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| NAT17National/Religion/SocietyGoan village hands out lessons in harmonyLoliem Goa, Oct 8 IANS As Karnataka grapples with communal violence, it needs only to look at a tiny village five kilometres from its border for a way out -- where the widening rift between Hindus and Christians in parts of the country has actually led to closer bonds. Hindus and Christians in south Goa's Loliem village have come together to clear the local Hindu crematorium, which had been littered with debris and overgrown shrubs over the years read more |
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Posted by IANS on Wednesday Oct 08 |
| Tata firm to invest $12 mn in Qatar science park |
| BUS16Business/Science/InternationalTata firm to invest $12 mn in Qatar science parkDubai, Oct 8 IANS TCE Consulting Engineers, a Tata Group subsidiary, will invest $12 million over the next five years in the Qatar Science and Technology Park QSTP. The investment will see development of new engineering solutions to meet environmental challenges. "Buildings account for 40 percent of energy consumption worldwide, so with the right technology we can make a real difference in this area," Qatar's local media quoted TCE chief executive A read more |
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Posted by IANS on Wednesday Oct 08 |
| Teenager immolates self to escape molestation |
| NAT31National/CrimeTeenager immolates self to escape molestationLucknow, Oct 8 IANS An 18-year-old girl immolated herself to escape an alleged molestation bid by a group of youths in the Hathras district of Uttar Pradesh, the police said Wednesday.According to the police, the victim, who was staying with here relatives in Sadabad locality of Hathras, about 400 km from here, was alone in the house Tuesday night.Six men barged into the house and allegedly tried to rape her, the police said, adding she poured kerosene on her body and set herself afire to escape the molestation bid read more |
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Posted by IANS on Wednesday Oct 08 |
| Qatar banks remain stable amid global financial crisis |
| BUS28Business/InternationalQatar banks remain stable amid global financial crisisDubai, Oct 8 IANS Banks in Qatar remain stable in the face of the global financial crisis with that country's central bank ready to provide liquidity to banks if needed, a senior government official has said.Sheikh Fahd Bin Faisal Al-Thani, deputy governor of the Qatar Central Bank QCB, told the state-run Qatar News Agency that instructions issued to banks by the central bank have had significant effect on enhancing the financial stability of the Qatari banking apparatus read more |
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Posted by IANS on Wednesday Oct 08 |
| Becker unveils signature tennis resort in UAE |
| INT67International/Sports/BusinessBecker unveils signature tennis resort in UAEDubai, Oct 8 IANS German tennis legend Boris Becker Wednesday unveiled a three-billion dirham $816.7 million signature luxury tennis resort in the emirate of Ras Al Khaimah in the United Arab Emirates UAE.The Boris Becker Beach Resort and Tennis Academy, to be partly owned by Becker, will come up on the Al Marjan manmade island 27 km from the Ras Al Khaimah city centre.Aimed primarily at global investors in the top-end holiday-homes segment and spread across 2 read more |
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Posted by IANS on Wednesday Oct 08 |
| MOSCOW/TBILISI |
| INT77International/DefenceRussia completes pull-out from Georgian buffer zoneMoscow/Tbilisi, Oct 8 DPA Russian forces quit posts in buffer zones around rebel regions of Georgia Wednesday in their final withdrawal from positions held since Russia's war with Tbilisi two months ago. The Georgian interior ministry confirmed the complete pull-out from outside South Ossetia, ministry spokesman Shota Utyashvili said Wednesday. He did not mention whether Russian troops had left posts around Georgia's other separatist region of Abkhazia read more |
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Posted by IANS on Wednesday Oct 08 |
| Three Lashkar militants killed in Jammu and Kashmir: police |
| NAT59National/Kashmir/TerrorismThree Lashkar militants killed in Jammu and Kashmir: police LeadJammu, Oct 5 IANS Three guerrillas, including a top commander of the Lashkar-e-Taiba militant outfit, were killed in two separate gunbattles with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir Sunday, according to the police.Abrar Ahmad alias Abu Ubaid, one of the most wanted Lashkar militants, was killed late Saturday in Targain, a heavily forested and hilly area in the Rajouri district, north of here.Abrar, a former read more |
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Posted by IANS on Monday Oct 06 |
| Public woe of sacked Indian-origin minister |
| INT6International/Diaspora/PoliticsPublic woe of sacked Indian-origin ministerLondon, Oct 6 IANS Parmjit Dhanda, an Indian-origin Labour MP who lost his ministerial post in the recent cabinet reshuffle, has expressed his disappointment on his personal blog.The MP from Gloucester was a minister for communities and local government. He blogged: "I received the call that no minister wants to receive. I was told by the Prime Minster that he wanted to move me on to a non-ministerial post."He said it "was a disappointment, but ministerial jobs come and go" read more |
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Posted by IANS on Monday Oct 06 |
| Voter registration for presidential poll begins in Afghanist |
| INT18International/Politics/TerrorismVoter registration for presidential poll begins in AfghanistanKabul, Oct 6 DPA The Afghan government began voter registration Monday ahead of a presidential election slated for autumn 2009 despite the country's worsening security situation as it battles a Taliban-led insurgency. The Independent Election Commission said it started the first phase of the registration process in 15 central and eastern provinces, adding that it would take up to four months to cover the country read more |
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Posted by IANS on Monday Oct 06 |
| Nanodiamond drug device may transform conventional cancer tr |
| Washington, Oct 3 ANI: Northwestern University researchers have developed a biomedical device made of nanodiamonds that could be used to deliver chemotherapy drugs locally to sites where cancerous tum... read more |
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