"When the representations came, we readily agreed, " Times of India newspaper quoted Election Commissioner SY Qureishi as saying.

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Police arrived in the village at noon but the people holding Mr Brahma initially refused to hand him over, according to the Times of India newspaper.

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Spielberg, who is in India, told The Times of India newspaper that the film would be produced by his DreamWorks studio and the Mumbai-based Reliance Entertainment.

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Meanwhile, Azam Khan, a minister in the Uttar Pradesh government, resigned from his post as the person in charge of the festival, the Times of India newspaper reported.

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"Even during questioning, he could not sit comfortably and when questioned, he told the police that he was suffering from piles, " the Times of India newspaper quoted Mr Jangid as saying.

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The film maker, who last shot in India in 1977 for Close Encounters of The Third Kind, is reportedly planning to co-produce a movie with Reliance, according to the Times of India newspaper, that will be set in Kashmir, on the India- Pakistan border, a region whose scenic beauty is marred by ongoing strife.

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Now India's leading newspaper the Times of India has done an online poll of more than 20, 000 people and found that most of them favour the inclusion of the prime minister, senior judges and bureaucrats under the purview of the bill.

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But in second place in global web traffic are The Times of India and its sister publication, The Economic Times of India, not the Wall Street Journal or any Chinese newspaper for that matter.

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The kidnapping was reported by local newspaper The Times of India on Sunday.

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