Saturday 28th January, 2012

• 5 Teas that make you slim!

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  An easy and safe way of losing weight. Contains 3 packs of herbal slip and slim tea each containing 25 tea bags each for a total of 75 Tea Bags. For one person brew one teaspoonful of slim tea in ...

• Thailand to build DNA database to protect elephants

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  's revered national symbol, the elephant, may face a new threat of extinction: being poached not just for their tusks, but for their meat. Two wild elephants were found slaughtered last month ...

• Baloch Could Divide Administration and Congress on Pakistan

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  chose a social media platform to air its concern about the plight of the Baloch, whose complaints about targeted killings and other human rights The Times of India", ...

• Child rights panel seeks report on battered baby

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  home about a fortnight ago, claiming that he had adopted her. He handed over the baby to the teenaged girl living with him for the past several months and went out of the city a few days ago. The ...

• Smartphones drive record Samsung profit

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  4.7 billion quarterly operating profit, driven by booming smartphone sales, and will spend USD 22 billion this year to boost production of chips and flat screens to pull further ahead of smaller ...

• Bank of India sees subdued growth in corporate loans

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  ) in days ahead, with the slowdown affecting businesses and thereby impacting their debt repayments. "SBI has seen a substantial growth in the number of customers in the last few months ...

• Sehwag's cameo was not what India needed

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  from its second whitewash in less than six months. Throughout, India has given the impression of scarcely caring. It is probably a defence mechanism, but it stands against ...

• Can animals be slaves?

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  U.S. Constitution prohibits the condition of slavery. But it does not refer to a "person" or any particular class of victims. So, can animals be slaves? In a precedent-setting case, PETA, ...

• Landmines in a militarised culture: Threat or security?

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  2011 Myanmar has one of the world's highest casualty tolls by landmines, but for years the country has received little international aid for survivor assistance, risk education and other mine ...

• No end to trafficking of women

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  Against Trafficking (IACAT) but said they will remain vigilant during the implementation of the directives. Offloading refers to action by officials of ...

• Will not back any UN call for Assad to go: Russia

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  's position into account MOSCOW - A Western-Arab draft United Nations Security Council resolution on Syria is unacceptable for Russia in its current form because it does not take Moscow's ...

• Islam and the West Through the Eyes of Two Women

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  ,'; is the story of a martyr and a she-devil. Or the story of a she-devil and a martyr, depending on your perspective. However, the author (a prizewinning international journalist) subscribes ...

• No Celebration of New Year, Instead International Solidarity

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  youth group at the main Tibetan temple of Dharamshala in memory of those shot dead in two separate incidents during new Tibetan protests. The youth group also called ...

• Bangladesh coup bid or conspiracy?

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  Bangladesh army today said it had last month foiled a coup plot by serving and retired officers with fanatic religious beliefs, formally lifting the veil on the menacing undercurrents next door when ...

• China fuels A.O. Smith earnings

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  A.O. Smith Corp. ( ), which sold and acquired new businesses last year as it repositioned itself as a focused water-technology company, on Friday said its earnings in the final quarter ...

• Something to Declare: Brittany; Portugal by train; Newfoundl

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  Lille pictured, for the much-missed old fare of 59, rather than the new standard lowest fare of 69. It applies for some off-peak trains between now and 29 March. For availability of the 59 fare, ...

• Exotic 'human safaris' come under fire

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  : Tour operators have been offering titillating "human safaris" in Orissa that provide a close look at the Bonda tribe, notwithstanding the recent row over the degradation of Jarawas in ...

• Coming & Going: Global vacation habits, Atlantic City eats a

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  , it was all work and no play according to a recent study done by Expedia.com, a global online travel agency. The study says that for most working professionals in Indian Express", ...

• Starbucks' Chinese stores more profitable than in U.S.

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  Street quarterly consensus for Starbucks is $0.49 per share in earnings on $3.29 billion in sales. During the first quarter of last year, the company reported earnings of ...

• Vietnam: Education, a priority for Vietnam’s youth

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  A survey indicates that the quality of education in the country is constantly declining. For Prof ...

• Bird flu detected in Victoria

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  Science and Nature journals publish only redacted versions of bird flu research results is nothing but an exaggerated and over-zealous reaction that is bound to fail in its prime objective. Most of ...

• Renovated Malampuzha Garden to be opened on Feb. 3

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  Malampuzha gardens is 8 km from Palakkad Railway station, Kerala. The aquarium, rope way, dam, boating, suspension bridge, garden, toy train, yakshi are the attractions. Snake park is near ...

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