Sania-Bhupathi enter US Open mixed doubles second round
August 31, 2007
New York: India’s Sania Mirza and Mahesh Bhupathi moved into the second round of the mixed doubles of the US Open tennis tournament by defeating seventh seeds Elena Likhovtseva of Russia and Daniel Nestor of Canada 6-0, 6-2.
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Waugh’s Kolkata children on a career-building path
August 31, 2007
Kolkata: The inmates of Udayan, a home for children from Kolkata’s leprosy colonies that is patronised by former Australian cricketer Steve Waugh, are now taking lessons in multimedia and animation to make a career.
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Digital cameras: dealing with dust in DSLRs
August 31, 2007
Washington: In digital photography, dust is the enemy. It’s especially true for owners of interchangeable lens digital cameras (DSLRs), the sales of which are growing faster than for any other type.
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Beware of e-mail scam offering to ‘rescue’ friends
August 31, 2007
Panaji: Goa-based Rudolf Ludwig’s friends started getting frantic e-mail messages about the musician-turned-art gallery owner being stranded in Nigeria and badly in need of money.
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New cervical cancer vaccine targets women over 30
August 31, 2007
Manila: When the first vaccine against the virus that causes cervical cancer was launched last year, many women were excluded from being potential beneficiaries because of their age.
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PM concerned about Maharashtra’s incomplete irrigation
August 31, 2007
Mumbai: Expressing concern at the small size of crop area under irrigation and incomplete irrigation projects in Maharashtra, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Friday urged the state government to start thinking about how to generate the money needed to complete the projects.
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Indian journo P. Sainath receives Magsaysay Award
August 31, 2007
Manila: Well-known Indian journalist Palagummi Sainath Friday received the 2007 Ramon Magsaysay Award, Asia’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize, for his rural journalism.
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Reliance to enter footwear business
August 31, 2007
Chennai: Reliance Retail has decided to enter the footwear market with a chain of 100 shoe stores across the country under the brand Reliance Footprint.
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Apex court notice to Gujarat government on mass grave
August 31, 2007
New Delhi: The Supreme Court Friday issued notice to the Gujarat government on a plea for a comprehensive probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into a mass grave of 21 victims of the post-Godhra communal riots that was discovered in Panchmahal district of the state two years ago.
On a petition by social activist Teesta Setalvad, a bench of Justices B.N. Agarwal and P.P. Naolekar also issued notice to the CBI and sought the stands of both parties within four weeks.
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‘Participatory banking can fill human development gaps’
August 31, 2007
New Delhi: Vice President Hamid Ansari Friday said innovative approaches like participatory banking were necessary to bridge gaps in human resource development to bring overall peace, security and progress.
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