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of articles posted on 14-Jun-2007.
Indian services from Kolkata hit, 4 flights cancelled
Thursday, June 14, 2007 sify.com
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Cities
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A number of passengers were stranded at the NSCB International airport in Kolkata as the indefinite strike by Indian employees entered the second day on Thursday which affected normal services of the national carrier.
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Indian-Airlines-Strike
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Museum to host dinosaur fossils exhibit
Thursday, June 14, 2007 sify.com
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Features
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The fossils of feathered dinosaurs whose discoveries helped firm hypotheses on the origin of birds will be exhibited publicly in the US for the first time this weekend. The roughly 120-million-year-old remains being displayed at the Miami Science Museum starting Saturday were all found in northeastern China beginning in 1998.
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Indian origin geologist has clue to life on Mars
Thursday, June 14, 2007 sify.com
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Technology
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Mineral-filled 'microtubules' found in the glassy surfaces of ancient undersea lava may be some of the earliest evidence of microscopic life on Earth, an Indian origin Canadian geologist has said. According to Professor Neil Banerjee from the University of Western Ontario, Canada, it may also be a clue to life on Mars.
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YouTube to test video fingerprint tool
Thursday, June 14, 2007 sify.com
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Technology
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The popular user-generated video sharing site YouTube will begin testing video recognition technology in conjunction with partners Time Warner Inc and The Walt Disney Co. The test will begin next month with hopes that the software, designed to recognise copyright content in videos, will be ready to roll out later this year, the company said. The site's owner, Google Inc, has previously pledged to
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Google
Video-Recognition-Technology
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Kerala to bring law regarding entry to temples
Thursday, June 14, 2007 sify.com
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Religion
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The Kerala government said on Wednesday that it would bring a legislation to enable any believer in Hinduism to offer worship in temples. The present rule stated that any person who by birth is a Hindu can enter temples, hence a necessary amendment would be brought forward to permit a believer in Hinduism to enter temples.
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Legislation
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British Indian official linked to VHP
Thursday, June 14, 2007 sify.com
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Politics , Foreign Affairs
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The Commission on Integration and Cohesion is to deliver its report on how Britain can foster inter-community harmony later this week, but one of its members, Ramesh Kallidai, has direct links to the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP),a Hindu fundamentalist group, the Evening Standard reported.
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Badal asks UK to send English teachers to Punjab
Thursday, June 14, 2007 sify.com
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Foreign Affairs , Education
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Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Wednesday asked Britain to send English teachers to schools in the state's rural areas to help teachers and students sharpen their skills in English. Badal suggested to the British High Commissioner to India, Michael Arthur, that the British teachers could hold summer camps in the schools.
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Britain may soon recognise Indian medical degrees
Thursday, June 14, 2007 sify.com
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Foreign Affairs , Health , Education
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Indian doctors may soon be able to practise in Britain without having to go through a series of qualifying exams, with a consensus on the issue reached at a meeting of the Health Care Working Group of the UK-India Joint Economic Trade Committee (JETCO) on June 6.
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Indian-Medical-Degrees
UK
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Ram Jethmalani stars in music video
Thursday, June 14, 2007 sify.com
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Entertainment
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To be a convincing lawyer and a good parliamentarian we think you have to be a good actor first. And it’s this potential in the high profile and sometimes-controversial lawyer Ram Jethmalani that Mohd Raj Khan has managed to exploit.
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Ram-Jethmalani
Music-Video
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Our mother still with us: William & Harry
Thursday, June 14, 2007 sify.com
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Icons
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Even as a decade has passed since Princess Diana's death, Prince William and Harry feels their mother has been with them and the time has passed "really, really slow". Terming the death as a tragic accident, Harry said he would "never stop wondering" about what happened in the Paris tunnel on the night his mother died.
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Prince-William
Prince-Harry
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