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of articles posted on 18-May-2007.
Sikh leaders call for Dera boycott
Friday, May 18, 2007 www.expressindia.com
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Cities
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Parts of Punjab and Haryana continued to be tense for the fourth consecutive day on Thursday due to the stand-off between Sikhs and the Dera Sacha Sauda even as Sikh high priests called for a social boycott of the controversial religious group for allegedly insulting Guru Gobind Singh.
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India seeks British help to nail top defence dealers
Friday, May 18, 2007 news.indiamart.com
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Foreign Affairs
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The CBI, via the Ministry of External Affairs, has sent to the British Serious Fraud Office (SFO), details of assets and bank accounts of arms dealers Sudhir Choudhary, Suresh Nanda and Vipin Khanna, all of whom are NRIs and have been named as suspected middlemen by the agency in recent FIRs.
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Rickshaw -Puller's son in IAS top-50
Friday, May 18, 2007 news.indiamart.com
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Cities
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Govind Jaiswal who spent his childhood in a 12x8 ft rented room shared among his parents and three sisters, still managed to find room for dreams. He also was able to realise them by achieving the 48th rank in this year’s civil services results.Thus Jaiswal is on his way to becoming an IAS officer.
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Brown set to be Britain’s next PM
Friday, May 18, 2007 news.indiamart.com
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Foreign Affairs , Politics
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British Treasury chief Gordon Brown’s only challenger for the leadership of the Labour Party has pulled out of the race, making it almost certain that Brown will become the country’s next prime minister. Brown's opponent, John McDonnell announced on Wednesday that he was quitting.
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Gordon-Brown
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Clinton offers green makeover to Mumbai, 15 cities
Friday, May 18, 2007 news.indiamart.com
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Cities , Foreign Affairs
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A coalition of 16 of the world’s biggest cities, five banks, one former president and companies and groups that modernise aging buildings have pledged to invest billions of dollars to cut urban energy use and releases of greenhouse gases linked to global warming.
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global-warming
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TCS engineer, lover may have been in suicide pact
Friday, May 18, 2007 news.indiamart.com
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Crime
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A special team of the Mumbai Police investigating the murder of TCS staffer Kaushambi Layek, says Navy engineer Manish Thakur and Layek may have entered into a suicide pact, but Thakur lost his nerve after killing her and ran away.
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Kaushambi-Layek
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Alarm bells set off as violence continues to rock Gaza
Friday, May 18, 2007 www.theglobeandmail.com
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Foreign Affairs
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Gaza's continued descent into anarchy threatened to spark a wider conflict as Israel launched air strikes and began moving tanks and troops into the edge of Gaza, and Hamas threatened to resume suicide bombings on the Jewish state.
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Gaza
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Rise in global warming forecasted
Friday, May 18, 2007 www.timesonline.co.uk
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Foreign Affairs
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The oceans are losing the capacity to soak up rising man-made carbon emissions, which is increasing the rate of global warming by up to 30 per cent, scientists said yesterday. The excess carbon, which cannot be absorbed by the oceans, will remain in the atmosphere and accelerate global warming, they said.
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Global-Warming
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Radhika Selvi appointed as Minister of State for Home
Friday, May 18, 2007 www.dnaindia.com
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Politics
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DMK MP, V Radhika Selvi, who was inducted in the Union council of Ministers, was on Friday allocated the portfolio of Minister of State in the Home Ministry.
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First test: Bangladesh put India on the back foot
Friday, May 18, 2007 www.ndtv.com
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Sports - Cricket
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India were 132 for three against Bangladesh on the opening day of first test against Bangladesh on Friday.Skipper Rahul Dravid and opener Dinesh Karthik hit strokeful half-centuries to lead India to a comfortable 122 for one at lunch.
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Team-India
Bangladesh-Tour
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