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Titanic items to be sold 100 years after sinking

Artifacts from Titanic ship are to be auctioned in April, close to the 100th anniversary of the disa...

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JPC to question Fin Secy over 2G auction

Finance Secretary RS Gujaral will appear before Joint Parliamentary Committee over the controversial...

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‘Will take steps to stop Prasad`s watch auction’

PM Manmohan Singh has assured Bihar CM that Centre will take all steps for stopping the auction of f...

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“Auction of spectrum would have prevented 2G scam”

Renowned economist Jagdish Bhagwati today said the use of "market-using" reforms would have preven...

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Checklist from Apollo 13 sells for USD 388,375

A checklist used by Apollo 13 commander James Lovell to make calculations that helped guide the dama...

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New 2G twist: Joshi `disfavoured` spectrum auction

Congress released a letter written by senior BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi in Dec 2007 in which h...

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Saddam`s bronze buttock up for auction in Britain

Auctioneer Charles Hanson called the bronze body part a "piece of modern history".

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Rajendra Prasad`s wristwatch to go on auction

A historic wrist watch once owned by India`s first president Dr Rajendra Prasad will be put on auct...

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New norms now for stray cattle auction: MCD to HC

City civic body MCD told the Delhi HC that it has framed a set of new norms to ensure that stray cat...

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100 flats at CWG village to go under hammer

Delhi Development Authority will soon put to auction 100 flats at the Commonwealth Games village t...

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Churchill`s painting auctioned off for over £313K

Churchill had gifted the painting to his chief military adviser during the Second World War.

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Soviet space capsule sells for nearly USD 3 million

The spherical Vostok 3KA-2 Space Capsule went under the hammer yesterday at Sotheby`s for USD 2.88 m...

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MCD may auction cars if used vehicle sellers encroach space

After carrying out several drives against second-hand car dealers who encroach on public space, th...

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Parents put up for auction in Pakistan

Five siblings put up their old parents for auction as the family had nothing to eat.

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Gandhi memorabilia auction worth over Rs 15 lakh

As many as 11 lots of Mahatma Gandhi memorabilia, including signed notes, letters and a khadi clot...

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Sand auctioning in Karnataka to begin from April 1

Karnataka will introduce its new sand mining policy from this April 1 under which the construction...

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Ahmadinejad`s car gets $1 mn bid

The 1977 white Peugeot sedan is being auctioned to fund housing projects for disabled.

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Brazil police probe virginity auctions

Bidders in virginity auctions preferred girls between the ages of 10 and 16.

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First Apple computer sells for £130K at auction

One of the first batch of Apple personal computers has fetched £130K at an auction in London.

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Qianlong-dynasty Chinese vase found in UK, sold for $69 mn

The auctioneer said it was a mystery how the 16-inch high piece ended up in London.

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Titanic survivor`s tale of disaster sold at British auction

An account of sinking of Titanic written by a survivor, an aristocrat`s secy has sold for 20k pounds...

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London auction: Gandhi photos fetch 2,880 pounds

Rare photographs of Mahatma Gandhi, taken during the Quit India movement days, sold for 2,880 poun...

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Hitler`s early paintings to go under the hammer

The early artworks were painted around 1908 when the Nazi dictator was a struggling artist.

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Elvis’ Mercedes to be auctioned

It is one of the few cars that the King of Rock registered in his own name.

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No legal provision to halt auction of Tagore paintings: Govt

Government did not make any effort to stop 12 rare paintings of Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore...

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Tipu Sultan throne finial to be auctioned

A gem-encrusted gold finial from the decorated throne of Tipu Sultan and an eyewitness account of th...

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Items from Diana`s family homes sold for USD 32 mln

A collection of paintings, antiques and assorted household items owed by the aristocratic family of ...

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Auctioned prop not under Consumer Protection Act

A buyer of an auctioned property cannot take the benefit of the Consumer Protection Act complainin...

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Kher`s sculpture gets under a mn pounds at Sotheby`s

A life-sized elephant in a crouched position by UK-born Indian sculptor Bharti Kher fetched over £90...

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Jackson`s belongings earn big at auction

An auction of pop legend Micheal Jackson`s belongings on his first death anniversary in Las Vegas in...

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Picasso work top sale at British auction

A celebrated masterpiece by Pablo Picasso sold at Christie`s auction house in London for 34.8 millio...

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Tagore paintings sold for 1.6 mn pounds

Twelve rare paintings by Tagore were auctioned at a whopping 1.6 million pounds on Tuesday.

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Diana dress fetches $276,000 at auction

The black taffeta dress worn by Princess Diana fetched 192,000 pounds.

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Chinese calligraphy fetches record USD 64 million

An antique calligraphy handscroll by Song Dynasty master Huang Tingjian fetched a record price of ...

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Govt yet to take a decision on Tagore paintings

With just 15 days left for the auction at the Sotheby`s in which 12 of Rabindranath Tagore`s paint...

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Sotheby`s to auction Tagore paintings

Rabindranath Tagore’s 12 paintings will be auctioned on June 15 in London by Sotheby`s as planned.

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Govt will examine Tagore works auction issue: PM

Amid demands from several quarters to stop the auction of paintings of Nobel laureate Rabindranath T...

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3G: RC, Bharti win big; Govt gets 67710 cr

The auction for 3G mobile licence closed, leaving govt with 67710 cr - twice the revenue expected.

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`Online auction to discard obsolete articles and machines`

Delhi Government today decided to follow a "transparent mechanism" under which obsolete articles a...

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Picasso painting sets auction record of $106.4 mn

A 1932 painting by Pablo Picasso sold Tuesday night in New York for $106.5 million, a new world reco...

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Will 3G usher in a telecom revolution?

Will the world of common man undergo a change with arrival of this latest software gizmo?

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Why was Tharoor’s aide present at IPL auction? : BJP

The BJP spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad on Friday demanded an answer from Prime Minister Manmohan S...

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Finally, 3G spectrum auction begins

The much-awaited, first-ever auction of radio frequency spectrum for third generation (3G) telephony...

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Superman comic sells for record 1.5 million dollars

Superman became the 1.5 million dollar man Monday, when a rare copy of the first comic to feature th...

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E-auctioning to be introduced at Guntur tobacco market

Tobacco Board will introduce electronic auctioning to check malpractices in the manual auctioning ...

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Auction of Modi`s gift articles gets good response

The auction of gift articles belonging to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, which began from t...

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Flag at President Mandela`s inauguration saved from auction

The flag which flew at Nelson Mandela`s inauguration as the first black president of South Africa ...

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Kieron Pollard… Who?

The auction of the third season of the Indian Premier League created a furore; not only in Pakistan ...

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New Zealand virgin auctions herself for tuition

A New Zealand teenager who says she auctioned her virginity online for $32,000 to raise tuition mone...

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3G spectrum auction put off till Sept

The govt has postponed to the next fiscal auction of spectrum for 3G telephony.

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