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Eboo Patel receives interfaith Guru Nanak award

"When you start a prize with the Dalai Lama, how do you keep it going?" asked Thomas P DiNapoli, New York State comptroller, at the Guru Nanak Interfaith Prize event in New York, April 18. But, he......

Oxford awaits Suu Kyi to award her doctorate

 Aung Saan Suu Kyi's alma mater Oxford is abuzz with anticipation as it awaits the return of the democracy icon to receive a doctorate from the university that was announced way back in 1993, in......

Bo Xilai may face charges for blocking murder probe

 Purged Chinese Communist leader Bo Xilai could face criminal charges for blocking investigations into the death of British businessman Neil Heywood, as Whitehall mounted pressure on Beijing to......

Oxford, Vatican libraries to digitise ancient texts

 The Bodleian library at the University of Oxford and the Vatican libraries are collaborating on a project to bring ancient texts into the digital era, which will make 1.5 million pages available......

Protests in China before Communist party leader's sacking

 China's Chongqing city witnessed major demonstrations hours before its top administrator and Communist Party leader Bo Xilai was removed, plunging the country into its biggest political crises in......

Review: The Iron Lady works because of Meryl Streep

The Iron Lady is much too lethargic to create the complexity of Margaret Thatcher's supremacy or match the aura of Meryl Streep's ambitions, writes Sukanya Verma. It was in a Linda Goodman book......

Review: Desi Boyz and bad, bad girlz

 Raja Sen writes Desi Boyz is a disaster.Selling your body-- and, by extension, perhaps your soul-- is never easy. No matter how well you actually perform at any variant of the world's oldest......

Fashion Police: Which star got it right last week?

Bollywood stars are a fashionable lot. Sometimes, they look straight out of the fashion magazines but just that once in a while, they get it wrong. We decided to play fashion police, and take a......

Liz Hurley confirms separation from Arun Nayar

British actress Elizabeth Hurley has confirmed that she ended her marriage withArun Nayar "months ago" amid allegations that she cheated on him with Australian cricketer Shane Warne. Her affair......

Spotted: John Abraham in London

Reader Abbas Bhimji met John Abraham at Oxford Street, London last week....

Arsenal and Chelsea fixtures a doubt because of strike

Arsenal and Chelsea could be forced to postpone their December 26 Premier League fixtures because of a strike planned by London Underground train drivers which threatens to bring the capital to a......

Police confirm Peter Roebuck committed suicide

Peter Roebuck, one of the most respected cricket commentators, who also wrote for Indian newspapers, committed suicide at his hotel in Cape Town where he was covering Australia's Test series......

ECB chairman pays tribute to Tiger Pataudi

England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB)chairman Giles Clarke on Friday paid tribute to former Indian Test captain Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi, who died after a prolonged illness in New Delhi, saying the......

India's largest amateur golf tourney launched

Around five thousand amateur golfers from more than 29 golf clubs, spread across 22 cities in the country will participate in the ninth edition of the McDowell Signature Club Golf Championships.The......

Blackpool knocked out of League Cup by MK Dons

Blackpool suffered a shock defeat at MK Dons in the League Cup second round on Tuesday while West Ham United and Wigan Athletic recorded morale-boosting victories against lower league......
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Q. Should Oxford University withdraw PhD of Dr. MMS ?
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Q. what is saddler commission
Sunil Dmk:  A. for what reason, in any case P hd degree is no gurranttee of performance in later life more

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Gernal Singh
Q. These Days SMS language is difficult to understand than keralite .What is OMG , is ti Oh Mader ... Ga..... or something else
Gernal Singh:  A. In 1917 to 1919, Sadler led the 'Sadler Commission' which looked at the state of Indian Education.[2]Towards the end of the First World War, the...... more

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Q. According to Oxford English Dictionary , How many words are borrowed into English from Arabic ?
TRUTH SEEKER:  A. I also cant understand many of the shortcuts , But OMG , LOL are the words I guess soon we will see in Oxford dictionary and very easy to understand more

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Q. Why is NUMBER abbreviated as NO. when there is no O in NUMBER?
Annes:  A. may be in range of over hundred but The influence of the language of Islam, Arabic is felt in the English language. Some words are borrowed...... more

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Libraries digitise ancient texts

Oxford's Bodleian Libraries and the Vatican's Biblioteca Apostolica plan to digitise 1.5 million ancient texts to make them available online. ...

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Oxford University institute to focus on eurozone and global crises

New INET@Oxford centre will focus on halting future financial meltdowns, drawing on expertise of George Soros thinktankOxford University has opened... ...

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