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Thursday, July 2, 2009

Cart-puller’s daughter is the new Chak De girl

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Rani’s father is a cart-puller. Her brothers make a living as carpenters. Making ends meet is a struggle for the family.

It is from abject poverty that Rani, 15, has risen to emerge as the deadliest striker in the national women’s team. She was adjudged Young Player of the Tournament at the recently concluded Champions Challenge-II in Kazan, Russia, which India won.

Now Rani wants to follow the footsteps of Indian captain Surinder Kaur, chosen Player of the Tournament in Kazan. She wants to change the fortunes of her family like Kaur did some years ago.

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Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Jet with 153 crashes off Comoros, boy survives

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An Airbus A310-300 from Yemen with 153 people on board crashed into the sea off the Indian Ocean archipelago of Comoros on Tuesday, but a child was pulled from the sea alive.

A Yemeni aviation official said a young boy, who was plucked alive from the Indian Ocean after the passenger jet crashed, was brought ashore.

Mohammed Abdul Qader, the Yemeni civil aviation deputy chief, said the boy is five years old and has been hospitalised in the Comoros.

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Tuesday, June 30, 2009

A first: Foreign interest in Arjun tank

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Seeking to build up its armoured warfare capabilities to crush a potential threat from Venezuela, its Latin American neighbour Colombia has shown interest in buying India’s indigenous Main Battle Tank (MBT) Arjun.

The first ever expression of interest from abroad in the MBT Arjun could translate into an export order worth Rs 1,700 crore, with Colombia wanting to raise at least two regiments of main battle tanks.

“Bogota has expressed interest in the MBT Arjun. The Colombian army has an immediate requirement for 10 tanks to be followed up with the induction of another 100 over five years,” said a senior official, on the condition of anonymity.

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Monday, June 29, 2009

9 killed in tribal areas, Rs 50 million for Mehsud’s head

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Atleast eight militants and a soldier were killed in Pakistans volatile South Waziristan region,where warplanes and artillery on Sunday pounded rebel positions, as authorities announced reward for information leading to Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud’s capture or death.

The eight militants were killed in overnight strikes by jets that also destroyed two Taliban hideouts, TV news channels reported.

Air strikes and artillery have targeted militant positions in South Waziristan ahead of a planned offensive by ground forces that has been codenamed “Operation Rah-e-Nijat (Path of Salvation)”.

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Friday, June 26, 2009

Protests on streets over water shortage

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Poor water supply triggered street protests for the second consecutive day on Thursday.

Angry residents of Khanpur in southeast Delhi blocked the Mehrauli-Badarpur Road, which affected traffic in surrounding area too.

Ramesh Chand Sharma, a resident of Krishna Park in Khanpur, said their area did not get any water supply for the last five days.

“All our complaints to the DJB (Delhi Jal Board) have fallen on deaf ears,” he said.

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Thursday, June 25, 2009

Panel suggests GRE-type test for college admissions

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Human resource development minister Kapil Sibal has promised action within 100 days on the Yash Pal committee’s recommendations of sweeping changes in the policy for managing higher education.

Among other things, the panel’s report,submitted to the minister on Wednesday, called for the setting up of an umbrella higher education regulator in place of bodies such as the University Grants Commission (UGC) and All India Council for Technical Education, and for giving university status to IITs and IIMs.

“The report shows a road map for the future of education in India…I believe the nation will accept it,” Sibal said.

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Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Making Rs 1 crore in 10 months

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Earning a fat salary was not enough for 27-year-old Citibank assistant manager Ramneek Singh.

The MBA degree holder and software engineer by profession chose another way of making quick bucks. He got together with industrialist Kanwaljit Singh Saluja (48) and his son Jasmeet Singh (24) and duped bank customers.

Using confidential information of ‘high valued’ bank customers provided by Ramneek, the father-son duo ordered gold credit cards from the bank. They gave addresses of offices, which they hired for a month, across Punjab and took delivery of the cards on these addresses.

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