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The troubled life and times of Rahul Mahajan
New Delhi: His life is the kind of spectacle that television thrives on. One reason perhaps is that Rahul Mahajan understands television very well.
Not so long ago, when he was still an unknown entity, Rahul Mahajan was a television producer for Doordarshan but the spotlight turned on him, in May 2006 when he lost his father to an alleged fratricide and even before that faded in public memory, came another shocker.

1984 Sikh carnage was wrong: Rahul
Amritsar, November 18 Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi condemned the anti-Sikh violence in the aftermath of Indira Gandhi’s assassination, saying “whatever happened was wrong”.
“The 1984 riots were wrong. I strongly condemn the carnage,” Rahul said at a news conference in response to a question on Operation Bluestar and the riots. “There is no truth that there is hatred among Sikhs against the Congress party.

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Indian Navy sinks pirate vessel off Somali coast
Gulf of Aden, Nov 19: Within days of preventing the hijack of an Indian merchant vessel, Indian Navy’s warship INS Tabar, after exchange of fire, sank a pirate vessel off the Somali coast.
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FM calls for price cuts, CEOs divided
NEW DELHI: Finance minister P Chidambaram on Tuesday called on sectors like housing, automobiles, hotels and airlines to cut prices to boost demand
and beat the slowdown.
The auto sector ruled this out as unrealistic in the current situation, while airlines — looking for a lifeline from the government — seemed more receptive to the suggestion. Real estate companies, however, remained noncommittal.

Season of pinkslips? Here are the firms hiring in India
NEW DELHI: Citigroup on Tuesday decided to cut 53,000 more jobs, triggering fears of more layoffs across industries. A lowdown on some sectors and companies which are on a hiring spree (TOI) TOI, however, has decided to be contrarian. Instead of only writing about pink slips, it hunted out companies that are actually hiring. Here are the sectors that are hiring:
 
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