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Prime Minister keen to ban Bajrang Dal (09 October 09:16) |
| The Bajrang Dal plan to unleash another round of violent attacks against helpless people. If the government backs off now it will look cowardly. |
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Cheaper homes? That's a laugh (09 October 09:04) |
| Speak Up visits a property show in the city and finds a whole lot of hopeful buyers walking away unimpressed. |
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Phasing out of the MiG-23s (08 October 10:08) |
| These fighter planes were actually referred to as Flying Coffins for the number of crashes they were involved in. |
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Retired hurt (08 October 10:03) |
| Sourav Ganguly says he decided to quit because he was hurt at being dropped from the Irani Trophy squad |
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Selling to the industrialists (07 October 10:09) |
| The Tatas have chosen Sanand, close to Ahmedabad; Modi knows how to sell his state to industrialists. |
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Why tar them without proof? (07 October 09:46) |
| The drug bust at Juhu was a great break for the anti-narcotics cell of Mumbai Police but left a lot of party-goers angry |
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The cash-for-votes scam (06 October 09:33) |
| The average citizen has no illusions about the integrity of our political leaders. |
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'Tis the season to splurge (06 October 09:23) |
| The city's shoppers are not letting inflation and the state of the Sensex dampen their enthusiasm. |
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India is not a threat to Pakistan (05 October 10:37) |
| Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has described the militants operating in Jammu and Kashmir as terrorists. |
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Electing custodians to a legacy (05 October 10:26) |
| Over the next few days, Parsis across the city will be voting to elect their representatives to the Bombay Parsi Punchayet. |
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Doubtful about Palin (03 October 10:40) |
| Most US voters have doubts about Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's experience and ability to lead, a new poll found. |
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The world just got even smaller (03 October 10:33) |
| The Grid technology has been formally announced to the world by CERN. So what is the fuss all about? |
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Don't undervalue experience (02 October 11:36) |
| The buzz is that Ganguly has been included in the Test team against Australia to allow him a graceful exit. |
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Goa is becoming the most expensive destination (02 October 11:25) |
| If tour operators are also unable to keep package prices down then it means bad news. |
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Enough for need, not for greed (01 October 09:06) |
| Speak Up finds that we are both cynical and accepting of Gandhi today.
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The same mistake, yet again (30 September 09:16) |
| At least 147 people have been killed and over 425 injured in a major stampede at the Chamunda Devi Temple in Jodhpur. |
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Restraint will not serve any purpose (30 September 09:12) |
| Some Muslim clerics and groups have asked for sedate Eid celebrations this year to express sympathy for terror victims. |
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The unthinkable happens (29 September 09:55) |
| The property market, which has gone up by nearly 300% over the last three years, is in for a slow-down. |
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Rentals are a better bet (29 September 09:50) |
| Contemplating your dream home? A buyer may well heed the advice of property experts to defer purchasing a flat till after Diwali when there will be a correction in the prices of up to 25%. |
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Not so incredible India! (29 September 09:50) |
| Six youths allegedly gangraped a 20-year-old German girl after kidnapping her from outside the Taj hotel in Chandigarh. |
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Fear psychosis over the city of Delhi (29 September 01:24) |
| Two weekend blasts in Delhi in a fortnight seem to have shaken the residents of the city and the feeling that they are insecure in large crowded markets. |
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We definitely don't love him, PM (29 September 01:19) |
| What came over our normally reserved Prime Minister? He gushed to President Bush that all Indians love him without so much as a quick poll back home. |
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Dandia trends: OTT and loving it (27 September 09:18) |
| The biggest fashion disaster at a garba is an ensemble that does not stand out in a crowd. |
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Here's why the city police are so hamstrung (25 September 09:00) |
| The overall representation of Muslims in the state police force is just 2%. There are 220 IPS officers in the state and only six of them are Muslims. |
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Safety is a distant dream now (25 September 08:36) |
| After Wednesday's arrests and some startling revelations about terror modules, police chief Hassan Ghafoor assured the city that it is now totally safe. |
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'Google phone' hits Silicon Valley (24 September 11:19) |
| It is thicker than an iPhone. It is an unassuming flat, grayish-black hunk of plastic. The fabled 'Google phone' officially launches in October |
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Public apathy breeds corruption (24 September 11:15) |
| India has slipped 13 places on the global transparency index, indicating a rise in corruption levels |
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'I will get married soon' (24 September 12:07) |
| Sigh. One of the country's best known bachelors is tying the knot. However, we have heard little about his love life except for some Colombian girl friend |
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Job market will reinvent itself (24 September 12:01) |
| The Wall Street meltdown has taken the shine out of that most sought-after job for students of finance - investment banking. |
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Caution: Tread carefully, SEZ ahead (22 September 11:47) |
| In a referendum last Sunday, landholders voted against the proposed Raigad SEZ. Speak Up asks experts to respond to this overwhelmingly negative response |
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How about retirement plans, Sachin? (21 September 09:47) |
| Star batsman Sachin Tendulkar could miss the four-test series against Australia due to injury. |
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It's raining multi-crore deals (21 September 09:36) |
| Even if Akshay Kumar's Rs71-crore deal with UTV is just Bollywood myth, the kind of pay packets top stars now command can only be described as gob-smacking. |
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Action at last from Delhi Police (19 September 09:49) |
| Action at last from Delhi Police. On Friday, in a raid, they shot dead two persons, suspected to be terrorists involved in the September 13 blasts. |
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We dictate our own fashion (19 September 09:46) |
| Mumbai's high-gloss HDIL India Couture Week is currently on. So Speak Up decided to ask Mumbaikars at Colaba Causeway how they build up their wardrobes |
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Couture isn't for everyone, style is (19 September 09:45) |
| If the ongoing HDIL India Couture Week (HICW) hasn't exactly got the average woman or the man on the street talking, one shouldn't be surprised |
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Video games major part of teens' social life (18 September 09:22) |
| A study conducted in the US revealed that nearly all teens played video games. |
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Video games major part of teens' life (18 September 09:22) |
| A study conducted in the US revealed that nearly all teens played video games. |
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Include dad too in the parenting leave perk (18 September 09:14) |
| Apart from a six month maternity leave, women working in the government can now take upto two years off to raise their children. |
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Centre facing the heat over terrorism (17 September 09:47) |
| National Security Adviser M K Narayanan has admitted that intelligence was 'not good enough.' |
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We have reasons to worry, but not panic (17 September 09:32) |
| The Wall Street meltdown is bad news for the the Indian financial market. But how does the crisis impact the average Indian? |
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Bloodbath on Wall Street (16 September 09:49) |
| Lehman Brothers' bankruptcy and Merrill Lynch's acquisition by Bank of America will have a huge impact on India. |
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Ultras, zealots, both misuse faith (16 September 09:41) |
| The right wing attacks on churches and the rant against conversions are spreading. But can any kind of violence be explained away? |
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Horrified by the sheer brutality (15 September 09:33) |
| A Sessions Court held eight persons guilty of the murder of four members of a Dalit family in the Khairlanji case. |
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Terrorists are playing mindgames now (15 September 09:14) |
| Mumbaikars tell Speak Up that with terrorists managing to stay a step ahead of the police, they feel more vulnerable than ever before. |
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We are afraid, very much afraid (15 September 12:35) |
| Terrorists managed to kill and maim hapless citizens in Delhi while the govt stayed in the snooze mode, angry Mumbaikars tell Speak Up |
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Not callous, just cynical (15 September 12:30) |
| Bihar is devastated by one of its worst floods but Mumbai has yet to mobilise the kind of generous donation drives it is famous for. |
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Students show the way (13 September 01:31) |
| On the eleventh day of Ganesh Chathurthi the whole city is out on Mumbai's streets to bid farewell to Ganpati. |
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Reaching out with help, instantly (13 September 01:28) |
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Last year, Mumbai's HAM enthusiasts helped reunite 100 people who had gone missing in the mass festivities at Girgaum Chowpatty. |
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Sending devotees home and dry (13 September 01:28) |
| The immersion ceremonies at Chowpatty are a spectacular annual event. But ask those who act as life guards |
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Pay hike for the president (11 September 10:35) |
| What have the President, VP and others done to deserve such a big salary hike? They already get so many other privileges |
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