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Delhi Police has sent investigators to four cities in the country to trace the money trail in the IPL spot-fixing case. According to sources, teams have been sent to Ahmedabad, Kolkata, Mumabi and Hyderabad in this connection. Sreesanth and the other
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Reopen all ancient trade routes, former BJP MP urges Prime Minister On the eve of Chinese Premier Li Keqiang’s visit to India, a former BJP MP from Arunachal Pradesh has said that the Indian government should allow people from the State to visit China o
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Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Saturday expanded his Cabinet with the induction of 28 Ministers. Twenty were made Cabinet Ministers and eight Ministers of State. They were administered oath of office by Governor H.R.Bhardwaj at a ceremony at
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Two passenger trains heading in opposite directions collided during rush hour in southwestern Connecticut, injuring 60 people, five of them critically, and closing the key corridor between New York and Boston. A Metro-North train heading from New Haven
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A Junior Commissioned Officer was killed while a soldier was injured as Army, on Saturday, foiled an infiltration bid by militants in Macchil sector along the Line of Control in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district. Troops of 56 Rashtriya Rifles noticed som
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A Pakistani judge investigating the murder of Indian death row convict Sarabjit Singh has appealed to Indian nationals having information about the matter to file written submissions with relevant documents within seven days. Justice Syed Mazahar Ali Ak
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Sachin Tendulkar’s first visit to this serene, much-admired cricket destination coincides with Adam Gilchrist’s last.Fittingly, when Kings XI Punjab hosts Mumbai Indians in its last league match on Saturday, the occasion could have been marked by some fire
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The Shiv Sena on Friday expressed dismay over spot-fixing allegations, saying cricket, since the advent of the Indian Premier League, no longer remained “a gentleman’s game” and had instead become “a gambling den that was destroying a generation.”“The gam
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Chandigarh-born Indian-American legal luminary Srikanth ‘Sri’ Srinivasan has moved a step closer to making history as the first South Asian judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the American capital. Mr. Srinivasan (46) who in August last year was name
Sport
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When David Beckham broke a bone in his left foot before the 2002 World Cup, Tony Blair, then the British prime minister, interrupted a cabinet meeting to express his concern about England’s suddenly uncertain chances. Tabloid newspapers ran photos of Beckh
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Despite being one of the world’s best 800m runners, Tintu Luka came across some surprise hurdles at home a few days ago as she got ready for a new season. Though she was invited to run in the recent Asian Grand Prix meets in Thailand and Sri Lanka, she
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Neither the men’s nor women’s Indian teams made a firm impact in the league stage of the Asia Pacific under-21 beach volleyball championship, which commenced on the sands of Marina here on Friday. The No.1 Indian women’s duo of R. Deepika and S. Eshwari
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The weeks leading towards Saturday’s much-awaited big match in the southern peninsula — Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Chennai Super Kings — was all about getting tickets. And it was not a surprise that the booking portal www.bookmyshow.com closed its onl
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Amit Singh, according to reports a proxy for bookies and nabbed by the Delhi Police in the Pepsi-IPL VI spot-fixing manipulation of a few matches, tried his utmost to get into the Rajasthan Royals team. But the franchise did not consider the Gujarat seame
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With no long-term planning and policy reforms, the country’s burgeoning waste management problem is set to become a health and environmental crisis In 2012, for the first time in its history, India saw nationwide public protests from the northernmost Ja
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Suspicions and apprehensions cannot be the basis on which a government can take decisions or make appointments. But with the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Sushma Swaraj, and the Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha, Arun Jaitley, submi
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The world’s longest-running ethnic conflict took a new turn on May 8, when about 2,000 guerrillas belonging to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) started to cross the south-eastern Turkish border into Qandil in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan Region. The move
Business
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Sun TV Network has reported a rise in its standalone revenues at Rs. 1,817.62 crore for the year ended March 31, 2013, against Rs. 1,757.37 crore in the previous financial year. The net profit after tax stood at Rs. 683.34 crore against Rs. 694.65 crore.
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NIIT Technologies posted a 22 per cent rise in its net profit at Rs.56.6 crore for the January-March 2013 quarter against Rs.46.2 crore in the year-ago period.“We experienced sequential growth in each quarter of the year, driven by all round expansion in
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‘The company is operating a culture of corporate irresponsibility’ British MPs have branded Google ‘devious, calculating and unethical’, accusing the search giant of deliberately subverting its motto, ‘don’t be evil’, in order to pay less tax. Infuriate
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‘Suitable environment should be created for nurturing this nascent and yet highly potential fuel source’ Land is one of the major challenges that would have to be handled strategically before India could tap its resources of shale gas, Chairman and Mana
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Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of Canara Bank R. K. Dubey, on Friday, said a forensic audit had revealed several irregularities in the balance sheet of Deccan Chronicle Holdings Pvt. Ltd. (DCHL).The bank has loaned about Rs. 360 crore to the company,
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Why we need to revamp our education system. “Why is Std XII so imperative in determining my future?,” asks a perplexed student who has just completed the Herculean task of giving her Std XII board exams: me! This is the time when the private coaching ins
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Neyveli Santhanagopalan’s music has a continuing appeal, as was seen at his recent concert for Hamsavinodhini. The audience had filled up the hall in spite of the IPL matches. And, as is his wont, Santhanagoplan had applied thought in planning his cutcher
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We need multi-use public spaces in our cities, spaces that borrow the idea of the village banyan tree In early April, just around the time when the summer heat begins to get oppressive, a close group of college friends from architecture school and I cam
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Two exhibitions in the city offer handicrafts from across the country Artistic terracotta murals, vases and bowls with twirls of poetry, along with beautiful dhokra work pieces from Odisha, and other exhibits set the tone for festive gift shopping at tw
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Put on your trekking boots and let this summer be a memorable one. Summers are meant to be enjoyed outdoors. So pack your backpacks and get set to follow the trails along the trekking paradises in the country. Western Ghats Western Ghats is one amon
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Highlights of the week in pictures — the odd images you might have missed and some lasting moments our editors think you should see.
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A humorous take on the news this week.
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Sunrisers Hyderabad brightened their chances of entering the semifinals of Indian Premier League by beating Rajasthan Royals by 23 runs in a crucial tie at Rajiv Gandhi international stadium in Hyderabad.
May 17, 2013
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May 17, 2013
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