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  <pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:15:03 GMT</pubDate> 
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  <title><![CDATA[Anti-suicide campaigner ends life for Telangana]]></title> 
  <link>http://news.rediff.com/report/2010/mar/10/andhra-crisis-anti-suicide-campaigner-ends-life-for-telangana.htm</link> 
  <description><![CDATA[After students and youth, journalists have also joined the list of those committing suicide in support of a separate Telangana state. ]]></description> 
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  <title><![CDATA[Mamata meets Sonia, explains TC's stand]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[A day after the Trinamool Congress abstained from voting on women's reservation bill in the Rajya Sabha, party supremo Mamata Banerjee tonight met Congress president Sonia Gandhi and explained her party's stand.]]></description> 
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  <title><![CDATA[Scorpene deal: PAC slams defence ministry]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[Slamming the Defence Ministry over the nine-year delay in awarding contract to French firm Thales to build six Scorpene submarines in Mumbai, a Parliamentary Committee on Wednesday said the indecisiveness resulted in cost overruns and undue favour to the vendor, besides adversely impacting Navy's operational preparedness.]]></description> 
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  <title><![CDATA[10 farmers commit suicide in Vidarbha]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[Ten more debt-ridden farmers have committed suicide in Vidarbha over the last three days, a non-governmental organisation active in the region and government officials said on Wednesday. Six of them, including a woman, belong to Yavatmal district, Kishore Tiwari, President of the Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti said in a statement. The NGO said all the ten farmers were under heavy debt. Other suicides were reported from Nagpur, Akola and Washim districts. ]]></description> 
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  <title><![CDATA[CBI opposes Bihar govt's plea against Lalu in SC]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[The Central Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday stood by Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad, who has parted ways with the United Progressive Alliance government, in the Supreme Court by opposing the decision of the Nitish Kumar government in Bihar to challenge his acquittal in a disproportionate assets case. Prasad and his wife's stand, that the Bihar government has no locus standi to appeal against their acquittal, was supported by the CBI.]]></description> 
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  <title><![CDATA[Congress thanks media, Opposition for passage of Women's Bill]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[The Congress on Wednesday sought to give credit to president Sonia Gandhi for the passage of the Women's Reservation Bill in the Rajya Sabha. "We thank the media for acknowledging the personal stamp of Congress president Sonia Gandhi on the passage of the Bill," party spokesman Manish Tewari told reporters in New Delhi. The party also expressed its gratitude to the opposition parties which helped in getting the Bill passed. Tewari said the bill was historic.]]></description> 
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  <title><![CDATA[Sukna case: Armed Forces Tribunal refuses interim relief to Lt Gen Rath ]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[The Armed Forces Tribunal on Wednesday refused to grant interim relief to Lt Gen P K Rath seeking a stay on the summary of evidence proceedings against him in the Rs 300 crore Sukna land scam case. ]]></description> 
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  <title><![CDATA[Faced with charges of waging a war against India, Kasab goes to sleep]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[The acts of Ajmal Kasab, the lone terrorist arrested during the terror siege in Mumbai, and the other accused in the 26/11 attack amounted to 'waging a war against India', which is punishable by the death penalty or life imprisonment, the prosecution argued in a trial court on Wednesday. "By firing at people indiscriminately in Mumbai, Kasab and the other conspirators wanted to destabilise the government and break political and economic order," said Public Prosecutor Nikam.]]></description> 
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  <title><![CDATA[Poster colouring: Maya frees held schoolboys]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[Four school students were arrested for allegedly smearing colour on posters of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati during Holi, and a local court in Lucknow on Wednesday freed them on bail even as she chided the police for taking such harsh action for a 'petty mistake'.]]></description> 
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  <title><![CDATA[BJP clamours to take credit for Women's Bill]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[With the Congress-led government taking most of the credit for the passage of the Women's Reservation Bill in Rajya Sabha, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday patted its own back for the success and criticised the United Progressive Alliance for the  forcible eviction of protesting Members of Parliament from the House. Despite being in a minority in the Upper House, the Congress-led government and especially party chief Sonia Gandhi earned kudos for passage of the Bill. ]]></description> 
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