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Scarlette's mother directed to appear before Goa Police (15 March 03:33) |
| The Goa Police Saturday sent a notice to Fiona Mackewon, the mother of slain British tourist Scarlette Keeling, directing her to appear before the Superintendent of Police. |
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Tibetans protest outside UN headquarters (15 March 03:29) |
| Over 200 workers and supporters of a Tibetan youth organisation held a noisy anti-China demonstration outside the UN headquarters here. |
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RBI may not cut interest rates, hints govt (15 March 03:22) |
| Government on Saturday indicated that the Reserve Bank may not go for interest rates cut to boost the industrial production because of high inflation.
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50 Tibetans detained for trying to storm Chinese embassy (15 March 02:52) |
| Over 50 Tibetan activists were detained Saturday afternoon when they tried to storm the Chinese embassy here - the third time in a week. |
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Egyptian mummy exhibit is 'son of Ramesses II' (15 March 02:50) |
| Researchers at York University claim to have identified an Egyptian mummy exhibit in Britain as a son of the powerful Pharaoh Remesses II.
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Get over the wardrobe malfunction: Fashion fraternity (15 March 02:37) |
| "Its no big deal", "get over it" and "lets look forward" are what members of the fashion fraternity are saying about the unfortunate wardrobe malfunction. |
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Rahul Gandhi reaches out to Etawah Dalit victims (15 March 02:36) |
| Congress MP Rahul Gandhi endeared himself to the people of this Uttar Pradesh village, where five members of a Dalit family were killed |
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BSP calls for divison of UP into smaller states (15 March 02:35) |
| Mayawati said she has asked PM Manmohan Singh for divison of the state into three separate units of Bundelkhand, Purvanchal and western Uttar Pradesh.
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Manmohan Singh becomes 'doctor' in Varanasi (15 March 02:33) |
| Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was on Saturday awarded an honorary doctorate of letters (D Litt) by Benaras Hindu University. |
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Explosion on local train, five injured (15 March 02:05) |
| Five people were injured due to a blast on a local train here Saturday afternoon. The police said it was not a terror attack.
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Spitzer prostitute offered $1 mn to pose nude (15 March 02:00) |
| "The Hustler" chief Larry Flynt has offered the prostitute involved in the downfall of New York governor Eliot Spitzer $1 million to pose nude for his magazine.
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'Jackal' saviour fails to defend Sobhraj in Nepal (15 March 01:39) |
| Isabelle Coutant-Peyre's plan to defend Charles Sobhraj, serving a life term for murder in Nepal, has come to naught with the country's judicial system once again postponing his last fight f... |
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Lewis Hamilton grabs pole position (15 March 01:00) |
| Briton's Lewis Hamilton in a McLaren claimed pole position for Sunday's season-opening Australian Grand Prix. |
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Scarlette case: Mother alleges police-politician nexus (15 March 12:52) |
| Fiona Mackeown alleged on Saturday that Home Minister Ravi Naik and state Director General of Police of being in nexus with drug mafia.
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Sania, Paes win at Indian Wells (15 March 12:46) |
| Sania Mirza made it to the third round of the elite USD 2,100,000 Pacific Life Open defeating Ukrainian Olga Savchuk in a tough three-setter.
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About UPA's loan waiver and Pawar's upmanship (15 March 12:22) |
| Marathi language press was abuzz with news and analysis of the loan waiver announced by the UPA, with Pawar's new announcement of extending the ceiling to beyond 5-acre land holdings also ge... |
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BJP, CPI(M)'s killings lists (15 March 12:19) |
| The BJP on Friday circulated a press release from RSS in Parliament, shedding pretensions of being distinct and separate from the organisation. |
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BJP compares Manmohan to Aurangzeb (15 March 12:16) |
| The BJP likened PM Manmohan Singh to Aurangzeb for making statements and starting schemes which, it alleged, favour minorities and "discriminate against Hindus." |
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Political parties tell US to lay off (15 March 12:14) |
| Political parties across the spectrum banded together in admonishing the Bush administration for interfering in a "purely an internal matter of the country".
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Mamata vows to 'finish' Left in Bengal (15 March 12:13) |
| Politicians and intellectuals observed the first anniversary of Nandigram police firing here on Friday through varied forms of protest demonstrations and rallies |
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When in Mohali, say chak de Akali (15 March 12:10) |
| The politics of confrontation and vendetta have been on between the Akali Dal and the Congress in Punjab for a while now. |
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Nanda paid IRS official Rs20 crore to scuttle case (15 March 12:05) |
| Disgraced IRS official Ashutosh Verma took over Rs20 crore from arms dealer Suresh Nanda and his son Sanjeev for scuttling the income-tax violation case. |
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Scarlette's mum spent year in prison for half-murder (15 March 12:03) |
| The mother of Scarlette Keeling, who was allegedly murdered on a Goa beach on February 18, spent a year in jail for slitting the throat of a man she met at a party. |
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Scarlette's death is not an isolated case (15 March 12:02) |
| DNA has learnt the police are also investigating a murder committed in August 2007 on the same lines of a 15-year-old Canadian girl.
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'Hospital staff not to blame for incubator death' (15 March 12:01) |
| The superintendent of the hospital here where a three-day-old infant died in an incubator fire said on Friday there was "no negligence" on the part of the medical staff.
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Cirrus CEO Sudarshan pleads guilty to violating US laws (15 March 12:00) |
| Indian head of an international electronics company and a US firm pleaded guilty on Friday to violating American laws on export of weapons technology. |
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Foetus found at Pali Hill bin (15 March 10:41) |
| A five-month-old male foetus was found abandoned at Pali Hill at Khar on Friday. |
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CMO defends largesse to politicos' institutions (15 March 10:40) |
| On Friday, chief minister's office (CMO) dispatched a cheque of Rs1 lakh in name of TL Kulkarni for medical treatment. |
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HC jolt to Pawar kin in plot fraud case (15 March 10:39) |
| The Bombay High Court on Thursday said there was "prima facie substance in the allegations".
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Does the Left have a hidden agenda? (15 March 10:11) |
| Prakash Karat and Co must be smirking with satisfaction over the damage that they have been inflicting on India's reputation and growth prospects in recent times. |
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Panel will be set up to look into rural (15 March 09:47) |
| A state-level commission will be set up to consider the problems of migration in to the cities and also discrimination faced by the rural population in the state. |
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Tougher test ahead for repeaters (15 March 09:47) |
| Repeat examinees who had missed appearing for their SSC English papers on March 11, for no fault of theirs, are in for harrowing times ahead. |
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Salt pan is govt land, stresses HC (15 March 09:46) |
| Deciding a 25-year-old dispute over a 468-acre plot of prime land abutting the Eastern Express Highway between Bhandup and Chembur. |
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Why caravan-mums need sympathy too (15 March 09:44) |
| Then there's the other news, the quite awful rape and murder of the young girl in Goa. A comely 15-year-old, tanked on alcohol and drugs, who finds herself at the mercy of a tourist guide |
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'My autobiography has my heart and soul' (15 March 09:43) |
| I wanted to put my career in print, and there were publishers chasing me for an autobiography. I made up my mind, that I had to write it for my fans. |
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Misery loves company...and a good memoir (15 March 09:41) |
| If you've been secretly working on a novel, and hoping to sell it to a publisher abroad for an obscene advance, kindly delete your hope, and move your manuscript to the recycle bin. |
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Pranks give the bomb squad pangs (15 March 09:40) |
| For the Mumbai police, however, besides keeping a tab on such attacks, dealing with "alert citizens" who call in to report suspicious looking objects in public places is a daunting task. |
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Seven dead in Lhasa riots (15 March 09:38) |
| Seven persons, mostly "business people", were killed in riots in the Tibetan capital Lhasa, where Buddhist monks protesting against the Chinese rule clashed with troops |
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Ten killed in in Lhasa riots (15 March 09:38) |
| Ten people have been killed in riots in the Tibetan capital Lhasa, which has witnessed days of protest by Buddhist monks against the Chinese rule. |
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Woman alleges rape after man spurns her (15 March 09:33) |
| The Malad police are on the lookout of a 45-year-old dance teacher who has been absconding after a woman lodged a rape complaint against him on Thursday. |
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Alcoholic held for abducting four-year-old at Nalasopara (15 March 09:32) |
| The Nalasopara police have arrested an alcoholic for kidnapping a four-year-old boy. |
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Couple marry in court, get gift of the jab (15 March 09:30) |
| They thought they would live happily ever after. But for Dilip Devlekar and Sheetal Purohit, both from Byculla, the nightmare started minutes after they entered wedlock. |
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Wishing you all the BEST (15 March 09:28) |
| I think time has come for BEST to raise the bar on qualifications necessary to become one of its drivers. |
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BMC to relocate hawkers (15 March 09:27) |
| You may soon have to say goodbye to your neighbourhood bhajiwala from whom you buy your daily supply of vegetables and fruits as over the coming weeks. |
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Your grandfather's bungalow cannot stop growth: Phatak (15 March 09:26) |
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City historians and heritage conservationists seem to be at loggerhead with the municipal commissioner Jairaj Phatak over his views on the city's heritage and development |
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'Take action over messy canteen' (15 March 09:25) |
| BJP legislature party leader, Eknath Khadse on Friday demanded action against the contractor of the MLA Towers Hostel canteen at Nariman Point. |
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Banyan tree retires hurt at 100-plus (15 March 09:24) |
| The beautification of the Gateway of India, which was already three months behind the schedule, hit another roadblock on Friday |
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Lasik surgery is useful under proper guidance (15 March 09:22) |
| Laser eye surgeon Niteen C Dedhia speaks to Deepa Suryanarayan about the Lasik phenomenon and its pros and cons
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Blank papers give BSE anthrax fright (15 March 09:20) |
| No more do hoax calls really rattle the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE); they have become almost a regular feature. |
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'Porno' lighters: Court keeps the probe lights on (15 March 09:19) |
| The Bombay high court (HC) rejected a petition seeking the quashing of an FIR filed against a wholesale dealer of cigarette lighters, also called 'pornographic' lighters. |
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