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November 5th, 2009 - 10:51 pm ICT by IANS
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Bangalore, Nov 5 (IANS) Sudha Murthy, wife of Infosys' Technologies co-founder N.R. Narayana Murthy, sold two million shares of her holding in the IT bellwether for over Rs.430 crore (Rs.4.3 billion/$91.5 million), ...
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November 4th, 2009 - 7:14 pm ICT by IANS
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New Delhi, Nov 4 (IANS) Delhi's public transport buses Wednesday began charging their new steeply hiked fares, affecting millions of mostly poor and lower income group commuters.
After announcing earlier that the revised ...
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November 4th, 2009 - 5:57 pm ICT by ANI
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London, Nov. 4 (ANI): In a candid interview, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has revealed that he is shy, skint, and lacks presentation skills, but added that he can't undergo a ...
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November 4th, 2009 - 12:08 am ICT by IANS
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Chongqing (China), Nov 3 (IANS) A court here Tuesday sentenced the head of an organised criminal network to 18 years in prison.
Xie Caiping is dubbed as "godmother of the underworld" in southwest ...
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November 2nd, 2009 - 9:09 pm ICT by IANS
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Havana, Nov 2 (Prensa Latina) Cuba has seen two million tourists coming from all over the world to the country's tourist destinations for sixth year in a row, a tourism ministry report ...
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November 2nd, 2009 - 12:17 am ICT by IANS
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Pristina, Nov 1 (DPA) Thousands of Kosovo Albanians gathered in Pristina Sunday to welcome former US president Bill Clinton and honour his role in ending Serbian rule.
"You should be proud for what ...
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October 28th, 2009 - 7:31 pm ICT by GD
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By Madhuri Dey
Oct. 28 (THAINDIAN NEWS) A twenty four year old was arrested on the charges of murdering University of Connecticut football player Howard Jasper. Jasper was killed hours after his win ...
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October 27th, 2009 - 10:01 pm ICT by IANS
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New Delhi, Oct 27 (IANS) The Empowered Group of Ministers Tuesday decided on additional allocation of gas from Reliance Industries' D6 block in the Krishna-Godavari basin, allowing the company to ramp ...
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October 27th, 2009 - 11:59 am ICT by IANS
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Patna, Oct 27 (IANS) All trains from Bihar are packed with thousands of migrant workers who are returning to their places of work outside the state after celebrating the popular festival of ...
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October 26th, 2009 - 9:11 pm ICT by IANS
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Kolkata, Oct 26 (IANS) The Rs.2,500-crore Jai Balaji Group is hopeful that the project work for its proposed five-million-tonne steel plant in Purulia district in West Bengal will start in three to ...
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October 25th, 2009 - 11:22 am ICT by IANS
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By Asit Srivastava
Lucknow, Oct 25 (IANS) Barack Obama has mail - from a place in Uttar Pradesh state in India that he would never have heard of.
And how! Measuring over ...
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October 19th, 2009 - 4:59 pm ICT by IANS
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Chennai, Oct 19 (IANS) Integrated lignite mining and power company Neyveli Lignite Corp will outsource mining activities at Bithnok and Hudla in Rajasthan.
The Rs.3,354-crore company has decided to mine lignite at Bithnok ...
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October 17th, 2009 - 4:36 pm ICT by ANI
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Islamabad, Oct. 16 (ANI): The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has said over 250,000 people have fled South Waziristan in the wake of the military offensive against the Taliban, that ...
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October 15th, 2009 - 3:31 pm ICT by IANS
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Washington, Oct 15 (IANS) The "vegetable lamb" plant once believed to bear fruit that ripened into a living baby sheep produces compounds that show promise in treating osteoporosis, a bone-thinning disease, say ...
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October 14th, 2009 - 10:19 pm ICT by GD
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By Meena Kar,
Seattle, Oct. 14, (THAINDIAN NEWS) US authorities have arrested Maxi Sopo. He is a fraud and had been escaping from the police for a considerable period of time. As ...
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October 8th, 2009 - 2:33 pm ICT by IANS
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Kuala Lumpur, Oct 8 (IANS) Malaysian Indian school children will get an extra day off to enjoy the coming Deepavali festival, the government has decided following numerous requests from schools and parents.
Deputy ...
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October 6th, 2009 - 10:37 pm ICT by IANS
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New Delhi, Oct 6 (IANS) Unable to control the rising number of vehicle thefts, Delhi Police have now asked all car owners in the national capital to install safety devices in their ...
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October 6th, 2009 - 12:15 pm ICT by ANI
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Florida (US), Oct.6 (ANI): Friends say that despite their public displays of affection, golfer Greg Norman and former tennis great Chris Evert, both Hall of Famers, were struggling to live together.
Evert was ...
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October 5th, 2009 - 6:57 pm ICT by IANS
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Geneva, Oct 5 (DPA) UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon Monday condemned the "terrorist attack" on the office of the World Food Programme (WFP) in Pakistan that killed four of the agency's employees.
"I ...
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October 5th, 2009 - 9:45 am ICT by IANS
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New Delhi, Oct 5 (IANS) More than 400,000 children die within 24 hours of their birth in India every year - the highest anywhere in the world, a study by an international ...
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October 4th, 2009 - 3:38 pm ICT by ANI
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Melbourne, Oct 4 (ANI): Golf legend Greg Norman's marriage to Chris Evert was doomed from the start, according to his ex-wife Laura Andrassy.
Andrassy described Norman and the tennis champ he dumped her ...
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October 3rd, 2009 - 3:21 pm ICT by ANI
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London, Oct 3 (ANI): Prostitutes have thanked Labour Deputy leader Harriet Harman after her appeal for a ban on a website advertising their services fuelled their demand further.
Harman had recently urged California ...
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October 1st, 2009 - 8:19 pm ICT by ANI
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New Delhi, Oct 1 (ANI): Defence Minister AK Antony today said that the Armed Forces must get all their pay arrears relating to the Sixth Central Pay Commission well in time before ...
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October 1st, 2009 - 2:51 pm ICT by ANI
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London, Oct 1 (ANI): A Bangladeshi farmer is said to have killed 83,450 rats over nine months in Gazipur, near the capital, Dhaka, and has now launched a nationwide campaign to kill ...
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September 30th, 2009 - 6:26 pm ICT by IANS
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Chennai, Sep 30 (IANS) The Indian subsidiary of South Korean consumer durable major Samsung is betting big on touch-screen mobile phones, targeting a 20 percent value share in the domestic handset market ...
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September 30th, 2009 - 5:17 pm ICT by ANI
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Islamabad, Sep.30 (ANI): Greece is holding Pakistan responsible for the abduction of one of its citizens, Athanasius Lerounis, from Chitral earlier this month.
"The Ministry of Interior is directly responsible for kidnapping ...
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September 29th, 2009 - 3:43 pm ICT by IANS
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Manila, Sep 29 (DPA) The death toll in the devastating floods brought about by storm Ketsana in the Philippines has climbed to at least 240, with 37 still missing, the government said ...
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September 27th, 2009 - 3:53 pm ICT by ANI
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Kuala Lumpur, Sep 27(ANI): Former Malaysian Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad believes that Barisan Nasional could form a major political coalition with the newly-formed Malaysia Makkal Sakti Party (MMSP) to garner ...
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September 21st, 2009 - 9:18 pm ICT by IANS
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Kuala Lumpur, Sep 21 (IANS) G. Palanivel, who successfully defended his post as the deputy president of the Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC) Monday, may be the next chief of the group, ...
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September 21st, 2009 - 3:55 pm ICT by ANI
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London, Sep 21 (ANI): 'The X Factor' reportedly beat the ratings of BBC1's 'Strictly Come Dancing', after two million more viewers tuned in for the ITV singing contest.
Almost 11million fans tuned in ...
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