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'Dr King's trip to India a landmark event'

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday hosted a delegation of lawmakers, civil rights activists and some of this country's leading musicians, including jazz great Herbie Hancock, on the......

Obama appoints Neal Katyal to top post

On the very day Barack Obama will be sworn in as the 44th president of the United States, Neal Kumar Katyal, professor of law at the Georgetown University Law School in Washington, DC, has been......

Indian lawyer scores one for Guantanamo detainees

For Shayana (Shane) Kadidal, a senior managing attorney of the Guantnamo project at the Centre for Constitutional Rights, the recent Supreme Court ruling in favour of the detainees is yet another......

A soldier's song

Warrior-turned peacemaker General Indar Jit Rikhye passed away in the US on May 21. A young historian pays tribute. As a young boy, he was blessed, and instructed, by Mahatma Gandhi to join the......

Prince Charles postpones wedding

The wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles has been postponed to Saturday, a day after the funeral of Pope John Paul II, Clarence House has announced. A spokesman said the Prince --......

Cambridge honours Ratan Tata for Nano

Ratan Tata, chairman of the Tata Group, has been conferred the honorary degree of Doctor of Law for his role in producing the world's cheapest car Nano. The degree was conferred by Prince Philip,......

A new America? Immigrants hold the key

Professor and entrepreneur Vivek Wadhwa agrees that the economy is the single greatest challenge awaiting the 44th President of the United States -- but he also believes that Barack Obama would do......

Mittal tops losers' list of UK's super-rich

Britain's richie-rich club saw their wealth melting away by more than half to 200 billion pounds in a year marked with a severe economic downturn, while Indian-origin steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal......

Recession: Some US cities will be safer

Oct. 13's 937-point surge in the Dow notwithstanding, the economic crisis has left Americans -- even those with no obvious connection to Wall Street -- wondering about their own future. The 401(k)s......

Sir Timothy, inventor of World Wide Web

A long time ago, in a world where George Michael was still considered cool and being gay implied you were happy about something, a man called Timothy John Berners-Lee decided to change the face of......

Your favourite Superman of ALL TIME? VOTE!

They aren't birds and they aren't planes.There is only one Superman, though several actors have played him rather memorably over the years. And with Zack Snyder's Man of Steel in which British......

Gulshan Grover to romance Salma Hayek

The bad man of Bollywood has shifted his gaze to Hollywood -- and Salma Hayek, to be precise. Gulshan Grover will play the sexy actress' husband in their new film, The Driver. It will be......

Review: Ocean's 13 is a blast

The film opens with a layered, self-referencing, almost-nonsensical plot about a major heist, a seemingly impossible casino boost in Las Vegas. It's a contrived, bizarrely complicated sequence of......

Holy David Beckham!

Ho hum. It's time for the Christmas season, and even the Nativity scene seems passe and predictable. At least, so decides the Madame Tussauds Wax Museum in London. According to a BBC report, the......

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Q. is it necessary tat a man who smokes and drinks is bad?
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Q. Who is considered as Prince of Builders in Indian history and why?
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Q. What was the full name of the last Emperor of India? ( and no he was NOT Bahadur Shah Zafar !).
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Skipper George Bailey feels confidence is lacking in Australian team

London: These are tough times for Australian cricket. Beaten in a home Test series by South Africa, thrashed 4-0 away in India, and now eliminated... ...

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Speculation mounts in countdown to Britain's royal baby

London: Speculation about baby names, hair color and hypnosis swirled around Britain's Duchess of Cambridge on Thursday during her last solo public... ...

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Your favourite Superman of ALL TIME? VOTE!

They aren't birds and they aren't planes.There is only one Superman, though several actors have played him rather memorably over the years. And... ...

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Medical World Americas Announces Executive Advisory Committee Chair, Dr. Robert C. Robbins

(GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Robert C. Robbins, M.D., President and Chief Executive Officer of Texas Medical Center, will serve as chair of the Medical... ...

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UPDATE 1-Golf-U.S. PGA Tour St Jude Classic scores

June 8 (Infostrada Sports) - Scores from the U.S. PGA Tour St Jude Classic at the par-70 course on Friday in Memphis, Tennessee. The cut was set at... ...

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