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of articles posted on 13-Aug-2007.
'Sexual Harassment' at the workplace
Monday, August 13, 2007 www.dnaindia.com
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Business , Social Issues
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Malvika Mehta (name changed) a former director of a leading consulting firm has lodged a sexual harassment complaint with the police on July 16 against eight employees of the firm. The main charge of outraging her modesty is against the head of financial advisory services and senior partner of the firm, she has also named six other senior management members of abetting the harassment and creating
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Sexual-Harassment
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Kids injured while playing with 'gelatin sticks' : Nashik
Monday, August 13, 2007 www.dnaindia.com
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Cities
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Four children sustained injuries including two who were seriously injured while 'playing; with a gelatin detonator. The detonator exploded at a primary school in Teesgaon village in Dindori taluka as the four children, aged around 10 years,attached a wire to the gelatin stick and joined its other end to a battery, unaware of what they were doing.
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Gelatin-Sticks
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NASA weighs repair to shuttle Endeavour
Monday, August 13, 2007 www.expressindia.com
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Technology
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NASA has begun the examination of a gash in the spacecraft Endeavour's heat shield before deciding if it needs repair, and has said it will add three days to the shuttle's mission to continue work on the International Space Station.
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NASA
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'Gen not trying to grab power' : Pak Ambassador
Monday, August 13, 2007 www.expressindia.com
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Foreign Affairs , Politics
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The Pakistani ambassador to the United States, Mahmud Ali Durrani has rubbished reports stating that the President Pervez Musharraf had considered the imposition of Emergency as a means to grab power. Durrani said that the move was in order to defeat extremism and terrorism and was constitutionally mandated.
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Terrorism
Emergency
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14-yr-old pregnant girl burnt alive : Nashik
Monday, August 13, 2007 www.dnaindia.com
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Cities , Crime
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A 14-year old girl, who was pregnant, was set afire by four miscreants in Bhusawal. She succumbed to her injuries at the Jalgaon Civil Hospital on Sunday. The girl was having an affair with one of the accused and when she became pregnant, she asked him to marry her. However he refused to do so and on Aug 10 he set her afire with the help of two others.
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Burns
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BJP warns against implementing Srikrishna report
Monday, August 13, 2007 www.dnaindia.com
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Politics
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The BJP toed the line of the Shiv Sena, by issuing a warning of launching an agitation if government reopened the 1992-93 riot cases in the name of implementing the Srikrishna Commission report.The BJP president Nitin Gadkari said,"If government implements Srikrishna Commission report to appease the minorities and harass the innocent people the BJP will take to streets."
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Srikrishna-Commission
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NCP ministers take their grievances to Pawar
Monday, August 13, 2007 www.dnaindia.com
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Politics
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The NCP ministers who are irked with Congress reports highlighting their administrative failures have taken up the matter with the party president Sharad Pawar. The ministers have mainly complained about the the “distorted projection” of their departments in reports on power crisis and malnutrition.
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Sharad-Pawar
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‘Homesickness led to suicide’ : IIT-B
Monday, August 13, 2007 www.dnaindia.com
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Education
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Another student of the prestigious IIT-Bombay has committed suicide thus putting the country’s premier institute under the scanner. According to the police, the reason behind the suicide of 27-year-old Balkrishna Gupta, a PhD (Chemistry) student was homesickness.
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Suicide
IIT-B
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10-month old baby's death leads to ransacking of hospital
Monday, August 13, 2007 www.dnaindia.com
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Health
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A mob of about 300 protestors vandalised Vivek Maternity and Nursing Home after a 10-month old baby died due to alleged medical negligence. The police officials said that according to the doctors and the hospital authorities, the infant died due to natural causes, and they are denying any charges of medical negligence.
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Medical-Negligence
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Kashmir ammo depot fire rages, villagers asked not to return
Monday, August 13, 2007 www.rediff.com
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Cities
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An explosion triggered a fire at the army's biggest field ordnance depot in the Kashmir valley resulting in over 20,000 villagers having to flee from the Anantnag's Khundroo region. Shells and shrapnel were sent flying in all directions due to intermittent explosions which continued to rock the Khandroo ammunition depot,thus endangering the lives of the people.
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Explosions
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