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Monsoon brings cheer to India Inc The Times Of India 
Monsoon brings cheer to India Inc
The smiles were back last week when most of India got its share of monsoon showers, but it isn’t time to celebrate yet. | According to the weather office, India’s monsoon rainfall in the key crop-... (photo: WN / Geeta)
India   Monsoon   Photos   Weather   Wikipedia: Monsoon  
Saina Nehwal -India- Badminton- sport BBC News 
Saina Nehwal: India's badminton star and 'new woman'
As India's badminton world number two Saina Nehwal is awarded the country's highest sporting honour, the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award, BBC Sport writer Suresh Menon says the young star is a symbol of... (photo: CYG)
India   Photos   Saina   Star   Woman  
Children - Kids - Overweight - Obese Child The Observer 
Fat. Obese. Who cares? We're too obsessed by size
| Obese. As a euphemism, it is useless. That big round "o" and that sibilant "s" – just the sound of it makes me think of the fat kid at school who would slyly pinch your arm when no one was looking... (photo: WN / Sweet Radoc)
Doctors   Encourage   Health   Obesity   Photos  
Education - 10th standard, secondary school students, Pune, India The Hindu 
Sibal: 60 million students will go to colleges by 2020
| Vinaya Deshpande | Invites U.S. universities to set up institutes in India | Mumbai: Union Minister for Human Resource Development Kapil Sibal said on Saturday that the government aimed to send 30 p... (photo: WN / Geeta)
Education   India   Photos   Students    
 Inflation can't be crash-halted The Hindu 
Montek: Inflation can't be crash-halted
| Staff Reporter | - PHOTO: V. SREENIVASA MURTHY | CONCERNS: B.K. Chandrashekar, former Minister, greets Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission, in Bangalore on Saturday. |... (photo: WN / Geeta)
Economy   India   Inflation   Photos   Wikipedia: Economy of India  
Poverty - a small hut made up of tin sheets along the road side, Delhi, India The Hindu 
Workers in a 'world-class' city
| HARSH MANDER | As Delhi gets ready for the Commonwealth Games, the city's glitter is being built through forced labour of from the rural hinterlands... | The glitter and ground realities... | Delhi ... (photo: WN / Geeta)
Commonwealth Games   Delhi   People   Photos   Wikipedia: 2010 Commonwealth Games  
Public gardens.JPG The Boston Globe 
Public gardens reflect private personalities
| LENOX - "In the summer New York was the only place in which one could escape from New Yorkers,'' Edith Wharton once quipped. Wharton would have known: She was one of the wealthy New Yorkers who took... (photo: Creative Commons / Marcus)
Gardens   Natural   People   Photos   Wikipedia:Public gardens  
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez salutes during a military parade in Caracas, Saturday, April 12, 2008. The parade commemorates the VI anniversary of a failed coup attempt against his government in 2002. Inquirer 
Colombia denies war launch as Chavez dispatches troops
| BOGOTA--Colombian President Alvaro Uribe denied Saturday that he planned to launch a military attack on neighboring Venezuela, denouncing President Hugo Chavez after Caracas ordered troops to the bo... (photo: (AP Photo / Fernando Llano))
Bogota   Chavez   Colombia   Troops   Wikipedia: ColombiaVenezuela relations  
UK Westminster palace.jpg The Independent 
Summer in the UK: The stars of Scotland
| The population of Edinburgh doubles to about a million in August's festival season, and good-value accommodation is elusive. | Instead of a pricey hotel room or flat rental, try Scotland's first "bo... (photo: Creative Commons / Karrackoo)
Natural   People   Photos   Population   Wikipedia:UK  
INDIA-BRAZIL-VETERAN-FOOTBALLER-BRANCO-URUGUAY-FOOTBALLER-DIEGO-FORLANVeteran Brazilian football player Branco gives his good wishes to a young fan as Uruguay football star Diego Forlan looks on during a press conference in Kolkata on Saturday 31 July 2010 in Eastern India City ---- WN/BHASKAR MALLICK The Times Of India 
No regrets on Golden Boot: Forlan
KOLKATA: Uruguayan star Diego Forlan said on Saturday that he does not regret missing out on the 'Golden Boot' in the World Cup. | "The Golden Boot is for the striker, but the Golden Ball is the one e... (photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick)
Kolkata   Photos   Star   WorldCu  
Red Bull Formula One driver Sebastian Vettel of Germany celebrates in front of Red Bull crew team members after crossing the line to win the Chinese Formula One Grand Prix at the Shanghai International Circuit in Shanghai, China, Sunday April 19, 2009. NZ Herald 
Motorsport: Flying Vettel clinches Hungary pole
By Pablo Gorondi 8:31 AM Sunday Aug 1, 2010 Email Print Expand Shrink | BUDAPEST, Hungary - Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel secured pole position for the Hungarian Grand Prix and will be joined by te... (photo: AP / Greg Baker)
Hungary   Motorsport   Photos   Sportstar   Wikipedia: Sebastian Vettel  
Rice Olmert Abbas .jpg The Jordan Times 
Obama warns Abbas against failure to resume direct talks
| - US President Barack Obama has warned Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas that failure to resume direct peace talks with Israel could undermine US-Palestinian ties, Palestinian officials said on Sa... (photo: Public Domain / Matty Stern (U.S. Embassy, Tel Aviv))
Palestinian   People   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia:Mahmoud Abbas  
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kashmiri protestors throw stone towards indian police  After a  teenager was critically injured when security forces fired at a protesting mob that defied curfew restrictions in the summer capital Srinagar Friday 30, July 2010. 2 die in police firing as protesters defy curfew The Hindu
The Union Minister for Railways, Kumari Mamata Banerjee- India- Politics CPM suicide squads planning to target me: Mamata The Times Of India
Kashmiri muslim protestors shout pro-freedom slogans During a protest in Srinagar on 20, July 2010.  Restrictions were imposed in this Jammu and Kashmir summer capital Tuesday to thwart separatist protests here, police said. Indian police fire on Kashmir protesters The Daily Telegraph Australia
Kashmiri muslim protestors shout pro-freedom slogans During a protest in Srinagar on 20, July 2010.  Restrictions were imposed in this Jammu and Kashmir summer capital Tuesday to thwart separatist protests here, police said. Indian police fire on Kashmir protesters The Australian
kashmiri protestors throw stone towards indian police  After a  teenager was critically injured when security forces fired at a protesting mob that defied curfew restrictions in the summer capital Srinagar Friday 30, July 2010. Curfew fails to quell violence in Kashmir Seattle Times
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