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Robbers made away with close to Rs 24 lakh after holding bank staff and customers hostage.
Tuesday, November 18, 2008 www.indianexpress.com
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New Delhi: Armed robbers struck at State Bank of Bikaner and Jaipur in Samai Pur Badli area of Outer Delhi on Monday morning and made away with close to Rs 24 lakh after holding bank staff and customers hostage.
The incident comes exactly a week after four armed robbers took away close to Rs 5 lakh from a UCO Bank branch in Hauz Khas, South Delhi.
In both cases, incidentally, the bank guards wer
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What do you want with your Rs 2.98-cr bungalow a BMW car, two kilos of gold or a year's EMI paid fo
Tuesday, November 18, 2008 www.mid-day.com
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Pune: So? What do you want with your Rs 2.98-cr bungalow a BMW car, two kilos of gold or a year's EMI paid for by the builder? Kubix Realities, a Pune-based developer, is asking its customers to choose from one of these freebies on the purchase of 5,400 sq ft bungalow in Pune, that has four bedrooms, a servant's room, three parking lots, and a password protected personalised elevator. The door l
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BEST says it is incurring losses by charging 54p per unit from consumers while paying Rs 1.95 to sup
Tuesday, November 18, 2008 www.mumbaimirror.com
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Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport Undertaking (BEST) wants to charge an additional Rs 2 per unit from its 9.5 lakh consumers in the island city towards fuel adjustment charges (FAC).
The money will go towards reducing its annual Rs 500-odd crore loss.
BEST is paying Rs 1.95 per unit to its supplier Tata Power Company while it is recovering only 54 paise from consumers, officials said.
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Nine candidates from the fairer sex are contesting against Sheila Dikshit.
Tuesday, November 18, 2008 www.mid-day.com
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Delhi: Delhi has had a woman chief minister for the past 10 years. But it seems women in the chief minister's New Delhi constituency are not impressed. This time, nine candidates from the fairer sex are contesting against Sheila Dikshit.
None of them seem to stand a chance of winning against the Congress mascot, but they want to take this election as an opportunity to express their "displeasure"
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This year, too, it was no different with an unexpected weightage given to the verbal section
Monday, November 17, 2008 www.indianexpress.com
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Lucknow: The Common Admission Test (CAT) is known for its surprises. This year, too, it was no different with an unexpected weightage given to the verbal section, which tests a candidate’s language proficiency.
The test was held on Sunday in 230 centres across the country, including 17 in Lucknow and around 42 in Delhi.
For the authorities, the reason behind this move was to balance the ratio be
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Court cancels testimony of forensic scientist from Hyderabad who did the DNA fingerprinting in the i
Monday, November 17, 2008 www.mumbaimirror.com
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Seeking a forensic scientist’s help to salvage their case has sent the accused in the mysterious Raj Agrawal kidnapping and murder case of 2003 back to square one. After shelling out Rs 2,500 for train tickets of its witness, the strapped-for-cash accused were compelled to ask the Sewri fast-track court to cancel the witness testimony after he asked them to reimburse his airfare if they wanted to
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As more and more Hindi films touch upon the subject of homosexuality, Kaumudi Gurjar reports on the
Monday, November 17, 2008 www.mid-day.com
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Pune: The subject of homosexuality may be increasingly touched upon by Hindi filmmakers, the latest being Fashion, and be more readily accepted by the audience, but the community in the city is still apprehensive about coming out of the closet, fearing social banishment.
According to Bindumadhav Khire, who has been running the Samapatheek Trust an NGO that works for the rights of homosexuals and
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Woman alleges that he touched her chest and when she protested, he slapped her
Monday, November 17, 2008 www.mumbaimirror.com
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A Travelling Ticket Examiner (TTE) allegedly slapped a woman passenger in an express train on Saturday evening.
The TTE allegedly touched the woman’s chest and when she protested, slapped her. A complaint has been registered with the Palghar Government Railway Police who are yet to take action against the TTE.
A 45-year-old woman residing in Palghar, a teacher with a BMC school, boarded the Band
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Thousands of them, dressed as freedom fighters, political leaders and religious heads, marched in un
Saturday, November 15, 2008 www.thehindu.com
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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: For a change, it was children who brought the traffic along the arterial M.G. Road to a halt on Friday. Thousands of them, dressed as freedom fighters, political leaders and religious heads, marched in unison waving miniature national flags to add spice to this year’s Children’s Day festivities in the city.
The stretch from Secretariat to VJT Hall was closed to vehicular traff
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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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