Thursday, December 23, 2010

BMW's cheapest model drives into India

BMW's cheapest model drives into India

BMW's cheapest model drives into India

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Who doesn't dream of having a BMW parked in their driveway? Now it seems the dream is not far from reality. BMW has proclaimed a volumes war in the premium space by launching its most inexpensive offering in India. The X1 starts at Rs 22 lakh which makes its the cheapest BMW model.


Italian anarchist group claims responsibility for Rome blasts

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A group calling itself the Informal Federation of Anarchy (FAI) has claimed responsibility for bomb blasts in the Chilean and Swiss embassies in Rome which injured two staffers. The claim was found in a little box next to one of the injured, the ANSA news agency said.


Commonwealth Games scam: CBI raids Suresh Kalmadi

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CWG scam: CBI raids Suresh Kalmadi - The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is raiding Commonwealth Games Organising Committee chief Suresh Kalmadi. Raids are being conducted at his residences in Pune and Delhi.


Hotel owner shot dead in Rewari

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A hotel-owner was allegedly shot dead on Thursday by two persons after an altercation in the district, police said.


13 injured as bus falls off Delhi-Noida flyover, one critical

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Thirteen people, most of them employees of a call centre, were injured when a bus fell off the Delhi-Noida-Delhi (DND) flyover here this evening, police said.


India to Pak: Let us question 26/11 accused

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In a fresh proposal, India has conveyed to Pakistan that it wants to send a Commission to Islamabad to question Lashker-e-Toiba terrorists, including Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, in connection with the 26/11 terror attacks in Mumbai.


CCI orders inquiry into airfare hike by airlines

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Taking suo moto action, competition watchdog CCI today asked its investigation wing to inquire into the possible cartel-like behaviour in fare hike by airlines.


Mumbai Police advisory: 4 Lashkar terrorists in the city

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Mumbai police claim four Lashkar men have entered the city. The city police has issued terror advisory ahead of festive season.


Tackle rising prices, Mamata Banerjee tells UPA

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On Wednesday, the Railway Minister had threatened to resign from the UPA if joint forces were not pulled out of Maoist-hit areas of Bengal. Today, Mamata Banerjee trained her guns on the Congress over another thorny issue -- price rise.


Norway daily has all 250,000 WikiLeaks cables

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A Norwegian daily that obtained all the 250,000 diplomatic cables WikiLeaks is slowly releasing will publish articles on them independently of the whistleblowing website's strategy, its boss said on Thursday.


Posing as doctor, he treated patients for 7 years

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A 36-year-old doctor has been arrested after he was allegedly found to have been treating patients in a hospital here for over seven years using fake certificates, police said on Thursday.


Text of SM Krishna letter to Yeddyurappa

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An angry External Affairs Minister S M Krishna on Thursday slammed Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa for his "wild and baseless" allegations on denotification of land during his regime in the State, and said they were aimed at character assassination.


Andhra fasts: Naidu in ICU; Jagan ends fast

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Now on the seventh day of his hunger strike, Chandrababu Naidu was forcibly moved into the Intensive Care Unit of a Hyderabad hospital after doctors said his condition had worsened.


You are assassinating my character, Krishna tells Yeddyurappa

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An angry External Affairs Minister S M Krishna today slammed Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa for his "wild and baseless" allegations on denotification of land during his regime in the State, and said they were aimed at character assassination.


Storm in California causes hillside collapse, floods

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The tail end of a storm that dumped rain on Southern California for nearly a week has given the region one final lashing, burying houses and cars in mud, washing hillsides onto highways, flooding urban streets, threatening dozens of canyon homes and spreading filthy water that prompted the closure of 12 miles of Orange County beaches.


WikiLeaks to publish 'sensitive' Israel cables: TV

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has said his whistleblowing website plans to publish hundreds of "sensitive" US diplomatic cables on Israel, Al-Jazeera television reported on Thursday.


7 government employees suspended for vulgar dance at function

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Seven UP health employees, including three officers, were today suspended after a probe found them guilty of staging vulgar dance and permitting liquor at a swearing-in ceremony, a government spokesman said here.


Who was K Karunakaran?

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Affectionately called 'Leader' by his admirers, Congress stalwart Kannoth Karunakaran was a master tactician who remained a 'King' in Kerala politics for decades and at times a much sought after political troubleshooter at the national level.


Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister’s wife seeks loan to buy onions

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In a bid to rub it in, the wife of Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Thursday filled up an application for a bank loan - to buy onions! Sadhna Singh is also vice-president of the women's cell of the state Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) who took part in a street protest here against the soaring prices of onions.


Former Kerala Chief Minister K Karunakaran dies

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Former Kerala Chief Minister Kannoth Karunakaran on Thursday died at 5.30 pm at Aanathapuri Hospital in Thiruvanthapuram. He was 93.


Parcel bomb wounds Swiss embassy staffer in Rome: Report

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Package bombs exploded at the Swiss and Chilean embassies in Rome on Thursday, wounding the two people who opened them, in attacks that bore similarities to bombings by anarchists in Greece last month.


No force can make ISI chief to appear before US court: Gilani

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Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani today said that no force could pressurise the ISI chief Lt Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha to appear in a US court to face a lawsuit filed by relatives of victims of the Mumbai attacks.


No IIT Kanpur inquiry into student suicides

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Despite suicides by a number of students at IIT Kanpur in the last five years, one of the country's premier institutes has not constituted any inquiry committee to probe the causes of the extreme steps taken by its students, an RTI inquiry revealed on Thursday.


Pranab wants apology from Opposition for destroying Parliament

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Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday demanded an apology from the Opposition, accusing it of "destroying" Parliament after they rejected his offer of a special session to discuss the JPC issue on 2G scam.


Through car window, he shook hands with Rahul

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In a security breach, a youth clambered on the footboard of Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi's car and shook hands with him as the vehicle started moving here on Thursday, police said.


Food inflation spikes, govt blames the onion

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As the government battles the onion emergency, it has now got an even bigger battle on its hands - the price of almost all vegetables have gone up. Food inflation has surged back into double figures to 12.13 per cent for week ended December 11 from 9.46 per cent in the previous week - that's an over two per cent jump in one week alone.


Terror threat: Alert extended till Jan 15

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The red alert for possible terrorist attacks in Ahmedabad that was sounded on Tuesday was extended for the next 25 days on Wednesday in view of the upcoming religious festivals and government functions. In fact, the authorities in other districts of the state have also been put on alert in the light of Tuesday's intelligence inputs received from the Union home ministry about a possible terror strike in the state.


National RTI Award for Vinita Kamte

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Vinita Kamte, the wife of slain additional commissioner of police Ashok Kamte who died fighting terrorists during the 26/11 attacks in Mumbai, has been declared the winner of National RTI Award 2010 in the 'Best RTI Citizen' category.


Eight-year-old girl working as maid rescued from businessman's house

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Alert school teachers of Government Higher Primary School in Basavanagudi, with the help of police, on Wednesday rescued their class II student from the clutches of a businessman who had allegedly engaged the girl as a maid in his Banashankari II Stage house.


Man attempts to loot firm with toy gun

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The employees of Manappuram Gold Finance were a shocked lot when a robber held them at gun point in Jnanaganganagar on Wednesday afternoon. However, the amateur bank robber's plan backfired when his victims realised he was holding a toy gun.


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