September 30th, 2008 - 2:01 pm ICT by IANS
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Kathmandu, Sep 30 (IANS) Nepal's debutant Terai Madhes Loktantrik Party (TMLP), which emerged as the fifth largest party in the April general election, has been able to wrest a major tax relief ...
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September 11th, 2008 - 10:17 pm ICT by IANS
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New Delhi, Sep 11 (IANS) Seeking to dispel media speculation that Congress president Sonia Gandhi was taking up cudgels for the Bachchan family after the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena's latest attack on it, ...
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August 10th, 2008 - 1:25 pm ICT by IANS
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By Sudeshna Sarkar
Kathmandu, Aug 10 (IANS) After a feisty French lawyer, a former Nepali attorney-general, and a legal adviser of Nepali caretaker Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala, now the wife of a ...
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July 29th, 2008 - 3:37 pm ICT by IANS
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By Sudeshna Sarkar
Kathmandu, July 29 (IANS) The raging row in Nepal sparked by the vice-president taking his oath of office in Hindi last week turned into war Tuesday with the rift between ...
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July 26th, 2008 - 5:30 pm ICT by IANS
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By Sudeshna Sarkar
Kathmandu, July 26 (IANS) For the fourth day in a row Saturday, tumultuous protests continued in Kathmandu, the Terai plains and other regions of Nepal with thousands of students burning ...
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July 19th, 2008 - 9:56 am ICT by IANS
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By Imran Khan
Patna, July 19 (IANS) She is in her 70s, but age has not deterred Janaki Devi, a widow living in a Bihar town, from taking up cudgels for her pet ...
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July 5th, 2008 - 12:58 pm ICT by IANS
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By Sudeshna Sarkar
Kathmandu, July 5 (IANS) Plunged into a media whirlpool within hours of her engagement to criminal mastermind Charles Sobhraj becoming public, 20-year-old Nepali beauty Nihita Biswas Saturday took up cudgels ...
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June 24th, 2008 - 1:44 pm ICT by IANS
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By Darshan Desai
Kushinagar (Uttar Pradesh), June 24 (IANS) Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati's dream project of building the tallest Buddha statue in the world at 152 metres - taller than the Bamian ...
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June 24th, 2008 - 1:44 pm ICT by IANS
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By Darshan Desai
Kushinagar (Uttar Pradesh), June 24 (IANS) Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati's dream project of building the tallest Buddha statue in the world at 152 metres - taller than the Bamian ...
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May 22nd, 2008 - 6:07 pm ICT by admin
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By Sudeshna Sarkar
Kathmandu, May 22 (IANS) Even as protests over Nepal Maoists' slaying of a businessman started snow balling in the capital Kathmandu, the former guerrillas have been accused of hacking ...
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May 11th, 2008 - 10:47 pm ICT by admin
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Mumbai, May 11 (IANS) After railing against him umpteen times in the recent past, Shiv Sena mouthpiece Samana Sunday came out in support of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray for ...
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May 5th, 2008 - 11:18 am ICT by admin
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Santa Cruz (Bolivia), May 5 (IANS) At least 20 people were injured Sunday in violence during the referendum in this eastern Bolivian province which seeks more autonomy from the rest of the ...
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March 22nd, 2008 - 11:54 am ICT by admin
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By Amulya Ganguli
Taslima Nasreen's departure from India marks perhaps the lowest point in the history of Indian secularism. Significantly, it is not the supposedly anti-secular Hindutva brigade which has forced her into ...
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March 7th, 2008 - 10:47 am ICT by admin
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New Delhi, March 7 (IANS) Surrogate liquor and cigarette ads may be on their way out in India. Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss, who has taken up cudgels against tobacco and alcohol, said ...
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