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Two engineering students from Gwalior drowned while taking a dip in the holy pond near Uttar Pradesh's Goverdhan hill, the police said Friday.

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At least 15 people were killed in rain related incidents in eight districts of Uttar Pradesh in the past 24 hours, officials said Friday.

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Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL) is unhappy about the way the Jharkhand government is dragging its feet over the renewal of iron ore mining leases, says Kiran Kapoor, the company's executive director (raw materials).

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Even as interest rates are inching up and inflation soaring, the LIC Housing Finance Company is confident of growing ahead of the industry's average growth rate, a top company official here said.

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Teachers and students alike are unhappy with the Madhya Pradesh government ban on mobile phones in schools.

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The ruling DMK in Tamil Nadu will observe a day-long fast Saturday to protest the firing upon Indian fishermen by Sri Lanka's navy.

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After playing substantial roles in films like 'Chandni Bar', 'Page' and 'Rang De Basanti', two time National Award winning actor Atul Kulkarni is to play a character named Gobar in Rakeysh Om Prakash Mehra's 'Dilli 6'.

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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Maharashtra unit president Nitin Gadkari has retained his seat from the Nagpur graduates' constituency, being elected to the Maharashtra Legislative Council for the fourth time.

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With just four days remaining for the do-or-die trust vote in parliament, the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) is struggling to keep its flock together amid indications of defections and cross-voting in the ruling coalition.

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Veteran actor Amol Palekar, who has been busy directing Hindi and Marathi films, is returning to acting after seven years with a Marathi movie tentatively titled 'Saamantar'.

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Lawmakers and lawyers from Tripura are planning to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Law Minister H.R. Bhardwaj next month to demand the setting up of a high court in the state, officials said here Friday.

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French warship major DCNS says it will fully transfer technology for its Scorpene submarines that are being built in this country for the Indian Navy and that the six boats contracted for will be delivered on schedule by 201.

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Four passengers who were sitting on the roof of a private bus were killed as they came into contact with a live wire in Bihar's Sheohar district early Friday.

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Adman turned filmmaker Kunal Shivdasani, who is debuting as a director with action thriller 'Hijack', admits that his film is inspired by the famous Hollywood flick 'Die Hard'.

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A soldier posted at a forward post along the Line of Control (LoC) that divides Jammu and Kashmir between India and Pakistan was injured when suspected militants fired at him and then escaped.

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In a boon for armed forces personnel deployed in high-altitude areas, defence scientists have developed a system for forecasting avalanches with maximum accuracy to enable corrective measures to be taken.

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Wipro Ltd remains cautious in the near-term on revenue guidance from its combined IT services despite a healthy topline and bottomline growth in the first quarter (April-June) of this fiscal (2008-09).

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Amitabh Bachchan may have lost his clothes on a British Airways flight from London to Toronto, but he kept his shirt on at a press conference here to kick off the Unforgettable Tour. Amid peals of laughter, Big B said his loss.

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Indian equity markets, which opened with a gain Fridfay, stayed in the positive zone in initial trade, with demand for banking, realty and capital goods stocks.

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A Sikh youth was killed in a clash between followers of the Dera Sacha Sauda sect and Sikh activists here Friday, police said.

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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has lowered India's growth forecast from 9.3 percent in 2007 to 8 percent in 2008-09 as it predicted the world economy now 'in a tough spot' would grow by 4.1 percent this year.

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The Indian equities market opened with a gain Friday. The 30 share benchmark sensitive index (Sensex) of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) opened with a gain of 122.68 points at 13,234.53 points.

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It's a novel idea that has helped 1,100 needy students - especially Muslims - from select Indian states get into engineering and paramedical institutes. And now this golden opportunity has come knocking on the doors of Delhi.

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Wipro Ltd has projected combined revenue of $1.09 billion from its flagship IT services business for the second quarter (July-September) of this fiscal (2008-09) under the American accounting standards.

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Wipro Ltd posted net profit of Rs.9.08 billion for the first quarter (April-June) of this fiscal (2008-09), registering 25 percent growth over the same period last fiscal under the Indian accounting standards.

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Congress MP and party general secretary Rahul Gandhi arrived here Friday on a three-day tour of Maharashtra's Vidarbha region, which witnessed a phenomenally high incidence of farmers' suicides in the last three years.

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This village is home to a 400-year-old step well whose sparkling waters brim with fish, some weighing nearly 10 kg. But don't try to catch any - or you will be fined.

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Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa has been urged to take concrete steps to check the rampant audio and video piracy in the Kannada film industry due to which filmmakers are losing millions of rupees every year.

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Film: 'Rock On'; Music Director: Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy; Lyricist: Javed Akhtar: Singers: Farhan Akhtar, Dominique Cerejo, Caralisa Monteiro, Raman Mahadevan, Suraj Jagan; Rating: ****

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Pakistani director Mehreen Jabbar, whose debut film 'Ramchand Pakistani' has been widely appreciated at the 10th Osian's-Cinefan Film Festival, says she will make a Bollywood film some day.

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Zubin Mehta, the internationally acclaimed Los Angeles-based music conductor of Indian origin, will enthral his fans at a series of charity concerts here in October.

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Zubin Mehta, the internationally acclaimed Los Angeles-based music conductor of Indian origin, will enthral his fans at a series of charity concerts here in October.

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It will be a double whammy for Ranvir Shorey Aug 1 when two of his films hit the screen. While in 'Ugly Aur Pagli', Mallika Sherawat slaps him endlessly, in 'Good Luck' the actor runs around smooching the whole world.

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Continuing its opposition to a controversial Class 7 textbook for social science in Kerala, the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) Friday demanded withdrawal of five textbooks proposed for extra reading.

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The consolidation talks between Anil Ambani-led Reliance Communications, India's second largest private telecom company, and South Africa's MTN were called off late Friday.

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In yet another blow to the main opposition Telugu Desam Party (TDP) in Andhra Pradesh, senior party leader and Rajya Sabha member C. Ramachandraiah Friday resigned from the party.

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Two male nursing students, who went for a swim at the Marina Beach here, were reported missing Friday, the police said.

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The Uttar Pradesh cabinet Friday approved construction of over 100,000 houses for people living below the poverty line, officials said Friday.

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In an expected fall-out of the poor rainfall in Maharashtra, the state's electricity distribution agency Mahavitaran announced an additional one-hour daily power cut here Friday.

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A malfunctioning crane at a Delhi Metro construction site resulted in some construction material falling on a passing car, seriously injuring the driver, here Friday evening.

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The Maharashtra government has decided to open 1,600 new colleges all over the state this year to provide relief to thousands of students who have recently passed out of school but have not secured admission to junior colleges.

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S. Shankar, the aide of suspended Tamil Nadu Additional Director General of Police S.K. Upadhyay, was remanded in judicial custody by a local court Friday.

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MDMK MPs violating a whip to oppose the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government in Tuesday's confidence vote should be disqualified, party general secretary Vaiko said in a communique to Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterji.

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Around 1.2 billion people worldwide have no access to toilets and India tops the list of countries with the most number of people defecating in the open, at 665 million - about half its population, the World Health Organisation.

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Jubilant after winning the junior Asia Cup hockey title Friday, coach A.K. Bansal said India now has the world's best drag-flickers in Diwakar Ram and Sandep Singh around.

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Jubilant after winning the junior Asia Cup hockey title Friday, coach A.K. Bansal said India now has the world's best drag-flickers in Diwakar Ram and Sandep Singh around.

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Angry family members of a man, who died allegedly after a policeman beat him up during questioning in a theft case, Friday staged a demonstration outside a police station in northwest Delhi.

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European football clubs' interest in India is increasing day by day with the latest being Spanish giants Real Madrid.

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The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Friday arrested a US national of Indian-origin here for fraud in the import of wheat from Australia by the State Trading Corporation (STC) in 1998.

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India made a spectacular recovery as Diwakar Ram struck twice in a match yet again to beat South Korea 3-2 via golden goal to retain the junior Asia Cup trophy at the Gachibowli Stadium here Friday.

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J.J. Pramila and Sushmita Singha Roy qualified for the Beijing Olympics after they attained the A qualifying mark on the second day of the National Jump and Combined Events for the heptathlon event here Friday.

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The feasibility survey for broad-gauging of the railway line in Himachal Pradesh is to be conducted shortly by a private company, Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal said Friday.

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The feasibility survey for broad-gauging of the railway line in Himachal Pradesh is to be conducted shortly by a private company, Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal said Friday.

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An Afghan national of Indian origin was arrested here Friday for allegedly killing his younger brother's wife after she rejected his sexual advances, the police said.

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Defence counsel for Sanjeev Nanda, main accused in the BMW hit-and-run case in which six people including three policemen were run over, Friday alleged there were discrepancies in police records.

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At least two Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) troopers were reportedly shot early Friday in a gunbattle with India's Border Security Force (BSF) personnel when the latter opened fire to prevent cattle smuggling through West Bengal's.

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Nearly a week after India blamed Pakistan's ISI for the July 7 suicide attack on the Indian mission in Kabul, the two countries Friday kept their peace process on course by discussing confidence-building measures aimed.

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Biotechnology major Biocon Ltd will market Abraxane drug of the US-based Abraxis BioScience in India for treating breast cancer, a top company official said here Friday.

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Three academically brilliant people, including an IITian who is a nature photographer and an Indian researcher at a Lahore varsity, have bagged the first Manmohan Singh Scholarships instituted by the Cambridge University.

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Tamil actress Asin will play the female lead opposite Bollywood icon Salman Khan in 'London Dreams', publicists said here Friday.

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Customs officials at Chennai International Airport arrested two people with ketamine tablets worth Rs.50 million Friday. The two were later produced before a court here and sent to judicial custody.

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An Indian origin Afghanistan national was arrested here Friday for allegedly murdering his 21-year-old sister-in-law after she rejected his sexual advances, the police said.

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Delhi High Court Friday issued notice to Delhi University and Shyam Lal College for illegally terminating the services of a Hindi lecturer.

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Indian telecom major Bharat Sanchar Nagar Limited (BSNL) will expand and improve its mobile connectivity in rural Uttar Pradesh by installing over 600 new base transmitting station towers (BTS) in the state.

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The glittering original trophy of junior Asia Cup hockey was back with the organisers, after the suspended Indian Hockey Federation (IHF) president K.P.S. Gill returned it just in time, before the title-clash here Friday.

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The stage is set for a battle royal in the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) with seasoned cricket administrator Jagmohan Dalmiya filing his nomination Friday for the president's post.

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A smuggler was arrested with 5.5 kg of elephant tusk in the Sonbhadra district of Uttar Pradesh, about 250 kms from here, police said Friday.

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Failing to woo the youth to the Indian armed forces, the defence ministry has suggested a one-time waiver in the qualitative requirements (QRs) for officers to fill up the growing middle-rung vacancies in the forces.

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As Delhi witnesses hectic political activity ahead of the confidence vote for the Manmohan Singh government, down south in Kerala, the precincts of the state assembly Friday.

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Number of MPs in the lower house of parliament, the Lok Sabha, Friday - 543. Effective Strength - 542 (Excluding P.C Thomas, Kerala Congress-J barred from voting by the Kerala High Court.)

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Stiff competition from rivals and changing market dynamics have forced Indian national carrier Air India to reduce fares by 15 percent on flights to Gulf destinations.

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Charges and counter charges of inducements and bribery in the run-up to the trust vote in parliament Tuesday bring to mind the 1993 trust vote that another Congress government won - with the help of Shibu Soren of the Jharkhand.

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To enable around 400,000 people in the national capital to earn their livelihood, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit has told Delhi Mayor Arti Mehra to start allotment of 'Teh Bazari' (pavement hawking licence).

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Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) member of parliament from Kerala M.P. Veerendra Kumar said he and the two of hsi fellow party MPs would vote against the confidence motion of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government July 22.

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India retained the junior Asia Cup hockey title, beating South Korea 3-2 by a golden goal in extra time at the Gachibowli Stadium here Friday.

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A protest over the mysterious death of two boys studying in a school of popular spiritual guru Asaram Bapu turned violent Friday with angry people attacking media persons and setting fire to vehicles and even homes.

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Attacking the Left parties, the Congress Friday said they were playing a 'destructive role' by deciding to side with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the July 22 trust vote and helping form a 'communal' government.

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Unencumbered by overzealous party followers or obsequious bureaucrats and with no VIP cavalcades trailing him, Congress MP Rahul Gandhi darted in and out of three parched villages.

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Rabobank Group, International Finance Corporation (IFC), Finance for Development (FMO) and Deutsche Investitions und Entwicklungsgesellschaft (DEG) Friday announced flotation of the first private equity fund focused.

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Considering the seriousness of the water-logging that has hit the city life the past few days, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has ordered efforts on a war-footing to drain out the flood waters.

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Leaders of Orissa's ruling Biju Janata Dal are busy keeping their house in order after a section of media reported that there are chances some of its MPs may vote for the Congress party-led United Progressive Alliance.

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Fighting with its back to the wall, India's United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government was Friday busy rustling up the numbers in a do-or-die trust vote in parliament as allegations of defections, horse-trading and cross-v.

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With industrial activities leading to continuous increase in the greenhouse gas (GHG) emission level and subsequent climate change, the government needs to introduce a long-term National Carbon Budgeting.

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Romantic flick 'Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na' has broken the dry spell at the box-office, grossing nearly Rs.150 million in the first week of its release.

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The India Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) will soon start a diploma programme to train students from across the country to take up jobs in business process outsourcing (BPO) firms, well known as call centres.

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In a snub to K.P.S. Gill, Indian Olympic Association (IOA) president Suresh Kalmadi said Friday that the sacked Indian Hockey Federation (IHF) president will only discuss the developments of Asian hockey and will have nothing.

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President of the superseded Indian Hockey Federation (IHF) K.P.S. Gill said Friday that corporate sponsorship in cricket is detrimental for the growth of other sports in the country.

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National award winning director Sai Paranjape, who is remembered for the hit comedy 'Chashme Buddoor', is ready to don the director's cap once again after an 11-year hiatus.

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The International Hockey Federation (FIH) Friday said that India's controversial technical advisor Ric Charlesworth's term is over and his resignation has been accepted.

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After working in Onir's 'Sorry Bhai', Shabana Azmi and Boman Irani will be again seen together with the same director in a film that is an adaptation of Shakespeare's 'Hamlet'.

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Fearing its MPs could be poached by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati ahead of the July 22 trust vote, the Samajwadi Party leadership is taking extra care to keep its flock together and has most of its MPs.

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Come Monday, scheduled power cuts will replace unscheduled cuts across Tamil Nadu, Arcot N. Veerasamy, the state's electricity minister said here Friday.

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International Hockey Federation (FIH) Friday said that Indian Hockey Confederation (IHC), representing both the men and the women's body, will be the sole governing body of the sport and will be renamed Hockey India.

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The Multi Commodity Exchange of India Ltd (MCX) Friday launched its Gujarati website here with a view to popularize commodity futures market among traders, investors and farmers in Gujarat.

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Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss Friday called upon doctors to serve poor patients in their own country rather than going to countries like the US to serve the poor there.

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With reports suggesting that some of its MPs were switching sides, the ruling Congress Friday gave strict instructions to its state units to keep its members together and 'safe' ahead of the July 22 crucial floor test.

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Leaders of the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), one of northeastern India's frontline separatist groups, Friday said the organisation's leadership missed an opportunity to start a peace dialogue with the Indian government.

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The Supreme Court Friday asked the Uttar Pradesh government to review its order cancelling allotment of 14 plots to various hoteliers in 2006 in Noida, on the outskirts of the national capital.

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The Export Import Bank of India (Exim Bank) plans to raise Rs.170 billion this financial year, a top company official said here Friday.

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Rebutting Chinese assertions, the Tibetan government-in-exile said here Friday that the issue of Tibet concerns the future of six million Tibetans there and not just the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama.

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Ending months of speculation, International Hockey Federation Friday (FIH) finally confirmed that the 2010 men's hockey World Cup will be held in New Delhi.

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Even as it tries to woo its allies to vote against the UPA in the floor test, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) has the additional worry of probably missing out on three votes.

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 The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) has slammed the Congress for 'taking recourse to convicted criminals for sustaining the government' and questioned its 'political morality'. It has named jailbirds like Pappu Yada.

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The timing of the trust vote could not have been worse, say political parties. With general elections scheduled anyway for May 2009, neither the ruling UPA nor the opposition are quite sure of how their MPs would behave.

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The state-owned Bank of India (BoI) will raise $1.84 billion (Rs.73.6 billion) from bonds to meet its capital requirement and credit growth, it said Friday.

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Supratim Dutta, an IT executive who survived an accident in which an iron bar pierced his liver, stomach and a lung, was recovering following an operation at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS).

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Curfew was imposed in a town in Haryana's Sirsa district Friday after a Sikh man was killed by Dera Sacha Sauda sect followers in a clash.

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Several Kerala legislators' complaint that they are poorly paid is about to be addressed, but that still does not make them happy as they feel the proposed hike would not bring them at par with lawmakers from other.

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While Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) chief Shibu Soren is reportedly in touch with National Democratic Alliance (NDA) leaders in New Delhi over the July 22 trust vote in parliament, the rest of his party, which has five Lok Sabha.

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Satyam Computer Services, India's fourth largest software and IT services exporter, announced Friday a net profit of Rs.5.48 billion for the first quarter ended June 30, registering a growth of 45 per cent over the correspond.

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With oil prices spiralling out of control, the IT services business in India is facing a lot of uncertainty and is operating in a challenging environment, Wipro Ltd chairman Azim Premji said here Friday.

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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Friday sought H.D. Deve Gowda's support for the July 22 trust vote but the Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) president made it clear that he would not take any decision in a hurry.

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The body of a 60-year-old retired Indian Oil Corporation official, who was missing for the past three days, was found Friday under mysterious circumstances in his car in a Delhi market area, the police said.

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Indian equity markets continued their rally Friday and closed the trading week with hefty gains. Banking, realty and oil stocks led the winning rally. Except IT and metal all the sectoral indices ended the day in the green.

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The government will 'sail through' the trust vote on July 22, a confident External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee said here Friday as tensions grew over the numbers game and whether the United Progressive Alliance (UPA).

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The CPI-M is facing a speaker crisis - in every which way. With Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee unlikely to give up his post, the party finds itself without any convincing orator to put forward its case in the July 22.

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'We stand for peace', is a vow that students of Delhi schools took as they celebrated the 90th birthday of South African anti-apartheid icon and former president Nelson Mandela here Friday.

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Manoj Bajpai got recognition in filmdom with Ram Gopal Varma's 'Satya', but says he will never go back to his mentor.

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Seeking to project the impression that it's business as usual even as the government seeks a trust vote July 22, India will launch the fifth round of composite dialogue with Pakistan during their two-day talks that begin Monday.

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The tricky numbers game in the July 22 trust vote in parliament which will decide the fate of the Manmohan Singh government may be hogging the media headlines, but most of the country's youth don't seem to be bothered.

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Indian equity markets closed with a huge gain Friday.

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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is planning to fly a bedridden party MP from Nashik to New Delhi so that he can take part in Tuesday's crucial trust vote in parliament.

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About 1,200 people of a tribal village in Chhattisgarh have moved to safer places Friday to avoid a night of fury of a wild elephant that has razed a dozen houses and killed an elderly woman.

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The Congress Friday alleged irregularities in the implementation of the central government's farm loan waiver in Uttar Pradesh and claimed it had received complaints about it from across the state.

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A major fire broke out in one of the buildings of Peninsula Park, a commercial complex, at Lower Parel in central Mumbai here Friday morning, sending many mobile telephones in the city on the blink.

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The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government, facing confidence vote in the Lok Sabha over differences on the India-US civil nuclear deal, was only taking forward a pact initiated by the previous BJP-led coalition government.

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Six persons, all in their early 20s, were arrested in Chhattisgarh on charges of diamond smuggling, said the police Friday.

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In a move that may bring about peace between the acting head of St. Stephen's college and its teaching faculty, an additional teacher's post has been created and the non-Christian candidate.

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Shiv Sena activists Friday announced plans to hold Hindu religious ceremonies at the Taj Mahal even as preparations began for the urs (death anniversary) of Mughal emperor Shah Jahan later this month.

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Needing every vote to win the Lok Sabha trust vote July 22, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Friday phoned former prime minister and Janata Dal-Secular president H.D. Deve Gowda to seek the support of his party's three members.

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Allahabad Bank has announced a net profit of $23.34 million (Rs.933.6 million) during the first quarter this fiscal, compared to $50.09 million (Rs.2 billion) for the corresponding period previous year, a fall of about 53 perce.

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The Aditya Birla group-promoted Ultratech Cement has announced a net profit of $66.25 million (Rs.2.65 billion) during the first quarter this fiscal, compared to $64.84 million (Rs.2.59 billion) for the corresponding period.

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Maxwell Industries Ltd, promoters of Indian innerwear major VIP Group, is planning to diversify into the lifestyle and wellness segment, the company's chairman and managing director Sunil Pathare said here Friday.

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The financial products distribution arm of LIC Housing Finance Limited will initially begin operations in Mumbai, a top company official said here Friday.

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Students of a medical college here and junior doctors in the hospital attached to it called off their strike Friday after the state government announced the setting up of a panel to look into the students' complaints against.

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The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) and the International Hockey Federation (FIH) Friday recognised the Indian Hockey Confederation (IHC) as the sole governing body of the sport in the country.

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At least 36 people, mostly women and children, were injured in a grenade explosion in a crowded market in Banihal town in Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir Friday, police said.

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The cleric of the largest mosque in India Friday said the contentious India-US civil nuclear deal is for the country and is not against any community.

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A city observed a shutdown against the alleged shoddy probe into the deaths of two children at his ashram, protesters pelted stones and an anguished father burnt everything he touched.

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The Chhattisgarh government will spend over Rs.80 million in the current fiscal year to provide free uniforms to schoolgirls from Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST).

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The much debated issue of Somnath Chatterjee's resignation from the post of Lok Sabha speaker finds no mention on the agenda of the two-day central committee meeting of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M).

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A committee of the Uttar Pradesh legislative council will visit universities and colleges across the state to inquire into cases of ragging, an official said Friday.

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Indian equity markets turned choppy Friday but managed to stay in the green till early afternoon. There was buying interest in banking, realty, power and telecom stocks, but technology and metal stocks were under selling pressue.

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Traffic snarls on the Himachal Pradesh-Haryana border may ease soon, as the environment ministry has given its nod to the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) to cut down 12 hectares of forests for an 11-km-long bypass.

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