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of articles posted on 3-Jan-2008.
Price hike not the only solution to face crude shock: Deora
Thursday, January 03, 2008 timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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Business
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Government on Thursday said fuel price hike was not the only solution for reducing the losses faced by public sector oil firms, and that other options were being discussed.
"A GoM on fuel prices will meet shortly and will consider the other options," Union Petroleum Minister Murli Deora told reporters
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ONGC, Hindujas to invest $10 bn in Iran
Thursday, January 03, 2008 timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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Business
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Flagship explorer Oil and Natural Gas Corporation and the Hinduja group plan to invest up to $10 billion for developing oil and gas fields in Iran. ONGC Videsh, ONGC’s overseas arm, and Hinduja group firm Ashok Leyland Project Services Ltd plan to sign an MoU with Iran’s Naftiran Intertrade Co and Petropars Ltd to this end
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AAI foresees more mid-air mess
Thursday, January 03, 2008 timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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Business
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India's already congested airports could get choked — at least till they are upgraded. Rising income levels and growing global interest among Indians are expected to result in a 21.6% annual growth in passenger traffic over the next five years. While rise in passenger volumes might be among the highest in the world, it is more than double the growth that Airports Authority of India had earlier pr
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Scotland Yard to assist in Bhutto death probe
Thursday, January 03, 2008 timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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Foreign Affairs
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Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf said on Wednesday that a Scotland Yard team from Britain would come "immediately" to Pakistan to help probe the assassination of Benazir Bhutto.
Musharraf's announcement in a televised address to the nation comes after intense controversy over the circumstances of the former premier's death in a gun and suicide bomb attack at an election rally on last Thursda
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Help violence-hit expats in Kenya, Modi urges PM
Thursday, January 03, 2008 timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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Foreign Affairs
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Expressing concern over attacks on Gujarati expatriates in Kenya, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi wrote a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh urging him to ensure their safety in that country.
Modi has asked Dr. Manmohan Singh to take up the issue with the Kenyan Government to ensure safety of Gujaratis in Kenya
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Mumbai molestation victim's recount horror
Thursday, January 03, 2008 timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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Crime
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Recounting the tale of horror, one of the victims of the New Year Day molestation case here described how the hooligans pinched and groped her, while the woman's husband narrated how he felt when around 50 people were trying to get at his wife and cousin.
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Goa CM heads for Delhi for talks to resolve SEZ row
Thursday, January 03, 2008 timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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Nations
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Goa Chief Minister Digamber Kamat on Thursday left for New Delhi to hold talks with the Congress leadership to seek help to end the special economic zone (SEZ) row in the state.
A day after the Goa government announced scrapping of all the 15 SEZ projects in the state, including three already notified, the Centre questioned the decision
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Six killed in Andhra temple stampede at Vijaywada
Thursday, January 03, 2008 timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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Cities
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Five women and a child were killed and 18 injured in a stampede at a bathing ghat near Kanakdurga temple in Andhra Pradesh on Thursday.
Thousands of devotees had thronged the Durga ghat on the occasion of the last day of 'Bhavani Deeksha'. As they pushed each other to move ahead some of them fell, resulting in the stampede, police said.
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New drug for Hepatitis B virus
Thursday, January 03, 2008 timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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Health
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Two international studies on a new drug, telbivudine, have produced potentially good news for Hepatitis B patients, showing that it suppresses the virus that damages the liver faster and better than other treatments.
Chronically infected people are at high risk of death from cirrhosis of the liver and liver cancer, diseases that kill about one million people a year, the World Health Organisati
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Sublime Laxman lights up Sydney
Thursday, January 03, 2008 www.hindustantimes.com
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Sports - Cricket
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Sydney and VVS Laxman go together. It was one of those days when everything went right for the middle-order batsman as he painted his way to a majestic hundred on Day 2 of the 2nd Test. India wobbled after his heroics, but managed to position themselves at 216/3 at Stumps. The day clearly belonged to the wristy Hyderabadi as he brought up his fifth century against the Aussies. At close, Ganguly wa
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