Walmart Fires Medical Marijuana Brain Cancer Patient
March 18th, 2010 - 11:57 pm ICT by Angela Kaye Mason
Mar 18 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Joseph Casias has sinus cancer and an inoperable brain tumor. Despite that he has still been working full time at Walmart in Battle Creek Michigan, and ... Read more...
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Government will use food stocks to soften prices: Montek
March 18th, 2010 - 11:56 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 18 (IANS) Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia Thursday said food inflation continues to be matter of worry and the government would use food stocks to soften ... Read more...
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Amarr Upadhyay : TV’s eternal step husband?
March 18th, 2010 - 11:49 pm ICT by Sampurn Wire
He was once the ideal and first choice as groom for most TV brides. However, that's changed now with Amarr Upadhyay being offered the role of a step husband for the ... Read more...
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American infertility clinic is offering free eggs from an US woman to Britishers
March 18th, 2010 - 11:48 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
London, Mar 18 (THAINDIAN NEWS) An American infertility clinic is planning to expand its business in Britain, by offering free eggs from an US woman. They offered the free eggs at a ... Read more...
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Shah Rukh receives Global Entertainment award
March 18th, 2010 - 11:47 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, March 18 (IANS) Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan was presented the Global Entertainment and Media Personality award at the FICCI Frames 2010 Excellence Awards here Thursday.
"Thank you so much to ... Read more...
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Parents beat up principal for seeking sexual favours
March 18th, 2010 - 11:47 pm ICT by IANS
Raipur, March 18 (IANS) Several parents of a private school in Chhattisgarh beat up a 50-year-old principal Thursday, after girls complained to their families that he was seeking sexual favours from them, ... Read more...
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Britney Spears And Jason Trawick Split Up ?
March 18th, 2010 - 11:45 pm ICT by Pen Men At Work
Mar 18 (Pen Men at Work): Supposedly, pop vocalist Britney Spears has become solitary once more. This is a consequence of Britney and her manager-cum-boyfriend Jason Trawick breaking up. According ... Read more...
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Bullock Will Not Attend The London Premiere Of ‘The Blind Side’
March 18th, 2010 - 11:43 pm ICT by Pen Men At Work
Mar 18 (Pen Men at Work): Sandra Bullock has called off her emergence at the London premiere of ‘The Blind Side’ some days subsequent to Internet gossip. The gossip asserted ... Read more...
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Donna Simpson to aim to be the world’s fattest woman in 2 years
March 18th, 2010 - 11:42 pm ICT by Pen Men At Work
Mar 18 (Pen Men at Work): Donna Simpson is overweight and swollen with pride about that. The 42-year-old already possesses the whopping weight of 273kg. She has given her word ... Read more...
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Texas Rangers’ Manager Analyzed As Positive for Cocaine
March 18th, 2010 - 11:40 pm ICT by Pen Men At Work
Mar 18 (Pen Men at Work): It has been exposed that Texas Rangers’ Ron Washington has tested positive for a debarred material during the team’s previous season.
This information has not ... Read more...
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American Senate Approves The Jobs Bill Designed To Diminish Joblessness
March 18th, 2010 - 11:39 pm ICT by Pen Men At Work
Mar 18 (Pen Men at Work): Businesses that take into service jobless people will obtain a provisional payroll tax holiday. This is on the word of a bill that effortlessly achieved ... Read more...
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“The Apprentice” to make a comeback
March 18th, 2010 - 11:38 pm ICT by Pen Men At Work
Mar 18 (Pen Men at Work): NBC has realized that the need to hire common people is greater than employing second-tier celebs. They have announced plans to bring back Donald ... Read more...
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Rhode Island man sentenced for filing false tax returns
March 18th, 2010 - 11:37 pm ICT by BNO News
PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND (BNO NEWS) – A resident of South Kingstown, Rhode Island was sentenced on Thursday to five years in probation, the first five to be served on home confinement, for ... Read more...
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Kashmiris condole death of India’s envoy to Italy
March 18th, 2010 - 11:37 pm ICT by IANS
Srinagar, March 18 (IANS) India's ambassador to Italy Arif S. Khan, who passed away in Rome Wednesday, had a strong Kashmir connection.
Khan, 58, an Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer of 1975 batch, ... Read more...
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Telugu film industry withdraws shutdown call against piracy
March 18th, 2010 - 11:37 pm ICT by IANS
Hyderabad, March 18 (IANS) The Telugu film industry Thursday withdrew its shutdown call to protest against piracy and producer Yalamanchi Ravichand also called off his fast-unto-death after the Andhra Pradesh government assured ... Read more...
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All schools in India to have an IT teacher, says Sibal
March 18th, 2010 - 11:36 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 18 (IANS) All secondary schools in India will have a computer teacher each and the central government will bear the related expenses, Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal ... Read more...
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Apple Director Jerome B. York Dies
March 18th, 2010 - 11:33 pm ICT by Angela Kaye Mason
Mar 18 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Jerome B. York, who was best known as Jerry York, was hospitalized yesterday after collapsing in his home in Detroit. He passed away On March ... Read more...
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POSCO seeks Orissa government help in land acquisition
March 18th, 2010 - 11:26 pm ICT by IANS
Bhubaneswar, March 18 (IANS) South Korean steel major POSCO, which proposes to set up a $12 billion steel plant in Orissa, has sought the state government's help in acquiring land for its ... Read more...
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Efforts continue to pull boy out from borewell (Lead)
March 18th, 2010 - 11:26 pm ICT by IANS
Bhopal, March 18 (IANS) About 48 hours after a six-year-old boy fell into a 400-foot deep borewell in Madhya Pradesh's Ratlam district, rescue efforts were still on and the army's help has ... Read more...
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Apple board member Jerome York dies at 71
March 18th, 2010 - 11:22 pm ICT by BNO News
CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA (BNO NEWS) -- Apple Inc. board member Jerome York has died aged 71, the company said on Thursday.
York was hospitalized on Tuesday in Pontiac, Michigan because of brain aneurysm.
York, ... Read more...
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2,500 foreign tourists visited Chhattisgarh
March 18th, 2010 - 11:21 pm ICT by IANS
Raipur, March 18 (IANS) About 2,500 foreign tourists visited Chhattisgarh in the past two years, a minister told the state assembly Thursday.
"As many as 1,147 foreign nationals visited Chhattisgarh's tourist sites in ... Read more...
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Two CRPF troopers killed as Maoists trigger blast (Lead)
March 18th, 2010 - 11:18 pm ICT by IANS
Raipur, March 18 (IANS) Two Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) troopers were killed and three others were injured in a blast Maoist insurgents triggered Thursday in a thickly forested area in Chhattisgarh.
"CRPF ... Read more...
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Thieves Take $75M In Prescription Pills At Warehouse Heist
March 18th, 2010 - 11:16 pm ICT by Angela Kaye Mason
Mar 18 (THAINDIAN NEWS) The description sounds like something out of Hollywood. Thieves cut a hole in the roof of a warehouse, and then rappelled down inside the building and made off ... Read more...
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Another illegal mobile phone tower sealed in Delhi
March 18th, 2010 - 11:15 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Mar 18 (IANS) The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) Thursday sealed one more illegal mobile phones tower in central Delhi. Over 220 such illegal mobile phone towers have already been ... Read more...
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Draft food security bill cleared
March 18th, 2010 - 11:15 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 18 (IANS) The Empowered Group of Ministers (eGoM) Thursday night cleared the draft Food Security Bill, which envisages that every Below Poverty Line (BPL) family in the country ... Read more...
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Two school girls die after eating ‘poisoned’ lunch
March 18th, 2010 - 11:15 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, March 19 (IANS) Two Class 4 girls collapsed during the lunch break in school Thursday and died. It is being alleged that they were poisoned by one of their classmates, police ... Read more...
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BJP declines to comment on Shatrughan’s remarks
March 18th, 2010 - 11:15 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 18 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Thursday declined to comment on party MP Shatrughan Sinha's remarks on the composition of the new team of office-bearers announced ... Read more...
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Three arrested with leopard skins in Uttar Pradesh
March 18th, 2010 - 11:09 pm ICT by IANS
Lucknow, March 18 (IANS) Three men associated with an international wildlife poaching racket were arrested Thursday with three leopard skins in Uttar Pradesh's Basti district, police said.
The three men were nabbed near ... Read more...
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Police open fire in air as tribals storm outpost
March 18th, 2010 - 11:05 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, March 18 (IANS) Police fired in the air after a group of pro-Maoists tribals tried to force their way into a police outpost in West Midnapore district Thursday.
The tribals, owing allegiance ... Read more...
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Mall wanted Rs.2.5 lakh an hour to allow shooting, says Lakhia
March 18th, 2010 - 11:01 pm ICT by IANS
By Subhash K. Jha
Mumbai, March 18 (IANS) Shooting at public places in Mumbai seems to be becoming difficult, thanks to exorbitant rent rates. This, director Apoorva Lakhia discovered when he decided to ... Read more...
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Chavan, ministers walk to assembly, leave cars at gates
March 18th, 2010 - 11:00 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, March 18 (IANS) Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan, his cabinet colleagues and other senior officials Thursday parked their official vehicles outside the gates of the state legislature and walked down to ... Read more...
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Sundarbans fisherman seriously injured in tiger attack
March 18th, 2010 - 11:00 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, March 18 (IANS) A fisherman, severely mauled by a tiger Thursday in the Sundarban forests of West Bengal, is now battling for life in a state-run hospital.
The big cat attacked the ... Read more...
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Robbers loot Rs.five lakh from petrol vend employees
March 18th, 2010 - 10:52 pm ICT by IANS
Ghaziabad, March 18 (IANS) Armed robbers looted cash worth Rs.5 lakh from the manager of a petrol retail outlet here, police said Thursday.
The incident occurred Wednesday in Kavi Nagar's Shastri Nagar locality. ... Read more...
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Violence breaks out in Uganda after royal tombs are destroyed in fire
March 18th, 2010 - 10:49 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Kampala, Mar 18 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Violence has spread in Uganda after 4 royal tombs were destroyed in a fire. The fire has sadly destroyed most of the UNESCO World Heritage site, ... Read more...
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Literature plays important role in building strong, enlightened society: President Patil
March 18th, 2010 - 10:47 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, Mar 18 (ANI): President Pratibha Patil on Thursday said that literature plays an important role in building a strong and enlightened society.Addressing the gathering after presenting the prestigious Moortidevi ... Read more...
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