Archive for June 16th, 2012

16 killed, dozens injured in Pakistan blast

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Islamabad: At least 16 people were killed and dozens of others, including children, injured in Pakistan’s Khyber Agency Saturday after a bomb ripped through a market area, Geo News reported.Many of the critically injured were shifted to Peshawar city, the report added. According to local administration, the blast occurred near a bus stop in Khyber tribal [...]

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Toll rise to 32 in Maharashtra bus accident

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Mumbai:At least 32 people were killed and 15 injured when a private passenger bus carrying pilgrims to Shirdi fell off a river bridge near Osmanabad town early Saturday, police said.Osmanabad town is around 450 km from Mumbai.While 32 people were killed, a majority of the injured were critical. The casualty figures could increase. The ill-fated [...]

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BJD to continue supporting Sangma for presidency

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Bhubaneswar: Odisha’s ruling Biju Janata Dal Saturday said its stand on supporting former Lok Sabha speaker P.A. Sangma’s candidature for 13th presidential election has remained unchanged. “There has been no change in our stand,” senior BJD leader and state Finance Minister Prafulla Ghadai told reporters here after Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik held a meeting of senior [...]

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Two die after inhaling poisonous gas in Delhi

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New Delhi:Two labourers died and five others are in critical condition after they inhaled poisonous gas while cleaning a sewage treatment plant here Saturday, police said. The seven labourers were working at the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) sewage plant in east Delhi’s Kondli area and were left unconscious by gas emitting from the plant.The workers [...]

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Eega set to fly on July 6

Eega set to fly on July 6

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SS Rajamouli’s upcoming magnum opus, Eega is all set to release on July 6. The film had already been postponed couple of times because the post production team wanted more time to deliver top notch visual effects. Couple of weeks ago, Rajamouli stated that he was extremely happy with how the visual effects had shaped [...]

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Debut that hits a homer

Debut that hits a homer

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Even if you had no interest in baseball, Chad Harbach’s campus-baseball novel, The Art of Fielding will be one of the most absorbing reads you are likely to encounter this year If there’s something of a great story to be read in a book, its made greater only by the strength of its writer’s story. [...]

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Fun at your fingertips

Fun at your fingertips

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Unique? Maybe. Fun? Yes. Crazy? Most definitely. We bring to you the craziest apps on iPhone and Android If you thought the iTunes and Android market has meaningful apps that help you, and occasionally make you addicts of a few games, well, you couldn’t be more wrong. The app market is filled with the most [...]

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Music is the real star

Music is the real star

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Dipping into the 80s nostalgia, Rock Of Ages falls into a long line of feeble Hollywood musicals Faustina Johnson Movie: Rock of Ages Cast: Tom Cruise, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Bryan Cranston, Alec Baldwin, Russell Brand, Julianne Hough, Directed by: Adam Shankman Rating: 2 One of the many highly anticipated movies, Rock Of Ages set expectations alive [...]

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Is the new pessimism about politics or economics?

Is the new pessimism about politics or economics?

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Jason Overdorf  In case you haven’t noticed, the sky is falling in India, and everybody is complaining about it. But is the new pessimism really about economics, or just politics? As FirstPost reports, tycoons like Wipro’s Azim Premji and Infosys’s Narayana Murthy can’t say anything good about India anymore — though apparently their mothers never [...]

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Postnoon E-paper for June 16,2012

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