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J&K: Two ultras and a soldier killed, 7 jawans injured
Two top ultras, one each of Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) and Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), and a soldier were killed in J&K.
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Indians played me well: Mendis
Ajantha Mendis reckons MS Dhoni and his boys, by and large, read him well in the just-concluded ODI series.
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Infy, Wipro among Buffett-fit stocks: S&P
India is yet to make its debut on investor Buffett's portfolio, but three cos Infosys, Wipro & Satyam are fit to make the grade.
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One in 20 Americans 'depressed'
Despite being in one of the richest countries in the world, more than one in 20 Americans aged 12 and older are depressed.
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Pirated DVDs of Indian films seized in Britain
British officials have seized nearly 3000 fake DVDs of latest Bollywood films, including those that have not yet been released.
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India to take up with US controversial letter on N-deal
New Delhi is taking up with the Bush Administration the State Department's controversial letter to US Congress.
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Time very short for approval of N-deal in Congress: Rice
The time is 'very short' for the approval of the Indo-US nuclear deal in the Congressional session beginning on Monday.
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CPI-M's allies ask Buddhadeb to be 'little more flexible'
CPI-M's allies in the Left Front asked West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacherjee to be a 'little more flexible'.
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Mamata likely to lift indefinite dharna at Singur
Reports have indicated that Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee is likely to lift indefinite dharna at Singur shortly.
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Sonia meets PM to congratulate him on NSG waiver
Sonia Gandhi met Prime Minister Manmohan to congratulate him on NSG waiver for India to carry out nuclear commerce.
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PLATE TECHTONICS
A new wave of cooking brings culinary surrealism to your tables. As chefs warm to molecular gastronomy, sample a world where nothing is the way it tastes
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INSIDE THE CPMs THEME PARK
While the CPI-M's Bengal brand of reforms may have run into a roadblock with Singur, in Kerala, the party is riding high on Vismaya, its Rs 30-crore water park in Kannur district.
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Child star
Out of the mouth of babes. Santosh Sivan is at his best when he works with children, and his latest is a fine example: Tahaan plays out both like a touchingly real story, as well as a fable, hinting at deeper truths beneath.
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Small Talk
A rangoli exhibition by Jagdish Chavan, a well known rangoli artiste was organised recently at Shubha Mangal Karyalaya.e
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High hopes
More terrorists, this time in a plane, with a similar demand. Release our man, or we start shooting holes in the passengers.
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Lonely Planet
Perhaps the most intelligent thing about this film, even if it is yet again about Vegas, is that it casts Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher - two actors great to look at and known to throw themselves body and soul, literally, into comedy.
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Just another day
Anupam Kher, again, this time in a lead role. Facing off with Naseerudin Shah. Minus song and dance, and other silly distractions.
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Food for soul
"Good food must be savoured delicately, slowly, attentively and respectfully, in a befitting manner, with finesse and technique, with relish and appreciation and you will experience true gustatory delight. That's essence of the Art of Eating."
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Melting POTS
The Tamil Nadu Handicrafts Deve-lopment Corporat-ion Limited, has organised an exhibition-cum-sale titled Ganesh Darshan from September 5 to 8 at Tilak Smarak Mandir.
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Greeting Gauri
During the ten-day Ganesh festival, which starts on Bhadrapada Chaturthi (forth day of the Bhadrapada month in Hindu calendar), Gauri puja is also performed as a ritual in many households in the city.
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Shankar appointed Sahyadrii corporate chief
Sahyadri Industries Ltd, a city based company since the past six decades and listed on the BSE recently appointed S V Shankar as president for the corporate business operations in India.
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Employers Assn launched
The Western Maharashtra Employers Association, Pune, has been formed by a group of dedicated lawyers and employers in and around Pune city...
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PFC to hold under-15 selection camp from September 9
Pune FC , Pune's only professional football club is conducting trials for under-15 section of the young football enthusiasts with an aim to give the local talent an opportunity to play at the highest level.
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St Josephs win thriller to clinch ZP hockey title
St. Joseph's, Pashan beat St. Anne's School 3-2 in the tiebreaker of the final of the under-17 girls inter school hockey tournament conducted by the Zilla Parishad, at the St. Josephs hockey ground on Saturday.
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Ness Wadia edge past Poona College
Ness Wadia beat Poona College by a goal to nil in a hard-fought encounter in the under-19 inter collegiate football tournament, conducted by the Zilla Parishad, held at the SSPMS grounds on Saturday.
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PMC must offer alternative land to agri college: Keskar
Urging the PMC to take over the land from the College of Agriculture for the proposed Metro Rail project...
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PMC plan to lease out properties opposed
Opposing the standing committee decision to lease out its properties for 99 years to developers or an organisation to implement a joint project on a Build-Operate-Transfer basis...
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PMC must offer alternative land to agri college: Keskar
Urging the PMC to take over the land from the College of Agriculture for the proposed Metro Rail project...
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Hotstepper looks Good
Hotstepper from the stabls of S. S. Shah who was an impressive winner in the Mumbai Derby appals most among the eleven runners and his latest mockrace indicate that he is in fine fettle to lift the Southern Command Gold Tropy (Gr. III) Pune's Sunday feature.
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MIT forays into broadcast journalism
In a glittering function held on the premises of the Maharashtra Institute of Technology...
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When will mummy return home, asks 10-year-old
A week before the Ganesh festival, 35-five-year-old Sunita Salunkhe was "very excited" as she had planned to celebrate the event like never before.
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Heres the Kasba Ganpati
The recent acts of terrorism in the country may have shaken the police force in the city, but the spirit of Ganesh devotees is simply seen to be believed.
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Flouting norm: Mandal chief, brother held
The Khadki police have arrested president of a Ganesh mandal and his brother for allegedly playing music system and loudspeakers after the 10 pm deadline on Friday.
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Patriot Agashe dies at 96
Freedom fighter and one of the six people accused in the famous Dehu Road bomb trial in 1941 Anant V Agashe (96) passed away due to old age at his residence in Kothrud on Saturday morning.
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PMPML dismisses 22 employees
Taking serious view of absenteeism of its drivers, the Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamandal Limited administration has dismissed 22 employees...
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17-year-old alleges rape by 14 cops
A 17-year-old girl from Hyderabad, who was rescued from a brothel in Budhwar Peth in 2006 has alleged that as many as 14 city police personnel had raped her at a lodge in Nana Peth in February 2005.
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In drought-prone areas, camps ready but fodder missing
Fodder camps set up by the district collectorate in various talukas of Pune have no fodder in store as the collectorate is unable to find fodder suppliers.
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City police busts gang of robbers
The city police on Friday busted a gang of robbers involved in stealing laptops and other gadgets from people's cars.
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Court extends remand of two blasts accused
The designated Metropolitan Magistrate Court hearing the Ahmedabad serial blasts case and the Surat bomb case...
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Taxpayers to bear the brunt of RMCs slack show
The residents will have to pay an extra Rs 45.4 crore due to the delay in implementation of two flyovers by the Rajkot Municipal Corporation.
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Big Bazaar plans three more outlets in Ahmedabad
After being forced to shut down two of the five Big Bazaar stores in Ahmedabad, Kishore Biyani spearheaded Pantaloon Retail India Ltd...
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For these Stanford undergrads, Gandhigiri is quite relevant
Mesmerised by the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi, a group of 15 undergraduate students from Stanford University, US, are in the city to learn the fundamentals of Gandhigiri.
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Four JNNURM projects get Rs 32.67 cr succour
The Central Sanctioning and Monitoring Committee of the sub-mission on urban infrastructure and governance under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission...
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Narco test a violation of rights of accused, says ashram rectors lawyer
Pankaj Saxena, the rector of the Asaram Ashram-run Gurukul and Yogesh Bhati, a sadhak at the Ashram...
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Civil Hospital can finally say bye to worn-out MRI scanner
The Ahmedabad Civil Hospital will no longer have to struggle with its 10-year-old, partially-working model of the MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) scanner.
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Gold gets back its glitter in Gujarat
Shambhu Nath (40), an artisan at a gold jewellery manufacturing unit in Rajkot's Soni Bazar, is more than happy to resume his job.
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Tender hands that work on your zardozi, get Rs 50 for 12-hr labour
The Labour Department rescued 24 child labourers working in various zardozi units in Surat city and the nearby Kim village and Bardoli taluka on Saturday.
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Temperature rises in Vadodara village over thermal plant
Irked over the Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam Limited's proposal to set up a 1,000 mw thermal power plant in Surasamal village of Sinor Taluka in Vadodara district...
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Lotus wilts in Saurashtra
It is being seen as the end of the saffron era in the politically powerful Saurashtra Oil Millers Association.
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MSU V-Cs gem: Modi jewel in Gujarats crown
M S University became the first institution of higher education in Gujarat to take an oath while passing on the torch in the Swarnim Gujarat Rath Yatra on Saturday.
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System failure cripples 60 schools of pilot project
Chief Minister Narendra Modi donned the role of a teacher and kickstarted the installation process of the Biometric Attendance System in 115 VMC-run schools on Teachers Day.
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Of biometric boom and bust in Vadodara
The Vadodara Municipal Corporation run schools will be the first of its kind in the country to go paperless.
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Gujarat warming up to concept of alternative power
With proposals of a 100 mw solar power plant by Euro Ceramics Ltd. and the world's largest 5,000 mw solar power project by the Clinton Foundation under consideration...
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40 yrs after its birth, Gandhinagar to get an internal transportation service
Nearly four decades after it came into existence, Gandhinagar is all set to get its internal (sector-to-sector) transportation.
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Hoax call sends cops into a tizzy
Nearly one-and-a-half month after the serial blasts in Ahmedabad, the Gujarat Railway Protection Force was on its toes after being alerted about bombs on two Ahmedabad-bound express trains on Saturday morning.
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High Court clears petitions related to pension benefits of ex-servicemen
A Division Bench of the Punjab and Haryana High Court today allowed five petitions filed by the All India Ex-servicemen Welfare Association holding any personnel below the officer rank entitled to the improved pension from January 1.
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Medical body hails passing of Bill preventing assault on docs
Welcoming the decision to pass the Bill pertaining to the assault on doctors by the Punjab Assembly...
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Talk on respiratory diseases: Experts want more joint research projects
A two-day joint Indo-US workshop on respiratory diseases due to environment conditions concluded at the UT guesthouse today with experts from both the countries agreeing on strengthening the ongoing research projects to deal with the increasing burden of the disease.
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Panchkula still a poor cousin of Chandigarh
With the commercial and residential property rates still much less in comparison to that in Mohali and Chandigarh...
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From being wooed for votes, student voters now initiate the bargain
If you thought traditional elections was about a 'party wooing voters' by offering incentives, the story at the Panjab University elections offers a contrasting scene.
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Holiday no breather as student bodies engage in alliance strategies
With Saturday being a campus off, it was a lean day for the student bodies contesting the forthcoming elections.
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PM to kickstart work on national institutes in Punjab
Punjab is all set to overcome the dearth of qualified and competent faculty...
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Students attend classes in open, as classroom becomes home for peon
Students of the Government Primary School in Railly village, Sector 12, take lessons on the floor owing to inadequate classrooms and the school peon has an entire classroom for himself.
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MC POLLS: 69 remain in fray for 15 wards
Battlelines have been drawn for the general elections that will elect 15 members to the Kharar Municipal Council on September 14.
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Storm claims two lives, leave several injured in Ambala
A dust storm that ripped through the Ambala district on Friday night claimed two lives and left several injured, besides causing considerable damage to properties including a double storey building.
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Cash at judges door: More sections might be added in the FIR, says CBI
The Central Bureau of Investigation might add more sections to the FIR registered in the 'Judge-Bribery' case.
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Powercuts, storm leave tricity in tatters
Several parts of the tricity remained plunged in darkness as power supply to various sectors of Chandigarh, Panchkula and Mohali remained disrupted on Saturday.
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Rains, one among several pains in Sec 11
This year, like several other years has seen rains wreck havoc in the city and Sector 11 could not be immune to the woes.
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Cure for exam fever? 24-hr helpline for students a hit
The 24-hour helpline for students, launched by the Education Department six months ago, has garnered appreciation from both parents and children.
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Instead of extending court timings, why cant judges give up their tea break?
The Punjab and Haryana High Court's decision to extend court timings by 45 minutes - from 3.45 pm to 4.30 pm - has raised a storm of protest among lawyers.
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Pedestrian crushed by truck near IT park
A 32-year-old labourer died after a speeding truck ran over him near the Information Technology park around 7 pm on Friday.
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UT or state: Residents caught in the middle
The rapid expansion of Chandigarh, independent India's first planned city, has brought with it problems of demarcation.
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Knee replacement through cross-linked polyethylene conducted at DMCH
Fifty-seven year old Mohinder Kaur, a resident of Ludhiana, had been suffering from severe knee pain for the past 10 years.
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Schools across city celebrate Teachers Day with fervour
School headmistress Jasbir Kaur honoured the teachers for their good performance. Jasbir Singh Thind, the school director, was also present on the occasion.
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IMSA organises workshop on medical research
The International Medical Sciences Academy and SPS Apollo Hospital jointly organised a workshop on liver diseases, diabetes and stem cell application in Neurology today.
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BJP starts helpline for retail investors
The Bharatiya Janta Party has launched a helpline for helping retail investors to deal with their problems.
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Cheema Chowk road project hangs fire
Controversy has come up around the road metalling project at Cheema Chowk. Two years back, an estimate of Rs 35 lakh was made for the re-metalling of the road and the project was also allotted to one Singla contractor.
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Negligence death to be probed
Deputy Commissioner Sumer Singh Gurjar has marked an enquiry into the death of 26-year-old Sanjana, who died allegedly due to negligence of doctors at a private nursing home on September 3.
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Shiv Sena leader, gunman kill taxi driver
A taxi driver Kamaljit Singh alias Sonu was allegedly shot dead by the students' wing president of the Shiv Sena Bal Thackrey Suraj Ahluwalia...
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Storm renders city powerless
A few minutes of storm on Friday evening has caused losses worth lakhs of rupees to the Punjab State Electricity Board.
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Two dead, Health dept says Dhandari scene is alarming
With two confirmed gastroenteritis deaths and scores of residents taken ill recently in Prem Nagar and Ishwar Colony in Dhandari Khurd...
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Policing takes a toll on city cops health
Whether the Ludhiana police have been able to safeguard the public or not is debatable but the police force has failed to guard themselves from various ailments.
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A CRORE? I CHARGE MORE
Irrfan Khan gets candid about doing commercial films, his favourite co-stars and his hefty fees
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ALL SAINTS DAYS
If you want to see the West and the East meet in Bombay 30 years ago, there's no better place than Kirin Narayan's home at 13 Janaki Kutir, Juhu
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Ticket to ride
Bus conductor for a trip, our correspondent gets on a handsome roadster and finds out how hard it is to tackle the charge of passengers impatient to get to their destination
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HAUTE KITSCH
As five designers experiment with items of daily use, steel, LCD screens and wine corks get a chic makeover
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MR INDIA A
A noticeable aspect of India A games is the keen intra-squad contest between individuals which, at times, is more intense than the collective battle of the two teams on the field.
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IN LOVE WITH THE ICY GIANTS
Heidi B. Hammel, 48, an M.I.T.-educated planetary astronomer, has two professional missions. We spoke at her home in Ridgefield, Conn., and later by telephone.
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The leap from screen to stage
For stars looking for a new lease of life, Broadway is the place to make Hollywood take note
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A WEEL AFTER
The Sunday Express goes back to the house in Chinore, Jammu, where militants held eight members of a family hostage for over 17 hours. A week later, the scars of terror run deep
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Irrespective of whose son or grandson you are, you can be rejected by the voters
Randeep Surjewala, Conrad Sangma and Manpreet Badal, three young ministers from three different states and parties, have one thing in common. They have all had a political mentor in the family, but have come into their own
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Thumbs up, nails frayed: Delhi sent demarche to Beijing, Bush called Hu
The Nuclear Suppliers Group, the 45 countries that govern global nuclear trade and who first came together to punish India after its 1974 atomic tests...
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Circumscribing nuclear sovereignty
The morning after the UPA Government won the trust vote in Parliament in a fraudulent manner by enacting the "cash-for-votes" scandal on July 22, the streets of Delhi were full of banners hailing the Congress president and the Prime Minister for their "historic" achievement.
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Global nuclear majors eye India; sector may be opened up now
At least four of the world's largest nuclear power station makers - France's Areva, General Electric of the United States...
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Back in familiar territory
As the losses piled up and the titles escaped him, Roger Federer insisted he felt fine, he wasn't washed up and his game would come around.
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Zardari elected Pak President
Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of the slain former prime minister Benazir Bhutto and a controversial politician with little experience in governing...
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Left, BJP dress themselves up in mourning
While the Government camp was celebrating the waiver secured from the NSG, the Left parties were predictably angry and said the exemption was not "clean and unconditional...
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COLD SHOULDER
Stars like Madonna, Mary-Kate Olsen and Kelly Preston have been showing off their shoulders in cut-out shoulder tops, tunics and dresses.
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FIT AS A FIDDLE
Instead of chasing kilograms, make lifestyle changes including eating right, exercise, thinking positive and coping with stress
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FRIENDS IN A FRAME
Raghu Rai found in a photograph by Henri Cartier-Bresson a moment that goes beyond news value
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Run Murakami Run
The first surprise about Haruki Murakami's What I Talk About When I Talk About Running is that it turns out to be, as promised, about running.
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BARACK OBAMAS KOCHI LINK
Barack Obama and Barak Salem share more than the similar-sounding first names. The US presidential candidate's struggle in a racial America has parallels with Salem's fight against bias in Kerala's Jewish community
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A Chronicle of Death In The Animal Kingdom
Displays of apparent grief at bereavement reveal less about the awareness of death among gorillas and a lot of other animals than their impulse to act as if it didn't exist
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Seeing red over green
On a rainy day last week, in a lovely forest in Gujarat that is under threat from Adivasi claimants...
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Isnt just about n-trade, its about a rising India
In lifting the three-and-a-half-decade-old nuclear blockade against India, the international community has come to terms with a rising India and its geopolitical consequences...
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Bush calls PM, praises strong leadership
Within minutes of the Nuclear Suppliers Group agreeing to a consensus on the Indo-US nuclear deal...
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I make the best use of my time away
Watching Sachin Tendulkar address a brand promotion media conference with his restless son Arjun waiting next to the dais...
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Aid ships a provocation: Russia
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev accused the West on Saturday of acting provocatively in and around the Black Sea...
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AT WORK, A VIRTUAL PLOT
When your life-personal and professional-is uploaded on the Net, can you keep office nastiness out of your scrapbook?
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I work out thrice a week
The first thing that I have in the morning is warm water with tulsi leaves after which I have my porridge.
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WHO WILL BE THE NEXT BIG THING?
In New York's fashion circuit, there is no obvious genius in sight
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WAR OF THE BROWSERS
Apurva checks out which packs more ammo to win the battle for Net supremacy-Google's Chrome or IE 8
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US may change law for last-mile sprint up the Hill
The US hardball diplomacy moves from Vienna to Washington. Faced with a September 26 deadline for the US Congress to ratify the 123 agreement...
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Tatagiri
Amarnath, Singur, Kandhamal - problems pile up. In a vibrant democracy with gross inequalities, people deploy their identities to register their claims.
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Advice on cue
The men who for years have been spending most of their waking hours inside a dark room potting coloured balls...
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Iran impasse: Hu for further diplomacy
Chinese President Hu Jintao urged world powers on Saturday to show flexibility to resolve a prolonged stand-off over Tehran's nuclear ambitions...
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Singur: Governor hopes for a solution today
Even though the talks about the Singur land crisis centred around Tata Motors' Nano car factory remained inconclusive...
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Where logic ends, the link with the divine begins
Ustad Amjad Ali Khan is a sarod player and composer who was awarded the Padma Vibhushan in 2001
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Exercise may improve memory in older people
Regular, moderate exercise may help improve memory in older people and delay the onset of dementia, a study in Australia shows.
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Some like it rich
On TV, teens have planes, go places and don't tell their parents because it's no big deal
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A thrilling finale
As Churchill Brothers and Mahindra United lock horns for the silverware on Sunday, the Durand Cup final, being last year's repeat...
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What waiver unlocks: N-fuel to avionics, biotech to N-reactors
Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Anil Kakodkar may have typically understated the NSG waiver as an "important breakthrough...
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Delusions of a Bengal Tigress
I was on my way home from work on Thursday evening when I got an SMS alert sent by a news channel...
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WHAT HE WILL HAVE TO fACE
The government must respond to Western pressure to clamp down on Taliban and al-Qaeda guerrillas attacking targets in Pakistan and Afghanistan...
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But Brajesh Mishra is happy
Even as the BJP criticised the NSG waiver, Brajesh Mishra, former national security advisor in the BJP-led NDA government...
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HAUTE KITSCH
As five designers experiment with items of daily use, steel, LCD screens and wine corks get a chic makeover
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New (Nuclear) World Order Made For India
Nehru launches peaceful nuclear programme in cooperation with the West, insists on India's right for a nuclear weapons programme
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Digging his own grave
Former Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda regrets his efforts to bail out the UPA Government during the confidence vote in Parliament...
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Real-life Prince of Kolkata turns into Warrior Prince
Sourav Ganguly is set to start a new innings - on the silver screen with a documentary-feature, The Warrior Prince.
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A 9-hour operation to rescue three men
It took three boats, 24 Armymen and nine hours to rescue three people marooned in this nondescript village, 40 km from Sonbarsa Raj point.
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FRIENDS IN A FRAME
Raghu Rai found in a photograph by Henri Cartier-Bresson a moment that goes beyond news value
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Under-cover Ishant gets ready to strike
With the Aussies expected to arrive in less than a month for their Test tour, the buzz around the Indian side is still...
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Left, BSP, TDP to meet President
In a bid to put more pressure on the Government, leaders of Left parties, the BSP and Telugu Desam will meet President Pratibha Patil...
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NSA: will convey disappointment to China
India will convey its disappointment to Beijing on its behaviour at the NSG meet when Chinese Foreign minister Yang Jiechi comes...
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BJP says India has fallen into NPT trap
The BJP on Saturday said the UPA Government had staked the country's nuclear sovereignty for the NSG waiver.
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Form task force for Bihar
Railways Minister and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad on Saturday met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and demanded that the Centre form a "task force...
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