Blasts rock Chinnaswamy stadium ahead of IPL match
Saturday - Apr 17, 2010, 06:30pm
Two low-intensity blasts have been reported just outside the Chinnaswamy stadium in Bangalore ahead of the IPL fixture between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Mumbai Indians on Saturday afternoon.
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38 killed in twin suicide blasts in Pakistan
Saturday - Apr 17, 2010, 03:30pm
Twin blasts on Saturday ripped through a food distribution camp for people displaced by anti-militancy operations in northwest Pakistan, killing at least 30 persons and injuring 50 others.
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Tibetans begin cremating victims of China quake
Saturday - Apr 17, 2010, 03:06pm
Hundreds of victims of an earthquake that struck western China were cremated on Saturday as necessity forced local Tibetans to break with centuries-old “sky burial†traditions.
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Volcanic ash: Flight disruptions in Europe worsen
Saturday - Apr 17, 2010, 03:02pm
Thick drifts of volcanic ash blanketed parts of rural Iceland as a vast, invisible plume of grit drifted over Europe, emptying the skies of planes and sending hundreds of thousands in search of hotel rooms, train tickets or rental cars.
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Iceland volcano activity increases
Saturday - Apr 17, 2010, 02:59pm
A geologist says activity has increased at an erupting Icelandic volcano, causing an ash plume to rise some 8.5 kilometers (5.3 miles) into the air.
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Brazil, China sign joint action plan for 2010 -2014
Friday - Apr 16, 2010, 05:53pm
Brazilian
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Chinese President Hu Jintao
signed a Joint Action Plan on Thursday at a meeting on the sidelines of
the second annual BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) Summit, outlining
joint initiatives in industry, science and technology, agriculture,
culture, education and statistics for the period from 2010 to 2014.
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We want India, Brazil in UN security council: BRIC nations
Friday - Apr 16, 2010, 03:48pm
Challenging the existing global power structure, BRIC nations called
for urgent reforms of the UN, wanted international financial
institutions to accommodate aspirations of rising powers and pitched
for including India and Brazil in an expanded UN Security Council.
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Flying ash changes PM's flight plan
Friday - Apr 16, 2010, 03:44pm
Flying ash from Iceland's erupting volcano has forced a last-minute change in Prime Minister Manmohan Singh´s journey back home. Now he will return via Johannesburg in South Africa.
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Tharoor row rocks Parliament; both Houses adjourned
Friday - Apr 16, 2010, 03:34pm
The ownership issue of IPL Kochi team involving Union Minister Shashi
Tharoor brought Parliament to a standstill on Friday, with both the
Houses being adjourned amid vociferous opposition demands for his
sacking.
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BJP insists on Tharoor's resignation
Friday - Apr 16, 2010, 03:33pm
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Friday threatened not to let
parliament function till Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi
Tharoor resigned over the IPL controversy.
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