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The document provides a weekly news summary covering several topics: 1) Tata Group donated $50 million to Harvard Business School, the largest gift from an international donor. Earlier, Anand Mahindra donated $10 million. 2) Security was heightened in Delhi during the Commonwealth Games to prevent potential attacks by al-Qaeda and Lashkar-e-Taiba planned for October 12-13. 3) The US Air Force's secret X-37B space shuttle went missing again after being in orbit for 173 days, fueling speculation about its purpose. 4) Punjab's finance minister Manpreet Singh Badal was removed from his position due to his comments about the state's large debt.
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