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of articles posted on 30-Aug-2007.
Delhi teacher blackmails students
Thursday, August 30, 2007 www.ptinews.com
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Cities , Crime
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Following a TV channel expose which purportedly showed a lady school teacher blackmailing school girls after filming them in a compromising position, the agitated parents and locals went on a rampage outside the city school in New Delhi. Two vehicles were set ablaze and other vehicles and public property was damaged by the mob.
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Blackmail
Expose
Rampage
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The People's Princess lives on
Thursday, August 30, 2007 www.ndtv.com
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Icons
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The People's Princess will not exit into obscurity even ten years after her death, Lady Diana's memory shows no signs of retreating into the shadows in the near future. A private memorial service will has been announced on Friday in London. Diana's legacy to engage, capture and manipulate public opinion lives on.
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Princess-Diana
legacy
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Senator gives charity
Thursday, August 30, 2007 www.ndtv.com
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Foreign Affairs , Politics
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US presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton will donate to charity the $23,000 received from a Hong Kong-born fundraiser who is wanted in California for failing to appear for sentencing n a 1991 grand theft charge. The decision was made on Wednesday as other Democrats began distancing themselves from Norman Hsu, whose legal encounters have drawn public scrutiny in the past two days.
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Hillary-Clinton
Charity
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AIIMS Doctors strike
Thursday, August 30, 2007 www.hindustantimes.com
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Health , Legal
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Doctors of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) called off their strike on Thursday afternoon as per the order given by the Delhi High Court in view of the patients who suffered due to it.The doctors said the high court had taken suo moto cognisance of their strike and the suffering of the thousands of patients who throng the hospital every day.
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AIIMS
Strike
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Could Virginia Tech save lives
Thursday, August 30, 2007 news.bbc.co.uk
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Crime
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Lives could be saved if Virginia Tech officials had acted sooner after student Cho Seung-hui's first attempt, as per the state report with regard to the shootings."Warning students, faculty and staff might have made a difference," it says.The panel also admitted that though Cho had shown signs of mental instability earlier, college staff had not taken effective action
Cho killed 32 people and h
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Virginia-Tech
Massacre
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Falling Levels
Thursday, August 30, 2007 news.bbc.co.uk
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Education
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The latest figures depict the falling of writing standards among seven year olds in UK. 80% children reach Level 2 in school writing tests. Maths, science or reading this year have not undergone a major change, with some 90% achieving the required level in maths, 89% in science and 84% in reading.
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Writing-skills
lost
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Indian Information Technology Tops
Thursday, August 30, 2007 www.rediff.com
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Technology
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Thirteen Indian technology firms are amongst the top 100 in the Asia-Pacific region as per global media company Red Herring, China dominates with 37 names.The '2007 Red Herring 100 Asia' awards go to private companies with cutting edge technologies in the Asia-Pacific region. The winners have been selected from 200 finalists, including 43 Indian companies, on the basis of criteria varying from v
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Indian-IT
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