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of articles posted on 30-Oct-2008.
The attackers were fellow commuters who got into fight with victim and his three friends over a wind
Thursday, October 30, 2008 www.mumbaimirror.com
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A migrant from Uttar Pradesh died after being beaten up on a local train by fellow commuters who allegedly humiliated him and his three friends on Tuesday afternoon after learning that they were 'bhaiyyas'.
The deceased is Dharam Dev, 25, a resident of Faizabad in Uttar Pradesh. Dev was working as a helper at a construction site and was residing at Vashi phata. On Tuesday, he was on his way to
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A strong earthquake struck villages in southwestern Pakistan before dawn today, killing at least 100
Thursday, October 30, 2008 www.mid-day.com
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Quetta: A strong earthquake struck villages in southwestern Pakistan before dawn today, killing at least 100 people, injuring scores more and destroying hundreds of homes, officials said.
The death toll was expected to rise as reports arrived from remote areas of Baluchistan province, an impoverished area bordering Afghanistan.
"It will be much more," Sohail ur Rahman, a top civilian official in
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Viswanathan Anand poses with his trophy after defending his title against runner-up and challenger V
Thursday, October 30, 2008 sports.timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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WASHINGTON/NEW DELHI: It's his third world chess title, but the relief at winning this one is palpable and the joy is unbridled. ''I'm just exhausted, man,'' Vishwanathan Anand told the Times of India, speaking on his cell phone from Bonn on the way back to his hotel to stash away his trophy before heading out for a Mexican dinner.
It's been so bad, he said, that he's not even followed th
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Lawyers say as the 25-year-old did not drop his gun at any point during the drama, the cops were rig
Thursday, October 30, 2008 www.mumbaimirror.com
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All Rahul Raj, the 25-year-old Patna youth who was shot dead by police on Monday, needed to do to avoid being killed was to drop his gun at some point of the drama. That’s what the law of private defence says. As per Sections 96 to 106 of the Indian Penal Code, the police can claim to be justified in shooting Raj dead as he posed ‘reasonable apprehension’ by not dropping his gun at all.
The law o
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Asin Thottumkal, who makes her B-Town debut with Aamir Khan's Ghajini come Decem-ber, planned to he
Thursday, October 30, 2008 www.mid-day.com
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Entertainment
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India: Asin Thottumkal, who makes her B-Town debut with Aamir Khan's Ghajini come Decem-ber, planned to head to Chennai on the day of her birthday (October 26) when she turned 23. But finally couldn't go ahead with her plan. Instead, she brought in her birthday with a cake-cutting with her father Joseph (who looks after her work) and her mother.
Asin, who is a sensation in the South, moved to
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Opener Gautam Gambhir, involved in a couple of skirmishes with Australian bowlers en route to his un
Thursday, October 30, 2008 cricket.timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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Sports - Cricket
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NEW DELHI: Opener Gautam Gambhir, involved in a couple of skirmishes with Australian bowlers en route to his unbeaten century, said the visitors r
esorted to pressure tactics as they were desperate to get him out.
Gambhir twice clashed with Shane Watson and once with Simon Katich but did not lose focus and went on to score 149 not out at close of the opening day of the third Test at Freozeshah K
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Hundreds of people of Kadamkuan locality here did not celebrate Diwali to protest the killing of loc
Thursday, October 30, 2008 www.mumbaimirror.com
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Patna: Hundreds of people of Kadamkuan locality here did not celebrate Diwali on Tuesday to protest the killing of local youth Rahul Raj in police firing in Mumbai a day before.
In Bara-Khurd village in Nalanda district too, it was a dark Diwali with the people protesting the death of one of their own boys, Pawan Kumar, in violence unleashed by the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena in Mumbai last week.
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Politicians, political analysts and the public have often compared Raj with his uncle their agenda
Thursday, October 30, 2008 www.mid-day.com
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Mumbai: A few days after Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) president Raj Thackeray was released on bail on October 22, one of the first things he did, apart from breaking into celebrations, was to ask a TV monitoring agency for footage of comparisons between him and his uncle, Shiv Sena boss Bal Thackeray.
Raj is influenced by Thackeray
Politicians, political analysts and the public have often co
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Mahindra & Mahindra reported a 20.7% decline in second quarter net profit at Rs 226.7 crore against
Thursday, October 30, 2008 timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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Business
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NEW DELHI: Mahindra & Mahindra on Wednesday reported a 20.7% decline in second quarter net profit at Rs 226.7 crore against Rs 285.9 crore in
the same period last fiscal, weighed down by costlier raw material and a foreign exchange loss. The utility vehicle and tractor major spent 24% more for steel, rubber and other raw materials in the quarter after commodity prices gained. Total raw material c
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Javed Akhtar, noted poet and lyricist, gives his views on today’s youth
Thursday, October 30, 2008 www.mumbaimirror.com
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I have great respect for the youth of today. I come into contact with them in all ways – through my stint as a judge for reality shows like Indian Idol, in college fests, through my son – and I admire them in many ways. In all honesty, I do feel that they are morally a better generation than the previous ones. For example, in all these reality shows I was part of, I noticed how sporting they all w
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