Lucknow, Feb 2 (IANS) Shahzad Ahmad alias Pappu, an Indian Mujahideen (IM) terrorist who was arrested in Uttar Pradesh's Azamgarh district for his involvement in the September 2008 serial bomb blasts in Delhi, had planned terror strikes in Madhya Pradesh and at educational institutions in parts of the country, an official said Tuesday.

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Shahzad Ahmad had planned to target educational institutes

Rohtak (Haryana), Feb 2 (IANS) Two days after a village 'panchayat' (council) near this Haryana town directed a married couple to start living as 'brother and sister' as they were from the same 'gotra' (sub-caste), a higher panchayat Monday decided to intervene to resolve the issue amicably.

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Ghaziabad, Feb 1 (IANS) A 20-year-old maid of a childless couple agreed to become the surrogate mother to their child. But, after giving birth to the baby, the maid had a change of heart and refused to hand over the infant and was allegedly beaten by the couple.

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Maid lends womb to childless couple, refuses to give baby

New Delhi, Feb 1 (IANS) With less than 10 days to go for Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh's final call on the introduction of genetically modified brinjal, leading scientist Pushp Bhargava, who was also the Supreme Court nominee to the country's biotech regulator, Monday warned that if Bt Brinjal is allowed it would be the 'single largest disaster'.

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New Delhi, Feb 1 (IANS) Chief secretaries from states were impressed by the scientific output of the central government and will adopt the ready to use technology products to better the lives of common people in their states, Science and Technology Minister Prithviraj Chavan said Monday.

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Dharamsala, Feb 1 (IANS) Two envoys of Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, Monday returned to this Himachal Pradesh hill station Monday after holding talks with the Chinese leadership in Beijing, a Tibetan official said, but declining to divulge any details of the meetings' outcome.

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New Delhi, Feb 1 (IANS) Indian Olympic Association (IOA) secretary general Randhir Singh has called on the national sports federations (NSFs) and state Olympic associations to concentrate on good, transparent governance, shunning self-aggrandisement and rising above petty politics.

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New Delhi, Feb.1 : A number of activists from various Muslim organisations took to streets in the capital on Monday to protest against Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray for targeting Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan for wishing Pakistani players should have been picked for the upcoming edition of the IPL tournament.

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New Delhi, Feb 1 (IANS) It was the D-day that parents of 3-4-year olds were anxiously waiting for months tiogether. And when schools Monday put up the list of children who had made it to nursery class, it brought joy to the parents of successful kids and disappointment to the others, who slammed the point-system of admission as 'disgusting'.

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Some smile, others mope

Patna, Jan 21 (IANS) A case was lodged here against the contractors and engineers of the National Building Construction Corporation Limited (NBCC), India's largest public sector construction company, in connection with the death of two youth, who fell in a big ditch dug by them, police said Thursday.

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Case against contractors, engineers of NBCC for two deaths

Lahore, Jan.21 : Accusing Indian Premier League (IPL) Chairman Lalit Modi of 'betraying' Pakistani players, Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Ijaz Butt has said that he would take up the issue of the treatment meted out to the cricketers during the IPL auction with the Board of Cricket Control in India (BCCI).

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Mumbai, Jan 21 (IANS) Moving the high court and asking for time to learn Marathi — taxi unions here were Thursday contemplating various moves following the Maharashtra government's directive to make it compulsory henceforth for cabbies to be domiciled in the state and have knowledge of Marathi.

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New Delhi, Jan 21 (IANS) 'The Palace of Illusions' by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni climbed to the No.1 position in the fiction category of the bestseller list this week while Meghnad Desai's 'The Rediscovery of India' continued to dominate the non-fiction section.

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Film: 'Karthik Calling Karthik'; Music Director: Shankar Mahadevan-Ehsaan Noorani-Loy Mendonca; Lyricist: Javed Akhtar; Singers: Loy, Shankar, Clinton Cerejo, Malika Singh, KK, Kailash Kher, Alyssa Mendonsa, Suraj Jagan and Caralisa Monteiro ; Rating: ***

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'Kaisi hai ye' shines in 'Karthik Calling Karthik'

Gandhinagar, Jan 20(IANS) Geetha Johri, an Indian Police Service (IPS) officer and a member of the apex court-appointed probe committee in the 2002 post-Godhra riots cases, has offered to quit the team after the Supreme Court's remarks against her in the probe into the killing of Sohrabuddin Sheikk in an alleged staged shootout.

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IPS officer probing Sohrabuddin case offers to quit

New Delhi, Jan.20 : Visiting Malaysian Prime Minister Mohammed Najib Tun Abdul Razak on Wednesday met representatives of Indian corporate sector in the national capital and asked leaders of the Indian corporate sector to invest in Malaysia in areas of biosciences and information and communication technologies (ICT).

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New Delhi, Jan 20 (IANS) After the Supreme Court rapped the Delhi government for failing to provide shelter to the city's homeless, city authorities Wednesday convened a high-level meeting and decided to identify all possible venues to accommodate the homeless by Thursday morning.

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New Delhi, Jan 20 (IANS) Four days before environment ministers of BASIC (Brazil, South Africa, India, China) countries meet here to chalk out their post-Copenhagen climate strategy, international NGO Greenpeace has urged them to find a solution to the global warming crisis.

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Lead fight against climate change, Greenpeace urges BASIC countries

Shimla, Jan 20 (IANS) Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal Wednesday ordered a probe into an audio CD in which he is purportedly heard directing the vigilance chief to tap the phones of former state chief minister and now union Steel Minister Virbhadra Singh and his wife Pratibha Singh.

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Dhumal orders probe into release of phone-tapping CD

New Delhi, Jan 20 (IANS) Clad in frayed woollens, draped in thin quilts and huddled around small fires, many of Delhi's homeless say they would rather brave the harsh winter chill on the streets than being cramped into 'stinky and murky' shelters.

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Delhi's homeless prefer cold streets to stinking shelters