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January 2, 2011No Comments
[ Updated 02 Jan 2011, 19:38:47 ] COMMENTS EMAIL | PRINT FONT SIZE London: Many Hotmail users had a New Year surprise when they found empty inboxes and missing folders as they logged in. Several frantic users posted complaints against Email giant MSN claiming that their emails have been deleted from their accounts. It is [...]
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New Delhi, Jan 1: Four persons, including a chartered accountant, were arrested for allegedly siphoning off Rs 95 lakh from Uninor, which got 2G spectrum licence, by cheques stolen by one of their employees, police said today. Chartered Accountant Manoj Pahwa (34), Unitech employee Rahul Sharma, aeronautical engineer Vasant Mittal and his friend Nitin Sharma [...]
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Lucknow, Jan 1: In their investigation into the Varanasi blast of December 7, the National Investigating Agency and the Intelligence Bureau are looking for the owner of a cellphone which was used in the Dasashwamedh Ghat area only twice for receiving calls from Mumbai before the blast at Sheetla Ghat before it went dead, reports [...]
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China has unveiled the world’s longest sea bridge, which stretches a massive 26.4 miles – five miles further than the distance between Dover and Calais and longer than a marathon, reports Daily Mail, London. The Qingdao Haiwan Bridge, completed earlier this week, links the main urban area of Qingdao city, East China’s Shandong province, with [...]
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by ANGAD SINGH After the battle of Chamkaur, Guru Gobind Singh was forced to part from his family. His mother, Mata Gujri, and his two younger sons, Fateh Singh and Zorawar Singh, fled to the forest and went to the village Kheri in the night of December 21. They spent the night at Gangu’s house, [...]
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by ROOPINDER SINGH It was a nice party and we were all enjoying ourselves to celebrate the success of a friend. My friend introduced me to some young foreigners as “Osama’s brother”. The two couples were from South Africa, globe-trotters and well exposed to international travel and traditions. London figured in our conversation, too. For [...]
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[ Updated 01 Jan 2011, 10:12:29 ] COMMENTS EMAIL | PRINT FONT SIZE China has unveiled the world’s longest sea bridge, which stretches a massive 26.4 miles – five miles further than the distance between Dover and Calais and longer than a marathon, reports Daily Mail, London. The Qingdao Haiwan Bridge, completed earlier this week, [...]
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[ Updated 31 Dec 2010, 13:07:27 ] COMMENTS EMAIL | PRINT FONT SIZE Chandigarh, Dec 31: Balkar Singh’s dream of becoming a boxer of repute is dying a slow death -at just 20 years of age. Thanks to the officer-in-charge for boxing at the Army Sports Institute (ASI) in Pune, Lt Colonel RS Bhoker, the [...]
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The family of the Pakistani man told the court that they were ready to accept compensation including blood money but we refused because justice is on our side, said Bindu Suresh Chettur, the lawyer representing the defendants. “The prosecution has failed to establish the relationship between the offence, weapon with which crime was committed and [...]
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New Delhi, Dec 31 (PTI) Major lenders, including State Bank of India (SBI), ICICI Bank and HDFC Bank, today raised their lending and deposit rates by up to one percentage point on the eve of the new year. While the hike in lending rate would make auto, home and commercial loans expensive, increase in deposit [...]
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