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'US seeks Benazir Bhutto as Pak PM' : Report
Thursday, August 16, 2007 www.rediff.com
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Foreign Affairs , Politics
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The US who reportedly prevented the Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf from imposing an emergency, is now working towards convincing him that his best move to retain power, in the face of growing domestic unrest, would be to share it with former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. As per the arrangement, Bhutto can be installed as prime minister while Musharraf remains president.
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Emergency
Benazir-Bhutto
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Campaign launched to save endangered birds
Thursday, August 16, 2007 sify.com
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Environment
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The UK-based BirdLife International plans to raise tens of millions of dollars to save 189 endangered birds over the next five years by protecting their habitat and raising public awareness about their plight. The conservation group is approaching environmental groups, corporations and individuals to contribute the USD 37.8 million for the 'the Species Champions initiative'.
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Conservation
Endangered-Birds
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Judge's daughter dissapears from train : Bihar
Thursday, August 16, 2007 sify.com
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Cities
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Rani Archana Singh, the daughter of Subhash Chandra, the additional district and sessions judge of Banka, in Bihar went missing from the Capital Express train on way to Patna from New Jalpaiguri in West Bengal in the early hours on Wednesday, according to the police.
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Missing-Case
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Uranium deal will spark arms race in subcontinent, claims Imran
Thursday, August 16, 2007 www.rediff.com
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Foreign Affairs , Politics
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Former Pakistan cricketer and current politician, Imran Khan has claimed that the Howard government's decision to sell uranium to India will spark a new arms race in the subcontinent. The leader of the Movement for Justice party, has told a media channel that Australia's decision to export uranium will encourage generals in his country to spend more on weapons to counter India's access to nucle
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Imran-Khan
Uranium
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NASA postpones space walk decision until Thursday
Thursday, August 16, 2007 www.dnaindia.com
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Technology
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NASA announced late on Wednesday that it has postponed a decision on sending astronauts at the International Space Station on a spacewalk mission to repair damaged heat tiles on the Endeavour shuttle before it returns to Earth.
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Endeavour
Spacewalk
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I-T dept raids tax-evaders
Thursday, August 16, 2007 www.indiainfoline.com
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Finance
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As the nation celebrated it's 60th Independence Day, the Income Tax Department officers were busy rainding coaching centres, placement agencies, air-services institutes and foreign placement agencies in Delhi and Mumbai. The raids were art of the I-T departments' on-going drive against tax evaders.
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Income-Tax
Tax-Evaders
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Bharti Airtel plunges over 6.5%
Thursday, August 16, 2007 www.indiainfoline.com
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Business , Stock market
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The share prices of Bharti Airtel has plunged by over 6.5% to Rs800. The country's largest mobile- phone operator announced that it plans to spend $200mn in the next five years in Sri Lanka to tap users of South Asia's first high-speed wireless network.The Bharti Airtel scrip has touched an intra-day high of Rs831 and a low of Rs795.
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Bharti-Airtel
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Markets open in the red on the basis of global cues
Thursday, August 16, 2007 www.indiainfoline.com
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Stock market
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Following a sell off in the US and the Asian Markets, the Indian indices have plunged at the opening of the day. At 10:00am (IST), the BSE 30-share Sensex has plunged by 624 points to 14376 while the Nifty has dropped by 189 points to 4180.
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Sensex
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250 feared killed in Iraq blasts
Thursday, August 16, 2007 sify.com
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Foreign Affairs , Terrorism
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The death toll from suicide truck bombings of a small Kurdish sect in Northwest Iraq has arisen to at least 250. According to a US general, the attack on the Yazidis by the Muslim extremists, was an act of "ethnic cleansing."
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Ethnic-Cleansing
Suicide-Truck-Bombings
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Australia receives flak for decision to sell uranium to India
Thursday, August 16, 2007 www.rediff.com
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Foreign Affairs
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The Arms Control Association, a US-based group has strongly denounced Australia's reported decision to sell uranium to India saying it violated Sydney's international nuclear non-proliferation commitments. "India is not a member of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, has not signed the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty and has refused to halt its production of plutonium for weapons":it sai
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Uranium
Non-Proliferation-Treaty
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