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27 April 2008
Best Sportsman Award
The racing driver Armaan Ebrahim was adjudged the Best Sportsman Award for the year 2007 at a function held in Chennai at the Madras Cricket Club. Mr Armaan received the award from the club president S.K.A. Manickavasagam during the function.
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27 April 2008
Velammal Won The Championship Trophy
In the 4th Vishy Anand – Hero Cycles Tamilnadu State level Interschool Children Chess Championship held on 19th and 20th April at G.K. Shetty Vivekananda Vidyalaya, Ambattur, Velammal School won the overall championship trophy by winning 4 first prizes, 3 second prizes and 3 third prizes. This is the 4th consecutive year of winning […]
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27 April 2008
Harbhajan And Sreesanth In Row
The Indian Premier League faced its first on-field controversy with allegations that Harbhajan Singh hit Sreesanth, his India team-mate and IPL rival, after Friday’s match between the Kings XI Punjab and the Mumbai Indians in Mohali. While Yuvraj Singh, Sreesanth’s captain, said Harbhajan had apologised after the incident, it remains to be seen how the […]
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27 April 2008
Friday 25th April 2008
Brazils Air Force has called off a search for a priest missing since he floated skywards in the weekend strapped to 1000 party balloons.
A 69 year old South Korean got a 10 year jail term for burning down on over 600 year old gate that had been named South Korea’s National treasure
Indianapolis, United States, Allan […]
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27 April 2008
Thursday 24th April 2008
“Sun set over the Atlas Mountains” a painting of a Moroccan sun set painted in 1935 by Sir Winston Churchill had been sold in a London auction for 3.50,000 dollors.
A Puli dog named “Fee” made quite a spectacle of itself as it jumped over a bar at a dog show in Dortment […]
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27 April 2008
Wednesday 23rd April 2008
Four Children, 3 girls and 1 boy all below 10 Months old from Thiruvallur District died soon after they were given measles vaccine shots. Five other children who fell ill after the vaccine were admitted to hospital.
Scientists at Queen’s University in Belfast are developing a new Computer systems the Sensitive Artificial Listener”(SAL) which they […]
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27 April 2008
Tuesday, 22rd April 2008
A U.S. journal reports that researches in the U.S. have found that eating two chocolate bars helps cut cholesterol levels and control high blood pressure.
In London Surgeons have fitted “bionic eyes to two blind men in their 50s to partially restore their eye sight. The two men are the first in Britain to have the […]
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27 April 2008
Monday, 21st April 2008
The South Korean customs official say that the world’s first cloned sniffer dogs have begun training and will be ready to report for duty during this year.
Kenya’s Robert Cheruiyot won his third consecutive Boston Marathon title and fourth in six years. Ethiopia’s Dire June won the women’s title.
A former mayor of a California high […]
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27 April 2008
Sunday, 20th April 2008
Scientists from the University Of Manchester, England, have created the world’s smallest transistor measuring a little bigger than a molecule.
A woman from Christ Church, Wellington, won a promotional competition for the most stunning wedding dress modeled from toilet paper.
A farmer in Gujarat has developed a 48 carat cultured pearl weighing 15 gms which is awaiting […]
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27 April 2008
Saturday, 19th April 2008
A Chinese billionaire spent a record 500000 US dollars on 27 bottles of red wine, indicating that the wine industry is immune to the global money crunch.
A study has revealed that doctors can sensitively relay a dementia diagnosis to their patients and it is not likely to prompt a catastrophic emotional reaction.
Chennai Corporation as a […]