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Condom sales in India increased by five per cent during the six months from April to September in 20
Monday, November 17, 2008 ibnlive.in.com
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Health
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New Delhi: Condom sales in India increased by five per cent during the six months from April to September in 2008, National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) said on Friday.
The jump was registered during the period of an extensive mass media campaign run by the organisation, seeking to promote condoms as "any other health product".
"The results show that our campaign aimed at making condoms more
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A married man's illicit love affair with a widow went terribly wrong when the woman's father burnt
Monday, November 17, 2008 www.mid-day.com
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Lucknow: Woman's father burns alive widowed daughter, paramour and his family
A married man's illicit love affair with a widow went terribly wrong when the woman's father burnt alive the couple, and the man's family.
The widow (36) was having an affair with Chunnu Bhurji, both residents of Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur Khiri district. "Irked by this, Satyawan planned the massacre," Additional S
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The US-led force in Afghanistan said its troops had killed 10 militants, including foreign fighters
Saturday, November 15, 2008 www.hindustantimes.com
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Foreign Affairs
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The US-led force in Afghanistan said on Saturday its troops had killed 10 militants, including foreign fighters, in an operation against the Al-Qaeda-linked Haqqani militant network.
Friday's operation in the province of Paktia, on the border with Pakistan, targeted leaders of the radical network and foreign militants known to have carried out bomb attacks, the coalition said in a statement.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton is among the candidates that President-elect Barack Obama is considering for
Friday, November 14, 2008 www.ndtv.com
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Foreign Affairs
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Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is among the candidates that President-elect Barack Obama is considering for secretary of state
, according to two Democratic officials in close contact with the Obama transition team.
Clinton, the former first lady who pushed Obama hard for the Democratic presidential nomination, was rumoured to be a contender for the job last week, but the talk died down as party
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Manmohan Singh arrived in Frankfurt en route to Washington for attending the summit of world leaders
Friday, November 14, 2008 www.hindustantimes.com
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Foreign Affairs
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrived in Frankfurt en route to Washington for attending the summit of world leaders on the global financial and economic crisis tomorrow.
Singh, who is accompanied by Finance Minister P Chidambaram, will leave for Washington after an overnight stay.
Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia and Department of Economic Affairs Secretary Ashok Chawla
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A 25-year-old woman from Navi Mumbai was allegedly abducted, raped and mugged by a gang of three men
Friday, November 14, 2008 www.dnaindia.com
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Crime
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A 25-year-old woman from Navi Mumbai was allegedly abducted, raped and mugged by a gang of three men on Wednesday night in Chickpet, Bangalore.
Two of the accused picked up the victim, Meera (name changed) - a resident of Nerul, from a bus station. They allegedly took her to an under-construction building in Tilaknagar, where a third man raped her. Her valuables were also stolen.
As per the comp
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The sharp erosion in the value of money and the spiralling prices of essential items may have played
Friday, November 14, 2008 timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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Nations
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NEW DELHI: The sharp erosion in the value of money and the spiralling prices of essential items may have played havoc with people's lives, making
it difficult for them to maintain their living standards, but the government is stubbornly sticking to its definition of who is `poor'.
In an astounding position before the Supreme Court, it has held that one has to earn only Rs 455 a month in urban
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Shibu Soren seems busier in transferring officials and inaugurating district blocks rather than gett
Thursday, November 13, 2008 www.dnaindia.com
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Nations
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RANCHI: Chief minister since Aug 27 and only 15 days in the state secretariat. Tongues have begun wagging in Jharkhand over how Chief Minister Shibu Soren seems busier in transferring officials and inaugurating district blocks rather than getting down to the nitty gritty of governance.
According to officials in the chief minister's office (CMO), Soren has attended office in the state secretariat
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It’s been raining swimsuits these past few film releases and Lekha Menon pits them against each othe
Thursday, November 13, 2008 www.mumbaimirror.com
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Fashion
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From queen bees to wannabes, the b-bomb has been the passport to fame and reams of newsprint. Item numbers, beach sequences and magazine covers, the gals go all over, flaunting their newly toned bods and tans in itsy-bitsy nothings.
But not everyone can carry off a swimsuit with élan. So who sizzled and who fizzled? And while the year is not over yet, it's time to present a report card.
She was
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BBC is back in a racist row and this time over the racist comments made by its radio presenter off-a
Thursday, November 13, 2008 ibnlive.in.com
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Foreign Affairs
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London: BBC is back in a racist row and this time over the racist comments made by its radio presenter off-air.
Sam Mason, 40, who joined BBC Radio Bristol in September this year lost her job after she allegedly told a cab operator not to send a driver with a turban for her 14-year-old daughter as it would "freak her out".
The taxi worker however refused and provided a recording of the conversat
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