The great October fall of the US dollar is turning into an avalanche. On Tuesday, the American currency lost nine kopeks in Russia and reached a new minimum mark this year - 29.5 rubles per dollar. Within six months (April through September) the doll...
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U.S. airstrikes targeting a meeting of Taliban leaders killed a high-ranking commander involved in the kidnappings of 23 South Koreans two months ago, Afghan officials said Tuesday. Meanwhile, NATO reported that another of its soldiers had died in...
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BAGHDAD - Stressing the limits of U.S. patience, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday the Bush administration will weigh Iraq's political progress in deciding this summer whether to bring home some of the U.S. troops. "Our commitment to Ira...
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FACT, the Trust which I head, is holding an exhibition on 'Aurangzeb as he was according to Mughal documents', from February 16 to 20 at New Delhi's Habitat Center, the Palm Court Gallery, from 10 am to 9 pm. Why an exhibition on Aurangzeb, some ...
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By Ajai Sahni Revolutionary warfare is never confined within the bounds of military action. Because its purpose is to destroy an existing society and its institutions and to replace them with a completely new structure, any revolutionary war is a...
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WASHINGTON: Wednessday: December 06, 2006: The situation is Iraq is "grave and dangerous" after more than three years of war, a bipartisan commission warned on Wednesday, saying President Bush has no easy options as he considers a change in course. T...
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ISTANBUL,Turkey: Thursday: November 30, 2006: Pope Benedict XVI called divisions among Christians a "scandal to the world" at a joint ceremony Thursday with the spiritual leader of the Orthodox Christian church, which split from Catholicism nearly 1,...
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Tuesday, November 28, 2006 (New Delhi):A key witness in Nitish Katara murder case Bharti Yadav arrived at the passport office near the Patiala House court in New Delhi to submit her revoked passport. Bharti, who finally surfaced on Tuesday wearin...
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Monday: Nov 27, 2006:JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia: The 35-year-old mother of six flinched when asked if she has told her children that she and her husband were diagnosed with AIDS four months ago. She never will, she said. "Can you imagine what the...
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MOSCOW: Saturday: November 25, 2006:Poisoned former spy Alexander Litvinenko's deathbed message may have accused Russian President Vladimir Putin, but pro-Kremlin lawmakers and state-controlled television networks pointed the finger at a prominent Pu...
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Saturday, November 25, 2006 (London):A former Russian spy who died in London was poisoned with a radioactive substance, the British government said on Friday. Litvinenko's death has been linked to the presence of a major dose of radioactive poloni...
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Thursday, November 2, 2006 (Mumbai):It's rare to win a lottery but imagine being deprived of your prize after winning one. Santosh Gupta still can't believe his luck. Just last week, he won a Playwin lottery but still hasn't got his prize money. ...
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Tuesday, October 31, 2006 (New Delhi): The Delhi High Court has announced death sentence for Santosh Singh, the man convicted earlier this month for the rape and murder of a young law student Priyadarshini Mattoo. Santosh Singh was sitting ou...
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- Aditya Raj Kaul Initiator, Justice 4 Priyadarshini "Priyadarshini Mattoo" was the name that used to haunt me every now and then a few years back. I had heard and read a lot about this case, but never did I actually bother to see what had hap...
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Tuesday, October 24, 2006 (Lucknow): As the rest of the country celebrated Diwali, it was a dark night for the family of Manjunath, who was killed in Lakhimpur Kheri district in Uttar Pradesh on November 19, 2005. Manjunath was killed by a deal...
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