Metro rail? Start in Agra, say residents
March 28th, 2012 - 2:10 pm ICT by IANS
Agra, March 28 (IANS) With Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav suggesting a metro or mono rail in some cities, residents say the Taj city should be the first beneficiary.Long ... Read more...
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Chinese youths hire dates to please parents (Lead)
January 28th, 2012 - 6:55 pm ICT by IANS
Beijing, Jan 28 (IANS) The best gift a Chinese bachelor thinks he can take home for parents is a bride-to-be. Under parents' pressure to marry, many young men in China ... Read more...
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Chinese youth hire dates to please parents
January 28th, 2012 - 4:33 pm ICT by IANS
Beijing, Jan 28 (IANS) The best gift a Chinese bachelor can take home for parents is a bride-or-bridegroom-to-be. Being pressurised to marry, many bachelors in China opted to hire women ... Read more...
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Race attack: Indian students’ cars torched in Australia
July 14th, 2010 - 12:08 pm ICT by IANS
Sydney, July 14 (IANS) A group of international students, mostly Indians, in the Australian city of Adelaide are living in constant fear after a gang fire-bombed three of their cars Tuesday, the ... Read more...
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Plucky, the duck, survives 500-mile journey in van grille!
April 1st, 2010 - 4:42 pm ICT by ANI
London, April 1 (ANI): A duck survived a 400-mile long trip from Belgium to Britain while being stuck behind the radiator grille of a truck.Driver Paul Murphy assumed that he had ... Read more...
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UN launches mobile phone food aid programme for Iraqis in Syria
October 27th, 2009 - 9:03 pm ICT by IANS
Geneva, Oct 27 (DPA) The UN has launched a pilot programme to distribute food vouchers to Iraqi refugees in Syria using mobile phone technology, a spokesperson said Tuesday.
The 1,000 Iraqi families will ... Read more...
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National Commission for Women unveils its NRI cell
September 24th, 2009 - 5:55 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Sep 24 (IANS) The National Commission for Women (NCW) Thursday inaugurated its NRI cell to tackle the rising number of cases of abandonment and divorce of women married to ... Read more...
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Dutch trains to have security cameras
May 28th, 2008 - 11:38 pm ICT by admin
Xinhua
Brussels, May 28 (Xinhua) In a bid to tackle rising crimes in running trains, the Dutch railway company NS has panned to equip all trains with surveillance cameras, Dutch news agency ANP ... Read more...
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