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Friday, October 28, 2011, Chandigarh, India
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 Post-26/11, India's tough talk rattled Pakistan: Rice...more 
 Centre strongly opposes commuting sentence of Rajiv assassins...more 
 Medha for overhauling of Team Anna; to skip Core panel meet...more
 Pak tests nuclear-capable Hatf-7 cruise missile...more 
 BSNL reconnects its landlines with pvt mobile companies in Punjab...more 

NC-Congress rift widens over lifting AFSPA in parts of J&K
Army concerned over Omar’s proposal to withdraw its special powers from 4 areas
Srinagar/New Delhi, Oct 27
The “avoidable political skirmish” between J & K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and the state Congress, over the withdrawal of the controversial Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), escalated on Thursday.

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Insider trading
Former director at Goldman Sachs Group Rajat Gupta leaves a federal court in New York on Wednesday. Rajat Gupta held, pleads not guilty; out on $10mn bail
Rajat K Gupta, the Kolkota-born former director of Goldman Sachs and former global head of McKinsey & Co., on Wednesday pleaded not guilty to insider trading charges.

Former director at Goldman Sachs Group Rajat Gupta leaves a federal court in New York on Wednesday. — AFP


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MiG-29 crash site located in HP, no trace of pilot
Shimla, October 27
Eight days of gruelling search operation and 149 sorties later, the IAF has managed to locate the site in Himachal Pradesh’s Lahaul Valley where the ill-fated MiG-29 fighter aircraft had crashed on October 19. The fate of the pilot, however, is still unknown.

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Zardari sets a new record, of taking gifts
Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari, it seems, has perfected the art of receiving gifts and that too expensive ones. Zardari has set a new record within a year of assuming the presidency by taking one-third of all the expensive gifts presented to all Pakistani Presidents and Prime Ministers, the government informed a Senate panel on Cabinet division.

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Buddh Circuit gets a thumbs up
F1 chief calls it a super track
Ex-world champ Jackie Stewart also heaps praise
New Delhi, October 27
Teething problems were evident at India’s new Buddh International circuit as the drivers arrived on Thursday but Formula One’s main man declared himself satisfied. “Super. The track is super,” commercial supremo Bernie Ecclestone told Reuters in the paddock as teams set up their garages and workmen busied themselves painting markings in the pit lane.

n Schumacher: Winning is the only taste I like
n ‘Looking forward to meet Sachin’
n Alonso appeals for a polio-free India
n 'Green Cabs' launched at BIC
McLaren-Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain (R) speaks with Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone (L) at the paddock a day before the practice sessions of Formula One's Indian Grand Prix at the Buddh International circuit in Greater Noida on Thursday McLaren-Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain (R) speaks with Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone (L) at the paddock a day before the practice sessions of Formula One's Indian Grand Prix at the Buddh International circuit in Greater Noida on Thursday. — AFP

Indo-US N-deal had almost collapsed: Rice
Washington, October 27
The Indo-US nuclear deal had virtually collapsed as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told President George W Bush it was not going to work and the entire administration had given up on it.

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Tandoori time: UK clay ovens delight buyers in India
Like selling the proverbial coal to Newcastle or Scotch whisky to Scotland, an English company is exporting UK-made tandoori clay ovens to India.

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