The nationwide indefinite strike called by truckers entered the second day on Tuesday with unions disregarding the government's threat to invoke the Essential Services Maintenance Act (ESMA) if needed against the strikers. "We will continue our nationwide strike until our demands are met," said Charan Singh Lohara, the president of All-India Motor Transport Congress (AIMTC), the apex body of truckers.
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She came into the limelight with her coffee bean complexion in Ajnabee and was called a scorcher for her skin show in Jism. But Bollywood actress Bipasha Basu, who turns 30 on Wednesday, has now moved on from being just a sex icon and is signing on mature roles. Voted the Sexiest Asian woman in 2007 by the British weekly newspaper Eastern Eye, the starlet of films like Rudraksh, No Entry, Omkara and Dhoom 2 is taking steps towards signing on for serious roles.
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They had a launch pad in their elder sisters - stars in Bollywood - but they failed to take off. Actresses like Amrita Arora, Shamita Shetty and Tanisha Mukherjee have failed to come out of the glittering shadow of their siblings despite seeking to carve out their own destiny.
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The Congress on Monday said the Government has decided to inject Rs 100,000 crore in association with the private sector in the Indian economy to stimulate internal demand to insulate it from the effects of global recession. The decision has been taken on the advice of UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi.
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The Supreme Court on Monday said legislators cannot be unseated by courts and the appropriate authority for disqualifying a legislator is the presiding officer of the house he or she belongs to.
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A city court on Monday granted Delhi Police 10 days' remand of suspected Indian Mujahideen operative Hakim Abdul Karim, who allegedly arranged for the ball bearings used in the bombs in the September 13 serial blasts in the Capital.
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India is no longer interested in words or mechanisms but wants "actual action" from Pakistan, Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon said on Monday. Menon, who described the Mumbai terror strike as amounting to a "commando attack", said India wanted actual action against the perpetrators of the crime.
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By warning Pakistan that it would have to pay "enormously" if another 26/11 takes place, the UPA Government was actually "condoning the present act", the BJP said on Monday.
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A nun who was raped during last year's communal violence in Orissa identified two people during a test identification parade of the suspects on Monday, police and officials said. The identification parade was held in the central jail at Choudwar in Cuttack district, some 30 km here, in the presence of a magistrate, police said.
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Polling was underway on Monday amid heavy security in two West Bengal constituencies - the troubled Nandigram area in East Midnapore district and Sujapur in Malda district. Over 45 per cent of votes had been cast by afternoon, state election commission officials said.
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Bollywood icon Amitabh Bachchan cancelled his scheduled visit to Nepal this week at the last moment due to the deepening row over the hallowed Pashupatinath temple that has pitted Nepal's Maoist government against priests and Hindu devotees, said a report on Monday.
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True love and passion is hardly ever dented by ravages of age, says a new study based on brain scans. Brain scans of couples who have been together for 20 years prove that they are really capable of loving each other with the same intensity and passion as they felt in their initial relationship, until their last breath.
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