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Glare & wink make PM blink
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has put all divestment proposals on hold after a threat from southern ally DMK and a nudge from Sonia Gandhi. ...  | Read.. 
 
Joyrides on elephant back in a fairyland village
Novelist, teacher, social activist and, now, peacemaker ? Mamoni Raisom Goswami shuttles between these roles with the same fluidity that marks her writings. In the first of ...  | Read.. 
 
Tuk tuk, look what Brighton’s riding
The tuk tuk, India’s motorised rickshaw, began service in Brighton today and was “hailed as the next new big thing”. ...  | Read.. 
 
Border at 14,400ft opens with tussle over height
Chinese, Indian guards conspire to gain inches on each other as VIPs make speeches in the rain
An Indian policeman and a Chinese soldier standing shoulder to shoulder at 14,400ft today crafted the tall and short of a story of how borders go soft despite provoking tempe ...  | Read.. 
 
The tuk tuk, India?s autorickshaw, began service in Brighton on Thursday and was ?hailed as the next new big thing?. It has been introduced by ...  | Read
 
 
It will be good to lift the Cup one more time

Zinedine Zidane
Medical war fells patients
Patients are becoming the most visible casualty of the tug-of-war between health minister Anbum ...  | Read..
Just meant to be, for Zizou
Some things, you suspect, are just meant to be. Like, for instance, when Zinedine Zidane announced h ...  | Read..
NationMore.. 
Left lines up fresh tests for DMK
Its heroics on the Neyveli Lignite controversy don't seem to have earned the DMK too many brownie...   | Read.. 
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A deadline too near
This is one Puja holiday that will not spell happiness for all those forced to undertake a...   | Read.. 
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Wait over, time for business
Formalities of the inaugural ribbon-cutting ceremony, speeches and exchange of greetings over by...   | Read.. 
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Deconstruct, then panic
Anno Domini 2001 is ancient times, and yet not so ancient. Early in that year, an official...   | Read.. 
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Zidane... bold and beautiful
Eight years ago, they were the hosts and their march to the final was heavily accentuated by huge...   | Read.. 
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Defiant North Korea flexes missile muscle
A defiant North Korea today acknowledged for the first time that it had launched several missiles,...   | Read.. 
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SAIL adds shine to Chiria plan
It's an uncanny coincidence. A day before Lakshmi Mittal is scheduled to visit Bhubaneswar to...   | Read.. 
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The story of WAGs: some won, some lost
England may be out of the World Cup and coach Sven-Goran Eriksson out of a job, but at least his...   | Read..