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Urban short fuse and myths (19 March 02:12) |
| Mumbai, March 18: A retired customs officer upset with a neighbour held hostage the teenaged daughter of another, shot her dead and then fell to police bullets ' the urban tragedy triggered ... |
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India trip cloud on Lohan (19 March 02:12) |
| New Delhi, March 18: Hollywood actress and model Lindsay Lohan could be blacklisted by the Indian government following her trip to the country last December when she falsely claimed she had ... |
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Sandra skips event over husband cheat slur (19 March 02:12) |
| Los Angeles, March 18: Sandra Bullock, the Oscar-winning Hollywood star, pulled out of the London premiere of her hit film The Blind Side as a US celebrity magazine published a claim that he... |
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Cat out of shopping bag men spend more (19 March 02:12) |
| New Delhi, March 18: Next time he wisecracks "the only women's bill that matters is your shopping bill", you can tell him to go take a ride in his shopping cart. |
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Year after race Banga bows out (19 March 02:12) |
| Mumbai, March 18: Manvinder Singh (Vindi) Banga, who was in the race for the top job at Anglo-Dutch consumer goods giant Unilever just over a year ago, has decided to leave the company by th... |
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Guilty plea on all counts (19 March 02:12) |
| Chicago, March 18 (Agencies): David Coleman Headley, the US citizen of Pakistani origin accused of scouting the Mumbai attack targets, today pleaded guilty to all 12 counts he had been charg... |
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Teacher curricula set to be recast (19 March 02:12) |
| New Delhi, March 18: Aspiring school teachers may soon need to study longer and meet stricter qualification norms than at present, under a new national teacher education curriculum roadmap t... |
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Funds and stick push for interim set-up (19 March 02:12) |
| New Delhi, March 18: The Centre adopted a carrot-and-stick policy in an attempt to push through an interim solution to the Gorkha issue at today's tripartite talks in the capital. |
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Another CRPF team coming (19 March 02:12) |
| Ranchi, March 18: Forces engaged in an offensive against Maoist rebels are now concentrating on the Jhumra foothills along the Bokaro-Hazaribagh border while operations along the Jharkhand-B... |
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The toast of steel majors (19 March 02:12) |
| Bokaro, March 18: With ArcelorMittal waiting in the wings, Posco couldn't have been far behind. |
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Posco finds safety net in Bokaro (19 March 02:12) |
| Calcutta, March 18: A vast expanse of free land and lure of high grade iron ore from Chiria mines is bringing South Korean steel major Posco to Bokaro. |
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CPM recoils at Big B bond (18 March 02:30) |
| New Delhi, March 17: The CPM has opposed a decision by the party-led Kerala government to appoint Amitabh Bachchan as its tourism ambassador because the actor had praised Narendra Modi. |
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Bid to pre-empt Bangla envoy (18 March 02:30) |
| New Delhi, March 17: A group of Muslim leaders from Bengal has written to the Bangladesh Prime Minister requesting her not to send as Dhaka's deputy high commissioner in Calcutta a writer th... |
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Like Mercury and Jupiter (18 March 02:30) |
| New Delhi, March 17: Astronomers today announced the discovery of a planet orbiting a Sun-like star in a distant constellation, but showing features strikingly similar to those of the solar ... |
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Plan to add 695 MBBS seats (18 March 02:30) |
| Calcutta, March 17: The Bengal government today announced its intention to add 695 MBBS seats to nine state-run medical colleges. |
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America spoons out Headley sweetener (18 March 02:30) |
| Washington, March 17: When it comes to timing, you have to give it to the Americans. |
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Childish salt in RAW wound (18 March 02:30) |
| New Delhi, March 17: You would imagine them tiptoeing across foreign alleyways, casting nervous glances over their shoulder as they head for a clandestine meeting with an "asset" to receive ... |
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CRPF job mart to win tribal hearts (18 March 02:30) |
| Jamshedpur, March 17: The mainstay of ongoing operations against Maoists, the CRPF has simultaneously initiated efforts to win over hearts and minds of local tribals by offering them jobs. |
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CM urges filmmakers to defy political censors (17 March 02:32) |
| Mumbai, March 16: Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan today asked filmmakers not to yield to parallel political censorship and said his government would ensure there was only one censor,... |
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Big money riding on IPL You bet! (17 March 02:32) |
| It's 4.30pm and the lone occupant of a sparsely furnished two-bedroom Bangur Avenue flat is running a final check on the five cellphones, laptop and voice recorder in front of him. |
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Minus20 Night the Knights froze (17 March 02:32) |
| Calcutta, March 16: The Knights put themselves to sword in a spectacular act of serial hara-kiri tonight, a floodlit crime that darkened Eden's glow and snuffed the cheer that rang off the s... |
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Tear this garland and get torn up (17 March 02:32) |
| Lucknow, March 16: Either side of the few seconds Mayavati wore it, the money garland took a whole week to make and 12 hours to take apart. |
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Tobacco gender bias (17 March 02:32) |
| New Delhi, March 16: Women who have been long-term cigarette smokers may suffer from impaired memory and thinking, but this effect appears absent in male smokers, according to a study releas... |
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Centre to consider ANVC demands (17 March 02:32) |
| Shillong, March 16: The Centre has decided to examine the Achik National Volunteers Council's demand for an autonomous body like a Garoland Territorial Council. |
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Kishenji aide five others arrested (17 March 02:32) |
| Jamshedpur/Ranchi/ Hazaribagh, March 16: The police today announced that a Maoist arrested yesterday in Chaibasa was Marshal Topno, a close aide of Kishenji, in what is a major breakthrough ... |
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15000 line up to join Ranchi IIM (17 March 02:32) |
| Ranchi, March 16: IIM, Ranchi has already received over 15,000 applications for its postgraduate programme in management, but has lowered cut-offs to encourage more participation from reserv... |
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Telangana rush killed hill deal (17 March 02:32) |
| Darjeeling, March 16: The Gorkhaland issue could have been resolved, at least for the time being, on December 21 itself had the Centre not promised in haste statehood to Telangana, informati... |
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Test-fired Morcha and central plans for hills (16 March 02:21) |
| March 15: The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha and the Centre have placed their bargaining chips on the table, irreconcilable at first glance but etching the contours within which talks are expected t... |
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Army talks with Bangla (16 March 02:21) |
| New Delhi, March 15: The Indian and Bangladeshi militaries are set to increase exchanges after the top brass from both sides met in Delhi during the Bangladesh army chief's visit today and c... |
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Dawn hunt in Bokaro Bengal gets cracking (16 March 02:21) |
| Ranchi/Bokaro, March 15: Security forces continued phase II of flushout operations in Maoist strongholds in Bokaro, Latehar and Ghatshila with DGP Neyaz Ahmed confirming that Bengal too had ... |
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Play-safe govt pulls N-bill (16 March 02:21) |
| New Delhi, March 15: A cautious Centre today stepped back to avoid fresh trouble in Parliament by deciding not to introduce a bill that sets a cap on nuclear liability despite mentioning it ... |
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Facebook picks Hyderabad (16 March 02:21) |
| March 15: Facebook, the world's largest social networking site, is opening an office in Hyderabad to support its rapidly expanding global operations. |
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Match today (16 March 02:21) |
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Push for ANVC truce (16 March 02:21) |
| Shillong, March 15: The Meghalaya government today told the interlocutor for peace talks with the Achik National Volunteers Council (ANVC), P.C. Haldar, that it was necessary to extend the c... |
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Delhi plan as governor head (16 March 02:21) |
| Kalimpong, March 15: The Centre had during the last tripartite talks proposed more powers for a new dispensation under the direct control of the Bengal governor, the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha c... |
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Done but not enough to dance (15 March 03:08) |
| Calcutta, March 14: Eden's lights didn't fail, Shah Rukh Khan didn't dance and his Knights didn't do their usual. |
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Hillary jibe stuns ally Israel (15 March 03:08) |
| New York, March 14: Beginning as a spat over a single housing project, a dispute this week between the Barack Obama administration and Israel has ballooned into the biggest US-Israeli clash ... |
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Cycle good on SP ballot not on airstrip (15 March 03:08) |
| Lucknow, March 14: The cycle, the party symbol of Mulayam Singh Yadav, threatened to involve him in a plane crash yesterday afternoon on his pet airstrip. |
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Research votes for women not quotas (15 March 03:08) |
| New Delhi, March 14: Gender quotas in legislatures do not increase women's political engagement, a study has shown, challenging assumptions that quotas foster advancement of women across all... |
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Safety catch in Nayachar deal (14 March 03:01) |
| Calcutta, March 13: The Nayachar land cannot be used for any purpose other than building a chemical hub but a de facto exit clause has left room for "alternate projects" if all approvals do ... |
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Leonardo the new hero (14 March 03:01) |
| March 13: He was an artist, inventor, scientist and visionary. Five hundred years after his death, Leonardo da Vinci can add another string to his bow: Hollywood action hero. |
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Farmers target IPL to vent ire (14 March 03:01) |
| Chandigarh, March 13: Farmer associations in Punjab are planning to converge on the Mohali cricket stadium next week in a bid to disrupt IPL matches to protest the state government's decisio... |
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Dilemma on deemed admissions (14 March 03:01) |
| New Delhi, March 13: The human resource development ministry is trapped in a dilemma: how to warn students against seeking admissions to 88 deemed universities found unfit in a central revie... |
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Holes in cap on sops for doctors (14 March 03:01) |
| New Delhi, March 13: India's apex medical regulator has specified penalties for doctors who accept cash, gifts, travel or hospitality from pharmaceutical companies. But any incentive below R... |
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First to the gallows for 2611 RDX (14 March 03:01) |
| Mumbai, March 13: Neither Ajmal Kasab nor Hafiz Saeed but a black, odourless and deadly culprit is set to become the first to be exterminated by an Indian court in the 26/11 Mumbai attack ca... |
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Senapati Nagas back talks (14 March 03:01) |
| Imphal, March 13: Naga village chiefs of Manipur's Senapati district today echoed their counterparts in Ukhrul district while demanding the integration of all Naga-inhabited areas and extend... |
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Encounter theory (14 March 03:01) |
| Shillong, March 13: Contradictions in the inquest and post-mortem report have strengthened the fake encounter theory in the death of the Shillong jailbreak mastermind Full Moon Dhar. This wa... |
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Time to extend offensive (14 March 03:01) |
| Ranchi, March 13: Security forces in Jharkhand are getting ready to extend ongoing operations against Maoists to other areas amid central intelligence reports warning the state that rebels w... |
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Knights hitch dramatic ride (13 March 03:15) |
| Mumbai, March 12: The fat lady must be a night rider for she decided to sing late, and when she did, she sang "korbo, lorbo, jeetbo". |
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Ignored in India economist finds takers in Yale (13 March 03:15) |
| New Delhi, March 12: Yale, an Ivy League university in the US, may have gained a top economist as a faculty member because India's slumbering higher education system refuses to seek out tale... |
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