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Ravi Shankar's family, friends pay tributes at memorial

Friends, family members and followers, who came to pay tribute to music maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar were welcomed with white roses and vermilion on forehead on Thursday in his hometown Encinitas,......

Sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar passes away

Legendary musician Pandit Ravi Shankar passed awayin San Diego on Wednesday. He was 92. The musician was admitted to the Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla last Thursday after he complained of......

US troops found posing with remains of 'Taliban' bombers

Unites States troops posed with mangled remains of suspected Taliban suicide bombers in a new macabre incident to come to light. American paratroopers sent to check out reports that the Afghan......

Will Bobby Jindal be Republicans' saviour?

Forgive my elation and inflated sense of accomplishment, but I hail from Ohio and my mother from Virginia. Two states that Senator John McCain positively needed to secure victory in the 2008 US......

America is willing to change

Last week, an American tourist, in between sips of fresh lime soda, explained to me his plan for hassle-free world travels. "It's simple," he said. "I just tell people that I'm from Canada." I --......

Who is the father of civil aviation in India?

Man has always dreamt of flying. From drawings on stone pyramids to Leonardo da Vinci's prescient drawings of flying machines, we can see the curiosity of mankind to conquer the sky. Then at the......

Barack Obama and the Big Three

Congress may or may not be writing the preliminary epitaph for GM this week. But it sure seems to be playing out the perfect epilogue for the comparably bankrupt Bush era. Another big complicated......

New Harry Potter film is about old secrets, young love

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is about bravery, sacrifice, and the risks taken to unearth deep secrets and fight pure evil.But the most awaited film this summer is also about young love......

WT20: Watson is MVP; Yuvraj India's best

Purnendu Maji and Srinivas Bhogle list the 50-most valuable players of the tournament Shane Watson scored a lot of runs at a torrid pace and took a lot of wickets with a reasonable economy rate. It......

Check out the 14 squads for the World Cup

Less than a month to go for the ICC World Cup andthere are a lot of areas where work is still in progress.The venues, tickets, strategies et al are yet to be put in place. However, one thingstands......

India look to seal the series in fourth ODI

Having gained a 2-1 lead after registering back-to-back victories in the last two games against the Proteas, India go into the fourth ODI at Port Elizabeth seeking to clinch their first-ever series......

Match stats: 1st Test, Ind vs NZ, Day 4

Statistical highlights from the fourth day's play of the first Test between India and New Zealand in Ahmedabad on Sunday.#Kane Williamson is the second NZ player after Bruce Taylor to post a......

Tendulkar in ESPNcricinfo's all-time Test World XI

Sachin Tendulkar was the only current cricketer named in ESPNcricinfo's all-time Test World XI which did not include Australian captain Ricky Ponting and the likes of Brian Lara, Glenn McGrath,......

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Q. What is the name of the book in which you dont find the letter \'E\'?
: A. Ernest Vincent Wright's Gadsby (1939), and Georges Perec's novel A Void (La Disparition) (1969), both of which are missing the letter E more

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Q. 5. Who made the first powered flight? a. Orville Wright b. Jean-Marie Le Bris c. John J. Montgomery d. George Cayley
Gouthami: A. George Cayley more

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Q. 4. Who made the first manned glider flight? a. Orville Wright b. George Cayley c. George Carlin d. Orville Redenbacher
Srini: A. Orville Redenbacher more

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Q. who invented the aeroplane
Srini: A. The german engineer otto lilienthal made a real discovery that contribute significantly to the final development of the airplane.he seriously the...... more

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Q. who was involved in first airplane crash ??
Vivek Mahajan: A. It had only been five years since Orville and Wilbur Wright made their famous flight at Kitty Hawk. By 1908, the Wright brothers were traveling...... more

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El Paso Children's Hospital Standardizes to Masimo SET® Pulse Oximetry

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Novartis' COPD data shows improved lung function, shortness of breath & reducing rate of exacerbations

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Soldier charged with videotaping women

An Army sergeant has been charged with secretly photographing and videotaping at least a dozen women at the at West Point, including in a bathroom.... ...

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Environmental Defense Fund Does Not Speak For Us On Fracking

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Pop songwriters find excitement in stage musicals

There was a time when most of the songs played on the radio came from Broadway. Now some popular hit makers like Cyndi Lauper and Sting are finding... ...

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