - the potter's colony here famed for its sculptures - now fear that their craft might die with them as the younger generation is shifting to more lucrative professions.

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A popular coffee house is an unlikely venue for a job fair. The fair itself was unusual. It was exclusively for the differently abled and held for the first time in India's IT hub.

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The benchmark index of the Bombay Stock Exchange, the Sensex, opened in the green here Tuesday on the strength of the central bank's decision to allow Indian banks to lend more and inject more money into the belaguered financial market.

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The situation in violence-hit areas of Assam remained calm Tuesday with no overnight incidents reported, the first time in four days of ethnic clashes that left 49 people dead and more than 100,000 displaced, officials said.

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The curfew that was imposed in the Kashmir valley to foil a rally by separatists was lifted from all the 10 districts Tuesday.

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Film: 'Fashion'; Music Director: Salim-Suleiman; Lyricist: Irfan Siddique, Sandeep Nath; Singers: Salim Merchant, Neha Bhasin, Sukhwinder Singh, Shruti Pathak, Robert Bob Omulo, Satya Hinduja, Mohit Chauhan; Rating: ***1/2

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Television actress Nigaar Z. Khan says cricketer Dinesh Karthik, her partner on dance reality show 'Ek Khiladi Ek Hasina', is a sweet guy and a quick learner and that she couldn't have got a better co-dancer.

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Director Sanjay Gadhvi gave Uday Chopra two of the best films of his career - 'Dhoom' and 'Dhoom 2'. But he gave the actor a miss in the recently released 'Kidnap' because he feels Uday grew 'too old' for the role.

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Malaika Arora is shocked by television actor Bhaktyaar Irani's behaviour on the grand finale of reality dance show 'Zara Nachke Dikha' and says he had an 'attitude problem from day one'.

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Former India captain Sourav Ganguly received two threat letters in the past one month that his six-year-old daughter Sana would be kidnapped.

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Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) general secretary Prakash Karat Tuesday asked the central government to issue directives to the Orissa government under Article 355 of the constitution to contain communal violence in the state.

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Germany and India will sign an accord Wednesday to exempt their nationals working in either country from social security contributions.

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The Indian auto industry has welcomed Tata Motors' decision to set up Nano small car plant in Gujarat, saying the deal has reinforced the confidence of the industry.

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The Special Operation Group (SOG) of the Allahabad police Tuesday shot dead an alleged criminal in a shootout, the police said.

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A henchman of underworld gangster Fazal-ur-Rehman has been arrested here for allegedly trying to extort money from affluent businessmen in the capital, the police said Tuesday.

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Former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly Tuesday revealed that he has received threats to kidnap his daughter Sana.

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A team of experts, including a professor from the Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi (IIT), Tuesday started a probe into the Sep 30 collapse of an under-construction flyover in which seven people were killed and several njured last week.

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Ratan Jain, a noted producer and Venus Records and Tapes director, has been unanimously elected as the president of Association of Motion Pictures and Television Programme Producer of India (AMPTPP).

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Reputed conservationist and filmmaker Shekar Dattatri, winner of the prestigious $8,500 Swedish 2008 Edberg Award, says he will use the money to spread awareness about the environmental dangers India faces.

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Farmers at Sanand village in Gujarat burst crackers and distributed sweets Tuesday evening, welcoming the Tata Motors' decision to relocate the Rs.15-billion Nano car project to the state.

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Sourav Ganguly has said farewell to cricket after 12 glorious years and at times controversial seasons in the highest level of the game. But for cricket, it's not merely the loss of an icon, rather of a born fighter, who led his country with passion and shrewdness and would go down as one of the best captains in the annals of cricketing history.

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All India Tennis Association (AITA) will hold 52 weeks of tennis action with increased number of events next year.

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Tata Steel has bagged the prestigious Deming Application Prize-2008 for Total Quality Management (TQM), a company official said here Tuesday.

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After eight years on air, Ekta Kapoor's marathon soap 'Kahaani Ghar Ghar Kii' is finally bidding adieu to TV viewers Thursday.

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The Andhra Pradesh government Tuesday announced a reward of Rs.1.5 million for Mumbai Police, which claim to have solved the mystery of last year's twin bomb blasts here with the arrest of suspected Indian Mujahideen members.

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India's poll body chief Tuesday arrived here on a two-day visit to assess the situation for holding assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir.

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Sourav Ganguly was fed up with the uncertainty over his place in the side and decided to end his international career with his head held high, chairman of selectors Krisnamachari Srikkanth revealed after the former skipper announced his retirement Tuesday.

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The Karnataka government seemed so confident it had bagged the Nano small car project that it announced constituting a committee Tuesday evening to decide on tax concessions to Tata Motors, even as Ratan Tata was holding a press conference in Gandhinagar announcing the project relocation to Gujarat.

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The Government Railway Police (GRP) Tuesday claimed it had solved the Oct 1 train robbery by arresting two suspects from Etawah district of Uttar Pradesh.

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He was in his element at the media conference, answering varied questions on his career: His anguish at not being picked for the Irani Trophy; the ensuing four-Test series against Australia; the pressures of donning the India Colours; the disappointment of being frequently dropped from the Test team and the need to respect senior cricketers and let them go out on their own terms.

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Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee has disqualified two National Democratic Alliance (NDA) MPs - H.T. Sangliana of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Ramswaroop Prasad of the Janata Dal-United (JD-U), who voted in favour of the government in the July 22 trust vote.

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Following is the career statistics of former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly who announced his retirement from the international cricket Tuesday afternoon.

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The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) said Tuesday that it would decide its electoral alliances Oct 12 at the party's national committee meeting scheduled in Kolkatta.

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People in Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh set aside a huge part of their annual income for health expenses,

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A man arrested for posing as personal secretary of Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh was Tuesday remanded in police custody for two days.

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Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav Tuesday said Amar Singh's demand for a judicial probe into the Sep 19 shootout in New Delhi, in which two terror suspects and a police inspector, were killed was an official stand of the party.

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It has been two sleepless nights for Jeev Milkha Singh. It is not the tension on the eve of the one million dollar Hero Honda Indian Open, but just the kind of a gruelling schedule he is trying to keep pace with.

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An Indian delegation led by Labour Minister Oscar Fernandes will attend the canonization of Sister Alphonsa in the Vatican Oct 12. She will become the first Indian woman to be declared a saint by the Catholic Church.

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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati will Thursday launch a much-awaited, ambitious housing project for the urban poor, according to officials.

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In a gesture reaffirming unwavering commitment to the Palestinian cause, India Tuesday announced an assistance of $20 million to the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) and gifted it a new embassy that is being built in the heart of the capital's diplomatic enclave.

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Former Indian cricketers Tuesday hailed Sourav Ganguly as a fighting cricketer and the best Indian captain.

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Tata Motors opted for Gujarat over several other states for its Nano project because of the speed at which the state acted after the auto major pulled out of Singur in West Bengal, company chairman Ratan Tata said here Friday.

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