| Liz Hurley's 'safety pin' dress voted 'Greatest Red Carpet G |
| London, Oct 10 ANI: Liz Hurley's 'safety pin' dress has topped a new poll of 'The Greatest Red Carpet Gown Of All Time'. The 43-year-old wore the eye-popping black Versace outfit to accompany Hugh Grant to the 1994 premiere of 'Four Weddings And A Funeral', reports the Telegraph.The dress, which was held together with several large gold safety pins, subsequently appeared in newspapers and magazines around the world and was widely credited for boosting her profile.In second read more |
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| Memory of Sourav winds up Shane Warne |
| INT20International/SportsMemory of Sourav winds up Shane WarneBy Dipankar De SarkarLondon, Oct 5 IANS Former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly, taken back into the team after being dropped, is among 11 Indians named by Australian spinner Shane Warne in his list of 100 greatest cricketers. But the Indian clearly irks Warne - enough for the Aussie to claim India's famous Test series win against Australia in 2000 was due to cricketers other than skipper Sourav. The list of greats, which forms a new read more |
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Posted by IANS on Monday Oct 06 |
| Brown promotes influential Indian-origin minister to key pos |
| INT21International/Diaspora/PoliticsBrown promotes influential Indian-origin minister to key positionBy Dipankar De SarkarLondon, Oct 5 IANS British Premier Gordon Brown Sunday promoted Shriti Vadera - an ex-banker of Indian origin said to be among his most trusted colleagues - to a powerful new ministerial post aimed at solidifying his economic team. Baroness Vadera's exact designation was to be announced later, a Downing Street spokeswoman said. However, the Observer newspaper said she has read more |
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Posted by IANS on Monday Oct 06 |
| N. Korea, Russia and Iran pose greatest security challenges |
| Washington, Oct 3 ANI: CIA Director Michael Hayden has said that The fragile state of North Korea and the booming, oil-rich trio of Iran, Venezuela and Russia have grown increasingly aggressive and po... read more |
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| AT THE OLYMPICS |
| SPO1Sports/Education/SportsWhy India fails to win Olympic medals CommentBy Ashis RoyAt the Olympics, India had been known as hockey champions, though the last hockey gold was a devalued one, coming in 1980 when the western bloc of nations boycotted the Moscow Games. Since then there had been a gradual decline, resulting in India failing to even qualify for the first time in 80 years for the Olympics in Beijing.For the first time we won a gold medal at the Beijing Olympics in 10 metre shooting which does not require any physical fitness read more |
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Posted by IANS on Thursday Oct 02 |
| Old Trafford to be redeveloped; floodlights will be installe |
| SPO15Sports/InternationalOld Trafford to be redeveloped; floodlights will be installedLondon, Sep 23 IANS After being left out for the next year's Ashes by the English and Wales Cricket Board ECB and being struck off the international calendar till 2011, the Lancashire country has acted swiftly to redevelop the Old Trafford.The county's plans were approved by Trafford council Monday evening and it includes, changing the cricket square around to north-to-south direction from its present east-to-west orientation read more |
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Posted by IANS on Wednesday Sep 24 |
| Researchers discover hundreds of species off Great Barrier R |
| INT9International/EnvironmentResearchers discover hundreds of species off Great Barrier ReefSydney, Sep 22 IANS Researchers exploring waters off Australia's Great Barrier Reef have discovered hundreds of new marine species, besides stumbling on a wealth of insights about ocean life. The find includes about 300 soft coral species, up to half of them thought to be new to science, dozens of small crustacean species - and potentially one or more families - likewise thought unknown to science.They read more |
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Posted by IANS on Tuesday Sep 23 |
| Slovenia |
| The Republic of Slovenia is situated in Central Europe, sharing the border with Italy to the west, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north. The Adriatic Sea lies to the southwest of Slovenia read more |
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Posted by subhasis on Thursday Aug 14 |
| Whom will Left propitiate? (06-08-2008) |
| Anyone will simply rebuke if he/she is told that the concept of private enterprise in the post-independent period originated first in Calcutta. The erstwhile second city of the British Empire managed its sway in the national economic scenario till the beginning of the 1960s read more |
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Posted by subhasis on Wednesday Aug 06 |
| Lithuania |
| The Republic of Lithuania is situated in Northern Europe, bordering Latvia to the north, Belarus to the southeast, Poland, and the Russian exclave of the Kaliningrad Oblast to the southwest. The Baltic Sea borders the nation to the north-west read more |
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