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As brothers Sushil and Gopal Ansal were taken into custody here Thursday for what is known as the capital's Uphaar cinema fire tragedy case, the shares of their respective listed companies fell on the bourses.

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For improving monsoon and weather forecasting in the south Asian region, India and the US Thursday signed three pacts for joint climate monitoring and prediction of monsoon.

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A leading traders' organisation has decided to start 500 schools to train small and independent retailers to help them meet challenges posed by the entry of big players into the retail sector.

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President Pratibha Patil Thursday donated a month's salary to the Prime Minister's National Relief Fund for the Bihar flood victims.

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Over 35 million children have joined the education system since the launch of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), a central government project that aims for universal access to education, an official said Thursday.

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Even as Delhi High Court has kept the Warner Bros' petition for injunction against Mirchi Movies' forthcoming film 'Hari Puttar - A Comedy of Terrors' pending.

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Debating the role of the media in enhancing women's participation in political processes at a seminar here Thursday, politicians, academics and activists were nearly unanimous in slamming newspapers and broadcasters.

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In a bid to plead his innocence, an under trial Thursday attempted self immolation in a court in this Orissa town, police said.

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Setting the tone for the Congress party's campaign for the assembly elections in Andhra Pradesh, party president Sonia Gandhi Thursday promised development of this temple town.

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Hundreds of students of Panjab University (PU), Chandigarh, Thursday participated in an open house discussion during which various issues, including central status to the varsity, elevator facility in girls' hostels, sports.

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National Security Advisor (NSA) M.K. Narayanan Thursday briefed the cabinet on the waiver India has won from the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) to enable the resumption of global nuclear commerce with this country after a three-decade hiatus.

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Telecom service provider Bharti Airtel Thursday announced the launch of a fund to promote innovation and entrepreneurship in the telecommunication sector.

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A Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) special court Thursday sent real estate tycoons Sushil and Gopal Ansal to judicial custody till the time their appeal is heard against their conviction for lapses that led to the June 1.

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At least eight persons, including a female software engineer, have been booked in Orissa for cheating a non resident Indian (NRI) of Rs.1.3 million by making false promises, the police said Thursday.

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Malayalam superstar Mammootty, who is busy shooting for 'Maya Bazaar' here, says he has so much work that he can't think of taking a break during this festive season.

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The state-owned telecom operator Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) will conduct trials of third generation (3G) services by the end of this month in Delhi and launch commercially in December, the government announced Thursday.

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India and Israel are exploring new partnerships in culture and education to consolidate bilateral ties.

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Former West Bengal chief minister and Marxist veteran Jyoti Basu, who is in a nursing home here after a fall at his residence last week, continued to be stable Thursday, the hospital said.

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Rameshwari, a migrant from Bihar who stays in a squatters' colony in south Delhi, does not want to relocate. She has four children and there are days when they starve because her ailing husband, who is a policeman, spends all.

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Three people died and at least 40 were injured when a bus hit a roadside tree and fell into a canal Thursday in West Bengal's Howrah district, police said.

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Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray Thursday said the agitation over the 'anti-Marathi' remark made by actor-MP Jaya Bachchan was being withdrawn after an apology by Amitabh Bachchan.

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An additional 13,000 Indian Muslims will be able to perform the Haj on government subsidy this year, it was announced here Thursday.

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Chhattisgarh, one of India's youngest states, Thursday got its first international cricket stadium - 'the country's second best after Kolkata's Eden Gardens', according to a minister.

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An elderly couple in Tripura committed suicide after their tribe excommunicated them for allegedly practising witchcraft, police said here Thursday.

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Personal computer (PC) sales in India grew 8.1 percent in the second quarter of 2008 over the corresponding period last year, but down from the 10 percent first quarter growth, a technology industry tracker said Thursday.

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The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's biggest atom smasher commissioned Wednesday in Geneva, has the strong 'support' of India - literally.

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Designer Ritu Beri, who has not been very visible on the fashion and social circuit of late, staged a comeback of sorts when she offered a sneak peek at her bridal collection for the upcoming Bridal Asia 2008 here Wednesday.

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Tension prevailed in Jaunpur district of Uttar Pradesh following the alleged desecration of a holy book of a minority community, police said Thursday.

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US national Kenneth Haywood, whose email address was hacked to send a threat message ahead of the Ahmedabad bombings, returned to Mumbai with his family early Thursday morning, 'feeling a lot safer than before'.

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With $30 billion lined up for investments in his native country by steel tycoon Lakshmi Niwas Mittal, the Indian capital was host to Arcelor-Mittal group's second leadership summit where 700 top executives from 60 countries.

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After having played an important part in India's historic Olympic medal haul in Beijing, Mittal Champions Trust is now looking to raise the bar for the London 2012 games.

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Telecom service provider Bharti Airtel Thursday said it would start operations in Sri Lanka by the end of this calendar year.

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The Mumbai premiere of Amitabh Bachchan-starrer 'The Last Lear' was cancelled, but Big B and the entire film crew are upbeat about the red carpet start the English film is scheduled to get here later Thursday.

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Indian equity markets continued to trade in the red Thursday afternoon. Realty, banking and capital goods stocks were under selling pressure.

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Indian food lovers can look forward to enjoying a sinful combination of chocolate and exquisite tea with the coming together of a tea producer and a speciality restaurant in the national capital.

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Three people were arrested with 50 tonnes of explosives in Uttar Pradesh's Aligarh district, the police said Thursday.

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People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has asked the central government to investigate a website's claim that it sells tigers.

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Singur in West Bengal and Sangrur in Punjab are similar sounding names, but the similarity does not end there.

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India Thursday said it would move towards finalising bilateral agreements on civil nuclear energy cooperation with countries like France and Russia, though the 'actual cooperation' would begin only after the 123 agreement with the US came into force.

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Three British parliamentarians - Norman Baker, Julie Morgan and Tim Loughton - Thursday condemned China for 'torture and imprisonment of Tibetans' during a visit to this Himachal Pradesh town that houses Tibet's government-in-exile.

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A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) was filed Thursday in the High Court here seeking a probe into the assets of six Jharkhand ministers.

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Over three dozen people, mostly women and children, are feared drowned after an overloaded boat capsized in flood-hit Bihar Thursday, an official said.

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Hundreds of thousands of people sheltered in relief camps in flood-hit Bihar are being persuaded to stay in the temporary shelters till Oct 15 although the Kosi river, which changed its course and wreaked havoc in the state.

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Expressing satisfaction over the apology tendered by Amitabh Bachchan, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray said Thursday that the agitation against the star's wife, actor-MP Jaya Bachchan, was being 'withdrawn'.

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The Kosi river waters are receding, but the damage it has wrought on agricultural lands in Bihar is sinking in only now. Standing crops of paddy.

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Congress president Sonia Gandhi Thursday praised the Andhra Pradesh government for taking the lead in women's empowerment in the country.

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Local nightclubs, multiplexes and transport agencies are making hay as the campaign for the Panjab University Campus Students' Union (PUCSU) polls enters its final phase.


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Rajesh Balia, a former chief justice of the Patna High Court, will conduct the judicial probe into the breach in the Kosi embankment that triggered the worst floods of Bihar in 50 years, officials said Thursday.

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Biomedical research in India has received a shot in the arm with the Wellcome Trust, Britain's largest health charity, entering into an agreement with the Indian government's biotechnology department to fund cutting-edge research.

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Hoping to play a greater role in Gujarat politics, rebels from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have set up a new party called the Mahagujarat Janata Party (MJP) with former home minister Gordhan Zadafia.

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Five people in Meghalaya, including a tribal village headman, have been arrested on charges of smuggling uranium.

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Milan Samanta, a village boy studying in Class 8 at Singur, never thought he could soak in the festive spirit this year.

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Two people were critically injured when a speeding BMW with a VIP registration number hit their motorbike in south Delhi's Moolchand area early Thursday.

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Seventy percent of the students in Panjab University (PU) are women, but in the last three decades its students union has never had a woman president. Nor will it this year.

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Indian equity markets, which opened lower Thursday following weak cues from other Asian markets, were in the red in early trade. Metal, banking, pharma and capital goods stocks were under selling pressure.

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The cut, the texture, the fall...how many fashion reporters in India have knowledge of these styling basics? Very few, rue designers while pointing out that the media tends to focus on parties and celebrities instead.

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Huge lots of saris, because that's what most rural women in flood-battered Bihar wear, and large bundles cotton cloth which can be used as badly needed sanitary napkins -- rather than jeans and T-shirts.

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Veteran Kannada filmmaker Girish Kasaravalli's 'Gulabi Talkies', which won the best Indian film award at the 10th Osian's Cinefan Film Festival this year, was released in only one multiplex with one show a day.

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BBC's Asian programmes head Gurdip Bhangoo is leaving for India as head of programming for Sony Entertainment Television in the country.

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London-based Indian filmmaker Jagmohan Mundhra, who started his career with the suspense thriller 'Suraag', returns to his roots after a long hiatus. He is making two thrillers.

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After doing a cameo in 'Shaurya', Amrita Rao will be seen as an illiterate village girl in director Shyam Bengal's first comedy 'Welcome to Sajjanpur'.

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Talented actor Rahul Bose's much appreciated cameo in Santosh Sivan's 'Tahaan' took the audience by surprise.

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Actor Anjori Alagh nearly fractured her knees while shooting for Vikram Bhatt's supernatural period love story '1920', releasing Friday.

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Gujarat NRE Coke, the country's largest independent coke producer that is currently riding the crest of a global price upsurge, is planning a rights issue to augment its capital for setting up a greenfield coke oven plant.

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Bollywood actor Shahid Kapur has suffered the maximum number of injuries so far on the sets of Vishal Bharadwaj's 'Kaminay'.

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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Thursday the government had taken several steps to promote legal empowerment and judicial reforms but a lot more needed to be done.

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Moved by the plight of the large number of women and girls trafficked in the wake of Bihar's devastating floods, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi took time off from his tour of the flood affected areas to commiserate with one such group that has been rescued and promised them all help in rebuilding their lives.

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The Yamuna river, the Indian capital's choked and dying lifeline, could see a new surge of life if the suggestions made Thursday by an environment committee are acted upon.

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The bail pleas of the Arushi murder case accused will be heard in a special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court here Friday.

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President Pratibha Patil, Vice President Hamid Ansari and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Thursday greeted the nation on the eve of the Onam harvest festival, wishing the people peace, prosperity and harmony.

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New Zealand Governor-General Anand Satyanand met Maharashtra Governor S.C. Jamir at Raj Bhavan here Thursday evening, an official said.

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India's Parupalli Kashyap knocked second seed Malaysian Sairul Amar Ayob out of the Yonex Chinese Taipei Open badminton tournament to enter the third round of men's singles Thursday.

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Poverty and backwardness are being fuelled by price rise and economic slowdown, hampering ongoing efforts to achieve millennium development goals (MDG) midway into the stipulated timeline.

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American national Kenneth Haywood, whose email address was reportedly hacked to send a threat message before the July 26 Ahmedabad bombings, returned to Mumbai Thursday.

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The Supreme Court Thursday absolved Bollywood fight director Veeru Devgan, the father of actor-filmmaker Ajay Devgan, of charges of damaging the environment during shooting of a film in the hill resort of Ooty in Tamil Nadu.

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In yet another apparent hit-and-run case in the capital, two youngsters were critically injured when a speeding BMW bearing a VIP registration plate from Haryana hit their motorbike here early Thursday, the police said.

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Almost a week after a tiger was run over by a speeding train in a forest reserve, Uttar Pradesh forest authorities have started compiling details of wild animals killed similarly on railway tracks, an official said Thursday.

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