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Dera
Apologizes, Sikh Clergy to Meet Tuesday
Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmit Ram Rahim tendered an apology Sunday
evening - the deadline set by the Akal Takht for the sect to vacate
its campuses in Punjab following a controversy over the godman's
portrayal allegedly in the manner of 10th Sikh guru Gobind Singh.
The press release came from the sect and not from the chief himself.
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VHP Threatens
Force Against Sethusamudram Project
The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP)
Sunday threatened to "use force" to protect the mythological Ram
Setu and stop the controversial Sethusamudram canal project off the
Tamil Nadu coast. Read On
IIT Kanpur
Developing Robot for India's Moon Mission by Prashant K. Nanda
When India sends its proposed
moon mission in 2011, it will have a unique robot developed
indigenously by student-engineers and their professors at the Indian
Institute of Technology (IIT) at Kanpur.
The 'SmartNav' robot being
developed ... Read On
Government Order Sounds Death Knell for Mumbai 'Encounters'
Stung by nationwide criticism over staged shootouts to check
terrorism and crime, the Maharashtra government has decided to rope
in the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to probe the
so-called 'encounter killings' in the state.
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Karat
Finally Shows Who's The CPI-M Boss by M.R. Narayan Swamy
Prakash Karat, the
quintessential Stalinist in democratic politics, has finally stamped
his authority with a decision he alone could have taken: put the
hugely popular chief minister of Kerala and his strongman-critic
finally in their place by axing them from the party's most important
body for indiscipline. Read On
'Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely,' Chaudhry Reminds Musharraf
Pakistan's suspended Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has a
message for President General Pervez Musharraf: "Absolute power
corrupts absolutely". Launching a veiled attack on Musharraf
Saturday evening from his home turf - he was addressing a seminar in
the auditorium of the Supreme Court, he said that people's desire
for an independent judiciary could not be suppressed.
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Soni
Criticizes Aiyar Over 'Aam Admi' Remarks
Tourism Minister Ambika Soni has attacked Sports Minister Mani
Shankar Aiyar for breaking the "mantra of cabinet collective
responsibility" by airing his criticism of economic policies in the
open. In the Devil's Advocate interview ...
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India
Plans 'Rubber Fencing' Along Northeast Border
by Sujit Chakraborty
After barbed wire fencing, rubber plantations may now serve as a
natural green barricade along the India-Bangladesh border in Tripura
- a major rubber producer - to check the movement of militants,
smuggling and other crimes. Read On
Bhutan
Ready to Shed Monarchy for Democracy, Peacefully
Tenzin Chhoeda, 42, is getting restless by the day and discusses
animatedly with friends Bhutan's planned transition from monarchy to
parliamentary democracy.
Like many others, he has plenty of doubts and fears.
"Will the change be good for the society?" "Maybe the present
monarchial system is getting irrelevant." "Will democracy lead to
chaos and anarchy in a country like Bhutan?"
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A
Simple Kashmir Marriage The Rich Would Envy by F. Ahmed
When a marriage stirs a humble hamlet to life, its joys cannot be
rivalled by the big bashes of high profile weddings. And so it was
in this village. Suddenly Machan, 32 km north of summer capital
Srinagar, was reverberating with excitement.
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Wife,
Daughter Jailed for Attempts to Kill Indian Man by Prasun
Sonwalkar
Three people of Indian origin, including the scheming wife and
daughter of Coventry-based Jaskarnjit Singh Sanghera, have been
convicted of conspiring to murder him and have begun prison
sentences. In a sensational case involving hired assaulters,
Sanghera was assaulted repeatedly on two occasions but managed to
survive ... Read On
Fighting
Renewed in Palestinian Camp in Lebanon
A fragile ceasefire between
the Lebanese army and Al Qaeda-linked Muslim militants was broken
late Saturday as machinegun fire and rocket exchanges could be heard
across the Palestinian refugee camp at the centre of the struggle.
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Construction to Become
$120 bn Industry
by 2012: Assocham
The booming Indian
construction industry, currently worth $70 billion, would soar up to
a value of $120 billion by 2010, giving rise to a demand for
manpower of over 90 million, says a leading industry lobby.
The sector, which currently employs about 30 million people, would
provide immense direct and indirect job opportunities ...
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Will the
Best and Brightest
Find it Harder to Get Into US? by
Arun Kumar
For years, Uncle Sam has
opened its doors a bit wider to "aliens of extraordinary abilities"
- no, not visitors from Mars or Moon with a trick or two up their
sleeves, but simply the best and the brightest from other parts of
the world. But would the next Albert Einstein or a new Hargobind
Khorana, the Indian-born American biochemist who shared the Nobel
Prize for Medicine in 1968, find it a little bit harder to make
America their new home under the new immigration bill? Speculation
is rife that if ... Read On
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Entertainment |
'Cheeni Kum' - A
Scrumptious Romantic Comedy
Cannes Glamour Offensive
Ends,
Unveiling Top Honor
Sanjay Gupta is An Angry
Man
Lata May Make
International Debut
Old Zohra Meets Young Ranbir in 'Saawariya'
Irrfan Khan, India's True International Star
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The Misery
of Diego Garcia's Cold War Exiles
by Shubha Singh
Chagos islanders - exiles
from a forgotten Indian Ocean archipelago now used as a US military
base - have won an appeal in the British courts that allows them to
return to their homeland. The imperatives of the Cold War era and
the strategic location of the islands had resulted in the
Chagossians, as they call themselves, being banished from their
homes after the British government leased their islands without
their consent to the Americans ...
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Finnish
Women Return to Their Roots
by Vishnu Makhijani
In a country where 83 of the
200 parliamentarians are females, it is hardly surprising that there
are very few Finnish women who do not work - or that many are even
returning to their roots to pay back their communities. "It's a
legacy of the war (WW II)"
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