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India’s top business tycoon Mukesh Ambani Wednesday came out in support of the Tata Group’s Nano project coming up in Singur, West Bengal.In a statement referring to the beleagured Nano project, the chairman and managing director of Reliance...
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MR Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, who was being feted as West Bengal’s Deng Xiaoping by his admirers, has blamed his party for the image deficit of his government. He also came down heavily against his party’s practice of calling bandhs at the slightest...
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Kerala Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan on Wednesday resented the anti-bandh comment of his party colleague and West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee. “I don’t think he had expressed such an opinion. If he had said so, then it...
Aug 26 2008
Finding hard to land a date? Well, Sydney writer Sam de Brito’s new book, ‘Building a Better Bloke’ might just help. Brito has admitted that he has had his share of dud dates - partly because his past approach to dating involved...
Aug 26 2008
Ten Sports today agreed to share the live feed of the remaining two one-day international cricket matches between India and Sri Lanka with public broadcaster Doordarshan. The sports broadcaster gave an undertaking to this effect to a Delhi High Court...
Aug 24 2008
Next month’s Champions Trophy in Pakistan has been postponed, the International Cricket Council said on Sunday.
Aug 24 2008
A haul of three medals - one gold (Abhinav Bindra) and two bronze medals (Sushil Kumar and Vijender Singh) - surpassed its previous best of two medals, a gold and bronze, achieved at the Helsinki Games, in 1952. While Bindra, Sushil Kumar and Vijender...
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Aug 24 2008
A devastated Brit has put his honeymoon up for sale in a newsagent’s window after his wife-to-be walked out on him weeks before their marriage. Lee Leaver spent 2,000 pounds on a dream fortnight in the Dominican Republic but his fiancee called...
Aug 22 2008
Acclaimed filmmaker Sudhir Mishra, who signed underprivileged boy Sikandar Aggarwal for his ready-for-release ‘Tera Kya Hoga Johnny’, is making sure that the 17-year-old teenager doesn’t revert to his old life. “Sikandar is from...
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Aug 22 2008
Maarten van der Weijden, who was given only a slim chance of survival after being diagnosed with leukaemia, won the gold in the men’s 10km open water marathon.