NEW DELHI: Demanding information on two policemen missing for months, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday met the home ministerand then accused West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee of misleading the country. The two cops were abducted by Maoists on July 30."I along the...
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Girls warned not to hide boyfriends' guns
LONDON: A campaign warning girls not to stash or carry guns for their boyfriends was launched by London police on Wednesday. The hard-hitting adverts, which are aimed at 15 to 19-year-olds of African and African Caribbean heritage, are designed to combat a worrying growth in the number of young...
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Indians feel attacks not due to race, but financial conditions
MELBOURNE: With incidents of attacks on Indians here on the rise, many community members feel the root cause of such assaults is not race but the students' financial conditions that force them to be out at night for odd jobs to meet high cost of living in Australia. Many Indians in Australia feel...
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US lauds UPA govt's policy on religious freedom
WASHINGTON: The Obama administration has described as "good" Manmohan Singh government's policyon religious freedom but said it has "concerns"on the issue at the local level, especially in BJP-ruled states,...
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Akram's wife was taken out of Pakistan against doctors' advice
LAHORE: Pakistani cricketer Wasim Akram's wife Huma, who died in a Chennai hospital two days ago, was reportedly flown out of the countryagainst the advice of doctors treating her in this eastern Pakistani...
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Tamil billionaire's arrest puts Sri Lanka on guard
Colombo: A Sri Lankan-born billionaire's arrest in the largest US hedge fund insider trading case triggered new scrutiny on Monday in his native country over the possibility his money found its way to Tamil rebels.US authorities on Friday charged Raj Rajaratnam, the 52-year-old founder of the Galleon...
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Ambani gas row hearing to start in SC today
Mumbai: India's billionaire Ambani brothers face off in the country's top court this week over a gas pricing case with all guns blazing: lined on each side are a battery of India's highest paid legal brains.The Supreme Court will on Tuesday start hearing arguments in the case between Reliance Industries,...
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Cricket and Commonwealth
London: Cricket and the Commonwealth are ‘two institutions that inter-link and endure’, said former United Kingdom Prime Minister Sir John Major at a recent dinner to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Modern Commonwealth at Lord’s Cricket Ground. Sir John spoke of the bonds of shared Commonwealth...
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I am the champion: Jenson Button
SAO PAULO: With a British flag proclaiming ‘Great Button’ draped over his shoulders, Jenson Button stood and repeated over and over again four of the sweetest-sounding words in the English language. ...
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Labour strike in Haryana, 1 lakh workers protest
Gurgaon: A labor strike in a Gurgaon-based auto component factory in Haryana turned violent on Tuesday with over one lakh workers protesting and staying away from work in 60-odd companies in the automobile...
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Saturday, October 10, 2009
I have played with a lot of passion: Sachin
Just before he began a TV interview, Sachin Tendulkar requested the two technicians sitting behind the camera in front of him, not to move. If they did, it was possible he would get distracted and look at them rather than his interviewer. The men nodded and the conversation began. Something else also...
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Five things businesses should know about the H1N1 flu virus
The second wave of the swine flu pandemic should be upon us in earnest soon. So far, the H1N1 virus remains similar in severity to regular flu; however, it continues to mutate, and unknowns remain. The one near-certainty is that many more people than usual will contract this virus. At least one-quarter...
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Friday, October 9, 2009
World Cup Goal: Educate Every Kid
WASHINGTON, Oct 7 (OneWorld.net) - World leaders are pledging their support for a new campaign to get every child on the planet into school -- and they're hoping the highest profile sporting event in...
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More aid pours in for floods
HyderabadOct. 8: The following readers have donated money to ‘Deccan Chronicle-CM’s Fund’ for flood relief on Thursday. * Dr P. Raghu Ram, KIMS, Hyderabad: Rs 1,00,000* Vuppu Subrahmanyam: Rs 21,000* Thomas John: Rs 11,116* Smt. Ammini John: Rs 11,116* K.V.N Mohan Rao: Rs 10,000* V.K. Natarajan:...
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Fakes grab real victims’ share of aid
VijayawadaOct. 8: Not just fund collectors, some of the “victims” in the relief camps too are bogus. And they are depriving the real sufferers of succour.Several benami persons, including those who are financially very sound, have intruded into the nine camps in Vijayawada to grab the financial relief...
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Rosaiah mum on TRS charges against YSR
HyderabadOct. 8: The Chief Minister, Mr K. Rosaiah, on Thursday parried allegations of corruption made against the late chief minister Dr Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy and his pet irrigation project, Jalayagnam by the TRS president, Mr K. Chandrasekhar Rao.Mr Rosaiah said he would respond to the allegations...
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Head priest was reluctant to leave Mantralayam
HyderabadOct. 8: The pontiff of the Sri Madhvacharya Moola Mahasamsthana Raghavendra Swamy Mutt at Mantralayam Sri Suyateendra Teertha Swamy was reluctant to be airlifted from the mutt on the day Tungabhadra ravaged the town. He agreed only after 10 hours of persuasion by his disciples and the Karnataka...
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Beware of bogus relief collectors
HyderabadOct. 8: Preying on people’s generosity to make a profit, several bogus humanitarian organisations and individuals have started collecting donations for the flood victims in the state.However, such donation hardly ever reach the genuine victims and are mostly used up by the fly-by-night organisations...
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YSR plan will save Krishna
VijayawadaOct. 8: Modernisation of the Krishna delta alone will provide a lasting solution to the perennial flooding of Krishna district, said irrigation experts.Implementation of the long-pending modernisation scheme was one of the cherished dreams of the late Chief Minister, Dr Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy.The...
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Wednesday, October 7, 2009
New ring detected around Saturn
A colossal new ring has been identified around Saturn.The dusty hoop lies some 13 million km (eight million miles) from the planet, about 50 times more distant than the other rings and in a different...
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Tuesday, October 6, 2009
3 US scientists share 2009 Nobel physics prize
Stockholm: Three scientists who created the technology behind digital photography and helped link the world through fibre-optic networks shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday.Charles K Kao...
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Monday, October 5, 2009
Vijayawada, Andhra villages face threat of being submerged
HYDERABAD: The threat of massive flooding loomed large over Andhra Pradesh's Vijayawada city and hundreds of villages in Krishna and Guntur districts with the water level in the Prakasam barrage across the Krishna river reaching the maximum level on Monday. The inflows in the barrage have reached a...
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Saturday, October 3, 2009
Tungabhadra, Handri in spate, Kurnool flooded
HYDERABAD/KURNOOL: What has triggered flooding of Kurnool town, depriving thousands of families shelter and subjecting them to untold suffering.Tungabhadra which brushes past Kurnool town and Hundri which cuts the town into two are in spate simultaenously besides the local streams that are contributing...
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Kurnool under siege
Kurnool, the largest town in Rayalaseema that served as the first capital before it was moved to Hyderabad, is under siege. It is a vast water sheet since early on Friday as flood waters from the Tungabhadra and Hundri, which serve as tributaries of the Krishna, breached its banks to spread its fury....
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Yahoo to shut down Xoopit for Gmail users
Yahoo on Friday noted to users of Xoopit that the Gmail integration of its service would soon be disintegrated. Xoopit, which aggregates media files from users' Gmail accounts, was acquired by Google rival Yahoo in late July and has since been integrated into the company's own Web mail service. Users...
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Researchers tally real-life mileage for plug-in cars
If you're wondering how the familiar term "gas mileage" translates to a car that runs partially on electric batteries, you're not alone. Industry group SAE International plans to recommend that the Environmental...
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