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A battle won

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BJP retired hurt in Maharashtra

The BJP loses the power game in Maharashtra in the face of rare opposition unity and critical judicial intervention.
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(FILES) This undated handout picture from India's Reliance Industries shows a general view of a refinery at Jamnagar, some 400kms west of Ahmedabad.  India's largest private sector firm Reliance Industries said March 2, 2009, that it would buy out its subsidiary to create a crude refining giant in the country's biggest-ever merger. The share-swap with Reliance Petroleum will produce the world's sixth-biggest refiner and signal 'a significant step in our goal to be among the world's largest global corporations,' said Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) chairman Mukesh Ambani. The merger will unlock 'significant operational and financial synergies' between RIL and Reliance Petroleum and marks the country's biggest ever such amalgamation, RIL said in a statement. AFP PHOTO/HO/RELIANCE INDUSTRIES - RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - GETTY OUT

Land conquests

With a compliant government in Gujarat, Reliance faced little hurdle in acquiring agricultural land for its Jamnagar SEZ, but its plan for a massive S
ANUPAMA KATAKAM in Mumbai

Silent machines

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Shah Rukh Khan arrives for the screening of his film 'My Name is Khan' at the 60th Berlinale International Film Festival in Berlin on February 12.-THOMAS PETER/REUTERS

Cut to size

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Chabad encounter

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Freedom at stake

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Silent partitions

The divisions caused by decades of communal strife are partly responsible for the terror in Mumbai.
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