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Residents of Cuffe Parade want to clip Ambanis’ wings (17 May 12:00) |
| The Ambanis’ grand plan to build a helipad atop their Cuffe Parade residence Seawind may fly into rough weather. That’s only if the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) decides to ac... |
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Beer Man’s case falls flat in court (17 May 12:00) |
| Mumbai’s infamous ‘beer man’ Ravindra Kantrole can heave a sigh of relief. In one of the three murder trials under way against him at the Sewri fast-track courts, the prosecution has g... |
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Pay & pick your project (17 May 12:00) |
| If you are a final year student of engineering and feel lazy or short of time to complete your practical projects that are part of your papers, you need not worry if you are ready to shell o... |
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Hospital wants happy ending for Khushi (17 May 12:00) |
| Khushi, the five-month-old baby who was disowned by her parents since the day she was born in December last year, looks like she will spend a very long time at Sion Hospital before the case ... |
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Blasts cost Jaipur a bomb (17 May 12:00) |
| The two-day shutdown in the walled city areas, following the serial terror blasts in Jaipur that claimed 64 lives, has hit businesses hard, leading to an estimated loss of Rs 2,000 crore, th... |
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11 killed, 24 injured in Kolkata fire (17 May 12:00) |
| At least 11 persons were killed and 24 injured in a fire at a crowded shopping mall at Sodepur in North 24-Parganas district neighbouring the metropolis on Friday, police said. Firemen, ass... |
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55% voting in second phase of K’taka polls (17 May 12:00) |
| About 55 percent of over 11 million eligible voters exercised their franchise on Friday in 66 constituencies in 10 districts of Karnataka in the second phase of elections to the 224-member s... |
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Babu offers to quit over Class X results (17 May 12:00) |
| A district collector from Andhra Pradesh has made news by seeking to be relieved of his responsibilities, taking moral responsibility for students failure to achieve good results in the clas... |
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Osama marks Israel anniversary (17 May 12:00) |
| Osama bin Laden vowed in an audio tape to mark Israel’s 60th anniversary to continue to fight the Jewish state and its allies in the West. The al-Qaeda leader, who has placed growing empha... |
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Yet another disagreement widens PPP, PML(N) rift (17 May 12:00) |
| Pakistan’s fragile ruling coalition on Friday saw the rift between the key partners widening over a controversial gubernatorial appointment in the crucial Punjab province, with PML-N warni... |
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New aftershocks create havoc in quake province (17 May 12:00) |
| China struggled to bury its dead and help tens of thousands of injured and homeless on Friday when a powerful aftershock brought new havoc four days after an earthquake thought to have kille... |
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£1m to save non-existent newts (17 May 12:00) |
| A council spent £1million protecting rare newts on a building site — only to discover there were none there. The amphibians are protected by EU law and the Wildlife and Countryside Act, ... |
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Inflation at 7.83 pc (17 May 12:00) |
| An unabated rise in inflation to a 44-month high of 7.83 per cent has added to the miseries of the government as Finance Minister P Chidambaram warned of more administrative steps in case st... |
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Oil cos want to stop LPG connections (17 May 12:00) |
| Faced with a whopping Rs 2,00,000 crore revenue loss on fuel sales this fiscal, state-run oil firms have decided not to issue new domestic LPG connections and fix a quota for existing custom... |
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UN slashes global economy forecast (17 May 12:00) |
| Warning that the world economy is now “teetering on the brink of a severe global downturn,” the United Nations (UN) has said it expects growth this year to be sharply lower at 1.8 per ce... |
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You can’t do this (17 May 12:00) |
| London: Manchester United forward Cristiano Ronaldo has dropped a potential bombshell on the club by telling Spanish television he could consider his future following the Champions League fi... |
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Nervous Naren set to make history (17 May 12:00) |
| In precisely 12 days, Naren Kumar will make Indian motor sport history when he revs his Group N-spec Subaru awaiting starters orders in the Acropolis Rally of Greece, which incidentally is t... |
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Taking challenge head-on (17 May 12:00) |
| If there’s been shortage of anything in Indian hockey over the last couple of months, it’s been the dearth of good news. The national game has plunged into one controversy after another ... |
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Kidney failure! (16 May 12:00) |
| The Directorate of Health Services (DHS) will send notices to four out of 22 hospitals in the city stating that their licences will be reviewed as they have failed to perform a single kidney... |
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Bandra-Worli sealink is right on track (16 May 12:00) |
| The Rs 1,640 crore sealink will be complete by January, 2009, Public Works Minister Anil Deshmukh said on Thursday. Tenders for the Worli-Haji Ali link have already been floated and work is ... |
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Man makes bomb hoax call to take revenge on boss! (16 May 12:00) |
| Angry with his boss over an argument regarding his work, a 54-year-old clerk at Mulund railway station decided to take revenge. His ‘grand’ plan, however, backfired and he was arrested ... |
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Now, D-gang wants to cast anchor in ship-breaking! (16 May 12:00) |
| While the Mumbai police are still probing Dawood Ibrahim's expanding racket of extortion and his investments in the city's burgeoning real estate, there are reports of the D-gang now making ... |
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Blast email link traced, cyber café owner detained (16 May 12:00) |
| The sensational e-mail sent on behalf of a terrorist group claiming responsibility for the Jaipur blasts was traced to a Ghaziabad cyber cafe whose owner was detained, while the authenticity... |
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Blasts victims get 5-star care, thanks to politicians (16 May 12:00) |
| Around 197 of the injured in Tuesday’s serial blasts in Jaipur, who were either treated or are being treated in Sawai Maan Singh (SMS) Government Hospital in the Rajasthan state capital, w... |
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Hospital turns into akhara of politics (16 May 12:00) |
| You simply cannot keep politics out. Be it the aftermath of blasts, a natural calamity, or even an accident — politicians somehow always find a way to push their petty agendas to the fore.... |
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The Left Front should be built afresh: Jyoti Basu (16 May 12:00) |
| Referring to Wednesday’s poll violence in Basanti area of South 24 Parganas in the second phase of the Panchayat polls, CPI-M patriarch Jyoti Basu said on Thursday that the incident was un... |
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Myanmar finally invites aid workers from neighbours (16 May 12:00) |
| The military regime in Myanmar has invited immediate neighbours India, China, Bangladesh and Thailand to send aid workers to join relief operations in the cyclone-hit country, in what UN des... |
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Parliamentary resolution planned over Pak judges (16 May 12:00) |
| The leader of Pakistan’s ruling coalition said on Wednesday that a resolution would be tabled in parliament for the reinstatement of judges sacked by President Pervez Musharraf. “A reso... |
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Parents lose only hope for the future in China quake (16 May 12:00) |
| The loss of a child is always unbearable, but the grief of parents in China's earthquake zone has been deepened by the government's controversial one-child birth control policy. The most sea... |
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China says quake toll could rise above 50,000 (16 May 12:00) |
| The death toll from China's massive earthquake could soar to more than 50,000, state media reported on Thursday, as rescuers struggled to help survivors and hope faded for the thousands buri... |
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Infrastructure up 9.6 pc in march (16 May 12:00) |
| Driven by finished steel and cement production, the country’s core infrastructure industries registered a growth of 9.6 per cent in the month of March. Even though this growth figure – c... |
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FM bats for more cuts in cement prices (16 May 12:00) |
| The government has said it expects further cuts in cement prices for taming inflation, but ruled out reduction in import duties on crude oil, claiming the measure would not have any impact o... |
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Surprise hit (16 May 12:00) |
| Ipoh: India kept their hopes of reaching the finals of the Sultan Azlan Shah hockey tournament by beating Pakistan 2-1 Thursday. The win puts them one point behind Pakistan in the round-robi... |
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Raigad girls survive scare (16 May 12:00) |
| Mumbai: Raigad girls escaped to victory for the second time when they beat a gallant Yavatmal 23-22 in a pulsating tie, in the 59th Junior Maharashtra State Inter-District Basketball Champio... |
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Mummy where are you ? (15 May 12:00) |
| Jaipur: Four-year-old Suhana lying badly injured in a hospital bed in the crowded Sawai Mansingh Hospital in Jaipur can’t stop asking the doctors and nurses if they have seen her mother. S... |
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I never thought something like this could ever happen to us (15 May 12:00) |
| On Tuesday night, Mustafa Khan had rushed to the airport to catch a flight to Jaipur. But he was only able to fly the next morning as there were no tickets available. Khan lost his wife and... |
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Thank you Allah for saving my baby (15 May 12:00) |
| Mohammed Ahmed Khan hasn’t stopped praising Allah ever since the terrible blasts in Jaipur on Tuesday. Khan’s wife Waseema and father-in-law Azeezullah who were on a scooter at Chand Po... |
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60-year-old hangs around at CST awaiting hubby’s release from jail (15 May 12:00) |
| It’s almost 10 years since Gita Devi, 60, has seen her 76-year-old husband, A S Subbarao. Hailing from Delhi, she came to Mumbai a month ago, hoping to get her husband released from the Ar... |
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Bomb planters still in Jaipur (15 May 12:00) |
| Security agencies probing the Jaipur serial blasts have reason to believe that those who planted the bombs are still holed up in the city. Analysis of the blasts have revealed that they were... |
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Many donated blood after much was spilt (15 May 12:00) |
| Jaipur’s biggest government hospital Sawai Mansingh Hospital, which is treating most of the blasts victims, is now flooded with blood. Blood of all groups are now in stock. But when 77 bl... |
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Explosions could not damage harmony (15 May 12:00) |
| If terrorists thought they would be able to disrupt the communal harmony of Jaipur by ripping apart the walled city area of the Rajasthan capital, the residents of Pink City have proved them... |
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Re-enact POTA to tackle terror, says Advani (15 May 12:00) |
| A day after the serial blasts in Jaipur, both the BJP and the Congress were engaged in blame-game, accusing each other of failing to combat terror. Advani, who visited the Pink City, critici... |
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Hillary’s big W Virginia win too little, also too late (15 May 12:00) |
| Hillary Clinton scored a landslide victory in the West Virginia primary, but it may be too little and too late to stop frontrunner Barack Obama from winning the Democratic presidential nomin... |
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Toll rises to 20,000, 25,000 still buried (15 May 12:00) |
| Beijing on Wednesday rushed more troops and air-dropped relief supplies in areas cut off near the epicentre of the devastating earthquake in southwest Sichuan province, as the toll mounted t... |
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‘Grandpa’ Wen comforts China’s quake victims (15 May 12:00) |
| Clambering over shattered buildings, tearfully comforting weeping children, hollering into a bullhorn, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has become the unusually open and emotional face of his nati... |
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Yet another Austrian horror story (15 May 12:00) |
| Investigators discovered the bodies of five people on Wednesday after a man turned up at a Vienna police station and calmly explained that he had killed his family to spare them the shame of... |
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Govt not arresting growth: Montek (15 May 12:00) |
| Dismissing fears that the government was sacrificing growth to check price rise, deputy chairman of Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia said on Wednesday that the Centre was trying to... |
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Banks’ deposits grow higher than credit (15 May 12:00) |
| Riding on the back of a high interest rate regime, banks’ deposits are growing faster than their credit expansion, according to a latest study. “Lucrative rates in the high interest rate... |
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Cement firms to cut prices in some states (15 May 12:00) |
| Within days of the steel industry announcing price cuts, cement firms agreed on Wednesday to cut rates by Rs 3-7.5 per bag of 50 kg with immediate effect in some states. The reduction will b... |
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Leader hunting (15 May 12:00) |
| Buoyed by back-to-back wins over Canada and Belgium, a resurgent India will take on the unbeaten arch-rival Pakistan in the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup Hockey tournament, at Ipoh tomorrow. The muc... |
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