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Australian gets 45 years jail for raping and killing Indian woman

May 17, 2013

A 21-year-old Australian man was today sentenced to 45 years in jail with a minimum non-parole period of 30 years for the "planned and premeditated" rape and murder of Indian student Tosha Thakkar, who he strangled to death, stuffed into a suitcase and dumped in a canal. #World #India #Australia #Sexual violence #Rape #New South Wales #Tosha Thakkar #Stani-Reginald #Parramatta River #Meadowbank Park
Wildfires rage across Australia amid searing heat

Jan 08, 2013

Firefighters battled scores of wildfires raging across southeast Australia on Tuesday with officials evacuating national parks and warning that blistering temperatures and high winds had led to "catastrophic" fire conditions in some areas. #Australia #NewsTracker #New South Wales #Tasmania #Wild Fire #Australia Summer
Gayle and Kohli took the game away from us: Katich

Oct 08, 2011

Chasing an imposing 203 for two, Chris Gayle struck a whirlwind 92, while Virat Kohli played a match-winning unbeaten 84-run knock to power RCB to a six-wicket win over NSW. #Sports #Cricket #Chris Gayle #WhoSaidWhat #Virat Kohli #Simon Katich #New South Wales #Champions League Twenty20 #RCB

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Live: Wales breaking news, Wednesday 19 June, 2013

2013-06-19 06:20:00

The latest live news, sport, traffic, weather and comment from Wales Simon Thomas takes a look at how the two players gunning for Sam Warburton's number seven shirt missed their huge opportunity in Canberra Five finalists to take to St David's Hall stage #Wales #Simon Thomas #Canberra
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Postcards from Wales: The best pictures from around Wales this month

2013-06-19 11:29:00

live The latest live news, sport, traffic, weather and comment from Wales Swansea City will host Manchester United on the opening day, while Cardiff City travel to West Ham on their return to the big time Five finalists to take to St David's Hall stage f #Wales #Manchester United #Flickr
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Premier League fixtures: Cardiff City and Swansea City set for biggest South Wales derby battles in history

2013-06-19 09:21:00

live The latest live news, sport, traffic, weather and comment from Wales Swansea City will host Manchester United on the opening day, while Cardiff City travel to West Ham on their return to the big time Five finalists to take to St David's Hall stage f #Barclays Premier League #Cardiff City FC #Wales

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Lok Sabha polls 2014: Back to basics for Congress and BJP

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Chidu's 'Ferrari' of reforms has an autorickshaw engine

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From a fed-up, die-hard fan: An open letter to SRK

Forget all this surrogacy business. The reason we love Shah Rukh Khan is that he’s been one of Bollywood’s smarter actors. But of late, SRK’s been a bit disappointing, complains a fed-up, die-hard fan.
Dhoni has Ganguly's touch but with a difference

Rohit, Kohli, Raina, Jadeja, Ashwin, Bhuvneshwar, Umesh – that’s the core of the Indian team today and perhaps it wouldn’t be wrong to say that they are Dhoni’s boys.

Vajpayee, Advani, Modi: Every leader has given Hindutva a twist

From Vajpayee to Advani to Modi –the Sangh Parivar has come a long way, presenting before India every few years a Hindutva face rendered presentable through a shrewd makeover
Why Nitish 'really' dumped the Modi-led BJP

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Last man standing: Why it's easy to feel sorry for Misbah

Sympathy for a Pakistani cricketer, especially a batsman, is a novel emotion for those of us coming from the 90s.

Fear of the unknown grips the BJP in Bihar

Although the party is maintaining a brave face, the eventuality of a split has left many leaders on tenterhooks.
In Mamata's Bengal: Zero tolerance for rape or protesting against rape?

Bengal tops the list in violence against women. There have been several reports of gang rape in the past few weeks. The Mamata government has taken quick and stern action – against the women protesting the rapes in front of the CM’s residence.
Food security: For poor’s sake, jholawalas must speak up

The subsidy to the rich accounts for more than 7 percent of the GDP while that for the poor, with the food security act, would account for 1.1 percent.
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Many patients who were administered blood from the same blood bank fear the worst.

Why a BJP-JD(U) split will be good for India

Neither UPA nor NDA is an alliance. And the BJP and JD(U) were mere power-sharers, not allies. To grow, alliances have to be built around principles not just power-sharing
Chidu takes comfort in Fitch upgrade, but where are real reforms?

At a press conference, Finance Minister P Chidambaram, however, did not reveal any concrete steps but promised more reforms by August. He said the rupee’s decline is in line with that of the currencies of other countries with high current account deficit like India.
Why cutting interest rates will have little impact on industrial production

The index of industrial production (IIP), a measure of the industrial activity in the country, grew by a meagre 2% in April 2013, in comparison to the same period during 2012. The index was expected to grow by around 2.4% (source: India: Weak growth and sticky retail inflation. Sonal Varma and Aman Mohunta, Nomura). In [...]
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If one was simply to go by numbers, young and jolly Jadeja is on course to be a great. That’s not overrating him — it’s the simple logic of statistics one cannot argue against.

The Aurangzeb factor: 5 lessons from Modi-Advani tussle

Political parties need to have a process for electing leaders. This problem relates more to cadre-based parties such as BJP and CPM.
Why 55-60 to the dollar may be the new normal for rupee

A drop in the US dollar index does not seem to help the rupee; this shows that the Indian currency seems to be marching to its own gloomy beat.
Critics split on Apple iOS 7: Hideous, unoriginal or a thing of pure beauty?

The new design has sparked debates over whether Apple stole the design from Android or Windows 8 or just created an unholy union of the two. We take a look at what the critics are saying:
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Is Vladimir Putin the Salman Khan of world politics? Our new columnist, stand-up comedian Gursimran Khamba pontificates.

Advani wins: No free hand for Narendra Modi just yet

What was the senior leader’s specific problem? Well, one is the indecent hurry in which Modi’s is being shoved down the throats of other leaders in the party.
Obama's second innings? As a junior engineer in govt service in India

Is Barack Obama about to sit for an exam for a junior level engineer in India? A man in Rajasthan says he’s got an admit card with Obama’s picture on it from the Staff Selection Commission. Actually on second thought that might not be such a bad second career for the President.
How US industries are trying to use 'treaties' to arm twist India

US companies are blatantly violating international agreements or purely lying, when they accuse India of using TRIPS flexibilities. Americans have spoken the same language against other countries such as Brazil and Thailand, but failed.