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Prachanda accuses India of meddling in Nepals affairs
Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal alias 'Prachanda' has accused India of meddling in Nepal's affairs.
Addressing a victory rally to wrap up a three-day nationwide general strike here on Tuesday, Prachanda accused the
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Turning Every Stone For a Perfect Fit
WITH his goatee, multiple ear piercings and ice-blue eyes, Jeffrey Bale has become something of a garden guru on the West Coast, advocating sustainable yet sumptuous landscape design with elaborate mosaics. Garden bloggers swoon, calling him a "hottie"
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Police seize cache of maple wood, arrest Nepalese smugglers in Himachal Pradesh
Kinnaur (Himachal Pradesh), Dec 25(ANI): Himachal Pradesh Police has claimed to have arrested four Nepalese nationals, who were trying to smuggle maple wood from Himachal Pradesh's Kinnaur district to their country on Thursday.
"We got information that
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Nepal: UN human rights official voices concern about promotion of army officer
Dec. 25, 2009 - A top United Nations official in Nepal today expressed serious reservations over the controversial promotion of a military General with ties to breaches of human rights to be second-in-command in Nepal's army.
The Office for the
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India ‘A’ men regain gold
KOLKATA: The Indian men’s team regained the gold medal it had won in 2005 in the Tata Steel Asian team championship on Sunday with a round to spare. The ‘A’ team brushed aside seventh-seeded Singapore 3.5-0.5 in the sixth and penultimate round to take
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Nepal records its first swine flu deaths
Nepal's state media Monday reported the death of a 30-year-old woman at Bir Hospital, Nepal's oldest hospital, due to the influenza she contracted while undergoing treatment for renal failure.
The patient, whose identity has not been revealed due to
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Rise in number of calls to embassies
Ireland’s overseas embassy staff handled a record number of queries from holidaymakers this year, it emerged today.
New figures revealed assistance was provided to Irish citizens in virtually every country in the world, including places as far afield
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Orwell's birthplace to be saved from decay
George Orwell was born Eric Arthur Blair in Motihari, a tiny town in the impoverished eastern Indian state of Bihar in 1903.
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Orwell was born Eric Arthur Blair on June 25 1903 in Motihari, a tiny town in
the impoverished eastern Indian
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Jobless teachers urged to volunteer
The international development organisation Voluntary Service Overseas Scotland said it is on its most ambitious recruitment campaign to date: it wants to recruit 100 teachers in the first three months of 2010 to teach in Guyana, Nepal, Mongolia or
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Prevention is the best way to reduce snakebite risk
London, Jan 1 (ANI): A researcher from Oxford University says taking precautions against snakebites can be the best way to reduce the resultant risk.
Even so, the global heath community has chosen to overlook the suffering caused by snakebites.
Now, a
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Newsweek editor lands in Buddha controversy in Nepal
It’s a controversy that refuses to die down. A year after Nepal banned Bollywood flick Chandni Chowk to China for claiming that Lord Buddha was born in India, eminent Indian born-American journalist and author Fareed Zakaria has landed in a similar
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Bhopal hosts international music festival
Scores of artistes from China, Japan, Korea, Switzerland, Germany, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Israel, France, UK and Italy are participating in an International Music Festival being staged in Bhopal.
The unique four-day festival
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Toxicants detected in Asian monkey hair may warn of environmental threats to people and wildlife
A monkey takes a break from patrolling the Swoyambhu Temple in Nepal. Credit: John Heidrich
Testing hair from Asian monkeys living close to people may provide early warnings of toxic threats to humans and wildlife, according to a study published
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Gurkhas 'come to UK with nothing'
Military charities say they have "grave concerns" about their ability to cope with the number of former Gurkhas coming to them for assistance. Last year those who retired before 1997 won permission to settle in the UK - and up to 12,000 may do
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Man denies murdering Glasgow woman with meat cleaver
Prosecutors claim Roshan Dantis, 30, attacked Khusbu Shah at the home she shared with husband Nagendra in Glasgow's Dennistoun area on June 1 in a ransom plot.
The dismembered body of the 21-year-old from Nepal was later discovered dumped in bushe
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Envoy: prosecutions spur release of child soldiers
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The U.N.'s special envoy on child soldiers said Thursday the prosecution of rebel leaders for exploiting children in war is persuading some groups to release underage fighters.
Radhika Coomaraswamy told the
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Bangla-Nepal rail link on the way
Bangladesh's dream of a two-way transit rail link to Nepal via Indian territory is set to move a step closer to reality during Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's visit to India that starts Sunday.
India has cleared a long-pending demand of Dhaka to start
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Philippines: Senatorial candidates
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Oz police question two men in connection with Ranjodh Singh's murder
According to reports, the two were seasonal workers employed by Singh and were detained at the Sydney Airport departure lounge on Monday, as they were about to board a flight to Nepal via Singapore.
The men were taken to Mascot police station and
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Gurkhas lose equal pensions battle
A group of retired Gurkha soliders leave the High Court in London
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A group of retired Gurkha soliders leave the High Court in London
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Campaigners insisted that they would fight on despite a High Court ruling
upholding a
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WHO survey: Half of China's births are C-sections
HANOI, Vietnam - Nearly half of all births in China are delivered by cesarean section, the world's highest rate, according to a survey by the World Health Organization - a shift toward modernization that isn't necessarily a good thing.
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Food prices will come down in 8-10 days: Pawar
"With the measures we have taken, the prices of essential commodities are expected to start coming down in eight to 10 days," he told reporters here after a meeting of the cabinet committee on prices chaired by Manmohan Singh.
Pawar said the prime
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Immigrant sheepherders endure harsh work, low pay
WAMSUTTER, Wyo. (AP) -- Alone and thousands of miles from home, the immigrant sheepherder roams some of the West's most desolate and frigid landscapes, tending a flock for as little as $600 a month without a day off on the horizon.
"You take it or
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Thousands view solar eclipse in Africa and Asia
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DHANUSHKODI, India — Thousands of people in Africa and Asia viewed an eclipse Friday as the moon crossed the sun's path blocking everything but a narrow, blazing rim of light.
School children watch the formation of the annular solar
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India tells off Prachanda, says avoid negative propaganda
With the Nepal peace process floundering, India also stressed the importance of rebuilding consensus among political parties in Nepal and the need to draft the new constitution in time.
External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna, who is currently on a
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Preparations Underway For 67th Golden Globes
LOS ANGELES (AP) ―
From screenings and fittings to gift suites and pre-parties, preparations were under way citywide this weekend for the 67th annual Golden Globe Awards. Here's a sampling:
GLOBES GLEE: The cast of TV's "Glee" said they were
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Rumor and fact: Chasing a Tiger's tale in Mississippi
HATTIESBURG, Miss. Trying to unwind after a 14-hour day Saturday, I popped on the History Channel and watched hapless documentarians search in vain for the abominable snowman.
Nothing, not even an extra-large footprint to report.
I know how they
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MTNL keen on acquisitions in Africa: CMD
"We have already earmarked Rs 500 crore last year for the purpose... But funds are not an issue... We had bid for a company in Saudi Arabia at over $3.5 billion," Kuldip Singh, Chairman and Managing Director, MTNL, said.
"We are looking for a right
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Widows won't get husband hunting cash
NEPAL'S highest court says it has blocked a government plan to give money to widows to make them more attractive to future husbands, after women's rights groups complained it was sexist.
The Government announced last year it would introduce a
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Bangladeshi exporters eye wider Indian market
"This time, we did not see any negative attitude from India as we did in the past," said Bangladesh Garments Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) president Abdus Salam Murshedy here.
"We will soon hold some single-country trade fairs in
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Indian airports on hijack alert
An Air India jet comes into land at Mumbai airport. India's airports are on high alert after intelligence reports suggested terrorists may seize a plane. Photograph: Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images
Airports in India were put on high alert today after
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Tougher Measures Demanded to Save Tiger
(AP) After trudging through the wilds of western Thailand for several hours, the forest rangers thought they were finally onto something: the distant sound of crunching leaves.
Automatic weapons drawn, the five Thais crept forward, hoping to
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Police seek help in murder of Indian man
Police are again appealing for the public's help to solve the murder of an Indian man whose body was found slashed and burnt in rural NSW just after Christmas.
Ranjodh Singh's burnt body was found beside Wilga Road, Willbriggie, in the Riverina area of
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China casts nervous eye at erstwhile ally Burma
The giant red poster staring over China's Wanding border crossing with Burma proclaims that their "brotherly feelings will last forever".
A few kilometres away, just outside the dusty frontier town of Ruili, a border village proudly tells
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Blasts mar beginning of Sri Lanka Presidential Election!
Colombo: Pre-dawn bomb blasts in Sri Lanka's Tamil heartland escalated tensions as the country went to the polls on Tuesday in the first Presidential Election since the end of its 37-year ethnic conflict.
The bomb attacks in the northern peninsula of
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Thirteen countries meet in bid to save wild tiger
Aim of the three-day meeting is to convince countries to pledge to spend more on tiger conservation and set targets for boosting their numbers
A Bengal tiger in India. From an estimated 100,000 at the beginning of the 20th century, the number of tigers
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Indian couple arrested for killing countryman in Australia
Police charged a 23-year-old Indian man and his wife with murder and said they were still searching for a third male accomplice, who was seen in a red 1996 Ford Falcon sedan entering a Car Lovers store in Griffith hours before the body of 25-year-old
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ECI interacts with foreign election officials
Chief Election Commissioner Navin B. Chawla and Election Commissioners S.Y. Quraishi and V.S. Sampath met Mmasegoa Masire-Mwamba, Deputy Secretary-General, Commonwealth, Ellen L. Weinstraub, Commissioner, Federal Election Commission, USA, Thoko
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South Asian Games: India spank Nepal 21-0
DHAKA: Indian men's hockey team routed
an inexperienced Nepal 21-0 in their opening match of the South Asian Games at
the Moulana Bhashani Stadium on Saturday.
Led by Ajitesh, Indians
ruled the roost from the beginning and never allowed Nepal any
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Britain takes action after student visa surge
Britain has temporarily suspended student visa applications from northern India, Nepal and Bangladesh after a sharp rise in numbers, the UK Border Agency (UKBA) said on Sunday.
It has stopped accepting applications for at least a month while it
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Talks if Pak visit happens: Chidambaram
NEW DELHI (Agencies) Indian Home Minister P Chidambaram said Monday that bilateral talks with Pakistani leaders could be on the anvil if he goes to Islamabad for the SAARC Interior Ministers Conference.
I presume if I go to Pakistan, I presume we will
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Singapore and Nepal sign new Air Services Agreement
SINGAPORE : Singapore has signed a new Air Services Agreement with Nepal.
Under the new Agreement, air carriers of Singapore and Nepal are entitled to operate 28 weekly passenger services between both countries.
Of this, 14 weekly passenger services
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Nepal has 4 months to rebuild nation after war
FILE - In this Thursday, Jan 14, 2010 file photo, members of the constitutional council of Nepal's Maoist party along with supporters set fire to a copy of the 1990 India-Nepal agreement during a protest in Katmandu, Nepal. After years of civil war and
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'China too has a role to play in Nepal'
Though Nepal has traditionally looked towards India but China too has some role to play in this Himalayan nation, Ambassador-nominated to Nepal has told US lawmakers.
"I think that traditionally in many ways they have looked south where the border is
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Now Kuwaits Amir seeks Gurkha bodyguards from Nepal
When Britain's Prince Harry served in Afghanistan last year, his royal skin was protected by Gurkha bodyguards, the valiant and fiercely loyal mountain warriors from Nepal.
Hollywood celebrities, who are the new royalty of the US, are also known to
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Three poachers arrested in Uttar Pradesh
Three people have been arrested with skins of two spotted deer and several antlers in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur district, police said Saturday.
The three men, in their late 30s, were nabbed late Friday from Raghunagar forest area of Lakhimpur, some 200
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Madhesi leader Parmananda Jha re-takes oath as VP in Maithali language
Kathmandu: Madhesi leader Parmananda Jha today re-took the oath of office and secrecy as the vice-president in Maithali and Nepali, ending the language row after Nepal's Supreme Court last year ruled his pledge in Hindi "unconstitutional".
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Maoists Discharge Last Child Soldiers in Nepal
Nepal has discharged all of the under-aged combatants from the army of the former Maoist rebels. That is being hailed as the closing of a critical chapter for the peace process in the poor, landlocked country between China and India.
More than 200
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Paddlers make clean sweep, India fetch 90 gold medals at SAG
Madhurika Patkar notched up three individual and one team gold as Indian paddlers grabbed all the available medals to end their campaign in the 11th South Asian Games on a high.
Madhurika joined shooters Om Prakash and Surendra Singh Rathod in bagging
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UK announces tighter rules for Indian students
The details announced today comes days after Britain suspended issuing student visas in north India, Bangladesh and Nepal, suspecting large scale irregularities.
The new regulations will ensure that students studying below degree level have a limited
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Charles thanks Gurkhas for looking after Harry
Charles met about 200 soldiers, their wives and children from 1st Battalion The Royal Gurkha Rifles as they trained on Salisbury Plain ahead of deploying to Afghanistan from next month.
As Colonel in Chief, the Prince spoke to several soldiers who
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Nepal's President to arrive in New Delhi on Monday
New Delhi, Feb 12(ANI): Nepal's President Dr. Ram Baran Yadav will arrive in the national capital on Monday, as part of a four-day state visit to India.
His visit is in keeping with the tradition of regular high-level interaction between the two
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Boost for India, Nepal ties as President Yadav arrives Monday
New Delhi, Feb 13 – India-Nepal ties will get a major boost when President Ram Baran Yadav arrives here Monday on a four-day state visit – his first foreign trip after assuming office last July.
A number of agreements are expected to be signed between
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Six dead, 14 injured in landslide in Himachal
Shimla: Six persons, including a woman, were killed and 14 others injured in a landslide at Kachsthal village of Kinnaur district, 50km from here this morning, police said.
Around 7.30 am, boulders fell on tin huts on the bank of river Satluj, SP
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Nepal scraps virgin farewell
Kathmandu - Nepal's head of state on Monday dispensed with a centuries-old tradition of having five virgin girls bid him goodbye as he left on a foreign visit, an aide said.
Heads of state in Nepal have traditionally been seen off by five pre-pubescent
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India objects to Nepal minister’s comment on media tycoon’s murder
Kathmandu, Feb 16 (IANS) India Tuesday objected to the reported comment by Nepal’s minister and government spokesman that a controversial Nepal media tycoon with links to Pakistan was killed due to the prevailing tension between India and Pakistan,
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Scammed lottery winner awarded
Austin - A district judge says nearly $400 000 seized from the accounts of a man who stole a Texas maintenance worker's lottery ticket must be handed to the scammed jackpot winner.
Authorities are searching for the convenience store clerk who they
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China Intensifies Tug of War With India on Nepal
KATMANDU, Nepal — For years, Nepal never bothered too much with policing its northern border with China. The Himalayas seemed a formidable-enough barrier, and Nepal’s political and economic attention was oriented south toward India. If Nepal was a
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Ghandy met Prachanda, knew of Induwars killing: Police (Second Lead)
Delhi Police Friday filed a chargesheet against arrested Maoist ideologue Kobad Ghandy, saying he had met Nepal's Maoist chief Prachanda abroad and knew about the abduction and killing of Jharkhand cop Francis Induwar.
The chargesheet running into over
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ICC cricket league starts in Nepal
Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal thanked the ICC for giving the opportunity to organize the tournament to the least developed country like Nepal. He also wished luck for the National and visiting teams.
"Our cricketers have done a great job and
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Khagendra Thapa Magar, Nepal's Shortest Man, In Quest For World Record (PHOTO)
KATMANDU, Nepal — A man who is only 22 inches (56 centimeters) tall left his home country of Nepal on Sunday in a quest to be recognized as the world's shortest man. Khagendra Thapa Magar is traveling to Europe to campaign for the Guinness World Record
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22-inch-tall Khagendra Thapa Magar of Nepal embarks on quest to be crowned world's shortest man
Khagendra Thapa Magar applied to the Guinness World Record organization for a place in the record book in October, but has not heard a response to his petition.
KATMANDU, Nepal â A man who is only 22 inches (56 centimeters) tall left his home
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China prevents Nepal from attending celebrations at Tibetan monastery
Though China failed to prevent US President Barack Obama from meeting exiled Tibetan leader the Dalai Lama, it has succeeded in stopping top Nepalese officials from attending the birth centenary celebrations of a revered Tibetan monk.
Nepal's President
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India to emerge from global economic crisis with stronger growth
These three countries generally have sound economic policies and greater resilience of trade, investment, and remittances, it said noting growth has been weakest in countries that entered the crisis with large internal and external imbalances, such as
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Date rape drugs, prescription pill abuse rising
The
use of "date rape drugs" as well as abuse of prescription drugs is rising with
India emerging as one of the main sources of drugs sold through illegal Internet
pharmacies, drugs watchdog International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) has
warned.
In
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Weird World: New contender for 'World's Shortest Man' title
TINY Khagendra Thapa Magar who is just 22inches tall is to compete for the title of 'World's Shortest Man'.
Khagendra Thapa Magar, 18, has left his home in Nepal to travel around Europe to campaign for the Guinness World Record Title.
Desperate to be
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Indian budget renews challenges for Nepal
KATHMANDU, Feb 28: The new Indian budget has exposed Nepal to double hazard, something which has left the government reeling under the pressure of high inflation and historic high balance of payment (BoP) deficit with difficult choices to make.
First,
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Most foreign arms seized from naxals looted from forces
Contrary to reports that Naxals have started buying foreign-made arms, most such weapons used by them are actually those looted from security forces.
As per a Home Ministry report, there were no inputs to indicate that Maoists were procuring arms from
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Australians caught up in 'Dr Horror' kidney racket
Amit Kumar ... duped poor into selling kidneys. Photo: Times of India
AUSTRALIA has been dragged into an investigation of an Indian medic known as ''Dr Horror'' who is accused of running illegal clinics that duped poor labourers into selling their
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Indian-origin media baron shot dead in Nepal
Less than a month after a controversial media magnate was gunned down in daylight in the best-protected area of the capital, a media tycoon of Indian origin was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Nepal's restive southern plains adjoining the border
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Theatre fest from South Asia on Women's Day
Come March 8, the International Women's Day, some 13 plays will be staged in the capital to celebrate this recognition.
The festival "Leela" March 8-15 will showcase women-oriented plays directed and staged by women from nine South Asian countries.
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Glaciers track climate change
Singapore - The world has become far too hot for the aptly named Exit Glacier in Alaska.
Like many low-altitude glaciers, it's steadily melting, shrinking 3km over the past 200 years as it tries to strike a new balance with rising temperatures.
At the
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Gene that affects susceptibility to TB
Washington, Mar 5 (ANI): University of Washington (UW) researchers have discovered a gene that affects susceptibility to tuberculosis (TB).
The gene, lta4h, appears to orchestrate pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory responses. When these responses
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Blasts suspect arrested near Nepal
An alleged Indian Mujahideen (IM) member with a Rs 1 lakh bounty on his head was caught by the Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terror Squad from Siddharth Nagar district near Nepal, about 300 km from Lucknow.
Salman alias Chotu, 29, is the alleged bomb maker of
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IM terrorist brought to Delhi, sent to 8-day police remand!
New Delhi: Suspected Indian Mujahideen
terrorist Salman Ahmed, who was arrested in UP for his alleged
involvement in several bomb blasts, was today brought here and
produced before a court which sent him to eight-day police
custody.
Ahmed, who was
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Fresh terror alert for Mumbai, Kolkata and Bangalore
Posted: Mar 08, 2010 at 1918 hrs IST
New Delhi The Home Ministry on Monday issued an alert for Mumbai, Kolkata and Bangalore saying the three major cities could be targeted by terrorists. Based on the interrogation of suspected
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Former Nepal monarch backs Hindu state bid
Kathmandu, Mar 9 (ANI): The former monarch of Nepal, Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah backed the call for his country to be declared as a Hindu state, three years after his ouster and the Himalayan nation attaining the tag of being secular.
Shah and his wife
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India discuss measures to curb terrorism with neighbouring countries
New Delhi, Mar 10 (ANI): The Union Government on Wednesday reiterated that it has consistently taken up the issue of use of their territories for terrorist/insurgent activities against India with governments of neighbouring countries at various levels.
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Nepal DPM Sujata firm on printing MRPs in India
Talking to reporters here, Koirala said the situation had become shameful due to weaknesses on the part of Nepal government and that the passport deal should be given to India.
She further said she wonders why the proposal she took to the cabinet two
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Tibetans repatriated from Nepal suffered torture in China: US
WASHINGTON, March 12: China´s human rights record worsened last year as authorities increased harassment of activists and repression in the Xinjiang region, the US State Department said Thursday.
"The government´s human rights record remained poor
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Nepal army chief refuses to induct Maoist fighters en masse
Nepal Army chief General Chhatraman Singh Gurung has refused to hire fighters from the opposition Maoist party's guerrilla army en masse.
Gurung, who became army chief last year after his predecessor, General Rookmangud Katawal, caused the collapse of
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British police probing corruption charges against Gurkha charity in Nepal
London, Mar. 14 (ANI): British police is probing allegations that Gurkha soldiers hoping to settle in UK are being forced by the Gurkha Army's Ex Servicemen's Organisation (GAESO) to pay hundreds of pounds for legal advice.
According to The Telegraph,
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Nepal, in late-blooming sexual revolution, beckons gay tourism market
KATMANDU, Nepal - Nepal wants to paint Mount Everest pink.
It wants gay honeymooners trekking through the Himalayas. It wants to host the world's highest same-sex wedding at Everest base camp. But mainly, the conservative Hindu nation wants a chunk of
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World's shortest man dies at 21
The world's shortest man, He Pingping, who stood just under 75 centimetres, has died aged 21.
He - a native of China who had a form of primordial dwarfism - was in Rome taking part in a television show when he suffered chest problems and died in
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Nepal lawmakers say border problems persist with India in 15 districts
Kathmandu, Mar.17 : Nepal’s lawmakers have claimed that border problems with India persist in at least 15 districts, and, have demanded a revision of a survey that was prepared and inked during the 2008 visit of then Indian Foreign Minister Pranab
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30 killed as bus plunges off cliff in Nepal
Bus plunges off cliff into river in Nepal killing at least 30 peopleAround 50 passengers believed to be on board when bus crashed and split into threePolice, army officers pulled bodies from the Karnali RiverAccidents are common in Nepal due to poorly
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Koiralas health condition deteriorates again
Ailing former Nepal Prime Minister and Nepali Congress President Girija Parsad Koirala's health condition deteriorated again on Friday.
A team of doctors has reached Koirala's residence at Mandikhatar in the capital.oirala was discharged from Sahid
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Nepal leader who helped end king's rule dies at 86
FILE - Nepal's former Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala is seen in this June 15, 2001 file photo. Koirala, who served five terms and led mass protests that ended the king's authoritarian rule in the Himalayan nation, died Saturday March 20, 2010. He
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London-based activist who illegally used satellite phone in India free to leave country
Activist charged over sat phone can leave India
JAIPUR, India — A London-based environmental campaigner traveling the world in a biofuel-driven bus has been has been ordered to pay a fine for illegally using a satellite phone and is now free to leave
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UN: 3 killed when small earthquake collapses building in northern Haiti
Three survivors were pulled out of the rubble and taken to a hospital, U.N. spokesman Louicius Euguene said.
Haitian police, civil protection authorities and U.N. peacekeepers from Chile and Nepal found the body of another person killed
