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Australia
Win Third Successive World Cup
Riding on a brilliant century
from Adam Gilchrist, Australia Saturday became the first country to
win the cricket World Cup an unprecedented fourth time and also
completed a unique hat-trick when they beat Sri Lanka by 53 runs.
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28 Killed
in Pakistan Bombing, Minister Sherpao Injured
A suicide bomber killed at
least 28 people and injured many including Pakistan's Interior
Minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao at a rally in the North West
Frontier Province, police said. The blast occurred at a meeting in
Charsadda town, 135 km from here, immediately after Sherpao
concluded his speech. Read On >>>
Government Denies Taking Soft Approach Towards Terror
The government Saturday
denied it had a soft approach towards terrorism and that it adopted
a middle path by bringing together all the sections in dialogue to
deal with militancy in Jammu and Kashmir and the northeast.
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Manali
Boy Raises Tibet's Banner of Revolt at Everest
A 27-year-old born and brought up in India's Manali town became the
first known exiled Tibetan to return to Tibet to raise the banner of
revolt against China and the International Olympic Committee's
decision to allow Beijing to host the 2008 Olympic Games. Tenzin
Dorjee, who holds an American citizenship and lives in New York ...
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Child
Labor Laws Require Proper Implementation: Justice
Terming child labor as a "stupendous problem", Delhi High Court
Chief Justice M.K. Sharma Saturday said there are plenty of laws to
deal with the socio-economic menace but their proper implementation
is lacking. Read On >>>
Unleash
National Sports Movement: Manmohan Singh
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Saturday called upon the country's
sports administrators to "unleash" a new nationwide "wave of sports
consciousness and development" involving the young. He also said
that sports and games should be made compulsory in schools and
colleges. Read On >>>
BSP
Confident of Forming Government on Its Own
As Uttar Pradesh voted
Saturday in the fifth leg of assembly elections, Bahujan Samaj Party
chief Mayawati asserted that she was confident of forming the next
government on her own strength. "BSP will form the next government
in UP," the party president and former chief minister told reporters
shortly after casting her vote. Read
On >>>
LTTE
Suffers a Major Blow in Tamil Nadu by M.R. Narayan Swamy
A mysterious vessel drifting
in the sea, quick thinking by the Coast Guard, police doggedness,
political will - all these have merged to make Tamil Nadu allege for
the first time that Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers killed five fishermen
from the state. Read On >>>
Pitroda's Firm Brings Railway Ticketing to Mobiles
Two decades ago when Sam Pitroda introduced computerization to
railway ticketing, he was greeted with skepticism and derision by
politicians and labor leaders. They thought he wanted to replace
humans with machines. Now in 2007, the same Indian Railways has
enthusiastically embraced Pitroda's mobile transaction technology
that enables ticketing directly from cell phones.
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Katara
Got Rs.800,000 Per Person by Sahil Makkar
BJP MP Babubhai Katara, arrested for allegedly trying to smuggle
people abroad, has told police that he was paid Rs.800,000 for every
person he helped to go abroad illegally, with his aide and travel
agents pocketing most of the money made in the deals. "I was given
only Rs.800,000. I really don't know if they charged Rs.3 or 4
million for sending people abroad with me," Katara told officers
interrogating him. Read On >>>
Round 1 to
the Judiciary in its 'Battle' with MPs by Amulya Ganguly
The latest confrontation between the Indian parliament and the
judiciary has come at an inconvenient time for the former. Having
received yet another debilitating body blow from the arrest of an MP
on charges of human trafficking ... Read
On >>>
Indonesian Disaster Hits Region's Biggest
Red-light District
Most people in this bustling
East Java city are in bed by midnight, getting much-needed rest
before another day at work. But not in the city's Dolly district,
where things only begin to get going at night.
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Post-Blair Britain Set to Seek Greater Distance from US
By Anna Tomforde
As Britain prepares for the long-awaited transition to the
post-Blair era, there are few certainties as to what course a future
administration will take. Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown,
the Labor heavyweight tipped to take over the premiership from Tony
Blair, has kept the public guessing over whether he is an advocate
of continuity or change. Read On
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Polling in Uttar Pradesh,
Mayawati Eyes Power
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader Mayawati said Saturday she was
confident of forming a government on her own in Uttar Pradesh, as
42.7 percent of some 15.9 million voted in incident free fifth leg
of the assembly elections.
"BSP will form the next government in Uttar Pradesh," the two-time
former chief minister told reporters shortly after casting her vote
here. "And let me tell you, we will do it entirely on our own
strength and will not require anybody else to form our government."
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'Tara Rum...' a Romp
Through Life's Ups and Downs
Month-long European
Film Fest Kicks Off
Without Heroine,
Ekta's 'Kasturi' Left in the Lurch
Court Asks for
Probe into 'KBC Fraud'
'Jodha Akbar' to be
Unveiled at Cannes
Cezanne Quits
'Kasautii...' for Films
Jassi Stars Mona and Karan to Wed Next
Year
Rani Models her 'Ta Ra Rum Pum'
Performance...
No Life Without Wife's Parents, says
Madhavan
After Gere,
Did Govinda Head for Nepal?
'Shilpa Can't
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Kalam Ends Greece Visit,
Appears Open for Second Term by Tarun
Basu
 President
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam wound up a state visit to Greece, the last
foreign visit of his term, winning hundreds of admirers for himself
and India, converting skeptics and possibly open to persuasion about
doing a second term. As he left for home from here after a
four-day stay, Kalam left people breathless with his boundless
energy, about his passion for promotion of a "knowledge society" and
"enlightened minds", and his easy conviviality that made him liked
by whoever he came across with -- be they politicians, fellow
scientists, NRIs or children. Read On
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