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Pakistan army opened gunfire on an Indian border post, violation the cease-fire agreement on LOC been in force since, 2003. A meeting has been called in between two countries commanders to lodge a formal complaint and resolve the matter...

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John McCain broke with the Bush administration and Republican Party orthodoxy Monday as he not only declared global warming real, but reached out to Democrats and...
May 12 2008
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AP, Phoenix
Republican John McCain, reaching out to both independents and green-minded social conservatives, argues that global warming is undeniable and the country must take...
May 12 2008
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AP, Helsinki
Global mobile phone sales continued to surge in the first quarter, when shipments reached 282 million despite an economic downturn, research firm Strategy Analytics...
Apr 25 2008
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AP, Denver
An outbreak of mountain pine beetles in British Columbia is doing more than destroying millions of trees: By 2020, the beetles will have done so much damage that the...
Apr 24 2008
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Toyota Motor Corp. has taken the global automotive sales lead from General Motors Corp. in the first quarter, selling 2.41 million vehicles to GM’s 2.25 million.
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Organizers hope a gathering of governors this week will be as effective in addressing climate change as a similar event that launched the conservation movement a...
Apr 13 2008
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AP, Brussels
The European Union’s top economy official said Friday that Europe deserved a greater say in the global economy as the euro continues gaining ground as the...
Apr 11 2008
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AP, Los Angeles
California will create a $600 million think tank to fight global warming, funded by a 25- or 30-cent surcharge on customers’ electrical and gas bills, the state...
Apr 11 2008
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AP, Washington
Global warming could force elk and mule deer from much of the American West. Wild trout could disappear in lower Appalachian streams. Two-thirds of the country’s...
Apr 10 2008
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The 308-116 roll call Wednesday by which the House passed a global AIDS bill authorizing $50 billion in spending over five years.
Apr 2 2008
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Arpita Mukherjee, Kolkata
Neither can constructing a wall divide the citizens of a country nor can it bring peace to the region. The Americans however has oversimplified the idiom that out of...
May 15 2008
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Bijoy, tinsukia
The political scenario in Pakistan showed its ugly side yet again, with the former Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif publicly acknowledging that his Pakistan Muslim League...
May 13 2008
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Gagandeep, Shimla
Iran has won the first round of its proxy war against America in the streets of Beirut. Hezbollah gunmen flaunting their snipers have become the norm and the Lebanese...
May 10 2008
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Bijoy, tinsukia
The American election campaign between Senator Barack Obama and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is getting really interesting with each passing day . In an attempt to...
May 9 2008
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Arpita Mukherjee, Kolkata
Are Japan and China inching closer to each other to start a new era of political and diplomatic bonhomie? The inhumane Japanese atrocities on the Chinese during the...
May 7 2008
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Arpita Mukherjee, Kolkata
Above you see the picture of a young woman, Rukhma, who was trafficked across the border from Pakistan to Afghanistan with her three-year-old son. In Pakistan, Rukhma...
May 1 2008
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Arpita Mukherjee, Kolkata
China is all set to become the next economic giant who will display its extravagance in the forthcoming Beijing Olympic Games but there is a dark side of China plagued...
Apr 29 2008
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Iraq has been in the news ever since 2001. With the country being in the state of a perpetual war, women and children suffer the most, both, in social and economic...
Apr 28 2008
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Arpita Mukherjee, Kolkata
That the situation in Iraq is changing from bad to worse after the US invasion has been proved once again in a recent United Nations report that said that the militia...
Apr 26 2008
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Arpita Mukherjee, Kolkata
When the U.S.A led NATO forces invaded Iraq, they promised the Iraqis better life and more liberty than what they enjoyed under Saddam Hussein’s regime. However,...
Apr 25 2008
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Adila Ashraf, Trivandrum
Crises are a usual scene in an economy. But one that is global and affects the world at large, is a threat. The food crisis is a black mark on globalization. Bringing...
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If Angelina Jolie and Brad Pit go to a ‘rocky’ beach for a stroll and play with three of ‘their’ kids it becomes news. The fact that she is pregnant (first...
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Arpita Mukherjee, Kolkata
Tuesday night’s blast in Jaipur killing 63 and injuring more than 150 showed once again how vulnerable is India to terrorist attacks and (once again) highlighted the...
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Michael Kerjman, The Earth
I like this article on sports developments as innovating moved civilization forward: Japanese swimsuit makers race Speedo AAP - May 14, 2008, 3:05 pm A Japanese...
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Incognito, Boca Raton
What is happening in Burma is unconscionable! Cyclone Nargis made landfall on May 2, carving a path of destruction throughout the country, and yet here we are 13 days...
May 15 2008
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Sanjana, New Delhi
Holy places are fast turning out to be hottest target for terrorists. Miscreants take advantage of overcrowded places occupied by innumerable shops selling flowers,...
May 15 2008
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Rolande Hodel, Ossining
Katie, Jennifer and Marcy got to march on Youth Day with the students and teachers of the Dilicig Primary and Nursery School. Last year in February they marched past...
May 15 2008
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Bijoy, tinsukia
For ages, the world’s largest democracy, India, has been running smoothly and efficiently on the guidelines set out by the Indian Constitution. But now it seems to be...
May 14 2008
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Balbhadra Rana, Rajkot
All President Bush said was that India should be proud of itself that increasing spending power of its citizens is one of the reasons for the present global food...
May 14 2008
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Ryan, Hyderabad
Following the California Supreme Court’s decision Thursday to overturn a ban on gay marriage there, both the LDS Church and the Catholic Archdiocese in San...
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Ryan, Hyderabad
A Farmington woman collapsed while jogging and died Saturday near Birmingham, England, where she was serving a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day...
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Veronica, Seattle
As the presidential primary season draws to a close, it is worthwhile to contemplate this: It is unusual for a single individual to hold the fate of an entire industry...
May 15 2008
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Giving a fresh hope of talks with the outlawed ULFA, Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil today said the government needed a formal date from the rebels for talks to...
May 14 2008
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The police have launched a massive hunt for a woman who allegedly promised Rs 1,00,000 to a rickshaw puller to carry out the terror attacks that killed over 60...
May 14 2008
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Controversial Indian-origin writer Salman Rushdie is among the six authors shortlisted for ‘The Best of the Booker’ award, the one-off honour to celebrate...
May 12 2008
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Militants belonging to the DHD (J), better known as Black Widow, today gunned down eight labourers engaged in railway construction work at Thaiding in North Cachar...
May 12 2008
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Pakistan will take action against any terrorist group operating against India from its soil and consider a request for extraditing underworld don Dawood Ibrahim if New...
May 12 2008
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Harsh, shimla
Cars and balls seem to roll uphill, people appear able to stand at impossible angles - all in contradiction to the laws of gravity and physics. What’s really...
May 12 2008
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Pratyush, New Delhi
Six Indian nationals who were on their way to visit Niagara Falls were killed when their minivan spun out of control and was hit by an oncoming car on a Pennsylvania...
May 12 2008
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