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US insurance company has set out to prove that playing computer games can sharpen the minds of older
Saturday, October 04, 2008 timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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SAN FRANCISCO: A major US insurance company has set out to prove that playing computer games can sharpen the minds of older drivers so much that t
hey deserve discounts on their auto policies.
Allstate Insurance launched "a groundbreaking brain fitness software program" called Insight that it says has the potential to improve critical components of auto safety - drivers.
The application from Sa
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Delhi: Govt plans to build parking lots over capital’s five major drains
Friday, October 03, 2008 www.dnaindia.com
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NEW DELHI: The space crunch in the capital is affecting the Delhi government’s grand plan of phasing out the killer blueline buses with swanky, low-floored state-run ones. With no space to park the 10,000 buses, which the government plans to start before the 2010 Commonwealth Games, it has now decided to build parking space over the city’s five major drains.
“We have decided to make the most of
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Forty-six people have been arrested in the past two days on charges of rioting as violence continues
Friday, October 03, 2008 www.hindustantimes.com
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Forty-six people have been arrested in the past two days on charges of rioting as violence continues unabated in Orissa's volatile Kandhamal district, where communal clashes have claimed at least 34 people in the past month, police said on Friday.
"We have arrested more than 300 people in the past month. Forty-six of them were detained in the past two days," a police official said.
Officials sa
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Maheka Mirpuri is unveiling her Fall/Festive 2008 collection of fashion
Friday, October 03, 2008 timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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Take a gondola to the Taj President this evening where Maheka Mirpuri is unveiling her Fall/Festive 2008 collection of fashion wear based on the romance of Venice.
The designer, who vacationed in Italy’s fabled floating city of romance, has come away inspired by all that she saw. “Like fashionable ladies dressed elegantly for the evening stepping out of gondolas for dinner at Ciprianis,” she expl
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Mumbai police along with the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) of Uttar Pradesh
Friday, October 03, 2008 www.mid-day.com
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Mumbai: The Mumbai police along with the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) of Uttar Pradesh today conducted searches at Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh to hunt one of the key members of Indian Mujahideen (IM) suspected to be involved in the recent series of bomb blasts across the country.
"The Crime Branch is looking out for Abu Rashid, who is allegedly one of the key members of the Indian Mujahideen (IM)," J
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How wily builders charge 50% more than market rate
Wednesday, October 01, 2008 www.mid-day.com
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Mumbai: The carpet area rule was meant to make houses more affordable. But of course that hasn't happened. Builders have found a reason to bypass this rule, and are charging in such a way that the carpet area prices include the built up and super built up charges.
So a house in Juhu and Bandra that should've ideally cost between Rs 20,000 and 30,000 per sq ft, will now cost Rs 35,000-40,000 per
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Three people including a minor boy were mowed down by a speeding truck
Wednesday, October 01, 2008 www.mid-day.com
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Nashik: Three people including a minor boy were mowed down by a speeding truck, last evening on the Nashik-Pune national highway, police said today.
The incident took place at Gonde phata when the three deceased — Onkar nana nikam (25), Nilesh nana nikam (12) and their sister Archana nana nikam (20), were riding on their scooty, according to the police.
All three died on the spot,
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Security measures have been intensified at the sorting area of the GPO after pistols were found in a
Wednesday, October 01, 2008 www.mid-day.com
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Mumbai: With the onset of the festive season and the looming threat of possible terror strikes, the city's postal department and courier companies will scan all parcels before they are delivered.
While terrorists planted bombs in dustbins in the recent Delhi blasts, post boxes and parcels are a feared target.
Security measures have been intensified at the sorting area of the General Post Office
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Jodhpur is a city in mourning victims of temple tragedy
Wednesday, October 01, 2008 www.ndtv.com
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Jodhpur is a city in mourning with some reports that the number of those killed in the Chamunda Devi temple stampede could be even higher than the official figures.
The official figure of those who died in the stampede is 147 while unofficially the figure is close to 180. (Watch)
One lane in the Kallol colony of Jodhpur saw 11 families losing someone they loved. There is grief all around, but mo
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Global markets shake off some blues when US lawmakers rejected a $700 billion bailout plan
Wednesday, October 01, 2008 profit.ndtv.com
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World stocks were volatile on Tuesday, a day after US lawmakers rejected a $700 billion bailout plan.
Asian stocks fell but some finished above their lows of the day and European stocks finished mostly higher after an early decline on hopes US President Bush would successfully push for the package to be reconsidered. The administration says the money would be used to buy up soured loans and free
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