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18 hurt in clashes in Rae Bareli security increased (21 March 09:32) |
| At least 18 people were injured in a clash between members of two communities over the route of a religious procession in Parsadepur town in Rae Bareli. |
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Gulburg riots case CM Narendra Modi avoids SIT team (21 March 07:08) |
| Gujarat CM Narendra Modi was summoned by the Special Investigation Team in connection with the complaint filed by Zakia Jaffery, wife of slain ex-MP Eshan Jaffrey in the 2002 Gulburg society... |
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Rs 860 crore rail coach factory to be set up in West Bengal (21 March 06:56) |
| Railway minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday laid the foundation stone for a Rs 860-crore state-of-the-art EMU and Metro rail coach manufacturing unit here, promising it will be one of the bes... |
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Amar Singh praises Sonia Rahul (21 March 05:39) |
| Expelled SP leader Amar Singh has heaped praise on Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul, saying that the development of the country was supreme on their minds.
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Trade money across LoC being used to finance LeT in JK Police (21 March 04:05) |
| Hawala money trade across LoC came to light following the arrest of five people who allegedly distributed cash among terrorists associated with LeT in the Kashmir Valley, police said.
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India successfully test-fires BrahMos supersonic cruise missile (21 March 03:29) |
| India became the first country to have a 'maneuverable' supersonic cruise missile when it successfully test-fired the vertical-launch version of BrahMos from a warship off the Orissa coast. |
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Foreign university campuses to help India save $75 billion outflow (21 March 01:59) |
| Allowing foreign universities to set up their campuses in India will help the country save up to about Rs 34,500 crore foreign exchange annually that students spend on studying abroad, indus... |
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Gujarat riots Modi unlikely to appear before SIT today (21 March 01:48) |
| Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi is unlikely to appear on Sunday before the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) in connection with a 2002 Gujarat riots case, officia... |
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Agricultural scientist commits suicide (21 March 01:37) |
| An agricultural scientist allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself from the ceiling of a hotel on the outskirts of the city, police said on Sunday. |
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UP cabinet reshuffle Narain gets vocational edu portfolio (21 March 12:14) |
| In a minor reshuffle in the state cabinet, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati has changed the portfolio of agriculture minister Chaudhary Laxmi Narain, an official spokesman said in Luckn... |
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Indians in Afghanistan are soft targets Krishna (21 March 12:11) |
| External affairs minister SM Krishna says that Indian aid workers in Kabul have become "soft targets" for terrorists who want to derail India-Afghan relations.
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Five gunned down burnt alive in Bihar village (21 March 10:25) |
| Five people, including a former village body head, were burnt to death when a group of men attacked them and set their vehicle on fire in Bihar's Banka district, police said on Sunday. |
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Delhi HC awards life term to man for beating wife to death (21 March 10:19) |
| Can a 'belan', a wooden roller used for making chapatis, be an instrument of death? The Delhi High Court says "yes" while rejecting a man's plea who had attacked his wife with it leading to ... |
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India will report 16 million stroke cases a year by 2015 (21 March 03:45) |
| WHO estimates suggest that by 2050, 80% stroke cases in the world would occur in low and middle income countries mainly India and China. Those with high blood pressure, diabetes, high blood ... |
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Terror SMS from your cell phone number Possible (21 March 03:16) |
| Imagine getting a lewd SMS from a number you know, going to police with a complaint and then finding out that the supposed sender is clueless about what happened. Two such cases have been re... |
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India sees chance to disrupt Karachi Project (21 March 03:15) |
| With US promising access to Headley, India is fast preparing the chargesheet against him, hoping to extract information on the Karachi Project - a plot scripted by ISI and aimed at launching... |
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Narendra Modi keeps SIT guessing on date (21 March 03:08) |
| The SIT is yet to hear from the Gajarat CM on when exactly he will appear before it. The SIT had issued summons to him on March 11, to present himself for questioning in the week beginning S... |
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Not wanting to irk Didi PM puts off Malda visit (21 March 03:07) |
| Controversial statement from a Congress leader in West Bengal against railway minister Mamata Banerjee seems to have cast a shadow over Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to Malda. |
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Army loses two officers in JK (21 March 03:05) |
| Two Army officers lost their lives in two different accidents in Kangan near Srinagar and Leh in Ladakh since Friday, a defence spokesman said on Saturday. |
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India will report 16m stroke cases a year by 15 (21 March 03:03) |
| By 2015, India will report 1.6 million cases of stroke annually, at least one-third of whom will be disabled. |
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Railways ad goof-up Delhi in Pak Kolkata in Bay of Bengal (21 March 02:21) |
| In a major goof-up, an advertisement inserted in newspapers by the Eastern Railway showed Delhi in Pakistan and Kolkata in the Bay of Bengal. |
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PM Manmohan Singh condoles Koiralas death (21 March 02:15) |
| Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday called up Nepal's deputy prime minister Sujata Koirala to condole the death of her father, former Nepalese premier G P Koirala. |
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BJP gets a JNU product as its woman spokesparson (21 March 02:13) |
| A Free Thinker from JNU of the 1980s is not exactly the profile for a BJP spokesperson, going by the typical "Bharatiya Nari" trend so far, but Nirmala Sitharaman seems to have slipped into ... |
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India Bangladesh exchange drafts of Teesta water-sharing agreements (21 March 02:12) |
| Describing it as a significant move forward over sharing of Teesta waters, India and Bangladesh have exchanged drafts of interim agreement on Principles of Sharing of Teesta Waters during th... |
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Wrong railway ad an affront to Indias sovereign pride BJP (21 March 02:09) |
| Criticising the government for an advertisement of the railways in which Delhi has been depicted in a map as part of Pakistan, Opposition BJP on Saturday said this was an affront to the coun... |
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Wrong railway ad an affront to Indias sovereign pride BJP (21 March 02:09) |
| Criticising the government for an advertisement of the railways in which Delhi has been depicted in a map as part of Pakistan, Opposition BJP on Saturday said this was an affront to the coun... |
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P V Reddy to head Law Commission (21 March 02:07) |
| After eight months, the Law Commission will finally have a new chairperson in Justice PV Reddy, a retired judge of the Supreme Court. |
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Aiyars nomination misuse of power BJP (21 March 02:03) |
| BJP on Saturday reacted strongly to Congressman Mani Shankar Aiyar's nomination to the Rajya Sabha, terming it as misuse of power by the government and against the spirit of the Constitution... |
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Adding muscle Army begins hunt for heavy machine guns (21 March 01:59) |
| The Army has launched a hunt for heavy machine guns (HMGs), which can fire high-explosive, incendiary and armour-piercing rounds at a rapid clip, to further boost the high-volume firepower o... |
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Flood of appeals affecting quality of judgments SC (21 March 01:49) |
| The Supreme Court has admitted that deluge of appeals is affecting the quality of its judgments, which are abided by all and sundry as the law of the land. |
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N-bill Congress wants govt to hit pause button (21 March 01:42) |
| The suggestion of Congress leadership to hit the pause button on the Nuclear Liability Bill is being seen as yet another instance of the disconnect between the PMO's priorities and those of ... |
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Women win more than quotas (21 March 12:55) |
| Our male MPs might find this disturbing reading. Quotas for women don't always mean electing just the few for whom seats are reserved. Over time, reservation leads to more women winning elec... |
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ISI pressing Babbar Khalsa to revive terror (21 March 12:38) |
| A joint police team from Punjab and Delhi police busted a module of Babbar Khalsa International (BKI), an outfit backed by the ISI. The arrest confirms fears of a wave of terror attacks in r... |
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Govt thinking about reducing interest rate on crop loans Pawar (20 March 09:46) |
| The government is thinking about reducing one per cent of interest rate from the present five per cent on farmer crop loans upto Rs three lakh, Sharad Pawar said. |
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All is not well within BJP Shatrughan Sinha (20 March 08:57) |
| BJP Lok Sabha member Shatrughan Sinha said senior party leaders like Yashwant Sinha, C P Thakur and Shehnawaz Hussain have been ignored in party chief Gadkari's new team. |
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Pressure on CM Modi to appear before SIT in Gulburg riots case (20 March 05:52) |
| Gujarat CM Narendra Modi has not yet responded to the summons issued by the Special Investigation team to appear before it in connection with the 2002 Gulburg Society riots. |
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4 officials kidnapped released in Jharkhand (20 March 05:20) |
| Four senior government officials were kidnapped and later released by suspected Maoists in Jharkhand's Latehar district. |
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Lawyers of 2611 accused demand Kasab be brought to Pak (20 March 04:24) |
| Lawyers for LeT's operations commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi and six have demanded at an anti-terror court that Ajmal Kasab be brought from India to Pakistan to face trial. |
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Sack telecom minister A Raja demands Jayalalithaa (20 March 03:01) |
| AIADMK chief Jayalalithaa today demanded that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh sack telecom minister A Raja after the Supreme Court declined to interfere in Delhi High Court's findings against ... |
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Railways ad goof-up shows Delhi in Pakistan (20 March 02:34) |
| In a major goof-up, an advertisement inserted in newspapers by the Eastern Railway showed Delhi in Pakistan and Kolkata in the Bay of Bengal. |
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India can access Headley Chidambaram (20 March 02:26) |
| Home minister P Chidambaram said that India will be able to obtain access to US terror accused David Headley for questioning in a properly constituted judicial proceeding in which he is obli... |
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India can interrogate David Headley says US (20 March 02:07) |
| The US today said it will allow Indian investigators to interrogate David Headley, who has pleaded guilty to his involvement in the Mumbai terror attacks, but made it clear that he cannot be... |
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Gujarat riots Narendra Modi yet to respond to SIT summons (20 March 01:20) |
| Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi has not so far responded to the summons issued by the Special Investigation team to appear before it on Sunday in connection with the 2002 post-Godhra ri... |
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Woman set ablaze by SP MLA dies
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| A woman, who was allegedly set ablaze by a Samjawadi Party MLA in Maharajganj district, succumbed to injuries at a hospital in Gorakhpur, police said here on Saturday. |
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COMMON THREAD Another round in the nuclear argument (20 March 11:38) |
| A round-up of the issues of the week as reported in the media... |
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Can and able without reservations (20 March 11:27) |
| Women need more opportunities opened up to them in the political sphere, not patronage, says Meera Sanyal.
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Lust for luxe (20 March 10:54) |
| Forests between floors, Jeeves on call and purified air. TOI-Crest visits the super-luxury highrises and villas that are the new velvet overground. |
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Togadia released after trying to enter Kandhamal
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| VHP leader Praveen Togadia, who was arrested late Friday for attempting to enter Orissa's Kandhamal district, was released early Saturday
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Bow wow! Social petworking (20 March 10:19) |
| Hey mutt, you've got fan mail. Networked pets now have their own profile pages and post status updates. |
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Salwa Judum - menace or messiah (20 March 10:14) |
| In 2005, when Chhattisgarh decided to arm the tribal population against Maoists, the Salwa Judum - ‘peace march’ in Gondi dialect - was born, adding one more complicated twist to the Dic... |
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