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A protester is engulfed by flames as he throws a petrol bomb against riot police guarding the parliament in Athens' Syntagma (Constitution) square during clashes December 6. Greek police fired tear......

India Mela part of India Week programs at UGA

An India Festival organized by the Indian Association of Greater Athens, Georgia, a discussion on Vikas Swarup's book Q&A which formed the basis for the Oscar winning movie Slumdog Millionaire, and......

Speaker gets Greek Parliament's gold medal

Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee was on Tuesday awarded the gold medal of the Hellenic Parliament in Athens.Conferring the award on the occassion of "celebration of 150th year of constitutional......

Greece plane crash: All 121 dead

All 121 people aboard a Cypriot airliner died on Sunday after it smashed into a wooded hillside near Athens after air force pilots said the crew of the Boeing 737 appeared 'doubled up' in the......

Greece: Dead found at air crash site

Firefighters searching for survivors amid the burning wreckage of a Cyprus Helios Airways jet that crashed near Athens on Sunday found 'the first dead but still no survivors', a fire department......

Tech toys rule at the Games

The Olympics have come a long way since the first one in Athens where athletes alone mattered. Over a century later, technology too is helping athletes at the 2008 Beijing Olympics games to smash......

Drive the Xceptional BMW!

Athens. To me, it always was a city that surrounded a crumbling mansion atop a hill. And guess what, I was right all along. What I didn't know was that the capital of Greece which houses 40 per......

On target: Rathore bags ad deals

A year after shooting his way to a silver in the Athens Olympics, Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore is all set to ride the gravy train. Allowed by the Defence Ministry to endorse brands, Rathore, an......

Greek soccer player banned over Nazi salute

AEK Athens midfielder Giorgos Katidis was handed a life ban from all national teams by Greece’s soccer federation EPO on Sunday after he appeared to give a Nazi salute to supporters during a......

Russian weightlifter stripped of Athens bronze medal

Russian weightlifter Oleg Perepetchenov was stripped of his 2004 Olympic bronze medal on Tuesday after a retest of his sample from the Athens Games returned positive for banned substance......

Rathore, Sodhi to lead Indian challenge in Shotgun World Cups

Athens Olympics silver medallist Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore and Ronjan Sodhi will spearhead Indian challenge at the ISSF Shotgun World Cups in Mexico and United Arab Emirates in March and April.......

Rathore wins gold in shooting nationals

Athens Olympics silver-medallist Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore on Tuesday, clinched the double trap gold medal ahead of former world number one Ronjan Sodhi and Mohammad Asab at the 56th Shooting......

Russian weightlifter told to return 2004 Olympic medal

Oleg Perepechyonov has been asked to return his Olympic bronze medal from the 2004 Athens Games after his samples from eight years ago were retested and showed traces of "a funny substance",......

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QNA

Q. where I can get list of famous plays fo william shaekesphere ?
Shashikant Deshmukh: A. more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/where-i-can-get-list-of-famous-plays-fo-william-shaekesphere/25419318/answers/

Q. capital of the greece
Vivek Mahajan: A. Comedies All's Well That Ends Well As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Love's Labour's Lost Measure for Measure The Merchant of...... more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/capital-of-the-greece/25090643/answers/25419335

Q. Which city is considered to be the oldest city as also the oldest capital in the world?
Lalit Mahata: A. athens more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/which-city-is-considered-to-be-the-oldest-city-as-also-the-o/25027740/answers/25090673

Q. Figure out the oddman plz :AthensMilanWarsawTokyoBeijing
Jene: A. Difficult to tell, but there r many which claims which includes hastinapur, taksheel, Damascus, Athens, jeruselum, Alexandra, etc. One would never...... more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/figure-out-the-oddman-plz-athensmilanwarsawtokyobeijing/24904506/answers/25027781

Web results for Athens

Auburn women's golfers overcome trying season

The Auburn women's golf team had to overcome far more than the normal highs and lows of the sport to make the NCAA championships. Coach Kim Evans... ...

http://www.sify.com/news/auburn-women-s-golfers-overcome-trying-season-news-health-nfuapcahaja.html

Greece to sell Postbank, Proton in July, stress-test big banks

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's bank rescue fund will aim to sell Hellenic Postbank and Proton by mid-July with big banks continuing to absorb small... ...

http://in.reuters.com/article/2013/05/19/greece-banks-test-idINDEE94I04T20130519?type=economicNews

Isinbayeva wins comeback meet in Shanghai

Russian pole vault queen Yelena Isinbayeva won her first competition of the season by jumping 4.70 metres at the Diamond League meeting here. The... ...

http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a380301.html

Greece to buy 142 new ships from China

The Lokayukta report in Karnataka exposed illegalities, irregularities and crime by mining mafia in connivance with politicians and bureaucrats... ...

http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/greece-to-buy-142-new-shipschina/245985/on

Late breaking clinical trials introduced for first time at EHRA EUROPACE 2013

: A packed programme is promised for EHRA EUROPACE2013 meeting, taking place in Athens, Greece, June 23 to 26, with the results of ten late... ...

http://www.presstrust.com/node/1604430

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