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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon adjusts his glasses during talk to media at Suvarnabhumi international airport in Bangkok on Saturday July 4.2009.
(photo: AP / Sakchai Lalit)
Burmese junta rebuffs UN's Ban Ki-Moon
The Australian
| UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has headed home empty-handed from a trip to Burma after the ruling junta brazenly snubbed his attempts to visit jailed pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. | Mr Ban left Burma yesterday with a rebuke for military ruler Than Shwe, saying the general had missed an ...
French President Nicolas Sarkozy gestures during a speech on the economy in Saint-Quentin, 180 kms(112 mls) north of Paris, Tuesday, March 24, 2009.
(photo: AP / Michel Euler)
Anglo-French summit on immigration
The Guardian
| Plans for a crackdown on illegal cross-Channel immigration will be discussed by Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy at an Anglo-French summit. | The UK hopes the meeting, in the French town of Evian-les-Bains, will secure a deal for the UK to help with detection techno...
Cape Verdean festival brings throngs to India Point Park
The Providence Journal
| PROVIDENCE - For folks of Cape Verdean descent, July 5 is July 4. | Sunday was the 34th anniversary of Cape Verde's achieving independence from Portugal, and droves celebrated with a noisy, bustling festival in India Point Park. | With a well-atten...
Conflicting signals from Pak on terror, says Krishna
The Times Of India
|               Text: NEW DELHI: AS Pakistan sends conflicting signals to India on action against the Mumbai terror attack suspects, external affairs minister S M Krishna said that India is evaluating the signa...
BULL'S EYE: Rolta India, Tata Steel, Max, Cairn India, Aditya Birla Nuvo, Nestle
The Times Of India
|               Text: Rolta India | RESEARCH: BNP PARIBAS | RATING: BUY | CMP: Rs 127 BNP Paribas upgrades Rolta India to `Buy’ with a target price Rs 160. Management indicates that order inflow continues to ...
'India must speed up reforms for fast growth'
The Times Of India
|                   Text: His paper written along with Professor Jagadish Bhagwati on trade liberalisation, formed the basis of India's external sector reforms by Manmohan Singh's team in 1991. T...
Heart
Creative Commons / Calcyfer
Indian scientists use astrology to cure heart patients
The Star
| NEW DELHI: Indian astro scientists have become starry-eyed. They are looking to the stars to heal heart patients. | While it may sound out of this world (pardon the pun), scienti...
Second hand mobile phones.
WN / Sweet Radoc
Mobile tech transforming work-life balance, say 90 pc Indians
The Times Of India
|               Text: MUMBAI: At least nine out of ten Indians have welcomed the explosion in mobile communications devices saying it enhanc...
A salesman arranges gold jewellery, ornaments at a shop in Pune city, India. 30 Jan 2009
WN / Prajkta
India looks to cut out the middlemen on gold
The Times Of India
|                   Text: MUMBAI: Gold has long had a special attraction for Indians. Loaded with cultural and religious sign...
An alternate 'Af-Pak' strategy
The News International
Monday, July 06, 2009 | Shahzad Chaudhry | The stated Af-Pak strategy of the USA has the following four goals: neutralise Al Qaeda, bring stability to Afghanistan, ensure nation- and state-building in Afghanistan through various support and instituti...
Recession means hope in a place where wages don't get lower
Irish Times
US missile shield main obstacle to arms dealFiscal and military cost of Iraq fiasco yet to be fully grasped | BANGLADESH LETTER: Women in Bangladesh, one of Asia's best performing economies, have been empowered by a garments boom - but power shortage...
India chases space revenue
Irish Times
Editor's briefMolecules may hold the key to preventing sepsisPlay that hand: Euro10,000 and plum post in poker-night potTwo years of Euro1m a week in EU fundingBlisters, wrinkles useful at lastChavez vows to shake up patents | INDIA'S SPACE agency pl...
Business
Mr Susheel Bajpai ,regional Manager WB & NE during the Launch of New Exciting 2009 Pulsar Range Bike at City Hotel in Kolkata on Wednesday in Eastern India City May 27, 2009 ----WN/BHASKAR MALLICK
(photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick)
New Pulsar: Fastest production bike in India
The Times Of India
|               Text: NEW DELHI: Herbert James 'Burt' Munro, the 'world's fastest Indian', was an insomniac. A New Zealand motorcycle racer, he worked as a motorcycle salesman during the day and at night he would spend hours working on his 1920 Indian Scout, which then had a top speed of 110 kph. | After almo...
Sports
Former Pakistan cricket captain and representative for the company Accu-chek Wasim Akram, center, interacts with diabetes affected Sakina Firdaus, 12, as former Indian cricketer Mohammad Azharuddin looks on in Hyderabad, India, Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2005
(photo: AP / Mahesh Kumar A)
Akram slams BCCI for not playing with Pakistan
The Times Of India
| 5 Jul 2009, 2214 hrs IST, IANS   |               Text: NEW DELHI: Former Pakistan captain Wasim Akram has criticised the Indian cricket board for showing reluctance to schedule a bilateral series. | The Future Tours Programme draft does not include a single bilateral series between the archri...



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