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The
troubled life and times of Rahul Mahajan
 New
Delhi: His life is the kind of spectacle that television
thrives on. One reason perhaps is that Rahul Mahajan
understands television very well.
Not so long ago, when he was still an unknown entity,
Rahul Mahajan was a television producer for Doordarshan
but the spotlight turned on him, in May 2006 when
he lost his father to an alleged fratricide and
even before that faded in public memory, came another
shocker.
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1984
Sikh carnage was wrong: Rahul
 Amritsar,
November 18 Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi
condemned the anti-Sikh violence in the aftermath
of Indira Gandhi’s assassination, saying “whatever
happened was wrong”.
“The 1984 riots were wrong. I strongly condemn
the carnage,” Rahul said at a news conference
in response to a question on Operation Bluestar
and the riots. “There is no truth that there
is hatred among Sikhs against the Congress party.
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Indian
Navy sinks pirate vessel off Somali coast
 Gulf
of Aden, Nov 19: Within days of preventing the hijack
of an Indian merchant vessel, Indian Navy’s
warship INS Tabar, after exchange of fire, sank
a pirate vessel off the Somali coast.
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FM calls for
price cuts, CEOs divided
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DELHI: Finance minister P Chidambaram on Tuesday
called on sectors like housing, automobiles, hotels
and airlines to cut prices to boost demand
and beat the slowdown. The auto sector ruled
this out as unrealistic in the current situation,
while airlines — looking for
a lifeline from the government —
seemed more receptive to the suggestion. Real estate
companies, however, remained noncommittal.
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Season of
pinkslips? Here are the firms hiring in India
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DELHI: Citigroup on Tuesday decided to cut 53,000
more jobs, triggering fears of more layoffs across
industries. A lowdown on some sectors and companies
which are on a hiring spree (TOI) TOI, however,
has decided to be contrarian. Instead of only writing
about pink slips, it hunted out companies that are
actually hiring. Here are the sectors that are hiring:
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US moves to crack down on Internet gambling
Washington, Nov 13: The US
Treasury Department and Federal Reserve Board approved
regulations on Wednesday designed to crack down on unlawful
Internet gambling. In a so-called "final rule,"
the US authorities outlined the regulations aimed at
implementing an act passed by the US Congress in 2006
which seeks to prohibit illegal gambling on the Web.
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Meet the man who got 287 letters in a
day!
London, July 14: A Cheshire-based
man was flooded with 287 letters from a bank, all arriving
in the same post, confirming that his credit card had
been cancelled. Twenty-nine-year-old John Tiemens received
the confirmations letters from Capital One after he
cancelled his card to get a better rate with another
bank, so that he could pay for his honeymoon with his
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$175 burger: you want gold with that?
New York, May 21: Its creators
admit it is the ultimate in decadence: a $175 hamburger.
The Wall Street Burger Shoppe just raised its price
from $150 to assure its designation as the costliest
burger in the city as determined by Pocket Change, an
online newsletter about the most expensive things in
New York. |
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Tips for backpacking with a baby
California,: It had been at
least 24 hours since we had seen other humans, and the
trail seemed to be ours alone — gleaming granite
slabs, scrabbly switchbacks, glorious glimpses of the
Grand Canyon of the Tuolumne River, and jagged Sierra
spires under cloudless skies. |
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`Laughter
yoga`, laughing to good health
Washington, May 06: It starts
with some chuckles, grows into giggles and then launches
into belly laughs. And, when mixed with yoga, it becomes
'laughter yoga' - the fun way to reduce stress. According
to University of Michigan Health System fitness experts,
laughter yoga - part of a growing trend in parts of
the United States, India and other countries - can really
make a difference in your overall health. |
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Cookbook
on Indian dishes in Britain
London,
May 05: How to tuck into the spicy delicacies of Indian
cuisine without guilt and yet avoid diabetes and heart
attack?A new cookbook featuring low calorie Indian dishes
without compromising on their spicy content is the answer.
It is being distributed free to doctors clinics here.
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