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of articles posted on 18-Aug-2007.
Underworld losing hold over Bollywood : Cops
Saturday, August 18, 2007 www.dnaindia.com
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Cities , Crime
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If the Mumbai cops are to be believed, the city's underworld no longer seem to have a sway over Bollywood. Top police officials maintained that Abu Salem's revelations during narco tests did not change the overall picture and the hold of the criminal underworld over Bollywood "has sort of ended."
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Underworld
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Police rubbishes Salem’s claims
Saturday, August 18, 2007 www.dnaindia.com
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Crime
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Some police officers have rubbished some of the claims made by Underworld don Abu Salem during the course of his narco-analysis test. The killing of Gulshan Kumar, which Salem claimed was ordered by Anees Ibrahim has been refuted by the police. Also in the Pradip Jain murder case Salem said that he had no idea and had not threatened Jain but the police have tape-recorded conversation in which Sale
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Narco-Analysis
Abu-Salem
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'Quattrocchi case dropped at govt behest' : CBI
Saturday, August 18, 2007 www.dnaindia.com
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Foreign Affairs
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The CBI have defended themselves in the Ottavio Quattrocchi extradition case, stating that the Indian law ministry had authorised the withdrawal of the extradition appeal. According to sources, after India lost the extradition appeal in a lower Argentine court, the case was transferred to the supreme court and was scheduled to be heard on September 7, however the directorate of prosecution, asked
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Ottavio-Quattrocchi
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Another building collapses : Mumbai
Saturday, August 18, 2007 www.rediff.com
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Cities
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A five-storeyed building located at the Lamington Road area of South Mumbai collapsed on Friday evening. According to sources in the fire brigade, four to five people are feared trapped in the debris.
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Building-Collapse
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Maharashtra's most wanted robber owns property worth Rs50 lakh
Saturday, August 18, 2007 www.dnaindia.com
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Cities
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The most wanted robber in Maharashtra, Suresh Shinde alias Surya, who was arrested by the Mumbai crime branch, may turn out to be the wealthiest dacoit as well. Shinde told the police that he owns a 10 acre plot in his village in Osmanabad district, besides he owns three wells and his own independent four kilometer-long water pipeline to supply water to his house and farms.
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Wealthy-Dacoit
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Sensex down 217 points
Saturday, August 18, 2007 timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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Stock market
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The Sensex day opened on Friday on a negative note, plunging more than 500 points. The Sensex recovered by about 362 points from the day’s low of 13,780 to close at 14,142. In the whole week, the most-tracked index lost 727 points or 4.89%.
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Sensex
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Marriage on but comrades work on a ‘separation’ plan
Saturday, August 18, 2007 www.indianexpress.com
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Politics
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The CPI-M Polit Bureau which is conducting it's two-day meeting is expected to criticise the UPA for the nuclear deal without inflicting any damages to the Government at the Centre. In response to CPI’s general secretary A B Bardhan's statement that the “honeymoon was over and the Left wouldn’t hesitate to file divorce papers,” the CPM’s Prakash Karat did some damage control stating “honeymoon m
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Polit-Bureau
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Special Prosecutor Nikam to keep silent on threats : '93 Blasts
Saturday, August 18, 2007 www.expressindia.com
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Legal
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The special public prosecutor in the Mumbai serial blast case, Ujwal Nikam said that he did not seek to receive any kind of sympathy from the public for the "trial he himself underwent while bringing to justice the undertrial elements involved in the 1993 carnage." Nikam said that he would prefer to "keep mum" on the kinds of "pressures and threats" he faced during the course of the prolonged tria
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Ujwal-Nikam
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US rules out renegotiation of nuclear deal : 123 Agreement
Saturday, August 18, 2007 www.expressindia.com
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Foreign Affairs
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The US has ruled out renegotiating the 123 Agreement with India in the light of demands that the agreement be worked out afresh. The US Under Secretary Nicholas Burns said :"We cannot renegotiate it because the (123) Agreement is done. Neither government wishes it to be renegotiated because it is now complete".
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123-Agreement
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'Opposition did havans for me to die' : PM
Saturday, August 18, 2007 www.expressindia.com
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Politics
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The Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said that he believed it was his destiny to be the Prime Minister. His comments came at a time when the former Defence Minister George Fernandes' created a stir with his statements that Singh had ‘betrayed’ the nation by his ‘continuous bluff’ on the Indo-US nuclear deal. The PM in an interview said: "They didn't even believe I would last
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Nuclear-Deal
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