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Mumbai, Feb 9 (IANS) Shiv Sena activists Tuesday attacked several places that will screen Shah Rukh Khan's 'My Name Is Khan', barely an hour after Mumbai Police assured full security at the 63 cinemas and multiplexes that will showcase the movie. 

Kanpur, Feb 9 (PTI) Apparently upset over certain unpleasant remarks made by his classmate, a 17-year-old boy shot at a fellow student inside school campus today, police said. 

Mumbai, Feb 9 (PTI) In a fresh salvo against Rahul Gandhi, Shiv Sena today flayed the 'Congress yuvraj' for calling Mumbai as Bombay during his recent visit to the city. 

Panaji, Feb 8 (IANS) Padma Bhushan awardee and Jnanpith award winner Girish Karnad Monday called 'Slumdog Millionaire' the worst film he has ever seen. 

New Delhi, Feb 8 (IANS) Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan believes in 'When in Rome, do as the Romans do' and he followed suit while in Kerala recently by donning the local dress code - a crisp white shirt and 'air-conditioned' dhoti, as he puts it. 

Chandigarh, Feb 8 (IANS) Former Haryana police chief S.P.S. Rathore, convicted of molesting teenager Ruchika Girhotra in 1990, was stabbed in the face by a youth wielding a sharp-edged weapon outside the district court complex here Monday. 

A senior executive with a multinational bank was arrested on February 3 for allegedly sexually harassing a junior executive at work for over a month. 

Melbourne, Feb 8 (IANS) In an overhaul of the immigration policy, Australia will cancel 20,000 visa applications from foreign nationals, including Indians, who have been staying in the country under the existing skilled migration programme. 

London, Feb 6 (IANS) Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan isn't intimidated by the full body-scan machines that have been recently installed at London's airports - in fact, he's been signing off printouts of his X-rays. 

Mumbai, Feb 5 (PTI) Congress MP Rahul Gandhi's ride on a suburban train during his visit today to connect with the commuters came in for praise from local politicians, who hailed the gesture as "bold and practical". 

New Delhi, Feb 9 (IANS) Chief ministers of several states had opposed the introduction of Bt Brinjal in India, citing threats to health, Ayurveda and livelihoods of small farmers. 

New Delhi, Feb 8 (PTI) Indian economy is expected to grow at a faster rate than neighbouring China in the near future, a top Chinese official said today. 

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London, February 7 (ANI): Facebook is a hot favourite amongst mobile users in the UK, with the social networking website accounting for nearly half of all the time spent using phones, according to figures from a mobile industry body. 

New Delhi, Feb 7 (PTI) A day after taking a jibe at the Centre over its "helplessness" on price rise, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today was found complimenting Home Minister P Chidambaram and Home Secretary G K Pillai for their approach in tackling terror. 

London, Feb 7 (ANI): It may soon be possible to transform communication among speakers of the world's 6,000-plus languages - all thanks to Google which is developing software for the first phone capable of translating foreign languages instantly. 

Munich, Feb 7 (DPA) Unlike politicians, operating systems (OS) don't get a honeymoon with the general public. Windows 7 has been on the market for almost 100 days now, so - as in politics - it's a good time to review how the software has performed so far. The results are largely positive. 

Premier Yousuf Raza Gilani has highlighted the need for India and Pakistan to end their "long legacy of hostility and distrust" and work towards a peaceful resolution of the Kashmir issue as he sought a "meaningful and result-oriented dialogue" between the two sides. 

New Delhi, Feb 6 (IANS) The Shiv Sena has no right to ask Shah Rukh Khan to go to Pakistan, says 83-year-old freedom fighter Trilochan Singh, pointing out that the Bollywood superstar's father was a prominent Quit India movement activist who chose to migrate to Delhi from Peshawar during partiti 

Washington, Nov 16 (IANS) Ajmal Amir Kasab, the sole surviving terrorist of the group of ten sent by the Pakistan based terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba to attack Mumbai, says his father essentially sold him into the group. 

New Delhi, Nov 15 (PTI) Over 2.4 lakh aspirants will vie for entry to the prestigious IIMs, the Common Admission Test (CAT) for which will be computer-based for the first time this year. 

Washington, Nov 15 (ANI): Only a few everyday choices about diet, exercise and tobacco use can dramatically reduce a person's risk of cancer, according to a Special Report on Cancer Prevention. 

Saroj Kumar Pattnaik New Delhi, Nov 15 (PTI) Almost non-existent a few years ago in the country, stem cell banking is now a flourishing business with more and more people wishing to store their baby's cord blood as a form of bio-insurance, even though it comes at a heavy price. 

Washington, Nov 14 (IANS) The world won't be coming to an end on December 21, 2012, as said to be darkly predicted by the Mayan calendar, says an astronomer. 

Washington, November 14 (ANI): If US company Terrafugia has its way, the world's first road-registered, air-worthy, flying car could be on the highways and in the skies by the year 2011. 

Forty-five years after Jawaharlal Nehru's death, has history done him justice? Regrettably not. In surveys that rank India's best prime minister, he is placed below his daughter, and on some occasions he figures third. This is preposterous. 

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