Salman pays tribute to Dara Singh, with a minute’s silence
July 12th, 2012 - 5:54 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, July 12 (IANS) Bollywood superstar Salman Khan along with other actors and media persons kept a minute of silence to pay tribute to Dara Singh, who died Thursday ... Read more...
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Muslim Brotherhood’s Morsi wins Egyptian presidency (Lead)
June 25th, 2012 - 2:54 am ICT by IANS
Cairo, June 25 (IANS) Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood party won the presidential election here Sunday by defeating his rival Ahmed Shafiq, ex-premier and a senior leader of Hosni ... Read more...
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Mohamed Morsi wins Egyptian presidential election
June 25th, 2012 - 2:49 am ICT by IANS
Cairo, June 25 (IANS) Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood party won the presidential election here Sunday.Head of Egypt's Higher Presidential Election Commission (HPEC) Farouq Sultan announced in the afternoon ... Read more...
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Italian handball player commits suicide
June 4th, 2012 - 2:49 pm ICT by IANS
Rome, June 4 (IANS) A player of the Italian national handball team, Alessio Bisori, died Sunday and is thought to have committed suicide.The 24-year-old was found dead under a train ... Read more...
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Three kids dead, 15 hurt in Russia accident
May 14th, 2012 - 9:37 am ICT by IANS
Moscow, May 14 (IANS) At least three children were killed and another 15 injured after a school bus collided with another bus in Russia, officials said.The accident took place Sunday ... Read more...
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Mexico seeks to protect journalists, rights activists
May 2nd, 2012 - 11:48 am ICT by IANS
Mexico City, May 2 (IANS/EFE) The lower house of the Mexican Congress approved a bill that includes urgent measures to protect journalists and human rights defenders.The measure, which now goes ... Read more...
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France observes minute of silence for shooting victims
March 20th, 2012 - 6:36 pm ICT by IANS
Paris, March 20 (IANS) All French schools Tuesday observed a minute of silence in memory of three children and a teacher killed outside a Jewish school in the southwestern French ... Read more...
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Australia holds 9/11 ceremony
September 11th, 2011 - 7:28 pm ICT by IANS
Sydney, Sep 11 (IANS) Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard Sunday joined the US ambassador to the country at a ceremony held in the capital Canberra on the 10th anniversary ... Read more...
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9/11 commemoration begins with minute of silence
September 11th, 2010 - 8:08 pm ICT by IANS
New York, Sep 11 (DPA) The commemorative ceremony for the nearly 3,000 people killed by terrorists nine years ago began Saturday with a minute of silence at 8:46 a.m., marking the exact ... Read more...
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Japan observes 65th anniversary of Nagasaki bombing
August 9th, 2010 - 11:18 am ICT by IANS
Tokyo, Aug 9 (DPA) Nagasaki marked the 65th anniversary of the US atomic bombing of the Japanese port city Monday, in which about 74,000 people were killed.
The ceremony observed a minute of ... Read more...
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Thousands gather for Gay Pride parade in Israel
June 11th, 2010 - 6:12 pm ICT by IANS
Tel Aviv, June 11 (DPA) Thousands gathered Friday amid a large police presence at a park here for the city's annual Gay Pride parade.
The event came one year after a masked, unidentified ... Read more...
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Six including a general killed in Brazil chopper collision
April 21st, 2010 - 7:16 am ICT by IANS
Bogota, April 21 (IANS/EFE) A general and five other military personnel were killed Tuesday when two helicopters collided over the southern Brazilian province of Tolima, the Colombian army said.
Five people were wounded ... Read more...
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UN mourns 101 staffers killed in Haiti earthquake
March 9th, 2010 - 11:29 pm ICT by IANS
New York, March 9 (DPA) The United Nations mourned Tuesday 101 of its personnel who were killed by the devastating earthquake in Haiti in January.
"Today, we commemorate the single greatest loss the ... Read more...
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Thousands protest abortion law in Spain
March 8th, 2010 - 11:19 am ICT by IANS
Madrid, March 8 (IANS/EFE) Thousands of people took to the streets in nearly 100 cities Sunday to protest against abortion and demand the nullification of the new law recently approved in Spain ... Read more...
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Kashmir Solidarity Day observed in Pakistan
February 5th, 2010 - 6:52 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Feb 5 (IANS) Kashmiris in Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir Friday observed Kashmir Solidarity Day Friday to express their solidarity with the people of Kashmir.
The day was observed, as every ... Read more...
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UN to hold moment of silence at time of quake
January 20th, 2010 - 2:04 am ICT by IANS
New York, Jan 20 (DPA) A minute of silence was planned for Tuesday at 4:53 pm (0323 IST) at UN headquarters in New York to mark the time the magnitude-7 earthquake struck ... Read more...
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US remembers 9/11 attacks in sombre ceremonies (Second Lead)
September 12th, 2009 - 12:41 am ICT by IANS
New York/Washington, Sep 11 (DPA) Mourners in the US gathered Friday to remember the nearly 3,000 people killed in the Sep 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, as the anniversary was proclaimed a ... Read more...
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US remembers victims of 9/11 terrorist attacks (Lead)
September 11th, 2009 - 9:09 pm ICT by IANS
New York, Sep 11 (DPA) New York held a ceremony Friday on the eighth anniversary of the terrorist attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center's twin towers, killing more than 2,700 ... Read more...
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Karnataka pays homage to YSR, declares two-day mourning
September 3rd, 2009 - 5:37 pm ICT by IANS
Bangalore, Sep 3 (IANS) Karnataka Thursday expressed shock and sadness over the death of Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy in a chopper crash and declared a two-day mourning in his ... Read more...
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Hiroshima mayor calls for world free of nuclear weapons
August 6th, 2009 - 11:45 am ICT by IANS
Hiroshima, Aug 6 (DPA) Japan observed the 64th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima Thursday with an appeal for a nuclear weapons-free world.
Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba made an appeal for peace ... Read more...
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Stage 15 gets underway as Tour de France heads into the Alps
July 19th, 2009 - 6:34 pm ICT by IANS
Pontarlier (France), July 19 (DPA) The 15th stage of the 2009 Tour de France got underway Sunday in the city of Pontarlier, as the race began its decisive phase in the Alps ... Read more...
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Obama observes Memorial Day at Arlington
May 26th, 2009 - 12:50 am ICT by John Le Fevre
US President Barack Obama has paid tribute to the fighting men and woman of the United States who have died in battle at Arlington National Cemetery for Memorial Day 2009.Mr. Obama ... Read more...
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China remembers quake victims on first anniversary
May 12th, 2009 - 7:16 pm ICT by IANS
Yingxiu (China), May 12 (Xinhua) China Tuesday mourned the deaths of thousands of people who perished in a devastating earthquake that struck southwestern Sichuan province exactly a year ago.
A memorial function was ... Read more...
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I feel keenly pain and anger of Mumbai: Manmohan
January 17th, 2009 - 9:02 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, Jan 17 (IANS) As he addressed captains of industry at a hotel that was ravaged during the Mumbai terrorist attacks, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh recalled "three happy years" he had lived ... Read more...
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Text of PM’s speech at award function in Mumbai
January 17th, 2009 - 8:33 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, Jan 17 (IANS) Following is the text of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's speech at an award function organised by The Economic Times here Saturday: “This function, originally scheduled for November had ... Read more...
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China parades Olympic torch in tense Tibet (Lead)
June 22nd, 2008 - 1:25 am ICT by IANS
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Beijing, June 21 (DPA) The Olympic torch was paraded through Lhasa, the capital of China's Tibet region, under tight security and surveillance Saturday. At the beginning of the torch-lighting ceremony, hundreds of ... Read more...
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Olympic torch arrives in tense Tibet
June 21st, 2008 - 11:31 am ICT by IANS
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Beijing, June 21 (DPA) The Olympic torch arrived Saturday in a tense Tibet under tight security and surveillance. At the beginning of the ceremony at which the torch was lit, hundreds of ... Read more...
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Chinese TV covers Hong Kong Tiananmen vigil for first time
June 9th, 2008 - 12:51 pm ICT by IANS
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Hong Kong, June 9 (DPA) A candlelight vigil held yearly in Hong Kong to mark the anniversary of the 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in Beijing's Tiananmen Square was covered for the ... Read more...
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Olympic torch relay to mourn lost lives
May 14th, 2008 - 12:45 pm ICT by admin
New Delhi, May 14 (ANI): Attendants and torchbearers of the torch relay in each of the next 98 legs across China will dedicate one minute of silence to the lives lost ... Read more...
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