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9 June 2008
Valedictory function of St. Bede’s Sports Camp
The Valedictory function of the St.Bede’s Sports Foundation’s Summer Cricket Camp was held recently. Awards were presented for U-10, U-13 and U-16 category during the prize distribution function on 30 May 2008. In the Under-10 category, the best batsman award went to D. Anchit, best bowler award was given to V.K. Karthikeyan, best fielder award […]
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9 June 2008
Friday, 06th June 2008
A police officer near Cincinnati stopped a car for suspicious driving and found that a drunken 29 year old mother had her one year old son take the wheel.
The man known as French spiderman climbed the New York tower building to draw attention to global warming six hours later another made a copy cat ascent.
A […]
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9 June 2008
Tuesday, 03rd June 2008
The Japanese police are pressing charges against a woman who lent her 15 year old son a smart card meant to prevent minors from buying cigarettes.
A Singapore man was jailed for three years after he facked his own death in a civil war shoot out in Sri Lanka in 1987, to escape his creditors and […]
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9 June 2008
Thursday, 05th June 2008
Neyveli Lignite Corporation Ltd., bagged the golden peacock award 2008 for potassium humess a new product developed by it for sustainable agriculture.
British researchers have found that getting back to work can help people recover from depression by re-establishing self work.
Foreign drugs like Viagra and Cialis may soon get an Indian competitor from caterpillar fungus […]
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8 June 2008
Monday, 02nd June 2008
A French doctor who claimed to be a top cosmetic surgeon is on trial accused of mutilating and endangering the lives of dozens of men and women.
A terminally ill man in the United Kingdom who was last year warned by his doctors that he would not survive to see 2008 has won 5000 Pound sterling […]
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8 June 2008
Sunday, 01st June 2008
An alcohol ban has come into effect in the tube trains, buses, docklands, Light Railway and train services across the British capital London.
For the first time Chennai Corporation fines 65 persons in various localities for dumping debris and garbage in public places.
Someone in Texas, U.S. apparently had a guilty conscience paying up on a parking […]
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8 June 2008
Saturday, 31st May 2008
U.S. customs officials have seized a 66 pound statue of Jesus Christ made from plaster mixed with cocaine, the latest sophisticated attempt to smuggle drugs from Mexico.
Cancer journal reports that simply eating three servings of nuts and vegetables every day and drinking green or black tea, smokers can be able to substantially reduce their risk […]
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1 June 2008
Friday, 30th May 2008
A Japanese man puzzled by food mysteriously disappearing from his refrigerator got a shock when he found out a woman had been living in his closet for months without his permission.
The largest diamond auction in Asia a 101.27 carat gem the size of a ping pong ball has fetched 6.2 million dollars-plus at Christie’s auctions […]
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1 June 2008
Thursday, 29th May 2008
A young woman gave birth to a healthy baby girl on April 26th in Bhopal three months after she had delivered to two pair twins who died at birth.
Four armed car borne robbers waylaid a cash delivery van of a bank in Amritsar and took away a bag that only contained tools assuming it held […]
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1 June 2008
Wednesday, 28th May 2008
A French sky divers hope to set a record by jumping from 40,000 metres suffered a set back when his helium balloon left without him.
The leaning tower of Pisa in Rome has been stabilized and it is out of danger for at least another three hundred years. The towers tilt of about 4 metres […]