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THANK YOU, 3M (04 July 02:19) |
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Crack tactics, tackle Maoists (04 July 02:19) |
| Wherever I have confronted terrorism and insurgency, from early encounters with Naxalism in Assam, through the multiple insurgencies in that state, then, in Kashmir, Punjab and, eventually, ... |
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Devil in lack of detail (04 July 02:19) |
| New Delhi, July 3: Don't put the entire blame on the Victorian mindset of Lord Macaulay for the harassment and humiliation heaped on Indian homosexuals for a century and a half. |
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Bengal milestones in budget (04 July 02:19) |
| New Delhi, July 3: Smiling at the enemy, Mamata Banerjee today used her railway budget to salt the Left's wounds with development promises for Lalgarh, Nandigram and Singur and benefits for ... |
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Mamataji, I smell jealousy (04 July 02:19) |
| I hate to say this but Mamataji's budget appears to me to be inspired by a complex kind of jealousy towards what I achieved in my years as rail minister. |
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Didi wins over Ranchi too (04 July 02:19) |
| Ranchi, July 3: Jharkhand is happy, almost relieved, that railway minister Mamata Banerjee hasn't disappointed the state this time, having announced three new trains, new tracks and station ... |
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Left horror, Part 3 (02 July 01:49) |
| Calcutta, July 1: Bengal today handed another resounding victory to the Opposition, battering the Left Front in the civic elections and extending the trend of the panchayat and parliamentary... |
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Cast trouble: fear of Jaya hits CM film (02 July 01:49) |
| The screenplay and dialogue are written by none less than the chief minister himself, but Tamil stars ' on the rise and on the wane ' are just not willin'. |
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'Height' of terror fight (02 July 01:49) |
| Chandigarh, July 1: Punjab police have put together a vehicle-mounted bullet-proof cabin that can be raised to a height of up to three stories to take on terrorists perched in vantage positi... |
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Petrol up Rs 4 in slick push (02 July 01:49) |
| July 1: Petrol prices have been raised by over Rs 4 a litre and diesel by Rs 2 on the eve of the budget session and without being taken up in the cabinet. |
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Memorial? Bad timing (02 July 01:49) |
| New Delhi, July 1: As Prime Minister, P.V. Narasimha Rao facilitated economic reforms and a talent that rose, against the run of play and expectation, to assume high office himself. Without ... |
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Gay sex legalised (02 July 01:49) |
| July 1: Petrol prices have been raised by over Rs 4 a litre and diesel by Rs 2 on the eve of the budget session and without being taken up in the cabinet. |
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Circle full, battle half (30 June 03:52) |
| Kantapahari, June 29: Praveen Kumar looked at his watch, took off his bullet-proof jacket and set aside his AK 47. |
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Feedback frenzy for 'honest' debate (30 June 03:52) |
| New Delhi, June 29: The BJP is getting feedback from local units, national leaders and even people outside politics to set the theme for its crucial end-August chintan baithak. |
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Madoff faces 150 yrs in jail (30 June 03:52) |
| New York, June 29: A federal judge sentenced Bernard L. Madoff to 150 years in prison today for operating a huge Ponzi scheme that devastated thousands of people, calling his crimes "extrao... |
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Force in haste burns fingers (30 June 03:52) |
| Ramgarh, June 29: An ill-prepared posse that set out to hunt down Maoists ran into a hail of bullets and was forced to fall back today ' the first instance of a tactical retreat by central f... |
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Tamil healing touch for Lanka (30 June 03:52) |
| New Delhi, June 29: If symbolism can heal wounds, this one should rank top. |
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Cabinet secy not impressed (30 June 03:52) |
| Ranchi, June 29: Union cabinet secretary K.M. Chandrashekhar today noted with concern Jharkhand's vulnerable security situation vis-a-vis the Maoists and pointed to the state's failure in en... |
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Out of sight: army of youths (29 June 01:43) |
| Ramgarh, June 28: A whole generation of tribal youths is not in sight in villages the security forces have been through in Lalgarh, prompting fears that some could have taken shelter in fore... |
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Nanny reveals drug secrets of Jackson (29 June 01:43) |
| London, June 28: The former nanny of Michael Jackson's three children has told how she regularly had to pump the pop star's stomach to remove dangerous cocktails of drugs. |
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What's an MLA minus security? Nothing (29 June 01:43) |
| New Delhi, June 28: You can do without guns, but not men with guns. |
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Cops torment, Maoists profit (29 June 01:43) |
| Lalgarh, June 28: As the central forces sanitise an area and move on, state police are facing charges that they are repeating the brutality which had provoked the Lalgarh agitation in the fi... |
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Religious disquiet on gay law (29 June 01:43) |
| New Delhi, July 28: An attempt to decriminalise homosexuality has set up for the UPA government a sensitive test reminiscent of the Shah Bano case. |
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Jaguar on prowl, no regrets (29 June 01:43) |
| Mumbai, June 28: The Jaguar and the Land Rover ' two British marques that Ratan Tata bought from Ford Motors last year for $2.3 billion before a brutal recession gripped the world economy ' ... |
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Maoists mock and melt (28 June 02:48) |
| Ramgarh, June 27: A fresh bootmark on the black door someone tried to kick open. They were here. |
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TMZ website far ahead in reporting news of death (28 June 02:48) |
| New York, June 27: TMZ, the carnivorous celebrity news website, is accustomed to beating other media outlets on the stories that shape the entertainment world. |
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Autopsy fails to nail cause of death (28 June 02:48) |
| Los Angeles, June 27 (Reuters): The body of Michael Jackson has been released to his family, a Los Angeles county coroner's spokesman said today after an autopsy failed to immediately determ... |
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Rebels signal tactical retreat (28 June 02:48) |
| Goaltore, June 27: The Maoists tonight scrambled to save face after the soft surrender of "stronghold" Ramgarh but appeared to be preparing the ground for a "temporary" withdrawal from the e... |
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Rush to avoid Mamata-CPM rail collision (28 June 02:48) |
| New Delhi, June 27: The government is in a fix with the CPM wishing to continue to head the parliamentary standing committee on railways. |
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Battle for Kadashole (27 June 02:37) |
| A rusty wired-up can covered with newsprint sits in the middle of the road on the edge of the Kadashole forest. Battalion commandant Pankaj skirts around it and instructs his men to follow s... |
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CPM backs Buddha on ban, with riders (27 June 02:37) |
| Calcutta, June 26: The CPM state secretariat today "endorsed" the chief minister's decision to enforce the central ban on Maoists, ending the ambiguity over the party stand. |
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No holidays for leaders: Poll (27 June 02:37) |
| Paris, June 26: As the global economic crisis heads into the summer vacation season, westerners have some advice for their political leaders: Keep on working. |
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He broke barriers in India but not all (27 June 02:37) |
| Michael Jackson, who died of suspected cardiac arrest on Thursday, discovered India in 1996 but some Indians used to go the extra mile to not discover him. |
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Blast alert in Assam (27 June 02:37) |
| Kokrajhar, June 26: The Ranjan Daimary-led faction of the National Democratic Front of Boroland is planning to carry out bomb attacks in several places in Assam in a day or two, intelligence... |
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Border forces pulled back (27 June 02:37) |
| Chakulia, June 26: Police and paramilitary forces patrolling the Jharkhand-Bengal border along Dhalbhumgarh and Ghatshila were pulled back last evening, sparking fresh fear among residents o... |
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Onus on state, says PC (27 June 02:37) |
| Bhubaneswar, June 26: Union home minister P. Chidambaram today said that combating Naxalites was the primary duty of the state police and the government should commit more forces to fight Le... |
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A ghost town with masked faces (26 June 02:07) |
| A mud hut and a tin shed, with a dish antenna and TV set that look rather incongruous in these surroundings. This is the only office of the People's Committee Against Police Atrocities in th... |
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Under the sky a month after Aila (26 June 02:07) |
| Calcutta, June 25: The cyclone had swamped their land and blown away their homes. A month on, thousands still live under the sky in Aila-swept Sunderbans. |
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Calculator tells the bald future (26 June 02:07) |
| London, June 25: A pioneering new computer programme that predicts if and when men will go bald is being offered to British men. |
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Against odds, plan to make exam optional (26 June 02:07) |
| New Delhi, June 25: Human resource development minister Kapil Sibal has mooted afresh a proposal to make Class X board examinations optional to reduce pressure on students and parents. |
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Infy's loss is identity card's gain (26 June 02:07) |
| New Delhi, June 25: Nandan Nilekani, the 54-year-old co- chairman of Infosys, has decided to step down from the board of the software giant and take charge of the world's largest biometric I... |
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Cabinet secy scanner on pending projects (26 June 02:07) |
| Ranchi, June 25: The Union Cabinet secretary and a battery of senior officials from New Delhi will be visiting Jharkhand on Sunday to review ongoing development programmes and the prevailing... |
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PC tour marred by Maoist blasts (26 June 02:07) |
| Bhubaneswar, June 25: In the backdrop of a sudden spurt in Maoist attacks in Orissa's Koraput, Union home minister P. Chidambaram (in picture) today reviewed the situation in the district a... |
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Guns, at every twist and turn (25 June 02:09) |
| Goaltore, June 24: A nearly finished building for a 100-bed hospital at Kewakole on the road to this town will get its first occupants shortly ' they will not be doctors, nurses or patients ... |
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Saudis train to sell lingerie (25 June 02:09) |
| Riyadh, June 24 (AP): Using colourful bras donated by employees at Victoria's Secret, a group of 26 mostly Saudi women completed the first course of its kind to be offered in the kingdom ' h... |
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Undefended, Sarabjit fate in Zardari hands (25 June 02:09) |
| Chandigarh/Islamabad, June 24: Former Pakistan rights minister Ansar Burney has decided to approach President Asif Ali Zardari for mercy after the country's top court threw out death-row con... |
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Abracadabra: the task force (25 June 02:09) |
| Calcutta, June 24: A great mystery that perplexed the Bengal cabinet has been solved. |
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Rain scare for breadbasket (25 June 02:09) |
| New Delhi, June 24: Weather scientists today asked the country to brace itself for a below-normal monsoon, raising the possibility that India's breadbasket states in the northwest could face... |
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Hurdles stall N-E projects (25 June 02:09) |
| Shillong, June 24: The new DoNER minister, B.K. Handique, today admitted that "procedural problems" were the culprit for the slow project sanctioning method in the Northeast, where funds wor... |
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Terror tag spurs rebel feelers (25 June 02:09) |
| Jamshedpur, June 24: The Centre's decision to declare CPI(Maoist) a terrorist organisation, coupled with stepped up police patrolling along Jharkhand's border with Bengal where an anti-rebel... |
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