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Eyeing English readers, best-selling foreign authors head to India
New Delhi, Oct 22 – Indian readers of contemporary English fiction are reaping a rich harvest as top British and American authors head to India to promote their books. Best-selling names Ken Follet, Peter James and Wilbur Smith are the latest to chart out trips to the country.
India has one of the biggest English language
Five Pakistani judges suspended for graft
Islamabad, Oct 22 – Five judges in Pakistan have been suspended on charges of corruption.
Dawn reported that two district and sessions judges and three additional district and sessions judges were suspended Thursday for a period of three months.
Justice Miftauddin Khan, registrar of Peshawar High Court, suspended the judicial officers.
The district and sessions judges
Mobile phones seized from former MP in jail
Patna, Oct 22 – Three mobile phones were recovered early Friday from the Siwan jail ward housing former Bihar MP Shahabuddin, who has been convicted in seven criminal cases, police said.
Three SIM cards and two chargers were also seized, a police official said.
A team of district officials carried out the raid in jail in Siwan
Gibsons The Hangover cameo scrapped
Los Angeles, Oct 22 – Hollywood actor Mel Gibson’s cameo in ‘The Hangover’ sequel has been axed amid reports that the movie’s cast angrily objected to it.
Director Todd Phillips has confirmed he was forced to scrap Gibson’s cameo following tensions on-set, reports imdb.com.
‘I thought Mel would have been great in the movie and I had
Dozens killed in suspected cholera outbreak in Haiti
Port-au-Prince, Oct 22 – A suspected cholera outbreak north of the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, has killed up to 135 people, health officials and news reports said Thursday.
Haiti’s Radio Metropole reported that more than 50 people had died of acute diarrhoea, but Gabriel Timothe, the director general of Haiti’s Health Ministry, was quoted by the BBC
Bihar polls: 104 multi-millionaires, 219 criminals in next two rounds
Patna, Oct 22 – Against only 36 multi-millionaires in the last assembly elections, there are over 100 multi-millionaires in the second and third phases of the ongoing Bihar polls, a report by two NGOs has said. It adds that 219 candidates have criminal records.
The Association of Democratic Reforms and the National Election Watch said Thursday
Sexsomnia linked to gene?
Melbourne, Oct 22 – The condition of sexsomnia, the bizarre act of having sex while asleep, could be genetic, according to evidence found by an Australian researcher.
Gerard Kennedy, an associate professor in psychology at Victoria University, who studied four sexsomnics in 16 years, has found an unusual case of a father-son duo.
‘This could be the
Russians most active in online social networking
Moscow, Oct 22 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Russians are the world’s most active users of social networking websites in terms of time they spend there, a study has found.
The survey conducted by digital market measurement service comScore Media Metrix said, in August 2010, 74.5 percent of all Russian internet users, or 34.5 million people, visited at least
Lata at leisure loves watching KBC, CID
Mumbai, Oct 22 – She has stopped her riyaz and spends time catching up on her favourite TV programmes, including Amitabh Bachchan’s ‘Kaun Banega Crorepati’ and popular crime series ‘CID’. Melody queen Lata Mangeshkar, 81, is enjoying her well-deserved leisure time after more than 60 years of singing.
The Nightingale also prefers to be extremely choosy
Rescued miners to take firm, government to court in Chile
Santiago, Oct 22 – Many of the miners rescued last week after more than two months trapped underground in northern Chile have decided to take legal action against the firm that owns the mine and against the Chilean government, lawyer Edgardo Reinoso said Thursday.
In a parliamentary investigation of security violation at the San Jose mine,
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