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Singh to take Siachen plan to Pakistan
NEW DELHI: India and Pakistan are still working out the dates for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s proposed visit to Islamabad, with May and July being the two months under current discussion.... 
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India steps in as crisis mounts in Nepal
KATHMANDU, April 19: Indian envoys carried a crisis message to Nepal’s king as the death toll rose on Wednesday ahead of a major pro-democracy protest marking the start of the third week of a bitter general strike....
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India steps up pressure on Nepal
KATHMANDU: India stepped up pressure on Nepal’s King Gyanendra on Wednesday to restore democracy, sending a special envoy and its top diplomat to hold talks with the monarch to try to defuse a fortnight of crippling protests....
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Women take up arms in Maoist lands
KOLKATA: Three years ago, 16-year-old Jagari Baske vanished from a remote village in the Indian state of West Bengal. But unlike most girls her age who suddenly flee their homes in...
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BD police clash with anti-govt protesters
DHAKA: Police used batons and fired tear gas at thousands of stone-throwing anti-government protesters who tried to march on the Prime Minister’s Office in Dhaka on Wednesday, police and witnesses said....
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Delhi dismisses its envoy in NZ
NEW DELHI, April 19: India stripped its controversial high commissioner (ambassador) to New Zealand of his credentials and named his successor on Wednesday but refused to disclose the reason....
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US hints it is ready for unilateral action: EU, Iran in surprise talks
MOSCOW, April 19: A top US diplomat refused on Wednesday to rule out unilateral action by the United States to curb Iran’s nuclear programme but said it would be ‘best’ to work with other countries in doing so....
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Russia to remain neutral: general
MOSCOW, April 19: Russia’s military will not intervene on one side or the other should the current Iran crisis lead to an armed conflict, the chief of the Russian general staff said on Wednesday....
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Pentagon to host drill on options
WASHINGTON, April 19: Members of the US Congress and top government officials will be invited to play out options in a fictional crisis involving Iran in a Pentagon-sponsored exercise in July, a spokesman said on Wednesday....
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Bush’s press secretary resigns, Rove ends policy role
WASHINGTON, April 19: President George Bush’s press secretary Scott McClellan resigned on Wednesday and senior adviser Karl Rove gave up the policy-development part of his job in a White House shake-up....
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Kyrgyzstan warns US of base closure
BISHKEK, April 19: Kyrgyzstan warned the United States on Wednesday that it may close a vital US military base in the Central Asian state unless Washington agrees to a substantial increase in rent for the facility....
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Hu shown ‘Home of the Future’
REDMOND (USA), April 19: The world’s software leader Microsoft impressed China’s president Hu Jintao on Tuesday with a tour of its most advanced technological innovations, including the ‘Home of the Future’....
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Jordan scraps PA minister’s visit
AMMAN, April 19: Relations between Jordan and the Hamas-led Palestinian government took a sharp turn for the worse on Wednesday when Amman scrapped a visit by the new foreign minister after a Hamas arms cache was discovered....
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US generals likened to movie stars
LONDON, April 19: A senior British military officer, who worked in Baghdad in 2004, believes US generals try to act like gung-ho movie stars such as John Wayne, a newspaper said on Wednesday....
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Protests badly hit Nepal’s tourism
KATHMANDU: In the famed tourist centre of Nepal’s capital, Western Buddhist monks rub shoulders with mountaineers, dreadlocked travellers, street urchins and marijuana peddlers....
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Bollywood falls for Shakespeare
MUMBAI: Indian film-makers are trying to make Shakespeare hip for young Bollywood audiences with new versions of two of his best-known tragedies....
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Kabul in the dark despite spending billions
KABUL: For 12-year-old Kefaya Nabi, the worst thing about not having electricity in her home is not being able to watch her favorite Bollywood soap opera on TV....
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Good tidings on TB front in Afghanistan
KABUL: For once, Afghanistan can report good news on the public health front. The country has been selected for a special award for its effective fight against tuberculosis (TB), which claims...
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Court declares Prodi election winner
ROME: Italy’s supreme court said on Wednesday centre-left leader Romano Prodi won last week’s general election, dismissing complaints by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi that the vote was marred by irregularities....
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100 injured in BD clash
DHAKA: Over 100 people were injured, dozens arrested and many vehicles damaged and burnt in fierce clashes between opposition activists and police here on Wednesday during the opposition’s bid to stage a sit-in around the prime minister’s office....
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