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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.
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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
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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.
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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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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.
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full story |
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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.
view
full story |
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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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full story |
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Deaths in Hindu festival stampede
At least six pilgrims
have been killed and 20 others injured in a stampede
at a Hindu religious festival in eastern India, officials
have said. The incident occured on Friday during
a procession outside the temple of God Jagannath in
Orissa state's Puri district, Pramod Mohanty, a senior
medical officer, said.
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Talwar sent to 14-day judicial custody
The
special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court
has sent Dr Rajesh Talwar to 14 days of judicial custody.
CBI has been granted the permission to conduct a lie-detector
test on Talwar on Friday. The CBI told the court that
the first lie detector test was not successful, therefore,
they want another test.
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Lalu, a hit on the YouTube
A clip showing Union
Railways Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav translating a Hindi
poem into English while presenting the railway budget
in February has become a huge hit on YouTube. During
the speech available on the popular video sharing website,
Yadav recites a Hindi poem in which he seeks to convey
his achievements in the Ministry of Railways. The clip
dated 26 February 2008 has attracted over 3.5 lakh hits
from across the globe.
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Two Haryana cops rape woman in police station
Haryana: Haryana police
on Tuesday dismissed from services the two constables
accused of raping a women in a Rohtak police station.
The woman had committed suicide by consuming poison
outside Haryana police headquarters in Panchkula on
Monday.
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Farmer protest turn bloody in Karnataka
Karnataka Chief Minister
B S Yeddyurappa called for an emergency meeting after
farmer protests in Dharwad turned violent. The police
first used teargas and lathicharge to dispell them but
later used real bullets which hit some farmers who were
seriously wounded. The farmers had stages a ‘rasta
roko’ for over four hours and also tried to loot
fertislisers shops in the city. The farmers were protesting
the lack of seeds and fertilisers Tension is rising
in the area and additional forces have been rushed as
a precautionary measure.
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Narco test for Krishna?
A day after the Central
Bureau of Investigation (CBI) confirmed that Arushi's
murder was pre-meditated and deliberate, the CBI took
prime suspect -- Compounder Krishna to an undisclosed
location reportedly for a narco-analysis test. This
move comes in after the CBI conducted the second lie
detector test on Krishna in connection with the gruesome
murder of Arushi and domestic help Hemraj on Tuesday
(June 10).
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Gurjars protesters block rail traffic;
security beefed up
Karwadi: Gurjar protesters
blocked rail traffic by squatting on tracks in violence-hit
Dausa district as authorities today tightened security
in the affected areas by deploying additional contingents
of para- military forces. The stand off between the
Gurjar protesters and the state government on the issue
of postmortem on bodies of agitation victims in Karwadi
ended as their relatives decided to cremate them following
conduct of autopsy on Monday.
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CBI takes over Aarushi case, visits Talwar's
house
The Aarushi murder
case has been taken over by the Central Bureau of Investigation
(CBI). The Central investigating agency registered FIR
in Aarushi murder case on Sunday. It has formed a 25-member
team led by Joint Director Arun Kumar to probe Aarushi
murder case. The CBI team has reached residence of Dr
Rajesh Talwar in Sector 21 in Noida.
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Fuel prices hiked: Petrol up by Rs 5,
diesel by Rs 3
New Delhi: After weeks
of deliberations, Petroleum Minister Murli Deora on
Wednesday announced that petrol prices will be hiked
by Rs 5 per litre while diesel prices will be raised
by Rs 3 per litre. The increase in prices would be effective
from midnight tonight.
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Gurjars plan a massive 'NCR roko' agitation
on May 29
New Delhi: The Gurjar
impasse over the Scheduled Tribe status demand had its
echo in many states where members of the community expressed
solidarity with the agitators in Rajasthan even as the
National Capital Region was put on high alert ahead
of Thursday's proposed 'complete NCR roko'.
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Aarushi murder case: Minister, NHRC blame
police
New Delhi: Union Women
and Child Development Minister Renuka Chowdhury on Tuesday
criticised the Uttar Pradesh police for 'character assassination'
of teenaged murder victim Aarushi Talwar, while a child
rights panel sought explanation for their 'objectionable'
statements. "We take cognisance of the language
used (by the Noida police) to describe events following
Aarushi's murder," Chowdhury told reporters.
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Tata Motors gas leak: 125 persons admitted
to hospital
Jamshedpur: At least
125 people, including three photo journalists, were
hospitalised on Tuesday with breathing problem following
leakage of chlorine gas from a water filter plant of
Tata Motors in the town, a top district administration
official said.
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Hijacked ship with 10 Indian crew traced
in Somalia
Mumbai:
The hijacked Jordanian cargo ship with 10 Indians among
its crew was traced three days after it was commandeered
by heavily armed Somali pirates off the Somalian coast.
As per the reports received today, the ship 'MV Victoria'
was located at Garacad, about 600 kms north of Somalian
capital Moghadishu. Further details are awaited and
it was immediately not known if any ransom demand was
made.
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NOIDA twin murder: Parents
under scanner
New
Delhi: In a bid to lay hand on the real culprit of the
mysterious twin-murder of Arushi (14) and Hemraj (45),
servant of her house, Noida police have taken the dentist
parents Rajesh and Nupur Talwar to a secluded place
for questioning. The contradicting and fluctuating statements
given by Arushi's parents to police have brought them
under the scanner. Though even after 96-hours of the
murder the investigating agencies, including UP police
special task force, are nowhere near solving the case.
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India, Pak 'satisfied' over composite dialogue
Islamabad: India and Pakistan
on Tuesday expressed satisfaction over the progress
of peace talks after discussing issues ranging from
Jammu and Kashmir to terrorism in their first major
bilateral engagement since a civilian government took
office in March. The two countries said in a joint statement
that their foreign secretaries had reviewed the fourth
round of the composite dialogue that took place in 2007
and decided to carry forward the four-year-old peace
process.
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HuJI hand suspected in
Jaipur blasts
Banned
Harkat-ul-Jehadi Islami (HuJI), operating from Bangladesh,
is believed to be behind the serial blasts that rocked
the tourist city of Jaipur on Tuesday evening, killing
nearly 50 people besides injuring several others. Though
baffled by the attack as Jaipur was not on the terror
radar, sources said the tell-tale signs of the blasts
indicate HuJI's hand.
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Home Ministry sounds
nation-wide alert
The
Union Home Ministry on Tuesday night sounded a nation-wide
alert following the serial bomb blasts in Jaipur killing
over two dozen and injuring scores. ''The Home
Ministry is keeping a close watch on the situation
in the Pink City,'' a senior MHA official said, adding
that an alert has been sounded in all states.
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I heard a big sound,
says eyewitness
Severed limbs, mangled heaps
of cycle rickshaws, bicycles and smashed windescreens
of cars turned the crowded markets crammed with peak-time
shoppers in the walled part of the Pink City into
a virtual war zone minutes after serial bomb blasts
were set off by terrorists.
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