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   <topic>Iraqi officials interrogate Bush shoe protest man</topic>
   <text><![CDATA[An Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes, and insults, at George Bush during the US president&amp;#39;s surprise visit to Iraq is being questioned over whether anybody paid him for the protest as footage of the incident plays continually on the internet and rolling news channels.Thousands of people have taken to the streets in Iraq to demand the release of Muntadar al-Zeidi, who is being held at the headquarters of the Iraqi prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki.Al-Zeidi, who shouted &amp;quot;dog&amp;quot; at ...]]></text>
   <url>http://www.indiashines.com/mirchi-blog-7363</url>
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   <topic>Govt moves against terror, approves Central agency </topic>
   <text><![CDATA[The Union Cabinet on Monday approved amendments to the law to provide for a tough legal measure and the setting up of a National Investigating Agency (NIA) to combat terror.&amp;nbsp;The Cabinet, which had an unscheduled meeting, gave its approval to the proposal to amend the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 and the setting up of the NIA, an official spokesman said. The Cabinet also approved a proposal for amendment to the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) Act. There were no ...]]></text>
   <url>http://www.indiashines.com/mirchi-blog-7358</url>
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   <topic>After Dawood, Masood and Memon, Pak denies India access to Mumbai attack mastermind</topic>
   <text><![CDATA[Pakistan has ruled out giving India access to Lashkar-e-Taiba commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhwi, who is learnt to be behind the Mumbai terror strikes. Pak has said that only its authorities can question Lakhwi to ascertain whether he had any link to the attacks. Pakistan defence minister Chaudhary Ahmed Mukhtar said India&amp;#39;s &amp;quot;concerns&amp;quot; can be discussed through a joint investigation mechanism which Islamabad has proposed to be set up to probe the Mumbai attacks. &amp;quot;May be we can ...]]></text>
   <url>http://www.indiashines.com/mirchi-blog-7243</url>
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   <topic>Ex-England cricketer Chris Lewis arrested over £200,000 cocaine haul</topic>
   <text><![CDATA[A former England cricketer will appear in court today charged with drug smuggling after &amp;pound;200,000 of cocaine was found hidden in fruit tins. Chris Lewis, 40, is due to appear at Crawley Magistrates&amp;#39; Court after being arrested by UK Border Agency staff at Gatwick when 4kg of cocaine was found during a routine search of luggage arriving from St Lucia. The drugs were in a liquid form hidden in the tins, said an official. The fast bowler, who played 32 Tests and 53 one-day ...]]></text>
   <url>http://www.indiashines.com/mirchi-blog-7241</url>
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   <topic>Fire at new wing of the Taj hotel in Mumbai</topic>
   <text><![CDATA[A fire broke out between the 20 and 21st floor of the Taj Hotel&amp;#39;s new building in south Mumbai early on Tuesday.Fire officials here said the building, one of the sites of the November 26 terror attacks, was empty when the incident happened.There are no casualty reports in the incident and though the cause of the fire is still unknown, unofficial sources attributed it to faulty wiring.The operation to put out the fire is still on, the officials added.]]></text>
   <url>http://www.indiashines.com/mirchi-blog-7237</url>
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   <topic>Google Earth accused of aiding terrorists</topic>
   <text><![CDATA[An Indian Court has been called to ban Google Earth amid suggestions the online satellite imaging was used to help plan the terror attacks that killed more than 170 people in Mumbai last month. A petition entered at the Bombay High Court alleges that the Google Earth service, &amp;quot;aids terrorists in plotting attacks.&amp;quot; Advocate Amit Karkhanis has urged the court to direct Google to blur images of sensitive areas in the country until the case is decided. There are indications that the ...]]></text>
   <url>http://www.indiashines.com/mirchi-blog-7236</url>
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   <topic>Jaish-e-Mohammed founder Maulana Masood Azhar under house arrest</topic>
   <text><![CDATA[Pakistani authorities have reportedly imposed restrictions on the movement of Jaish-e-Mohammed founder Maulana Masood Azhar and confined him to his home despite turning down India&amp;#39;s demand for handing him over.Azhar, who was freed by Indian authorities along with two other terrorists in exchange for passengers of an Indian Airlines flight hijacked from Kathmandu to Kandahar in 1999, has been confined to his multi-storey building in Model Town area of Bahawalpur, The News daily reported ...]]></text>
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   <topic>Firing in New Delhi Airport - Normal despite shooting report</topic>
   <text><![CDATA[A scare was triggered at the Indira Gandhi International airport in the wee hours on Friday after a sound similar to gunshots were reportedly heard from the facility. The control room of the CISF received a call at around 1.10 am from passengers that they heard sound of gunshots from one of the gates of international departure lounge of the airport, official said. &amp;quot;We received a call that some passengers heard a sound similar to two gunshots, but there were no eyewitnesses. No evidence ...]]></text>
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   <topic>YouTube, the latest terror tool</topic>
   <text><![CDATA[Islamic extremists are being instructed on how to use the popular video-sharing site YouTube as a way to disseminate propaganda videos, a US-based terrorism monitor said. Militants are being encouraged to use the online site through postings on other Islamic forums on the Internet, according to the SITE Intelligence Group. Last week, an extremist authored step-by-step instructions on posting video to YouTube, which he described as &amp;quot;one of the most famous and biggest international sites ...]]></text>
   <url>http://www.indiashines.com/mirchi-blog-7119</url>
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   <topic>The united state of India</topic>
   <text><![CDATA[Even for a country experiencing the widest possible variety of terrorist attacks, alarmingly recurring at shorter intervals, the terrorist blitzkrieg on Mumbai has chillingly numbed and outraged the nation. The anger, revulsion, distress, disgust, shame and initial helplessness, rising to a crescendo of revenge, have all been captured in images that will continue to torment each one of us. The display of selfless courage and valour in defeating the terrorists will, likewise, evoke salutes of ...]]></text>
   <url>http://www.indiashines.com/mirchi-blog-7092</url>
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   <topic>Pakistan should respond urgently in Mumbai terror probe: Rice</topic>
   <text><![CDATA[US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Wednesday asked Pakistan to cooperate &amp;ldquo;fully and urgently&amp;rdquo; with India to bring the perpetrators of the brazen Mumbai terror attack to justice and stressed a greater &amp;ldquo;intelligence sharing&amp;rdquo; between India and Pakistan. Addressing a joint press conference with External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee, Rice promised India cooperation in probing the terror attacks and asked Islamabad to be &amp;ldquo;transparent&amp;rdquo; in its support ...]]></text>
   <url>http://www.indiashines.com/mirchi-blog-7085</url>
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   <topic>Citigroup to slash 50,000 jobs: Report</topic>
   <text><![CDATA[Financial services major Citigroup is planning to slash as many as 50,000 jobs in the next five to six months and also intends to reduce&amp;nbsp; costs by 20 per cent, says a media report. Quoting people close to the company, television channel CNBC said the number of jobs cuts may rise as high as 50,000 in order to bring the company&amp;#39;s workforce to about 300,000 worldwide. &amp;quot;These people say these cuts will occur in a relatively shorter period of time, such as over the next five or six ...]]></text>
   <url>http://www.indiashines.com/mirchi-blog-6603</url>
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   <topic>Chandrayaan-1 - From launch to landing - Indian moon mission’s journey</topic>
   <text><![CDATA[India&amp;rsquo;s first probe into moon landed on the lunar surface Friday night after riding on Chandrayaan-1, the country&amp;rsquo;s first unmanned spacecraft to the moon, after travelling around 384,000 km in 24 days days after blasting off from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh Oct 22.Soon after the launch at 6.22 a.m. the spacecraft carrying 11 scientific payloads was put in an orbit of 22,860 km apogee (farthest point to the earth) and 225 km perigee (nearest point to the earth). &amp;nbsp;This is ...]]></text>
   <url>http://www.indiashines.com/mirchi-blog-6531</url>
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   <topic>Indian probe lands on moon, sends images</topic>
   <text><![CDATA[An Indian probe landed on the moon on Friday, the Indian Space Research Organisation announced, in a milestone for the country&amp;#39;s 45-year-old space programme. The probe touched down on the moon at 8:34pm (1504 GMT), 25 minutes after it was ejected from an unmanned spacecraft orbiting the moon, spokesman S. Satish said.&amp;quot;During its descent from Chandrayaan-1 an onboard video camera transmitted lunar pictures to the ISRO command centre,&amp;quot; Satish said in the southern Indian city of ...]]></text>
   <url>http://www.indiashines.com/mirchi-blog-6530</url>
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   <topic>Barack Obama Presidential Victory Speech - Yes We Can &amp; Full text of US president-elect Barack Obama’s victory speech</topic>
   <text><![CDATA[Text of US president-elect Barack Obama&amp;rsquo;s speech in Chicago after winning the presidential election: OBAMA: Hello, Chicago. If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.It&amp;rsquo;s the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen, by ...]]></text>
   <url>http://www.indiashines.com/mirchi-blog-6366</url>
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   <topic>Assam serial blasts: Police release sketch of suspect</topic>
   <text><![CDATA[Police on Tuesday released the sketch of a suspect in the October 30 serial blasts in Assam that claimed 84 lives. Police said the sketch tallied 77 per cent with the person suspected to be responsible for the explosion at the deputy commissioner&amp;#39;s office compound in Kamrup where the chief judicial magistrate&amp;#39;s court is also located. The person, dressed in a white kurta, was said to be of fair complexion with short hair and a thin moustache. The sketch was prepared on the basis of ...]]></text>
   <url>http://www.indiashines.com/mirchi-blog-6353</url>
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   <topic>Pall of gloom descends on Arpana Jinaga&#039;s home</topic>
   <text><![CDATA[A pall of gloom is descended on the residence of Arpana Jinaga, a software professional who was found dead under mysterious circumstances in United States few days ago.&amp;nbsp;Arpana, the elder daughter of Basavraj Jinaga, a professor at the city-based JNTU, was a topper in studies and had set her own mark in chip designing. &amp;quot;She was a brilliant student and had a dynamic personality,&amp;quot; was how her relatives and family friends said after consoling her parents at their house here. ...]]></text>
   <url>http://www.indiashines.com/mirchi-blog-6351</url>
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   <topic>Breaking News: Indian student Arpana Jinaga from Andhra Pradesh killed in US</topic>
   <text><![CDATA[Breaking News! Arpana Jinaga (24) [Her LinkedIn Profile], from Andhra Pradesh was found dead under mysterious circumstances inside her flat in Seattle. Arpana Jinaga was working as a software engineer with EMC Corporation and was simultaneously pursuing MS at Seattle. According to her family sources, Arpana was killed sometime on Friday evening (US time).Surprisingly, the gruesome murder of Arpana Jinaga came into light after three days. The Seattle police are investigating the matter. They ...]]></text>
   <url>http://www.indiashines.com/mirchi-blog-6343</url>
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   <topic>Gambhir and Laxman get twin double centuries</topic>
   <text><![CDATA[Record breaking double centuries to Gautam Gambhir and V.V.S Laxman lifted India to a commanding 613 for seven and into control of the third cricket test against Australia. Anil Kumble&amp;#39;s declaration after Laxman reached the his double hundred left Australia with 15 overs to survive until stumps Thursday on the second day of the match. Simon Katich was 29 not out and Matthew Hayden was unbeaten on 16 as the openers cut the deficit by 50 runs. Gambhir and Laxman&amp;#39;s twin double centuries ...]]></text>
   <url>http://www.indiashines.com/mirchi-blog-6271</url>
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   <topic>Assam serial blasts: 61 dead, over 470 injured</topic>
   <text><![CDATA[61 people were killed and about 470 injured in serial blasts in Guwahati and three other districts of Assam as suspected HuJI militants struck terror in the hub of North-East, considered by far the worst attack.The first of the 13 bombs, suspected to have been planted by Bangladesh-based HuJI members, went off at around 11.30 AM under the Ganeshguri flyover near the high-security capital complex housing the Assembly building, followed by explosions at Paltan Bazar and Fancy Bazar in ...]]></text>
   <url>http://www.indiashines.com/mirchi-blog-6270</url>
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   <topic>India plans manned lunar mission by 2015</topic>
   <text><![CDATA[ISRO has revealed that it plans a moon mission and that it would gear up for this complex and challenging task.After the successful launch of the lunar mission Chandrayan I, India now aims to send a man to the moon and that could happen as soon as by 2015. Having entered the elite club of six who have sent spacecrafts to the moon, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has revealed that it plans a moon mission and that it would gear up for this complex and challenging task. Along with ...]]></text>
   <url>http://www.indiashines.com/mirchi-blog-6122</url>
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   <topic>Bollywood - Box Office Analysis</topic>
   <text><![CDATA[First weekend performance of latest releasePeople have actually been asking two questions - a) Are there actually two films by the name of HARI PUTTAR - A COMEDY OF TERRORS and RAFOO CHAKKAR - FUN ON THE RUN, b) Have these two films actually released? Such low were the two films on hype and further low on substance (as claimed by the poor souls who actually gathered courage to watch them on their Friday release), that even before the film&amp;#39;s first show ended, the writing was clear on the ...]]></text>
   <url>http://www.indiashines.com/mirchi-blog-5244</url>
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   <topic>Gujarat - Low intensity blast - 2 dead, 8 injured</topic>
   <text><![CDATA[At least two persons were dead and 8 others injured when a low intensity blast occurred in Sabarkantha in Gujarat, late Monday night. Besides the reports coming in from Malegoen in Maharastra also stated that one person is dead and seven injured in yet another blast that occurred in the vicinity of a mosque. The blast took place in sukabazar area of Modasa town. Sabarkantha is a Muslim dominated area and the blast is reported to have taken place at a time when a large crowd had congregated ...]]></text>
   <url>http://www.indiashines.com/mirchi-blog-5125</url>
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   <topic>Delhi Blast - Serial blasts rock Delhi - Photos &amp; Videos &amp; Chronology of Delhi blasts</topic>
   <text><![CDATA[Delhi Blast - Serial blasts rock Delhi - Photos &amp;amp; Videos &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;PHOTOS after the 5 Blasts in DELHI&amp;nbsp;A man lies on the road, after a bomb explosion in New Delhi.People carry an injured woman after a bomb explosion in New Delhi.An Ambulance carrying wounded people drives away following a blast at connaught place in central New Delhi.Bomb explosion rock Barakhambha road in New Delhi.A security official inspects a blast site in New Delhi.Police secure the area following a ...]]></text>
   <url>http://www.indiashines.com/mirchi-blog-3998</url>
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   <topic>Delhi Bomb Blasts Report with Video - 20 killed, 90 injured in 5 blasts across Delhi</topic>
   <text><![CDATA[Twenty people have so far been reported killed and 50 injured in 5 serial bomb blasts in crowded places across Delhi. The blasts took place in Karol Bagh, Connaught Place, Greater Kailash-I and Barakhamba Road in a span of 40-50 minutes. One explosive device was defused near the high-security India Gate area. Terror outfit Indian Mujahideen has claimed responsibility for the blasts. The first explosion rocked Gaffar market area of Karol Bagh in central Delhi at 6.15pm. The explosive was kept ...]]></text>
   <url>http://www.indiashines.com/mirchi-blog-3992</url>
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   <topic>Breaking News - New Delhi - Serial blasts rock busy market areas across Delhi </topic>
   <text><![CDATA[A series of bomb blasts have been reported from busy markets across Delhi. First blast took place in an auto rickshaw at Ghaffar market of Karol Bagh in west Delhi.Another explosion was reported at Connaught Place&amp;#39;s Central Park area. Yet another blast rocked Greater Kailash in south Delhi.The Greater Kailash market has been shut down after blast.]]></text>
   <url>http://www.indiashines.com/mirchi-blog-3987</url>
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   <topic>Delhi - Explosion rocks Karol Bagh area - Blast in Gaffar market area </topic>
   <text><![CDATA[An explosion rocked a busy market area in the central Delhi this evening leaving over 20 people injured, police said.&amp;nbsp;The blast took place in Gaffar market area, which is famous for sale of foreign goods, in the evening. The nature of explosion was yet to be ascertained, police said. Injured have been taken to Sucheta Kriplani Hospital]]></text>
   <url>http://www.indiashines.com/mirchi-blog-3982</url>
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   <topic>Breaking News: Two blasts in Delhi; several injured </topic>
   <text><![CDATA[Two explosions rocked Delhi one after the other on Saturday evening. The first explosion was reported in Karol Bagh&amp;rsquo;s famous Gaffar Market&amp;rsquo;s MCD market. According to eyewitness accounts, nearly 30 people have been injured; of these at least 8 seriously. A second blast has been reported in Central Park of Connaught Place near Pallika Bazaar. The blast in Karol Bagh took place in a CNG auto-rickshaw and was followed by a blast in the cylinder kept on a scooter right behind it. ...]]></text>
   <url>http://www.indiashines.com/mirchi-blog-3980</url>
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   <topic>BMW 2: Delhi cops arrest driver, victim fights for life</topic>
   <text><![CDATA[New Delhi: The Delhi Police on Friday arrested Utsav Bhasin, suspected to be behind the wheel of the BMW that ran over two people on Thursday morning. A case of rash and negligent driving has been registered against him.Bhasin was arrested from the Kashmiri Gate area of the Capital and has been taken to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences for tests. Meanwhile, the victim, 25-year-old Anuj Aditya, is still battling for his life. Aditya and his friend Marikant Thakur were hit by the ...]]></text>
   <url>http://www.indiashines.com/mirchi-blog-3655</url>
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   <topic>Another BMW hit-and-run: Driver arrested</topic>
   <text><![CDATA[The son of a Delhi-based industrialist was arrested on Friday from the inter-state bus terminus (ISBT) on charges of critically injuring two people when he rammed his BMW into a motorcycle and fled the scene. Utsav Bhasin, who was arrested from ISBT at Kashmiri Gate, was allegedly driving the BMW when the accident occurred early on Thursday near Moolchand in south Delhi. Police said Utsav, who had studied at Delhi Public School, was missing after the incident took place. Utsav is the son of ...]]></text>
   <url>http://www.indiashines.com/mirchi-blog-3654</url>
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   <topic>The New Nuclear morals and its consequences</topic>
   <text><![CDATA[India has almost crossed the decades-long nuclear hurdle--- yes almost. With just that &amp;quot;little matter&amp;quot; of the US Senate and House remaining to be taken care of before the final seal is put on what is the most historic and certainly the most controversial foreign policy decision in both countries in recent times. And George Bush is expected to pamper, persuade, molly coddle and if necessary bull doze his way through the naysayers just as he did with the &amp;quot;spoilers&amp;quot; in the ...]]></text>
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   <topic>Breaking News: Earthquake hits Dubai</topic>
   <text><![CDATA[Hundreds of people have been evacuated from high-rise buildings across Dubai as earthquake tremors from nearby Iran shook the city.Workers in locations across the city - from Garhoud to Jebel Ali - report feeling tremors at around 3.15pm.&amp;nbsp;The quake was also felt in Sharjah and Ajman, according to local media.There are no reports of injuries in the UAE.The quake&amp;#39;s epicentre, measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale, was in the southern Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas.An official at the ...]]></text>
   <url>http://www.indiashines.com/mirchi-blog-3548</url>
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   <topic>Markets abuzz ahead of Ganesh Chaturthi</topic>
   <text><![CDATA[Mumbai, Sept 2 (ANI): Markets are abuzz with activity in Mumbai ahead of Ganesh Chaturthi, which begins on Wednesday.Markets were decorated beautifully as shopkeepers displayed their wares in interesting ways to attract the customers.Miniature temples, crowns, thrones to seat the Ganesha idols, and an array of varied decorative items are some of the items that are most sought after.For the people, the festival is an occasion of great joy and even the hike in prices of the materials because ...]]></text>
   <url>http://www.indiashines.com/mirchi-blog-2418</url>
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   <topic>Ganesha promotes communal amity in Moradabad</topic>
   <text><![CDATA[Chandausi (Uttar Pradesh): Far away from the communal divides and caste and creed factors of Uttar Pradesh, many Muslim sculptors are demonstrating communal amity by making Lord Ganesha idols for the upcoming Ganesh Chaturthi festival. Scores of Muslim artisans in Chandausi town of Uttar Pradesh&amp;rsquo;s Moradabad district are busy meeting the deadline to supply idols to their Hindu patrons from far and near. They are focused on sculpting attractive idols of Lord Ganesha, as these idols are ...]]></text>
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   <topic>Deepika, Farah Kiss &amp; Make Up?</topic>
   <text><![CDATA[There have been reams and reams written about the fallout between Deepika Padukone and here mentor Farah Khan. The actress has been bombarded by the media, which labelled her as being ungrateful for not keeping in touch with the director who launched her. It all began when Farah gave birth to her triplets and Deepika failed to visit her in hospital. Little did people realise that the actress was very busy post Om Shanti Om with her forthcoming films. She was travelling and working nonstop ...]]></text>
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   <topic>Priyanka Chopra is a sweetheart, says Bobby Deol</topic>
   <text><![CDATA[MUMBAI: Actor Bobby Deol says he would&amp;#39;ve been in a fix if Priyanka Chopra hadn&amp;#39;t agreed to play a deglamourised role in his recently released home production &amp;quot;Chamku&amp;quot;, in which he has an author-backed role. &amp;quot;Priyanka is a sweetheart. She plays a deglamourised role in &amp;#39;Chamku&amp;#39;. Most heroines wouldn&amp;#39;t want to get into that deglamourous space, especially in a film that&amp;#39;s driven by my character. But she agreed,&amp;quot; Bobby said. While Bobby plays the title ...]]></text>
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   <topic>Mumbai crime rate drops 40% in twenty years</topic>
   <text><![CDATA[MUMBAI: This is one open secret that police officers in the city refuse to acknowledge till date. They try to maintain the number of criminal complaints filed at their respective police stations constant every year. The crime figures released by the police department confirm this anomaly that raises serious questions of effective policing in the city. Figures show that the number of criminal complaints that were filed over the last two decades at various police stations in the city has ...]]></text>
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   <topic>Daughters of Mittal, Ambani and K P Singh top Forbes list</topic>
   <text><![CDATA[NEW YORK: Riding high on their fathers&amp;#39; richie-rich status, Vanisha Mittal, Isha Ambani and Pia Singh -- daughters of Lakshmi Mittal, Mukesh Ambani and K P Singh respectively -- have grabbed the top three rankings on a Forbes list of billionaire heiresses. While many daughters and grand-daughters of the world&amp;#39;s wealthiest would never actually inherit a billion-dollar fortune, Indian-origin steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal&amp;#39;s daughter Vanisha Mittal Bhatia has emerged as the potentially ...]]></text>
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   <topic>Rs 3.89 lakh in fake notes seized in Nigdi</topic>
   <text><![CDATA[PUNE- In a major action, the Nigdi police seized counterfeit notes worth Rs 3.89 lakh from a family in Nigdi on Sunday night. Those arrested include Nurjaha Shaikh, her husband Taiful and their son Ali. The family has claimed that they had no idea that the notes were fake and that they had received them from relatives in Mumbai. The police, who believe that they may have uncovered a major racket for the distribution of counterfeit notes, have sent two separate teams for further ...]]></text>
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   <topic>Chronology of the BMW hit-and run case</topic>
   <text><![CDATA[New Delhi: On Jan 10, 1999, Sanjeev Nanda, son of arms dealer Suresh Nanda and grandson of former navy chief S.M. Nanda, mowed down six people under his BMW. More than nine years later, he was on Tuesday declared guilty of the crime by a Delhi court.&amp;nbsp;From Jan 10, 1999 to Sep 2, 2008, the many twists and turns in the much publicised case:&amp;nbsp;Jan 10, 1999: Sanjeev Nanda, who was driving a BMW, allegedly ran over six people, including three policemen, in south Delhi&amp;#39;s Lodhi Colony ...]]></text>
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   <topic>Sanjeev Nanda held guilty in BMW hit-and-run case</topic>
   <text><![CDATA[Sanjeev Nanda, grandson of former Naval Chief S M Nanda, was on Tuesday convicted by a Delhi court for mowing down six persons in the nine-year-old BMW hit-and-run case and can face a ten-year prison term.&amp;quot;Sanjeev Nanda, I hold you guilty under Section 304 (Part II) (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) of the IPC,&amp;quot; Additional Sessions Judge Vinod Kumar pronounced in a packed court.The quantum of punishment will be pronounced on Wednesday.The court also convicted three others ...]]></text>
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   <topic>Terror email signed on Wed, sent on Sat</topic>
   <text><![CDATA[&amp;#39;Indian Mujahideen&amp;#39; claimed responsibility for the serial blasts in UP, Jaipur and Ahmedabad on July 26. But then who was responsible for the blasts in Bangalore the previous day? Security analyst and former additional cabinet secretary B Raman has analyzed the emails claiming responsibility for the serial blasts in three towns of UP on November 23 last year, Jaipur on May 13 and in Ahmedabad last week. The UP email was drafted as if the message was from the leader of &amp;#39;Indian ...]]></text>
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   <topic>More Bombs found in Surat, city on the edge</topic>
   <text><![CDATA[Three days after a series of blasts in Ahmedabad killed 45 people, police found five unexploded bombs in Surat on Tuesday. The bombs were found near the Ladeshwar Police post, Santosh Nagar vegetable market and the Varachha area in the diamond city. &amp;quot;We received a phone call from a residence in Surat informing us about a suspicious package. A bomb squad was sent,&amp;quot; said a senior police officer. A series of 17 bombs ripped through Ahmedabad on Saturday, a day after bombs killed one ...]]></text>
   <url>http://www.indiashines.com/mirchi-blog-1045</url>
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   <topic>Seven small Bomb blasts hit Indian IT city of Bangalore</topic>
   <text><![CDATA[BANGALORE, India, July 25 (Reuters) - Seven small bombs exploded in quick succession across the south Indian IT city of Bangalore on Friday, killing a woman and wounding at least 15 people, police said.&amp;quot;In all these cases they have created the blast using timer devices,&amp;quot; Bangalore Commissioner of Police Shankar Bidari told reporters at the site of one of the blasts. &amp;quot;Explosives have also been used, in quantity equal to one or two grenades.&amp;quot;Bangalore, known as India&amp;#39;s ...]]></text>
   <url>http://www.indiashines.com/mirchi-blog-970</url>
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   <topic>Left withdrawal support - What happens next in Indian politics?</topic>
   <text><![CDATA[The communist parties that have provided the Indian government with a parliamentary majority for four years said on Tuesday they were withdrawing their support to protest against a civilian nuclear deal with the United States.They said they would also seek a vote of confidence in parliament.India&amp;#39;s main opposition party, the Hindu Nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), has already demanded a vote of confidence in parliament.The government has lined up support from a regional party to ...]]></text>
   <url>http://www.indiashines.com/mirchi-blog-691</url>
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   <topic>Earthquake - Tsunami alert in Chennai, India</topic>
   <text><![CDATA[Two successive earthquakes originating below the sea and measuring 6.7 and 6.1 on the Richter scale respectively, jolted the Andaman and Nicobar Islands on Friday evening triggering panic among residents. &amp;nbsp; The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center of the United States has issued a bulletin on the Andaman earthquake. The bulletin says: An earthquake has occurred with these preliminary parameters Origin time - 1140z 27 jun 2008 Coordinates - 11.0 north 91.9 east Location - Andaman islands india ...]]></text>
   <url>http://www.indiashines.com/mirchi-blog-579</url>
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   <topic>Obscene Orkut Message Lands Gurgaon Techie in Jail</topic>
   <text><![CDATA[The dangers of social networking once again came to the fore after a Gurgaon techie was arrested by police for allegedly posting obscene comments about Sonia Gandhi on Orkut.&amp;nbsp;22-year-old Rahul Krishnakumar Vaid who worked for PC Solutions in Gurgaon was arrested by Crime branch after he was found to have posted derogatory messages about Congress Chief Sonia Gandhi on a community called &amp;quot;I hate Soniya Gandhi.&amp;quot;The whole episode was started off when Pune Congress activist Amol ...]]></text>
   <url>http://www.indiashines.com/mirchi-blog-239</url>
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