April 28th, 2008 - 4:23 pm ICT by Santosh Singh
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According to the new video evidence found , Harbhajan Singh has been temporarily suspended from taking part in IPL .
Lalit Modi the IPL chairman said on Saturday that "Based on prima facie video evidence as seen and reviewed by the match adjudicator and referee Farokh Engineer from the tapes provided ...
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April 26th, 2008 - 6:47 pm ICT by admin
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An Indian Team player Harbhajan Singh has allegedly slapped his own Indian team mate Sreesanth.
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April 26th, 2008 - 4:27 pm ICT by Santosh Singh
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An Indian Team player Harbhajan Singh has allegedly slapped his own Indian team mate Sreesanth.
Now, most of you would be wondering why this has happened. It looks similar to another incident a couple of years ago where Shoaib Akhtar, a Pakistani cricket player had hit his own team mate ...
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April 24th, 2008 - 11:01 am ICT by amritpal
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IPL's weekend match at Kolkata was supposed to be a magnanimous occasion where Shah Rukh Khan's Kolkata Knight Riders was to take on Hyderabad's Deccan chargers. To the surprise of everyone from - Symonds to Ganguly, the pitch was found to be cracked and the ball was behaving erratically from ...
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April 1st, 2008 - 10:50 am ICT by admin
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By V. Krishnaswamy
Some of the very best golfers in the world are hotfooting it to India, not for a holiday but to play in the biggest professional events in the region. As Indian golf comes of age and becomes more than just a game played by the elite, Indian tournaments ...
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April 1st, 2008 - 10:50 am ICT by admin
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By Azera Rahman
On the fringes of India's border with Pakistan is the vast marshland called Kutch, a wasteland of breathtaking beauty that is home to a hardy, creative people who are not only rewriting rules of gender and hierarchy but have made it the region with the highest density of ...
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April 1st, 2008 - 10:49 am ICT by admin
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By Jatindra Dash
He is the man behind crafting an abiding art form on shifting sands. Sudarsan Patnaik from India's eastern state of Orissa is only 31 but is singularly responsible for an entire genre of art - painstakingly creating not sandcastles but lavish sculptures that range from the contemporary to ...
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April 1st, 2008 - 10:40 am ICT by admin
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By Azera Rahman
Most of them are illiterate and, with a veil covering their faces, many conform to a stereotype. But a growing number of women in India's 600,000 odd villages are harbingers of change at the grassroots - raising their voice against alcoholism among men, and fighting for educating girls ...
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April 1st, 2008 - 10:39 am ICT by admin
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By Anuradha Shukla
A decade ago, Noida was little more than a scrubland just outside India's national capital, New Delhi. Today, it is a booming township with unending concrete structures and is home to several multinationals. This metamorphosis of Noida in many ways symbolises India's booming realty industry, estimated at $15 ...
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April 1st, 2008 - 10:30 am ICT by admin
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By Minu Jain
Sixty years after he died, Mahatma Gandhi lives on in India. Not just in the many roads and institutions named after him, not just in the many speeches deifying him but in spirit and thought - ever so often forcing introspection as the country of a billion plus ...
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April 1st, 2008 - 10:30 am ICT by admin
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By Madhusree Chatterjee
"Bulla, I know not, who I am
Not a believer inside the mosque,
Nor a pagan disciple of fake rites
Not the pure among the impure...
Neither fire, nor from air is my birth" These secular lyrics penned by Sufi mystic Baba Bulleh Shah in the 17th century and set to music ...
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April 1st, 2008 - 10:29 am ICT by admin
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By Azera Rahman
It is the setting for India's grand state banquets, the imposing address where India meets visiting world leaders. Once the palace of a prince, Hyderabad House has seen it all over the last seven decades. Representing the best of Indian culture and craft, it is one more magnificent ...
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April 1st, 2008 - 10:28 am ICT by admin
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By M.R. Narayan Swamy
Economic, social and cultural ties between the two Asian giants are blooming again, quietly overriding the contentious political and border issues as India and China seek out their rightful roles in a changing global order. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's recent official visit to Beijing -- his ...
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April 1st, 2008 - 10:28 am ICT by admin
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By Dipankar De Sarkar
Every year thousands of the world's top executives, politicians and strategic thinkers take time off their busy schedule and gather for five days of agenda-setting discussions in a plush mountain resort in northern Switzerland. Here they talk mostly about global economics and business, mull over looming problems ...
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April 1st, 2008 - 10:20 am ICT by admin
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By Azera Rahman
The excited chatter, the many languages uniting to make a cheerful babble and the riot of colour tell the India tale. In the weeks before India celebrates its Republic Day on Jan 26 to mark its emergence as a sovereign republic, thousands of children and youth congregate in ...
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April 1st, 2008 - 10:19 am ICT by admin
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By Madhusree and Arpana
From giant screens in distant theatres to little ones that can hide in the palm of the hand for your very own private viewing, Indians have made the leap with the country's $11 billion entertainment industry switching to the digital mode. Welcome to the new age of ...
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April 1st, 2008 - 10:18 am ICT by admin
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By Sarwar Kashani
The hills of India's Kashmir Valley are alive with the sound of fun and laughter this winter. When the snowflakes fall and the leafy green slopes are painted white, thousands head to Jammu and Kashmir's Gulmarg area for skiing, heliskiing and for sheer pleasure. It is a state ...
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April 1st, 2008 - 10:18 am ICT by admin
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By Arvind Padmanabhan
It is a nano car driving mega dreams, not just in India but the world over. The global auto industry and millions of aspiring car owners in India woke up one wintry January to one of the most exciting entrepreneurial developments in decades when Tata Motors unveiled their ...
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April 1st, 2008 - 2:53 am ICT by admin
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By Arvind Padmanabhan
Powering an enviable nine percent plus growth for the Indian economy, India Inc. has begun to show an unprecedented appetite for business consolidation, sparking a wave of big-ticket global mergers and acquisitions valued at an impressive $70 billion last year. And with the country's farm economy - which ...
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February 14th, 2008 - 11:37 am ICT by admin
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Bangalore, Feb 14 Yahoo! India, the Indian subsidiary of the global search engine and news portal Yahoo! Inc., has sacked 45 employees across various levels for their poor performance.
A company source told IANS on condition of anonymity that the termination was an ongoing exercise under a pruning processes and included ...
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February 12th, 2008 - 10:46 pm ICT by admin
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Mumbai, Feb 12 (IANS) The recent cold wave sweeping across Mumbai and other parts of India could be attributed to global warming, experts said Tuesday here at an environmental conference.
Addressing the "Combat Global Warming" conference at the Indian Merchants Chamber (IMC) here, former union minister for power and environment Suresh ...
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February 9th, 2008 - 7:55 pm ICT by admin
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Kathmandu/New Delhi, Feb 9 (IANS) Under pressure from Indian authorities, Nepal Saturday deported kidney racket kingpin Amit Kumar to India after revising an earlier decision to try him in Nepal for violating local laws.
He was expected to arrive in New Delhi around 7.30 p.m.
Indian embassy officials in Kathmandu told IANS ...
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February 7th, 2008 - 11:32 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, Feb 7 (IANS) A lawyer Thursday moved the Supreme Court seeking direction to the Election Commission to derecognise Raj Thackeray's Maharashtra Navanirman Sena (MNS) for his controversial remarks against north Indians last week.
Advocate Arvind Shukla is likely to apprise the bench of Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan of his ...
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February 6th, 2008 - 9:29 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, Feb 6 (IANS) India's non-playing captain Leander Paes Wednesday said that in his absence the onus is on his estranged partner Mahesh Bhupathi to carry the country's flag in the crucial Asia-Oceania Group I Davis Cup tie against Uzbekistan, starting Friday.
The veteran Davis Cupper also expressed his happiness ...
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February 6th, 2008 - 5:50 pm ICT by admin
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Mumbai, Feb 6 (IANS) Mumbai Police have arrested a 25-year-old man for allegedly raping a four-year-old child living in his neighbourhood.
Liyaqat was arrested Tuesday night after residents of the locality near Santacruz, northwest Mumbai, tonsured his head and handed him over to the police.
The police said Liyaqat had lured the ...
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February 6th, 2008 - 3:34 pm ICT by admin
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By P.K. Balachandran
Colombo, Feb 6 (IANS) Tamil Tiger guerrillas attacked the Sri Lankan navy off Talaimannar in the northwest using a hijacked Indian fishing boat, a spokesman for the navy said Wednesday. But Indian authorities believe the firing was not done from an Indian boat but from a Tamil Tiger ...
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February 6th, 2008 - 12:13 am ICT by admin
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Mumbai, Feb 5 (IANS) Reliance Mutual Fund bagged Fund of the Year award in the equity category in the fifth ICRA Mutual Fund Awards 2008 held in Mumbai Tuesday.
In the debt category, ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund was awarded as the fund of the year.
Reliance Mutual fund also picked up six ...
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February 5th, 2008 - 1:09 am ICT by admin
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Jaipur, Feb 4 (IANS) Unfazed by reports of their house getting attacked in Mumbai, the Bachchan family has gathered in the city to celebrate the birthday of Abhishek on Tuesday.
"Amitabh has come here, and so have Jaya, Aishwarya and Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh," a source told IANS here Monday.
The ...
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February 4th, 2008 - 12:14 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, Feb 4 (IANS) When people in 19 states in the US vote in the Democratic primaries on Super Tuesday, they will be joined for the first time by their comrades living abroad - including party members in India.
A popular seafood restaurant in south Delhi's Lodhi Colony will be ...
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February 4th, 2008 - 11:56 am ICT by admin
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Guwahati, Feb 4 (IANS) Two people were killed and three injured when tribal militants opened indiscriminate fire in a village in Assam and set ablaze five houses before escaping, officials said Monday.
A police spokesman said suspected militants of the Jewel Gorlosa faction of the outlawed Dima Halam Daoga (DHD), popularly ...
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January 31st, 2008 - 8:27 pm ICT by admin
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Bangalore, Jan 31 (ANI): At least 200 people here have been admitted to various city hospitals over the last four days after they reported symptoms of gastroenteritis.
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January 31st, 2008 - 8:25 pm ICT by admin
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Darjeeling/Kolkata, Jan 31 (ANI): The fear of bird flu spread on Thursday gripped Darjeeling district of West Bengal as 38 chickens were found dead at Takdah village.
The total number of bird-flu hit districts in the state has gone up to 13 out of 19, despite the culling of birds being ...
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January 31st, 2008 - 5:37 pm ICT by admin
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Itanagar, Jan 31 (ANI): Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh will lay the foundation stone for the 3,000 MW Debang multipurpose hydroelectric project here today.
To be set up by National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) at a cost of Rs 17,656 crore, this hydropower-cum-flood moderation project envisages construction of a 288-meter high ...
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January 31st, 2008 - 5:36 pm ICT by admin
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Kohima, Jan 31 (ANI): Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) N Gopalaswami along with two Election Commissioners S Y Qureshi and Navin Chawla will today review poll preparedness for the March 5 Assembly polls in Nagaland.
During their three-day visit, members of the Commission will held meetings with representatives of recognised political parties ...
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January 16th, 2008 - 1:07 am ICT by amritpal
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So, the much awaited film "Bombay to Bangkok" is being released on 18th January and chances are that it will not get released in Bangkok.
On how will it fare in the world of TZP and Halla-Bol, I'd like to keep my fingers crossed. But I really wonder if ...
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January 13th, 2008 - 9:10 pm ICT by admin
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By Farooq Ganai
Jammu, (India) Jan 13 : As part of the Army Day which is celebrated on 15 January every year, a two day exhibition, aptly titled "Know Your Army" was organized by Tiger Division on 13 and 14.
The exhibition was inaugurated by Major General Sanjeev Loomba, GOC Tiger Division.
The ...
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January 9th, 2008 - 8:22 am ICT by admin
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Indian Education Exhibition 08 in Bangkok is a one-stop information event for learning about the variety of professional and vocational courses that NRI and Thailand students can pursue in reputed institutions of higher learning. Students, along with their parents will get an opportunity to personally interact with college administrators ...
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January 8th, 2008 - 12:54 pm ICT by
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BCCI today in its meetings will decide the contentious issues of Harbhjan Ban on three tests imposed at the witness the Aussie side only and ignoring the Indians point of view.Umpire Bucknors unfair one dozen decision and to carry him for the rest of series on the plea of ...
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January 8th, 2008 - 1:16 am ICT by
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BCCI filed an appeal with the ICC against the ban and asked the Indian team not to go to Canberra where a t
