San Francisco, March 17 (DPA) US law-enforcement agents are being trained to use social-networking sites like Facebook to befriend suspects and collect evidence, according to documents released by advocacy group The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).
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Kolkata, March 17 (IANS) With the women's reservation bill getting through the Rajya Sabha hurdle, sexual minority groups in Kolkata are now seeking a similar quota for themselves as well as reservation in other fields such as health, education and employment. Sexual minority groups comprise gays, lesbians, transgenders and bisexuals.
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Nepalipam (Assam), March 17 (IANS) It's all in the family. Three generations of one family, numbering now around 200, live in a village in Assam - populating its two schools and even buying provisions from the cooperative store run also by a relative.
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London, March 16 (IANS) The world's shortest man, He Pingping, who was just 29 inches tall, has died at the age of 21, a media report said Monday....
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New Delhi, March 15 (IANS) Mohammad Samad Khan, a papad seller in West Bengal, has been fighting for his rights with the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC), the energy giant, for the past 28 years but has not lost hope.
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Gurgaon, March 15 (IANS) Sporting multi-function wireless head phones, their heads bobbing in tune to the beats in front of studio mikes and confident fingers tapping the keys on the console-- they are not the stylish urban radio jockeys but ordinary villagers playing on a community radio.
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Dharamsala (Himachal Pradesh), March 14 (IANS) It's called Common Ground Caf� and true to its name it aims to serve as a bridge between the Tibetans and the Chinese - spicing things up with Taiwanese, Tibetan and Chinese cuisine and cups of coffee and tea!...
By Vivek Shukla----New Delhi, Mar. 13: Away from the unprecedented political storm that has hit hard all the political parties, barring perhaps Left parties, on the issue of quota for Muslim, OBC and Dalit women in women reservation bill, the mood among Muslim women is rather unexpected for Yadav trio- Mulayam, Laloo,Sharad and their ilk....
Cuba, Russia sign telecommunications pact
Havana, March 13 (IANS) Cuba and Russia have signed a pact to collaborate in the telecommunications field, Prensa Latina reported.
Both sides will jointly develop information technology, Russian Deputy Communications Minister Dmitry Severov said here Friday after a meeting with his Cuban counterpart.
At the meeting, Moscow and Havana discussed proposals related to telecommunications, radio-electric spectrum, info
Havana, March 13 (IANS) Cuba and Russia have signed a pact to collaborate in the telecommunications field, Prensa Latina reported.rmation technologies and training.
The Russian minister will end his Cuba visit Saturday.
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Kathmandu, March 10 (IANS) Dark, untouchable and a slave, yet Kali is the heroine of a campaign to protect the rights of the disadvantaged communities of Nepal, especially women....
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Washington, March 8 (IANS) Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Pepsico�s India-born CEO Indra Nooyi and ICICI Bank chief Chanda Kochhar figure in CNN�s list of eight of Asia's top power women.
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Washington, March 6 (IANS) Four Indian women corporate leaders have made it to the Forbes' list of Asia Pacific's 48 "Heroes Of Philanthropy"....
Kolkata, March 1 (IANS) Nasima Khatun, 16, cannot hold a pen in her hands and write. A polio attack when she was five has left her hands crippled. But she has appeared for the Class 10 board exams in West Bengal and wrote the papers holding the pen in her mouth. ...
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Barama (Assam), Feb 26 (IANS) After six years in jail, he was a free man Thursday. But Mithinga Daimary - the 43-year-old publicity chief of terror outfit United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) - could not stop his tears as he went back to an empty home, his entire family brutally murdered....
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New Delhi, Feb 24 (IANS) Holi is around the corner and so are 'bhang thandai' and 'bhang pakoras'! But not everyone knows of the enormous health benefits of bhang - known as cannabis sativa in medical language - that is widely used in ayurvedic treatments.
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By Azera Rahman----
Sapera Basti (Delhi Border), Feb 23 (IANS) Their flutes still hypnotise, their orange turban-dhoti-kurtas are still intact. But as the saperas, or snake charmers, belt out their tunes at parties and weddings, in the back of their minds the picture is a little incomplete. They are bereft of their snakes.
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By Shilpa Raina---
New Delhi, Feb 23 (IANS) First ace golfer Tiger Woods and then former England footballer captain John Terry scorched the headlines for their extramarital affairs. So what prompts people to seek a relationship outside wedlock, putting their family life and image at stake?...
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Jammu, Feb 20 (IANS) Body scanners will soon be installed at Jawahar Tunnel, the main road link between Kashmir Valley and the rest of India, to prevent terrorists from carrying explosives via this route.
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Kathmandu, Feb 20 (IANS) When Nepal's last king Gyanendra ascended the throne in 2001 after the death of his elder brother in a palace massacre, some of the Hindu kingdom's dailies carried photographs of the king's aide de camp, a senior army official, tying his shoe lace in public. But for many young royals, now commoners, that life is a thing of the past.
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New Delhi, Feb 20 (IANS) Rural youths are more likely than their urban cousins to have pre-marital sex, according to a study released by Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad here Saturday.
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