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State funding of polls to curb use of black money, EVMs which provide a paper trail, checking paid news, speedy trial in cases against politicians to bar criminals from contesting are some electoral reforms that Bharatiya Janata Party is set to suggest to the Election Commission.
Mahmudullah and Kayes lift Bangladesh to 249/7 after poor start
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Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini was involved in a training ground bust-up with volatile forward Mario Balotelli on Thursday, the Manchester Evening News reported.
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SFIO, the investigation arm of the Corporate Affairs Ministry, has been ordered to probe alleged fraud in 83 companies in the last four years, Parliament was informed on Thursday.
Half a dozen stocks from the large-cap universe and over two dozen from the mid-cap universe have been replaced.
Chennai Super Kings coach Stephen Fleming has blamed the batsmen for his team's nine-run defeat against Mumbai Indians and said the way some of them got out was "not acceptable".
Farooqui will have a 15 month tenure at the helm of the Department of Telecom before he attains superannuation age of 60 years in June 2014.
He was previously Prasar Bharti CEO.
An army jawan was Tuesday killed in accidental firing in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir, a senior police official said.
The Asia Cup cricket tournament will be held in Bangladesh for the second time in a row after India, who had earlier agreed to host the 2014 edition, backed out citing a packed international schedule.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who left for New Delhi on Thursday morning on his way to Pakistan, is likely to meet Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf during his week long goodwill trip to the neighbouring country, according to an official in the state government.
Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chief Shaharyar Khan will use a meeting of the Asian Cricket Council in Colombo to bring relations with Bangladesh and Sri Lanka back on track and get their support for return of international cricket to Pakistan.
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According to a survey carried out across Gujarat, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, led by Chief Minister Narendra Modi, will win the forthcoming state assembly elections comfortably. The survey, jointly conducted by a news channel and a weekly magazine, predicts that the BJP will get 50 per cent of the total votes.
Governments should look at criminalising doping in sports and increasing the resources of anti-doping agencies to include investigative functions in the wake of the Lance Armstrong revelations, the president of Cycling Australia has said.
The death penalties awarded in the Dhananjoy Chatterjee and Bachan Singh cases will be referred to by the prosecution in the Delhi gangrape before they give their verdict. Vicky Nanjappa reports
No arrests have yet been made in Monday's BMW hit-and-run case, in which a 25-year-old student was killed, while his friend sustained critical injuries, police said.
10 companies and industry body penalised for cartelisation, likely to take legal recourse.
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Gloomy macro-economic factors and negative sentiments continue to hit demand.
A PhD from Chicago-Booth and a top-ranking IIT-IIM alumnus, Krishnamurthy Subramanian is one of the world's leading experts in banking, corporate governance and economic policy
D K Sarraf replaces Vasudeva, who turned 60 on Tuesday and is due to superannuate on Friday.
The brothers say that the accounts were opened when they were NRIs and were legally allowed to do so.
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Despite rain washing out the semi-final clash between India and Sri Lanka in Guangzhou, on Tuesday, Indian eves advanced to the ACC Women's Twenty20 Asia Cup final by the virtue of topping their pool.
The United States would handle the visa application of the Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as per the country's immigration laws, a top US diplomat said.
Asked if Ganguly would be cornered at the meeting, he laughed and cited an example.
In the same case, her son Tarique Rahman and four others have been sentenced to 10 years in jail.
Telugu megastar Chiranjeevi and former Union minister Renuka Choudary on Monday filed their nominations on behalf of the ruling Congress for the biennial elections to Rajya Sabha from Andhra Pradesh. Former state minister Palvai Govardhan Reddy and former journalist Rapolu Ananda Bhaskar too filed their papers as Congress nominees on the last day of the nomination process.
'In states where all shops are allowed to function and pedestrians are allowed to move around, there is no reason to presume that vendors are not allowed to operate. But ambiguity surrounding the operation of street vendors de jure has led the police to harass them de facto,' say Bhuvana Anand, Jayana Bedi and Prashant Narang.
Modi will hold the post till his superannuation on May 31, 2021.
The world cricket committee of the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), who are English cricket's original law makers, has suggested that the first ever day/night Test match should be held in India, or in the Indian subcontinent, where attendance during Test matches is currently recorded as being on the lower side.
Here's a look at the likely set of candidates on Bigg Boss 6.
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