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Harry Potter actor gets swine flu in Britain: publicist (05 July 05:14) |
| Actor Rupert Grint, who plays Ron Weasley in the Harry Potter films, has contracted swine flu, his publicist said on Saturday, three days before the latest Potter blockbuster premieres in Lo... |
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Citizens’ groups laud CM’s support for open spaces (05 July 04:56) |
| Chief Minister Ashok Chavan’s statement that the municipal corporation should protect and maintain the open spaces in the city comes as welcome news for citizens’ groups. |
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Thane school shuts down, students, parents protest (05 July 04:55) |
| Around 100 students of Rajendra Pal Mangala High School and their parents shouted slogans against government-aided school’s trustee Mahesh Mangala outside the Thane (East) school, reports ... |
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The new tourist spot (05 July 04:54) |
| Since July 1 midnight, Mumbai has been divided into those who have journeyed across the Bandra-Worli sealink and those who have yet to. |
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Road bridges to replace level crossings on WR (05 July 04:53) |
| The four level crossings along Western Railway’s suburban line may soon be replaced with road overbridges. That’s Union Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee’s plan when she sanctioned arou... |
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CID suffers setback in Chaturvedi case (05 July 04:51) |
| The Andheri metropolitan magistrate’s court rejected an incriminating report against eight suspended police officials filed by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in an alleged bui... |
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When it rained, it poured (05 July 04:51) |
| It was a soggy Saturday with incessant rains lashing the city and its suburbs for a better part of the day. |
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Hi-tech bikes, arms, portal for men in khaki (05 July 04:49) |
| Policemen are poised for a change. For one, car designer Dilip Chhabria is likely to be roped in to customise hi-tech motorbikes for beat marshals — the lowest rung of the force. |
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12-yr-old girl denied relief under Domestic Violence Act (05 July 04:47) |
| A 12-year-old girl who used a domestic violence law against her divorced father, to be able to switch to a school close to her mother, was denied her wish by a magistrate’s court, reports ... |
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Had no plans to absolve Advani: Justice Liberhan (05 July 04:47) |
| Justice MS Liberhan on Saturday denied allegations that the commission headed by him — which probed the reasons for the demolition of Babri Masjid in Ayodhya 17 years ago — wanted to abs... |
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Religion comes to environment’s rescue (05 July 04:31) |
| Where political leaders have failed to come up with a plan to save the planet from global warming, religious leaders have succeeded, reports Chetan Chauhan. |
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Maya’s Noida project in eco trouble (05 July 04:16) |
| Just four days after the Supreme Court asked the UP Govt for a reply to why public money is being wasted on building grand memorials in the state, another of CM Mayawati’s pet multi-crore ... |
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Indian MBAs made in China (05 July 04:00) |
| An Indian executive from a Chinese B-school is still a rare product. But going to China and not the US for an MBA is fast becoming the next big career move as the recession shifts the world ... |
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‘I had been abused by men’ (05 July 03:58) |
| I’ve always liked women. In fact in Class 7, I gave a classmate a card and it went all over school. Everyone teased me and called me gay. While I was embarrassed I wasn’t sure what it me... |
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Struggles of queer life (05 July 03:56) |
| Wisely, I had chosen to attend court the morning the judgement was read out. Clutching the hand of one of my closest activist friends, ‘Mrs Gupta’, to contain my anxiety as the moment of... |
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It Paes for Leander to never say never (05 July 03:52) |
| At 36, Leander Paes will try to win his 11th Grand Slam title today. What keeps him going? Is it his never-say-die attitude or a level of discipline that brooks no compromise and the hunger ... |
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His arrest started case against 377 (05 July 03:51) |
| When Arif Jafar, the 39-year-old executive director of India Naz Foundation International, penned these lines in 1995, he probably wasn’t aware that he would actually end up doing what he ... |
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Biometric permits for autos planned (05 July 03:32) |
| One of the reasons why auto drivers overcharge you is the increasing control of the financer mafia on auto-rickshaws in Delhi. Financers own a majority of autos under benami names (by proxy)... |
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Astro-tourism takes off with solar eclipse (05 July 03:31) |
| The price is astronomical. So is the journey. Air charter and tourism companies are surprised at the enthusiastic response to their canny offers to give Indians a close encounter with the to... |
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Train blast accused a double agent or Dawood man? (05 July 03:31) |
| Six days after the UN Security Council proscribed and froze the assets of Pakistani national Arif Qasmani — along with three other Pakistanis charged with providing direct support to the L... |
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CM for minimum wages to domestic helps (05 July 03:29) |
| Espousing the cause of domestic helps, Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit favours fixing a minimum wage for them. “When we talk of minimum wages for the labour workforce, we should also h... |
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A recovery miracle (05 July 03:23) |
| Premchand, 10, is happy to be walking on his two feet, although with some support. So are his foster parents — Usha Devi and Mukut Singh — both daily wage labourers. Last September 3, no... |
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Govt wants learning revolution, launches community colleges (05 July 03:20) |
| Coming soon to your neighbourhood - a community college that will provide an associate degree and vocational training to help you land a job. The UPA Govt launched two-year programmes leadin... |
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Have a skill? Now get a degree, and a ticket to college (05 July 03:19) |
| The skills of a cook or a locality motor mechanic could now help him earn a certificate or a degree, if the person is willing to put in a few hours of classroom study everyday. |
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Guest keepers of the south (05 July 03:17) |
| North Campus is not where all DU colleges are. So if you've surprised yourself by landing up in South Campus and are looking for a place to stay, you are reading just the right page, reports... |
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Check the address before the entrance (05 July 03:14) |
| When Reema Mathur went for her Scholastic Language Aptitude Test (SLAT) on Friday at the Faculty of Social Sciences, she was in for a great surprise — the venue for her entrance was Hansra... |
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City scores poorly in sign language (05 July 03:11) |
| For sheer number of signboards, Delhi has few parallels. They stare and scream at you from pillars, poles, facades, electric cables, rooftops, trees… In Karol Bagh and Chandni Chowk, even ... |
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It pays to do business in Merc city Ludhiana (05 July 03:09) |
| Ludhiana is a city of contrasting styles. Once you are in the city, the small and the insignificant catches your attention. |
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‘Rapists known to 96 per cent victims’ (05 July 03:08) |
| Police records show a downward trend in the number of rape cases this year, but the alarming fact is that in 96 per cent of the cases, people known to the victim committed the crime, reports... |
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Kerala compromise on the cards (05 July 03:06) |
| The CPM’s two-day Politburo meet, to work out a deal between Kerala Chief Minister V SAchuthanadan and state party secretary Pinarayi Vijayan, resulted in a stalemate. |
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Crime has gone down in Delhi: police chief (05 July 03:06) |
| If Delhi Police Chief’s claims are to be believed, then the crime graph of the city is at an “all-time low”. Delhi Commissioner of Police YS Dadwal, in a press conference on Saturday, ... |
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HC seeks Attorney General’s views in ‘frame up’ case (05 July 03:04) |
| Delhi High Court has sought the view of Attorney General of India GE Vahanavati in the case of two alleged police informers framed as Al-badr terrorists and jailed in Tihar since 2006. |
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More defence deals, firms under scanner (05 July 03:02) |
| The Defence ministry will review all files relating to the arms deals conducted during the tenure of former Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) chairman Sudipto Ghosh. |
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Ghaziabad family says police encounter fake (05 July 03:00) |
| Mystery shrouds the death of a 22-year-old man who was shot dead by the Uttarakhand Police on Friday afternoon. Family members of Ranbir Singh, a Master of Business Administration pass-out, ... |
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Daddy cool & still having fun (05 July 02:45) |
| If you are a parent with a child, there may not be much difference between the high point in your life and that of Leander Paes —if the man himself is to be believed. “I rate the birth o... |
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The pretty faces behind Roddick and Federer’s success (05 July 02:40) |
| Roger Federer credits his wife Mirka for helping him end his youthful, on-court tantrums while Brooklyn Decker talked Andy Roddick out of walking away from tennis. |
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Iran hangs 20 people convicted of drug trafficking (05 July 02:37) |
| Iran's official news agency reports that 20 people have been hanged in Iran on charges of drug trafficking. |
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New swine flu case takes India's tally to 129 (05 July 01:47) |
| A Thai national was found suffering from swine flu, taking the total number of influenza A (H1N1) cases in India to 129, said an official statement on Saturday. |
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Over a million cases pending in Delhi courts: official data (05 July 01:45) |
| There are more than 1,200,000 cases pending in the five district courts of the capital which are fighting hard to clear the backlog. |
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Probe ordered into alleged fake encounter (05 July 01:16) |
| Controversy erupted today over the gunning down of an MBA qualified youth by Uttarakhand police after he allegedly fled with a sub-inspector's revolver while his family claimed that he was k... |
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Defiant N Korea test-fires 7 missiles (05 July 01:13) |
| North Korea fired seven ballistic missiles on Saturday, South Korea's defence ministry said, in an act of defiance towards the United States that further stoked regional tensions already hig... |
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Students accuse TDP MLA of attempt to molest (05 July 01:12) |
| The rape-cum-murder case against MLA T V Rama Rao today took a new turn with two students of a nursing institute, run by the legislator, accusing the TDP leader of trying to molest them. |
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India to provide 30 MW additional power to Nepal (05 July 01:12) |
| India has decided to provide an additional 30 MW of power to Nepal, which is expected to relieve the country of its on-going electricity crisis, affecting its people and industry. |
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Britain condemns N Korea missile tests: foreign minister (05 July 01:11) |
| British foreign minister David Miliband on Saturday condemned North Korea's latest missile tests as 'provocations'. |
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Pak intruder shot dead near Attari checkpost (05 July 01:09) |
| A young Pakistani intruder was allegedly shot dead by BSF personnel after he crossed over into Indian territory in broad daylight near the Attari checkpost, ignoring their repeated warnings. |
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No rollback on petrol prices: Murali Deora (05 July 01:08) |
| Despite opposition parties slamming the Centre for the latest hike in petro-products, Union Petroleum Minister, Murli Deora tonight nonchalantly shored up the morale of the UPA's decision by... |
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CJM courts rejects plea against Antony (05 July 01:06) |
| A local court here today dismissed a complaint seeking an inquiry against Defence Minister A K Antony alleging kickbacks in the recent arms deal between India and Israel. |
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Saudi Arabian flight suffers tyre-burst at Mumbai airport (05 July 12:58) |
| Saudi Arabian Airline flight, SV 744 from Jeddah with 199 passengers on-board, suffered a tyre-burst at the Mumbai airport on Saturday evening. |
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Congress demands prosecution grant to CBI in VRS scam case (05 July 12:54) |
| Nagaland Pradesh Congress on Saturday demanded an order by the Governor to CBI to prosecute charge-sheeted persons in a case related to VRS in Industries department. |
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Indian-Americans celebrate US Independence Day with enthusiasm (05 July 12:44) |
| The large Indian-American community in the United States today celebrated the country's Independence Day -- popularly known as July 4 -- with community get-togethers and cultural extravaganz... |
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