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Describing itself as a "responsible nuclear state", Pakistan's new Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gillani on Friday said his government will maintain a minimum credible deterrence to ensure peace and stability in the region. A strong and credible defence is the ultimate guarantee for peace, he told Army Chief General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, who called on Gillani at the prime minister's secretariat in Islamabad and congratulated him on assuming office.
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Opener Virender Sehwag registered the second triple century of his career, scoring 309 as India ended the third day in the first Test against South Africa on 468 for 1. The 29-year-old, who also made 309 against Pakistan at Multan in 2004, became only the third player to achieve the feat of two triple 100s, matching Australian Don Bradman and West Indies batsman Brian Lara.
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SIMI leaders, including the banned outfit's chief Safdar Nagori, were arrested in Indore, where they had been residing for a month. The 12 SIMI men were in Indore for their organisation's annual meeting, where police say, they may have planned attacks on Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, and Goa.
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Virender Sehwag, who stole the limelight on Day 3 of the first Test against South Africa with an unbeaten 309, said the knock was even better than the maiden triple hundred he scored against Pakistan at Multan in March 2004.
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Virender Sehwag reached his triple century on Friday off 278 balls which makes it the fastest triple century in terms of balls faced.
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Apparently unhappy over New Delhi's handling of the Tibet issue, China on Friday chose not to invite any Indian diplomat in the tour of foreign envoys to riot-scarred Lhasa, amid intensified global pressure to stop the crackdown on Tibetans and open a dialogue with the Dalai Lama.In a hurriedly arranged visit, China escorted a group of foreign diplomats to Lhasa to showcase its version of the goings on in the Tibetan capital. The Indian embassy did not receive any invitation.
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India's national carrier Air India on Thursday announced that it would convert the India-China via Bangkok flights into direct services that would cut travel time from March 30.The flights to India would be on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays. The travel time from Shanghai to Delhi would be around six hours and to Mumbai about nine hours.
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Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton has vowed to plug tax loopholes for 'freeloader corporations' shipping jobs abroad and correct 'wrong' policies of the Bush administration, which were making Americans 'pay the price'. She claimed that that it was the average American who was paying the price for what she termed the wrong-headed policies of the administration. She said plugging tax loopholes will stop freeloader corporations from avoiding $50bn taxes every year.
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When Dhoni became an engineering student
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The pace is slow but the brilliant performances by the lead cast makes up for it. Shahana Chatterjee and Jaya Bachchan deserve special mention. The only exception is Mallika Sarabhai, whose loud performance is unimpressive. The film's music is average, which is a shame since music is an important aspect of the story -- Shahana plays a club singer. Besides, Usha Uthup's powerful voice doesn't match Shahana's fragile frame.
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Ashwini Dheer and his gang decided to play the old mistaken-identity game, and placed three diverse characters together in the same hotel and waited for obvious chaos to ensue. Unfortunately, beyond a weak two-para summation of the premise, not much else seems to have been written -- which is why the pained gags set up in the first few scenes by narrator Irrfan Khan continue to play out, again and again, right to the very climax.
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Live: No stopping Sehwag
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Opener Virender Sehwag's century steered India to 176 without loss at lunch on the third day of the first Test against South Africa. At the break, Sehwag was batting on 110 with Wasim Jaffer on 60.
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The government has decided to establish four new IITs and six IIMs in various states besides upgrading some of the state universities to the status of central universities. While the new IITs would be located in Orissa, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Punjab, the IIMs would come up in Tamil Nadu, JandK, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Uttarakhand and Haryana. For this state governments had to offer adequate land at suitable locations and at free of cost with infrastructure and connectivity.
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A Delhi police constable was shot by a colleague, outside the Prime Minister's Office, on Friday afternoon. The injured constable has been admitted to RML Hospital. According to preliminary reports, it was a case of accidental firing.
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The young Buddhist monks had forced their way into the room where a foreign media contingent was being briefed by a senior official at the Jokhang Temple on Thursday and some of them told the journalists that the government was telling lies. During the nearly 15-minute dramatic scene, the monks also said that they lacked religious freedom, were troubled by the troops and the government always told lies. "The monks who disrupted the tour are not to be punished," said China.
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Pix: Kalam's mantra for a developed India
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No less than 4.5 million government employees will soon have more money in their pockets. And they can thank Justice Bellur Narayanaswamy Srikrishna for it. Still, public records do not have much information on the man.
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Maharashtra's State Election Commissioner Nand Lal has been released from the Arthur Road jail in Mumbai after being sentenced to two-day prison term for breach of privilege by the state Assembly.
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Pix Sexiest models to watch for this year!
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Images: Beauty queens, then and now!
