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Eyeing English Readers, Best-selling Foreign Authors Head to India

Vamban — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 06:08:11 +0000

New Delhi, Oct 22 – Indian readers of contemporary English fiction are reaping a rich harvest as top British and American authors head to India to promote their books. Best-selling names Ken Follet, Peter James and Wilbur Smith are the latest to chart out trips to the country. India has one of the biggest English [...]

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Five Pakistani Judges Suspended for Graft

Vamban — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 06:08:05 +0000

Islamabad, Oct 22 – Five judges in Pakistan have been suspended on charges of corruption. Dawn reported that two district and sessions judges and three additional district and sessions judges were suspended Thursday for a period of three months. Justice Miftauddin Khan, registrar of Peshawar High Court, suspended the judicial officers. The district and sessions [...]

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Mobile Phones Seized From Former MP in Jail

Vamban — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 06:08:03 +0000

Patna, Oct 22 – Three mobile phones were recovered early Friday from the Siwan jail ward housing former Bihar MP Shahabuddin, who has been convicted in seven criminal cases, police said. Three SIM cards and two chargers were also seized, a police official said. A team of district officials carried out the raid in jail [...]

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Gibson’s ‘The Hangover’ Cameo Scrapped

Vamban — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 06:08:01 +0000

Los Angeles, Oct 22 – Hollywood actor Mel Gibson’s cameo in ‘The Hangover’ sequel has been axed amid reports that the movie’s cast angrily objected to it. Director Todd Phillips has confirmed he was forced to scrap Gibson’s cameo following tensions on-set, reports imdb.com. ‘I thought Mel would have been great in the movie and [...]

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Dozens Killed in Suspected Cholera Outbreak in Haiti

Vamban — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 05:44:04 +0000

Port-au-Prince, Oct 22 – A suspected cholera outbreak north of the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, has killed up to 135 people, health officials and news reports said Thursday. Haiti’s Radio Metropole reported that more than 50 people had died of acute diarrhoea, but Gabriel Timothe, the director general of Haiti’s Health Ministry, was quoted by the [...]

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Bihar Polls: 104 Multi-millionaires, 219 Criminals in Next Two Rounds

Vamban — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 05:44:02 +0000

Patna, Oct 22 – Against only 36 multi-millionaires in the last assembly elections, there are over 100 multi-millionaires in the second and third phases of the ongoing Bihar polls, a report by two NGOs has said. It adds that 219 candidates have criminal records. The Association of Democratic Reforms and the National Election Watch said [...]

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Russians Most Active in Online Social Networking

Vamban — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 05:24:01 +0000

Moscow, Oct 22 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Russians are the world’s most active users of social networking websites in terms of time they spend there, a study has found. The survey conducted by digital market measurement service comScore Media Metrix said, in August 2010, 74.5 percent of all Russian internet users, or 34.5 million people, visited at [...]

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Sexsomnia Linked to Gene?

Vamban — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 05:16:02 +0000

Melbourne, Oct 22 – The condition of sexsomnia, the bizarre act of having sex while asleep, could be genetic, according to evidence found by an Australian researcher. Gerard Kennedy, an associate professor in psychology at Victoria University, who studied four sexsomnics in 16 years, has found an unusual case of a father-son duo. ‘This could [...]

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Lata At Leisure Loves Watching ‘KBC’, ‘CID’

Vamban — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 05:08:04 +0000

Mumbai, Oct 22 – She has stopped her riyaz and spends time catching up on her favourite TV programmes, including Amitabh Bachchan’s ‘Kaun Banega Crorepati’ and popular crime series ‘CID’. Melody queen Lata Mangeshkar, 81, is enjoying her well-deserved leisure time after more than 60 years of singing. The Nightingale also prefers to be extremely [...]

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Don’t Want to Bracket Pakistan with India Visit: Obama

Vamban — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 05:08:02 +0000

Islamabad, Oct 22 – US President Barack Obama has told Islamabad he doesn’t want to bracket his visit to Pakistan with India because adding it would mean spending only half a day in the country, which would be unfair, Pakistan’s ambassador to the US Hussain Haqqani said. Haqqani called up Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani [...]

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Three Held with Nine Sacks of Coins

Vamban — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 04:58:09 +0000

Agra, Oct 22 – Three people have been arrested here with nine sacks of coins that were to be melted illegally in Delhi, police said Friday. The coins were in the denominations of rupees one, two and five. The melted coins would have been mixed with silver for making statues and other items, officials said. [...]

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US Warns Pakistan to Fight Taliban Or Lose Funding: WSJ

Vamban — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 04:58:06 +0000

Washington, Oct 22 – The United States has warned Pakistani leaders that continued inaction against Taliban and Al Qaeda havens bordering Afghanistan could jeopardise some large US cash payouts to Islamabad, the Wall Street Journal said in a report. The warnings from Obama administration officials have raised the stakes in their ongoing strategic dialogue here [...]

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TV Reality Shows Sidelineing Women Viewers?

Vamban — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 04:58:04 +0000

New Delhi, Oct 22 – Larger than life characters on Indian TV soaps have always cast a spell on women. But with star-studded reality shows now clashing at prime time they are finding themselves sidelined as viewers. To the dismay of most single TV households, there’s not much that television channels are willing to do [...]

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Maoist Nabbed From West Bengal Forest

Vamban — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 04:58:02 +0000

Kolkata, Oct 22 – A Maoist leader wanted in nine murder cases has been arrested in West Bengal’s Bankura district, police said Friday. ‘Acting on a tip-off, security personnel late Thursday raided Paradihi forest in Bankura district and arrested Haren Singh Sardar,’ a police official said. ‘Haren was wanted in at least 21 cases, including [...]

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Rescued Miners to Take Firm, Government to Court in Chile

Vamban — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 04:50:03 +0000

Santiago, Oct 22 – Many of the miners rescued last week after more than two months trapped underground in northern Chile have decided to take legal action against the firm that owns the mine and against the Chilean government, lawyer Edgardo Reinoso said Thursday. In a parliamentary investigation of security violation at the San Jose [...]

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51 Bodies of Likely Japanese War Dead Recovered

Vamban — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 04:50:01 +0000

Tokyo, Oct 22 – A government-appointed team found the remains of what appear to be 51 Japanese soldiers on Iwo Jima, one of the bloodiest battlefields of World War II, news reports said Friday. The remains were found buried in two locations on the island, officially known as Iwoto Island, in sites similar to those [...]

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$917 Mn Finance for Madhya Pradesh Power Plant

Vamban — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 04:42:07 +0000

Washington, Oct 22 – The Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im) has approved a $917 million export finance guarantee to support US exports to the Sasan Power Ltd coal-fired power plant in Madhya Pradesh. US vendors including Bucyrus International, located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin will sell and export mining and associated equipment to Sasan Power [...]

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Warm Day in Delhi, But Rains Expected

Vamban — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 04:42:03 +0000

New Delhi, Oct 22 – It would be a warm day again in Delhi, the weather office said Friday but also held out the possibility of rains. ‘Skies will be partly cloudy with possibility of light rainfall or thundershower in the afternoon or evening (Friday). The humidity may rise again if it rains,’ said an [...]

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Wipro Projects $1.33 Bn From IT Business in Q3

Vamban — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 04:42:01 +0000

Bangalore, Oct 22 – Wipro Ltd Friday projected $1.33 billion from its global IT services business in the third quarter (October-December) of fiscal 2010-11. In a regulatory filing, the IT bellwether said Q3 guidance would be in the range of $1.32-1.34 billion, which is $65 million higher than its projection of $1.25-1.28 billion for the [...]

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World Bank Gives $13 Mn for Mizoram Roads Project

Vamban — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 04:16:05 +0000

Washington, Oct 22 – The World Bank has approved a credit worth $13 million in additional financing for the Mizoram State Roads Project to continue revitalizing and modernising the state’s highway system. The project will help improve the management and carrying capacity of the core state road network in order to lower transportation bottlenecks and [...]

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