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An email attributed to terror group Indian Mujahideen Thursday threatened to eliminate leader of India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Lal Krishna Advani, using suicide bombers during his scheduled visit to Meghalaya next week.

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Zee TV has adopted self-imposed guidelines for their forthcoming reality show that involves children by not taking kids below six years.

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The consulate general of the United States here will start functioning in December this year and will initially handle 100 visa applications a day, said Consul General Cornelis M. Keur here Thursday.

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It's still at the discussion stage, but very soon Indian panchayat leaders, including women, will set an example for their Afghan counterparts in local governance.

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The Gujarat government's tabling Thursday of the first part of the Justice Nanavati Commission's report on the Godhra train fire might be in contempt of court as a Supreme Court-appointed team was probing the matter, human right activist Teesta Setalvad said.

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Saina Nehwal sailed into the quarterfinal of China Masters Super Series spanking Ai Goto of Japan 21-12, 21-10 in Changzhou Thursday.

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A truck ran over six people when it crashed into huts along a highway in this Punjab city, the police said here Thursday.

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Amidst signals of an imminent exit of Tata Motors from Singur, the West Bengal cabinet Thursday urged the company to roll out its small car from the state, but Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee told his ministerial colleagues he saw no hope of the auto major staying put in the state.

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Terming it as 'most extensive, exhaustive and scientific', the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Thursday welcomed the Justice (retd) Nanavati Commission's report, which found that the train burning tragedy at Godhra in 2002 was a well-planned conspiracy.

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The first part of the Nanavati Commission report, concluding that the Godhra train fire tragedy of 2002 was pre-planned, was tabled in the Gujarat assembly Thursday only to 'give political mileage' to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) before the Lok Sabha elections, the Congress said Thursday.

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The Delhi-based battery-powered two-wheeler manufacturer Ultra Motor India Pvt Ltd is planning to expand production capacity, product range as well as its distribution network, according to a top company official.

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The Gujarat government headed by Chief Minister Narendra Modi had sufficient intelligence inputs to prevent the July 26 serial bombings in Ahmedabad, the main opposition Congress said Thursday.

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German wholesaler Metro Cash and Carry has deferred taking a decision about its future in West Bengal as the Left Front government has requested it 'to wait' till Sep 29, a top company official said here Thursday.

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Gujarat's opposition Congress party Thursday termed as 'murder of democracy' an inquiry commission's report which concluded that the burning of a train coach at Godhra station in 2002 was pre-meditated.

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India Thursday successfully tested an improved version of the indigenously developed pilotless target aircraft (PTA) Lakshya from a defence base in Orissa, an official said.

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Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh Thursday lashed out at Home Minister Shivraj Patil, saying the country did not stand a chance of winning the fight against terrorism if men like him were in office.

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Bullish about India's growing aviation market, US aerospace major Boeing sees a $20 billion opportunity in the defence sector alone over the next decade.

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The Bihar government has decided to seal the breach in the Kosi river that triggered one of the worst floods in the state, official sources said Thursday.

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Admitting that there was 'almost no possibility' of the Nano car rolling out of Singur, a senior West Bengal minister Thursday said Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee would make a final request to Tata Motors to restart operations in the facility.

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Thirty school children were feared to have drowned after the boat they were travelling in capsized Thursday in Sair river in Uttar Pradesh's Pratapgarh district, the police said.

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The burning of a coach of the Sabarmati Express at Godhra in February 2002, which claimed 59 lives and triggered Gujarat-wide communal violence, was pre-planned, the Nanavati inquiry panel has concluded.

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Justice (retd) G.T. Nanavati, who headed an inquiry panel that has concluded that the Godhra train burning tragedy was pre-planned, has stoutly defended the probe findings, and said he believed they were accurate.

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Sonia Gandhi, Congress president and MP from Rae Bareli in Uttar Pradesh, will be visiting her constituency Friday, sources in the party said.

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Spouse of a senior IAS officer was arrested after she barged into a local court in Chhattisgarh and manhandled and threatened a lady judge, the police said Thursday.

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The Indian equities markets closed in the red on continuing political uncertainty over the $700 billion US bailout plan, analysts said.

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Former Uttar Pradesh home minister's grandson who was allegedly kidnapped Tuesday from Allahabad remains untraced, a police official said Thursday.

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The burning of a coach of the Sabarmati Express at Godhra railway station in February 2002, which claimed 59 lives and triggered Gujarat-wide communal violence, was preplanned, the Nanavati inquiry panel has found.

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Riding on two back-to-back victories, India A will be the favourites to win the tri-series cricket final against Australia A here Friday.

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West Bengal Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi Thursday said people of the state want a peaceful solution to the ongoing row over the acquisition of farm land for the Tata plant in Singur in Hooghly district and had confidence in those who were dealing with the issue.

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Family members of about a dozen terror suspects hailing from Uttar Pradesh Thursday assembled in front of the state assembly here and demanded an inquiry by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into the incidents allegedly involving their kin.

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In a role reversal, starting next academic session, students of the Uttar Pradesh Technical University (UPTU) will assess their teachers, university officials said Thursday.

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Terror group Indian Mujahideen Thursday threatened to eliminate leader of India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Lal Krishna Advani, using suicide bombers during his scheduled visit to Meghalaya next week.

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The market value of qualified institutional placements (QIPs) made by 49 Indian companies since the first one in September 2006 to raise $6.58 billion (Rs.263.2 billion) has eroded 42.13 percent to $2.77 billion (Rs.110.8 billion), according to a study.

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Prakash Karat, general secretary of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), Thursday asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to give an explanation to the people as to why he was engaging in the India-US civilian nuclear deal.

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Suspected separatist guerrillas gunned down a senior leader of the mainstream Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in north Kashmir Thursday, police said.

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India's one-day and Twenty20 cricket skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni has applied for a 'Prohibtory Bore' arms licence for a 9 mm pistol.

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A criminal complaint was Thursday registered against all employees of an Oriental Bank of Commerce (OBC) branch in Ghaziabad town of Uttar Pradesh, where counterfeit currency worth Rs.149,100 was found.

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The five state-run medical colleges in Kerala were facing a staff crunch due to poor service conditions and 600 doctors' vacancies were lying unfilled -- and expected to cross 1,000 in the next few years, an office-bearer of a medical college teacher's body said Thursday.

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Rhonda Byrne's 'The Secret' has bounced back to first place again in the non-fiction list while 'Brisingr' by Christopher Paolini tops the fiction list among bestsellers this week.

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The country's banking industry was crippled for the second consecutive day Thursday as more than 800,000 bank employees and officers across India continued their strike opposing privatisation, merger and acquisition of state-owned banks.

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Envoys of exiled Tibetan spiritual guru, the Dalai Lama, will hold parleys with the Chinese government again next month, Tibet's government-in-exile said Thursday.

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Cultivating mustard in areas with sandy soil and sowing paddy instead of wheat are some of the suggestions in the contingency plan for flood hit Bihar prepared by India's top agriculture research body.

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Twelve stranded foreigners, comprising eight Belgian and four Swedish tourists, were rescued Thursday by the armed forces from a tribal district in Himachal Pradesh, an official said.

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Twelve stranded foreigners, comprising eight Belgian and four Swedish tourists, were rescued Thursday by the armed forces from a tribal district in Himachal Pradesh, an official said.

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With the second edition of the I-League all set to kick-off Friday, club coaches are struggling to meet the licensing criteria set by Asian Football Confederation (AFC).

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This city is all set to host its third annual International Students Peace Festival from Sep 28 to Oct 1.

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About 600,000 Muslims are expected to attend the annual prayer meet organised by Ma'dinu Ssaquafathil Islamiyya here Thursday night, an official said.

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Putting behind the disappointment of not representing India at the Beijing Olympics, double trap shooter Ronjan Singh Sodhi will aim his gun for a medal at the shooting World Cup Final at Minsk in Belarus Saturday.

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Two days after Iran and Pakistan agreed to form a joint company to raise funds for the Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline, India said it was still interested in going ahead with the pipeline.

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The third runway of the Indira Gandhi Airport became operational Thursday morning with the landing of a British Airways aircraft.

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The flourishing tourist trade in south Tamil Nadu, worth over Rs.10 billion, is under threat as counterfeit currency is slowly infiltrating the region, the police said Thursday.

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Munaf Patel's triple strike brought Rest of India (ROI) back into the match as Ranji Trophy Champions Delhi were left tottering at 131 for five at lunch on day two of their Irani Trophy encounter here Thursday.

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Thousands of people in Orissa are now suffering from water borne diseases due to the floods that have devastated large part of the state, with the death toll Thursday rising to 50 after two more deaths were reported.

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Mayors from fourteen Indian cities will focus on 'heritage as a driving force for economic and social improvement of a city' during a nine-day study tour to France that begins Friday, an organiser said.

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Petroleum Secretary R.S. Pandey Thursday ruled out a review of the administered price mechanism for gas in the near future, saying improving its supply was a more important priority for the government.

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Around 60,000 bank employees in Tamil Nadu went on strike for the second day Thursday as part of the nationwide shutdown called by bank unions to press for their six-point charter of demands, including stopping of rivatisation and merger and acquisition of public sector banks.

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The 111-year-old Epidemic Act will soon be replaced by a stringent new law that the government claims will be able to effectively fight epidemics and new age diseases like HIV/AIDS, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and bio-terrorism by punishing those whose negligence leads to an epidemic.

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Kashmiri artisans, who perfected the art of making handmade Pashmina for years, will now have exclusive rights over the Kashmir Pashmina brand, with the central government declaring it as Geographical Indication (GI), an intellectual property right.

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Indian equities markets opened flat and slipped into the red after 30 minutes of trading on continuing political uncertainty over the $700 billion bailout plan in the US, analysts said.

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Tension continued in Orissa's volatile Kandhamal district Thursday after more houses owned by Christians were set on fire and hundreds of people clashed with police and blocked roads.

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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) unit in the predominantly Christian state of Nagaland has warned the party leadership that increasing attacks on churches would have an adverse impact on the party's election prospects and smear its secular credentials.

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Starting with Raja Rammohun Roy in the early 19th century, many social reformers have tried to end the practice of child marriage. But it continues in large swathes of rural India. A new TV show that revisits the issue has now received a welcome response from the audience.

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A recent survey of the socio-economic conditions of the victims of the Gujarat riots of 2002 has found that a majority of them had to give up their professions after the riots.

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Paying a visit to Chandigarh but worried about safety? You don't speak the local language and are uncertain how you'll find your way around? Well, take heart. The Chandigarh administration is all set to launch a special tourism police on World Tourism Day Sep 27 to strengthen the security cover for tourists.

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They ran for their lives as the waters of the Kosi river came raging into their homes. Over a month later, many of Bihar's three million homeless still can't find their loved ones. The government has now started an initiative focussed on helping those separated by the worst  floods  the state in over 50 years.

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Indo-Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta says there will be no barrier to her latest film 'Heaven On Earth' because it is in Punjabi, as domestic violence has universal resonance and audiences across the globe can relate to it.

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After the successful 'Dhoom' series, Sanjay Gadhvi is looking forward to his forthcoming release 'Kidnap', which has current flavour Imran Khan in an important role. The director describes his presence in the movie as a 'bonus'.

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The global economic crisis and liquidity crunch in the country are taking a toll on tourism in West Bengal, with private operators and hoteliers complaining of a sharp drop in bookings for the coming festive season in the state.

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Manik Singh, the Congress parliamentarian from the Sidhi Lok Sabha constituency, Thursday joined Madhya Pradesh's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

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The government has reconstituted the Central Direct Taxes Advisory Committee for 2008-2010.

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With its huge gas reserves the Krishna-Godavari basin would be the next North Sea and transform the economy of Andhra Pradesh and possibly the economy of India, the US-India Business Council (USIBC) president Ron Somers said here Thursday.

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The Meghalaya Police Thursday claimed to have cracked a terror plot to assassinate the Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate L.K. Advani with the arrest here of a Muslim youth who had allegedly sent a 'terror' mail to him.

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West Bengal's ruling Left Front major partner Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) Friday launched a stinging attack on the opposition and urged people to identify the unholy alliances bent on scuttling the state's industry.

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A couple has been arrested in the national capital for allegedly killing and looting a retired chief manager of Indian Oil Corporation two months ago, Delhi Police said Thursday.

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Six years after the horrific burning of a train in Godhra killed 59 people and triggered Gujarat-wide communal violence, a probe panel headed by Justice (retd) G.T. Nanavati has concluded that