Bhopal, March 31 – At least ten people were injured when National Students Union of India (NSUI) activists, demanding a CBI probe into the death of a Khandwa college professor, clashed with police here Thursday. The Congress-backed students union was also demanding a ban on the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), a students union affiliated to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, whose activists allegedly caused the death of the professor early this month.
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London, March 31 – Fashionable yet cheap clothes are no longer preferred by people as the majority say they now buy items that would last and are of better quality. A whopping 90 percent of buyers say their top priority now is value for money, while 75 percent say they now only buy items that last, according to the Daily Express.
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Chandigarh, March 31 – Three labourers were killed in a wall collapse at an under-construction multiplex site here Thursday afternoon, police said. According to police, the dead were from West Bengal.
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Mumbai, March 31 – The Bombay High Court Thursday wanted to know why a first information report was not lodged against Mumbai Congress chief Kripashankar Singh, who is accused of amassing huge wealth through illegal means. The judges’ query came after the submissions made by the Income Tax Department, Enforcement Directorate and the Maharashtra Anti-Corruption Bureau on the investigations into the Singh family’s wealth.
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Mumbai, March 31 – Some international cricket umpires feel that the technology has to be fool-proof if the Umpire Decision Review System (UDRS) is to inspire confidence among the players. The umpires, who officiated in the 2011 World Cup in the subcontinent, say one way to tighten the system is to use hot-spot cameras to make the system near-perfect.
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Mumbai, March 31 – Describing Saturday’s World Cup final against India as a challenge, Sri Lankan vice captain Mahela Jayawardene Thursday said that the variety in their batting and bowling will hold them in good stead. ‘Every game is a challenge.
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New Delhi, March 31 – The International Cricket Council (ICC) has landed a Rs.45 crore ($10 million) bonanza with the Indian cabinet Thursday exempting the income earned during the World Cup from tax. At a meeting presided over by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the cabinet approved the finance ministry’s proposal to exempt the 2011 World Cup from income tax.
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Islamabad, March 31 – At least 12 people were killed in a bombing in northwest Pakistan that targetted Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman, while six people died Thursday evening when their car hit a remote-controlled bomb planted by the roadside in the country’s southwest, police said. Rehman was exposed last week by whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks for his offer to the US to mediate with the Taliban.
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Kolkata, March 31 – There is no evidence that former Indian cricket captain Sourav Ganguly, a ‘brand ambassador’ for the Election Commission in West Bengal, has any links with the state’s ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), an election official Thursday. ‘We have thoroughly examined the Trinamool Congress’ questioning of Sourav Ganguly becoming Election Commission’s Brand Ambassador for his alleged association with CPI-M.
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