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of articles posted on 25-Jun-2007.
Adoption: When is the right age to inform the child?
Monday, June 25, 2007 www.dnaindia.com
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Social Issues
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16-year-old Saurav (name changed) strangled his nine-year-old neighbour, Parth Panchal, recently in Malad. Saurav is said to have snapped because he was already traumatised by the fact that he was adopted, and his parents kept the truth from him. This case brings an important point up for discussion: When and how should foster parents tell their children they’ve been adopted?
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Adoption
Childcare
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Heavy rains lash Maharashtra
Monday, June 25, 2007 www.dnaindia.com
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Cities
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Mumbai city and its surrounding areas faced the onslaught of the monsoons with heavy rains lashing the city for almost 24 hours beginning Saturday evening. Warnings were issued to fishermen not to venture into the sea. The city of Mumbai witnessed widespread flooding with the water receding only late Sunday afternoon.
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Heavy-Rains
Monsoon
Flooding
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Williams reunited with family after space sojourn
Monday, June 25, 2007 www.dnaindia.com
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Technology
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Indian-American Astronaut Sunita Williams who returned back to Earth after a sojourn of more than six months in space, was welcomed back as friends and well-wishers gave her a rousing reception. Williams,who was a little wobbly after months of weightlessness, said that she was getting used to gravity.
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Sunita-Williams
Atlantis
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Foreign tourist inspires Ngo to undertake "clean Dal Lake" campaign
Monday, June 25, 2007 www.dnaindia.com
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Environment
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A German tourist, Marc Stollreiter and several other volunteers last Sunday removed tonnes of garbage from the Dal lake, thus inspiring an NGO to start a campaign to clean the famous Dal lake here as part of its efforts to save the water body from further damages.
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Dal-Lake
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Doctors ask Medical Council to initiate action: Surgery by teen case
Monday, June 25, 2007 www.dnaindia.com
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Crime , Health
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The medical fraternity in Tamil Nadu appealed to the State Medical Council to initiate disciplinary action against a doctor who allegedly allowed his 15-year-old son to perform a caesarean section operation in a bid to set a record.
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Surgery-By-Teen
Medical-Council
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Beating your child may land you in jail
Monday, June 25, 2007 www.dnaindia.com
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Crime , Social Issues
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The Union ministry of women and child development is drafting a law to make child abuse a punishable offence.Under the proposed law, called the Offences against Children Bill, penalties would include fines from Rs3,000 onwards.
For first offences, parents may be let off after furnishing surety, but if the abuse is severe and repeated, it could lead to imprisonment of up to seven years.
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Child-Abuse
Offences-Against-Children-Bill
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Pratibha leaves V-P miles behind
Monday, June 25, 2007 www.dnaindia.com
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Politics
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According to rumours in the Congress, Pratibha Patil has taken a lead of over 40,000 votes by conservative estimates in the Presidential polls and that Shiv Sena’s (22,000) votes will make no difference to her final tally. The Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray will make his party’s stand clear today.
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Shiv-Sena
Pratibha-Patil
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Pratibha should not be fielded just because she is a woman: Uma
Monday, June 25, 2007 www.dnaindia.com
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Politics
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Bharatiya Jan Shakti chief Uma Bharati said that Pratibha Patil should not be fielded for the country's highest post simply for being a woman.
She dismissed Patil's nomination stating that the UPA-Left Presidential candidate has made no "political or social contribution".
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Uma-Bharati
Presidential-Poll
Preatibha-Patil
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Kidnapped BBC journalist warns he'll be blown up
Monday, June 25, 2007 sify.com
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Foreign Affairs
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A video of kidnapped BBC journalist Alan Johnston was released by Jaish al-Islam, the video shows him wearing an explosives vest and warning he will be blown up if Hamas continues to surround the area where he is being held.According to a transcript of Johnson's remarks in the video, he says his captors "are ready to turn the hideout into what they describe as a death zone if there's an attempt
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Hamas
BBC-Journalist
Kidnapped
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Chennai airport on alert, bomb hoax
Monday, June 25, 2007 sify.com
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Cities
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There was a bomb hoax at the Chennai airport which kept officials and security personnel on their toes for nearly three hours early on Monday. According to sources, an unidentified person telephoned around 3 am claiming that a bomb has been planted at the international terminal and would explode in the morning.
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Bomb-Hoax
Chennai-Airlines
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