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| • CPM sibling rivalry on minorities |
| New Delhi, July 29: The "favourite" communist son is threatening to undo the Bengal sibling's clawback project. |
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| • Tense at the tee, tipple at the table |
| It was bonding over beer at the Royal Calcutta Golf Club for KKN presents The Telegraph Golf Cup 2010 in association with Senbo and Ballantine's. Tournament director Brandon de Souza raises a toast on the penultimate day. |
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| • Legacy tussle shows at prayer |
| Jaipur, July 29: The royal divide in the battle of wills was manifest today in the attendance at Gayatri Devi's first death anniversary prayer. |
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| • Sachin enjoys, so does India |
| Colombo, July 29: The Sinhalese Sports Club wicket won't ever be the best promotional for Test cricket, but there can be no better advertisement for the oldest form of the sport than one Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar. |
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| • Robber run on unguarded train |
| Durgapur, July 29: In Sholay's Chambal-like badlands, train dacoits had to put logs on tracks; in Bengal they just pull the chain, get their accomplices in, take their time robbing passengers and then jump off without any railway employee or guard arriving to ask questions. |
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| • Hit for six: Kapil and Pakistan |
| New Delhi, July 29: British Prime Minister David Cameron hit Kapil Dev for a tennis-ball six, Pakistan for another hard-ball six and generally acquitted himself well by telling the hosts what they wanted to hear. |
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| • Unique ID pilot project in a week |
| Ranchi, July 29: Nandan Nilekani-headed Unique Identification Authority of India's (UIDAI) plan to pay rural job scheme wages by putting to use the unique ID number will have its pilot run in five blocks of Jharkhand within a week. |
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| • Police firing in school kills guardian |
| Islampur, July 29: A guardian was killed and at least two others suffered bullet injuries today when police opened fire on a school campus teeming with students and teachers, who had allegedly attacked the law enforcers and set at least nine vehicles afire. |
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| • Drought worries put Raj Bhavan on alert |
| Ranchi, July 29: Poor rainfall seems to be driving Jharkhand towards the inevitable though it is still shying away from declaring itself drought-hit, an announcement that will at least enable the state's disaster management department to undertake special measures. |
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