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HC rejects Rathore's plea challenging enhanced sentence

CHANDIGARH: Former Haryana DGP SPS Rathore would have to undergo his 18-month prison term with the Punjab and Haryana High Court dismissing his plea challenging the sentence awarded to him for molesting 14-year-old Ruchika Girhotra about 20 years back.

Winter Session being advanced to accommodate Obama's address

NEW DELHI: Winter Session of Parliament is being advanced by a week to enable US President Barack Obama to address the members, which is likely on November nine....
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Pakistan military delegation detained at US airport

WASHINGTON: A delegation of senior Pakistani military officials visiting the US was deboarded from a plane, detained, "interrogated and rudely treated" by security officials after one of them made a comment to a flight attendant, prompting the team to head home in protest....
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Primary students protest against the unrest in Valley

SRINAGAR: A group of primary school students protested against the 80-day-long agitation in Kashmir Valley, saying it was denying them the right to education....
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Ranbir’s Nargis

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Ranbir Kapoor has been paired opposite the half Czech and half Pakistani model Nargis Fakhri in Imtiaz Ali’s ‘Rockstar’. The duo has been currently shooting in Prague. In the film, Nargis is playing the role of a dancer.
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Teeyan Da Mela a big success

CHICAGO: Punjabi American Organization (PHO) recently held an entraining event and a successful "Teeyan Da Mela - 2010" (ladies festival) here on August 8. More then 500 girls and ladies attended this event including those from Wisconsin, Indiana, and Michigan.
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Obama stem cell regulations temporarily blocked

WASHINGTON: A federal judge has temporarily blocked government rules expanding stem cell research, a blow to the Obama administration that could stall potentially lifesaving research.
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Tough law Brewer wins Republican primary

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PHOENIX: Republican Gov. Jan Brewer handily won Arizona's GOP primary in a contest marked by a surge in her popularity after she signed a tough law targeting illegal immigration.
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Valley business losses mount to Rs 21,000 cr in 85 days

SRINAGAR: The 80-day period of shutdowns and curfews in the valley has dented the economy of Jammu and Kashmir by a whopping Rs 21,000-crore as the separatist sponsored agitation has affected every sector including tourism, handicrafts and the nascent industries.
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The day Adoor Gopalakrishnan became a Gandhian!

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NEW DELHI: On the fateful day of January 30, 1948, when Mahatma Gandhi fell to assassin's bullets in Delhi, a seven-year-old in faraway Kerala was so heartbroken that he cried the whole day and vowed to become a Gandhian and wear khadi.
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'Love' is an ego strategy to avoid surrender

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What is conventionally called "love" is an ego strategy to avoid surrender. You are looking to someone to give you that which can only come to you in the state of surrender. The ego uses that person as a substitute to avoid having to surrender.
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Asians are the largest real estate investors in London

LONDON: A weaker pound and robust economies at home have made Asians the largest investors in Central London’s real estate market, a global property consultancy firm, Knight Frank said recently.
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Boxer Shiv Thapa wins silver in Youth Olympics

SINGAPORE: Boxer Shiv Thapa settled for a silver as he went down fighting to Cuban world champion Ramirez Robeisy Aloy in the bantam weight final on the penultimate of the Youth Olympic Games here.
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L&T Infotech joins global mobile phone alliance

NEW YORK: India's Larsen & Toubro Infotech Ltd. (L&T Infotech), one of the fastest growing IT Services companies - a wholly-owned subsidiary of the $9.8 Billion Larsen & Toubro - has joined the Open Handset Alliance (OHA).
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Nubra Valley: A nearly forgotten 'Shangri La'

Nubra Valley, once on the trading route that connected eastern Tibet with Turkistan via the famous Karakoram Pass, is the most recently opened area of Ladakh. Nubra invites you to a trip back in time into a nearly forgotten 'Shangri La'. With breathtaking views and delightfully hospitable inhabitants, it is quite an experience.
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Pachauri not to quit before completing 5th report

UNITED NATIONS: UN climate panel chief Rajendra Pachauri, facing criticism for errors in a landmark report, has refused to quit, saying that he will remain with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change till the fifth report is produced in 2014.
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Pak politician apologizes for calling Ranjit Singh corrupt

ISLAMABAD: A top Pakistani politician who berated the great Sikh ruler Maharaja Ranjit Singh as the epitome of mismanagement and corruption has apologized saying he has had a change of mind.
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Blair calls Brown maddening, his premiership a disaster

LONDON: Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair says his successor Gordon Brown was a "difficult and maddening" man with "zero" emotional intelligence and that his premiership was a "disaster" that was never going to work.
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