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Malaysia's top Islamic body banned the community from practicing the ancient physical exercise.
Saturday, November 22, 2008 www.ndtv.com
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Worried that Muslims could be swayed by Yoga's elements of Hinduism, Malaysia's top Islamic body on Saturday banned the community from practicing the ancient physical exercise.
The National Fatwa Council issued a religious decree telling the Muslims that practicing Yoga was 'haram' or prohibited in Islam.
Apart from the physical movements, the yoga practices contain worshipping and chanting,
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NASA is scrapping a controversial piece of hardware from its next-generation Mars.
Saturday, November 22, 2008 www.mid-day.com
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Los Angeles: NASA is scrapping a controversial piece of hardware from its next-generation Mars rover that would have allowed the spacecraft to store rock fragments in a mini-basket for a future mission.
The decision to slash the storage bin from the Mars Science Laboratory's payload came as engineers raced to meet an October 2009 launch deadline on a project beset by escalating costs and technic
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A senior Syrian official has all but ruled out new visits by UN inspectors probing allegations that
Saturday, November 22, 2008 www.hindustantimes.com
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A senior Syrian official has all but ruled out new visits by UN inspectors probing allegations that his country had a covert program that could be used to make nuclear weapons.
Syrian refusal to allow inspections could doom the International Atomic Energy Agency's efforts to follow up US assertions that a site bombed by Israel last year was a nearly finished reactor that could have produced plut
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Nine people died in Venezuela after hours of torrential rain that set off landslides and flooding.
Saturday, November 22, 2008 timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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CARACAS: At least nine people died in Venezuela after hours of torrential rain that set off landslides and flooding, on the eve of local
elections seen as a test of President Hugo Chavez's popularity.
Four died and a fifth was missing in the capital Caracas, where 73 homes were damaged, mainly in slums perched on hills around the city, said Interior Minister Tareck El Aissami.
Two of the dead
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The source added that Clinton came to her decision after additional discussions with Obama.
Saturday, November 22, 2008 www.indianexpress.com
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Washington: New York Senator Hillary Clinton has accepted an offer from President-elect Barack Obama to become US secretary of state, the ‘New York Times’ said on Friday, quoting two Clinton associates.
"She's ready," one of the sources told the newspaper, which said Clinton came to her decision after additional discussions with Obama about the nature of her role as the top US diplomat and his p
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Somali pirates are demanding a ransom of $25 million for the release of the hijacked Saudi supertank
Friday, November 21, 2008 justsamachar.com
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DUBAI: Somali pirates are demanding a ransom of $25 million for the release of the hijacked Saudi supertanker amid concerns that piracy has begun to hit commercial shipping along the vital Suez Canal route.
“We are demanding $25 million from the Saudi owners of the tanker. We do not want long-term discussions to resolve the matter,” Mohamed Said, speaking on behalf of the pirates, told AFP. Super
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Amid continued media frenzy over the possibility of Hillary Clinton becoming the next secretary of s
Friday, November 21, 2008 www.dnaindia.com
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WASHINGTON: Amid continued media frenzy over the possibility of Hillary Clinton becoming the next secretary of state, Bill Clinton is reported to have made several concessions to help move his wife's vetting process along.
Among other things the former president has agreed to make public all donors to his foundation and clearing all of his future speeches and charitable activities with Obama adm
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52 LTTE militants were killed in pitched battles with the Sri Lankan security forces.
Friday, November 21, 2008 www.hindustantimes.com
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At least 52 LTTE militants were killed in pitched battles with the Sri Lankan security forces which overran rebel forward defence lines in the Jaffna peninsula and captured a Tamil Tigers' airstrip in nearby Kilinochchi, officials said on Friday.
"Smashing the conventional notion that the Tigers' Forward Defence Lines in Muhamale and Kilaly cannot be challenged, troops in Jaffna yesterday overr
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Sikh woman, who suffered racial, religious and sexual harassment at her work place, has won damages
Friday, November 21, 2008 www.mumbaimirror.com
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New York: A US-based Sikh woman, who suffered racial, religious and sexual harassment at her work place, has won damages in a legal settlement that also forced her former employer to change its employment policies.
Sukhbir Kaur got justice after a three-year legal battle with National Wholesale Liquidators (NWL), which had fired her following her complaints over the "discriminatory treatment" met
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Sonal Shah of Google to craft the incoming administration’s high tech policy priorities.
Friday, November 21, 2008 www.mumbaimirror.com
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Washington: President-elect Barack Obama’s Transition Team have announced leaders for a series of Policy Working Groups for the Presidential Transition that includes Indian-American Sonal Shah of Google to craft the incoming administration’s high tech policy priorities.
The focus of the Policy Working Groups will be to develop the priority policy proposals and plans from the Obama Campaign for ac
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