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NEW DELHI: Congress president Sonia Gandhi has been moved out of the ICU in a US hospital where she underwent a surgery.

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NEW DELHI: The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report on the 2010 Commonwealth Games, which was tabled in the Parliament on Friday, indicts the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) for the appointment of Suresh Kalmadi as the Organising Committee Chief. The report also indicts Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit for mis-spending in the Games’s preparation.

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Mumbai, India – The BSE benchmark Sensex plunged by over 387 points to hit a nearly 14-month low on major sell-off by funds, driven by melting global markets amid fears over the US economy moving towards recession.

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MUMBAI: Tata group chairman Ratan Tata has rejected allegations of giving bribe to former telecom minister A Raja to secure 2G spectrum allocation and said charges being made in the court proceedings were an attempt at diversion.

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NEW DELHI: Unfazed by the allegations of irregularities in Commonwealth Games projects, Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit on Wednesday asserted she or her government has “not done anything wrong” and said everything was done keeping in mind the “national interest and prestige”.

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BIKANER: A MiG-21 fighter aircraft on Tuesday crashed soon after taking off from Naal airfield in Rajasthan’s Bikaner district killing the pilot.
“The pilot ejected but died due to injuries sustained by him,” defence spokesperson S D Goswami said.

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New Delhi: An Indian version of Slut Walk was enacted in New Delhi on July 31, 2011 during a protest against sexual harassment of women. Hundreds of women and men marched to join the country’s first “Slut Walk”, a protest against the alarming rise in sexual assault cases and to curb the growing sense of insecurity among women.

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New Delhi: One morning last month, Dubai resident Raj Kanodia fished out a used bedsheet from the laundry basket while his wife was away. He then swiped his mouth with a cotton bud to collect saliva, sealed it in an envelope, and couriered it to a Hyderabad laboratory along with the used bed linen.

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Delhi: Delhi designers have found a new muse in Pakistan foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar after Michelle Obama and Carla Bruni. While the opposition is crying hoarse over her meeting Kashmiri separatists after landing in the Capital, the fash frat in Delhi is going gaga over Hina Rabbani Khar’s graceful sense of dressing.
Click here for more pictures of Hina Khar

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Tummalapalle in Andhra Pradesh could have one of the largest uranium reserves in the world. Recent studies have indicated that it could have a reserve of 1.5 lakh tonnes of the scarce material. Secretary, Department of Atomic Energy, and Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission Srikumar Banerjee said: “Studies have already shown that the area had a confirmed reserve of 49,000 tonnes and recent surveys indicated that this figure could go up even three folds.”

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Mumbai: NRI was trying to sneak in goods worth Rs 10 lakh that included jewellery, toys, CDs and expensive lingerie. In the last few month, many celebrities have been caught at the international airport with undeclared goods.

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Dubai: UAE has officially proposed to open a diplomatic mission in Kerala within the next year. Indian authorities said officials yesterday handed a letter to the chief minister of Kerala, Oommen Chandy, expressing their “willingness” to open a consulate in the state, which is home to millions of Indian expatriates in the Gulf.

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Mumbai: Three explosions have taken place in Mumbai on Wednesday evening – two in South Mumbai at Opera House and in Zaveri Bazar and one at Dadar West, in central Mumbai. The Home Ministry has confirmed a terrorist attack and Mumbai is on high alert.

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New Delhi: About 400 years ago, a bright spark came up with the idea to sheath his sword in a piece of sheep’s intestine. And the condom was born. Since then, male birth control has mostly been tinkering with this initial design. Until now.

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“You can’t travel alone at 2 am and then say Delhi is not safe,” said Delhi’s top cop BK Gupta. It is hardly surprising that a city, where the police chief issues such statements, is infamous as the Rape Capital of India. But not everyone is accepting things the way they are now.
Related: India gears up for maiden ‘Slut Walk’

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Armed commandos cordoned off a medieval Hindu temple in south India on Monday after gold coins and precious stones worth billions of dollars were found in its vaults. The chief minister of southern Kerala state, Oommen Chandy, said local authorities needed to take precautions and had set up a three-tier security ring involving 100 armed police.

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An online game on corruption developed by students has become a huge hit on the campus; creators say the idea is not to preach. The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Powai campus is ‘high on corruption’ these days. Students greet each other saying, “Table ke neeche kya hai?”

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Mumbai: The profile reads like many others: Vegetarian Hindu seeks Gujarati-speaking non-smoker to be life partner. Interests include traveling and old Hindi songs. But unlike most men on Indian remarriage sites, this bachelor is 73.

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Maryland: Sukanya Roy, a 14-year-old girl from Pennsylvania won the 2011 US National Spelling Bee by spelling the word cymotrichous.

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Bangalore: Two actresses from the city were arrested by the narcotics wing of the Central Crime Branch for soliciting customers for prostitution.

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Mumbai: Cops say the man duped people of lakhs of rupees by promising sex with models, college girls and never answering their calls again; he is also suspected to be a porn producer.

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Chennai: The Super Kings are the emperors of India. In the battlefield called Chepauk, Dhoni’s army ambushed the Royal Challengers to defend the citadel they had clinched in Mumbai last year.

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All of 25, Cyril P Joy did his father proud when he landed a job in Delhi. The nurse at Apollo Hospitals, who died in the Faridabad air crash, had already paid Rs 2 lakh to an agency for a nursing job in Kuwait. Related: Tragic end for nurse waiting to work in Kuwait

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Faridabad: Cyril Joy was waiting for a visa to take up the job of a male nurse in Kuwait, but in a cruel turn of events, ended up as one of the victims of the air ambulance crash here. The 25-year-old youth from Kerala had joined duty in the afternoon shift yesterday at Apollo Hospital in Delhi where he was working for the past five years.

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New Delhi: Indian regulators have ordered television channels not to broadcast “overtly sexual” deodorant commercials that use females models in risque storylines, news reports said Thursday.

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