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Venugopal returns, wounds reopen (09 May 02:50) |
| New Delhi, May 8: One part of AIIMS stiffened in apprehension and the other celebrated today as a court decision threatened to reopen wounds that had never completely healed at the country's... |
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Sensex battle with BSE (09 May 02:50) |
| Mumbai, May 8: A stock analyst from Pune has decided to take the Dalal Street Bronze Bull by its horns in a legal battle over the term "sensex", the biggest brand identity of Asia's oldest b... |
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Injured youth held for Britain student murder (09 May 02:50) |
| London, May 8: The murder of Samrajyo Jyothirmai Vempala, the 23yearold Wolverhampton University postgraduate student, at her lodgings in the Birmingham suburb of Handsworth on Tuesday after... |
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Muslim support, with a warning (09 May 02:50) |
| Bangalore, May 8: At a meeting with Muslim scholars and opinion-makers here on Tuesday, Congress leaders were asked a pointed question or two. |
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Azhagiri gets clean chit (09 May 02:50) |
| Chittoor, May 8: M.K. Azhagiri, the elder son of Tamil Nadu chief minister M. Karunanidhi, was today acquitted in the Kiruttinan murder case, five years after the senior DMK leader was stabb... |
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Paswan takes Dalit debate to New York (09 May 02:50) |
| New Delhi, May 8: Union minister Ram Vilas Paswan plans to take Dalit issues to a New York forum at a time when Mayavati, another champion of the community's cause, is trying to reach out to... |
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Sabeel returns home (09 May 02:50) |
| Bangalore, May 8: Sabeel Ahmed, the Indian doctor convicted in the Glasgow terror attack case, was deported to hometown Bangalore early today. |
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Teacher to sue 'bullies' (09 May 02:50) |
| Washington, May 8: An Indian-American professor at an Ivy League institution is suing her students on the ground that they were "anti-intellectual" in her class, causing her trauma and distr... |
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SC nudge on number plates (09 May 02:50) |
| New Delhi, May 8: States and Union territories must tell the Supreme Court within six months how they plan to implement a system of high-security number plates for all vehicles. |
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Azhagiri acquitted (09 May 02:50) |
| Chittoor, May 8: M.K. Azhagiri, the elder son of Tamil Nadu chief minister M. Karunanidhi, was today acquitted in the Kiruttinan murder case, five years after the senior DMK leader was stabb... |
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Dolphin fleeing Ganga filth killed (09 May 02:50) |
| Lucknow, May 8: A dolphin couple fleeing the Ganga's filthy waters got stuck in a shallow, muddy canal where the male was stoned to death by villagers this morning. |
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Home for aged in each district (09 May 02:50) |
| New Delhi, May 8: Elderly citizens, often spurned by their own kin, may soon find accommodation, health care and the company of others within their own district. |
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Maneka can't save leopard (09 May 02:50) |
| Lucknow, May 8: Maneka Gandhi's appeal to Uttar Pradesh forest officers not to declare a leopard a "man-eater" failed to save its life, reports our special correspondent. |
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Bus in gorge, sheep on road (09 May 02:50) |
| Srinagar, May 8: A bus driver's attempt to avoid hurting a flock of sheep on a narrow mountain road killed at least 32 people in Jammu this morning. |
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SC strikes down sack law (09 May 02:50) |
| New Delhi, May 8: The Supreme Court today effectively reinstated Dr P. Venugopal as AIIMS director, striking a blow to health minister Anbumani Ramadoss who had got a bill enacted to oust th... |
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HC relief to Husain (09 May 02:50) |
| New Delhi, May 8 (PTI): M.F. Husain today got a relief when Delhi High Court quashed criminal proceedings against the artist for allegedly hurting public sentiments through some of his nude ... |
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Surrender after puja, feast (09 May 02:50) |
| Patna, May 8: A four-hour puja, a gala feast and slogans ' Bhagar Yadav, the dreaded gangster and don of Champaran, gave himself up before police in a flamboyant ceremony today. |
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Summer spell of maths, Oriya (09 May 02:50) |
| Bhubaneswar, May 8: Though tackling mathematics is not every child's dream, especially while summer holidays are on, children of 51,000 villages across Orissa would be doing just that from M... |
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Raja interrogated (09 May 02:50) |
| Bhubaneswar, May 8: Raja Acharya, the prime accused in the murder of Biranchi Das, was subjected to intense interrogation for more than four hours today. |
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Death data alarm for Bihar (09 May 02:50) |
| Patna, May 8: The government has issued fresh instructions to jail administration and police to take better care of prisoners, especially those displaying signs of depression. |
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Water riot and power protest (08 May 02:31) |
| Lucknow, May 7: In arid, summer-scorched Bundelkhand, people have started looting water. |
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Music march at midnight (08 May 02:31) |
| Lucknow, May 7: Gopalkrishna Gandhi is not alone in feeling the "power pain" of the people. |
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Karat push to fell wall, not in Nandigram (08 May 02:31) |
| Madurai, May 7: Prakash Karat today saw in a tiny Tamil Nadu hamlet what he would have had he visited Nandigram now. |
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BlackBerry scan opens security can of worms (08 May 02:31) |
| New Delhi, May 7: India is not in a position to intercept or decipher messages on most satellite-based phone services operating out of the country. |
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Engineers jailed for collapse (08 May 02:31) |
| Mumbai, May 7: A sessions court today convicted two engineers of the Maharashtra Housing and Development Authority (MHADA) for failing to warn residents of Sadaf Manzil that collapsed in 200... |
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Acid attack (08 May 02:31) |
| Patna, May 7: A mob thrashed a suspected criminal and poured acid into his eyes at a village in Purnea on the Bihar-Bengal border, 350km from here. |
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N-deal hope on PM's lips (08 May 02:31) |
| New Delhi, May 7: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said he was still "hopeful" of seeing the nuclear deal through and that "good sense" would prevail on its opponents. |
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Agni test-fire sends 2 signals (08 May 02:31) |
| New Delhi, May 7: India today test-fired a missile that it believes is its main deterrent against a nuclear attack from Pakistan and/or China. The Agni III missile was test-fired for the thi... |
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Karat points to Birlas to back Tatas (08 May 02:31) |
| New Delhi, May 7: Prakash Karat had cited the Birlas to counter criticism on the presence of the Tatas in Bengal. |
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BJP takes Valley scandal to south (08 May 02:31) |
| Srinagar, May 7: The BJP is trying to capitalise on Jammu and Kashmir's sex scandal in the Karnataka Assembly polls. |
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Cong looks for holy help to fight Modi (08 May 02:31) |
| New Delhi, May 7: The Congress is planning to make a "fresh beginning" in Gujarat with a brainstorming session near the temples of Somnath or Dwarka. |
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Hill protest heat singes capital (08 May 02:31) |
| Bhubaneswar, May 7: Hundreds of tribals from Kalahandi today staged a demonstration near the secretariat and Assembly opposing bauxite mining in Niyamgiri hills stating that it would spell d... |
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Justice is blind, with acid (08 May 02:31) |
| Patna, May 7: In an enactment of the Bhagalpur blinding case of 1979-80, a mob thrashed a suspected criminal and poured acid into his eyes at a village in Purnea on the Bihar-Bengal border, ... |
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Naxalite prod turns Bihar criminal into village reformer (08 May 02:31) |
| Sono (Jamui), May 7: Till a few weeks ago, arms and ammunition were Taka Majhi's best companions. But today he is more into alphabets, thanks to a gentle prod from rebels. |
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Cow dung offers what Bengal govt won't (08 May 02:31) |
| Nandigram, May 7: Debashish Jana hid under a heap of cow-dung cakes less than 100m from the place where his wife, allegedly stripped of clothes, was being brutalised by a mob. |
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Medical test before probe for gangster (08 May 02:31) |
| Bhubaneswar, May 7: When Raja Acharya was escorted out of Biju Patnaik Airport around 10.30am this morning, all eyes were on him. |
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All roads lead to China border (07 May 01:59) |
| New Delhi, May 6: India is sprucing up its frontier with China by taking up a massive four-year project to connect villages, military posts and towns strung on the border across the Himalaya... |
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Nargis alert was sent, say scientists (07 May 01:59) |
| New Delhi, May 6: The heavy toll on human life in Myanmar claimed by the cyclone Nargis has surprised weather scientists here who say its path had been accurately predicted and conveyed to M... |
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Eye on Britain? Get £24000 job before visa (07 May 01:59) |
| London, May 6: Skilled Indian workers will have to show they have been offered a job paying, at least, £24,000 a year, the UK national average, before they are even allowed to apply for a v... |
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Seat lost for poll slander (07 May 01:59) |
| Kochi, May 6 (PTI): The election of a CPM MLA was declared null and void by Kerala High Court, which found that his election campaign material had indulged in character assassination of his ... |
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MP walks out of Congress, blames Rahul (07 May 01:59) |
| New Delhi, May 6: Akhilesh Das, Congress Rajya Sabha MP from Uttar Pradesh, today resigned from the party, blaming "yuvraj" Rahul Gandhi's "coterie" for the organisation's poor state in the ... |
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Women bill still at men's mercy (07 May 01:59) |
| New Delhi, May 6: The women's reservation bill, introduced today in the Rajya Sabha a decade after it died a violent death in the Lok Sabha, is still at the mercy of men. |
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Women seek own mosques (07 May 01:59) |
| Lucknow, May 6: Having travelled the world from China to Chennai, the concept of women-only mosques, or Nusis, is now knocking on the doors of Lucknow, the centre of traditional Islamic lear... |
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Nuclear deal stalling game on (07 May 01:59) |
| New Delhi, May 6: The Centre and the Left bought more time on the nuclear deal at their eighth meeting on the issue today, deciding to meet again on May 28. |
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Tennis-ball is not cricket (07 May 01:59) |
| Ahmedabad, May 6: Twenty20 is authentic cricket, by popular vote. Coloured pyjamas, white balls, pink balls
they are all part of cricket, officially. |
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Saran spies Bush tribute (07 May 01:59) |
| May 6: Former foreign secretary Shyam Saran today came to George Bush's rescue over his apparent faulting of India for the global food crisis, on a day Washington linked India also to the su... |
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Breach in caste wall (07 May 01:59) |
| Chennai, May 6: A 600-metre wall erected by upper castes to segregate Dalits in a Madurai village was partly pulled down today on the eve of CPM chief Prakash Karat's visit. |
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Govt jumps gun on IITs (07 May 01:59) |
| New Delhi, May 6: The Centre today told Parliament that IIT Kharagpur has complied with the Central Information Commission's instructions to disclose data on the 2006 admissions ' although t... |
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Kashmir start to old oil hunt (07 May 01:59) |
| Srinagar, May 6: India's hunt for "old" oil and gas, an emerging alternative to the fast depleting "young" oil reserves, has begun from Jammu and Kashmir. |
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Quota protest rocks capital (07 May 01:59) |
| New Delhi, May 6: Connaught Place, the capital's commercial hub, turned into a seething mass of students today as hundreds hit the streets against the move to reserve seats for Other Backwar... |
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