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Distancing itself from Gurunath Meiyappan after his name cropped up in IPL spot-fixing probe, Chennai Super Kings owner India Cements on Friday said he is neither owner, nor CEO or Team Principal of CSK and promised strict action against anyone found guil
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In a major step forward towards the implementation of the final award of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal (CWDT), 2007, the Centre on Friday notified a temporary Cauvery Water (Implementation of the Order of 2007) Scheme, 2013. Under the Scheme, the
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Police on Friday said they would probe the call details of two bookies held late last night for alleged betting in the ongoing IPL matches to ascertain possible connections with six of those already arrested from Chennai.Analysis of phone call details and
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India will issue at least 27,000 more Emergency Certificates to enable its citizens to leave Saudi Arabia for home after a new labour policy came into force in the Gulf Kingdom. The Indian Embassy in Riyadh has released a second list of verification and
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Gas price hike was being done "strictly in line with the formula proposed by Prime Minister appointed panel headed by his economic adviser C. Rangarajan" Strongly refuting allegations of favouring Reliance Industries, Oil Minister M. Veerappa Moily on F
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An American diplomat accidentally killed a pedestrian while driving in the Pakistani capital on Friday, the U.S. Embassy has said.The embassy said in a statement sent to reporters that the diplomat hit the pedestrian near a market in Islamabad. The pedest
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Air India spent over 85% of its Rs 6,000 crore equity infusion last year on clearing pending staff salaries, paying off aircraft loans and interest and its debt to oil companies and airport operators. Of the Rs 6,000 crore received in 2012-13, the airli
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Explosion shakes Afghan capital, sends smoke rising over downtown Kabul
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Finance Minister P Chidambaram, concerned over erosion of confidence among small investors, asked SEBI to regulate the market fearlessly, to protect their interests, and not to “bow” or “bend” before anyone.“Win confidence of small investors. It is when a
Sport
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Lewis Hamilton says he is enjoying himself in Formula One for the first time this year and wants to help Mercedes begin a new winning era in the sport. In an interview with DPA ahead of this weekend’s Monaco Grand Prix, the 28-year-old Briton says he is c
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The next manager of Manchester City will not be sacked if the club does not win silverware in his first season, but will be expected to pick up five trophies in five years. Those were the words of the club’s chief executive, Ferran Soriano, speaking to Br
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The winners of football’s Europa League will automatically qualify from 2015 for a Champions League place in the following season, UEFA decided on Friday. The new ruling, designed to make the Europa League more attractive to clubs, was ratified by the UEF
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UEFA President Michel Platini wants to establish a European sports police force to tackle betting, corruption, match-fixing, doping and hooliganism. Addressing the UEFA Congress in London on Friday, Platini said that his previous calls have been ignored
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Seven-time champion Rafael Nadal could face top-seeded Novak Djokovic in the French Open semifinals a year after they met to decide the title. Friday’s draw for the clay-court Grand Slam tournament placed Nadal and Djokovic on the same half of the field,
Opinion
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The parliamentary committees on the howitzer scam and the stock market scandal protected the powerful and failed to fix accountability. The same is true in the spectrum case The current political situation brings back memories of 1989. The Prime Minister
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By ordering the prosecution of two witnesses who turned hostile in the sensational Jessica Lal murder case, the Delhi High Court seems to have paved the way for a much needed corrective in India’s criminal justice delivery system. Too often, during the co
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Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan’s decision last week to impose a state of emergency in the three north-eastern states of Borno, Yobe, and Adamawa, followed by air attacks, shelling and the deployment of troops, marks a dramatic new turning point for
Business
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In a major relief to industrialist Vijay Mallya, the Karnataka High Court on Friday granted conditional permission to permitted the UB (Holdings) Ltd to sell 13, 612,591 shares of United Spirits Limited (USL) to the Diageo Plc as part of the USL-Diageo de
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Terming unauthorised raising of funds by various entities from the public as a critical area of concern, SEBI Chairman U K Sinha on Friday promised strict action against such schemes and sought continuing support from the government for the benefit of the
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World stocks stabilized on Friday, a day after global markets dropped sharply on concerns global growth is slowing and the Federal Reserve could start scaling back its monetary stimulus. Japan’s Nikkei, which had led the previous day’s losses with a plung
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Rising for the first time this week, the BSE benchmark Sensex on Friday rose by 30 points, boosted by a 5 per cent jump in Tata Steel and gains in fundamentally strong stocks led by consumer durables and metals.The 30-share index commenced the day on a st
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In the wake of the IPL spot-fixing scandal, Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industries (FICCI) has called for legalising sports betting in the country.“Despite several attempts to ban it, betting is continuing albeit in an underground way an
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Shantanu & Nikhil collaborate with Disney Channel to create a line for the channel’s contest winners Brand extensions aren’t a new phenomenon. While giving a large-scale corporate entity a fresh creative input, for those responsible for the latter i
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Goutam Ghose’s new film was screened recently in New Delhi to general enthusiasm According to Goutam Ghose, “A film is a director’s baby. The director doesn’t know until the film is screened whether the baby will become a sage or a robber.” At the recen
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Amar Chitra Katha launches an interactive story book app If your child spends his entire day playing Temple Run, Subway Surfer and Fruit Ninja on the iPad, he could also now spend some time getting to know our well-known epic. Amar Chitra Katha (ACK) is
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Indulge your horsy side with Rina Shah’s new Rinaldi Polo collection Hold your horses. Or actually don’t. Rina Shah’s new collection of accessories titled Rinaldi Polo allows you to let your horsy side rein over—literally. Large bags made of vintage s
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Building a home on a shoestring? Here are some small ideas that make big sense, says Lakshmi Krupa 1. Filler slab roofing Instead of building a full concrete roof, you can use filler slabs that could reduce up to 40 per cent of the overall cost of you
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May 23, 2013
A pistol-toting, invective-spewing businessman was the main character in a high drama that played out on Ponnamallee High Road on Wednesday. Petlee Peter followed the story as it played out. The Hindu photographers captured the scenes. It all began arou
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