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of articles posted on 22-Jun-2007.
Atlantis: Unable to land, will do so on Friday
Friday, June 22, 2007 sify.com
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Technology
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Atlantis was prevented from returning to Florida as scheduled due to rain and low clouds, but mission managers are hopeful the space shuttle will be able to touch down on Friday. During Atlantis' two attempts to land on Thursday, showers were within 34 miles (55 kilometres) of the landing strip at Kennedy Space Center, and clouds hung below an altitude of 8,000 feet (2,400 meters), both violatio
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Spacecraft
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Bloomberg: The dark horse in the presidential race
Friday, June 22, 2007 sify.com
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Politics , Foreign Affairs
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When US politicians say they have "no plans" to run for office, what they actually mean is "watch this space", according to political pundits. Hence , when New York Mayor, Michael Bloomberg announced that he had left the Republican party - with the added caveat that his "plans for the future haven't changed"-it has only fuelled speculation that he is considering an independent run at the White
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Indian companies bag top honours at Green Oscars
Friday, June 22, 2007 sify.com
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Business , Environment
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A Kerala-based company BIOTECH, which is involved in tackling the problem of dumped food waste, won the Ashden award carrying a monetary prize of 30,000 pounds. Whereas a Karnataka firm SELCO Solar Light Private Limited bagged the new Ashden Outstanding Achievement Award and a cash prize of 15,000 pounds for providing dung-based biogas plants to rural families. The Ashden Awards for sustainable en
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Green-Oscars
Sustainable-Energy
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Pak cleric issues fatwa to kill Rushdie
Friday, June 22, 2007 www.dnaindia.com
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Foreign Affairs , Religion
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The prayer leader of Islamabad’s Lal Masjid, Maulana Abdul Rashid Ghazi,has issued a fatwa to kill Salman Rushdie, the India-born author who was recently knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. Ghazi said whoever kills Rushdie would secure a place in paradise. . He said: "Salman Rushdie deserves to be killed, and anyone who is in a position to do so must eliminate him physically.”
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Australian PM: No Porn, Alcohol for Aborigines
Friday, June 22, 2007 justsamachar.com
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Crime , Foreign Affairs
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Australia's prime minister announced plans that involve banning pornography and alcohol for Aborigines in northern areas in a bid to fight child sex abuse among them.Some Aboriginal leaders left the plan as paternalistic and rejected it stating the measures were discriminatory and would violate the civil rights of the country's original inhabitants. Whereas others applauded the initiative and
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Australia
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Osama: Conferred title of 'Sword of Allah'
Friday, June 22, 2007 www.telegraphindia.com
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Foreign Affairs , Terrorism
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A group of hardline Pakistani clerics said that they had bestowed a religious title on Osama bin Laden in response to a British knighthood for author Salman Rushdie. Osama bin Laden was given the title “Saifullah”, or sword of Allah, by the Pakistan Ulema Council, in response to the knighthood awarded to Rushdie last week for services to literature.
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Former minister in Zia cabinet sentenced
Friday, June 22, 2007 www.telegraphindia.com
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Crime , Foreign Affairs
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Amanullah Aman, who was a state minister for labour in former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia's cabinet, has been sentenced to 13 years in jail for amassing wealth through illegal means, by an anti-corruption court in Bangladesh. The court also handed a three-year sentence to Amanullah Aman’s wife for giving false information on their personal wealth to the anti-corruption commission.
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Anti-Corruption
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Pak minister to file lawsuit against clerics
Friday, June 22, 2007 203.197.197.71
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Politics , Foreign Affairs
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Pakistan’s former tourism minister, Nilofar Bakhtiar has served a legal notice on the Lal Masjid Shariah Court Mufti to apologise for his ‘unlawful’ Fatwa (edict) against her within a week or be prepared for a legal action.
Nilofar Bakhtiar had to quit as minister amid pressure from the Islamist groups who termed as act of hugging a person after a successful parajump in France, a few months back
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Nilofar-Bakhtiar
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New theory claims Hitler had syphilis
Friday, June 22, 2007 203.197.197.71
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Crime , Foreign Affairs
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According to a new theory, Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler unleashed the Holocaust against the Jews because a Jewish prostitute gave him syphilis.A team of psychiatrists, led by Dr Bassem Habeeb, believe that Hitler may have caught the sexually transmitted disease syphilis which, if untreated, can eventually cause madness.Mental and behavioural disturbances triggered by the advanced stages of the disea
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Adolf-Hitler
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Holocaust
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UK: No apology for honouring Rushdie
Friday, June 22, 2007 203.197.197.71
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Foreign Affairs
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Britain has announced that it will not apologise for honouring Indian-born writer Salman Rushdie with a knighthood.Despite protests in Iran, Pakistan, Malaysia and parts of India, British home secretary John Reid said: "We have very strong laws about promoting racial intolerance. It isn’t a free-for-all. We’ve thought very carefully about it. But we have a right to express opinions and a tolerance
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UK
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