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BP Plc is in talks with Reliance Industries and Essar Group to sell its African retail assets that could be worth as much as $500 million, four sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters on Wednesday.

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Her size-zero avatar earned her a lot of laurels. But that seems to be the past now. Bebo might have put on adequate weight recently.

But this can be a cause of worry for Karan Johar, who, as we heard, had given strict orders to Kareena to shed the extra weight so that she can complement her co-star Imran Khan (who is younger than her by three years) in his next film, to be directed by debutant Shakun Batra.

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Love makes the world go round, goes the cliche. But looks like Neil Nitin Mukesh is a firm believer of the same. “All the characters I’ve played have behaved in the way they have because of love, whether it was in Johnny Gaddar or Jail,” he says. And even in his next film Lafangey Parindey, Neil’s romance with the lovely Deepika Padukone forms the focal point of the story.

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New Delhi : Almost six infiltration attempts by militants have been foiled by the BSF in the last fortnight along the international border at Jammu, a top officer said today. "We have foiled almost six infiltration attempts in the last fifteen days along the international border.

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Bajaj Electricals is the lowest bidder in orders worth 1.15 billion rupees, a senior official told Reuters on Wednesday.

The Mumbai-based electrical appliances maker and electrification and lighting project contractor has a current order book of 8.1 billion rupees and was able to convert about 22 percent of the bids placed last fiscal, Anant Bajaj, executive director, said.

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Kolkata : The Trinamool Congress today demanded that the West Bengal government hand over the site of Tata Motors' abandoned small car project to the Railways for an international-standard coach factory "without creating any fresh controversy." "Without creating any fresh controversy, the state government should hand over the entire land in Singur.

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Jaipur : The Anti Corruption Bureau in Rajasthan has arrested a cardiologist of a government hospital for allegedly cheating patients, police said here today. "Dr S K Chuttani, a doctor of Sawai Man Singh Medical College and Hospital, was arrested yesterday for misusing his office in two cases -- one in 2001 and the other in 2002," Inspector General of Police (ACB) Umesh Mishra said.

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New Delhi : At least 500 Naxal attacks have been reported in nine states across the country in the last three months, with the highest number reported from Chhattisgarh, government said today.

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Here's another case of a love story gone awry. Amol Javde (22) was found hanging from the branch of a tree around 12 pm near Anushakti Nagar in Trombay. However, his family alleges that his girlfriend's family, who opposed the relationship because they belonged to different castes, murdered him.

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New Delhi : India Wednesday conveyed its condolences to Pakistan over the plane crash near Islamabad that killed more than 100 people.

In a message to his Pakistani counterpart Shah Mahmood Qureshi, External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna 'conveyed deep condolences on behalf of the people and government of India to the people and government of Pakistan, especially to the bereaved families', the external affairs ministry said in a statement.

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Three North Indian labourers clobber 21-year-old with iron rod, spank him with belt on the suspicion that he stole their money. The three men are Arrested just as they were planning to flee.

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New Delhi : There has been marginal increase in incidents of crime even as the Commonwealth Games is round the corner in the national capital, the government was informed today. To a question whether the crime graph in New Delhi has been soaring ahead of Commonwealth Games, Minister of State for Home Affairs Mullappally Ramachandran said "Yes.

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Raipur : Opposition Congress today staged a walkout in the Chhattisgarh Assembly after the government's reply on the alleged Rs 70 crore corruption in a rural road project failed to satisfy its queries on the issue.

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New Delhi : Minister of State for Home Ajay Maken today disapproved his party MP Mani Shankar Iyer's adverse remarks against Commonwealth Games to be held here in October, saying the event would help build infrastructure for the Capital.

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New Delhi : Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) used successfully by the US in Afghanistan against al-Qaeda have, however, failed to make any impact in the dense forests of the country to monitor movement of Naxals.

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Sirsa (Haryana) : With the arrest of three persons, including the kingpin, police today claimed to have busted an inter-state gang of robbers which used to operate in Haryana and neighbouring Delhi.

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Mumbai : The Bombay Stock Exchange benchmark Sensex today fell by over 120 points due to profit booking in bluechips led by Reliance Industries. After a volatile session, the 30-share index closed 120.24 points lower at 17,957.37 points.

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Patna : The Patna High Court today acquitted suspended JD(U) MLA Narendra Kumar Pandey alias Sunil Pandey in connection with the kidnapping of renowned Neuro Surgeon Dr Ramesh Chandra.

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New Delhi : The Left parties stage a sit-in inside Parliament House tomorrow to protest the government''s "failure" to contain rising prices of essential commodities. As Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar rejected opposition''s demand for holding a discussion on price rise under rules which entail voting, the Left parties decided to "carry on our struggle" by holding a dharna inside the Parliament precincts, CPI National Secretary D Raja told PTI here.

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Mumbai : Mustafa Dossa, suspected to be an aide of mob boss Dawood Ibrahim, was today arrested in a case of assault on gangster Abu Salem but he claimed injuries sustained by Salem were self-inflicted and he was framed. Dossa, undergoing trial in the 1993 bomb blast case, is facing allegations of attacking Salem on Saturday in Arthur Road jail where both were lodged.

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New Delhi : Pulling up the Delhi Government for not issuing ration cards to slum dwellers who missed the last date for applying for a new one, the Central Information Commission has asked it to look into this policy and take corrective action. The case relates to a slum dweller Bhoj Bahadur who had an old ration card issued in 1999.

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Lucknow  : A tiger killed a man near a forest area in Uttar Pradesh's Pilibhit district. His partially eaten body was found in the fields, an official said Wednesday.

The body of the victim was recovered late Tuesday evening from the outskirts of the Dilwarpur village, situated on the periphery of the Pilibhit forest reserve.

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Jammu : The Jammu and Kashmir unit of BJP today accused the state government of meting out step motherly treatment towards Jammu division. "The government''s decision yesterday to appoint an Inquiry Commission to look into the recent disturbances in Kashmir valley, which left 17 people dead, and giving compensation to the next of the kin of the victims is just a ploy to please the agitating masses with a view to regain the lost control by it.

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New Delhi : Noting that land acquisitions for development projects result in "displacement of locals", the NHRC has suggested that there should be a suitable "package" to ensure that such oustees are taken care of. "The government in the name of development do so much of violation of human rights.

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New Delhi : The Supreme Court today stayed the proceedings before special Ghaziabad CBI court in the Uttar Pradesh provident fund case in which names of judicial officers have cropped up. "The proceedings before the Ghaziabad special CBI court will remain stayed," a bench comprising Justices D K Jain, V S Sirpurkar and G S Singhvi said.

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New Delh : Gold prices in the national capital today tumbled the lowest in near three months after it lost Rs 380 to trade at Rs 18,000 per ten gram, on bearish sentiment driven by a decline in global markets. The precious metal suffered heavy losses after gold in New York tumbled by 25.10 dollar to 1,158 an ounce last evening, pushing its price in domestic markets to a low, last evident on May 6.

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Thiruvananthapuram : The Kerala Assembly today witnessed noisy scenes over remarks made by finance minister T M Thomas Issac against opposition leader Oommen Chandy on the operation of lotteries in the state. Trouble began when Issac made certain remarks while stating that Chandy was levelling ''baseless'' corruption charges over the issue of allowing more draws to lotteries outside the state.

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Bombay Dyeing & Manufacturing Co Ltd said on Wednesday there was no proposal at present to sell its polyester plant to Reliance Industries Ltd , denying a report by the Economic Times.

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New Delhi : The National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) is planning to invest Rs.17,000 crore as part of a 15-year national plan to usher in a second White Revolution to meet the growing demand for milk, which is expected to reach 180 million tonnes by 2021.

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New Delhi : After the Bombay High Court, the Delhi High Court today stayed the election process in Hockey India (HI) following failure of the Central government to clarify the legal position regarding HI and the Indian Hockey Federation (IHF). Compounding the problems for Hockey India, the Bombay High Court earlier today had stayed the HI elections for three weeks on a petition filed by Mumbai Hockey Association.

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Patna : Sunil Pandey, a ruling Janata Dal-United legislator sentenced to life imprisonment for kidnapping a doctor in Bihar, was acquitted by the Patna High Court Wednesday, a court official said.

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Shillong : An ULFA militant, who had fled from a Meghalaya jail in March, was apprehended today by the BSF when he was trying to infiltrate into the state from Bangladesh. The militant, Colombus Marak, who was earlier arrested for extortion in the Garo hills and at Jorabat area on the Assam-Meghalaya border and fled from the Tura jail, was apprehended near Hathimara in West Garo Hills district, BSF officials said.

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Ahmedabad : Citing Ramayana, Congress leader Shaktisinh Gohil wants the BJP to shun leaders like Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and jailed ex-minister Amit Shah as a fallout of the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case. Gohil, who is the Leader of Opposition in Gujarat Assembly, also slammed BJP President Nitin Gadkari saying he "lacks elementary knowledge about facts" in the case.

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New Delhi :  A study by the Geological Survey of India has found that Himalayan glaciers in Gouri Ganga and Alaknanda basin are showing consistent but variable recession, the government told Lok Sabha today. Milam, Poting and Shankalpa glaciers in Gouri Ganga basin and Dunagiri and Bhagirathi Kharak glaciers in Alaknanada basin have been studied by the GSI, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said in a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha.

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Latehar (Jharkhand) : With pressure building up against Maoist forces, the left wing extremists are mobilizing villagers in demonstrating against security forces.

Over a hundred students were mobilized to participate in a rally here yesterday to protest against 'Operation Green Hunt'.

The demonstrators said that the police forces have camped at local schools, colleges and educational institutions to combat Maoists in village.

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New Delhi : Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar today rejected opposition's demand for an adjournment motion on the issue of rise in prices, dismissing charges that the matter involved government's failure to discharge its constitutional duties.

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Chandigarh : Students of the Panjab University have filed a complaint with a human rights panel alleging that a 25-year-old woman, who her family said died of heart attack, was actually killed by her father and brother for their 'honour'.

According to the complaint filed by the students' NGO of the varsity to the Punjab State Human Rights Commission (PSHRC), Shama Shukla was murdered by her family at Chamkaur Sahib town in Punjab as she wanted to marry a man of a backward class.

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Meerut : One of the nine prisoners who had escaped from Meerut district jail earlier this month has been arrested in Aligarh, police said here today. Sanjay was arrested yesterday from a bus stop in Aligarh after the city police received a tip-off and laid a trap to nab him, they said.

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Muzaffarnagar : A fast track court here has convicted three medicine shop-owners and sentenced them to life imprisonment for selling medicines meant for military and government hospitals to civilians.

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Srinagar : With frequent appeals by various political parties to institutes, parents and students to resume normal education activities falling on deaf ears, the Jammu and Kashmir Department of Information has now stepped in to do its bit. An advertisement issued in public interest by the Department of Information and Public Relations stating ''What does denying our children education ACHIEVE?'' has been carried by almost all the local newspapers today.

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New Delhi : The case diaries of CBI cannot be accessed under the Right to Information Act as disclosure of the information may adversely affect the prosecution process, the Central Information Commission has held. The case relates to an RTI application filed by Vinod Kumar who sought from the Central Bureau of Investigation the Final reports (FRs) prepared by the prosecution during the investigation of a case.

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Gurgaon : Eight hardened criminals were arrested following a raid at a house in Sector 40 on Monday evening. The Gurgaon Police recovered a cache of arms and ammunition including five revolvers, 29 live cartridges, 51 mobile phones, four laptops and other hi tech telecom equipment in the raid. Police said, following a tip off, a team of 24 policemen raided a house where these accused were found betting on the India Sri Lanka test cricket match. One of the criminals also opened a fire on the police team but no one was hurt, police said. But the kingpin and brain behind the betting racket, Mahesh Kumar alias Attack, a known gangster with 15 cases including murder and dacoity on his head, and four others accomplices are still on the run.

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An actress (not bitchy for once) who has seen Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai says, "The romance angle between Ajay Devgan-Kangna Ranaut and Emraan Hashmi-Prachi Desai is so passionate that I now want to find myself a gangster and date him."

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Simply loving the Dabangg promos and Chulbul Pandey. Salman Khan looks like he is having so much fun bashing those heads in, we wanna know which rival he was thinking of when he was doing the action scenes. The film releases this Eid and something tells us that Khan fever will leave audiences spellbound.

Dehra Dun : Director General (Technical Services) Jyoti Swaroop Pande would be the next Uttarakhand DGP, a top official today said. Chief Minister Ramesh Pokhariyal Nishank today approved the name of Pande for the next DGP of the state, Chief Secretary N S Napalchyal told PTI. Pande is a 1976 batch IPS officer.

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Mahindra & Mahindra , India's largest utility vehicles and tractor maker, said on Wednesday it would postpone a decision on whether to bid for troubled Korean carmaker Ssangyong Motor Co until closer to the August deadlin.

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New Delhi : A clash between two groups of students in a south Delhi school today took an ugly turn when a Class IX student allegedly opened fire on a schoolmate, leaving him injured. The shocking incident took place in Veer Chandra Garwhal Public School in Saket at around 9 am and the injured has been identified as Gaurav Yadav, a Class VIII student.

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Jammu : A person, who was arrested on charges of possessing narcotics, today escaped from police custody in Doda district following which authorities suspended a policeman. Aslam, who was taken into custody in connection with recovery of cannabis in Bhadwerwah tehsil of Doda district, escaped from Bhaderwah police lockup when he was being sent to another jail, he said.

Police constable Nissar Ahmed has been suspended and a case registered against him in this connection.

Siliguri : Police has filed a case against Trinamool Congress district president Gautam Deb, who has filed a counter complaint against them, over the July 25 Bagdogra clash. On Sunday, CPI(M) and Trinamool Congress supporters scuffled over the election of governing body of a school at Bagdogra where the party lost all six seats to CPI(M) supported candidates.

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Muzaffarnagar : A fast track court here has convicted three medicine shop-owners and sentenced them to life imprisonment for selling medicines meant for military and government hospitals to civilians. Judge Shivdan Yadav also imposed a fine of Rs two lakh on each of the accused Sunil Suri, Navnit Arora and R K Sharma after holding them guilty under the Drugs Act here yesterday.

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Thiruvananthapuram : The Kerala government has decided to pursue with the Centre its demand for according classical status for Malayalam language, State Minister for Education and Culture M A Baby said today. The International Dravidan Language Study Centre here has been asked to prepare necessary documents to support the request, Baby said while replying to a calling attention motion in the assembly.

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Gangtok : The Government of Bhutan has issued two postage stamps based on the culture of Sikkim. Bhutan Postal Government Corporation Ltd issued the two stamps, one inspired by the traditional musicians and singers of the state and the other in honour of its first monarch.

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Srinagar : Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party Bhim Singh was today taken into preventive custody alongwith ten of his supporters ahead of his proposed march to Lal Chowk, police said. Singh along with his supporters tried to march to Lal Chowk from nearby Residency Road around 10 AM, an hour ahead of schedule, but police swing into action and bundled him and ten of his supporters in waiting police vehicles and lodged them in Kothi Bagh police station, they said.

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Mumbai : The soundtrack of the forthcoming Bollywood film 'Hello Darling' was unveiled in Mumbai.

Produced by Ashok Ghai, 'Hello Darling' stars Gul Panag, Celina Jaitely, Isha Koppikar with Javed Jaffrey and Divya Dutta playing a married couple in the film.

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Jorhat (Assam) : All Tai Ahom Student Union (ATASU), a student's wing in Jorhat, Assam staged a peaceful sit-in protest, against the influx of Bangladeshi immigrants in the region.

Hundreds of students gathered for the protest on Tuesday, saying the entry of Bangladeshi immigrants into the state is posing a great threat to the identity of Assam's people.

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Debutant off-spinner Suraj Randiv grabbed two wickets and Ajantha Mendis claimed one as Sri Lanka shattered India's top order on the third morning of the second Test on Wednesday.

India, resuming at the overnight score of 95-0, went to lunch tottering on 173-3 in reply to Sri Lanka's mammoth 642-4 declared at the Sinhalese Sports Club.

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New Delhi : Proceedings in the Rajya Sabha were stalled for the second consecutive day as a united Opposition today persisted with its demand for a discussion on price rise under a rule which entails voting. Soon after a member was sworn in, the united Opposition including NDA, Left and AIADMK and even some parties supporting the government from outside like SP, RJD and BSP vociferously raised the the issue of hike in prices of essential commodities.

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Bhubaneswar, July 28 (IANS) Buses and commercial vehicles went off the roads in parts of Orissa as Maoists Wednesday began observing 'Martyrs' Week' in memory of rebel leaders killed by security forces, police said.

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Raipur : Security was heightened as a 'Martyrs' Week' called by the Maoists began Wednesday in their Bastar stronghold in Chhattisgarh amid fears of attacks in the region.

'Security has always been in top gear in the entire 40,000 sq km in the Bastar region, but it has been further scaled up in view of the martyrs week as the rebels will try their best to damage government property and terrorize civilians,' T.J. Longkumer, inspector general of police of the Bastar region, told IANS.

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New Delhi : India will give Myanmar millions of dollars in line of credit and will help develop its huge gas sector as New Delhi seeks to offset China's influence in the strategic Bay of Bengal region.

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Mumbai : Suspected underworld don Dawood Ibrahim' aide Mustafa Dossa, who allegedly attacked extradited gangster Abu Salem inside the Arthur Road jail, today alleged that the injuries on Salem were "self-inflicted", a crime branch source said.

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New Delhi : India will give Myanmar millions of dollars in line of credit and will help develop its huge gas sector as New Delhi seeks to offset China's influence in the strategic Bay of Bengal region.

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New Delhi : India will give Myanmar millions of dollars in line of credit and will help develop its huge gas sector as New Delhi seeks to offset China's influence in the strategic Bay of Bengal region.

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Shimla : The Himachal Pradesh High Court Wednesday cancelled bail given by a trial court to four medical college students accused of ragging to death first year student Aman Kachru last year.

It also directed the accused to surrender in the fast track court at Dharamsala in Kangra district Thursday by 10 a.m.

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Muzaffarnagar : A local court here has initiated attachment proceedings against eight police officials for failing to appear before it despite repeated issuance of arrest warrants in connection with a 20-year-old fake encounter case. Chief Judicial Magistrate Suresh Chand Arya yesterday ordered attachment proceedings against the eight policemen, including a then SHO, and directed that they be produced in court on August 12.

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Tirupattur (TN) : Inscriptions, dating to the Pandya and Nayak period of the 13th and 18th century, have been found in a dilapidated temple in Pudukottai district. The inscriptions date back to the period of Sundara Pandiyan (1212-1239), Jatavarman Kulasekara Pandiyan-II (1237AD)-to Veerapandiyan (1253-74) and Nayak period (1782AD), a team of epigraphists, who recently found the etchings on the tank bund of the ancient temple in Vellanchar village, said.

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Mumbai : Consumption of turmeric should be avoided during the outbreak of food-borne diseases, according to a new study by scientists of the Bangalore-based Indian Institute of Science (IISc). Experiments conducted at IISc pointed out that Salmonella bacteria that causes typhoid and other food-borne diseases, grew three times faster when exposed to ''curcumin'', the main molecular component of turmeric.

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New Delhi : To mark 27 years of its set up Delhi-based cultural centre Kalaikoodam put together a specially choreographed show by noted Bharatanatyam danseuse Komala Varadhan. The event was inaugurated in the capital last evening by Union Law Minister Verrappa Moily.

An episode from the epic Mahabharata describing the adventures of Lord Krishna as a child was performed by Vardhan and her disciplines. "I performed from an episode called Panchali Sabadam, where the Pandavas stake and loose Draupadi in a game of dice.

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Ahmedabad : The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Wednesday began questioning former Gujarat minister Amit Shah here in connection with the 2005 killing of Sohrabuddin Sheikh in a staged shootout.

'The CBI has begun questioning Amit Shah,' an official said. The questioning was done at the Sabarmati Jail.

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Firozabad (UP) : Two persons were sentenced to life imprisonment and a fine of Rs 10,000 on each of them was imposed by a local court here in connection with a seven-year-old murder case. Dharmendra Jatav was stabbed to death in Khairgarh village by Gautam, Satyadeo and Santosh in February 2003 over a personal rivalry, assistant government counsel Piyush Kumar Chaturvedi said.

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Ahmedabad : In yet another significant development in Sohrabuddin fake encounter, Rajendra Jirawala, the owner of Arham farm where alleged gangster Sohrabuddin Sheikh and his wife Kausar Bi were kept in confinement before being killed was remanded to judicial custody by a special court at Ahmedabad on Tuesday. The decision came soon after the special court hearing the case rejected Jirawala's bail plea and turned down a remand application presented CBI.

Patna : The first detailed report on the socio-economic condition of sex workers in Bihar is ready to be handed over to the state government.

The survey was conducted jointly by the Women Development Corporation and Parcham, a Muzaffarpur-based NGO headed by a sex worker's daughter.

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Mumbai : Indian equities markets were in for another listless day of trade Wednesday with a key index ruling flat at noon and heavyweight stock Reliance Industries dragging the market.

The 30-scrip sensitive index (Sensex) of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), which opened at 18,077.85 points, was trading at 18,071.26 points, 6.35 points or 0.04 percent down from its previous close at 18,077.61 points.

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British defence group BAE Systems will supply 57 Hawk training jets to India's air force and navy, a senior defence ministry official said on Wednesday, a contract which is potentially worth $775 million.

BAE will supply 40 trainer jets to the air force and the remainder to the navy, a senior air force official said.

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British defence group BAE Systems will supply 57 Hawk training jets to India's air force and navy, a senior defence ministry official said on Wednesday, a contract which is potentially worth $775 million.

BAE will supply 40 trainer jets to the air force and the remainder to the navy, a senior air force official said.

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Irfan is an international actor. Madholal Keep Walking was offered to Irfan but he didn't respond. Finally the producer turned to Bengali film superstar Subrat Dutta.

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'Dhobi Ghat', directed and produced by Aamir Khan's wife Kiran Rao, will have its world premiere at this year's Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), organizers announced here Tuesday.

Aamir Khan, who plays the lead role of a painter in his wife's directorial debut, and Om Puri will also be feature in galas and special presentations at the festival.

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Once Upon A Time In Mumbai saw a lot of drama off screen too Milan Luthria was shooting at a seedy bar in Reay Road when a lady don strolled on to the sets and insisted on meeting Ajay Devgn.

When a production crew member informed her that Ajay had wrapped up for the day and left the sets, she got abusive and even slapped him. She threatened to burn up Ajay's van if she was not paid enough money to leave the sets.

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Shimla : The Himachal High Court on Wednesday cancelled the bail of the four students accused of killing Aman Kachroo at their college campus last year.

The accused have been ordered to surrender to the trial court by tomorrow morning.

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Colombo : India were 173 for three in their first innings in reply to Sri Lanka''s 642 for 4 declared at lunch on day three of the second cricket Test here today. Sachin Tendulkar (2) and VVS Laxman (0) were at the crease at break.

Brief Scores: India 1st innings: 173 for three in 43 overs. (V Sehawg 99, M Vijay 58; S Randiv 2/18).

Thane (Maharashtra) : Gangster Abu Salem on Wednesday shifted to the Taloja jail in Maharashtra's Thane District.

Salem was recently injured in Mumbai's high-security Arthur Road Jail by a fellow prisoner, Mustafa Dossa, a member of the Dawood gang.

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Mumbai : Activists of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the students wing of opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) staged a demonstration outside a school, who denied admission to Devika Rotawan, the young eyewitness of the 26/11 terror attack in Mumbai.

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New Delhi : General Than Shwe, the head of Myanmar's military junta, who is presently on a five-day state visit to India, met Pratibha Devisingh Patil here on Tuesday.

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Ahmedabad : Former Gujarat Home Minister Amit Shah is being interrogated by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for the first time today in connection with the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case.

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Patni Computer Systems on Wednesday reported a 7.6 percent rise in April-June consolidated net income to 1.47 billion rupees and said sustaining growth continued to pose a challenge. The firm's quarterly consolidated revenues came in at 7.63 billion rupees, it said.

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New Delhi : Opposition leaders continued their protests against rising prices in the Rajya Sabha Wednesday, forcing an adjournment soon after the house met.

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Srinagar : Restrictions were today imposed on the movement of people in parts of Srinagar and Budgam districts in the wake of demonstrations planned by separatists across the Kashmir Valley. Normalcy had returned to the Valley yesterday as the separatists allowed a break in their week-long shutdown programme in view of the Muslim festival of Shab-e-Barat.

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Jammu : Two persons were arrested and 15 kg of poppy was recovered from their possession in separate incidents in Udhampur district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said here today.

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Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh said Naxals have ambitions to capture power at the Centre through violent means.

Replying to an adjournment motion on Naxals issue in the state Assembly, Singh said the Naxals did not want to be bracketed in Chhattisgarh or some other states but want to capture Delhi.

He said the Naxal menace is a national issue and not a concern of ruling, opposition or a particular party.

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Karan Johar is currently in London and shooting for Shah Rukh Khan’s film Ra.One. Karan is directing a couple of scenes for best friend Shah Rukh Khan’s magnum opus since SRK feels that Karan is the lucky mascot. He wants all the luck possible for this film.

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Government is actively considering reservation for Muslims through the Other Backward Castes (OBC) route, Minority Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid has said.

"We are actively looking at the reservation issue. We have a commitment in our (Congress) manifesto. I am pushing for it all the time ....Congress leadership is committed to the issue and there is no shred of doubt about it," he said in an interview.

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New Delhi : Nand Kumar Sai today took oath as a BJP member of the Rajya Sabha. Sai, re-elected to the Upper House from Chhattisgarh, took oath in Sanskrit.

Rajkumar Hirani is generous to a fault. At his office in Bandra, he is busy distributing books to the people around him. Having just returned from New York after a heavy-duty scripting session, the filmmaker is in a gregarious mood.

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Srinagar : Restrictions were again imposed in Srinagar and other towns in the Kashmir Valley Wednesday to prevent separatist sit-ins and protests, authorities said.

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Ranchi : The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) will ask the Orissa government to ban a Class 12 textbook that brackets the party with Maoists, BODO militants and others who create 'disturbance' in the country.

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Halfway through the year, Bollywood is still feeling the after-effects of the global financial meltdown, with hardly any films hitting bull's-eye at the box-office and producers hoping to keep down costs.

The film industry saw more than 70 movies open in cinemas in the first half of 2010. Only five recovered their costs and only two made money.

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Jammu : The Amarnath yatra was today suspended from Jammu due to inclement weather prevailing in the state. A fresh batch of pilgrims was not allowed to proceed from the base camp of Bhagwati Nagar here for onward journey to Kashmir Valley as rains have been lashing the state, including on the Baltal and Pahalgam routes, official sources said here.

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Jammu : Two pilgrims have died due to heart attack en route the cave shrine of Amarnath in south Kashmir, officials said today. Naval Kishore of Jaipur died near the shrine last night while Roop Chand of Maharashtra died at Sheshnag, they said.

Shimla : The Himachal Pradesh High Court Wednesday cancelled bail to four students of a medical college for ragging to death first year student Aman Kachroo last year.

The order was delivered by Justice D.D. Sud who had asked the government why their bail should not be cancelled.

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New Delhi : Congress today issued a whip to its MPs to be present in Parliament in the backdrop of the opposition move to press for an adjournment motion in the Lok Sabha on the price rise issue. Congress sources said the whip has been issued to ensure presence of members in Parliament.

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Jammu : A villager was washed away in flash floods while 14 others were rescued from the gushing flood waters in Jammu and Reasi districts today.

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Mumbai : The Bombay Stock Exchange Benchmark Sensex rose by over 59 points in opening trade today after the most-weighted scrip RIL posted strong earnings amid a firming trend in the Asian region.

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New Delhi : Government is actively considering reservation for Muslims through the Other Backward Castes (OBC) route, Minority Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid has said.

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Kullu : Ex-army men launch ecological operation in Himachal Pradesh. After rendering their invaluable services at the border, now the ex-army men are contributing on yet another front, and that is none other than climate.

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New Delhi : Art houses are giving unsung and emerging artists a platform to paint their emotions and reach out to buyers with a realistic purse. Spilling on to the canvas is urban angst, loneliness, squalor, concern for the environment and the energy of youth this season.

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Shimla : Police and rescue workers Wednesday morning again began to search for four people who were missing a day after their bus skidded off the road into a rivulet in Himachal Pradesh's Shimla district, officials said.

A state-run bus with more than 30 passengers on board fell into the rivulet Tuesday due to heavy rains near Kupvi in Chopal subdivision. Twenty seven people have been rescued and one body has been retrieved so far.

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CHENNAI : Gandhians were aflutter last year when the well-worn leather sandals of the Father of the Nation, his trademark round metal spectacles, a pocket watch and a metal bowl in which he had his last meal before he was assassinated, came under the hammer at Manhattan's Antiquorum Auctioneers.

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PUNE : The good rains over the last six days has seen the country's overall rainfall deficiency going down by 7%. From June 1 to July 21, the country got 311.3 mm rain as against the normal 359.9 mm — a 14% deficit. However, the revival of the monsoon since July 21 has brought the deficit down to 7% now. The rainfall received till July 26 was 381.6 mm as against the normal 408.5 mm.

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Industrialist Keshub Mahindra has challenged his conviction in the Bhopal gas tragedy case saying the prosecution's only evidence against him was that he was the non-executive director and non-executive chairman of Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) at the time of the incident.

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Eight policemen charged in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case have objected to fellow accused Narendra Amin's application to turn approver. They have said they should be heard before any such decision is taken.

The policemen who have objected are D G Vanzara, Rajkumar Pandian, M L Parmar, N V Chauhan, Himanshu Singh, Shyam Singh, B R Chaube and Dinesh M N. Their lawyer said the eight would file an affidavit listing their objections to Amin's move at the next hearing of the case.

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Earlier this month, Kundan Shah, Naseerudin Shah and Ravi Baswani met after a long gap for coffee. The winning combination of Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron (1983) wanted to make a sequel.

Now, the plan is stalled. Baswani is no more. The 63-year-old actor, who had charmed the audience with films like Chashme Baddoor (1981) and Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa (1993), suffered a massive heart attack today when he was returning from Shimla. He acted in nearly 30 movies and a number of television serials.

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Chief Minister Ashok Chavan today announced a survey and an audit of slums in Mumbai every two years to check their proliferation; barring that, he had little new to offer to address the growing woes of the city as he responded to his critics in the Assembly.

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Bringing much relief, two of the six lakes supplying water to Mumbai started overflowing on Tuesday morning. But Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) maintained that it would be too early to decide whether to lift the 15 per cent water cut imposed on the city.

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In a major step towards conservation of tigers in Uttar Pradesh, the state Forest department has notified Dudhwa National Park, Kishenpur Wildlife Sanctuary and Katar-niyaghat Wildlife Sanctuary as "critical tiger habitat" areas.

The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), which has approved the notification, will evaluate the area — along with 38 other critical tiger habitats across the country — between August 10 and December 15.

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Implying a larger conspiracy behind the July 19 train collision at Sainthia in West Bengal that killed 66 people, the Railway Ministry now wants the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to investigate what caused the accident in which a speeding Uttarbanga Express had crashed into the rear of Vananchal Express at the Sainthia railway station.

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The fancy jeep of Dilsher Chandel, the station house officer (SHO) of Industrial Area, which had raised many eyebrows, finally goes off the roads as of now.

The open jeep, with halogen lights, pressure horns, protruding tyres and no seat belts, was fined under the Motor Vehicle Act following the intervention of Inspector General of Police PK Srivastava.

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After putting in a word of caution on adulterated fruits earlier, Minister of State for health, Dinesh Trivedi has now written to the Union Health Secretary about the vegetables available in the market, which according to him may be causing "nervous breakdowns, sterility and neurotic complications".

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Hearing a Rs 10-crore defamation suit filed by Tata Sons against environmental NGOs Greenpeace India and Greenpeace International, the Delhi High Court "advised" Greenpeace to consider removing Tata's logo from a game which the company has alleged as "disparaging" and "libelous".

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In another breakthrough in the Allahabad blast case, three persons have been arrested from Jabalpur district of Madhya Pradesh for allegedly facilitating the two-wheeler in which the bomb was planted.

The July 12 blast near the residence of UP minister Nand Gopal Gupta Nandi caused the death of two persons, including Indian Express senior reporter Vijay Pratap Singh. Five persons, including Nandi, were injured.

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His diatribe against the Commonwealth Games going largely unheard, senior Congress leader and MP Mani Shankar Aiyar today struck a more provocative note saying he would be "unhappy" if the Games are a success and that those organising it are "evil."

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The police arrested eight members of a gang from Sector 40, Gurgaon, on Monday on charges of betting and possession of arms . The arrested have been identified as Subhash, Satbir, Lokesh, Naresh, Davender, Om Prakash, Shyam and Amit.

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The controversy surrounding reservation for SC/ST cooks in schools has again erupted in the state with the students of Baletha primary and junior high school in Ramabai Nagar district boycotting the mid-day meal on Monday and their classes on Tuesday.

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SOHRABUDDIN ENCOUNTER : Ex-CID chief failed to appear before the agency on July 26 despite summons Retired top Gujarat police officer O P Mathur, who has been under the CBI scanner for more than two months in the Sohrabuddin fake encounter case, has written to the investigative agency that he could not appear before it despite summons since his mother is ailing.

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Alarm bells have begun to ring for Mumbai airport. While the Navi Mumbai airport project is caught in a web of stalled environmental clearances, the Civil Aviation Ministry is seriously considering banning any more turboprop jets in the private category at Mumbai to accommodate more commercial flights.

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Issued summons to appear before the CBI in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh encounter case, retired cop O P Mathur has said he is tending to his ailing mother and needed "time". Mathur is accused of tampering with the evidence collected by the CID during a previous investigation into the case. He allegedly also stopped Inspector V L Solanki from going to Rajasthan to probe the Tulsiram Prajapati angle in the case.

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