UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi appealed to the NDA and other Opposition parties to come together and collectively help the government pass the food security and land acquisition Bills.
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Madras High Court issues notice to BCCI & IPL Commissioner on pil seeking government takeover of cricket body in India.
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Vice President Hamid Ansari, who is on a four-day visit to Uzbekistan on Wednesday interacted with Uzbek President Islam Karimov in Tashkent.
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BJP sought to paint a dismal picture of UPA-II holding it responsible for the economic gloom and failure to give the country leadership while accusing it of diminishing the role of the Prime Minister.
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India on Wednesday successfully test fired the 290-km range BrahMos supersonic cruise missile from the Navy's latest guided missile frigate INS Tarkash off the coast of Goa.
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Rejecting the talk about two power centres and differences between them, UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday said there is "collective leadership" between her and Manmohan Singh and "we all stand by" the Prime Minister who will complete his term.
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India has sought access from the US to the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack convict David Headley and his accomplice Tahawwur Rana - both of whom were sentenced by a Chicago court after being found guilty of terrorism charges.
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Amid outcry over Ponzi schemes causing huge losses to common people, Finance Min P Chidambaram has said there are regulatory gaps and efforts are being made to frame a new law to oversee financial sector.
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Vice President Hamid Ansari will represent India at the golden jubilee African Union Summit in Addis Ababa later this week, joining around ten select partners of the grouping invited for the occasion.
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Shashi Kant Sharma will take over as the Comptroller and Auditor General on Thursday succeeding Vinod Rai who demitted office on Wednesday after an eventful five-and-a-half years during which the audit body was locked in confrontations with the govt.
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In the wake of falling global prices of precious metals, the govt further slashed the import tariff value of gold to USD 440 per ten grams, while it has been kept unchanged at USD 761 per kg for silver imports.
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India is prepared to increase bilateral contribution to Afghanistan's institution-building, training and equipment to the extent possible and would stand by that country during its critical period of transition, Prez Pranab Mukherjee said on Tuesday.
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Vice president Hamid Ansari on Tuesday arrived in Taskhkent on his 4 day official visit to Uzbekistan.
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India and China held very "specific" discussions without "shying away from anything", External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said in New Delhi on Tuesday.
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Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Tuesday said India and China have the "wisdom" to find mutually acceptable solution to the boundary problem and the two countries have not shied away from addressing the vexed issue.
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Sliding for the third day, the BSE benchmark Sensex on Wednesday fell by 49 points to close at a fresh one-week low, dragged down by a 6 per cent slump in L&T after its quarterly results failed to meet market expectations.
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Amid outcry over Ponzi schemes causing huge losses to common people, Finance Min P Chidambaram has said there are regulatory gaps and efforts are being made to frame a new law to oversee financial sector.
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Fair trade regulator Competition Commission is examining the over Rs 2,000-crore deal between leading carrier Jet Airways and Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Airways.
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ONGC Videsh Ltd, the overseas arm of state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp, has reported an over 44 percent jump in net profit for 2012-13 fiscal on the back of higher gas production.
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In the wake of falling global prices of precious metals, the govt further slashed the import tariff value of gold to USD 440 per ten grams, while it has been kept unchanged at USD 761 per kg for silver imports.
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Beleaguered former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's bail plea in the judges' detention case was today rejected by an anti-terrorism court, even as another court ordered his release in the 2007 Benazir Bhutto assassination case.
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US President Barack Obama on Tuesday assured full federal support to Oklahoma City, where many areas have been devastated following the monstrous tornado that hit the region, leaving at least 91 people dead.
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A fresh bout of fighting between army and rebel forces in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has left 19 dead, the government said on Tuesday, on the eve of a visit by UN chief Ban Ki-moon.
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Syria said on Tuesday it destroyed an Israeli vehicle that crossed the ceasefire line in the Golan Heights overnight, while the Israeli military said gunfire from Syria had hit an Israeli patrol, damaging a vehicle and prompting its troops to fire back.
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A wave of attacks killed at least 95 people in Shiite and Sunni areas of Iraq on Monday, officials said, pushing the death toll over the past week to more than 240 and extending one of the most sustained bouts of sectarian violence the country has seen in years.
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Over 90 people, including 20 children, were killed after a monstrous tornado ripped through the US city of Oklahoma, flattening entire neighbourhoods, crushing two elementary schools and turning the area into a war-zone.
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Ten police officers have been killed in Afghanistan, by a roadside bomb in the west of the country and during fighting in the south, officials said on Tuesday.
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While maintaining its earlier position on Syria, US has said the only outcome that is right for the people of west Asian country is the transition from the Assad era to a post-Assad era and strongly believed that Bashar al-Assad has no place in the country's future.
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The Sahara Group accused the BCCI of "betrayal of trust" while rejecting claims of the Board that the IPL team was to be blamed for the controversy surrounding the franchise fee, leading to Pune Warriors pulling out of the Twenty20 tournament.
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Rajasthan Royals beat Sunrisers Hyderabad by four wickets in the Pepsi IPL eliminator which was held in New Delhi on Wednesday.
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Bollywood actor Vindoo Randhawa, son of late wrestler-actor Dara Singh, has been arrested in connection with the Indian Premier League (IPL) spot-fixing scandal, the Mumbai police informed on Tuesday.
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Sports channel 'Sony Six' has bagged the broadcast rights for the UEFA EURO 2016 across the Indian subcontinent and will telecast live all the 51 matches of the tournament.
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday pulled up the BCCI for its "lackadaisical" approach in dealing with irregularities and spot-fixing in IPL and directed it to bring errant elements to book and restore glory of the gentleman's game.
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Chennai Super Kings progressed to the final of the sixth season of the Indian Premier League after defeating Mumbai Indians by 48 runs in the first Qualifier which was held in New Delhi on Tuesday.
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In another set back to Indian Premier League, the Sahara Group-owned Pune Warriors Indians on Tuesday withdrew from the event.
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Arunima Sinha, a former national level volleyball player who had lost one of her legs after being thrown off a moving train, has created history by becoming the first Indian amputee to scale Mount Everest.
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Beleaguered Rajasthan Royals on Tuesday terminated the contract of the three players including India pacer S Sreesanth arrested on charges of spot-fixing in the ongoing IPL besides filing an FIR against the tainted trio.
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Deepika Kumari played two finals but had to settle for silver in both the events as Indian archers bagged three medals, including a bronze, in the first Stage World Cup Archery tournament in Shanghai.
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi presented the UPA report card on fourth anniversary today as the United Progressive Alliance govt of Centre completed nine years in power on Wednesday.
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NIA on Wednesday filed a charge sheet against four people, suspected to be members of a right wing terror group, for allegedly planning, conspiring and triggering blasts in Malegaon in 2006 that left 37 people dead.
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India on Wednesday successfully test fired the 290-km range BrahMos supersonic cruise missile from the Navy's latest guided missile frigate INS Tarkash off the coast of Goa.
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Kerala CM Oommen Chandy has won the United Nation's Public Service Award for his Mass Contact Programme, which saw him directly engaging with people in the state to address their grievances.
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The Delhi High Court has ordered prosecution of actor Shyan Munshi and a ballistic expert for turning hostile in the sensational Jessica Lall murder case, an offence which entails maximum punishment of seven years imprisonment.
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The Group of Ministers, headed by Agri Min Sharad Pawar, is scheduled to hold its first meeting on Thursday to discuss the long-pending issue of restructuring of Centrally Sponsored Schemes (CSS).
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BJP sought to paint a dismal picture of UPA-II holding it responsible for the economic gloom and failure to give the country leadership while accusing it of diminishing the role of the Prime Minister.
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In a hush-hush pre-dawn operation, Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt was shifted to city's Yerwada jail on Wednesday from Mumbai's Arthur Road jail to undergo 42 months remaining sentence in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case.
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Defence Secretary Shashi Kant Sharma was on Tuesday named as the new Comptroller & Auditor General of India (CAG), the 62-year-old Sharma will be administered the oath of office by President Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday.
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Former Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala was granted interim bail on Tuesday for six weeks by the Delhi High Court for undergoing pacemaker implant surgery.
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Dentist Rajesh Talwar on Tuesay told special court in Ghaziabad that CBI did not carry out any dummy test at their Jalvayu Vihar residence where his daughter Aarushi and domestic servant Hemraj were killed five years ago.
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Appointment of teachers in primary schools on ad hoc basis by various state governments without following proper qualification criteria on Monday drew flak from the Supreme Court which said that such policies are spoiling the entire education system and future of the country.
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Shashi Kant Sharma will take over as the Comptroller and Auditor General on Thursday succeeding Vinod Rai who demitted office on Wednesday after an eventful five-and-a-half years.
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Girisha Hosanagara Nagarajegowda gave India its first medal at the Paralympic Games after bagging a silver in the Men's High Jump F42 event in London.
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