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Chandigarh : Accusing Punjab of running a campaign blaming it for floods in its territory, Haryana today sought the Centre's intervention over the issue and defended construction of the Hansi-Butana link canal.

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Hyderabad : The CBI today sought court's permission for conducting polygraph and narco-analysis tests on Devender Gupta and Lokesh Sharma, accused in the 2007 Mecca Masjid blast case.

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An activist of the hardline faction of the Hurriyat Conference has alleged that his organisation was involved in organising and funding stone pelting in the Kashmir valley.

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Labelling the 26/11 terror attacks as "deceptively simple and highly coordinated with little money expended", the FBI has said the crippling flaw in the Mumbai police's defence against the initial assault was that its officers didn't even carry weapons.

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A body representing caste councils of western Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Delhi, has said that they oppose the proposed amendments of law to deal with honour killings and will submit a memorandum to the President on the issue.

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Mumbai : The Bombay Stock Exchange benchmark Sensex today touched the psychological 18,000-level for the first time in three months, but pared some of the gains to end 104 points higher. Hopes of India Inc recording robust earnings for the first quarter saw the barometer opening on a strong note and surging 176 points to touch a high of 18,010.07, a level last seen on April 7.

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Ahmedabad : Two suspected members of the banned outfit SIMI have been arrested ahead of the Rath Yatra here, police said today. One Hasim Raza and Abu Siddiqui were arrested by the Crime Branch officials last night from the Prem Darwaja area of the city, they said.

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New Delhi : Northern Railway has been directed by the Delhi State Consumer Commission to pay a compensation of Rs 50,000 for wrongfully penalising a passenger travelling with a wait-listed ticket. The Commission also imposed a cost of Rs 5,000 on the Railway for filing a "frivolous" appeal against the lower forum''s decision.

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Mumbai : Aspiring model Natasha Padbidri committed suicide in her Versova apartment in Mumbai just weeks after super model Viveka Babajee ended her life.

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India gold futures may extend losses for a fourth straight week weighed by expectations of a firm dollar overseas and reduced bids for the safe-haven metal in the face of an easing euro-zone crisis, analysts said.

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Mumbai : A benchmark index for Indian equities markets Monday ended trade with almost a 100-point gain, with realty and IT stocks finding favour among buyers.

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New Delhi : A Delhi court today refused to pass any order on the plea of diplomat Madhuri Gupta, arrested on charges of passing sensitive information to Pakistani intelligence officials, alleging harassment by jail authorities.

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Rae Bareli : A special court trying the Babri Mosque demolition case will resume hearing on August 6. Link Magistrate Vishnu Kumar today fixed August 6 as the next date of hearing, as Chief Judicial Magistrate Gulab Singh hearing the case was transferred and a notification nomination of the new magistrate was yet to be issued by the High Court.

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Dehradun : The Uttarakhand police allegedly beat up a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA, Rajkumar, following an argument over the stopping of his vehicle at a circle in Dehradun.

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New Delhi : Minister of Science and Technology and Earth Sciences, Prithviraj Chavan congratulated a team of 20 young Indian scientists/students being sent to Germany to represent India at the 60th Meeting of Nobel Laureates and students at Lindau.

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Mumbai : A 30-year-old aircraft maintenance engineer in the erstwhile Indian Airlines today allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself at his residence in suburban Kalina.

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New Delhi : Demanding a ban on the outfit whose activists allegedly chopped off the hand of a lecturer for preparing an "inflammatory" question paper, a BJP team which visited Kochi to look into the incident today said the case should be investigated by National Investigation Agency.

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Bankura (West Bengal) : West Bengal Police have nabbed four suspected Maoists in the state's Bankura District.

The arrested suspects were identified as Somlal Mandi, Joysing Baskey, Sripati Saren and Mansing Baskey. They were nabbed on Saturday in connection with the recent killing of two relatives of a local Left leader.

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New Delhi : Union Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma is scheduled to launch the Eco-Products International Fair (EPIF) 2011 here on Wednesday.

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New Delhi : The entire population of Meghalaya will be covered by a cancer awarness and detection drive through India's first fully equipped mobile cancer detection unit by March 2013.

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New Delhi : External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna will undertake a three-day visit to Pakistan from July 14 to 16.

A statement released by the Ministry of External Affairs said Krishna would meet with his Pakistani counterpart Shah Mahmood Qureshi.

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New Delhi : Gold prices strengthened by Rs 45 to Rs 18,700 per ten grams in the national capital today on speculative buying, even though the metal was being traded lower in overseas markets.

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Meerut : In a step to ensure peaceful and smooth ''Kavad Yatra'', police personnel reviewed the security arrangements en-route Haridwar. In view of the yatra, Dehradun Highway will remain closed from July 29 to August 8 to ensure smooth way to the kavads, Additional Police Director General Brijlal said.

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Srinagar : In the wake of several accidents on a slippery stretch en route the Amarnath cave shrine, the Jammu and Kashmir Governor today deputed an eight-member team of mountaineering experts to assist the movement of pilgrims.

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Sriharikota : ISRO today announced it would launch two more vehicles this year and said preparation for the unmanned moon mission in 2013 was in full swing with the setting up of one more launch pad.

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MUMBAI : The CBI, conducting investigations into the accounting scam of Satyam Computers, on Sunday said all the directors on the board of the beleaguered firm had acted as "rubber stamps" and "not even a single dissent note" was recorded during the board meetings.

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Her only claim to fame still happens to be her debut film Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi that had released in 2005. A hiatus of three years and then only one average film to boast of post-a-comeback would have given any actress cold feet, but Chitrangda Singh’s still optimistic about her Bollywood innings. “Why should I be worried? I have nothing to lose!” she says.

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MUMBAI/NEW DELHI/HYDERABAD : With a host of swanky new airports coming up across large Indian cities, conventional malls and high streets have competition at their doorstep. The battle for a part of the well heeled's wallet would only get more intense when you start flying in and out of Delhi's biggest and most expensive mall.

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MUMBAI : Chennai-based media baron Kalanithi Maran of Sun TV Network has announced an open offer to public shareholders of SpiceJet which will kick in on August 6, a development that turns the spotlight on the Tata Group which owns a small stake in the low-fare carrier.

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The Government of Sri Lanka is said to be bowled over by Salman Khan’s charm. They discovered Salman by accident during a recent awards function held in Colombo and since that time, they have been, apparently eating out of the Bollywood superstar’s hand.

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HYDERABAD : Opposition parties on Monday forced repeated adjournment of the Andhra Pradesh Assembly demanding that the government constitute a House Committee to probe into the illegal mining of Barytes in Khammam allegedly by kin of former Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy.

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TEZPUR (Assam) : An Army jawan was accidentally shot dead by his colleague at the Base Hospital in Assam's Sonitpur district today, police said.

Havildar Mani Ram, hailing from Uttar Pradesh, was shot dead by Havildar Rajnandan Singh, also posted at the hospital, when his 9 mm carbine went off accidentally.

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RANCHI : Jharkhand is likely to hand over investigation in the Rs 2,500 crore money laundering scam involving former chief minister Madhu Koda to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), an official source said on Monday.

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Mumbai : The monsoon session of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly got off to a stormy start today with Opposition raising the issue of Supreme Court lifting the ban on James Laine''s controversial book on Chhatrapati Shivaji, and Centre''s affidavit on the boundary dispute with Karnataka.

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Dehra Dun : Eight police personnel, including a sub-inspector, were suspended for allegedly beating up BJP MLA Rajkumar here last night. The suspended police personnel have been sent to lines, Dehra Dun Senior Superintendent of Police Abhinav Kumar said.

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Lord Jagannath's rathyatra, the 133rd edition of which is scheduled to be held in the city on Tuesday, has over the years become a symbol of communal harmony with people of all communities participating with equal enthusiasm.

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Allahbad, July 12 (IANS) An Uttar Pradesh minister was critically injured in a blast outside his residence in Allahabad district Monday, police said. Nand Gopal Nandi, the minister for institutional finance, has been admitted to the Jivan Jyoti Hospital here.

'The bomb was placed inside a vehicle which was parked outside his residence in Muthi Ganj,' a police official said.

New Delhi : Fast bowler S Sreesanth has been ruled out of the India-Sri Lanka Test series, starting from July 18 at Galle, following a knee injury.

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Berhampore (WB) : With BJP president Nitin Gadkari refusing to take back his Afzal Guru 'son-in-law of Congress' remark, Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has said some decency was expected in comments by political leaders.

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Mumbai : Shiv Sena protested in various parts of Maharashtra against the lifting of a ban on a book, which allegedly carries derogatory references to Shivaji, the legendary Maratha warrior king.

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Shimla : Officials of the Tibetan government-in-exile has expressed happiness after Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao's meeting with the Dalai Lama in Dharamshala.

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Ludhiana (Punjab)/New Delhi : Senior Congress party leader Digvijay Singh and party spokesman Manish Tewari have appealed to the main opposition People's Democratic Party (PDP) in Kashmir not to boycott today's all-party meeting in Srinagar, which has been called to discuss and determine a solution to end weeks of violent protests.

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Kolkata : Maoist guerrillas shot dead a panchayat head and his associate in Jamboni area of West Bengal's West Midnapore district, police said Monday.

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Surat (Guj) : A 68-year-old woman died and ten others injured in a stampede during convocation ceremony of the Arabic University at Zampa bazar area here, police said today.

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Patna : Heavy rains lashed the city leading to water logging in most of the areas and affecting normal life here today, even as weathermen predicted more rain in the next 48 hours.

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Muzaffarnagar : Six persons were killed in separate road accidents in the district, police said today. Two pilgrims, residents of Haryana, were killed yesterday and two others injured when a car in which they were travelling collided with a truck on Khatima-Panipat highway near here.

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Ahmedabad : Lord Jagannath's rathyatra, the 133rd edition of which is scheduled to be held in the city tomorrow, has over the years become a symbol of communal harmony with people of all communities participating with equal enthusiasm.

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Kolkata : After 'Bong Connection', model-turned actor Shayan Munshi now wants to dig his roots deeper into the crossover Hindi and Bengali films.

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Lucknow : Uttar Pradesh government has decided to open 12 new polytechnics in various parts of the state to provide technical education to students.

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Jhargram (WB) : The bullet-riddled bodies of the village head of Kendangri and another person were found today at a place between Shibsi village and Salboni in West Midnapore district this morning, police said.

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Srinagar : A shutdown called by separatists and official restrictions imposed in parts of Srinagar affected life here Monday, when Jammu and Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has called an all-party meeting on the law and order situation in the state.

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Time and again Vivek Oberoi has tried to mend his ways with the Bachchans. But to no avail! However, now it looks like Abhishek Bachchan is in a mood to reciprocate Vivek's earnest actions. Recently, Abhishek Bachchan was all praise for Vivek's upcoming film.

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Kurukshetra (Haryana) : The administration in Haryana is moving to prevent water-borne diseases from spreading in the state's flood-affected districts.

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New Delhi : Industrial output rose by 11.5 per cent in May, growing in double digits for the eighth straight month, on good showing by manufacturing, particularly capital and consumer goods.

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New Delhi : After having got its first swine flu vaccine, India is all set to introduce its first influenza shot this year. Probably among a few countries in the world which did not have a vaccine against general influenza, India will have a trivalent vaccine against flu by October this year.

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Jammu : Amid tight security after militant intercepts indicated a threat to the Amarnath yatra, a fresh batch of 3,135 pilgrims today left here for their onward journey to 3,888-metre high cave shrine in south Kashmir Himalayas.

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New Delhi :  In a textbook launch, India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) on Monday successfully placed into orbit, the remote sensing satellite Cartosat-2B and four other satellites, after a perfect lift off from the space-port in Sriharikota.

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Kangna Ranaut has made a career out of playing characters that have been biographical in nature, case in point being GANGSTER (Monica Bedi) and WOH LAMHE (Parveen Babi). Even in FASHION, her character was said to be modelled on a couple of prominent high flying models.

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One can well expect Trisha to deliver in her debut Bollywood outing KHATTA MEETHA. After all she is not quite a newbie in the industry and already has close to 35 films to her credit down South. In the industry for more than 7 years now, she has seen quite a lot and is pretty much established.

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Patna : More than 200 armed Maoists raided a Bihar village and abducted 11 villagers on suspicion of being police informers, police said Monday.

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Dharamsala (Himachal Pradesh) : The Tibetan government-in-exile has expressed happiness and satisfaction over Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao's interaction with the Dalai Lama and other Tibetan leaders over the weekend.

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Mumbai : The BSE benchmark Sensex today regained the psychological 18,000 level after three months rising by over 176 points in late morning trade on aggressive buying on hopes of good first quarter results by corporates. The 30-share barometer rose by 176.53 points, or 0.98 per cent, to 18,010.07 points, a level last seen on April 7, 2010.

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New Delhi : Are you fond of watching celebrities brawling and back-biting on television? Then here is a new reality show, where none less than twenty five popular faces from the small screen are going to be pitted against each other.

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Bhabua (Bihar) : Armed Maoists kidnapped 11 villagers from Loda village in Kaimur district and also took away their licenced weapons.

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New Delhi : It rained in parts of the national capital Monday morning, cooling the city and bringing some respite from the muggy weather. The weather office said more showers were expected.

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Mumbai : The rupee today appreciated by 4 paise to 46.62 a dollar in early trade at the Interbank Foreign Exchange largely on the back of fresh capital inflows by foreign funds.

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New Delhi : Nearly a year after India passed a landmark legislation to make schooling compulsory, influential madrassa administrators are preparing to resist it, citing the law as a threat to Muslim religious schools. Seminary leaders from all sects will assemble in Delhi in July-end for consultations called by the Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind, the country's largest cleric body.

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Srinagar, July 12 (ANI): The recent strikes and imposition of curfew by the government has badly affected tourism in Kashmir. Most of the tourists have left the valley and the ones still there are facing problems like shortage of food and basic amenities as shops are closed.

Houseboat owners said the uprisings, protests marches, strikes and curfew have restricted the flow of tourists to the valley.

Mumbai : The Bombay Stock Exchange benchmark Sensex shot up by 153 points early trade after a rally in metal, realty and IT stocks on hopes of strong quarter corporate earnings and firming global trend. The 30-share index, which had gained over 362 points in the previous two sessions, gained another 153.29 points, or 0.86 per cent, at 17,986.83 points.

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Leader of the Opposition in Punjab Assembly Rajinder Kaur Bhattal has held the state government responsible for the floods in the state, alleging that the money was charged from villages near Moonak town to provide boats to rescue the people.

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First it was the Bharatiya Janata Party and now it seems to be the turn of Congress to court controversy. Member of Parliament and Congress national spokesperson Manish Tewari inaugurated a programme called Santulan, launched by the controversial Divya Jyoti Jagriti Santhan, on Sunday.

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Minister for Road Transport and Highways Kamal Nath took a dig at the Plan panel yet again a week ago. And this time it was in the presence of Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia and his infrastructure advisor Gajendra Haldea.

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The people in Ghaziabad who call at 100, the emergency response number of police, will now be greeted by a women's voice. In an effort to give the district police a people-friendly face, the Ghaziabad police have decided to convert its police control room into a women only set up.

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The Chhattisgarh Police today claimed that the mastermind behind the July 6 Maoist attack on Congress leader Avdesh Singh Gautam's house and the Kuakonda Police Station in Bastar had undergone militant training in Gujarat and New Delhi, and is currently doing a media-related course in the Capital.

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Ahead of an all-party meeting called by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, an uneasy calm prevailed across the Valley today as curfew was lifted from several parts of Kashmir. A shutdown call by the separatists, however, ensured that people stayed off the roads.

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The sensational escape of eight undertrails from the city-based juvenile home has brought the security arrangements under the cloud. It was in the wee hours of Sunday morning eight undertrails lodged at Shimlapuri centre escaped after breaking the iron grills of a window.

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The death of a Delhi-based scientist after consuming the lauki and karela juice for more than 4 years has sent shock waves amongst the votaries of the traditional system of medicine.The continuous use of such juices i.e lauki, karela, aloe vera etc can be harmful, warn ayurvedic experts. They have hence warned people against self medication of herbs which is being promoted by pharmaceutical companies.

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A Planning Commission survey has found startling lapses in the celebrated Mid Day Meal programme of the government. While it is aimed at enhancing enrolment, retention and participation of children in primary schools, not only do teachers have to frequently take time out of their duties to help prepare the meals but, the survey found, students also pitch in with help in washing the utensils — spending up to nine hours of their valuable school time per week in some states in the above task.

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Ten persons died while 22 others sustained injuries when a truck rammed their tractor on GT Road near Manimau town in Kannauj on Saturday night.

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Countering People's Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti's demand to recall the Army from the Valley, Jammu & Kashmir Congress president Saifuddin Soz said the Army had never been used directly in maintaining law and order situation in the state.

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