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Radioactive spill from Barc bottle: Mumbai, May 12: A liquid cocktail of radioactive metals flowed out and down the sides of a bottle in a Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (Barc) laboratory, exposing one person to radioactive contamination, but atomic energy officials today described the incident as "minor".
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Gadkari flunks test: New Delhi, May 12: Nitin Gadkari has flunked the first big political test he faced after taking over as BJP president.
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Jairam gifts Cong a chance for manoeuvres: New Delhi, May 12: A chastened Jairam Ramesh today called on P. Chidambaram to explain his controversial China comments, prompting some in the Congress to wonder if the environment minister was in real trouble.
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1 dead in Kalinga Nagar clash: Bhubaneswar, May 12: A villager from Chandia died in a clash with the police in Kalinga Nagar Industrial Complex in Jajpur district today.
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Tied to Nitish: Bihar's business 'atmosphere': For reasons of pride and political accommodation, Bihar has forever had a minister for industry. What they did beyond occupying splendid colonial bungalows in west Patna and profiting on public money would make an absorbing study. Bihar is pre-industrial, it barely even manufactures sundry cycle parts.
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Sept. strike: Calcutta, May 12: Nine central trade unions have cut across political affiliations to call a nationwide industrial strike in the first week of September.
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Attempt to dissuade Muivah flops: Viswema, May 12: The first round of an on-the-spot effort by the Centre has failed to break the deadlock over NSCN (I-M) general secretary Thuingaleng Muivah's proposed visit to Manipur.
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Dad shoots bride dead: Chandigarh, May 12: A 19-year-old who had recently married a man from a different caste against her parents' wishes was shot dead in a Punjab village by her father and other relatives who also killed her mother-in-law.
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Pandits warm to govt job offer: Srinagar, May 12: If their response is any indication, it could soon be "paradise" regained for Kashmir's migrant Pandits.
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Rush to revive workers' bill: New Delhi, May 12: The UPA government appears to have revived efforts to push through a two-decade-old legislation ' Participation of Workers in Management Bill, 1990 ' put into cold storage after its introduction in the Rajya Sabha.
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Plan to speed up terror trials: New Delhi, May 12: The government plans to fast-track terror trials even in the high courts and the Supreme Court, which sometimes take a decade to decide on appeals in such cases, official sources said today.
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CJI war on case pile-up: New Delhi, May 12: The eclectic Sarosh Homi Kapadia, who took over as Chief Justice of India today, began his innings by issuing a warning against frivolous petitions that make judges "work like tehsildars".
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