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Six dead in West Bengal road accident

Six people were killed when the car in which they were travelling collided head-on with a lorry coming from the opposite direction in West Bengal's Hooghly district, police said early on Sunday.

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Team Anna meets to decide future strategy

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Key members of Team Anna are meeting on Sunday to discuss the group's future strategy, including their alliance with yoga guru Baba Ramdev, to fight corruption and press for a strong anti-graft ombuds

UN monitors should be from neutral countries, like BRICS: Syria

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Syria has said it was ready to facilitate UN monitors, but stressed that a majority of them should be from 'neutral countries' like BRICS, which also includes India.

Syria also stressed that while it

Leopard 'evicted' from Mumbai school after 20 hours

A leopard, which had sneaked into a private school two days ago was trapped and evicted early on Sunday after a 20-hour operation by the forest department and police, an official here said.

The full-

Chinese firm plans aggressive auto export

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Chinese carmaker Dongfeng Motor expects its auto export to grow about five times to reach 300,000 units in 2016, the company announced.

By 2016, one in every ten Dongfeng vehicles sold will be shippe

Over 140 who fled Pakistan prison back in jail

As many as 143 of the 384 inmates who fled a prison in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province following an audacious Taliban attack are back in jail, an official said.

Provincial Home Secretary Azam

India calls for rational demarcation of pirate-infested waters

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India has called for 'clear demarcation' of the pirate-infested waters of the Indian Ocean to warn merchant vessels and the navies of the threat and to prevent incidents such as the killing of two Ind

Don't want bail, want to come out clean: A Raja

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Jailed former communications minister Andimuthu Raja is not very keen on getting out on bail because he would prefer to walk out of prison with 'clean hands' in the 2G spectrum allotment controversy t

Rooney won't play Euro 2012, Olympics: FA

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The English Football Association (FA) has assured Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson that his striker Wayne Rooney will not play in the Olympic Games and Euro 2012.

With Rooney also likely to be

'Dirty Picture' TV premiere stalled despite cuts, Bollywood furious

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The much-anticipated television premiere of Vidya Balan starrer The Dirty Picture was stalled at the last moment Sunday, despite 59 cuts in the film to make it suitable for television viewing. While f

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I want to begin with a little story that was told to me by a leading executive at Aptech. He was exercising in a gym with a lot of younger people.

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