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Breaking News Tue, 9 Feb 2010
United Nations Under Secretary General Shashi Tharoor gestures while he signs autographs for students at a function in cochin,India,Wednesday, Dec.21,2006. Tharoor who lost his claim for the post of the U.N. Secretary General is on a vacation in his home state Kerala.
Delhi   Dubai   India   Photos   Politics  
 The Siasat Daily 
Explore India's investment opportunities: Tharoor
| Dubai, February 09: Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor has asked the businesses in Oman to make best use of the “huge investment opportunity” available in India. | Addressing ... (photo: AP)
Toyota Prius.3.
Auto   Car   Photos   Toyota   World  
 CBS News 
Toyota Recalling Prius In Japan For Brakes
Toyota Recalling New Prius, Other Models In Japan For Braking Problems | Font size Print E-mail Share | (AP) (AP) TOKYO (AP) - Toyota is recalling about 170,000 Prius hybrid cars in Japan for braking ... (photo: Creative Commons / Pawel Golsztajn)
The Minister of State for International Cooperation and Acting Minister of Business and Trade, Qatar, Dr. Khalid Bin Mohamed Al Attiyah meeting the Union Minister of Commerce and Industry, Shri Anand Sharma, in New Delhi on February 08, 2010.  The Hindu 
India aims to double trade with Arab world
| Special Correspondent | - PHOTO: S. SUBRAMANIUM | EXIT TIMING: Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Anand Sharma (right) with FICCI President Rajan Bharti Mittal (centre) and Ahmed Benhelli, Depu... (photo: PIB of India)
Arab   India   Photos   Politics   Trade  
Eggplant - Vegetable - Food  The Times 
India awaits go-ahead on first GM crop despite scientists' warnings
| India will decide tomorrow whether to approve its first genetically modified (GM) food crop. It is a move that supporters argue will help to avert a global food crisis but which critics say is being... (photo: WN / Aldrin Leyba)
Food   India   Pesticides   Photos   Vegetable  
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Sri Lanka's defeated presidential candidate Sarath Fonseka waves to supporters during a protest in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010. The Boston Globe
Sri Lankan opposition leader Fonseka arrested
| COLOMBO, Sri Lanka-Sri Lanka's defeated presidential candidate was hauled away by military police from his office Monday and will be court-martialed for allegedly plann... (photo: AP / Rafiq Maqbool)
Conspiracy   Democracy   Photos   Politics   S Asia  
A mountain of Himalaya region, snow already melted, Dharamshala, India Infowars
The great global warming collapse
Margaret Wente | Monday, February 8th, 2010 | In 2007, the most comprehensive report to date on global warming, issued by the respected United Nations Intergovernmental P... (photo: WN / Yeshe Choesang)
Asia   Environment   Himalaya   Photos   UN  
Jet Airways a leading private carrier - India DNA India
Jet Airways plans more flights to Colombo from Indian cities
| Mumbai: Naresh Goyal owned private air-carrier, Jet Airways, plans to enhance the frequency of its flights to the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo, over the next six months,... (photo: WN / Geeta)
Airlines   Asia   Business   Photos   Transport  
Singtel  -  Singapore Telecom Company (ps1) m&c
Singapore's SingTel expands mobile customer base by 23 per cent
| Singapore - Singapore Telecommunications Ltd, or SingTel, said Monday that its mobile customer base in the Asia-Pacific expanded to 285 million by the end of December, ... (photo: WN / patricia)
Asia   Business   Photos   Singapore   Telecommunications  
Arrival Terminal 3 at Dubai Airport USA Today
Fewer people worldwide took flights last year
Updated  | Comment  | Recommend | | |   By Charles Crowell, Bloomberg News Emirates planes taxi at Dubai International Airport in Dubai, United A... (photo: Creative Commons / Augapfel)
Business   Consumer   Dubai   Photos   Transport  
The Maruti Zen is a 5-door hatchback produced and sold in India by Indian automaker Maruti Suzuki. It has acquired significant popularity in India since the nameplate was first introduced in 1993. The word "ZEN" is an acronym standing for Zero Engine Noise. It also stands for the Japanese word "Zen" which derives from the Sanskrit word "Dhyana" and means "To figure out something by meditation or by a sudden flash of enlightenment." Indian Express
Maruti eyes 100 pct jump in exports in FY'10
| The country's largest carmaker, Maruti Suzuki India, said it expects to double its exports to about 1.6 lakh units this fiscal, while it is aiming over 20 per cent grow... (photo: Creative Commons / Premkudva)
Business   Carmaker   India   Market   Photos  
A British soldier with Delta Squadron Infantry provides security in Helmand province, Afghanistan, Jan. 25, 2010. The Independent
More troop casualties likely in Afghan operation
| Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth warned of likely British casualties as troops prepared to take part in a major international offensive against insurgents in Afghanistan... (photo: USAF / Tech. Sgt. Efren Lopez)
Afghanistan   Defence   Nato   Photos   UK   War  
Maoist rebels blow up railway track BBC News
Maoist rebels blow up railway track
| Maoist rebels have blown up a portion railway tracks in eastern India leading to the derailment of a goods train and disruption of services, officials say. | Railway of... (photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick)
India   Maoist   Photos   Railway   Rebels  
Business & Economy Terrorism
- Russia lends $300 mn to Sri Lanka for arms
- Jet Airways plans more flights to Colombo from Indian cities
- Sri Lankans have made desire for peace, progress and democra
- Lanka poll results row
Jet Airways a leading private carrier - India
Jet Airways plans more flights to Colombo from Indian cities
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- India-Pakistan thaw key to Afghan peace
- Karachi grinds to a halt after fatal blasts
- Pakistan's military sets Afghan terms
- Big Think: Why Al-Qaeda is thriving in Yemen
Pakistani Shiite Muslims take part in a rally to condemn Friday's bombing, Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010 in Lahore, Pakistan.
Karachi grinds to a halt after fatal blasts
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Politics Health
- Sri Lankan opposition leader Fonseka arrested
- Sri Lankans have made desire for peace, progress and democra
- Time for national reconciliation, Obama tells Rajapaksa
- Equal treatment for all: Rajapaksa
Sri Lanka's defeated presidential candidate Sarath Fonseka waves to supporters during a protest in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010.
Sri Lankan opposition leader Fonseka arrested
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- A workshop which gives joy of yoga
- Sinhala nation justifies the human rights abuses by electing
- PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Cholera "going from bad to worse"
- Tainted milk resurfaces in China, pointing to perennial food
Suryanamaskar - yoga - ayurveda - health - fitness
A workshop which gives joy of yoga
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Environment & Nature Sport
- To double the big cats number by 2022
- Spiders May Help Water Starved Countries
- Wanted: language tutor for panda
- Going green: Giving Bangalore a new meaning
INDIA-ROYAL-BENGAL-TIGER
To double the big cats number by 2022
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- Abeypitiyage, Naseem emerge the fastest
- Adhikari, Shakya, Lama add gold to Nepals kitty
- Womens team win gold in football
- Surendra Rathod steals the thunder in shooting
India's Virdhaval Khade swims to gold in the Men's 200 meters Freestyle event while setting a new games record, at the South Asian Games 2006 in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2006.
Virdhaval Khade leads Indian swimmers' dominant display
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Science & Technology Society & Culture
- India Successfully Tests Nuclear-Capable Missile
- Asia Tech
- Officials back climate change science at Delhi talks
- The Dozens of Computers That Make Modern Cars Go (and Stop)
Communist Party of India (Marxist) leaders Sitaram Yechury, left, and Prakash Karat, center, talks with Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee after attending the first meeting of the United Progressive Alliance-Left committee on the Indo-US Civil Nuclear Cooperation Agreement, in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2007. The committee, headed by Mukherjee, decided to discuss the implications of the Hyde Act on the 123 agreement and on self-reliance in India's nuclear sector, according to a news agency.
India Successfully Tests Nuclear-Capable Missile
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- Maths urged to help in rebuilding Sri Lankan temples
- World Tamil meet starts in Chennai
- Sri Lankans have made desire for peace, progress and democra
- Japanese gift mobile libraries to children in welfare villag
Sri Lankans walk past a wall covered with posters depicting Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa, along with his brother and Defense Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, wearing glasses, and commanders of the security forces, bottom, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, June 3, 2009.
Sri Lankans have made desire for peace, progress and democracy very clear - President Rajapaksa
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