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Napolean wasn't poisoned, poor diet killed him

Putting to rest a 200-year-old mystery about what killed Napoleon Bonaparte, scientists claim to have found evidence that the French Emperor didn't die from arsenic poising as some had......

Lost 'king' of France wants to live in India

Balthazar Napoleon de Bourbon a man with a distinct 'Soorma Bhopali' accent being touted as the lost descendent of France's Bourbon kings -- says he will be happy making a stake for the title but......

Napoleon was the first Zionist: Book

French general Napoleon Bonaparte was the first "Zionist" who tried to reinstate Jews in Jerusalem, a new book claims in the light of recent evidences."Napoleon was the first to see the Jews as a......

The Great India-China Game

The roots of our problem with China go back a couple of hundred years when Emperor Napoleon and Tsar Alexander met in July 1807 on a great raft moored on the river Niemen at Tilsit in east Prussia......

Gandhiji among leaders most admired by CEOs globally

Mahatma Gandhi figures among the top three most admired leaders of the world, said a global survey of CEOs conducted by accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers. While Winston Churchill tops the......

Lesson 2: Switch business models on a dime

7 strategies to start a company for nothing! Lesson 1: Brand it creatively 1-800-Mattress: Founded by Napoleon Barragan with $2,000 In 1976, Napoleon Barragan placed a classified ad in a newspaper......

Swatch gets Rs 1 crore wristwatch to India

Napoleon Bonaparte wore one, as did Queen Victoria and Winston Churchill. Now, Indians, too, can carve a piece of history for themselves, with the Swatch Group launching the Breguet brand of......

China, the economy of the year

Let China sleep, for when she wakes up she will shake the world. -- Napoleon BonaparteNapoleon was no Nostradamus, but there are enough signs that what he said 200 years ago has more or less come......

Rahul Bajaj honoured with France's highest award

France has awarded its highest civilian award, 'Knight in the Order of the Legion of Honour', to Rahul Bajaj, Chairman of Bajaj Auto.On behalf of France's President Nicolas Sarkozy, French......

Chhabria set for debut in brandy

Kishore Chhabria is set to join the long list of Indian liquor giants in the brandy market.The Chhabria-promoted Rs 1,200 crore (Rs 12 billion) Allied Blenders & Distillers will launch two brandy......

Al Pacino to play Napoleon

Academy award winner Al Pacino, who longtime wished to play Napoleon, now gets a chance to play the French emperor in an on-screen adaptation of children's book - Betsy and the Emperor. GC Corp,......

Now, they don't like 'Puthiya Geetai'

After Kamal Haasan's Sandiyar (Kamal, Napoleon, Pasupathy, Abhirami), another Tamil film, K P Jagan's Geetai (Vijay, Meera Jasmine, Amisha Patel), is in trouble.Once again, the contentious issue is......

Watch Saleem at your own risk

After watching the Telugu film Saleem, one is compelled to think how directors can churn out aimless and mindless formula entertainers by the dozen. There seems to be a paucity of good ideas and......

Review: Kashmir deserves better than Sikandar

It's a lure tugging straight at the alpha male's heart. You don't have to be a Kashmiri schoolboy to be thrilled at the sight of a discarded pistol (a Beretta, no less) at the side of the road is,......

Azhagar Malai: Revisiting the 70s

Tamil actor returns as the hero this time around in Karumari Pictures' Azhagar Malai directed by S P Raaj Kumar, an old hand at coming up with pot-boilers. The set-up is a tried and thrashed one: a......

Napoleon bids to conquer Delhi

Ryan Napoleon has been re-instated in the Australian swimming team for the Commonwealth Games after sport's top tribunal back-dated his three-month ban for a doping offence. Governing body FINA......

Aus swimmer banned from Delhi Commonwealth Games

Australia's Ryan Napoleon has been suspended from swimming for three months following a positive test for a banned substance after he was given the wrong asthma inhaler, Swimming Australia said on......

Thorpe advances to 200m freestyle semi-finals

Five-times Olympic champion Ian Thorpe kept his London ambitions firing when he reached the semi-finals of the 200 metres freestyle at the Australian trials on Friday with a solid swim that......

It's going to end by me getting a clean chit: Modi

FormerIndian Premier League (IPL) commissioner Lalit Modiin his first full interview since his suspension as commissioner of the Twenty20 league in April believes he is innocent and is confident of......

Aus, English swimmers ill at CWG

Australian and English swimmers are complaining of illness at the Delhi Commonwealth Games and the reason might be "contaminated" water in the pool.According to reports in local newspapers here, a......

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Q. kabhi yun bhi to ho, ye baadal aisaa toot ke barsemere dil ki tarah milne ko, tumhaara dil bhi tarse...aisa ho sakta hai kya ?
Shiv Bhatia: A. more

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Q. The renowned English novelist H.G. Wells proclaimed, " ----------- possessed the pen of Macaulay, the tongue of Burke and the heart of Napoleon.fill in the blanks with the name ?
Truth Exposed: A. once upon a time Napoleon Bonaparte said " nothing is impossible ". more

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Li's India visit may be a memorable one

The Chinese nation had slept for well over a century. This was the period when the Anglo-Saxons unleashed the disgraceful opium war (1839 - 1862)... ...

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Duke brought the game and dude from player-starved land brought disrepute

From the lofty playing fields paved by the duke who beat Napoleon Boneparte to a modern-day Waterloo brought to bear by a once-admired son of the... ...

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