Sunday, October 24, 2010

A Japanese twist to the nuclear deal

A Japanese twist to the nuclear deal

A Japanese twist to the nuclear deal

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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is on a visit to Japan, and India hopes to negotiate a nuclear co-operation agreement. This is important since India will find it hard to buy reactors from French and American companies as some key components are only manufactured by Japanese supplier Mitsubishi.


Pak harps on 'US role' in settling Kashmir issue

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Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi today said the US should play a role in settling the longstanding Kashmir dispute with India as the goal of regional peace and stability cannot be achieved without resolving this issue.


Amar Singh wants to be in 'Bigg Boss' house

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Controversial TV reality show 'Bigg Boss 4' may get a new house member if expelled Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh's wish comes true.


Army jawan injured in ceasefire violation by Pak

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An Army jawan was injured when Pakistani troops opened heavy fire this evening on Indian positions in the Poonch sector of Jammu and Kashmir in yet another ceasefire violation--the third this month alone.


Cold reception for Kashmir interlocutors, BJP attacks Padgaonkar for Pak comments

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The government's team of interlocutors has met with a very rough reception, both in and outside Kashmir. On the second day of their trip to the valley, the 3-member team today went to the jail in Srinagar to meet youth jailed for stone-pelting. They also met terrorists.


Dreze: Why no food security for all?

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The Food Security Bill is something that the UPA government has been hoping would be its flagship scheme in its second tenure, but a day after the National Advisory Council (NAC) watered down its recommendations on the bill, differences within the Council and with the government came out in the open.


First commercial spaceport opens runway

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The dream of tourists in space has edged closer to reality as the world's first commercial spaceport opened a runway in the U.S.'s New Mexico desert.


Lorry runs over sleeping labourers, 3 die

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Three young contract labourers sleeping beneath a lorry were crushed to death and another was injured when the driver reversed the vehicle unaware of their presence at the Chennai Port Trust complex early on Sunday.


Oil spill on Goa runway as tanker turns turtle, operations hit

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A tanker carrying 6000 litres of highly inflammable aviation turbine fuel turned turtle on the Goa airport runway, forcing its partial closure and affecting operations.


Suspected of stealing a mobile, boy beaten to death

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Suspected of stealing a mobile phone, a 15-year-old boy, Lokesh, was allegedly beaten to death with sticks in Mathura's Nagla Bhagat village on Saturday.


Mystery shrouds cause of Vodafone VP's suicide

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Mystery shrouds the cause behind the suicide of a senior Vodafone official in Mumbai with family members alleging that he was blackmailed and under tremendous pressure.


Google 'spied' on British emails and computer passwords

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In what could be called a major security breach, Internet search engine 'Google' has admitted spying on computer passwords and entire emails from households across Britain.


Obama gives his first iPad autograph

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US President Barack Obama has given his first ever autograph on iPad, a tablet computer, which he had earlier denounced as a "distraction".


Musharraf fit to be murdered, says fatwa

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Adding to woes of Pakistan's former military ruler Pervez Musharraf, a group of religious scholars has issued a 'fatwa' declaring him "fit to be murdered" while a petition filed in the Supreme Court has sought registration of a high treason case against him.


BJP targets Kashmir interlocutors over Padgaonkar’s comments

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The three-member panel of interlocutors on Kashmir, which is on a four-day tour to the Valley, today went to the central jail in Srinagar. They met the youth in jail - some of them arrested for stone-pelting.


India to sign key nuclear treaty

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Ahead of the US President Barack Obama's visit, sources say, that India is expected to sign a crucial International Atomic Energy Agency(IAEA) treaty called the Convention on Supplementary Compensation(CSC) for Nuclear Damage.


Smaller cities show off growing wealth

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For decades this central Indian city was vintage old India: crumbling Mughal-era ruins and ancient Buddhist caves surrounded by endless parched acres from which farmers coaxed cotton. But this month Aurangabad became an emblem of an altogether different India: the booming, increasingly urbanized economic powerhouse filled with ambition and a new desire to flaunt its wealth.


With Kinect, Microsoft aims for a game changer

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A slim, 32-year-old psychologist, he spends his days behind a one-way mirror at Microsoft's video games research center here, watching people play the company's Xbox systems. He looks for smiles, listens for ecstatic squawks and logs triumphant gyrations. When a game is good, it elicits all the above and gets a "fun score" high enough for Microsoft to consider selling it.


Cholera outbreak creeps closer to Haiti's capital

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A spreading cholera outbreak in rural Haiti threatened to outpace aid groups as they stepped up efforts on Saturday hoping to keep the disease from reaching the squalid camps of earthquake survivors in Port-au-Prince.


India-Russia joint Army exercise underway

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With terrorism spreading its tentacles globally, India and Russia are getting ready to wage battles as "allies" against future threats, even as their armies concluded a major joint military exercise in Uttarakhand's Chaubattia on Saturday.


New video message from radical cleric Anwar Awlaki

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A new video featuring wanted radical Yemeni-US cleric Anwar al-Awlaki was posted on the Al-Shammukh jihadist Internet website. Awlaki, believed to be holed up in a tribal area of the impoverished Arabian Peninsula state of Yemen, is considered a dangerous "terrorist" by the US government.


New York man kills woman, sleeps with her body for two days

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Michael Lenahan was sent to jail for life by the Manhattan Supreme Court for the 2007 murder of Lorna Santiago, 24, in the Confucius Plaza apartment in Chinatown he shared with his ailing grandmother, the 'New York Post' reported.


US could have avoided Afghan war: Musharraf

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Pakistan's former military ruler Pervez Musharraf has said that the US could have avoided the nine-year long war in Afghanistan, had it recognised the then Taliban regime there.


Realty shock for Madurai's jasmine

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The relationship between South Indian women and Jasmine flowers go back to several decades and 'Madurai Malli'(local name for Jasmine flower) needs no introduction for them.


A shark attacks, and the wave turns red

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Matthew Garcia was surfing two feet away from his friend who was bodyboarding when he heard a desperate cry for help. Within seconds, a shark flashed out of the water, bit into his friend's leg and pulled him under in a cloud of blood.


Ramgopal Varma's 'Rakht Charitra' faces TDP heat

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Party activists vented their ire on posters of Rakht Charitra and Ramgopal Varma in different parts of Andhra Pradesh. They were angry that the film has shown a character, who they feel is inspired by their party founder late N T Rama Rao, encouraging and taking advantage of gang wars in the state's Rayalaseema region, for his political benefit.


Mamata lashes out at Centre in election rally

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Is there any stopping to Mamata Bannerjee hitting out at her own ally- the Congress? Ahead of elections in West Bengal, Mamata in a rally criticised the Prime Minsiter, the Home Minister and the Finance Minister and warned the Centre to withdraw joint forces in 'junglemahal'.


Cholera outbreak leaves 142 dead in rural Haiti

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At least 142 people have died in a cholera outbreak, and aid groups are rushing in medicine and other supplies on Friday to combat Haiti's deadliest health problem since its devastating earthquake.


Car number auctions fetch Rs 2 crore for Andhra

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The Andhra Pradesh government is playing the number game to improve the numbers in its coffers. Exploiting the fancy among Telugus to own a vehicle with a fancy registration number, the transport department's auctions now earn it a whopping Rs 2 crore annually.


Probe rights abuses after WikiLeaks' exposure: UN to US

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The UN has asked the US administration to probe the involvement of American forces' in human rights abuses, summary executions and war crimes in following the "largest classified military leak" detailing accounts of torture and killing of over 66,000 civilians.


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