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Wed, 03/21/2012 - 15:50 by Rachna Pandya
U.S. has exempted Japan and 10 EU nations from financial sanctions after finding an evident cut down on their Iranian crude imports.
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Thu, 12/09/2010 - 07:57 by Prince damin
New York -- A former boxer's championship belt was stolen from his niece's New York apartment shortly before he was thrown out by the family, investigators say.
The belt belonging to former WBC middleweight champion Iran "The Blade" Barkley was stolen Oct. 28 from the apartment in the Patterson Houses project in the Bronx, the New York Post reported Wednesday.
Two weeks after the theft, Barkley's niece changed the locks on the apartment in the Patterson Houses on Third Avenue and 142nd Street and Barkley, who had been unable to contribute to family expenses, found himself homeless, the newspaper said.
Barkley won the belt in 1988 after beating Tommy "The Hitman" Hearns in a three-round upset.
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Thu, 01/21/2010 - 09:48 by Rakhi Kaptiyal
London -- Actor Liam Neeson presided over a dinner that raised nearly $400,000 to help rebuild the Lyric Theatre in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
The BBC said Meryl Streep, Aidan Quinn, Ciaran Hinds, Conleth Hill and Brian Kennedy were among the 50 or so guests at the fundraiser, which took place at a posh New York penthouse apartment.
The original Lyric Theatre, built in 1951, is where Neeson began his career and he has long been one of its patrons, the British broadcaster noted.
The outdated facility is being rebuilt on the same site. It is expected to cost $28 million and is scheduled to open this year, the BBC said.
Copyright 2010 by United Press International.
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Sat, 10/17/2009 - 18:15 by Ayurdhi Dhar
Los Angeles, October 17--Anna Nicole Smith's former boyfriend has testified in trial concerning her death due to accidental overdose.
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Mon, 09/14/2009 - 22:15 by surajdogra
Washington -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced the recall of Muranaka-brand bunched parsley because of possible salmonella contamination.
The FDA said Muranaka Farm Inc. of Moorpark, Calif., recalling 1,005 cases of 60-count bunched parsley because salmonella bacterial can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections.
The recalled parsley was distributed in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin.
The product was shipped in a brown wax carton under the Muranaka label with a parsley silhouette on the side. The bunches were banded using a red rubber band. The lot code number -- 0023909 -- appears on a sticker located on the outside of the carton.
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Thu, 07/02/2009 - 13:15 by preet_20
New Delhi, July 2: The Indian government, only days away from presenting the budget, sharply hiked state-set gasoline and diesel prices effective Thursday.
Gasoline prices went up by 4 rupees, or about 8 U.S. cents, a liter and diesel by 2 rupees, or about 4 U.S. cents, a liter, the Press Trust of India reported. There are about 3.8 liters in a U.S. gallon.
After the increase, gasoline will cost about 93 U.S. cents a liter and diesel about 69 U.S. cents a liter in some major cities.
The government, sensitive to the needs of the common people, did not change the prices of kerosene and cooking gas, the staple of the poor and middle class people.
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Tue, 06/30/2009 - 11:34 by shiffali
Sydney, June 30: By winning the International Student of the Year award at a prestigious university here, Paramjeet Singh has brought cheer to the thousands of Indian students in Australia, a group traumatised by the recent spate of attacks on them.
The 21-year-old was picked as one of the top 35 students in TAFE (Western Sydney) for the year 2008. He took the award for International Student of the Year. Paramjeet completed a two-year Diploma in Information Technology (Software Development) at Mount Druitt College in 2008.
"It took me by surprise when I first heard I was to get an award, but now, I just feel very inspired," Paramjeet told the Indian Link. "I want to study with even more dedication and reach the top in my field."
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Sat, 06/27/2009 - 12:12 by preet_20
Washington, June 27: An Indian American doctor has been indicted by a federal grand jury on 202 counts of drug trafficking and related violations that entail a fine in excess of $500,000.
The indictment charges Narendra Kumar Agrawal, 59, of Galion, Ohio with engaging in a scheme to distribute nearly 500,000 tablets of narcotic controlled drugs like Percocet, Vicodin, Lortab, Loricet and Xanax to various individuals without a legitimate medical purpose, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
It also charges Agrawal, who maintained a medical office in Galion between 2004 and 2008, with running his Rapid Response Medical Centre to issue invalid and illegal prescriptions for controlled substances.
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Thu, 06/25/2009 - 14:38 by preet_20
Canberra, June 25: Rattled by the spate of attacks against Indian students that has sparked protests in Melbourne and Sydney, the Australian government is sending yet another high-level delegation, comprising vice chancellors and even police officials, to New Delhi next week to explain the measures it has taken to address international students' concerns.
This is the second such delegation to visit India after Lisa Paul, Australia's secretary of the department of education, employment and workplace relations, met Overseas Indian Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi in New Delhi this week and assured that a regulatory mechanism would be in place to keep an eye on agents of universities whom students contact and ensure proper wage for students engaged in part-time jobs here.
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Wed, 06/24/2009 - 11:52 by preet_20
Islamabad, June 24: Pakistan's Supreme Court Wednesday dismissed Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh's review petition that challenged his death sentence.
A three-member bench of the apex court, headed by Justice Raja Fayyaz gave the verdict, the News International reported.
The Pakistan Supreme Court Monday adjourned till Wednesday the hearing in Sarabjit Singh's plea against the death penalty handed to him for his alleged involvement in bomb blasts in this country.
On March 9, 2006, a two-member Supreme Court bench had dismissed Singh's petition against the sentence for his alleged involvement in carrying out four bomb blasts at Lahore in 1990 that killed 14 people.
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Tue, 06/23/2009 - 15:13 by preet_20
Melbourne, June 23: In what appears to be another racist attack against Indians in Australia, a student from Hyderabad was assaulted while coming out of a hair salon.
Mir Raza Ali Khan, who has been hospitalised after the attack Monday, says it was a racist attack because his money was left untouched.
"I was attacked after I walked out of a salon. Two men came and punched me in the face. It was racist attack because they did not take any money. Police came in after 10 minutes," Khan was quoted as saying by the website of the CNN-IBN news channel.
This is the 16th such attack on Indians in Australia since May 9.
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Mon, 04/27/2009 - 15:45 by Salinder Kumar
New Delhi, India April 27: The Supreme Court Monday asked a special probe panel formed by it to look into the allegations that Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi along with over 50 other politicians and government officials had aided and abetted statewide communal riots in 2002.
A bench of Justices Arijit Pasayat and Asok Kumar Ganguly directed the panel headed by former Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) director R.K. Raghavan to particularly look into the allegations that Modi was involved in the killing of an MP in Ahmedabad's Gulbarga Society arson case.
The panel was asked to file its report within three months.
-IANS
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