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(Photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick)Heavy rains lash North India, three die in UP
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(Photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick)Heavy rains lash north India, three die in UP
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Best friends forever
Best friends forever | Share ARTICLEURL | It is said that a friend is someone who thinks you’re a good egg even though you’re slightly cracked. On this Friendship Day, celebrities toast the sisterhoods, the brothers-in-arms, the wonderful people who are there in goo...Full Story
‘Delhi’s preparedness bordering on lackadaisical and absurd’
‘Delhi’s preparedness bordering on lackadaisical and absurd’ | Share ARTICLEURL Duffer's Guide Commonwealth Games more | I tend to be in partial agreement with Mani Shankar Aiyar. The intent of the games needs to be thoroughly examined. Commonwealth is made up of ...Full Story
Prior’s ton puts hosts in position of strength
Prior’s ton puts hosts in position of strength | Share ARTICLEURL | July 31: Pakistan were set a record-breaking target of 435 to win the first Test after England declared their second innings on 262 for nine on the third day at Trent Bridge on Saturday. Matt Prior wa...Full Story
A midsummer Day’s dream
A midsummer Day’s dream | Share ARTICLEURL | Having grown up in hot and humid Chennai, I had no idea that summers could be a cause for celebration. “It would be, if your summers lasted all of three months and the rest of the year is spent in cold and darkness,” sm...Full Story
SRK’s food secrets
SRK’s food secrets | Share ARTICLEURL | London’s ES magazine got Shah Rukh Khan to share all his favourite food secrets with them. Did you know he is guilty of drinking 40 cups of black coffee a day? Talk about a caffeine high. Another thing he is addicted to is tan...Full Story
Fundamentals
Fundamentals | Share ARTICLEURL | The statue of Liberty is not just a symbol of New York, it is very much an emblem of United States and freedom. This week’s theme is on some of the most iconic and defining sculptures of the world. | Write with your suggestions, quest...Full Story
Easy-peasy Japanese
Easy-peasy Japanese | Share ARTICLEURL | The first time I ate a Japanese meal, the husband and I had been staggering around London with a hilarious Scotsman who had the most peculiar way of pronouncing ‘noodles’. | We were what the tabloids would call ‘in high spi...Full Story
F.R.I.E.N.D.S: ‘I’ll be there for you’
F.R.I.E.N.D.S: ‘I’ll be there for you’ | Share ARTICLEURL | It is said that a friend is someone who thinks you're a good egg even though you’re slightly cracked. On this Friendship Day, celebrities toast the sisterhoods, the brothers-in-arms, the wonderful peopl...Full Story
EU gives Pakistan 30 million euros in humanitarian aid
Brussels: The European Commission said today it had given 30 million euros in humanitarian aid to help the most needy in Pakistan, including those hit by flooding that has killed at least 800 people. | "The European Commission has adopted a 30-million-euro (39-million-d...Full Story
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Games: Jabs and door knobs all part of the Games
Cricket: Pakistani youngster stamps his mark
Rains kill 800 in Pakistan
AFL to beam live into China
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Indian High Commission refutes Kalmadi's claim
Zeenews New Delhi: In a new twist to the major scam in the Commonwealth Games, Organising Committee Chairman Suresh Kalmadi today said the British company to which large sums were paid had been recommended by the Indian High Commission which refuted the clai...
Record number of tiger attacks attributed to loss of habitat
Gulf News | Dhaka: Bangladesh earned a name for being the home of Royal Bengal Tigers along with neighbouring India but this year, the big cats killed the highest number of people this century, a phenomenon feared to be caused by loss of their habitats. | &quo...
Bollywood gets real with rural India
Gulf News | Dubai: Anusha Rizvi is a fresh-off-the-boat Bollywood hopeful — with a difference. The former TV journalist isn't looking for a place in a chorus line. She has made her debut as a director in a field crowded by men and, in her film, Peepli Li...
Time Travel
The Times Of India Delhi, they say, has a lot of history. From last Monday, it arguably has a little less. The tonga, which symbolized tradition on the roads of this 21st century capital of an emerging power, has been grounded. The municipal corporation made the decisi...
‘Police call me madam, ask me to sit’
The Times Of India She tells it like it is. “If you have an extra finger, you’ll get it removed. It’s like that for us,” says A Revathi. Her candid, sometimes shocking autobiography, “The Truth About Me: A Hijra Life Story” is to be released in Bangalore la...
Rethinking the Afghanistan War's What-Ifs
The New York Times | WASHINGTON — Long before Afghanistan became the longest shooting war in American history, the question loomed: Could it have turned out differently? Related | Reports From the Ground: View Is Bleaker Than Official Portrayal of War in Afghanis...
Games: Jabs and door knobs all part of the Games
NZ Herald By 5:30 AM Sunday Aug 1, 2010 Email Print | It is an unfortunate coincidence the words "Delhi" and "belly" rhyme. | It means India's capital city has long been faced with defending a reputation for a lack of sanitation when anything upsets a Western ...
Cricket: Pakistani youngster stamps his mark
NZ Herald 5:30 AM Sunday Aug 1, 2010 Email Print | You couldn't get much that is more precisely half-formed than this Pakistan team that so recently beat the Australians and now awaits something close to evisceration by England. Except, maybe, for Mohammad Aam...
Rains kill 800 in Pakistan
NZ Herald 5:30 AM Sunday Aug 1, 2010 Email Print | NOWSHERA - Flooding in Pakistan has killed more than 800 people in a week, a government official said Saturday as rescuers struggled to reach marooned victims and some evacuees showed signs of fever, diarrhea ...
Two China mine industry accidents kill 17, trap 24
The Star | SHANGHAI (Reuters) - At least 17 people were killed and 24 trapped in two separate mining accidents in China on Saturday, the official Xinhua news agency said. | An explosion near the dormitory of a coal mine in Linfen city in northern Shanxi provi...
Death Toll Rises to 800 as Floods Hit Pakistan
The New York Times | ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Monsoon-driven floods are reported to have killed at least 800 people and destroyed thousands of homes in the past week, officials said Saturday, as some of the one million Pakistanis affected were reported with fevers, ...
India Digs Under Top of the World to Match Rival
The New York Times | ROHTANG PASS, India — The name of this white-knuckle pass, one of the highest in the world, means “pile of corpses” in the Tibetan language. Every year a few dozen people die trying to cross these spiky Himalayan peaks. | For six ...
Gymnastics coach rues lack of equipment
Deccan Chronicle Gymnastics coach rues lack of equipment | Share ARTICLEURL | On his first coaching assignment to India, gymnastics head coach Vladimir Chertkov faces the uphill task of producing champions in a sport which is still in its infancy here. | In a country...
Champ Mary Kom to spread Her Wings
Deccan Chronicle Champ Mary Kom to spread Her Wings | Share ARTICLEURL | M.C. Mary Kom’s punches and jabs have knocked more than just the living daylights out of her opponents, the success of the 27-year-old pugilist has also busted more than a few myths about Indi...
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