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Hillary Clinton to charge Rs 1.08 cr per speech

Hillary Clinton has signed up for speaking circuit and will charge a whopping $200,000 (Rs Rs 1.0894 crore) per appearance, an amount more than her annual salaray as the United States secretary of......

High 5: Past, present and future at White House

If ever you sought a living, breathing tableau of recent US Presidential history, Wednesday was it, when President-elect Barack Obama met with outgoing President George W Bush and all three living......

After 9/11, Bush suddenly had political capital

George Bush's presidency didn't begin well. Nor did it proceed well. Gone was the kinder, gentler America. Bush and his administration clearly believed in unilateralism, and didn't mind flexing......

Lalu Prasad ko gussa kyun aata hai

Voted out of power in Bihar in the recent election, you would expect Rashtriya Janata Dal boss Lalu Prasad Yadav to lie low for a while, nurse his electoral wounds, and introspect. But the......

Day 3 of GOP convention: Extraordinary

It was an extraordinary night at the Republican Convention, Day Three, at the Madison Square Garden on Wednesday.Extraordinary for what was said; extraordinary for how those words struck echoes......

Gordon Brown laughing all the way to bank?

Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown may have left Britain broke, but he is laughing all the way to the bank amid reports that he has been offered 70,000 pounds a night to tell Americans how......

Soon, cars may run on whisky

Apart from giving that euphoric feeling, the invigorating properties of whisky will soon be used for running cars, and keeping school kids warm.Researchers at the University of Abertay are creating......

Premji, Yunus among top 30 world entrepreneurs

Wipro chief Azim Premji and Bangladesh's micro-credit leader and Nobel Prize winner Mohammad Yunus are among the all time top 30 entrepreneurs identified by leading business magazine BusinessWeek.......

China starts driving in style

Wayne Shen wants his next set of wheels to turn heads. That means he wants a car that's an engineering marvel and snazzy enough to convince others that he's a man of discerning taste. The......

How Warren Buffet made his billions

Warren Buffett is a man who has made millions but he also started working at his father's brokerage when he was 11 years old, that's an age when most other kids were playing hide-n-seek and didn't......

Lady Gaga rules MTV Video Music Awards

Her outlandish costumes often get more attention than her music but Lady Gaga proved that she is the leading lady of pop, sweeping the MTV Video Music Awards with eight trophies including the one......

Don't miss the Superman Returns trivia

Superman Returns has been in the making, and making, and making, for a little over ten years, during which time directors came and went; scriptwriters came, wrote, and were junked. When finally it......

Yohan Blake shocks Usain Bolt to claim 100m title

Yohan Blake delivered a shock that will be felt all the way to London by exploding past world record holder Usain Bolt to claim a stunning 100 metres victory at the Jamaican Olympic trials on......

Rickie Fowler wins first PGA title in playoff

Rickie Fowler delivered on his vast potential by claiming his first PGA Tour win at the Wells Fargo championship with a birdie on the first hole of a playoff against Briton Rory McIlroy and fellow......

Jeremy Lin passes Knicks to victory over Kings

Jeremy Lin showed off another dimension on his magical NBA ride in leading the New York Knicks to a 100-85 rout of the Sacramento Kings on Wednesday for the team's seventh win in a row. Lin, who......

Wariner, Lagat, Gay headline US team

An experienced athletics team featuring seven current world champions and a host of medals favourites will represent the United States in next month's Beijing Olympics, USA Track & Field announced......

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Q. US history is just 500 years old. Yet after having started from scratch, they have made themselves the only Super power. All look up to US...The Good, The Bad and also The Ugly.
: A. yep very true. they fought on their own right to free themselves from english monarchy... they hv an excellent ethnic mix of crowd boasting of...... more

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Q. DO U KNOW THE ACTUAL MEANING OF "O.K."????
QueSera Sera: A. 1. Orrin Kendall biscuits, which soldiers ate during the Civil War. : : 2. Short for Aux Cayes, a Haitian port that American sailors praised for...... more

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Q. can any one tel wat is mean of love
Sharan: A. word is love." - Sophocles "Attention is the most basic form of love; through it we bless and are blessed." - John Tarrant "We...... more

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Q. How the ter m "OK " came into existance ? What does it convey ?
Chandra Shekhar: A. 1839, only survivor of a slang fad in Boston and New York c.1838-9 for abbreviations of common phrases with deliberate, jocular misspellings (cf....... more

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Q. Do we have any world record holder in swimming
Dev Kapoor: A. YES AKaio de AlmeidaTherese AlshammarCNatalie CoughlinIan CrockerLszl CsehDInge de BruijnInge DekkerESophie EdingtonJade EdmistoneKrisztina...... more

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Finance Bill effect on realty; costly retirement homes

Also read: Need funds for wedding: Go for loan against property The Parliament has passed the Finance Bill. The main implication for real estate is... ...

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NoshList Heads to NRA with More Than 11 Million Diners Seated and Key New Features

/PRNewswire/ -- NoshList, the world's fastest growing waitlist app, today announced the addition of three key features to improve restaurant... ...

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McCutchen homers in 12th as Pirates top Brewers

Andrew McCutchen homered leading off the bottom of the 12th inning to lift the Pittsburgh Pirates to a 4-3 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers on... ...

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Justice to investigate IRS targeting of tea party

The Justice Department is opening a criminal investigation into the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of tea party groups for extra scrutiny... ...

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Umps get it right on Jones' HR, Pirates beat Mets

Garrett Jones hit a three-run homer ? a call that was correctly overturned by baseball's beleaguered umpires ? and Wandy Rodriguez pitched the... ...

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