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Aug 9, 2010 21:06 - 0 Comments

India is wasting its time chasing BlackBerry

By Prasanto K. Roy
You’re a Delhi-based wannabe terrorist needing to communicate with your handlers. What do you do? Invisible-ink notes are passe, as are carrier pigeons. You will, of course, use electronic options.

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Aug 9, 2010 9:48 - 0 Comments

Agra city going green – the voluntary way

By Brij Khandelwal
Agra, Aug 9 The city of the Taj Mahal is set to look greener from the barren wasteland it has been reduced to over the decades.
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Aug 9, 2010 9:45 - 0 Comments

Everest’s biggest mystery solved

Toronto, Aug 9 The greatest mystery in mountain climbing involving the death of two British mountaineers who might have climbed Mount Everest in 1924, nearly 30 years before Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the world’s highest summit, has been solved, claim Canadian and Indian researchers.
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Aug 1, 2010 13:43 - 0 Comments

Media mogul K.M. Mathew passes away at 93

By Sanu George

Kottayam (Kerala) Aug 1 Media mogul K.M. Mathew, the 93-year-old chief editor of Malayala Manorama, passed away early Sunday at his residence here in Kerala.

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Aug 1, 2010 11:29 - 0 Comments

Life insurance firms mull riders to take policyholders for a ride

By Venkatachari Jagannathan

Chennai, Aug 1 The dirty tricks departments in life insurance firms are busy at work to beat the new regulations for unit-linked insurance policy (ULIP) issued by the regulator, capping the various charges that they can levy on policyholders.
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