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The media is hounding me: Srinivasan PTI Chennai
A defiant and combative BCCI President, who has decided to hang on to his position despite the IPL spot-fixing scandal, today said...
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Tracking the 900-pound guerrilla Ajai Shukla | New Delhi BS
The Afghan war is coming to an end. Core Al Qaeda is a shell of its former self. Groups like AQAP [Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula] must be dealt with, but in the years to come, not every collection...
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Indians have taken a shine to strong beer, making brands like the Kingfisher...
United Breweries Limited (UBL) crossed the benchmark of 100-million cases of beer sold in 2009-10; two years later, in 2011-12, its brand 'Kingfisher', which straddles various forms of beer, achieved...
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India Bihar families fight for 66 years over a plot of land
By Amarnath TewaryPatna, Bihar,bbc.comSatyanarayan Singh says his family has so far spent 2m rupees on litigation More than 300 litigants, 30,000 pages of charges and counter-charges, over a dozen...
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Everest crowds: The world's highest traffic jam
By Jon KellyBBC News MagazineA "traffic jam" of climbers en route to the summitSix decades after it was conquered, mountaineers complain that the summit of Mount Everest has become virtually...
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JHU to hand over private member’s motion on abolishing 13 A tomorrow
May 27, 2013, 10:36 pm by Ranil DharmasenaThe Jathika Hela Urumaya would hand over a private member’s motion to the Secretary General of Parliament tomorrow, seeking to repeal the 13th Amendment to...
View ArticleCEB Chief told to renegotiate IPP contracts
May 27, 2013, 10:31 pmby Ifham NizamThe Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) would have saved Rs. 48 billion by today if it had implemented the 2007 Cabinet decision to renegotiate the Independent Power...
View ArticleLLRC Recommendations Not Met by 13A
May 27, 2013, 7:54 pmby Neville LadduwahettyThe recommendations of the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) have come to be accepted by the International Community judging from the...
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Billionaire Binod bullish, but Lanka must move fast
May 27, 2013, 8:45 pmBy Steve A. MorrellNepal’s Fortune Billionaire Binod Chaudhary, Chairman of the Cinnovation/Chaudhary Group, a conglomerate of close to 80 companies with interests in banking,...
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Mervyn to get powers to discipline public servants? DM
Tuesday, 28 May 2013 05:24 A new Parliamentary Act will be soon introduced giving unrestricted power to the Public Relations and Public Affairs Ministry to entertain and investigate complaints...
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A much-romanced force is rocked by wife-swapping allegations Anuradha Raman,...
Land, AhoyIn the last few months, the navy has been hit by at least four major scandalsWife of a marine commando based in Kochi alleges her husband forced her into a ‘wife-swapping network’ in...
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A navy officer’s wife who has levelled ‘wife-swapping’ charges tells a tale...
I was a good student. Sometimes I wanted to be a police officer, sometimes an astronaut. Sometimes I dreamt of walking in the steps of Kiran Bedi, sometimes I imagined myself soaring like Kalpana...
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‘She Was Physically, Mentally Harassed; Urged To Sleep Around’ outlook.com
Theirs was an arranged marriage, set up after we saw the profile of our future son-in-law on shaadi.com (a matrimonial site). We belonged to the same caste and we thought this was a perfect match, as...
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Naval war room leak: British authorities orders extradition of Ravi Shankaran...
Naval war room leak: British authorities orders extradition of Ravi ShankaranNEW DELHI: British authorities today ordered extradition of one of the main Naval war room leak accused Ravi Shankaran to...
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'Tragedy' - Pakistan has nukes but no power: Nawaz Sharif ET
Sharif said Tuesday it was a "tragedy" that a country with a nuclear arsenal was crippled by chronic Electricity shortagesLAHORE: Pakistan's incoming prime minister Nawaz Sharif said Tuesday it was a...
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Did you know? Sony’s most successful business is selling insurance By New...
Daniel S Loeb, an American investor and manager of the hedge fund Third Point, wants Sony to spin off to raise cash to resuscitate its electronics business.TOKYO - Sony is best known as a consumer...
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Plustxt: Bangalore’s startup that allows mobile users to communicate in...
Consumer demand for low-cost applications that can replace short text messaging on mobile phones helped spur the launch of a Bangalore-based startup Plustxt. The messaging application not only offers...
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Indian inventor Ajay Bhatt-led team honoured by EU for developing popular USB ET
The European Union today honoured India-born inventor Ajay Bhatt-led team at the US tech-giant Intel that developed the Universal Serial Bus technology, one of the most important advances in computing...
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US prosecutes '$6bn money-laundering
hub'Liberty Reserve's web domains were seized during the raidsThe Liberty Reserve digital money service that was shut down laundered more than $6bn (£4bn) in criminal cash, US authorities have said....
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'World's oldest Torah' scroll found at Italy university
This Torah scroll may be more than 850 years oldThe University of Bologna in Italy has found what it says may be the oldest complete scroll of Judaism's most important text, the Torah.The scroll was...
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