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The District Police and Special Operations Group killed a militant, Hilal Maulvi, belonging to the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), during an early morning raid on his hideout in the congested Fatehkadal area on Thursday. The militant from Palhalan, Pattan, was one
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According to Mumbai police sources, Mr. Singh has told them that he shares ‘very good’ relations with Mr. Meiyappan The call records of Bollywood actor Vindoo Dara Singh — arrested here on Tuesday in connection with ongoing investigations into the IPL b
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'Multiplicity of institutions and regulators created regulatory overlaps’ In the wake of a spate of suicides following loss of life-savings in Ponzi schemes in West Bengal and other states, Finance Minister P. Chidambaram admitted that there were regula
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‘To say that the company was floated for betting is unfair’ While business partners of S. Sreesanth, the pacer who was arrested in the betting scam, defend their company’s objective to run a betting house as legitimate, they hasten to add that they did
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A bomb blast ripped through a bus carrying security personnel in Quetta city of southwest Pakistan on Thursday, killing 12 people and injuring more than 20, police officials said.The bomb, planted in an auto-rickshaw, went off as the bus carrying Balochis
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Rajasthan Royals skipper Rahul Dravid says dealing with the turmoil caused by the spot-fixing scandal, which has left his team’s reputation in tatters, has turned out to be as tough as handling “bereavement in some ways.”“I would not lie it was a very tou
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The rupee on Thursday declined by a hefty 37 paise to trade at a fresh six-month low of 55.83 in early trade at the Interbank Foreign Exchange market on sustained dollar demand and strengthening of the U.S. currency overseas.Forex dealers said besides dol
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The BSE benchmark Sensex on Thursday fell for the fourth consecutive day by losing nearly 85 points in early trade due to sustained selling by funds amid a weak trend in other Asian markets.The 30-share barometer, which had lost nearly 224 points in the p
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Aircraft reaches New Delhi for mandatory clearances Ignoring mounting protests from eco-groups and traditional fishermen, the State government has given the nod to Kerala Tourism to kick off the seaplane project aimed at linking remote tourist destinati
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Sunrisers Hyderabad lost to Royals in a thrilling low scoring match of the Pepsi Indian Premier League in New Delhi on Wednesday. Photos: S. Subramanium
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It seems that cricketer S. Sreesanth, arrested on charges of spot fixing last Thursday, was interested in betting many years before the IPL scandal broke out. S36 Sports and Entertainment Pvt. Ltd, the company in which he held 74 per cent stakes, had p
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Skeletons are fast tumbling out of the closet in the cricketing world. A bookie in Delhi Police custody has made a sensational revelation that he did not rig just Indian Premier League matches, but was also part of the conspiracy to fix spots and matches
Opinion
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The BRICS states can emerge as a mediator for a political process only if they view the crisis from the perspective of those fleeing the conflict Syrian refugees stalk Beirut’s commercial districts such as Hamra and Achrafieh. Shoeshine boys walk up and
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The Bharatiya Janata Party has done the expected in presenting a trenchant charge sheet coinciding with the commencement of the United Progressive Alliance’s final year in office. Like any Opposition worth its salt, the BJP loves a good fight and the Manm
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Awareness about genetic testing to know if a woman with a family history of breast cancer and ovarian cancer carries certain deleterious mutations in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes has surely increased following Angelina Jolie’s recent revelation of her bilate
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Google India has reduced the prices of its online business applications for small and medium businesses (SMBs), even as it looks to stem growing competition from players such as Zoho Corp, potentially sparking a price war between Google, Salesforce and oth
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Taking cognizance of the high volatility in gold prices with a downward bias in global markets, the government, on Wednesday, reduced the import tariff value of the yellow metal to $440 per 10 grams from $ 466 per 10 grams fixed a week ago.For silver, how
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Announces 1:2 bonus and Rs.18.50 per share dividend Larsen & Toubro Ltd. (L&T), on Wednesday, reported a 7 per cent decline in net profit at Rs.1,787.94 crore for the fourth quarter ended March 31, 2013, against Rs.1,920.41 crore in the year-ago
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The board of directors of Larsen & Toubro Ltd. (L&T) on Wednesday approved a proposal to transfer all assets and liabilities of its hydrocarbon business into a wholly-owned subsidiary, L&T Hydrocarbon Engineering Ltd. (LTHE), as this business
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Vinodh Rai demits office after changing the face of the office of Comptroller and Auditor General of India forever.
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Innovation toolkit? Yes that is what Rekha Shetty comes up with in her latest book that deconstructs corporate governance and success. Divya Kumar speaks to the author Rekha Shetty’s seventh book, Innovation Secrets of Indian CEOs will be launched in th
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For many students of medicine and dentistry, what was once their dream course soon turns into a nightmare because of one aspect of the system — the compulsory ‘break’.Under the ‘break system’, students who fail in the first year of MBBS and BDS, cannot att
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Has the recent spot-fixing scandal diminished our enthusiasm for the tournament? NXg asks a few of its readers… No, I don’t think such scandals will stop people from watching IPL. Every event has positives and negatives and it is up to us to take the po
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Seat-sharing talks inconclusive, new dates yet to be announced Counselling for postgraduate medical and dental seats for candidates who qualified in the Postgraduate Entrance Test (PGET) conducted by the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS
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Higher Education Minister R.V. Deshpande on Wednesday said that he would strive to get one world-class university and Indian Institute of Technology at Raichur and Dharwad with help from the Union government but remained noncommittal on what stand the Con
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