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Brokers are set to gain from the slump in the real estate market.
Tuesday, November 18, 2008 www.mid-day.com
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Mumbai: Brokers are set to gain from the slump in the real estate market. With builders struggling to sell property even with lucrative schemes such as a flat free on the purchase of another, free stamp duty and heavy discounts, they have doubled the commission to brokers.
Builders are now offering brokers a commission of four to five per cent from the earlier one or two per cent on the sale of e
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Tarakundi has only two houses but they can still exercise their right to vote.
Monday, November 17, 2008 ibnlive.in.com
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Tarkundi (Poonch): Samim Bir lives barely 50 metres away from the border fence at the Line of Control (LoC).
His village, Tarkundi, has only two houses and six voters. Despite that, a polling station has been set up for the families at the LoC to allow them to exercise their right to vote.
"For six people we have a polling station. This is called democracy," says Tarkundi sarpanch Lal Hussain.
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PM Manmohan Singh has ruled out possibility of early Lok Sabha elections
Monday, November 17, 2008 www.mumbaimirror.com
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New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has ruled out possibility of early Lok Sabha elections because of global economic crisis. Elections will be held on schedule, he said.
All options open on the question of reduction of petroleum products' prices, PM said. If inflation comes down, then there will be scope for manoeuvrability both in more aggressive use of monetary and fiscal policies on th
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Jing Hua Wu, who gunned down Sid Agrawal, the Indian American CEO of a semi-conductor company arrest
Monday, November 17, 2008 www.mumbaimirror.com
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Foreign Affairs
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Silicon Valley, California: Jing Hua Wu, who gunned down Sid Agrawal, the Indian American CEO of a semi-conductor company, along with two of his top officials Friday afternoon, was arrested by the Santa Clara Police Saturday.
Jing, 47, now facing triple homicide charge, was arrested by the police Saturday morning outside a business in Mountain View, the neighbourhood where the assailant apparentl
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The estranged husband of an independent candidate for the upcoming Delhi Assembly elections was arre
Friday, November 14, 2008 www.thehindu.com
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NEW DELHI: The estranged husband of an independent candidate for the upcoming Delhi Assembly elections was arrested at Shakarpur in the Capital’s trans-Yamuna area on Thursday for allegedly inducing her to withdraw her candidature against monetary considerations.
Yashoda Rani is contesting the Laxmi Nagar seat. On Thursday afternoon, her husband Kalka Prasad, who had got separated from her eight
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Careful diabetes care can reduce your risk of serious - even life-threatening - complications.
Friday, November 14, 2008 www.dnaindia.com
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Health
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Members of your diabetes care team - doctor, diabetes nurse educator and dietician, for example - will help you learn the basics of diabetes care and offer support and encouragement along the way. But it's up to you to manage your condition. After all, no one has a greater stake in your health than you.
Learn all you can about diabetes. Make healthy eating and physical activity part of your dail
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Sudden mad rush for free English primers at a sleepy TISS conference should give Raj Thackeray food
Friday, November 14, 2008 www.mumbaimirror.com
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Fittingly, the strongest rebuttal to Raj Thackeray's efforts at linguistic and social re-engineering should come at Tata Institute of Social Sciences.
On Thursday, in the midst of sleep-inducing International Conference on Libraries, a casual announcement broke the torpor of the afternoon. A representative of the publishing house Orient BlackSwan announced that they were giving away free guides
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Death of four healthy pachyderms in Mysore's Nanjangud district still remains a mystery
Thursday, November 13, 2008 www.dnaindia.com
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Cities
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BANGALORE: Death of four healthy pachyderms in Mysore's Nanjangud district still remains a mystery despite speculations over cyanide being the cause of death. It would take another two weeks for the Pandora's Box to open.
Preliminary qualitative test reports reveal traces of organs of phosphor components (OPC), hydrocyanic acid and components of cyanate were found in the stomach, liver, heart a
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Obama said the US-India strategic relationship is a “very important partnership” and the administrat
Thursday, November 13, 2008 www.mumbaimirror.com
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New Delhi: US President-elect Barack Obama on Wednesday telephoned Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and said the US-India strategic relationship is a “very important partnership” and the administration wants to work together with India on all important global issues. The call was placed this morning as earlier attempts to establish contact between the two sides failed to materialise because the Prime
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The state government has decided that all flyovers in the state which are within 30 meter radius of
Thursday, November 13, 2008 www.mumbaimirror.com
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This one is for Lata Mangeshkar. The state government has decided that all flyovers in the state which are within 30 meter radius of residential buildings must have a wall of six foot high sound barriers. This will drastically reduce noise pollution, and hopefully address Lata Mangeshkar's concerns about the proposed Peddar Road flyover. The singer had famously threatened to leave Mumbai if the f
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