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Jazz Utsav gets beaten black and blue by the BMC (23 November 04:52) |
| It promised to be a charming Sunday for jazz aficionados in the city; some like theatre veteran Dodo Bhujwala have been patronising the musical culture in this city from as way back as 1979.... |
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Singh-Obama meet to set framework of Indo-US relationship (23 November 04:52) |
| Washington: The first substantive bilateral engagement between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and US President Barack Obama on November 24 here is expected to set forth the framework of how t... |
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Pak father-son duo held in Italy over Mumbai attacks (23 November 04:52) |
| Rome: The Italian police on Saturday arrested a Pakistani father and son accused of helping fund and providing logistical support for last years terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, authoriti... |
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Dream Catcher (23 November 04:52) |
| The US Open was a dream run for you. Defeating Nadal and Federer in the same tournament is not something that anyone can boast of. How does it feel? The US Open was the biggest result in my ... |
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Just in time (23 November 03:43) |
| Rafael Benitez insists Liverpool can take heart from their battling 2-2 draw with Manchester City even though their Premier League title challenge looks all but over. Benitez’s side needed... |
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Sethi Chandra survive scare at Worlds (23 November 03:43) |
| Geet Sethi flirted with danger and Manan Chandra suffered early jitters before their survival instincts kicked in to carry them into the next level of the World Snooker Championships. Sethi ... |
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Lanka to release 136000 Tamil war refugees (23 November 03:27) |
| Manik Farm, Sri Lanka: Sri Lanka will release next month the remaining 136,000 Tamil refugees still in the squalid and overrun government camps where they’ve been detained since the countr... |
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Over 380 kg man dies after being stuck in chair for eight months (23 November 03:27) |
| South Carolina: A morbidly obese man has died after his body became part of the chair he had refused to leave for eight months.Paramedics and police found an over 380 kg Tillmon Webb, 33, co... |
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Police arrest college duo who stole bikes to race and abandoned them (23 November 03:03) |
| Two students joyride ended, when Goregaon (W) police arrested them for taking off with bikes from the suburbs to race them on Western Express Highway and around South Mumbai. Police have rec... |
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Lack of strong ally has Cong worried Jharkhand polls (23 November 02:56) |
| New Delhi: The Congress is in areal bind over the Jharkhand Assembly elections. No, it is not because of the embarrassing Rs 4,000 cr scam on election eve- a legacy of Madhu Koda, an indepen... |
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Sex workers hawkers teach aspiring cops a thing or two (23 November 02:56) |
| Hyderabad: In a first-of-its-kind experiment in the history of police training, around 12,000 aspiring constables in Andhra Pradesh underwent a special training they are not likely to ever f... |
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Saudi envoy walks out after Jethmalani remark (23 November 02:56) |
| New Delhi: Former Union Minister Ram Jethmalanis charge that the Wahabi sect was responsible for terrorism provoked a walkout by Saudi Arabias Ambassador to India Faisal-al-Trad from an inte... |
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Mamata promises Marathi exams (23 November 02:54) |
| Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday declared that henceforth, Railway Recruitment Board exams will be conducted simultaneously in state languages, English and Hindi. In Maharashtra,... |
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196 illegal hoardings welcome Didi (23 November 02:54) |
| Nearly 200 illegal hoardings were put up on a 1.5-km stretch between Andheri flyover and Andheri station (East) to welcome Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday.Of the 196 flex hoardi... |
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RPF extortion racket busted (22 November 03:55) |
| Nine men of the Railway Protection Force have been arrested and the CBI is hunting for at least 31 more after investigations revealed that RPF men extorted money from passengers boarding unr... |
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HC slams Delhi Govt over grant of parole (22 November 03:55) |
| Taking exception to the way parole was granted to Jessica Lall murder case convict Manu Sharma, the Delhi High Court on Friday pulled up the Delhi Government for giving preferential treatmen... |
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Omar fled to Karachi to evade US drones (22 November 03:54) |
| Fearing that Taliban chief Mullah Omar maybe targetted by US drones, Pakistan’s ISI has helped the one-eyed terrorist flee from the border town of Quetta to the port city of Karachi, where... |
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How About a replay (22 November 03:23) |
| France captain Thierry Henry said that “the fairest solution” to the row surrounding his handball in the World Cup playoff against Ireland would be to replay the match. He renewed his ad... |
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Coutino elected new mfda president (22 November 03:23) |
| Austin Coutinho has been elected as the new president of Mumbai District Football Association (MDFA) in an executive committee meeting. The former RCF manager will take over the empty post a... |
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Colour me bad (22 November 03:23) |
| The days of black pants, white shirt, black shoes, a sweltering vest and strangling bow could soon be over. The only disquieting factor in the game of green baize — the dress code — cou... |
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Rationalists cry rights violation of Dalai Lamas previous life pal (22 November 03:15) |
| A group of rationalists on Friday petitioned the Andhra Pradesh State Human Rights Commission as also the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights, seeking protection of the rights... |
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SC rejects PIL seeking ban on idol immersion (22 November 03:15) |
| The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a PIL seeking a ban on immersion of idols of deities during festivals like Durga Puja and Dussehra saying it concerns the right to religious practice. ... |
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After protests govt restores sugarcane pricing (22 November 03:15) |
| Bowing to angry protests from opposition parties and farmers, the government on Friday agreed to restore the earlier sugarcane prices. The issue was resolved at an all-party meeting convened... |
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Top Cuban blogger has Obamas attention (22 November 03:13) |
| Barack Obama may be a very busy man, but the US president took out some time to answer questions submitted by a celebrated Cuban blogger. In an unusual written response to Yoani Sanchez, who... |
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S Korea hit by another high-profile suicide (22 November 03:13) |
| A top South Korean model who was a fixture at the fashion week in Paris and London was found dead at her apartment in Paris, an official said Friday. Daul Kim, 20, was raised in Seoul and Si... |
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Stuck (22 November 03:13) |
| A Russian icebreaker carrying more than hudrend tourists, scientists and journalists on an Antarctic cruise has reached clear water after being stuck in thick ice for five days. Captain Khle... |
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Cop raids shop may be booked for dacoity (22 November 02:31) |
| A senior police inspector of the Mumbai Central Government Railway Police (GRP), Bharat G Rane, has come under the scanner of the local police after he raided a cosmetics shop at Crawford Ma... |
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HC dismisses petition challenging ban on food in jail canteens (22 November 02:22) |
| The Bombay High Court on Friday dismissed a petition filed by a prisoner, challenging a circular issued by Maharashtra Government, disallowing sale of vegetarian and non-vegetarian food item... |
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Chopper scare at Vashi (22 November 02:22) |
| The Navi Mumbai Sports Association (NMSA) ground in Vashi witnessed much drama on Friday. A contingent from the Navi Mumbai Police was conducting a security check for an event to be held at ... |
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Dhoni and Bhajji now partners in business (21 November 02:46) |
| Their one-dayer against Australia at the D Y Patil Stadium may have been washed out by rains brought on by Cyclone Phyan (the one that didnt hit Mumbai). However, Indian skipper M S Dhoni an... |
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Chaos in Delhi over sugarcane prices (21 November 02:46) |
| New Delhi: Thousands of sugarcane farmers from north India on Thursday staged a demonstration in the capital to protest the new sugarcane pricing policy of the government and demanded an inc... |
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Karzai takes oath but wheres the applause (21 November 02:46) |
| Hamid Karzai took oath for his second term as Afghanistan’s president on Thursday in the presence of Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and other d... |
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Button to draw just half of Hamiltons pay (21 November 02:45) |
| McLaren has signed Formula One world champion Jenson Button for a seven million pounds-a-year deal, less than half of what Lewis Hamilton gets from the Woking-based outfit. Button has agreed... |
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Raikkonen open to Mercedes offers (21 November 02:33) |
| Barely hours after Kimi Raikkonen’s plans to take a year-long sabbatical from Formula One racing, his manager has suggested reports to the contrary, by saying he might be open to offers fr... |
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You cheat (21 November 02:33) |
| Angry Ireland blasted Thierry Henry as “Le Cheat” Thursday after the French football skipper helped knock the national team out of the World Cup with a clear handball. The traditional lu... |
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Swedish press blasts France-Ireland referee (21 November 02:33) |
| Swedish tabloids on Thursday lashed out at referee Martin Hansson for “robbing” Ireland of a place in the World Cup. The Swedish referee failed to see Thierry Henry’s hand touch the ba... |
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Chinese learning to talk peace in English (21 November 02:32) |
| A lack of proficiency in English has been one of the main factors hindering Chinese peacekeeping forces in their missions overseas, officials said on Thursday at a new training centre outsid... |
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Suicide attack at Pak court 19 dead (21 November 02:32) |
| A suicide bomber struck a court in Peshawar on Thursday killing 19 people, the sixth attack on the northwestern city in 11 days as Pakistani troops persist with a major anti-Taliban offensi... |
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Record-breaking suicides in US Army (21 November 02:31) |
| Suicides in the US Army this year have topped last year’s record-breaking numbers, with the military particularly troubled by statistics showing a surge in suicide rates among young soldie... |
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Surprisingly we didnt have Fax STD and ISD facilities at our immigration office (21 November 02:05) |
| The arrest of David Coleman Headley the alleged Lashkar-e-Taiba operative has sent shockwaves across various Mumbai circles that the man was a part of during his stay in the city. But the ... |
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Train man (21 November 02:05) |
| Derek OBrien who has moved on from anchoring quiz programmes to taking on the mantle of Chairman of the Railways Passengers Service Committee (PSC), got some first-hand experience of travell... |
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Outsiders will be allowed to fish in Mumbai waters (21 November 02:05) |
| In the first sign that the State Government is not going to toe the MNS line on migrants, the Fisheries Department has rejected the demand of the local fishermens association, that licences ... |
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Govt wont hike prices of petrol diesel soon (21 November 02:02) |
| New Delhi: The government is not considering at present to raise petrol and diesel prices in line with the firming international crude rates, Petroleum Secretary R S Pandey said on Thursday.... |
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PM to meet Advani Moily on Friday to finalise new CIC (21 November 02:02) |
| New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is likely to meet Opposition Leader L K Advani and Law Minister Veerappa Moily on Friday to finalise the name of the new Chief Information Commission... |
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Rape victim fights for 25 years gets Rs 8 lakh compensation (21 November 02:02) |
| After fighting relentlessly, a woman in Tamil Nadu, who was raped by a police inspector in 1984 when she was 28 years old, will finally get Rs 8 lakh as compensation. The Madras High Court J... |
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Revenue Intelligence unable to trace 500 imported motorbikes (20 November 03:49) |
| The investigation into the imported bike scam – unearthed by Department of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) early this year – has hit another roadblock. Of the 628 summons issued by the DRI to... |
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Goa DGP puts casinos on par with temple church (20 November 03:49) |
| Goa police chief B S Bassi is under fire for putting casinos on par with temples and churches in a bid to defend his subordinates’ controversial visit to an offshore casino. “Offshore ca... |
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Indian woman left to die on London street (20 November 03:49) |
| An Indian-origin mum-of-two was left to die in the street in west London after her right hand was chopped off. Police said amid speculation Wednesday that she was a victim of an ‘honour ki... |
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A british affair (20 November 03:48) |
| Jenson Button will partner Lewis Hamilton at McLaren next season in an all-British line-up, the Formula One team announced. The multi-year deal completes an astonishing year for 29-year-old ... |
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Retiree bravely defends home against 3 robbers (20 November 03:39) |
| For 67-year-old Stephen Luis D’Silva, age really is nothing but a number. On Tuesday, the brave retiree fought three armed robbers for more than 15 minutes, with no weapon except pure migh... |
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