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Our very own Disneyland BS
With its gravity-defying rides, hospitable staff and attention to detail, the new theme park on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway promises to be a recreational hotspotAdlabs Imagica, which opened its doors to...
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Cheaper to lease than buy a car Arvind Rao BS
Competition in the passenger-car segment is heating up and the worsening economic condition is making things better for car buyers. Car manufacturers are wooing prospective car buyers with goodies...
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India tops global remittances list; received $69 billion in 2012: World Bank...
India is the largest recipient of remittances in the world, receiving $69 billion in 2012, the World Bank has said.India topped the list of countries receiving remittances, followed by China ($60...
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Already given 25 per cent of my wealth to charity: Azim Premji PTI
Wipro Chairman Azim Premji has said he has already given more than 25 per cent of his personal wealth to charity, but acknowledged it's not easy to use money well in philanthropy."I have very clear...
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Private equity fund Actis Capital has helped Indian companies such as Paras...
J.M Trivedi, South Asia head, Actis and Shomik Mukherjee, Partner, ActisFor years, it produced some of the most visible brands in India's personal care industry. Business was good and Paras...
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Capital erupts over 5-year-old's rape, more protests likely to take place...
As the five year old rape victim continues to fight for her life at AIIMS, Delhi braces itself for more protests on Sunday against rising rape cases in the capital and police...
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Ethnic Resolution: Getting it Right
April 20, 2013, 7:26 pm by Gnana MoonesingheNot even the Greek tragedies have been as spectacular in unraveling horrors, pathos, and innumerable nuances which ties up the plot in so many complex sub...
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The mysterious powers of Microsoft Excel
After two Harvard economists admitted a faulty spreadsheet calculation caused errors in a study used by numerous politicians to support their austerity policies, writer Colm O'Regan pays tribute to...
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Questions begin for FBI over Boston
Relief at the capture of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, is being followed by serious questions for the FBIThe relief was palpable in a city where 19 April 2013 had been cancelled, paralysed, because of the manhunt...
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Stephen Schwarzman unveils $300m China scholarship fund
Mr Schwarzman said he hoped the new fund would foster "mutual respect" between China and the WestUS private-equity magnate Stephen Schwarzman has launched a $300m (£200m) scholarship programme to send...
View ArticleNo Fire Zone’ to be screened in London on eve of Action Group meeting
No Fire Zone’ to be screened in London on eve of Action Group meetingIn another anti-Sri Lanka moveApril 20, 2013, 7:53 pmBy Sujeeva Nivunhella in LondonThe Front Line Club in London is planning to...
View ArticleResolution on Sri Lanka ratified at the 18th Commonwealth Law Conference in...
April 20, 2013, 7:55 pm Colombo: A resolution on Sri Lanka has been ratified at the 18th Commonwealth Law Conference in Cape Town, South Africa today.The Law Society of England and Wales Wednesday...
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Sauce for the goose.....?
April 20, 2013, 7:50 pmBy Shamindra FerdinandoMajor General Shavendra Silva yesterday said that a recent statement attributed to top United National Human Rights Council (UNHRC) official Ben Ammerson,...
View ArticleIndian newspapers welcome Musharraf’s arrest
April 20, 2013, 8:09 pmBY S VENKAT NARAYAN Our Special CorrespondentNEW DELHI, April 20: Even though the Indian government has refrained from commenting on Gen Pervez Musharraf’s arrest and remand to...
View ArticleWhen USA feared Indian military intervention in Bangladesh after Mujib’s...
April 20, 2013, 8:17 pmBY S VENKAT NARAYAN Our Special CorrespondentNEW DELHI, April 20: The United States believed that India would militarily intervene in Bangladesh soon after the August 1975 coup...
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Sobitha Hamuduruvo: A voice of sanity
A big step forward: Now shun sectarianismApril 20, 2013, 12:00 pm Kumar DavidThe Constitutional Reform Proposals (CRP) published under Hamudurovo’s leadership by a group close to him (National...
View ArticleBala Nadaraja
TRIBUTEApril 20, 2013, 8:48 pmby Nihal SeneviratneTha sad news of Bala’s passing away in distant Florida , USA, came in a few days ago. Bala had been unwell only for the last eight months , when it...
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Shelagh Louise Goonewardene
Born 12 December 1935 in Sri LankaDied 12 April 2013 in AustraliaApril 20, 2013, 8:54 pm Steadfast in her faith, generous in her loyalties, most excellent of friendsby Yasmine GooneratneBorn on 12...
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Kiri and KekiriApril 20, 2013, 7:25 pmSenior Minister Dew Gunasekera has not said anything new or revealed what the people did not know when he sounded alarm bells yesterday (The Island Apr. 20) on...
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US court dismisses Viacom $1 billion suit against YouTube Associated Press...
For the second time in three years, a federal judge has dismissed Viacom's $1 billion copyright lawsuit against YouTube, saying the online video site doesn't have to police itself as long as it...
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