For eight youngsters of Maoist-affected Lalgarh region of West Bengal it was a dream outing in this metropolis. They not only met top officials of the state government, including the chief minister, but also went around the ground of the city's leading soccer side Mohun Bagan.

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Lalgarh's budding footballers spend day out in Kolkata

Superstar Akshay Kumar starrer 'Khatta Meetha' has had a sweet-sour effect on the box office as the Priyadarshan helmed comedy has made single-screen audiences burst into guffaws but left the multiplex gentry asking for more.

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'Khatta Meetha' goes sweet at single screens, sour at multiplexes

India and Britain are set to infuse new energy in their relationship when British Prime Minister David Cameron comes to the country on his maiden visit Tuesday which could have a 500 million pounds deal for 60 Hawk jets and expanded business ties as its highlights.

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Business, defence deals top British PM's 'special' visit to India

Former Gujarat minister Amit Shah, under arrest after being charged for alleged involvement in the 2005 killing of Sohrabudding Sheikh, Monday marshalled top lawyer Ram Jethmalani to plead his bail case even as a former police official, who is also an accused, turned approver in the case.

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Jethmalani to plead Shah's case, former cop turns approver

The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M)'s West Bengal unit, so far considered soft on expelled party leader Somnath Chatterjee, Monday lashed out against the former Lok Sabha speaker for 'trying to malign the party' and dragging late patriarch Jyoti Basu into a controversy.

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West Bengal CPI-M unit lashes out against Somnath over autobiography

New Delhi, July 26 (IANS) Keen to put the government on the mat on the price rise, the opposition, including the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Left parties, have decided to give notice for an adjournment motion on the issue Tuesday, the second day of the monsoon session of parliament.

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BJP, Left to give notices for adjournment motion

Two days before the Hockey India (HI) elections, Olympian Pargat Singh, a candidate for the president's post, launched another scathing attack on Indian Olympic Association (IOA) president Suresh Kalmadi, saying that he wants a 'rubber stamp' chief to run the national sport.

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Kalmadi wants 'rubber stamp' hockey chief, says Pargat

Several Muslim organisations Friday demanded an end to the trade and military relations between India and Israel as they held protest demonstration in the capital against Israel's assault May 30 on an aid ship en route to Gaza, leading to the death of nine activists.

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India should snap all ties with Israel, demand Muslim groups

West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has decided to skip the two-day Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) politburo meeting in New Delhi, citing the state's law and order situation after three people were killed in Birbhum district, party leaders said Friday.

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Buddhadeb to skip CPI-M politburo meet, focus on law and order

Alaying doubts over the fate of South Korean steel company Posco's memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Orissa government to build a steel plant to be lapsed next month, South Korean former Finance Minister and Chairman of Presidential Committee for the G20 Summit hoped that India will renew its license further.

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Korea hopes India would renew POSCO Steel MOU in Orissa

India Friday said listed companies must have 25 percent minimum public holding to broadbase the shareholding pattern and bring more transparency in capital markets – a move that is expected to see a deluge of primary offers worth nearly $45 billion.

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India wants listed firms to have 25 percent minimum public holding

Effluent treatment facilities set up with central and state subsidies across the length of the Golden Industrial Corridor from Ahmedabad to Vapi in south Gujarat bordering Maharashtra do not conform to pollution norms in Gujarat, an NGO said Friday.

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'Pollution norms flouted in effluent treatment facilities'

Mohammad Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone surviving Pakistani gunman, who was sentenced to death for his role in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, has filed an appeal in the Bombay High Court challenging the verdict and sought a legal aid panel to fight his case.

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Kasab files appeal in Bombay High Court against death sentence

In an apparent attempt to incite public sentiments, a top leader of the Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD), the front face of the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), has urged political leaders of Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) to refrain from indulging in petty political issues and continue the 'struggle' for winning Kashmir back from India.

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Banned JuD back to its 'free Kashmir from India' demagoguery

For the first time, Left leaders are betraying their jitters, saying in public what the comrades have been introspecting and analysing in their politburo and other inner party forums – that West Bengal's ruling Left Front is facing a 'life and death battle' in the state whose first electoral test comes with the local elections on May 30.

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'Left faces life and death battle in West Bengal'

India on Monday gave a strong call for reforming the international economic order, urging G-15 summit members in Iranian capital Tehran to work closely for a “balanced” outcome in the Doha Round of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) negotiations.isiting Indian External Affairs Minister S. M. Krishna said: “We need to continue reform of the international financial institutions to make them more…

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At G-15, India calls for reforming international economic order

At least 35 special police officers (SPOs) and civilians were killed when Maoist rebels detonated a landmine targeting a bus in which they were travelling in a forested stretch in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada district, the same region where they slaughtered 76 security personnel over a month ago.

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Maoists blast civilian bus in Chhattisgarh, 35 dead

A string of attacks by Maoists at their will on state police, paramilitary forces and civilians around the 40,000 sq km Bastar region has led to a strong sense of insecurity among the people of Chhattisgarh who fear the rebels have established a firm grip in the forested interiors.

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'Who rules Chhattisgarh's Bastar, certainly not the government'

Child actor Darsheel Safary, who earned kudos for his portrayal of a dyslexic child in Aamir Khan's 'Taare Zameen Par', has failed to attract footfalls with his latest outing 'Bumm Bumm Bole'. Experts blame it on the lack of star power.

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The Supreme Court Monday stayed a Patna High Court order upholding the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security's (BCAS) decision to withdraw security clearance licence granted to an agency run by retired armymen engaged in ground handling operations at Patna and other airports.

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Apex court restrains Patna court order against airport agency