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of articles posted on 23-Oct-2008.
MNS president Raj Thackeray rejected state security after news reached him that it had been downgrad
Thursday, October 23, 2008 timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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Politics
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MUMBAI: MNS president Raj Thackeray rejected state security after news reached him that it had been downgraded from ‘Z’ to ‘Y’ category.
"I can protect myself. I don't need government security,'' said Thackeray after being informed about the government's decision to scale down his security cover.
Raj has so far had Z security with four carbine-wielding policemen and a personal officer moving
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The Delhi Commission for Women has threatened to ban Fashion as Kangana Ranaut’s character is based
Thursday, October 23, 2008 www.mumbaimirror.com
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Entertainment
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Madhur Bhandarkar's upcoming film Fashion has run into trouble. The Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) has written to the Censor Board Chief Sharmila Tagore that they want to see the film before it hits the theatres on October 29 or else it should be banned with immediate effect.
Madhur Bhandarkar, co-producer of Fashion with UTV has received a copy of a letter signed by the DCW's Chairperson Bar
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Three vehicles including a jeep, autorickshaw and a motorcycle were set on fire by unknown persons a
Thursday, October 23, 2008 www.mid-day.com
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Cities
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Pune: Three vehicles including a jeep, autorickshaw and a motorcycle were set on fire by unknown persons at Uttam Nagar area in Kothrud after midnight last night.
The Kothrud police have file a case of arson after a complaint was lodged by Santosh Wable, a resident of Maruti Dhavde Vasti in the area.
PSI Avinash Bhosale is probing the case.
In another incident at 3.15 am today, a chemical lade
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Americans were holding their noses at the term as the country celebrated its 200th Independence Day
Thursday, October 23, 2008 timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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Foreign Affairs
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WASHINGTON: In 1976, at the height of Mrs Indira Gandhi’s Emergency rule and Soviet power in Moscow (with which New Delhi was closely allied), the
word socialist was added to the Preamble of the Indian Constitution by way of the 42nd amendment act to signal social and economic equality, and the absence of discrimination.
In distant United States, Americans were holding their noses at the term as
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Six-legged house offers a nomadic lifestyle, and could escape from rising sea levels by simply ‘walk
Thursday, October 23, 2008 www.mumbaimirror.com
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Technology
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A ‘portable’ home, which can stroll at a walking pace across all terrains, may help deal with problems like floods and unfriendly neighbours in the future.
The prototype ‘Walking House’ uses six hydraulic legs that give it mobility. It has a living room, kitchen, toilet, bed, and even a wood stove. A mainframe computer helps control the house’s legs.
The designers say that the prototype house –
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AC Milan says it is close to signing David Beckham on loan from January.
Thursday, October 23, 2008 www.mid-day.com
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Sports - Soccer
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Milan: AC Milan says it is close to signing David Beckham on loan from January.
Milan vice president Adriano Galliani says the club is discussing the deal with Beckham's agent. The former England captain would stay with the Serie A club until the end of the season.
Beckham's season with the Los Angeles Galaxy of Major League soccer is nearly finished. He is eager to join another club so he can
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In India, this is the worst October in the 29 years that the 30-share benchmark Sensex has seen.
Thursday, October 23, 2008 timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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Business
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CHENNAI: Banks have gone bust, jobs have been cut and stock markets are taking a pounding the world over. And in India, this is the worst October in the 29 years that the 30-share benchmark Sensex has seen.
In sheer percentage terms, this is the worst fall the Sensex has seen in a less than 30-day period — from 13,006 to 10,170 points, a drop of 21%.
According to available data, this is the wors
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It was an early Diwali in Dadar as news of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray’s b
Thursday, October 23, 2008 www.mumbaimirror.com
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Cities
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It was an early Diwali in Dadar as news of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray’s bail order spread from Kalyan court causing scores of MNS supporters to gather outside his residence, Krishna Kunj at Shivaji Park.
Amidst the revelry of fire crackers, Nashik dhol, dance and fluttering MNS flags that started from Dadar station to his house, Thackeray made his way home late Wednesd
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Yuvraj Singh-led India Blue take on S Badrinath's India Red in the opener of the NKP Salve Challeng
Thursday, October 23, 2008 www.mid-day.com
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Sports - Cricket
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CUTTACK: Emerging and fringe Indian players will battle it out to impress the national selectors as Yuvraj Singh-led India Blue take on S Badrinath's India Red in the opener of the NKP Salve Challenger Trophy today.
The tournament, which sets the ball rolling for the gruelling Ranji Trophy season ahead, would be more than the competition between the teams as individuals would be vying to make th
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Yuvraj-Singh
India
S-Badrinath
NKP
Ranji
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The recent convulsions in the international financial markets have provoked an unseemly amount of gl
Thursday, October 23, 2008 timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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Columns
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The recent convulsions in the international financial markets have provoked an unseemly amount of gloating on the part of many in the developing
world. That presidents Fidel Castro and Mohammed Ahmedinejad should pronounce themselves vindicated by the crisis in global capitalism is hardly surprising, since capitalism has over the years been so strongly identified with America that both see the pr
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