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Marooned kids found on island

Three children who were marooned on a deserted Australian island for a week survived on coconuts and shellfish after swimming through waters infested by sharks and crocodiles, reports the......

NY, NJ brace for another significant storm

Over a week after the superstorm Sandy battered the United States east coast, another significant storm is forecast to hit already-ravaged New York and New Jersey states bringing in high winds,......

New York subways resume limited service

New York's subway system, a crucial lifeline for the city, resumed limited service on Thursday after three days of closure in the wake of superstorm Sandy, providing some relief to thousands of......

First Indian American congressman a trailblazer: Obama

President Barack Obama last week paid rich tributes to the late Dalip Singh Saund -- the first Asian-American and Indian-American United States Congressman -- and described him as a trailblazer.......

'Nuclear power plants pose unmanageable risks'

When dealing with risky technology, it is most important to take people into confidence and tell them what the real risks are, says activist Nityanand Jayaraman. Nityanand Jayaraman, an......

Hitler's holiday resort to become a luxury hotel

German dictator Adolf Hitler's Nazi holiday resort, which spans nearly three miles along the coast of the Baltic island of Ruegen, will soon be converted into a 400-bed luxury hotel and 400......

Retro amendment, GAAR keep revenue dept busy in 2012

Controversy generated by retrospective tax amendment to bring into net Vodafone-type deals and concerns over implementation of GAAR kept the Revenue Department busy throughout the year amid......

Banking still miles away from Jalanga

Saraswati Das, 32, walks 20 km whenever she has to carry out a banking transaction. The walks have become more frequent of late because membership of the self-help group (SHG) she heads has been......

Who owns the most cars in the world?

Despite its aggressive renewable energy policies, Europe's economy is getting more dependent on oil. The reason: cars.And Europe is hardly alone. Although industrialised nations have less than 20......

N-deal prize for US firms? Over $100 billion!

For the past three years, eager executives from US-based producers of nuclear power plants have been making a beeline for New Delhi, meeting with Indian government officials and coming back to......

Will Krish do a Gamyam with Vedam?

There's plenty of reasons why we should look forward to the Telugu film Vedam. For starters, it's Radhakrishna (Krish) Jagarlamudi's second film after Gamyam, which won many awards. Then there's......

'Watch Housefull in theatres and avoid getting arrested'

What do you get when three stars come together to simultaneously chat with their fans? Well, for one, you get a lot of fans shooting rapid questions at them. The stars in question were the cast......

Review: Mamma Mia!

Up front, I should be honest: I dislike most musicals, sneer at ABBA and reserve a particular brand of contempt for Pierce Brosnan, whose deficiencies as James Bond become more glaring with Daniel......

Why Rani, Abhishek lost out on Namesake

There is no way anyone who has no time for rehearsals can work in my film,"said Mira Nair, as she discussed how her casting plans for The Namesake had changed radically. "The only person who......

The making of Superman Returns

Much of the principal photography for Superman Returns was done on location near Breeza, Australia, on a rural piece of farmland that had been transformed into a working back lot.Six miles of road,......

Robben Island reminds of liberating power of WC

A small but much-prized soccer trophy on display in a cell of Robben Island prison is a reminder of how football touched the lives of the activists locked up there by the apartheid regime.Political......

Button can be a winner in Bahrain

Jenson Button feels at home in Bahrain.So much so that the 26-year-old Honda driver has bought himself a dream house on the southern tip of the island, not far from the Sakhir circuit that opens......

New York marathon has annual Indian contingent

New Yorkers say they run a marathon every day. They run for the subway and for the bus, they run to keep up with the city's frenetic pace.So there is a special place in the city's lexicon of urban......

Women paddle from Cuba to Florida

Four women took turns paddling 5.5-metre glass fiber boards across the Florida Straits, becoming on Thursday the first all-women paddleboard team to complete the crossing from Cuba to FloridaThe......

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Q. TRUE OR FALSERandall Thompson, a health physics technician who monitored the Three Mile Island disaster, claims that what happened there was a whole lot worse than what has been reported hundreds of times worse. He claims that radiation leaks from the plant were hundreds if not thousands of times higher than the government or industry ever acknowledged.
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Q. Where in the USA was the scene of a nuclear accident on March 28th, 1979 ?
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Q. The unknown continent of Americas was discovered in ?A - in 1310 by Abu Bakari (Abu Bakar), a Muslim king of the Malian Empire,B - IN 1421 by Cheng He C - IN 1492 by Columbus D -IN 1500 BY luis Africano
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Q. What is special about today ?
Onlytruth: A. 642 Battle of Maserfield Penda of Mercia defeats and kills Oswald of Northumbria.910 The last major Danish army to raid England is defeated at...... more

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Q. What is the difference among Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania, Chernobyl and Fukushima Daiichi?
Jaya: A. i am sorry i have no idea about that more

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North Korea fires short-range missiles into the Sea of Japan

North Korea on Saturday launched three short-range missiles into the Sea of Japan, apparently as part of a military drill, South Korea's defence... ...

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